https://www.imperialtours.net/blog/the-medias-fixation-with-chinas-air-quality/ Travelling China... in style | Individually hand crafted private tour itineraries tailored to you Mon, 05 May 2014 13:25:02 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.2.5 https://www.imperialtours.net/blog/the-medias-fixation-with-chinas-air-quality/#comment-23 Mon, 05 May 2014 13:25:02 +0000 http://www.imperialtours.net/blog/the-medias-fixation-with-chinas-air-quality/#comment-23 I would like t
I would like to inform everyone that Guy is a Super Agent according to Travel and Leisure. He has lots of experience with China. He is also “Virtuoso’ agent he has lots of experience when it comes to China. I think Guy knows what he is talking about.

]]> https://www.imperialtours.net/blog/the-medias-fixation-with-chinas-air-quality/#comment-22 Thu, 01 May 2014 01:32:37 +0000 http://www.imperialtours.net/blog/the-medias-fixation-with-chinas-air-quality/#comment-22 Thanks for you
Thanks for your email. The recommendations of the WHO are not being ignored. Indeed, we are all grateful for their guidance. Their opinion contributes to the ambition for a consensual solution to China’s environmental and pollution problem. That you call me an “apologist” is significant to this debate because this is a label that will do untold damage to any western journalist or editor’s career. Many editorial decisions that might create a more balanced debate are highly influenced by this factor. If you need any proof of this, think back to how many articles you have read in the past 30 years predicting the demise of China and the Communist party rather than its unerring and continuous success. This is because of media bias, driven by the fear of being seen to be an “accommodationist” or an “apologist” – a derogatory label that goes back hundreds of years to the time of Mateo Ricci. I also suggest that your comment validates the need for travel. Come to China and see what 30 years of continuous growth looks like. Come and see if the population seems disenfranchised or excited by its prospects. Since 1982, this government has lifted 600 million people out of poverty, a number greater than the population of the USA. Is a government with that record in need of an “apologist” like me? Of course not. This is a very exciting time in China’s evolution and we all have a lot to contribute. Certainly, like any country there are bad aspects. The west also has got plenty of bad marks against it, but to ignore these and paint China with a black brush is sadly to miss so much of the world’s culture. Lastly, it is a stretch to use the appeasement card with China. In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, western and Imperial countries tore China apart. China’s response seems to have been limited to complaining about Japanese atrocities of the most vile nature. Who is appeasing whom?

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