Mail's campaign demolishes Chinese wall of silence
Almost hidden among the political results today is the success of the Birmingham Mail's latest 'No More Chinese Whispers' campaign.
Just seven days after launching the public call for direct communications, SAIC/Nanjing have agree to meet the paper's Business Editor Jon Griffin in a one-to-one meeting with senior management.
Several onlookers urged caution lest the Chinese car giant was offended by the Western free press. But the decision to talk at last has justified the seven-day campaign.
And t's saved my budget lots of money... we had been prepared to send Jon Griffin all the way to China to get the answers we needed...
Read more on p3 of tonight's paper or on this link: http://www.birminghammail.net/news/top-stories/2008/05/02/mail-brings-down-the-wall-of-silence-97319-20853410/
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I'd be careful claiming too much success... they don't seem to have actually spoken to you yet...
YOU have campaign about Chinese whisper?! Who will listen to our voice about non- justified reports about Tibet in British media??
Try us, Wang Shu... happy to publish your views here or in the printed version of the Birmingham Mail
I for one will be interested to hear the justification for a repressive state capitalist regime's continued occupation of a country whose people have no wish to be part of China.
I write, incidentally, as a socialist appalled at China's betrayal of all that is good about left wing politics.