Tibet, Taiwan, and the Olympic Games
Tibet, Taiwan, and the Olympic Games --------a strategic analysis on national security
Yuhao Xie xieyh6@gmail.com
Tibet Riot: real threaten to the national security? “No, no, no, no, no. It wasn't supposed to be like this - the run-up to the opening of the Olympic Games that China will host for the first time ever, the world's biggest sporting event that is due to open - cough, cough, choke - in the polluted Chinese capital in early August.”
It is cited from an article published on SFGate.com with the name of “China, Tibet, Olympics: Tension, bad timing and competing versions of what it means”. Everyone might agree that it was really a “bad timing” for China in the year of Olympic Games, which is perceived as the biggest chance for China to present itself to the world.
The violence in Tibetan Capital Lhasa on March 14th has been reported into different versions all around the world. Different pictures and explanations for them came out to the public. The west Medias generally reported it as a humanitarian crisis in China: Tibetans were fighting for their freedom and Chinese governments were killing or bruising the poor unarmed civilians. While the Chinese government had different explanations about that: It was just a terroristic attack to the Tibet civilians plotted by the Dalai Lama revolting group.
Both of the sides have shown enough pictures and videos with reports to the public to explain the so called “Truth”. A person with human reason will have a common sense that nowadays every piece of news with political or ideological color is possible to be sophisticated or altered to attract more public opinions and to win more public supports with one’s policy. The key point of these kinds of political and ideological news is not “whether it is truth or not” but “whether you can make it believable or not”. If we take a meticulous examination to these pieces of news, we can find
Yuhao Xie xieyh6@gmail.com
Tibet Riot: real threaten to the national security? “No, no, no, no, no. It wasn't supposed to be like this - the run-up to the opening of the Olympic Games that China will host for the first time ever, the world's biggest sporting event that is due to open - cough, cough, choke - in the polluted Chinese capital in early August.”
It is cited from an article published on SFGate.com with the name of “China, Tibet, Olympics: Tension, bad timing and competing versions of what it means”. Everyone might agree that it was really a “bad timing” for China in the year of Olympic Games, which is perceived as the biggest chance for China to present itself to the world.
The violence in Tibetan Capital Lhasa on March 14th has been reported into different versions all around the world. Different pictures and explanations for them came out to the public. The west Medias generally reported it as a humanitarian crisis in China: Tibetans were fighting for their freedom and Chinese governments were killing or bruising the poor unarmed civilians. While the Chinese government had different explanations about that: It was just a terroristic attack to the Tibet civilians plotted by the Dalai Lama revolting group.
Both of the sides have shown enough pictures and videos with reports to the public to explain the so called “Truth”. A person with human reason will have a common sense that nowadays every piece of news with political or ideological color is possible to be sophisticated or altered to attract more public opinions and to win more public supports with one’s policy. The key point of these kinds of political and ideological news is not “whether it is truth or not” but “whether you can make it believable or not”. If we take a meticulous examination to these pieces of news, we can find