Re: [Hibiscus: 28] Re: A group of students are doing research on the news of Darfur crisis - Reply from Bill @ Jewels in the Jungle

[BlackRiverEagle]

Jacky and Ethan,

 

It's good to see that Chinese students are beginning to address the controversy over the PRC's support for the Khartoum regime in Sudan.  It's also great to see that the Hibiscus Project is showing some life again after so many months.  I do sincerely hope that other members (including myself) find a way to keep the initiative alive (the Hibiscus Project) and include more people that are really interested in creating dialogues and debate around the China-Africa relationship.

 

English-language translations of the work that the Chinese students are doing re: Darfur and Sudan is a must as so few non-Chinese people can read Mandarin or Cantonese.  That said, the breaking news of today in regards to Sudan is the suspension of participation in the Khartoum government by the SPLM.  That spells nothing but trouble for al-Bashir and his government and his financial supporters if the SPLM and other southern Sudanese political groups decide to break the peace and return to conflict and civil war.  Let's hope that it doesn't go that far but it seems that the southern Sudanese are fed up with the Khartoum regimes lies and manipulations and downright thievery of the country's revenues earned from oil exports.

 

Another breaking news story in regards to Sudan is the report by Reuters that Warren Buffet, longtime holdout on divestment of Berkshire Hathaway shares in China's national oil company PetroChina, has slashed his holdings of the stocks and is contemplating pulling out of PetroChina all together.  Here is the report from Reuters: Buffet seen quitting PetroChina (10/10/07)

 

Best regards,

Bill (BRE) @ Jewels in the Jungle
 

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Subject: [Hibiscus: 28] Re: A group of students are doing research on the news of Darfur crisis

Sure..will post some translation here...

On 10/10/07, Ethan Zuckerman <eth...@gmail.com> wrote:

Jacky, that's very exciting. Do you think you are likely to do any translations of their work? That might be very interesting for Global Voices...

-E

On 10/10/07, Jacky Peng <skyl...@gmail.com> wrote:

See this page (in Chinese)
http://www.my1510.cn/author.php?GROUP8

They are students of Rose (闾丘露薇 LuQiuLuWei) http://blog.sina.com.cn/luqiuluwei

Rose is a famous reporter and blogger in China.

These students are looking at the reports of the Darfur crisis from
the West and China.  They have made some interesting comparisons.



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[Jacky Peng]

Here are some translations for your appetite.

Media Comparison Between the West and China on Darfur Crisis

These are students from Hong Kong Baptist University.  They are taking the subject, Current Issues and Case Studies in International News, taught by Ms Rose LUQIU Luwei. 

The students are divided into 8 groups.  Each group focuses on one world issue and posts the research report on a blog portal, my1510.cn.

The Group 8 is working on Darfur Crisis.  They have published 3 reports till now.

Here are some translations from the first report.

 

Comparisons between the Western and China's media on the reports of some key problems in Darfur crisis

1. Racial issues

China's media think that the Western media speak no word on the anti-government militants attacking civilian targets.  Instead, they particularize the Sudanese government forces chasing the anti-government militants in villages.

In fact, on this issue, Western media pay more attention to the stance of China, not to Sudan itself.  From China's stance, they speculate China has gained big interest under the table.   

2. Refugees

3. China's stance

4. The Oil

5. Influences on Olympics Game

I am stuck by this line, who can help?

>>中国媒体对问题的片面报道和为西方所诟病的宣传特性似乎在这个问题上尤为突出

[Ethan Zuckerman]

This perception that Westerners are blaming China, rather than looking at internal factors, has some real validity to it. The outcry over Burma, focusing on pressuring China rather than focusing on actors like Thailand and India, is an important indicator of China skepticism in western media right now. Very interesting to see this reflected in students' posts...

Best,

-E

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[Oiwan Lam]

yeah, buffet has slashed its holding on petrol china, but another hedge fund is taking it over, also chinese capital. yesterday its stock price goes up rapidly. guess some are delighted to see buffet retreating so that they can buy the stock at lower price.

media comparative studies is quite tricky. in inmediahk.net, we also have similar discussion about whether it is fair to blame china for burma repression. western media has its agenda and overly stresses the role of china. however, internally we didn't hear much self critique from chinese media, and when there are internal critiques, they would fall into this western conspiracy theory.

for example, our citizen reporter has interviewed a burmese in hk on the issue and raised the weapon trading issue and commented that china had to bare some responsibility on the issue. immediately it was confronted with western conspiracy critique. this kind of "nationalistic" media comparison is affecting our internal reflective space. there are many mainstreams, western media is a mainstream (globally), but chinese media also has a mainstream (nationally), chinese gov't role in sudan and burma were not or very seldomly mentioned in chinese mainstream.

the article is in chinese but you can read the english comment:
http://www.inmediahk.net/public/article?item_id=259652&group_id=11

cheers, oiwan

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[Daudi K. Were]

It is fascinating to hear the thoughts of Chinese students on this. Thank you Jacky and Oiwan. It is very important that the discussion is taking place. Thank you for bringing it to our attention.

Oiwan Lam <oiwa...@gmail.com> wrote:

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They are students of Rose (ãÌÇð¶ޱ LuQiuLuWei) http://blog.sina.com.cn/luqiuluwei

Rose is a famous reporter and blogger in China.

These students are looking at the reports of the Darfur crisis from
the West and China.  They have made some interesting comparisons.



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