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Listed below are comments made by lifeYing between Thursday, 15th May 2008 and Sunday, 24th August 2008.

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Sacred ceremony ends Beijing Games 9:45pm on 24 Aug 2008 About James' comment on BBC TV news that China has spent a sum of money on Olympic that no democratic country can justify to its tax payers. Suppose you are right, how about the tens of billions the so-called democratic countries spent on 'defence' and wars?

I think dear James has two mottos: Whatever the Chinese government does is wrong. Whatever the Chinese government says is a lie. The reason is simple: it does not fit western democratic criteria, which has nothing to do with politics and partisan brainwashing of people but high, supreme morality obviously.

BTW, James, can you please do me a favour by informing me the exact date when Great Britain fit all the domecratic criteria? Rome is not built in one day. That's what I learnt in English.
Sacred ceremony ends Beijing Games 9:37pm on 24 Aug 2008 I know some people feel that some Chinese overract to James Raynolds' comments, sometimes I agree with them. But this time, it is clear that dear James portrays Chinese as a bunch of brainwashed robots without agency as shown in this sentence: "If you didn't believe in the Games, you were dismissed as a heretic."

How does he know? Especially when we know it is not like that. I wonder how much James know about the numorous in-depth jokes Chinese people exchange about political events and leaders in China. We are equally well-informed, if you think you are.
New star 10:42am on 03 Jul 2008 'Tennis isn't a big thing in China."

How do you know? James. How can you judge whether something is big or not? Any research? Or just something out of the mind that does not understand Chinese language?
New star 10:00am on 02 Jul 2008 "each had a suitably low-key, non-energy-sapping interest"

James, this shows you have no idea of Chinese people and Chinese culture and does not want to make the effort.
Xinjiang in mind 3:36pm on 17 Jun 2008 Hi, Raymond

I strongly suggest you watch the two documentaries BBC make: "Chinese School" and "Wild China".

I know you gain a lot of knowledge about China from books. But that's not enough.

If you stay in China for one month, you can write a book about it. If you stay there for a year, you can write a paper about it. After you stay there for ten years, speaking the language, living the life of ordinary people, you don't know what to say, where to start and how. Do you see my point?
Buried under rubble 4:47pm on 15 May 2008 Newborn_Khampa's doubt of the Chinese government' s 'swift action' because of the fact that people are still buried under the rubble for 4 days shows how ignorant he/she is of the situation of Sichuan, China and earthquake. Much of such ignorance originated from terribly biased reports from western journalists.
I'm a local, studying in London now and is going back after the Phd. Almost all my relatives are in Sichuan. The first hand and second-hand accounts I've heard from them give me a clear picture of how the government is trying the best and how united, movingly selfless people are. When I'm saying this I wonder how many readers here are going to say I'm a brainwashed cog of the propaganda machine of the government. Well, believe what you want to. Only hope James can see through your politicized spectacles to bring some insights into the people and the country. China is no longer the regime of the 70's. Let's start from this.

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