China is the demon, apparently this author hasn’t noticed.

Dan

China demonises itself. China is a demon. China doesn't need the Western media to bring attention to its gross unpleasantness. If anything,
the Western media is too soft on China. China is the West's greatest enemy.

It is impossible to be too critical of totalitarian China and its dreadful Communist government, and truly horrible president. And, how about the CCP media, Lim Teck Ghee, you Beijing stooge?

'"putting tens of thousands of children in government-run training schools", exposing them to health and mental stress risks and of funnelling these young athletes into "less prominent sports that Beijing hopes to dominate."'

That was the first accusation.

'Beijing's focus has been on sports that can be perfected with rote routines, rather than those that involve an unpredictable interplay of multiple athletes'

That was the second accusation.

.In three pages of whinging and abusive invective towards critics I never saw a clear statement of denial of either accusation.

That simply left me wondering ... Why not? Are they true?

Sorry, disagree. China has done all the demonising by itself without help from the western media. Who by and large have just reported the facts and the shameful actions of a dictatorial regime.

That's not that some of the right-wing rags haven't been even-handed, or less than complimentary!

But China, not the western media, own the outcome for the Wigas, Hong Kong and the annexation of the sovereign territory of other nations/the militarisation of the Southern China sea, etc, etc.
Alan B.

The author asks: "So what's likely to feature next in the western media's xenophobic China bashing?"

I was going to say.."Uighurs".

But then I realised that the woke left both here and in the west in general are trying very hard to not notice that genocide.

Two hundred and Eighty-five gold medals were awarded in the Tokyo Olympics so one assumes, give or take a few six hundred and fifty five medals were awarded.

The Americans won 113. That is 17% of the medals. There are 333 million Americans.

We won 65. That is almost 10% of the medals.There are 24 million Australians.

T#here are 7.9 billion people in the world.

We did exceptionally well, by comparison, but buggar the bloody Kiwis ... with only 5 million and 20 medals.

But overall I watched great performances by great athletes from across the world and revelled in the individual achievements and individual performances of all. Of course I'm proud of my fellow Australians success but nationalism is my focus.

I'd respectfully suggest you could focus on the success of each individuals' performance rather than 'beating the drum' of nationalistic success ... like we in the west do. That would present you and China in a better light.

Obviously you will now understand why ... China has not done quite so well but the efforts and successes of its individual sports people were grand ... whether they won medals or not.

Excellent article, Teck Lim!

The responses here are indicative of just how complete and effective the Western media's demonisation of China has been.

China is at last standing up assertively and calling out the West's threats, bullying and lies. Most in the West only see the victim's response, not the bully's provocation. They are totally unaware of the extreme lengths to which the US has over many years sought to contain and provoke China. O'Bama's Pivot to Asia in 2012 was nothing short of a call to arms against its biggest rival. The US has now surrounded China with over 400 military bases and is provocatively and illegally entering its waters and airspace. It's arbitrarily imposing sanctions on China and deliberately fomenting civil unrest over Hong Kong, Taiwan, XinJiang and any other opportunity it senses it can exploit in order to destabilise its rival. The US would never stand for another country doing this to America, but it sees itself as having the God-given right to antagonise and contain China or any other country it considers a threat to its self-appointed role as the world's hegemon. And when China finally stands up and decides to push back and call out the lies, it's the one that gets branded as the bully!

This wouldn't have happened if we'd had well-informed and balanced media coverage.

I guess China's emissions are likely to rise given the end of the one child policy. Rather than emissions per capita perhaps a better measure of environmental credentials is emissions per land area.

Bronwyn,

The amount of aggression that is coming from Bejing with respect to Taiwan, the South China sea, Australia is inexcusable so is the treatment of Tibetans, Hong Kongers, Uighurs etc.

China is doing its best to piss off every country in the world and now doesn't like that it's getting push back.