May You Read Interesting Times

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Yesterday’s Irish Times’ advertorial for the Chinese Communist Party

This morning.

Via Irish Times Letters:

I resent the publication of the Chinese government ad in yesterday’s Irish Times.

Comparing China to Ireland is an insult.

They talk about looking after the “wellbeing” of the Chinese people and the development of the country.

Is forced sterilisation looking after people’s wellbeing?

Is imprisoning protesters democratic?

Is silencing that optician who broke the scandal of coronavirus democratic? I think not.

I am saddened that the Irish Times published this propaganda, money is not everything.

Tina Dermody,

County Wicklow

Irish Times Letters

Meanwhile…

The advertorial talks about the CCP’s commitment to the “wellbeing of the Chinese people”. Tell that to the millions of Uighurs in China’s west who have been terrorised, imprisoned or surveilled and are having their culture erased. Or speak to feminist activists who have been jailed or forced into exile for calling out gender discrimination.

Or consider the lawyers who have been imprisoned for taking on human rights cases. Even Marxist activists have been detained for supporting more worker’s rights. The party indeed may be committed to “wellbeing”, but the party gets to define what wellbeing means.

China’s self-penned praise calls for dose of scepticism (, Irish Times)

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Thanks Lilly

 

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8 thoughts on “May You Read Interesting Times

  1. Gabby

    The commenters on broadsheet, this one included, in the fine tradition of the editor of the Skibbereen Eagle continue to keep a sharp eye on the affairs of Tsar Putin and Tsar Xi. We are not fooled. We are watching their every move.

  2. italia'90

    I’m so glad that I live in freedom loving, corruption hating democracy where everything is so perfect and we are immune to obvious state and corporatist propaganda. One of the west’s great heroes just passed away, Donald Rumsgeld, he definitely wasn’t a war criminal.
    No sir
    He definitely was not.

  3. Junkface

    To think that the Chinese government have never even acknowledged the atrocities committed by chairman Mao and the Red guard in the 50’s and 60’s, is very strange. They killed millions through brutal lynchings, and then created a terrible agricultural plan that ended up causing a massive food shortage and famine, again killing millions of their own people. There’s also Tiannamen Square in the late 80’s, thousands of pro democracy students were killed by tanks or else taken away and never seen again. The list could go on forever.

    1. Daisy Chainsaw

      They took the Yuan for the full page ad and then publshed a rebuttal. Capitalism at its finest.

    1. Lilly

      No, they shouldn’t have. I wonder was there a breakdown in communication between editorial and advertising? Advertising tends not to be fussy.

  4. Lilly

    Who gives a toss about consumer tat from China. I think we can all agree we’ve reached peak TV saturation.

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