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Asia Times Online "changes ownership." Why now? What's up?

 
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03/23/2015 10:56 AM
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Asia Times Online "changes ownership." Why now? What's up?
I found this unsettling, given the general war footing of the world at the moment: Asia Times Online has spontaneously and unexpectedly "changed ownership," with no explanation as to why or who is now involved.

"March 22 signals Asia Times’ rebirth as an Asian news site...The changes reflect a change of ownership. The website is now owned by a new group of investors."

[link to atimes.com]

Anyone hear that this was coming?
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03/23/2015 11:21 AM
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Re: Asia Times Online "changes ownership." Why now? What's up?
Isn't the timing with the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank more than a little suspicious?
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03/23/2015 11:47 AM
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Re: Asia Times Online "changes ownership." Why now? What's up?
New editor Doug Tsuruoka's introduction piece includes his grandfather's personal recollection of Chinese nationalists slaughtering the "men, women and children" of the Chinese Communist Party. Wow.


[link to atimes.com]

No offense, but this rings a bit like "ISIS beheading white Christian babies!"

Not feeling good about this.

I think we know who the new "investors" are.
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03/23/2015 11:59 AM
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Wow. From the new editor:

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My grandfather was in Shanghai on an April evening nearly 88 years ago when Nationalist troops under Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek in an incident known as the “Shanghai Massacre”, turned on their erstwhile Communist allies and slaughtered thousands of party cadre and their families in their beds. In the morning light, he saw the huge wooden carts roll slowly past his hotel piled 20 feet high with the bodies of men, women and children – all wearing the blue worker uniforms and red armbands of the CCP. It’s an image he recounted that has always haunted me. [link to atimes.com]
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Really? All the "CCP mean, women and children" were in uniform in bed?

What next. Sigh.





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