Duke Chinese Student Threatened After Rally
As a result of the highly contentious pro-Tibet demonstration at Duke last week, at least one student who attended the rally has been targeted for harassment, the Chronicle reports. The student—whose personal information was on the Duke Chinese Scholars and Students Association website and was distributed over several popular Chinese-language Internet forums—has received multiple abusive phone calls and E-mails, along with messages calling for her to be burned alive with oil. The student's name, phone number, and Chinese identity number had been posted on the site (now removed). Pictures and video of her were posted on the forums; the contact information for her parents also was posted.
The student—who says she does not in fact support Tibetan independence—told the Chronicle she blames the Chinese student group for the harassment. Other campus groups like the College Republicans, Duke Democrats, and Students for Academic Freedom have banded together to condemn the threats and request an investigation. The DCSSA denies it posted the student's information, but its president says someone did send out those details using the group's E-mail listserv.
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It is very pathetic to see this biased report. It was a PRO-CHINA demonstration, not a pro-tibet one! As a matter of a fact, patriotism is valued in every culture. I don't know about the harassment, but if she is a traitor to her country, she deserves being condemned. I know china is not perfect, but we are improving. Attempts to break any part of China is intolerable and will fail. Tibet would only be separated over 1.4 billion Chinese's dead body.
Patriotism is valued in every country, but it can make you say stupid things or act in stupid ways. The Olympics were supposed to be a moment of glory for China, but the world is seeing four things a) the logicstical problems in setting up the games b) the Tibetan resistance c) the Chinese government handling this issue very badly and d) Chinese Nationalism's ugly head (a nation's nationalism can look very ugly to another nation).
At the end of the day, Tibet may or may not get the freedoms, China will host the Olympics and may or may not turn things around, the Chinese will probably feel slighted. One effect, though, while the whole process seems to give China an opportunity to flex its muscle, its also making China look less friendly. And thats not a good thing given China's goals of having a good image in the world as it rises as a superpower. The reality of this last point may or may not be fair to China, bu
loving your own country and loving your government are two different things!
I found that the pro-china/olympic, mostly chinese rallys are really missing a point, that loving your own country and loving your government are two different things! They blamed that western new agencies twisting the truth and at the same times they did not have the guts to blame the Chinese news agency and news control policies. Personally I welcome these criticism of our western news agency when they are not doing their job professionally, but will give very little credibility to those criticism from individuals/organization who hypocritically do not dare to say anything about the Chinese goverment's own news control policies. I went anti-wall rallies before and after the invasion of Iraq and the majority of th US population will not label me as traitor and doublt my patrotism. Can we say the same thing if we live in China and hold a rally protesting any of the government policy without being harassed and putting into jail. Most of the people in pro-tibet rally are not against Chinese people, they are against the policy set out by not democraticaly elected Chinese government. Anti-Chinese government does not automatically equate to anti-Chinese people.
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