Another howler from Xinhua

Ahh, poor deluded Xinhua -

In any case, Bush, as the president of the country which boasts the greatest number of think-tanks and intelligence agencies in the world, should have already been knowledgeable about the China's stated positions and bottom line from his dealings with the nation over the years.

The day that George Bush can even FIND Taiwan on a map without confusing it with the Philippines or Madagascar or Japan will be truly a day to remember to tell the grandchildren. And whoever said that thinktanks and intelligence agencies ever made a president knowledgable when he's determined to ignore whatever he hears that he doesn't like?

...and lest we forget what Xinhua is, they remind us yet again.

Comments

[praktike]

is it just me, or is Xinhua's proclivity for showing scantily-clad women near its news stories an odd habit for a state-run news agency?

[Martey]

For a second, praktike, I thought you were talking about Chairman Mao.

Incidentally, the most rational comment in that article is by "Iamcrazy."

[praktike]

This was a howler: "Whoever enables the Chinese people to have enough to eat, people will remember him."

Hungry Ghosts, anyone?

Zoe- do people really enter those quotes, or does someone at Xinhua just make them up? Or is it the same folks who sell Mao lighters at the ghost market, trying to increase the value of their product?

[Zoe]

Some people really do enter those quotes. Scary, huh? I have a sneaking suspicion that at least some of them are made up, but some of them are also frighteningly common sentiments that you can hear from taxidrivers and regular people (more common in cities than the countryside, surprisingly - I would guess because in the countryside people are a LOT more cynical about the great socialist experiment, and they're the ones that have really gotten the short end of the stick in the end).

There's still a lot of historical whitewashing that goes on, booming economy and westernization notwithstanding.