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There is no doubt that China deserves the most brutal of condemnations for its occupation of Tibet, and subsequent crackdown this Spring. Tibet is indeed China's Palestine. However, as it is with any conflict, critics of China's policy towards the country can sometimes be guilty of awful rhetorical excesses. Such was the case with actress Sharon Stone, who was caught telling a television camera that the tens of thousands of Chinese killed in the country's recent earthquake might have died because of the country's 'bad karma' over Tibet.
Sharon Stone's oral carelessness is precisely the kind that give human rights activists a bad name. Stone should either apologise to the survivors of the Chinese earthquake, or stop sounding off like a liberal version of Jerry Falwell, eager to see signs of divine morality at play in the wreckage of such sites as the Twin Towers, and the collapsed cities of Sichuan. To listen to Stone's deplorable and surprising spiel, click here.
If anything, it will give the Party the confidence to continue harassing parents , journalists , and dissidents of all kinds in the name of social cohesion. Most local foreigners were skeptical when the first wave of praise passed over China for its ...
China remains on alert Monday as the water level of Tangjiashan quake lake continues to rise. ��The water level in the lake reached 742.58 meters above sea level as of 8 a.m. Monday. ��A moderate rainfall and massive landslides ...
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Moreover, the Politburo under President Hu Jintao and Premier Wen Jiabao has yet to demonstrate sufficient resolve to penalize cadres whose dereliction of duty, corruption and malfeasance have exacerbated the damage of this "natural disaster of the ...
Sharon Stone has apologised again for her controversial comments about the Chinese earthquake...In her latest backtrack, she said: "There have been numerous reports about what I said in Cannes. I would like to set the record straight about what I ...