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No evidence to support Chen Guangcheng’s “beating” claims

Submitted by Wei Ling Chua on Mon, 23/07/2012 - 9:04pm

From the outset, Chen seems to be just another Chinese dissident brutally treated by the authorities, however, there are more to that.

In the opening statement at the Council on Foreign Relation (31 May, 2012), Professor Cohen of the New York University made it clear that Chen “had never studied law” when “the State Department” asked him to meet Chen nine years ago (that is in 2003).

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media disinformation

International news and opinion

Ethic of Western journalism: The evolution of Chen Guangcheng’s “escape” stories

Submitted by Wei Ling Chua on Wed, 18/07/2012 - 12:19am

- 16 escape stories with only one that makes sense

The blind Chinese dissident, Chen Guangcheng has finally “escaped” the “brutal” treatment of the Chinese “regime” and landed in the “free” world. The world in particularly the American media called this a human rights win for America.

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Global/International

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human rights

media disinformation

International news and opinion

Media disinformation: Understand South China Sea standoff through the Filipino media

Submitted by Wei Ling Chua on Wed, 23/05/2012 - 9:16pm

China is now Australia’s largest trading partner. Western Australia’s Premier is right to point out that: “… of the 60,000 new jobs created in Australia over the past 12 months, 50,000 were in WA, which now accounted for 70 per cent of the nation's exports to China … To some extent, the strength of the WA economy is concealing the true weakness of the national economy.” Therefore, it is in Australia national interest that our policy makers are able to understand China in an objective manner. I hope that the following article will contribute to such an objective.

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Dalai Lama, Tibet and western media

Submitted by Wei Ling Chua on Sun, 09/10/2011 - 4:54pm

China has often being misunderstood by the Western public due to factual distortion by Western’s journalists and writers. Bruce Gilley, an assistant professor of political science at Portland State University’s Mark O.

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