If China's official communications to the world were not so malicious, they would be highly amusing. OK, I admit that I am highly amused regardless of their malicious content.
I find two possibilities for their apparent lack of sophistication and insight. Either the Chinese government is 100% cynical, or they are as anachronistic and goofy as they sound. In spite of all the advances China has made in defeating abject poverty through communism-and we should give credit where credit is due-on the one hand, and its more relaxed policy of social restrictions, on the other, its style of official business at the government level has not budged an inch since I started observing it more than forty years ago.
They say the most errant nonsense without discrimination. Perhaps more telling is that even if they are partially right in what they have to say about the Dalai Lama, what they cannot fathom is that no one believes them, no one finds them credible, no one thinks they have any validity at all. On top of their totalitarian way of dealing with their own people--what to speak of their dealings with Tibet--there is only one word that describes China's official communications and perhaps (because it is difficult to peer through the density of the ludicrous nature of these communications) their actual perception of the likelihood of anyone agreeing with them (except perhaps North Korea). That word is
SQUARE.
Do they really think the world will take their word over the Dalai Lama's?
Please.
Station Agent, why are they so square?
Here is the article from Yahoo News.
"The 14th Dalai Lama and his clique's clamor for 'cultural autonomy of Tibet' is essentially a political conspiracy to restore theocratic rule over the culture of Tibet and other Tibetan-inhabited regions, and thus realize the 'independence of Greater Tibet,'" it said.
OK, perhaps; probably not. But here's the kicker.
China issued a government report Thursday praising its rule over Tibet and accusing the Dalai Lama of wanting to restore a backward feudal system in the Himalayan region.
Right...nothing backward about the Chinese government, nothing at all...
Read more.
2 comments:
Their leadership class, like so many in the world, believe the crazy assed stories they tell themselves. They think they're building a utopia and that the ends justify the means. They really think that they're lies play at home. Maybe they do, I wouldn't know. It's an embarrassment to their people and I know how they feel.
You nailed it. That's why you are the Station Agent.
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