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Chinese to Launch English-Speaking News Channel – More Choice for a Fair & Balanced America!

Interestingly, but perhaps not unexpectedly, China has announced plans to launch an English-language-speaking (bound to upset the French) 24 hour news channel (a ‘Chinese CNN’) to fluff-up their righteous Communist-spewing, human-rights-abusing, environment-destroying, currency-manipulating, African-dictator-supporting image beyond their locked-down totalitarian nation state.
Here’s to fair and balanced! But at least it expands our choice of international [...]

Posted on February 19th, 2009 under Al-Jazeera, Ann Coulter, BBC, Britain, CNN, China, Communism, Fox News, France, Human Rights Watch, Jingoism, Tibet, fiction!?, interviews, opinions, the Great Firewall. Comments: None

France Warns of Multi-Polar Future

The energetic French presidential race concluded yesterday with the election of moderate conservative Nicolas Sarkozy. But even as Sarkozy reaffirms France’s close relationship with the United States, the French will continue in their role as a diplomatic counterweight by reminding the U.S. of the challenges to be faced in the likely multi-polar world of the [...]

Posted on May 7th, 2007 under Ahmadinejad, Brazil, Bush, China, France, IMF, Iran, Jean-David Levitte, NATO, Nicolas Sarkozy, Russia, UN. Comments: 3

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