You have commented 339 times on Rantburg.

Your Name
Your e-mail (optional)
Website (optional)
My Original Nic        Pic-a-Nic        Sorry. Comments have been closed on this article.
Bold Italic Underline Strike Bullet Blockquote Small Big Link Squish Foto Photo
Submit your comments on this article
China-Japan-Koreas
SMH!: China forgets manners as Rice visit touches nerves
2005-03-25
"How come the United States selects a female chimpanzee as Secretary of State?"

"This black woman thinks rather a lot of herself."

"She's so ugly she's losing face. Even a dog would be put off its dinner while she's being fed."
The 5000 years of civilisation on which the Chinese pride themselves were not so evident this week in the comments on Condoleezza Rice's visit to Beijing posted on the internet site "New Tide Net". As monitored by the media analyst Liu Xiaobo, the overall tone of the 800 postings was hostile and about 10 per cent were racist, sexist or both, reflecting what Mr Liu calls a pervasive phobia here about dark-skinned races. Similar undercurrents well up in neighbouring South Korea and Japan, which Dr Rice also visited on her introductory Asian tour as Washington's foreign minister.

Although Dr Rice's public comments here about the touchy subjects of Taiwan, North Korea and China's domestic freedoms were restrained, the visit capped a frustrating episode for the leadership. The "Anti-Secession Law" passed by the rubber-stamp Chinese parliament this month, designed to quelch moves towards formal independence in Taiwan, has boomeranged on Beijing. On Saturday afternoon in Taipei, President Chen Shui-bian will orchestrate a massive protest against the law and its threat of "non-peaceful means" should Taiwan's politicians step beyond the law's ill-defined markers. International opinion, especially in the democratic countries where Beijing needs to improve support for its Taiwan policies, has been generally critical of the law, with Dr Rice calling it "unhelpful". Most embarrassing of all, the anti-secession law has slowed and possibly derailed the push by Germany and France to lift the European Union's arms embargo on China, imposed after the 1989 massacre around Tiananmen Square in Beijing...

This week, China's official media were reduced to reporting solemnly that support for the anti-secession law had come from such statesmen as Sonatane Tu'akinamolahi Taumoepeau-Tupou, Foreign Minister of Tonga, and Abu Bakr Abdullah al-Kurbi, Foreign Minister of Yemen. Hence, perhaps, the dark thoughts Beijing has allowed to surface on the internet.
The Chinese would have done well to have publicised Dr. Rice's Birmingham background before her arrival. I'm sure someone in the CIA will make sure this doesn't play well in Africa.
Posted by:Mrs. Davis

#22  that won't work well if Hillary picks Obama as a running mate.

saying 'here's a candidate that satisfies me'

whoops, Billy!
Posted by: Frank G   2005-03-25 7:49:05 PM  

#21  AC, that won't work well if Hillary picks Obama as a running mate.
Posted by: Mrs. Davis   2005-03-25 7:14:37 PM  

#20  Rice's nomination in '08 will put the final seal on the Grand Unified Moonbat Convergence, driving residual "right-wing" racist types into the waiting arms of the LLL.
David Duke and various other cracker bigots are already attempting to re-habilitate their careers by exploiting their new-found solidarity with lefty Jew-haters. This process will continue and ripen over the next four years, with the final act occurring some time after 2009.
Posted by: Atomic Conspiracy   2005-03-25 7:12:02 PM  

#19  One of my old girlfriends and I were walking down the street in China when we spotted a black man, obviously American (jogging suit/hiphop clothes, the African businessmen here don't wear them). I asked her if she thought he was handsome. She said, "I can't date a black man. I can't see him at night!" She laughed, but the racism is very real.
Posted by: gromky   2005-03-25 6:42:55 PM  

#18  Gee, imagine how they would react if they knew she was a Vulcan?
Posted by: Anonymoose   2005-03-25 6:35:43 PM  

#17  "This black woman thinks rather a lot of herself."

That's because she can Chan.
School starts for you 1/20/09. (I hope).
Posted by: JerseyMike   2005-03-25 5:36:27 PM  

#16  "Date white boy or date yellow boy, I don't care. But no black boys! Too dangerous!"

Let me show you some fine Alabama black snake...

"She say, soul brother - too buku!"
Posted by: Full Metal Jacket   2005-03-25 5:31:16 PM  

#15  Dr. Rice is not only a black woman, she's southern black woman. They forget nothing and note everything.
Posted by: Shipman   2005-03-25 5:25:17 PM  

#14  Yes .com. Blacks and other dark skinned were called chocojin in Okinawa, and I assume Japan. Gaijin = foreigner.
Posted by: ed   2005-03-25 5:25:05 PM  

#13  The discrimination against dark skin is very common across SE Asia. I have been told by wymyn from Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, and Thailand the same thing. A Thai GF used to hold her forearm next to mine and exclaim "shacolaht mai dee!" (that's "chocolate no good!", of course). I told her that was hilarious. She didn't get it and asked what I meant. I told her how hard Westerners worked trying to have her intoxicatingly beautiful olive skin color. She was dumbfounded, even though she was in her late 20's. The woman from Vietnam was a GF living in the US - emigrated at the fall of the South when she was about 14. She told me that she was the oldest - and darkest - of 6 sisters and her mother used to beat her for being dark - and banned her from the house when visitors came. Utterly ashamed of her. She really stigmatized the kid - who was drop-dead gorgeous to my eyes, not to mention all the other 'Merkin myn who used to drool over her when we went out, of course. I got the same from 2 Japanese GF's - what's the term for dark-skinned in Japanese? Shit - eludes me at the moment... Ganguro?
Posted by: .com   2005-03-25 5:17:54 PM  

#12  Along the same line, some more ugly truth:

In Vietnam, the Fonda freedom-fighters would invariably mutilate the bodies of dead GIs if they had the chance, but it seemed that black soldiers were singled out for the most gruesome and barbarous desecration. Things like this are one reason I hate the LLL so much. They are devils incarnate, raising hypocrisy to an unheard level of depravity by pretending to stand for equality while promoting the forces of racist savagery.
Posted by: Atomic Conspiracy   2005-03-25 5:02:51 PM  

#11  Racism is the dirty little secret of third world dictatorships and anti-American forces in general. LLL posturing about "people of color" is a hypocritical smokescreen.
Last year, we had an item about an Iraqi insurgent leader who cited opposition to a "negro occupation" as a leading motive for the insurgents.
According to this leader of the Michael Moore Minutemen, Arabs regarded the presence of "negroes" among the American forces as "deeply degrading" and a "profound insult." He went so far as to say that they had "called off some attacks on American troops because there were no negroes among them."
Posted by: Atomic Conspiracy   2005-03-25 4:58:53 PM  

#10  Here it is. Registration is required.
Posted by: Mrs. Davis   2005-03-25 4:57:17 PM  

#9  can the link be fixed?
Posted by: Hupomoque Spoluter7949   2005-03-25 4:51:06 PM  

#8  dcreeper - maybe they get UPN or WB on the satellite?
Posted by: Frank G   2005-03-25 4:49:48 PM  

#7  The "Anti-Secession Law" passed by the rubber-stamp Chinese parliament this month, designed to quelch moves towards formal independence in Taiwan, has boomeranged on Beijing

Wonder when/if the MSM will revise their latest Grand Meme of the clever, subtle, newly-diplomatic Chinese winning friends and gaining influence in the wake of the arrogant warmongering Chimpster. Call me skeptical.
Posted by: thibaud (aka lex)   2005-03-25 4:40:12 PM  

#6  folks in thailand are anti-black folks as well.. a girl I know from thailand (who is in country for the year), her mom told her "Date white boy or date yellow boy, I don't care. But no black boys! Too dangerous!"

( my friend did ask me once if black people are bad.. I had to set her straight on that one :-p )

maybe too many gangster movies are making their way over there :-p without having a real human being to contrast with the movies, maybe all they see is gangster. it's almost understandable..
Posted by: dcreeper   2005-03-25 4:31:09 PM  

#5  DB, don'tcha mean "hakgwei"? Nonetheless, the as-troubling point is that "Similar undercurrents well up in neighbouring South Korea and Japan, which Dr Rice also visited on her introductory Asian tour as Washington's foreign minister."

Discuss!
Posted by: Edward Yee   2005-03-25 4:29:05 PM  

#4  Chinese attitudes towards foreigners, especially dark skinned ones, have been bad for a long time. It's just that now they are getting a more public airing than before.

It just really burns their asses to have to give this gweilo some respect.....heh!
Posted by: Desert Blondie   2005-03-25 4:16:05 PM  

#3  That "female chimpanzee" will kick their ass back to the freaken stone age.

Rice in '08!
Posted by: mmurray821   2005-03-25 4:02:32 PM  

#2  I can hardly wait for their reaction to "female chimpanzee" President Rice, who so far is my choice for 2008.
Posted by: Tom   2005-03-25 3:48:47 PM  

#1  ..as Washington's foreign minister.

Uhh, we don't have one of those, Sir.
Posted by: Bomb-a-rama   2005-03-25 3:40:28 PM  

00:00