The Norwegian prime minister, Mrs. Erna Solberg, visited China April 7–10 this year. This was the first visit by a Norwegian prime minister in seven years, since diplomatic relations between Norway and China has been frozen – due to the 2010 Nobel peace prize. Personally I am shocked about how Norwegian media covered our prime minister's visit. The Norwegian national … [Read more...] about Norwegian media, Hu Jia and Liu Xiaobo
Important arguments on the South China sea tensions
South China Sea tensions stem from the ‘nine-dash line’ By Demetri Sevastopulo in Manila The South China Sea territorial disputes between China and its neighbours can be partly traced to an internal map published by the Republic of China government in 1947 that included an “eleven-dash line” enclosing much of the waters. China did not explain the significance of the line at … [Read more...] about Important arguments on the South China sea tensions
Extremely biased Aljazeera program
Extremely biased by Aljazeera English https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F821Fe2_wBk If you get the message «The uploader has not made this video available to your country», try http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/headtohead/2015/01/transcript-dr-zhang-weiwei-150130115930963.html ... «Interviewer»: Mehdi Hasan (born in the UK) «Guest»: Zhang Weiwei, professor of … [Read more...] about Extremely biased Aljazeera program
Is «the tank man»-story true?
As we all know – every year around June 4th, Western media has stories about «the tank man» – like then The New York Times first printed «the tank man»-photo, and wrote: «A single man stopping a column of tanks rumbling toward Tian’anmen Square». Similar narrative has been repeated by Western news outlet every year since 1989. TIME magazine even declared «the tank man ... one … [Read more...] about Is «the tank man»-story true?