A translation is a translation. If you like the article, you translate it accurately. Like David said, if you don’t like the New York Times, or think it’s insulting or wrong, then leave it alone. Nobody is forcing you to run it in your paper.

You don’t take someone else’s byline (name) and company, and then twist their meaning without making it clear to the reader that you’re doing that. It’s dishonest. It’s awful journalism. Either the Beijing Evening News writes its own article, or it uses the New York Times one honestly.

Any BEN reader would assume the NYT wrote a positive article when in fact it wrote a critical one, and that’s misleading.

The fact that readers are talking about how the “CCP did a good job to fight against warmongering and hatre-creating stuffs” shows that the newspapers in China are not about presenting opinions from independent people, but are obviously (proudly?) used by the Party to manipulate public opinion.

Nobody assumes that the Bush administration runs The New York Times’ newsroom.

Western media is not perfect, but it basically respects the right for someone to express themselves unimpeded by government censorship.
China has built so much great media infrastructure — new newspapers, new magazines, new TV stations, new websites.
But it’s clear that China’s basic understanding of copyrighted material, international commentary and honest translation is still far off from the developed world.

KEEPING UP WITH THE WONGS

There goes the ‘hood

I WENT TO THE NEIGHBOUR’S HOUSE FOR A PARTY, AND GEE, WHAT A BASH THEY THREW!!
IT WAS GREAT, BUT WHEN I GOT BACK, I GOT TO THINKING: THEY SPENT A LOT OF MONEY AND WENT ALL OUT TO IMPRESS EVERYONE. BUT THEY WERE HIDING ALL THE COUNTRY COUSINS IN THE BASEMENT, AND SHOWING US ALL THE SHINY NEW STUFF.
SO WHAT? OUR FURNITURE IS A BIT FRAYED RIGHT NOW, BUT WE’VE GOT A GREAT HOUSE.
OUR NEIGHBOUR IS A SELFISH BULLY AND COWARD, ANYWAY.
WE PUT OUR BUTTS OUT TO PATROL THE GLOBAL NEIGHBOURHOOD, AND EVERYONE THROWS STONES AT US. OUR NEIGHBOUR STAYS HOME AND PICKS ON THEIR HELPLESS MINORITIES.
OK, SO WE SHAKE DOWN THE WRONG FOLKS SOME TIME, AND BOMB SOME INNOCENT WOMEN AND CHILDREN HERE AND THERE.
I ADMIT I WAS TRIGGER-HAPPY, BUT SO WHAT?
AS BUSH’S DADDY SAID, AMERICA DOESN’T HAVE TO APOLOGISE.
BESIDES, THOSE IRAQI POLS ARE BUMS. THEY LOADED THEIR BOATS ON TOPS OF THEIR CARS AND TOOK OFF ON SUMMER VACATION. OUR BOYS ARE BURNING IN THAT DESERT HEAT TO UPHOLD AMERICAN VALUES THEIR PEOPLE ARE SO IN NEED OF. INGRATES!
IT’S TIME TO PULL OUT AND LET THEM STEW IN THE MESS WE CREATED. WE DON’T HAVE TO PICK UP.
WE HAVE TO PAINT OUR OWN PORCH AND MEND OUR FENCES. WE NEED TO KEEP UP WITH THE WONGS & CHONGS.
WE DON’T HAVE A BUSH OR A HENRY.
(THERE’S A HOLE IN MY BUCKET, DEAR HENRY, DEAR HENRY.)
BUT WE HAVE A BARACK!!
AND HE SAYS, NOW IS THE TIME TO PRETTIFY OUR OWN FRONT YARD RATHER THAN DESTROY SOMEONE ELSE’S. SMART GUY, BARACK!
AS FOR WHERE THE RENOVATION $$$ COMES FROM, DIDN’T THE HEDGE FUND BOYS JUST MAKE A PILE FROM PUSHING OIL PRICES TO ALL TIME HIGHS?

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> OLYMPICS AND CHINA’S RISE

> A wake-up call for America
By Thomas L. Friedman
>
> BEIJING: After attending the spectacular closing ceremony at the Beijing Olympics and feeling the vibrations from hundreds of Chinese drummers pulsating in my own chest, I was tempted to conclude two things: ‘Holy mackerel, the energy coming out of this country is unrivalled.’ And,
two: ‘We are so cooked. Start teaching your kids Mandarin.’
However, I’ve learnt over the years not to over-interpret any two-week event. Olympics don’t change history. They are mere snapshots - a country posing in its Sunday best for all the world to see. But, as snapshots go, the one China presented through the Olympics was enormously powerful - and it’s one that Americans need to reflect upon this election season.

China did not build the magnificent US$43 billion (S$61 billion)
infrastructure for these Games, or put on the unparalleled opening and closing ceremonies, simply by the dumb luck of discovering oil.
No, it was the culmination of seven years of national investment, planning, concentrated state power, national mobilisation and hard work.
Seven years…Seven years…Oh, that’s right. China was awarded these
Olympic Games on July 13, 2001 - just two months before 9/11.
As I sat in my seat at the Bird’s Nest, watching thousands of Chinese dancers, drummers, singers and acrobats on stilts perform their magic at the closing ceremony, I couldn’t help but reflect on how China and America have spent the last seven years: China has been preparing for the Olympics;
> we’ve been preparing for Al-Qaeda. They’ve been building better stadiums,subways, airports, roads and parks. And we’ve been building better metal detectors, armoured Humvees and pilotless drones.
The difference is starting to show. Just compare arriving at La Guardia’s dumpy terminal in New York City and driving through the crumbling infrastructure into Manhattan with arriving at Shanghai’s sleek airport and taking the magnetic levitation train, which uses electromagnetic propulsion
instead of steel wheels and tracks, to get to town in a blink.
Then ask yourself: Who is living in the Third World country?
Yes, if you drive an hour out of Beijing, you meet the vast dirt-poor Third World of China. But here’s what’s new: The rich parts of China, the modern parts of Beijing or Shanghai or Dalian, are now more state-of-the-art than rich America. The buildings are architecturally more interesting, the wireless networks more sophisticated, the roads and trains more efficient and nicer. And, I repeat, they did not get all this by discovering oil.
They got it by digging inside themselves.
I realise the differences: We were attacked on 9/11; they were not. We
have real enemies; theirs are small and mostly domestic. We had to respond to 9/11 at least by eliminating the Al-Qaeda base in Afghanistan and investing in tighter homeland security. They could avoid foreign entanglements.
Trying to build democracy in Iraq, though, which I supported, was a war of choice and is unlikely to ever produce anything equal to its huge price tag.
But the first rule of holes is that when you’re in one, stop digging.
When you see how much modern infrastructure has been built in China since 2001,
under the banner of the Olympics, and you see how much infrastructure has been postponed in America since 2001, under the banner of the war on terrorism, it’s clear that the next seven years need to be devoted to
nation-building in America.
We need to finish our business in Iraq and Afghanistan as quickly as possible, which is why it is a travesty that the Iraqi Parliament has
gone on vacation while 130,000 US troops are standing guard. We can no longer
afford to postpone our nation-building while Iraqis squabble over whether to do theirs.
A lot of people are now advising Senator Barack Obama to get dirty with Senator John McCain. Sure, fight fire with fire. That’s necessary, but
it is not sufficient.
Mr Obama got this far because many voters projected onto him that he could be the leader of an American renewal. They know we need nation-building
at home now - not in Iraq, not in Afghanistan, not in Georgia, but in America.
Mr Obama cannot lose that theme.
He cannot let Republicans make this election about who is tough enough
to stand up to Russia or Osama bin Laden. It has to be about who is strong
enough, focused enough, creative enough and unifying enough to get
Americans
to rebuild America. The next president can have all the foreign affairs
experience in the world, but it will be useless, utterly useless, if we,
as a country, are weak.
Mr Obama is more right than he knows when he proclaims that this is ‘our’ moment, this is ‘our’ time. But it is our time to get back to work on the
> only home we have, our time for nation-building in America. I never want to tell my girls - and I’m sure Mr Obama feels the same about his - that they have to go to China to see the future.
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