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Has anyone noticed that the nytimes has a lot of chinese coverage latley? Most of them are just human interest stories, like the one about split pants, yesterday there was a story about Chinese Americans shipping their ancestors remains to the US, and today there was this article about cancled chinese immersion programs at universities in the U.S.*
It’s nice to see the coverage, but all these articles are just kind of bland. I really don’t give a fuck that princeton student’s didn’t get to go to China. Is the lack of hard news from China because western news agencies lack the reproters on the ground there, because chinese censorship and secercy, or do they just think that the american public appreciates exotic human interest stories from China but wouldn’t be interested in knowing which cadre is moving up the party ladder?
*-Which had this assesment of our generations sense of history in regards to China “Today’s students were small children during the Tiananmen demonstrations,” Ms. Chapman said. “College students don’t remember what was happening three years ago, so there’s no real memory of that time. China is much more accessible now. It’s become a safe, viable study-abroad option for a variety of students, where it used to seem very distant and very exotic.” I’m pleased to be so naive and carefree and ready to take advantage of the business oppurtunities that China allows.