Several days ago we brought you word of Chinese hackers’ infiltration of the Save Darfur Coalition website. Today we find a somewhat similar story associated with Web developments authored by the AP and published by the International Herald Tribune that Chinese youth from outside the mainland have been launching “Internet attacks against Western press over Tibet unrest.”
This story is likely to be seen as quite atypical of outsiders’ views of the crisis occurring in the city of Lhasa and a number of surrounding enclaves. While it would seem almost normal for some youth in China, having lived exclusively under the influence of the Communist Party government, to take a strict nationalist approach to the unrest in Tibet, it can perhaps be surprising to find that that young Chinese who’ve spent years outside the geographic confines of the PRC to emphatically consider, in words expressed by the title of a Facebook group administered by a Chris Yao, a China-born student looking upon the clashes from an international vantage. The group’s name: “Tibet WAS, IS, and ALWAYS WILL BE a part of China,” a line derived from a video posted to YouTube that lashes out at what its creators feel to be unmitigated and unjustified China-bashing.
Chinese youth that have expressed some measure of allegiance to the Chinese government and its battles with Tibetan protesters have also lashed out at international news groups for allegedly misrepresenting the news that has come out of Lhasa and beyond. The website Anti-CNN.com, which comprises statements made against coverage of events in Tibet by CNN, BBC, VOA (Voice of America), documents items that purportedly loyal expatriots find disconcerting and skewed.