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Britain didn’t mention the opium war. Well, anyway, it was just one of the many wars you started in you past. It’s easy for you to say the “forget and forgive” thing.
But you did mention “gunboat diplomacy” by some reporter named Goerge Pitcher at Telegraph. That’s so “opium war” and “great britain empire-ish”. And obviously, the chinese people didn’t take that too kindly.
“Opium war” for us Chinese people was the bitter beginning of a long, miserable and humiliating history. We learned from our colonism history, the deaths of million Chinese people, that we should never forget “opium war”. So, what’s wrong with that and what the fuck is wrong with you people.
Mel Gibson said somthing about Jewsish people and that nearly costed his career. History is history, accept it. If your country did something bad in the first place, don’t blame the victim of bringing this up. And easily labelling “nationalism” on Chinese people’s sentiment dosen’t help, because you don’t know, or you just don’t want to know the Chinese people’s mentality. Yeah, it’s easier to dismiss them as “nationalists” or “brainwashed commie”. Such lazy journalism.
For the record, the Chinese government this time expressly said it was about “judicial sovereinty” instead of bringing up the whole “opium war” drama.
It is the British government that blew this out of proportion. It was 4 kilograms of heroin, it happened in an airport of China, so the Chinese judicial department executed that man according to Chinese law. End of the story.
I wonder the real intention of the British government this time.
Public official protests, newspaper “China bashing” wouldn’t help, and the government people clearly knew that. If the british people really wanted to save that drug dealer, they should’ve done something under the table instead of putting pressure on China publicly. Their “efforts” actually cornerd the Chinese government (by both your condescending attitudes and the concerns of Chinese people) and only produced counter effect. I bet if China did spare that drug dealer, the next thing your journalists would say is the independece of Chinese judicial department and how the Chinese administrative body interfere with the judicial system. Anyway, you are always right, even if you are wrong, you are “righteously” wrong.
So I reckon either the british government didn’t have any intention to save that drug dealer in the first place and they decided to start a new round of China bashing (christman time, no big news and people are bored).
Or, the british government did something and it failed, and they wouldn’t let a british national die in vain. It is a perfect chance to trash the Chinese legal system and incite the China-bashing sentiment.
Now, things are getting highly political.
I think it’s kind of pathetic that the “Great British Empire” actaully use a drug dealer, whose heroin wolud kill thousands of people for a political show.
If the british government really have anything against Chinese legal system or death penalty, bring it up at some human rights conference, but not this time!
British people, drug dealer and the British Queen(face it, that woman was once the biggest drug dealer and slave trader in the world.) combined really won’t invoke any pleasant memory in Chinese people. Oops… did I mention the “opium war” again!
Sun Ji
December 31, 2009 at 1:50 pm |
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