The Sydney Morning Herald has published a list of edicts from China’s spin doctors of the highest level. The first edict says it all: “The telecast of sports events will be live [but] in case of emergencies, no print is allowed to report on it.” Interestingly, the SMH makes no mention of how they came to have the edicts, nor do they attempt to put it into any sort of context.
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“refer to Taiwanese athletes as “those from the precious island Taiwan”
Heard it, as in “æ¥è‡ªå®å²›å°æ¹¾”. My wife insists she even heard “æ¥è‡ªæˆ‘国å®å²›å°æ¹¾”.
“12.No mention of those who illegally enter China.”
Bollocks. 新京报 today has an article about two Africans who were caught trying to enter on fake passports. Oh, that’s alright, they didn’t enter, they were stopped at the border and turned back… (http://tinyurl.com/6ao7ym)
As for the rest, most of it seems at face value to be generally plausible, although some seems oddly out of place (Lai Changxing? What, were some Chinese fans planning to rark up the crowd in the China-Canada women’s football match with chants about Lai Changxing?). I’m not sure they really could offer any real evidence that this list is real, though. That tends to get their sources and/or Chinese employees in trouble, sometimes even of the ‘revealing state secrets’ kind.
I don’t like it… any reputable paper would have put some sort of source, no?
This is supposed to be real?
Even if you amalgamated every political committee in China they couldn’t dream up something as dopey as this.
I don’t like it either, and isn’t the usual practice to quote some “anonymous” source? Apparently Imagethief has traced the original report to SCMP. Maybe there’s some missing detail there.
Jeez, SCMP is batting a hundred these days.