Another Olympic Secret: Who Was Actually Singing as the National Flag Entered the Stadium? (Updated)
Lin Miaoke (林妙可)，the adorable nine-year-old girl who sang “Ode to the Motherland” 《歌唱祖国》when the Chinese national flag entered the Bird’s Nest Stadium during the Olympics Opening Ceremony, is now the hottest child star in China. Her image was also on the front page of the New York Times and thousands of other print media reaching billions of readers around the globe. But in a recent interview with Beijing People’s Broadcasting Station, Chen Qigang (陈其钢), the General Music Designer of the Opening Ceremony, revealed that the voice everyone heard singing at the Opening Ceremony was actually a pre-recording of another child, Yang Peiyi (杨沛宜), a student of the Attached Primary School of Beijing University at Zhongguancun. Chen is a renowned contemporary composer and French citizen. The following excerpts are from the interview with Chen Qigang, translated by CDT:
Chen Qigang: The first condition was that the director wants the image to be very cute. We selected about ten children… Then we had to choose one from those who had a good image who can sing well…
We chose one ten-year-old child, whose voice was really good. All the rehearsals were using her singing… In the end the director thought her image was not the most appropriate, she was a little too old… so regrettably, we had to let her go.
Then, as we chose another singer, the standard was that she needs to be seven years old. Lin Miaoke (林妙可) was one of them, another was Yang Peiyi (杨沛宜), and there were others.
Then we went to the Central People’s Radio Station to do the recording…
Finally we made the decision that the voice we would use was Yang Peiyi’s.
Interviewer: Yang Peiyi?
Chen Qigang: Yes.
…The reason was for the national interest. The child on camera should be flawless in image, internal feelings, and expression.
Lin Miaoke is excellent in those aspects. But in the aspect of voice, Yang Peiyi (杨沛宜) is flawless, in each member of our team’s view.
Interviewer: … So the one in front of camera is Lin Miaoke, but the voice [we heard] is from Yang Peiyi?
Chen Qigang: Yes. This was a last minute decision, we had to do it. We had been through several inspections，they were all very strict. When we rehearsed at the spot, there were spectators from various divisions, especially leader(s) from the the Politburo, who gave the opinion: It must change. This is to say, we had no choice.
… We have a responsibility to face the audience of the whole country, to give this explanation. Everyone should understand this in this way: this is in the national interest. It is the image of our national music, national culture. Especially the entrance of our national flag, this is an extremely important, extremely serious matter. Then we made such a choice. I think it is fair to both Lin Miaoke and Yang Peiyi.
That is to say, we have a perfect voice (in our team’s view), and a perfect image and representation, two combined together.
…But as far as Lin Miaoke is concerned, since we have two recordings – one from Lin Miaoke, another from Yang Peiyi – and their voices are not too different, so when Lin Miaoke was singing, she may not have realized that was not her own voice.
The actual interview is on sina.com:
Update: Beijing based financial magazine Caijing published a commentary entitled Olympics Lip-Syncing Performance Violates the National Interest and Opposes the Olympic Spirit on their wesite. The author Yang Binbin (杨彬彬) wrote:
In the early morning of August 9, after the Olympics Opening Ceremony ended, the entire directing team met the press. The General Director Zhang Yimou said, the most moving scene for him during the entire Opening Ceremony was when the nine-year-old Lin Miaoke sang the “Paean to the Motherland.” “When this little girl sang the ‘Ode to the Motherland,’ I was moved every time we did a rehearsal on this, from the bottom of my heart,” said Zhang.
… To our countrymen, if “fake drinks,” “fake medicine,” “fake soccer competitions,” and “fake joint ventures” are all like the “fake singing,” becoming common vocabulary in our lives, and even justified and glorified in the name of “national interests” or “interests of the state,” this is really unfortunate for the Chinese economy.
Many Chinese bloggers expressed their anger about the director’s final decision. The following photos of Yang Peiyi are from Chinese BBS and blogs, collected by supporters of Peiyi:
See also:
* Olympic child singing star revealed as fake from the AFP.
* Olympics: Child singer revealed as fake from the Guardian.
* China Olympic ceremony star mimed from BBC.
* Is It Live? Or Is It Beijing? from the Wall Street Journal blog.
* Not only were the Olympic Fireworks fake, so was the 7 year old singer from The Inquisitr, Australia.
* Olympic Balladeer’s Voice Was Dubbed from the New York Times.
* Official Acknowledges Opening Ceremony Lip Syncing from the Washington Post.
* Olympic girl seen but not heard from CNN.
More of this news on the Web, via GoogleNews.
What do Chinese bloggers think about this story? Here is a widely spread one sentence comment from long time blogger Shiniankanchai (十年砍柴)：
The motherland is never to be sung for, but to be cheated. （祖国哪是用来歌唱的，而是用来忽悠的）
John Kennedy of Global Voices translated some netizens’ responses from Chinese cyberspace:
* (From a twitter:) Motherfucker, this “Ode to the Motherland” thing has already gone way beyond just lip-synching; putting in a stand-in singer is no fracking different from having a stand-in test-taker, and this is a huge misguidance to the youth of China. Zhang Yimou, you get your butt out here and apologize!
* Through his actions, Zhang Yimou has effectively told all the impressionable minors and children of China that for “harmony”, for “odes to the motherland”, children can be made to deceive!
* Both of these kids are outstanding, but I think both of them will be hurt as a result of this~ Aye, this whole thing was done too…even if one of them didn’t have a perfect child’s voice, or if one wasn’t shockingly pretty, we’d have been able to accept it…
But now, never mind that we can’t accept this, do you think that the kids can stand it?
Adults made the decision, but they have to deal with the consequences, which are unfair to these two little girls~
For anyone thinking of defending this incident, please just think: what if Yang Peiyi was your own child? What if Lin Miaoke was your own child?
Sometimes, things like the bottom line and principles are more important than national interest; at least they would be if those were my kids.
More Chinese bloggers’ comments are here. Many of them are already censored by authorities. English bloggers’ comments are here.
The following video clips captured explanation from BOCOG and IOC officials:
POSTED COMMENTS: 57 Responses
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So what.
Members of the Politburo?! Good grief.
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uhm.. so what’s wrong with that..
so in hollywood, morgan freeman should actually be the president of the united states. and not george bush…
who’s more fake between the two?
The people behind this has opened an international scale event and mark the image of their national music, national culture and the entrance of their national flag with lies.
Not to mention that their announcement of successfully making a 9 years old think the other way is sickening.
[...] Chen Qigang, the General Music Designer of the Opening Ceremony, revealed that the voice everyone heard singing at the Opening Ceremony was actually a pre-recording of another child, Yang Peiyi, a student of the Attached Primary School of Beijing University at Zhongguancun on a television interview, according to a report at China Digital Times. [...]
Reminds me of the final scene from the famous American movie “Singing In the Rain”
Thank God (and the Politburo!) that they didn’t let 杨沛宜 ruin China’s national image on international television.
In other news: Opening Olympic ceremonies in Beijing used artificial amplification and special effects! Olympic torch bearer hung on wires, not really flying!!!! Music came from speakers, not purely acoustic!!!!!!!!!
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That is really sick. Not so much because they pulled a typical totalitarian smoke and mirrors “pay no attention to the man behind the curtain” trick, but because they sent a clear message to two perfect little girls that they are not quite perfect enough. They have 1.3 billion citizens and couldn’t find a ten year old girl who met their standards? Essentially those sick producers CG animated a “perfect little girl.” Anyone who is a parent realizes that any child would do. Each child is perfect. That is a worthy message. The message they sent is more in line with the thinking that leads to Soviet era sports cheating and performance-enhancement with drugs. I am really disappointed in China. It seems this is all just a beautiful illusion.
—— ccp cheats ———
chinese people, including little innocent kids are used up to cheat………….
What a shame!!!
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[...] Lin Miaoke (林妙可)，the sweet nine-year-old girl who sang
I guess lip syncing is only allowed for Americans. man, stfu, and go back to fox news.
[...] Yang was not allowed to sing because she did not look as “flawless” as nine-year-old Lin, musical director Chen Qigang explains in an interview translated by China Digital Times. [...]
Wow she is a little cutie isnt she. The one who really sung is probably goofy looking or fat.
JT
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The playbacking is not the issue, that’s common practise and for a country that would feel very ashamed if a note would be false even common sense. but if Lin Miaoke can sing, she should have playbacked to her own voice, because indeed the message sent on that moment was that neither girls were perfect enough for china.
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Milli Vanilli are not impressed.
Population is over 1.3 billions and can’t find a little girl who can sing and pretty. Disappointed.
Spelunker presents: “Ode to the Stepmotherland”
五星红旗迎风扇扬,
杨沛宜歌声多响亮;
歌唱咱们可爱的祖国
还踢比利时的腹腔!
越过天坛,越过鸟巢,
跨过游泳中心水立方!
宽畅美丽林妙可,
是我们亲爱的假象!
我们爱娉婷,我们爱假象!
我们上电视就不要失望!
五星红旗迎风扇扬,
杨沛宜歌声多响亮!
歌唱咱们可爱的祖国,
让林妙可提高质量!
世界看我们可爱祖国,
瞧着丫头牙口漂亮!
What is the big fuzz Lipsynch is common feature of Hollywood movie. So what is the big deal. The China basher just can’t help spewing out their venomous hate because they know China is unstoppable and They are scare and jealous at the same time. Relax and enjoy the show
What a shame! This is no hollywood or any film industry, its darn Olympics. Who does such thing? Oh…its China…no surprise!
Best Wishes,
Racheal
Fake Fireworks, Fake Child Singer, and More to follow…
All of you wu mao dang need to stop and ask yourselves why your government goes to such lengths to manufacture reality. If they instinctively lie about things that don’t even matter, what else are they lying about?
Ancient China rivals any civilization on earth. Modern China has achieved unprecedented growth and success. Why not just let the truth speak for itself?
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Realist,
Be realistic. No one is denying how “unprecedented growth” China has achieved. Such powerful nation should not shame itself by not giving credits to those who deserve it because of their physical appearance like Peiyi.
Again, be realistic, please!
Best Wishes,
Racheal
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let’s not forget that Pavarotti also faked his final performance at the 2006 winter games
http://sdgmusic.org/directorsblog/?p=108
FAKE! LIES! SICK!
You guys crack me up. What’s disturbing is you believe you have the audacity to speak for the Chinese people and claim to understand how they think.
Reductio ad absurdum much?
1. Yang Peiyi was not replaced by Lin Miaoke. When the decision were made, Miaoke was the choice because of her appearance and her acting ability. But her voice, though sweet, was though to be not exactly what the producers’ want. Therefore Peiyi ended up lip sync’ed to a prerecorded performance by Peiyi
2. Should they have let either Miaoke or Peiyi sing the song live? In my opinion, it would have been an extremely heavy pressure to put the shoulders of a 7 or 9 year old girl.
3. Should both girls get credit for such an incredible performance? Absolutely, and they are.
4. Does this explanation make any difference to you? Probably not, since most of you had made up your minds long time ago.
5. Congratulations Xiao Qiang! Now you have whipped up a frenzy among the circling vultures.
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Tell me, what from China is not fake? Exactly.
@bwhahahah
Please go through everything in your house, throw out anything that was made in China. You don’t want to risk you life on these junks, do you?
To all of you who think that what China did was wrong…stop pushing your values and beliefs unto others. You have to understand that kids are brought up differently in China, and it is very competitive there.
If two kids combine to put on a show who are you to deny one of them?
The China Politburo member who demanded Lin Miaoke replace Yang Peiyi at the last moment was wrong.
Zhang Yimou, who only gave credit to Lin Miaoke at the post-ceremony press conference, was wrong.
Chinese people who say Yang Peiji is getting enough credit now (only after the chief music director’s revelation) are also wrong.
Let’s add them up, shall we? Wrong, wrong, wrong. According to my abacus, that’s three wrongs! Am I right?
(If you disagree with me, that’s four wrongs and I warn you that 4 is an extremely unlucky number in China!)
@gary
[...]If two kids combine to put on a show who are you to deny one of them?[...]
This is the point. It is pretty much an accident anyone knows about the singing girl. Furthermore, it was a decision of national interest. So what are the kids raised for following you argument?
To make it short. I do not care much about making the show (the fireworks). But. I see it as an insult to the singing girl. The smiling girl on the other hand did not even know that she is on playback of someone else. If they do not feel this way fair enough.
It does not change anything about me thinking that this was not the BEST way to do it. And, this does not imply, I am putting my beliefs onto a country, I am just saying what I think. If you want to convince me, feel free. Just saying kids are brought up differently does not explain anything to me.
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It\’s not just that the singing was faked but it is also that it was covered up and not reported in Chinese media until the TV director came forward. I asked my Chinese colleagues in Beijing about it and they replied \”Just another fake day in China.\”
Wuming,
I think you are just overestimating how both girls are getting same credit for their performance. Lets not deny that Peiky’s reputation of physical appearance is much undermined since the committee had unfairly distributing the credit.
You know its not just [fair] to do such thing, but you are just in denial because you had made up your mind long time ago.
Best Wishes,
Racheal
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Do you guy running out material to demonize China? Making a hill out ant mole that what it is
George,
Are you running out of words to defend China & its economic power? No one is demonizing China. In fact, China is doing so. We are pointing out what China is naively hiding from the world.
Best Wishes,
Racheal
so the chinese fake the olympics like they fake gucci bags. nothing new there.
however, check this out, apparently, the girl too ugly to sing on tv has a fan site, http://www.ilovepeiji.com
funny how the world turns.
So, all the familiar China-bashers are out there now partying in the streets , having a real damned nice party (seizing with evil glee a godsend typically stupid Mainland Chinese self-bashing podicide -putting their feet in their mouths ) at yet another chance of grabbing China at her balls over another desperate attempt by China to put forward her best image under the merciless scrutiny of the West and their lapdog bootlickers.
As I said earlier, why do you (China) bother to strive to be accepted by the WEst? In your desperation to be accepted by them( not even as an equal – don’t dream of it!! just to be accepted as a decent human being is asking too much already from those curs ) you have to resort to strategies and tricks to achieve your aim, thereby giving them exactly the chance to seize on a mistake to really bash you with a “Gotcha Schadenfreude , This time we have got you !!” cackling glee, like that of a wrinkled witch pouncing on a lost newt , dribbling saliva at the prospect of a tasty newt cum entrails brew churning in the cauldron.
Let us overseas Chinese ( educated at several Western & European Universities ) tell you a secret:
DO NOT EVER BOTHER TO SEEK TO BE ACCEPTED AS AN EQUAL AMONG THE WESTERNERS.
THEY WILL NEVER, NEVER, NEVER, NEVER GIVE YOU THAT RECOGNITION BECAUSE MOST OF THEM ARE BASICALLY RACISTS, WHITE RACISTS IN THEIR HEARTS, although they may pretend to be otherwise.
They derive great pleasure and sheer malicious glee in making you grovel, squirm and beg for their approval. Why do we need their approval ? That’s your folly. THEY ARE NO BETTER THAN US, AND IN MANY CASES WORSE THAN US. WE LIVED AMONG THEM , IN WESTERN COUNTRIES FOR MANY MANY YEARS. WE HAVE NO ILLUSIONS ABOUT THEM AND WE DON’T EXPECT OR NEED ANYTHING FROM THEM.
WHY ARE YOU SO BEGGARLY TO NEED THEIR APPROVAL?
THEY ARE NOT PERFECT AND HONEST PEOPLE. MANY ARE JUST PLAIN LIARS, DICTATORIAL, POWER AND MONEY-CRAZY, HYPOCRITICAL AND CARRY OUT COVER-UPS, RACISTS, WHITE SUPREMACISTS, DOWNRIGHT ENVIOUS OF CHINA’S SUCCESS THRU HER SWEAT…SO SELF-RIGHTEOUS..
The more you strive to be accepted by them, the harder they play to get, the more humiliating machinations they will come up with to play you around their fingers and drag your face through the mud, and throw you one condescending crumb when you have grovelled enough, but, oh, they will let you know that you will never, never, never reach their levels of “humanity” (ha, ha, ha, ha, ha !!!) which was achieved through thousands of years of bloodshed and savagery of which several typical examples are the mass killing of World Wars 1 and II, the Holocaust, mutual slaughter between Fascists and Marxists, the religious wars between Catholics and Protestants or non-believers, the savage genocides of the native populations in the New World, eg North America, Canada, Australia, Mexico,and most Latin American States.
Their ‘humanity’ is nurtured and matured out of seas of blood ( not just rivers)across the whole world through thousands of years,and now, surfeit with and drowning in the gory blood which they drank from their innumerable victims( numbering hundreds of millions),and thoroughly exhausted from their mind-numbing killing, they claim a virtue out of their TOTAL PHYSICAL EXHAUSTION of savagery and violence by portraying themselves as the new matured humanists who see everything the Chinese do as evil.
Everything ( in their so self-righteous eyes ) that the Chinese do is Fake, fake , fake. Only they and their lapdogs are perfect, can do no wrong and are eminently qualified to judge the Chinese ( and now the Russians too).Only they are humans, AND THEY DON’T TELL LIES, YOU KNOW.
GEORGE WASHINGTON CLAIMED THAT HE COULD NOT TELL A LIE, BUT HE OWNED BLACK SLAVES !!
CLINTON INSISTED HE DID NOT HAVE SEX WITH MONICA LEWINSKY, BUT HIS SMOULDERING CIGAR ( BUSH’S SMOKING GUN’S COUSIN) WAS PUT OUT BY MONICA’S FUR PIE.
( Oh no, the Westerners don’t lie at all. And their Asian lapdogs pick up the refrain too . Like the Japanese who deny the Holocaust they inflicted on China, killing some 20 million civilians : Oh, we were only liberating the Asian countries from the yoke of Western Imperialism. )
Hilary Clinton portrayed herself as a Heroine of the BOsnian War, like a knight in shining armour coming to visit the beleaguered Bosnians, UNDER DANGEROUS AND TREACHEROUS FIRE FROM THE SERBS. We were ducking under murderous Serb shelling, she told American TV audience..Then CBS started showing clips of her REAL VISIT to Bosnia where she breezed through the airstrip without any ducking or any sound of a shot being fired, smiling and shaking hands with those waiting for her.When her lie became blatant, she brushed it away with a bland ” I MISSPOKE..”
HOW MANY MISSPOKEN STATEMENTS ( THAT LED TO MASS KILLINGS AND WARS) HAD WESTERN LEADERS MADE, AGAIN AND AGAIN. YOU ALL KNOW THE OCCASIONS, AND YOU HAVE LOST COUNT AGAIN. THE WMD ISSUE ??? ( Isn’t that lip-sync-ing in White House and carried across the Atlanitic to 10 Downing street ?? )
And the lies they make about Iran’s pursuit of Atomic/nuclear bombs when the IAEA ’s report revealed that Iran had actually stopped her nuclear weapon aspirations way back in 2003. Why the need for all those war drums??
Isn’t that LIES, LIES, LIES ( fake, fake, fake ) ???
( Even a faction of the US Military, headed by Gates, will have no truck with this build-up of lies re Iran’s nuclear weapons drive. Gates made it clear he will not lip-sync the same old lies churned out by the Neo-cons, Pentagon and White House and the CFR and AIPIC.)
They don’t realize that they ( the perfect and most ‘honest’ Western ‘humanists’) come across to us as REFORMED ADDICTS of mass killings and genocides, preaching to us about the holiness of their ‘virtues’ ( actually just sheer exhaustion from mass killings, NOT A REAL CHANGE FROM THEIR BASIC EVIL HUMAN NATURE) and condemning ALL Chinese to the garbage heap, as if there are no good Chinese.
Oh, they claim they have transformed into white angels already, and they teach you condesendingly that all the bad things Westerners did are all in the past already. REALLY ?? You can see their relapse into this addiction of violence and trickery and their evil human natures again and again.
Then how do you explain the horrors of Abu Ghraib, the random sadistic spray-shooting/killing of Iraqi civilians(almost 200,000 dead now). Isn’t that a more serious matter than mere lip-sync-ing by a small Chinese girl?
Next scenario will be the shock-and-awe inferno bombing of Iran.
“You see”, they talk down to us, “that was all in the past for us”, you know.
What’s the big deal about lip-syncing?
If anything or -one is to blame, it’s your bloody Western attitude and vulture-media which seek to jump on any minor insignificant weakness of the Chinese to blow it up to humiliate the Chinese.
This drives the stupid Mainland Chinese to try very hard ( even resorting to tricks) to present a flawless image , otherwise the Western vultures ( plus their hangers-on of all stripes, including Asians who hate China )will swoop down with a raucous croaking glee on any godsend opportunity to bash China.
In this way, you fall into their trap.
We western educated Chinese will just give them a four letter word and tell them to piss off if they don’t like China. We never forced you to come or to like us.
YOU NO LIKE US, YOU —- ( FOUR LETTER WORD)OFF.
WE ARE NOT YOUR DOGGY NOR YOUR TOADY.
We achieve what we are today through our own honest sweat and hard work AFTER BEING EXPLOITED BY WESTERN CORPORATIONS for our cheap labour, our resources and suffering by being a dump-site for all their wastes and pollutants.
Why the big hypocritical fuss over Chinese lip-sync ing and digital doctoring?
Don’t you westerners ( or anyone else) do the same things ? NO ??? REALLY ???
Bwahahahahahahahaha !!!!!
HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA !!!!!!!
You never descend to such tricks ??? Come on, who are you trying to kid ???
Kindergarten kids ????
WHY DID JOHN ELTON MAKE SUCH A FUSS OVER MADONNA’S LIP-SYNCING IN ONE OF HER PERFORMANCES???
There you are.
Western hypocrisy at work.
AREN’T THE PHOTOS/EVIDENCE BROUGHT FORWARD BY COLIN POWELL ( SUPPLIED BY CIA ETC) BEFORE A COMMITTEE – TO JUSTIFY THE IRAQ INVASION – DOCTORED PURPOSELY TO SUIT US WAR AIMS ???
( Heard of the term ” sexed-up reports ??)
So will future reports on Iran’s ” aggressive” nuclear drive be just as doctored and faked.
Now we can say ; ” EVERYTHING OF AND BY THE WEAT IS FAKED, FAKED, FAKED, FAKED !!!”
How do you feel?? You can say the same thing about the Chinese but cannot stand it when others say the same thing about you.
AND WHO IS MORE LYING AND DECEITFUL ???
THE WEST OR CHINA ???
first it was the WMDs, then it was about regime change, now it is about introducing Democracy ( by random massacres and bombing)to poor Iraq.
And the worst thing is not your President does not feel the slightest remorse over the deceit he pulled over the public, nor over the horrific civilian casualties and the maimed US soldiers.
He even joked about it on TV, popping under the bed to search for the smoking gun ( he missed Clinton’s Kosovo bombing -related smoking cigar)and quipped’ Nope, I can’t find it. ”
( Just as a CDT article on lip-sync ing condemns China for not apologizing about the incident, why, for heaven’s sake, can’t the West see the same hypocrisy in your own leaders, even trusted ones ???)
Xu Xing in another CDT article says why the hell should he apologise for this lip-sync .Indeed, why should we, when everyone is doing it ???
Are you trying to tell us that you in the West are so honest and clean that you never resort to photostopping, doctoring or lip-syncing ??
MY CAT WILL NOT BELIEVE THAT, LET ALONE HUMAN BEINGS.
And now Western media is going in overdrive about “Russian Aggression” in Georgia – another fake news, another lie.. .
Every objective person knows that Georgia started the whole thing by attacking South Ossetia and Abkhazia.
The same lie is promoted by the Western media and governments, especially USA & Britain ,over Serbia’s supposed and so-called ‘ ethnic cleansing and brutality ‘in Kosovo to justify US * NATO’s bombing of Serbia .
When the war was over, it was found that only around 2000 people were killed ( that included Serb civilians and soldiers and Albanian fighters and civilians )- hardly qualifying for the wildy exaggerated Western claims of massacre. And the Albanians were driven off in buses and trains ONLY AFTER THE NATO BOMBING STARTED, NOT BEFORE.
Where was the ethnic cleansing ??
And French reporters and other European observers found that the RACAK incident ( which USA & NATO used as an excuse to bomb Serbia)was most probably a staged incident, where KLA fighters killed in a firefight with Serbian police were arranged to look like a meditated massacre of civilians.The dead had gunpowder in their hands.
Just google ” Lies about the War in Kosovo ” if you do not believe.
Canadian generals are blisteringly against the biased and faked NATO’s and US’s version of the War.
So, you see, everything from the West is FAKE, FAKE, FAKE, FAKE, FAKE, all lies, lies, lies !!!!
Everyone is a fake in the West.
A senior British minister had to resign because he used his power to issue a visa to his girlfriend/mistress, many US COngressmen confessed to have extra-marital affairs while keeping a straight face,Kerry and Al Gore are members of the Skulls and Bones secret Societies, Presidents and Royalties are members of the shadowy but powerful Illuminati/New World Order, Halliburton and Carlyle ( all interests of the Neo-Cons) get the biggest contracts after military adventures,all the Western newspapers are full of shameful scandals, cover-ups and lies by politicians, eg the Siemens corruption case,The Enron creative accounting, the whistle-blowing re the asbestos scandal ( played by Julia Roberts) etc. …
BB King sings the Blues : Everybody lies a little, your teacher, your politician, your preacher… Lucille lies a little…
But there are some people who scream very self-righteously, forgetting their own dirty underwear (linen) smells too,: ” Only the slit-eyed Chinese lie….”
Now I will tell you , from our direct experience- which hurts, never to expect the West to accept us as equals.
When we were studying at Western Universities, the Chinese students captured most of the top prizes in Computing Science, Management Science, Business Law and Accounting, Biology , Biochemistry , Engineering, etc. etc. I won 3 prizes .Quite a few of the Westerners were envious and resentful that these slit-eyed Chinese can beat them in studies. When some coursemates came to know that I got a A+ in a course we were doing together, they became resentful and did not talk with me.
I used to write very good English and my lecturer called me up’ ” How can you write so well like an erudite? I cannot believe this is your own work.”
You see. And he didn’t want to give me the grades I deserved.
And how condescending the Westerners sre. They said to me, ” You Chinese are very good at making silk and rearing fish and pigs. ”
” Yeah, ” I countered, ‘ and they are good at the Sciences too cos i am now translating some research papers by Chinese scientists from Mandarin to English for our (Western ) University. ”
Imagine the stunned look and consternation on the faces of those blokes who had already stereotyped Chinese as pig-farmers only. There was an embarassing silence after that.
My friend, Mr. Tan., related to me how a brilliant engineer Chinese friend of his became eventually browbeaten to have an insecure and shaky view of himself and his abilities by being constantly shown surprise on the part of American engineers who displayed a stumped and mystified/incredible look on their faces when he identified himself as an inspector appointed by the US gov’t to check on things in the government engineering services. After years of being received with surprise and incredulous looks from American engineers, he began to develop a stutter even. See how they view us.
Everythingin the West is FAKE, fake, fake.
While your leaders talk about democracy, FEMA camps are being readied for American people and perhaps even coffins. Don’t believe ?? Please see YouTube for FEMA camps and coffins.
Good luck.
You Chinese cannot fake anything, but they can fake many things.
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