Blog Jacques de Goldfiem eye on Asia
March 19th, 2008I am very worry about the situation in Tibet, in the areas with strong Tibetan population in China and for the Tibetan I saw beaten in foreign countries.
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Maybe it was the good time to attrack attention on Tibet difficult cultural indentity, but I am so afraid of the Chinese brute response, even if they know that all the world is watching them and the numberous desmonstrations all over the world demanding the boycott of the Beijing Olympics
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Today, In Malaysia PM, Abdullah Ahmad Badawi unveiled his new cabinet list. Even if there is a certain opening, I am not sure that it will save his poor achievements.
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In Japan, The proposed new governor of the Bank of Japan had been blocked by oppostion who lead the Upper House. Japan is experimenting what is coexistence. The current PM will have hard time
April 16th, 2008 at 5:05 pm
I am not so afraid of the Chinese Government response, but what I worry about is the backlash from the Chinese population against perceived foreign intervention in internal Chinese affairs and as a way to put down the Chinese hosting of the Olympics.