The T issue

The T issue/News in China

News has been blocked over the Tibet incident. We haven’t had the English news for over a month. I can get articles in English about Tibet on the internet sometimes (I guess they don’t regulate the English internet news as much). Things are tense though. When we came through the border after going to Disneyland, the border security was increased and they scrutinized everything about us. So we do have limits to our information flow, but so far not much else has changed for us.

We asked out Chinese helper about the incident and she knew nothing about it. She said, well it must not have been very big or I would have heard something. Ha! A week later or so we asked if she still hadn’t heard anything and she said, yes, she looked into it and she discovered that Tibetans were killing all Han Chinese people. So that is the news that the Chinese people get – either nothing or very extreme versions of the story.

Foreigners just do not realize the news that the Chinese read is so vastly different. For a sense of what is being said check out our city's English newspaper The Shenzhen Daily or China's English newspaper The China Daily.

Shenzhen Daily: http://paper.sznews.com/szdaily/

China Daily: http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/

Here is a great article written by a "foreign expert" on the subject of Tibet and America's relationship with the DL:

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2008-04/16/content_6622346.htm