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Q: What are China news stories are the world not paying attention to, but should?
The re-routing of bus No. 27 so I have to walk further to the bus stop even when it's raining.
The hukou issue and the prevalence of industrial disputes found across a number of different Chinese cities.
These are issues which are hardly...ever reported on in various international news platforms.
Difficult one.
Are people interested in world news?
During the China/UK visit last week, I was amazed by many of the comments about China that were on the various news sites. Lots of people have no idea about China, and they are basing their opinions on biased reporting.
However, of course foreign reporting from within China will be biased. The foreign news teams are more interested in writing about the actions of their "guides" rather than the actual news.
I think more documentaries about China are needed rather than news. The BBC show "Wild China" was fantastic. But when it comes to BBC news coverage about China I cant be bothered.
Sinobear:
PBS has several good documentaries...China Blue, China From the Inside, etc. China's Stolen Children, The Tank Man, Made in China... any torrent site should have a good selection available.
ScotsAlan:
I suppose the real problem would be the film makers getting open access in China. What strikes me is that most of the western books I read about China have a dig at the Government at some point. With good reason too. China needs to open up to international film makers and let them report the good and the bad from inside China. For example, I work in a factory, and I often take a lunchtime nap at my desk. This is reported as being the result of sweatshop conditions in the western press. Nope. Its the culture. I read comments in the news last week from people who said all Chinese factories had suicide nets. Newspapers were full of burning monk stories, abortion at gunpoint stories, landgrabs etc. They tell half a story and leave it up to the reader to fill the gaps. Western film makers should be allowed in to investigate. Its amazing how things can be spun. The foxcon suicides stopped when the company (Taiwanese) changed the employee insurance policy. A good Buddhist friend explained to me that many monks burn themselves so the dl will pray for them. My MIL is a Bab enforcement officer, and trust me, they don't take pregnant mums to hospital. Last week, in the UK, a mum slapped her child while standing at a bus stop. The child was taken into care and the mum charged.the press said it was good. How would they report it if it happened in China?
The re-routing of bus No. 27 so I have to walk further to the bus stop even when it's raining.
The facade that is the average Zhou's right to protest wrongs at the Great Hall of the People.
When the mothers of all the burnt children found their way there (the Great Hall) to protest how local authorities had commanded the children to sit down so that they themselves could escape instead, thus resulting in hundreds of school children being burnt to death through their (local gov't officials) horrendous cruelty and incompetence, they (the dead childrens' mothers) were immediately herded onto buses and sent back from whence they came. A place so far, far away that they (the gov't) wouldn't have to be bothered with it ever again.
And Lo; the incident never ocurred...and the average Zhou still has his rights to appeal injustices.
But not everyone has forgotten.
RIP the young children and their heroic teachers who gave their lives trying to rescue those they could.
And a big far queue to any of those snivelling, evil, chinless wonders who survived and thrived. To you, I hope you're tormented forever in your dreams.
You mean the 'fairy tale stories' coming out of China (like everything is beautiful, everyone is so happy, esp with Mr Xi, we have no problems here, no crime or pollution, the only probs are created by the West? ) or do you want the reality, which will never be publicised because it harms 'social harmony'??
As Royce 's mention of an indescrible tragedy,where the so-called 'leaders' ( I personally hate that term, used often here, there's no real leaders in China, or the world, for that matter!) sacrificed the lives of many children to save their own sorry arses...I think not, the general Chinese populace are not even aware of it, let alone the world, no publicity on this one...it's a sad place where terrible events will go away eventually...
How about how the UK basically has said they have no balls and will do anything for Chinese Money?
