Quote Originally Posted by Fengzi
Don't believe everything you hear about China, especially from our sensationalistic media. I have lived there and travel there frequently and know from first hand experience that it is not as bad as it is made out to be. I won't begin to make any claim that there is not rampant corruption in the government and that the people there have less freedom than we do. There is and they do. In actuality, however, China is a completely different place than what we have been lead to believe.

Our media has a way of twisting the truth around to make us believe what they want us to believe. What they want us to believe is what is sensational, what gets people upset, and what ultimately sells more advertising space. Face it, the truth is often boring, but if they can twist that truth around to make it exiting why the hell not?

Here's an example, fictitious but based on some recent "news":
-Truth: In a recent discussion, when told that the United States had planned numerous scenarios for a possible nuclear war with China, a Chinese general responded by saying "That is to be expected, it is not a surpise that the U.S. has plans for a nuclear war with China, China has plans for a nuclear war with the U.S., nobody expects it will never come to that but it is best to be prepared".
-Newspaper "Truth" -In a recent satetment a Chinese general was quoted as saying "China has plans for a nuclear war with the United States"

Both "truths" are correct but the first would make people think "Duh, this is news?" The second, however, well holy shit, "China's gonna nuke us.".

Again, let me stress that I don't think China is perfect, especially their Government. I have had my own dealings with corrupt government officials and lack of freedom while living there. I just want people to know that what we have been led to believe about China isn't true and there is a lot more to the story than what our media has been telling us.

i respcet your post and your opinions...but i humbly ask you to tell that to the floods of chinese students and immigrants who protest on the streets of boston and toronto, the shop owner i know who grudgingly looks at the picture of his wife executed for false reasons and to the chinese adults who get angry when you even mention china.