Asia Sentinel

China Great
written by rose11 , January 09, 2010

I have saw the entire process. It is great! China is prowerful. China a country always safeguard world peace. I am proud of she

Encore
written by >:( , October 12, 2009

Here comes the apes and chimps again.

Tit for tat!
written by Punching Lama , October 11, 2009

China shows off snub-nosed ICBMs.
Obama snubbed off Dalai Lama.

Insecurity
written by Mao , October 11, 2009

The brilliant military parade fed into the insecuties of the West on China peaceful rise. The West is likely to increase funding to Dalair and Rubiya for more secessionist activities.

Dinah's ready! Come for your dimsum!
written by Wanton Scoop , October 09, 2009

Hahah! Lovely bunches of sweet army women, short skirts, jackboots, goose-stepping and all! Don't I just love it! China is dishing it out and I call that all in a grand fashion! Ain't it all prophetic beauty - just when them hapless Yanks, Brits and all those Nato-nites, some in their patched-up 'armour' and eBay kits are getting a ripe old rub in the nose, a skewered roasting by those naughty people in Afghanistan - having got nowhere in Iraq where they were only recently kebabbed by the ghosts of Saddam past! And just when they find no money left for the next superduper state of the art weaponry from the sad state of the State (and allies), China kicks up a big duststorm with dishy storm-trooper and all! What a timing! What a glorious 60th, I says! Many happy returns!

Here we have a hack writing for a half-baked site still using that old tone of 'righteous admonition' (long) ignored by the Mandarins of an imperial China in the making. Whether the heavy armour is made in the toy factories of Guangzhou or Shantou don't bother me none! Whether they would work against the might or might not of Yankland don't worry me none neither! What is delicious is what the West made of the greatest show of the year - a festivity of pies thrown in its face by yesterday 'sick man' now made good. Very good indeed. Very good in hard solid facts - all with dem gigantic wheels too! Beautiful colours too - computer-generated pixilated camouflage to match those beautiful uniforms of dem goose-stepping beauties! A jolly good show, I says! Many more to come - next year's models even better!

All that those in envy can do is to get an unknown hack for an unknown site to write a few smears here and there. Det da most ya can do? No wonder the Talibananas are having a beached whale of a time riding roughshod over the sophisticated weaponry of the mighty West! Keep firing dem unmanned drones, they say, the accuracy is so great that they made more Talibanana enemies from those blasted wedding guests for dem White saviours than solve a perpectual problem for the West: should we send more troops in and further more troops as we itch to run away? I hear dem tink!

"Hoho"(translated 'hoho' in Putonghua) I can hear those on the Tiananmen rostrum tink "Days not far when we can make special chop suey out of our erstwhile 'friends' ". Confucius he says "When Emperor wants enemies to perish, He first make them go crazy!". Here we we can see crazy in the form of a write-up of sort sprinkled here and there with unconcealed or uncongealed slags. That doesn't make the kind of brew that would make a Chinaman with probable militarist tendency bat a pingpong ball let alone an eyelid! Just see how, like the odd cheap jibes here and there by hacks and attempts at seizing the torch during the Olympic run ins cause the West its own seizures?! The Mandarins simply never gave any of these antics the monkey's brain!

"Keep at it!" I can here them Maoist capitalists turn-colourfuls think "Bring 'em on!" So keep at it, I says too! In these days of glorious party written copies, a bit of deviancy in extinct journalism may even be interesting content for a spittoon! As for those on the Tiananmen I can hear them quietly roar as short skirts swagger and heavy armour roll past, "Watch carefully what we've got - plenty more where they come from!" More brilliant rockets as China rocks!

And we know when the time comes they will make mincemeat or rather dimsum of the dim West. Watch this space, I says - if the CIA can still spend yesterday's 'world currency' on it! Come to think of it, before those on the Tiananmen rostrum would unleash those big lead-tainted toys on West, they probably would have stuffed the mightiest or mighthavebeen nation on earth with its own dollar! "Hahah!" (translated "Hahah" in Hunanese) I can hear old Mao say "Dinah is served!".

The military parade is not so flashy
written by China , October 08, 2009

The goosestep blocks passing Tiananmen Square are not so flashy, with women soldiers too few and poorly dressed. The other advanced weapons could not open themselves for you to view, who can tell they are not fake? I hear there are many hired coolie behind the wheel of the trucks to push them in case of engine failure.
The rest of the world does not have to worry about China, take good care of yourselves.

Red peril
written by >:( , October 08, 2009

All the bloodthirsty chest-thumping apes are now crawling out of the woodwork.

Divine Law
written by Bruce Lee , October 08, 2009

Dinah Gardner eat your bloody heart out.

Retribution. You hypocrites fed opium to the defenceless and weak Chinese then. Today, the greatest scourge in the UK is DRUG ADDICTION amongst your young.

Payback time!

The bullied have risen
written by Red Book , October 07, 2009

China was the favourite object of bullying and persecution by the West for many decades. Britain created opium addicts of Chinese so that they can be colonised. Now the Chinese have risen and the bullies now fear they will be kicked in the asses. Even now the West find everything wrong with China. No country is perfect. The West is in decline. Their morals are just rotten in the core. Their new god is MONEY - and they will do anything for it. Hence the mess the world is in now. It will be worse as the high priests of the MONEY GOD are still around and even in the US government. The old colonies will rise and overthrown their previous colonial masters. Every dog will have it's day. The day will come soon enough where Asia will lead the way.

The East is Red
written by Mao , October 06, 2009

Long Live the People Republic

What is your slant
written by Jason Leong , October 06, 2009

Who cares the Chinese shall be overtaking Germany as the biggest exporter

China succeeded against all odds
written by Fei Fei , October 05, 2009

China should be proud of its achievements. Despite all the obstacles thrown at it, from sanctions and trade barriers by the west, by internal secession attempts of Tibet and XInjiang, by bad press of western media, and from its own self inflicted wound of the cultural revolution, China managed to progress from a disastrous starving nation in 1949 to a dynamic fast developing nation of today.
No nation is perfect, and China is not perfect too. It has to allow its citizens more freedom, but yet be firm to maintain order. It has to balance economic development with preservation of the environment. There are certainly lots of challenges for China. But China has reached a stage where it can stand proudly as a nation free from foreign domination, able to defend itself, and contribute to world peace.

China - Taiwan non-issue
written by Yang Yang , October 04, 2009

The occasional sparring between China and Taiwan is just nothing but a political show. Fact is that the status quo will remain, an ambiguous status that both can live with. The head of China will have to say whatever that needs saying that Taiwan is part of China. And the head of Taiwan will just need to say enough to imply that Taiwan is independent, without having to declare so outright. And then life goes on like two independent nations. It suits both nations, and it benefits both nations just to let the ambiguity remain. The important thing now is for both sides to develop a closer and peaceful relationship in trade and social exchanges. China will eventually evolve into a more democratic country as the country advance economically, socially and politically. The new generation of Chinese will eventually bring in the political and social changes. That is inevitable. The generation that had any reverance for Mao will all age and die away naturally. And the Taiwanese with any link to Chiang will also all pass away. When the baggages are all gone, hopefully it gets easier for the two sides to get closer. But I suppose the USA will constinue to quietly be a pain in the behind to keep instigating Taiwan to buy more arms to "protect" itself. It benefits the US profitable arms export, and also maintain its military presence next to China by making use of Taiwan. Shame on the USA.

CONGRATULATIONS TO CHINA
written by YenYen , October 04, 2009

China has made great progress in many areas. It may not have reached the level of many advanced nations, but the important thing is that it is on the right direction and making fast strides. Yes China may still have a lot of poor people, but the poverty level has dropped tremendously, and the percentage of middle income people have risen. The literacy rate has risen. Technology level has risen.
Many countries do not like to see this, especially many western countries and some of its rival neighbours. But they should adjust to this, and face the fact that China's development will continue to progress. At the end of World War 2, China was a big disaster. But look at it today. No one can honestly say that it has not made great progress. It may not be a fully free nation, but that too has seen continual progress. It is a complex nation, and a weak central government would result in a rapid disintegration of the nation. Sure there is widespread corruption. But even the developed countries have that, except that it is well hidden, and the criminals are more sophisticated.
I am proud of the progress China has made, even though I am an oversea Chinese. I am proud for my many relatives back in China!

Taiwan forever
written by 8-} , October 03, 2009

(AFP) – Taiwan on Thursday reacted to a call by Chinese President Hu Jintao to move towards reunification by stating that the island is an "independent sovereign state".

"The Republic of China is an independent sovereign state, and it is a reality that the two sides do not belong to each other," the Mainland Affairs Council said in a statement, referring to Taiwan by its official name.

But the council, the island's top China policy decision-making body, also called for setting aside disputes that have split Taiwan and the mainland for six decades.

"Only that way can we develop relations permanently and lay a solid foundation," the council said.

Hu pledged to "push forward the peaceful development of relations across the Taiwan Strait" amid a historic thaw between the two sides, which split at the end of a bloody civil war won by Mao's Communist forces in 1949.

"We will continue to strive for the complete reunification of our motherland, which is the common aspiration of the Chinese nation," he said, as China celebrated 60 years of communist rule.

Beijing still considers Taiwan part of its territory awaiting reunification, by force if necessary.

On the island, immediate reunification is supported by only a minority, while most prefer a continuation of the status quo, in which Taiwan is an independent nation in all but name.

CIA Sentinel
written by Simon Tan , October 03, 2009

Asia Sentinel should change its name to CIA Sentinel. The articles published in this website has an obvious slant towards bashing China. Even though I am not a China national, but am a national of another country (but of Chinese descent), I can see the biasness in the articles quite clearly. Is this website financed by the CIA? Maybe. Most probably. The USA would like to see China disintegrate into several pieces, just like the breakup of the Soviet Union, so that it can remain as the sole superpower. USA always like to portray China as a threat to its neighbours. Yet history shows that the USA is a more violent country. It has a long history of invasion of other countries or outright sabotage and attempted assasinations of heads of state. Its powerful media portray all its rivals and enemies as the villains, and portray USA as the angelic world policeman. For example Iraq: While I am no fan of Saddam Hussein and his bloody cruel ways, yet the USA has killed much more Iraqis in a few short years compared to the entire rule of Saddam!! Not only that, the USA destroyed the entire infrastructure of Iraq! And made almost the entire Iraqi population poor and in despair, living under constant fear. And of course now it is leaving Iraq, destroyed and in hell. It bullied its small little neighbour Cuba for decades, and still doing so.
So the westerners should not come to preach to China about morals and human rights until the west has cleaned up their own act. China is not perfect and has lots of its own problems to resolve, but that is China's own problems, and not for the westerners to come to interfere. Just like they would not like to see China or others interfere in their countries.

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written by Movemountain , October 03, 2009

Deng used to muse:we Chinese communists grew up under the flood of cursing salivar of the West & their lackeys. Were we being drown? No! The ship maintained its bouyancy none the worse, albeit being rattled dangerously sometimes. It sailed on none the less' . This basically sums up Chinese attitudes towards the West : Chinese are never beholden to you evil guys, whether for praise or scorn. The West is just a mere sour-graped clown!

Dinah Gardner is jealous and disappointed
written by Ming , October 03, 2009

This lady called Dinah is jealous and disappointed to see China put on such a impressive show. What she would prefer to see would be China screwing up the celebration with a lot of chaos and rag tag displays, so that she could write tons of stories to pour scorn on China. She would have preferred to write about how things did not work at the show. Well she was disappointed to find that things were working to well. So she had to nit picked on small little things to criticize China. If she wants to see things crew up, maybe she should save her energy to see how Greece is going to screw up the Olympics games. The way things are going, she may see a lot of unfinished stadiums and transportation systems.

RISE OF CHINA...NOBODY CAN STOP IT
written by Yao , October 03, 2009

The westerners don't like to see the rise of China. They still want to behave like colonial masters talking down the Asians. Well, the white honky tonks have to get used to seeing China exert its rightful place in the world. Before they come to write bad things about China, they should go look in the mirror and see the lousy things in their own country first. Like how the white Aussies enslaved the original Australian inhabitants and took away their children (the lost generation). Like how the Europeans went to America and robbed and killed the natives, and put the rest in barren "reservation land". Like how the LAPD beat up the blacks. Like how they still hold on to their colonization of Hawaii, Samoa, Puerto Rico, Guam, and many more. UK is still holding on to islands stolen from Argentina. And America is guilty of war crimes. They killed hundreds of thousands of Iraqis by dropping bombs and missiles indiscriminately all over Iraq on a false charge that iraq had WMD. The real truth was that they wanted to control the oil, and to destroy Iraq's military capability, and of course also to allow the weapons manufacturers to get rid of old inventory and supply new ones. So the white honky tonks should not come to preach about morals until they have cleaned up their own backyard.

Western Jealousy
written by Bruce Li , October 03, 2009

Dinah Gardner , the descendant of Opium Pushers.

Sorri mate. No business for you anymore.

It's eating your heart out that the Chinks have finally arisen. Even the US is kept afloat by the Chinaman.

How abt that?

You envious neo-colonialist, Red Indian and Bushmen killer, can write trash, Nobody cares.

China will continue to ascend, like it or not. Yes!

You tried hard to destroy China's Olympics let see karma will fix the London Olympic. Retribution, mate. Watch it!

Tibet again? Oh no . . Poor Northern Ireland.

Judge me not
written by Hu Manchu , October 03, 2009

Heh, another China article that doesn't explicitly roll over to offer vomit-inducing praise to the glorious communist Motherland and the propaganda curs are out in force yapping at the moon. At least we can be thankful that we've thus far been spared the obligatory cold war rhetoric like "lick-spittle running dogs", eh?

Ad hominem attack on journalist? Check. Avoid any mention of lock-down of Beijing in true Mao-style? Check. Ignore past 45 years of death, starvation, and all-round disastrous governance by the CCP? Check. Conveniently forget that the vast majority of Chinese live in grinding 3rd world poverty right now? Check. Threaten dire consequences for criticisng the s**t-hot perfection of the elite thugs that now rule? Check. So far so predictable, so far so amusing.

No one is fooled though. The Chinese people are no better off under today's tin-pot tyrants than they were under their emperors. But we are a patient lot. After all, we've waited 3.000 years, what's another lousy 60 years of oppression?

Chinese Pride
written by Frank of Seattle , October 02, 2009

Non-Chinese people do not understand the importance of Chinese Pride, or "face", or honor.

Historically, many Chinese would give their lives for the pride. It is the Chinese Pride that makes China the longest lasting nation on earth.

For those of you who cannot share the Chinese Pride, I would advise to leave Chinese people alone, especially whose homes are not too far from China. I am sure you would not like the reactions. Pick a Chinese history book and find out why.

A subtle piece of rubbish article
written by Li Na , October 02, 2009

This is another piece of China bashing article by another western writer. This one is more subtle, as she makes use of supposed quotes from some so called Chinese people to hit out at China. Typical journalistic tricks. WE ARE PROUD OF OUR NATIONAL DAY CELEBRATION, AND WE ARE OK TO MAKE A LITTLE SACRIFICE OF OUR DAILY ROUTINE TO ENSURE A SUCCESSFUL NATIONAL DAY!

I am proud of out National Celebration
written by Xiao Mei , October 02, 2009

Dinah Gardner, you sure tried your best to make our NAtional Day celebration sound like a funeral mourning. Come off it. The Chinese people are proud of China's achievement and we are proud of the grand celebration. Sure, motorists get disgruntled in any traffic jams, and sure taxi drivers would not be happy if there are no customers. But we can understand the need for traffic management in the preparation for the celebration and on the day itself. Your writing sounds like you are so desperate to look for faults in the National Celebration. You may disagree, but the tone of the writing shows through your inner feeling.

I am proud of out National Celebration
written by Xiao Mei , October 02, 2009

Dinah Gardner, you sure tried your best to make our NAtional Day celebration sound like a funeral mourning. Come off it. The Chinese people are proud of China's achievement and we are proud of the grand celebration. Sure, motorists get disgruntled in any traffic jams, and sure taxi drivers would not be happy if there are no customers. But we can understand the need for traffic management in the preparation for the celebration and on the day itself. Your writing sounds like you are so desperate to look for faults in the National Celebration. You may disagree, but the tone of the writing shows through your inner feeling.