quelquefois » East vs. West http://quelquefois.net/toujours Mon, 02 Jan 2012 08:16:25 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 Epic Battle: East Versus West http://quelquefois.net/toujours/2008/12/27/epic-battle-east-versus-west/ http://quelquefois.net/toujours/2008/12/27/epic-battle-east-versus-west/#comments Sat, 27 Dec 2008 04:14:20 +0000 Chang http://quelquefois.net/toujours/?p=278 Last week, the central government blocked access to the New York Times. Then a few days later, unblocked access. No one really knows why, but personally I think it has something to do with negative coverage of China on the website. Right after access is restored, the Times publishes an article about releasing a political dissident in China. The site hasn’t been blocked again, but I thought it was ironic that:

a. the Times posts a politically sensitive article after it was blocked for political reasons
b. the indirectly anti-China article was surrounded by a pro-China advertisement:

 
According to the Shanghaiist, these ads are paid for by the Chinese government to spread their interpretation of Tibetan history and development. 

I wonder how East-West tensions will escalate (or ease) as a new President transitions into power, as the financial crisis continues, and as China transitions into post-Olympics 2009.

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