MEDIA REACTION: CLIMATE COOPERATION, IRAN, CHINA'S INTERNET

UNCLAS SECTION 01 OF 02 BEIJING 001693 DEPARTMENT FOR INR/R/MR, EAP/CM, EAP/PA, EAP/PD, C HQ PACOM FOR PUBLIC DIPLOMACY ADVISOR (J007) SIPDIS E.O. 12958: N/A TAGS: OPRC KMDR CH PREL ECON SUBJECT: MEDIA REACTION: CLIMATE COOPERATION, IRAN, CHINA'S INTERNET MONITOR -------------- Editorial Quotes -------------- ¶1. CLIMATE COOPERATION "The trilateral climate meeting between China, the U.S. and Japan will begin in July and climate cooperation will be the key topic" Guangdong 21st Century Publishing Company Ltd.'s business newspaper 21st Century Business Herald (21Shiji Jingji Baodao)(06/22): "On June 5th, Japan first reported that the foreign ministries of China, the U.S. and Japan will hold their first trilateral dialogue in Washington in July. China hasn't officially responded to this news. Several members of a U.S. think-tank have confirmed that the level of the trilateral dialogue is relatively low and that it will be led by mid-level foreign ministry officials from the three countries. The U.S. will choose climate change, especially technology transfer as their primary topic. The trilateral dialogue is still a test. It won't replace the existing climate change dialogue between the three countries, only supplement it. In the past 10 years, China, the U.S. and Japan have held several unofficial trilateral dialogues; mainly scholars were invited to participate. A professor from Fudan University said that although this isn't a high-level trilateral dialogue, it could provide the framework to stabilize relations between the three counties and at the same time achieve a win-win situation. As China rises, the economies of China and the U.S. become more and more interdependent. The current global economic crisis has greatly adjusted the balance of power among China, the U.S. and Japan. In this situation, the professor commented that if the U.S. doesn't develop its relationship with China, there are other developed countries who will do so; the U.S. is unwilling to see it this way. Thus, the U.S. must cooperate with China. Of course, the U.S. doesn't want the development of the Sino-U.S. relationship to cause the collapse of the U.S.-Japan alliance. Aimed at balancing its relationship with Japan as well as its relationship with China, the U.S. has to cooperate with China while relying on the help of the U.S.-Japan alliance." ¶2. IRAN a. "Western media is very excited about the chaos in Iran" The official Communist Party international news publication Global Times (Huanqiu Shibao)(06/22): "Western society has always had a strange fascination concerning the anti-government affairs of transformational countries. Their reaction to the chaos in Iran proves this. Looking at the western media reports following the election, many people can see that western media has become a part of the crisis. Western media emphasizes freedom of speech; however, because they emphasize freedom of speech the media bears some responsibility. The recent tension between the U.S. and Iran is mainly been due to the problematic image of Muslims that the U.S. media portrays. The U.S. media needs to reflect on this. In the information era, western media's reports and contents may be greatly influential, misleading the transformational country into chaos. Western media should not always expect that the changes they want will happen in other countries." b. "The U.S. has no color in Iran" The official Xinhua News Agency international news publication International Herald Leader (Guoji Xianqu Daobao)(06/22): "Iran's supreme leader Khameini has ordered the chaos to cease. The chaos in Iran seems to have come to an end. This result will greatly disappoint the west. The west has exaggerated the chaos in Iran; saying that it might possibly evolve into a green revolution. The west has been exaggerating for more than a week. If the chaos in Iran cools, they will be greatly disappointed. This shows that the U.S. didn't have much hope for the green revolution in the first place. Obama's Middle East strategy restricts the movement of those in the U.S. who may push the green revolution forward. What's more, even if the U.S. wanted too; it is unable to make the revolution happen. The U.S. has no supporters in Iran. Furthermore, the U.S. doesn't have any reason to believe in these so-called Iranian reformists. In fact, the U.S. needs Ahmadinejad, because the U.S. needs an enemy in the Middle East." ¶3. CHINA'S INTERNET MONITOR "China's severe punishment for Google gains the attention of the west" The official Communist Party international news publication Global Times (Huanqiu Shibao)(06/22): " In response to the Chinese government's accusation that Google carries a great deal of pornographic and vulgar content, Google issued a statement admitting that they were wrong. A Chinese scholar commented that this is a BEIJING 00001693 002 OF 002 case of an international company getting used to China's local laws. Google's reaction shows that the Chinese government's opinion has been understood. Internet supervision is necessary. Western countries have formed a series of supervision measures in the field of internet supervision. The internet will become a battlefield that each country will compete over in the future. Therefore China has no reason to give up its internet supervision. Another scholar commented that Google did this in order to continue operating in China. Filtering the internet is not the Chinese government's responsibility. It is most important for internet custodians to take responsibility, ensuring that juveniles don't have access to pornographic content." PICCUTA