I've never been a big fun of newspapers. The only section I can read completely is the entertainment. But now newspaper has somehow become one of the stuffs that make me feel really sick.

"The nature of its rule isn't visible on the streets of Shanghai, where people enjoy a degree of personal freedom as long as they keep their noses out of politics."

I won't deny the opinion above, since I think I was living in a world far away from politics. I did acknowledge that I had definitely no idea about our country's situation and other countries' opinions towards China until I was out of China. And now I feel exposed to politics unwillingly. There are that many elections, votes and also political criticisms on every country around the world. So people there think they can see the world more clearly than us, who are being fooled by an authoritarian dictatorship and its media.

However, I wonder whether it is true.

If we could be deceived by media, they also could be. Look at CNN and some other foreign media. They used modified pictures to blame Chinese government; they advertised Dalai Lama as a great mentor, who loved peace and therefore couldn't be the instigator of the recent riots. And what's more funny, there are people who believe in these words and even get to join the protestations. No wonder the teachers in the New Orient love making fun of foreigners' foolishness. Since they move only to their impulses which could be totally unwarranted and they just consider themselves justice! But even enfants can point out that Dalai Lama's allegation that it was the Chinese government that stirred up the riots, is absolutely non-sense. How can a host country of the Olympics do all of these to agitate other countries' hostility and spoil its own honor?!

So now I wonder, people joining the protestations or showing support to "Tibetans", are they really defenses of democracy, or just offenses of China and socialism?!

I just can't believe that people living in so-called developed countries are so short-sighted.