Challenging The China Story

A group of radical scholars is challenging what they say are dominating storylines about China in mainstream media coverage: one, where the US can critique the country's human rights record and strict authoritarian rule, the other where China says it is being denied a spot of international limelight. Critics say the result is a lot of confusion among the general public about what to think about China and the Olympic Games - with a lot of politicization from both the US and China. For some analysis on the situation, we turn to Dongping Han, who grew up as a farmer and managed a collective village factory during China's Cultural Revolution. He says that the United States should take a look at its own human right's record before criticizing China's.

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