Comments on: Behind The Scenes In China http://www.chinavortex.com/2008/07/behind-the-scenes-in-china/ China | Business | Economy | Internet | Technology Tue, 05 Jan 2010 00:49:53 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: someonesomeone http://www.chinavortex.com/2008/07/behind-the-scenes-in-china/comment-page-1/#comment-3797 someonesomeone Mon, 14 Jul 2008 03:42:11 +0000 http://www.chinavortex.com/?p=259#comment-3797 @sinasource Beijing hasn't come in and removed corrupt officials, apart from Weng'an, in these few months? I think you should stop thinking that western media will catch all acts of CCP cleaning itself. It would look too good for CCP. Beijing have removed dozens of officials for earthquake relief negligence; a official and his son got sentenced life for taking public fund to open a real estate company; some officials involved in tiger gate are removed. There are more cases that are reported by the media by I don't know. There are definitely more cases that went through with the public knowing. CCP, as a policy, do not publicize anything, including corrupt officials getting removed. The ones that the public knows about are the ones that got leaked or the ones that quell public anger. I like this blog. Maybe it doesn't provide sources, but it provide educated and insightful observation of China that aren't mainstreamed already. Did you expect blogs to be researched quality, Sinasource? @sinasource
Beijing hasn’t come in and removed corrupt officials, apart from Weng’an, in these few months? I think you should stop thinking that western media will catch all acts of CCP cleaning itself. It would look too good for CCP. Beijing have removed dozens of officials for earthquake relief negligence; a official and his son got sentenced life for taking public fund to open a real estate company; some officials involved in tiger gate are removed. There are more cases that are reported by the media by I don’t know. There are definitely more cases that went through with the public knowing. CCP, as a policy, do not publicize anything, including corrupt officials getting removed. The ones that the public knows about are the ones that got leaked or the ones that quell public anger.

I like this blog. Maybe it doesn’t provide sources, but it provide educated and insightful observation of China that aren’t mainstreamed already. Did you expect blogs to be researched quality, Sinasource?

]]> By: SinaSource http://www.chinavortex.com/2008/07/behind-the-scenes-in-china/comment-page-1/#comment-3390 SinaSource Fri, 11 Jul 2008 01:45:15 +0000 http://www.chinavortex.com/?p=259#comment-3390 "Behind the scenes"? Please tell us about your access to decisions and policy-making in China. Are you in touch with high officials? Examining documents? Where is this information coming from? A careful analysis of Party doctrine and statements? Speeches of leading cadres? A presentation of the subtle differences within the leadership? No, it does not. It comes from using a Western source or two, and then giving your opinion of the news reports of others--an opinion which is pretty much meaningless without any evidence to back it up. Anyone can do that from their desk, and tell prospective clients that you really know China. By the way, where exactly has Beijing come in and removed party officials? (What is "Beijing" anyway--everybody in the leadership agrees? That would come as a surprise to anyone who actually studied the country instead of simply jumping on the bandwagon of commenting about it.) Apart from Weng'an, not anywhere else, nor has it done so for months, for reasons clear to anyone who actually studies the subject instead of making ill-founded and unstudied pronouncements about it. But then again, this blog is completely about the latter--that, and telling everyone that others get China wrong but you do not. What--apart from boundless ego and imagination--entitles you to make such a claim? “Behind the scenes”? Please tell us about your access to decisions and policy-making in China. Are you in touch with high officials? Examining documents? Where is this information coming from? A careful analysis of Party doctrine and statements? Speeches of leading cadres? A presentation of the subtle differences within the leadership?

No, it does not. It comes from using a Western source or two, and then giving your opinion of the news reports of others–an opinion which is pretty much meaningless without any evidence to back it up. Anyone can do that from their desk, and tell prospective clients that you really know China.

By the way, where exactly has Beijing come in and removed party officials? (What is “Beijing” anyway–everybody in the leadership agrees? That would come as a surprise to anyone who actually studied the country instead of simply jumping on the bandwagon of commenting about it.) Apart from Weng’an, not anywhere else, nor has it done so for months, for reasons clear to anyone who actually studies the subject instead of making ill-founded and unstudied pronouncements about it.

But then again, this blog is completely about the latter–that, and telling everyone that others get China wrong but you do not. What–apart from boundless ego and imagination–entitles you to make such a claim?

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