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In recent months, China has been sub-jected to a lot of unfair and completely groundless criticism. Western newsmak-ers appear to be deriving some kind of sadistic pleasure out of the horrifying nega-tive reports that portray Chinese authorities and people in general as some kind of closed-minded villains who are oblivious to the needs of Tibetans, suppressing freedom of speech and flooding Western shops with "cheap unreliable goods." Given the enor-mous subjectivity of these reports, one is starting to wonder what kind of accusations are going to come next as there are hardly any "deadly sins" left that China has not been accused of.