DW: EU defends censorship of letter in Chinese newspaper
EU officials have backed a decision to accept China's censorship of a letter that ran in a Chinese newspaper. A sentence referencing China as the origin of the coronavirus outbreak was removed before publication.
The European Union on Thursday defended its decision to consent to Chinese censorship of a letter co-written by the bloc's 27 ambassadors, ahead of its publication in Chinese media.
The opinion piece appeared in China's English-language newspaper China Daily on Tuesday, but a sentence that linked the initial source of the coronavirus outbreak to China was removed.
The EU had raised "very serious concerns" about the request to censor the article. But it agreed to its publication as it meant the bloc could communicate with the Chinese audience on other key EU issues, such as climate change, human rights and the pandemic response, said EU foreign affairs spokesperson Virginie Battu-Henriksson in Brussels.
"China has state-controlled media. There is censorship, that's a fact," Battu-Henriksson said.
The EU, nevertheless, regretted that the article had not been published in full, she added.
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WNU Editor: This is what EU appeasement looks like when it comes to China. The proper course of action was to remove the letter, and to rebuke the Chinese government. Instead, a letter was published in the name of 27 EU ambassadors that referred to "human rights," but avoided mentioning Chinese internment camps in Xinjiang, crackdowns on pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong and the disappearance of whistleblowers. The complete letter is here .... EU-China ties vital amid global crisis (China Daily).
Update: EU ambassador to China criticizes the U.S. for current U.S.-China tensions .... EU ambassador to China says rising Sino-U.S. tensions not helpful (Reuters). More here .... U.S.-China tensions hurting global coronavirus response: EU diplomat (The Hill). With allies like this, who needs enemies. What the EU Ambassador and the EU as a whole should be demanding is that China be transparent on participating in an investigation/probe on the origins of the Coronavirus pandemic. 150,000+ Europeans have died because of this pandemic, and China's refusal to participate in this investigation needs to be roundly condemned.
More News On Beijing Censoring EU Ambassador's Letter To A Chinese Newspaper
Coronavirus: EU regret after state-run newspaper China Daily removes COVID-19 mention from op-ed -- Euronews
EU Complains of Chinese Censorship After State Media Deletes Diplomats' Reference to Pandemic Origins -- Newsweek
E.U. defends handling of China relations after Beijing censors op-ed written by bloc’s ambassadors -- Washington Post
EU Officials' Opinion Piece In Chinese Newspaper Censored On Coronavirus Origin -- NPR
EU’s pivot to China falls foul of Beijing’s censors -- Politico
9 comments:
Looks like China has another 'belt and road' slave. Euros have a long history of bowing to Tyrants.
At least we have a history.
Yes, Hans. And American occupation is the only peaceful phase of it
I am not so sure that Sweden has a history.
"I can not figure out what Swedish culture is. I think that's what makes many Swedes jealous of immigrant groups. You have a culture, an identity, a history, something that brings you together. And what do we have? We have Midsummer's Eve and such silly things."
- Mona Sahlen (Idiot Extraordinaire a.k.a. normal, run of the mill liberal)
If you have no culture, does it stand to reason that you have no history also?
Wow they're so stupid. Appeasement never works when it comes to these types of governments.
The Mona Sahloen / Liberal wAy of Viewing the World
CULTURE
God ordered Muslims to pray at five set times of day:
Salat al-fajr: dawn, before sunrise.
Salat al-zuhr: midday, after the sun passes its highest.
Salat al-'asr: the late part of the afternoon.
Salat al-maghrib: just after sunset.
Salat al-'isha: between sunset and midnight.
SILLY
Matins (during the night, at about 2 a.m.); also called Vigil and perhaps composed of two or three Nocturns
Lauds or Dawn Prayer (at dawn, about 5 a.m., but earlier in summer, later in winter)
Prime or Early Morning Prayer (First Hour = approximately 6 a.m.)
Terce or Mid-Morning Prayer (Third Hour = approximately 9 a.m.)
Sext or Midday Prayer (Sixth Hour = approximately 12 noon)
None or Mid-Afternoon Prayer (Ninth Hour = approximately 3 p.m.)
Vespers or Evening Prayer ("at the lighting of the lamps", about 6 p.m.)
Compline or Night Prayer (before retiring, about 7 p.m.)
Mona Sahlen is one of the greatest thinkers of our time.
Chamberlain gets a bad deal in history. He had to buy time. Britain only had 2 squadrons of Hurricanes. Fighter Command consisted of Gladiator byplanes. The Messerschmitts would have blown the RAF out of the sky. We'd be speaking German now if we'd gone to war in 1938. Imagine beingin the EU since 1938? However this response by the German led EU is disgusting & corrupt. The Europeans are still cheese eating surrender monkeys.
1 in 4 East Germans informed for the STASI. Merkel was leading a good life as an academic in East German. She was also a student communist leader. IMO the chances are good she was a STASI informer on top of being a communist student leader.
It must be hard for her to change her DNA. IMO she loves Putin and Xi.
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You are talking strictly planes
Chamberlain handed to Hitler The Skoda works gift wrapped with a bow tie on it.
There is a Panzer 38t, which was not German. Although painted with a Swastika, they were Czech designed and produced tanks.
The Panzer 1 was a armored machinegun not really a tank. Chamberlain backed down from that.
You only listed British plane. You did not list British and French planes versus German planes in 1938.
Even with the new planes the Brits almost lost. At a critical moment the Germans switched form airfield to cities due to an accident. The Germans may have been able to defeat the Brits regardless of their aviation mix up. It might be interesting to wargame from the day that German crew mistakenly bombed London and then Churchill returned the favor.
You could also wargame, if Dunkirk had fallen faster with greater loss. It might have happened if Hitler had not listened to Goering.
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