Sunday, March 16, 2008

Regarding the riots in Lhasa

Via Global Voices Online, following the Chinese reaction to events in Tibet:

经常在新闻中看到伊拉克战争,或是哪里又发生袭击事件,当时我就在里面感慨,还是做中国人幸福,至少是和平的,至少不会会有战争,至少人们不用生活在对战争的恐惧中!但今天发生在西藏的暴乱事件,却让我深深的感觉到,原来也有些人不想让我们中国平静、和平!不知道以后别的国家的人在看到我们中国的战争新闻时,是不是和我当初看伊拉克战争时的心情与感慨一样!

I often see the news about the war in Iraq, or attacks happening somewhere, and at the time I just sigh inside, reminded how lucky I am to be Chinese, where here it's at least peaceful, at least there are no battles, and people don't have to live their lives in fear of battle! But the riots which took place in Tibet today just make me see very clearly that in fact some people don't want our China to be a calm and peaceful place! I wonder, when people in other countries see the news about our battles here in China, will they feel the same thing that I did when I saw the news on Iraq?


Interesting isn't it, that which we see as repression is seen by this Chinese writer as "people [who] don't want our China to be a calm and peaceful place!"

We will be greeted as liberators...

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