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I saw some of that on CCTV last night. Here's an article about it.
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I saw some of that on CCTV last night. Here's an article about it.
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What's the big deal? The PLAN sailors were just being very courteous to their evacuated guests. They can always replenish food supplies at the next port stop.
plawolf
Lieutenant General
Typical western reporting. It must have been a bitter pill indeed for them to have to report on something positive about China, and I was wondering when they would be able to find a negative spin to put on the story.
They will try anything to belittle China and to find fault or a negative to say about any and everything China does include seizing on, and hiding behind the rants of internet trolls.
Anyone with half a brain would have realised that the reason the soldiers were eating pickles was not because of a lack of money or supplies, but the available mess facilities and time.
These are navy warships, not cruise liners, and they were simply never designed to accommodate so many people at once.
The ship mess was probably working overtime to provide food for the hundreds of extra people as it was, so to make sure all the civilians and women's and children got a decent meal (maybe the first in days for many) the PLAN sailers just used some picked vegetables to add some flavour to their rice rather than eat as they normally would. It might have been bland, but it was just one meal, and it was what any half decent human being would have done.
This story doesn't 'expose' anything about China. The only thing it exposes is the lack of knowledge and even basic common sense amongst the BBC team and their crusade against China.
AssassinsMace
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It wasn't like they were sailing half way around the world. They just traveled to the nearest friendly port where the evacuees flew home. This is the media's attempt to start a revolution by pointing to class disparities when that has no bearing here. And let's not discount that these posters on Chinese social media sites are foreign agents trying to stir up a revolution. Remember that one right after the Arab Spring that called for revolution in China to start at "this place" and at "this time" in Beijing where interestingly enough the only people that showed up were the foreign media to cover it and US ambassador Jon Huntsman? Yeah all of the sudden every foreign media outlet decided to believe an anonymous poster on Chinese social media as being legit to which they sent their journalists to cover it. And if nothing happened they can claim the oppressive secret government arrested everyone before they got there to which they did report it that way. But this time they want a military coup instead of a citizen revolution because that hasn't worked as planned.
Sure the article may have a minor diss the Chinese/miltary/authorities slant to it but I think it was pretty honest and objective overall.
Chinese state media and its depictions of values and life in general, including things about the military, can often be quite old-fashioned and conservative compared to how many wealthier and younger Chinese people see things.
It is good that Chinese state media want the sacrifices and conservative etiquette of the PLA and its members recognized and appreciated.
It is also good for some commenters to feel that the PLA should treat its members better, not demanding excessive sacrifice or when it is not necessary, under circumstances where it can afford to treat others drastically better.
It is also good that commenters who choose to be cynical about the whys and hows of what happened have the freedom to express their opinions and not be censored.
It is also good that Chinese state media called out cynicism, negatively presumptive attitudes, or words, as unhelpful and destructive in a learning moment rather than censoring them.
So if we pay attention to the facts and filter out the minimal spin, it was a report on a whole lot of good things that I would rather have the opportunity to read about than not.
Guys stop it here - the BBC reports some pictures posted by a Chinese person on the Chinese part of the Internet. It shows some tired soldiers and happy foreigners. You can get whatever impressions you would like. Maybe PLAN opened itself too much - and ithurts your image that indeed they had to eat pickles that day. Ask ones who were there. Do not question photos - they were taken the same day and in the same 'place'.
So stop blaming 'western media' for something which started in China...
So stop blaming 'western media' for something which started in China...
plawolf
Lieutenant General
Yeah, I'm call BS on that. That BBC piece did nothing of the kind. It took the pictures someone took completely out of context by citing internet trolls who were never there nor who has even the most basic idea of what they are talking about.
That's not letting people from their own opinions, that's force feeding them the opinion that most closely tracks their desired narrative.
Nice bit of double standards and misdirection right there.
Interesting you didn't show any objections to the BBC basing their narrative on internet trolls who where never there.
Also, where has anyone questioned the photos? Are you even reading the same thing as the rest of us?
Its the BBC that is to blame for writing an entire story based on nothing more than the rants of some nameless internet trolls and their own bias.
Imagine what the reaction would be if Chinese or Russian media riddiculed western humanitarian rescue efforts based on nothing more than the yahoo comments section.
The very fact you can come out to defend such nonexistent standards is pretty disappointing.
asif iqbal
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Looks like a Catamaran
Looks like a Catamaran
Does it resemble any known types for the military? It looks like a not so stealthy large ferry.