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...price inquiries being chronicled by Google are not coming from Western computers, but from the epicenter of the price hike’s impact. The top-ranked countries by volume of searches are the Philippines, Singapore, Malaysia, India, Indonesia and Thailand. In the West, people are preoccupied with the “credit crunch,” “Tibet,” “human rights” and the “Olympics boycott?...
...Europe and the United States distract themselves with China’s efforts to avoid a public-relations catastrophe before and during the Beijing Olympics, perhaps they should pay more heed to another growing problem. Though the nascent squeeze on rice supplies appears to have remained under the Western radar thus far, it has the potential to directly affect more people and cause even more violence than the horrors we have heard of from Tibet...
Thus, the divergence between East and West observed on the internet plays out again on a geopolitical scale: While the Western media has made its focus on China’s high-handed approach in Tibet, China has been more concerned with keeping its people from starving and growing restless. Despite the obvious injustice in Tibet, the prospect of much of mainland China exploding with the kind of hunger riots raging elsewhere is one that features too many human rights violations to count. In that event, the government would have likely no less hesitation in striking out against...
...this isn’t to say that a perhaps misdirected Western emphasis on Tibet accomplishes nothing: the Beijing Olympics have left China uniquely exposed to global scrutiny. Thus, the Chinese government must minimize camera-friendly acts of aggression beyond what is absolutely necessary in the coming months. We are left wondering how this P.R.-friendly policy might evolve after closing ceremonies conclude and the press pool moves elsewhere. Emily C. Ingram ’08, a Crimson editorial editor, is a government concentrator in Eliot house...
...Flowers had bloomed outdoors up against the barn’s western wall. Bumblebees swirled lazily by, settling now and then to fertilize the open blossoms...