Throw a stone to ask for the avenue Re: Hu Jintao, the Master of Masquerade


demoris...@xxxxxxx wrote:
> ltlee1 wrote:
> > demorising@xxxxxxx wrote:
> > > charles_...@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > > > demorising@xxxxxxx wrote:
> > > > > Usually one simply asks a leader his views of the various issues, but
> > > > > Hu Jintao has never held a press conference and has never given an
> > > > > interview.
> > > >
> > > > Man, the anti-China propaganda in SCC just gets worse and worse:
> > > >
> > > > Hu's appearances in press conferences during his trip to US and Russia:
> > > > http://www.google.com/search?q=Hu+Jintao+press+conference
> > >
> > > Hu did not take any questions during his "press conference" in the US.
> > > He read a prepared statement. Did he take any questions all the way
> > > back that time in Russia?
> > >
> > > > Hu's interview with Russian and Kazaag media:
> > > > http://www.google.com/search?q=Hu+Jintao+interview
> > >
> > > One of those interviews consists of written responses only. I can't
> > > find the transcript for the other one.
> > >
> > > So if you claim Hu Jintao is not the Master of Masquerade, please
> > > answer the following question: is Hu Jintao a closet liberal or
> > > conservative?
> >
> > I see.
> > You can't place him into one of your two pigeon holes and this makes
> > him
> > the Master of Masquerade.
>
> I am not the issue.
>
> To the Chinese people, Hu Jintao is the Master of Masquerade:
>
> http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1127512211922&call_pageid=968256290204&col=968350116795
>
> Yet just three years into Hu's tenure as China's paramount leader,
> reform-minded Chinese are deeply disappointed in the 62-year-old
> president and Communist party chief.
>
> "He has never held a press conference, never given an interview, never
> been seen talking in everyday language," a Chinese source complains,
> adding that all Hu does is recite from prepared scripts.
>
> The Chinese people still have no real sense of who their leader is.
>
> "He is a master of masquerade," one says, "lying low, self-effacing,
> not revealing his own feelings and identity."
>
> >
> > > > > ----------

To what Chinese people?
Basically, the problem of the writer of the Toronto Star article can be
summaried by the following lament. "Canadian commentators had next to
nothing to say."

Whose problem is that?

Will any PRC policy work if the government, including top leaderships,
do not communicate and work with the people directly or indirectly?
Does China look like a country running on auto-pilot for the last three
years? If not, does it matter that Hu give interview to who know whom.

However, the article is not a bad pretext to ask for an interview.
(Must be one the 36 tricks: Throw a stone to ask for the avenue) If so,
good luck.



> > > > >
> > > > > China's Hu: closet liberal or conservative?
> > > > >
> > > > > http://today.reuters.com/business/newsarticle.aspx?type=reutersEdge&storyID=2005-09-28T083236Z_01_MOL830400_RTRUKOC_0_US-CHINA-LEADERSHIP.xml
> > > > >
> > > > > Chinese Communist Party chief Hu Jintao is as much of an enigma today
> > > > > as he was when he rose to power almost three years ago, still keeping
> > > > > the world guessing whether he is a closet liberal or an
> > > > > ultra-conservative.
> > > > >
> > > > > The 62-year-old Hu, who doubles as state president, has sent mixed
> > > > > signals in recent months, tempering crackdowns on perceived threats to
> > > > > Communist rule with a bold decision to rehabilitate a reformist
> > > > > predecessor, Hu Yaobang, whose death sparked the 1989 Tiananmen Square
> > > > > pro-democracy protests.
> > > > >
> > > > > "Either Hu Jintao is trying to look like a liberal but is a hardcore
> > > > > conservative or he is a hidden liberal," said Benoit Vermander,
> > > > > director of the Ricci Institute of Taipei.
> > > > >
> > > > > ...

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