South Park and The China Problem

If you want to do China-bashing, you might as well do it right and no-one does it like South Park.

Trey Parker and Matt Stone savage Western paranoia in their latest episode, The China Probrem, the season premiere broadcast in America on Comedy Central last night. Starring Eric Cartman as Edward McMillan-Scott (and here).

And featuring Steven Spielberg and George Lucas as you've never seen them before. Poor Indy!

Cartman's Olympic nightmare:


Harro Prease:


Cartman and Butters fight evil Chinese:


Other classic South Park episodes:

Tom Cruise and what Scientologists really believe:
Trapped In The Closet

Just damn good fun:
Make Love Not Warcraft

Something for the Lefties:
Something Wall-Mart This Way Comes

South Park and The China Problem

If you want to do China-bashing, you might as well do it right and no-one does it like South Park.

Trey Parker and Matt Stone savage Western paranoia in their latest episode, The China Probrem, the season premiere broadcast in America on Comedy Central last night. Starring Eric Cartman as Edward McMillan-Scott (and here).

And featuring Steven Spielberg and George Lucas as you've never seen them before. Poor Indy!

Cartman's Olympic nightmare:


Harro Prease:


Cartman and Butters fight evil Chinese:


Other classic South Park episodes:

Tom Cruise and what Scientologists really believe:
Trapped In The Closet

Just damn good fun:
Make Love Not Warcraft

Something for the Lefties:
Something Wall-Mart This Way Comes

China labour laws blocked by US corps: Tory politician knows nothing, shock, horror!

Tory MEP and Euro Parliament Vice President Edward McMillan-Scott effectively called me a liar on BBC Radio 5Live's Stephen Nolan show a few Sundays ago when I pointed out that when China tried to improve its abysmal workers' rights situation in 2006 the American Chamber of Commerce, representing a swathe of top businesses like Walmart and Nike, lobbied hard to get it stopped.

He also accused me of being in thrall to the Chinese government ("China is your regime") and said I wasn't properly British, insisting on defining me as Chinese. In the past few weeks I've had to put up with assorted ad hominem attacks on air and in the blogosphere, been told that the Chinese are "ants" and "robots", and carrying out genocide "against themselves". This last reminds me of the Kamikaze contingent that should heve rescued our hero in Life Of Brian when he was nailed up on his cross. Dur! Yes, that makes sense!

Anyhow, here's a link to an item on how US corporations blocked China's Labour laws, of which McMillan-Scott was so vociferously and willfully(?) ignorant. It's taken from a New York Times report.

Many of the largest corporations--many of whom contribute significant amounts of money to the Republican and Democratic parties and their candidates--are doing everything possible to keep their slave wage heaven in China.

More

Hypocrisy, much?

STOP PRESS!!!
Hah! Would you believe it? The BBC have put me head-to-head again with the Tory MEP and European Parliament Vice President Edward McMillan-Scott who accuses China of being guilty of genocide.

The Stephen Nolan Show, BBC Radio 5Live
(Note changed time) 11.20PM, SATURDAY 23rd August

The subject this time is how have the Chinese Olympics changed people's views on China? For better or worse? And how?

Hosted by Tony Livesey, sitting in for Stephen Nolan.

You can email, phone or text during the show.
Phone: 0500 909 693
Text: 85058
Email: Both 5livesport@bbc.co.uk and Tony.Livesey@bbc.co.uk to be sure
http://www.bbc.co.uk/fivelive/programmes/nolan.shtml

China labour laws blocked by US corps: Tory politician knows nothing, shock, horror!

Tory MEP and Euro Parliament Vice President Edward McMillan-Scott effectively called me a liar on BBC Radio 5Live's Stephen Nolan show a few Sundays ago when I pointed out that when China tried to improve its abysmal workers' rights situation in 2006 the American Chamber of Commerce, representing a swathe of top businesses like Walmart and Nike, lobbied hard to get it stopped.

He also accused me of being in thrall to the Chinese government ("China is your regime") and said I wasn't properly British, insisting on defining me as Chinese. In the past few weeks I've had to put up with assorted ad hominem attacks on air and in the blogosphere, been told that the Chinese are "ants" and "robots", and carrying out genocide "against themselves". This last reminds me of the Kamikaze contingent that should heve rescued our hero in Life Of Brian when he was nailed up on his cross. Dur! Yes, that makes sense!

Anyhow, here's a link to an item on how US corporations blocked China's Labour laws, of which McMillan-Scott was so vociferously and willfully(?) ignorant. It's taken from a New York Times report.

Many of the largest corporations--many of whom contribute significant amounts of money to the Republican and Democratic parties and their candidates--are doing everything possible to keep their slave wage heaven in China.

More

Hypocrisy, much?

STOP PRESS!!!
Hah! Would you believe it? The BBC have put me head-to-head again with the Tory MEP and European Parliament Vice President Edward McMillan-Scott who accuses China of being guilty of genocide.

The Stephen Nolan Show, BBC Radio 5Live
(Note changed time) 11.20PM, SATURDAY 23rd August

The subject this time is how have the Chinese Olympics changed people's views on China? For better or worse? And how?

Hosted by Tony Livesey, sitting in for Stephen Nolan.

You can email, phone or text during the show.
Phone: 0500 909 693
Text: 85058
Email: Both 5livesport@bbc.co.uk and Tony.Livesey@bbc.co.uk to be sure
http://www.bbc.co.uk/fivelive/programmes/nolan.shtml

Chen wins gold for awesome snatch

Chen Xiexia

You can wait a lifetime for a headline like that.

Would you believe it? My namesake wins China's first gold of the Olympics with superior muscle-power and a fearsome snatch. Chen, 25, lifted 95kg in the snatch and set a new record for the class with 117kg in the clean and jerk.

It's little things like this that make my day.

Video of women's weightlifting event. Chen wins first gold for China

Chen wins gold for awesome snatch

Chen Xiexia

You can wait a lifetime for a headline like that.

Would you believe it? My namesake wins China's first gold of the Olympics with superior muscle-power and a fearsome snatch. Chen, 25, lifted 95kg in the snatch and set a new record for the class with 117kg in the clean and jerk.

It's little things like this that make my day.

Video of women's weightlifting event. Chen wins first gold for China

Opening ceremony Beijing Olympics: Madam Miaow on the radio tonight

I'm now watching the opening ceremony of the 2008 Beijing Olympics and laughing. It's spectacular beyond belief: 2,008 Foo drumers with an amazing light show; 3,000 year old string instruments; fireworks displays across six miles of the Forbidden City axis to the Birds Nest Stadium; dancers painting a huge unfurling scroll combining the arts of dance, painting and music; and mysteriously floating objects rising like magic. Thousands of years of history all designed by movie director Zhang Yimou, so I'm guessing wires will be involved.

Oh, and the mandatory cute kid singing while China's national costumes get an airing and PLA officers march (no that is not a goose-step!) with the national flag in tow.

And puppets!!! (The kind with strings, you cynics out there!!!) As bread and circuses go, that was ace.

Fifty-six Chinese ethnic minorities, 1,000 medals, 300 events, 204 competing nations, 10,000 athletes, 313 Brits, 639 Chinese, plus 7 feet six inches of basketball hero Yao Ming.

A cast of thousands (fifteen thousand to be precise), state of the art technology, imagination and flair. London is so screwed. Follow that!

I'm on Radio 5Live tonight, 10 to 11pm, on the Stephen Nolan Show

Just watched the lighting of the Olympic flame that officially opens the games. Zhang Yimou — you are The One!

Another great blog on the ceremony