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Q: You hurt my feelings?
Taken from the global times...
Spokesman Lu Kang said Ursula Gauthier had offended the Chinese people with an article published on Nov. 18 in which she overtly voiced support for terrorist activities.
In the article, she blamed government policy in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region for terrorist attacks.
Anyway, besides failing English Grammar, and equating finding the root cause of terrorism with supporting terrorism, does any other country seriously use the term "hurt the feelings of the people" as problem? How often does Obama say ISIS hurt my feelings, or Putin say "America hurt the feelings of the Russian people. Why are Chinese feelings so special?
nobody in china saw this article and it was written in french, this is just china trying to intimidate to make future reporters think twice about publishing the truth about china. even the social media pro china rants dont know what it said, relying on hearsay to make comments.
nobody in china saw this article and it was written in french, this is just china trying to intimidate to make future reporters think twice about publishing the truth about china. even the social media pro china rants dont know what it said, relying on hearsay to make comments.
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icnif77:
http://www.rttnews.com/story.aspx?Id=2594751
China Expels French Journalist For 'Championing' Terrorism
12/26/2015 6:58 AM ET
China refused to renew press credentials for a French journalist after a month-long campaign in the Chinese media against her for criticizing the government's treatment of ethnic violence in Xinjiang, a region largely populated by the Uighur Muslims, as acts of terrorism. Citing a foreign ministry spokesperson, the state-controlled Xinhua news agency reported that press credentials for Ursula Gauthier, a reporter for the French magazine L'Obs, will not be renewed. The ministry spokesperson said Gauthier had offended the Chinese people with a story dated November 18, in which she "overtly voiced support for terrorist activities". The story also blamed the Chinese government's anti-terrorism policy in Xinjiang. Gauthier's credentials are set to expire on December 31 and non-renewal of the same would amount to her de facto expulsion from the country.
According to the ministry, the action was initiated as the journalist "refused to apologize" to the Chinese people for her story and hence, it was "no longer suitable for her to work in China". The ministry spokesman also added that China will "never tolerate the "freedom" of speaking for terrorism", Xinhua reported. This is the first expulsion of a foreign correspondent in China since 2012, when the China correspondent of Al Jazeera was forced out of the country. On its website, the L'Obs said Gauthier confirmed receiving official communication that she will have to make a public apology to avoid expulsion from the country. The magazine said, citing the reporter, that such an apology was "out of question" and "unthinkable". The L'Obs also called the action against its reporter "a very serious attack on press freedom and a very bad signal sent by China to foreign journalists". In an editorial, the French magazine, the full name of which is "L'Observateur", said the expulsion of its reporter would be "a major incident" and "an intolerable attack on the values" it defends, at a time when China and France are trying to strengthen co-operation on diplomatic, cultural and economic fronts.
Shining_brow:
Perhaps the editor of L'Obs should have said that the French people had their feelings hurt..???
And, so why do you think that Chinese politics is considered such a joke, and they'll never be taken seriously in international diplomacy - they act like children! Can't take the truth? So they tell you to take your bat and ball, and go home... and then China sulks in a corner waiting for someone to say "there there, China, it's ok.. they didn't really mean it!"
icnif77:
Obviously, it isn't 'truth' and it's considered 'internal matter' by China. Same as HK.
Shining_brow:
Are mass shootings in the US an internal matter?
What about the recent Paris bomb attacks?
Just because something happens inside a country, doesn't make it 'internal'..
icnif77:
I believe, US Gov would get upset, if China or anybody else would go with 'racial matter' for too long.
'Mass shootings' you mean white cops against black minority?
USA is democracy, and China it isn't.
That was reason given for not extending diplomatic status, which is renewable every year, if you behave....She didn't behave, and Chinese Gov didn't renew, what equals 'expulsion'.
Frenchies were upset, and Chinese said 'u hurt my feelings'.
rasklnik:
I dare you to find a foreign journalist from a major paper, who has been banned from reporting in either the EU or USA.
icnif77:
The two things are much different. In 'democracy' reporting about everything is open and manipulated, and in 'totals' it's just limited.
I think, she went overboard, because she tried to show there's no too much terrorism, despite Beijing's, Kunming's and other attacks showed it's real. There were several high-profile attacks in Xin. One recent news went out 'military smoked/burned out of the mine cave group of Uys....'. Why there would be 10 checkpoints on road to capital on some 40km distance, if treat isn't real? All travellers must exit bus, and show docs. on land check point, while cops look at the empty bus. In 2012/13.
I think, more important issue is 'how (and why) Uy live in Xin...'.
My view 'from the street' is 'Fuk. school with 1% Uy students is full of Han teachers, and few Uy maids...' and similar.
Also, increase of Han population most likely (I didn't research that!) is huge, comparable to rate of Uy's birth rate. Xin is huge place with lot of non-populated land (desert), which Chinese are 'exploring': new cities, making desert arable by trees planting and similar.
It's Chinese Province, and nobody can do anything about it. It's full of natural resources, and it will ended up as any other Chinese Province. Similar to HK: talk about changes last year was wasting a time, IMO.
It is Chinese internal matter! Rant ends!
The perpetual victim syndrome ...................... babies!
Well I think it's a valid point being made and Miss Gauthier ought to make a formal apology, or at the very least she should do what I do when I hurt my son's feelings; she should put Mr Kang in his jim-jams and read him a story.
Shining_brow:
I know there's humour involved, but I must ask - what is the role of a reporter? To only do what a government tells them they're allowed to report on, and only in the ways that they allow? (eg, China Daily, Global Times, etc)
mArtiAn:
Seems most are just in it to get paid, so I guess it's a bread role, or like those who only work the busy holiday seasons like Spring Festival, so you'd probably call that a spring role.
Quite frankly I'm not sure why they bother keeping correspondents in China. They can't do much real reporting without being tailed and annoyed, so if it's just about translating news and calling them bullshit they might as well save themselves the bother of a lung cancer and do it from home.
Shining_brow:
And if you do find something juicy and worthwhile, you'll get beaten up and put in jail...
'You hurt my feelings' tail:
http://news.yahoo.com/china-passes-controversial-counter-terrorism-law-1...
BEIJING (Reuters) - China's parliament passed a controversial new anti-terrorism law on Sunday that requires technology firms to hand over sensitive information such as encryption keys to the government and allows the military to venture overseas on counter-terror operations.
Chinese officials say their country faces a growing threat from militants and separatists, especially in its unruly Western region of Xinjiang, where hundreds have died in violence in the past few years.
The law has attracted deep concern in Western capitals, not only because of worries it could violate human rights such as freedom of speech, but because of the cyber provisions. U.S. President Barack Obama has said that he had raised concerns about the law directly with Chinese President Xi Jinping.
Speaking after China's largely rubber-stamp parliament passed the law, Li Shouwei, deputy head of the parliament's criminal law division under the legislative affairs committee, said China was simply doing what other Western nations already do in asking technology firms to help fight terror.
This will not affect the normal operation of tech companies and they have nothing to fear in terms of having "backdoors" installed or losing intellectual property rights, he added.
Officials in Washington have argued the law, combined with new draft banking and insurance rules and a slew of anti-trust investigations, amounts to unfair regulatory pressure targeting foreign companies.
China's national security law adopted in July requires all key network infrastructure and information systems to be "secure and controllable".
The anti-terrorism law also permits the People's Liberation Army to get involved in anti-terrorism operations overseas, though experts have said China faces big practical and diplomatic problems if it ever wants to do this.
An Weixing, head of the Public Security Ministry's counter-terrorism division, said China faced a serious threat from terrorists, especially "East Turkestan" forces, China's general term for Islamists separatists it says operate in Xinjiang.
"Terrorism is the public enemy of mankind, and the Chinese government will oppose all forms of terrorism," An said.
icnif77:
http://news.yahoo.com/chinese-media-piles-scorn-expelled-french-reporter-054640569.html
Shining_brow:
Meh... nothing to see here... move along.
No different to any other country. The US has been doing it for years... fears of backdoors or losing IP... hahahaa..... like, they had any issues about that before!
If those firms are really worried - leave China!
icnif77:
I posted, 'cause it was something else in the cards. Expulsion of Frenchie was just a foreplay.
