Apparently sometime not long ago (I forget when, must be on Dalai Lama's agenda though), a Tibetan nun crossing the Sino-India border was shot at by the People's Liberation Army. This is not surprising news to the locals there; many Tibetans say that it's a monthly, if not daily, occurrence. But this "nun incident" was somewhat different: a group of foreign Himalaya climbers saw the whole event and lived to tell the tale, in which case Western media now assert that this (and a whole lot of other human right abuses) is "well-documented". Believe what you will.
Now time for Wendi Murdoch, a native Chinese from Xuzhou, to come out and say "I don’t think anyone got killed there!" What to believe now? She backs her statement up with this evidence: "I haven’t been there recently, but today, everybody in Tibet have mobile phones and the ability to send a message." Granted, somewhere along the way she also said that "we have more than 500 million mobile users," but it's still hard to believe that Tibetan monks will send an SMS message to, say, the Canadian Prime Minister and ask him for help because a Chinese soldier is violating human rights. Again, believe what you will.
Of the more mundane things she also said, she praised China's growth, especially in the high-tech and online industries, as well as reflected excitement over her husband's acquisition of WSJ. "It’s a great paper already, but [it needs] investment," she said. Maybe some Tibetans will read the WAP version of WSJ on their mobile phones when it comes around?
What do you think?
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