The emergence of China as an economic superpower

If you've visited Canada before, you'll know that Toronto and Vancouver are filled with Chinese immigrants. Lots of them. Therefore it's not exactly a surprise that a group of Chinese students decide to rally on the streets against Tibetans. In a story by the Epoch Times, the "anti-violence" protest (under the wonderful name of "Love China Concert") began orderly but slowly disintegrated into emotions and violence as Tibetans took the stage and stole the spotlight. How ironic, as these things tend to become these days. Police at the scene intervened before the group of Chinese managed to attack the Tibetan. No one was injured. The usual good times in Canada.

How all this began came down to a series of CCTV broadcasts (must be the ongoing communist propaganda) on the Rogers Cable Network. For the past two weeks, statements such as "incited and masterminded by the Dalai Lama clique, a few criminals did beating, smashing, looting, and arson in downtown Lhasa, causing huge damage to people's lives and property," were shown to Chinese-Canadian viewers. Apparently that was mind-blowing enough (CCTV is usually rather dull, especially in English) for a small band of Chinese to gather for a "concert." Obviously, the owner of the venue neglected to read the anti-Tibetan slur on the English-language flyers for the event. How convenient.

So began impassionate speech of you-know-what (I think that if I repeat any more anti-Tibet independence rhetoric here I might get stoned to death by netizens). The concert part comes in when they sang a series of patriotic song between the speeches. Epoch Times: "The rally became dramatic when a Tibetan refugee took to the stage waving a Tibetan flag...Angry Chinese turned on the Tibetan protesters, hollering "Dalai Lama die there!" "Dalai Lama lies!" "Liars, liars!" and "Leave Canada!"" After the incident, the Tibetan would be in tears speaking to the press about his sufferings. Doesn't that sound familiar?