由於有訂閱Washington Post及The New York Times的電子報
平時也會瀏覽一些國外新聞媒體網站
(為了抓本國媒體亂七八糟的外電小辮子...)

這陣子發現一些奇怪的事
是我過去一直沒有注意到的
之前的新聞不管
光是以這兩天為例
Washington Post及The New York Times
有關中國大陸的報導幾乎集中在這陣子大陸層出不窮的爆炸案
因為美國人擔心這會成為大陸未來嚴重的社會問題

反觀國內媒體
我幾乎找不到什麼相關的深度報導
各大媒體對大陸還是一片褒揚之聲
我不知道是外國人杞人憂天看不得中國好?
還是台灣媒體過度樂觀活在狀況外?

以下是中時的大陸新聞摘要

中時大陸新聞
Mar 20 2001
美泰五月軍演 解放軍將參加
協助伊拉克建防空系統 華為技術 來自美國
林培瑞：中共重啟政改 非不可能
中南美華僑辦促統大會 大陸代表與會
金馬設台商子弟學校 教部將評估
開放大陸人士觀光 業者籌組聯保
接見香港台商訪團 張俊雄談三通

聯合的大陸新聞摘要

Mar 20 2001
高級軍官投美 中共底牌盡失
錢其琛會美商界 表達開放意願
錢其琛訪美 將為布江會鋪路
金門天后宮媽祖神像 赴湄州進香
國台辦經濟局長 今率團訪台
馮滬祥：潘希賢獲釋消息有誤
上海打台灣電話費 降為每6秒台幣0.8元
中共將派代表團參與美泰軍演
中國六四真相 中共官方買了不少
辦理大陸醫科招生 業者法辦
上海美女群像

這是這兩天The New York Times的大陸新聞
由於時差關係
貼文時美國時間還是3月19日

Date: March 18, 2001
Suspect Sought in China Blasts; Death Toll Rises to 108
By CRAIG S. SMITH

The death toll in four coordinated explosions that shook a central Chinese city rose to 108, and investigators apparently focused on a resident of one of the destroyed buildings.

Date: March 19, 2001
Two Dozen Journalists Killed in 2000
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Colombia, Russia and Sierra Leone were the deadliest assignments for journalists last year, with conflict and crime killing three in each nation.
....China held the most journalists behind bars, the report said: 22, several of them for publishing on the Internet.
------這則新聞是報導去年全世界記者因公殉職的死亡人數,而中國大陸被關入監獄的記者是全世界最多的

Date: March 19, 2001
Girl Who Immolated Herself in Beijing Dies
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

A 12-year-old girl, one of five people, reportedly members of the Falun Gong sect, who set themselves on fire in Tiananmen Square on Jan. 23 has died in a Beijing hospital.
----法輪功自焚事件,12歲的小女孩傷重不治死亡

Date: March 19, 2001
In China, Bombs Are Weapon of Choice
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

BEIJING (AP) -- An angry laid-off construction worker bombs his former company. A man being questioned about a domestic quarrel blows up a police station. An extortionist sets off an explosion in a movie theater.

Date: March 19, 2001
China Names Suspect Behind Explosions
By REUTERS

Chinese police were hunting on Monday for a deaf fugitive, possibly with gangster links, as the chief suspect behind four explosions that killed 108 people in the city of Shijiazhuang.

Date: March 19, 2001
Beijing Journal: Hiding From Police is a Dog's Life
By ERIK ECKHOLM

Growing tensions have accompanied the rising ownership of dogs in Beijing, a trend that marks China's social progress but also its contradictions.The elderly couple were happily keeping Little Lala, a white Pekinese, for a friend.
....They had heard that the Beijing police were engaged in one of their dreaded "dog sweeps," seizing animals whose masters did not pay the exorbitant license fees or dogs that appeared on the street during the forbidden daylight hours, barked loudly, had grown too tall or had otherwise broken the city's draconian rules.
-----這是一則讓人啼笑皆非的新聞,大致是說,大陸北京的狗要躲警察,因為狗主人沒有付執照費

Liberty or Death in China (Washington Post)
Page A16, Mar 19, 2001

As a Western practitioner of Falun Gong, I found the characterization of Li Hongzhi as a shadowy figure manipulating mainland Chinese practitioners ...

Answers Elusive in Chinese Bomb Blasts (Washington Post)
By John Pomfret Page A24, Mar 18, 2001

BEIJING, March 17 -- Explosions that ripped through a crowded dormitory and other buildings in a gritty industrial city southwest of Beijing killed ...

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