What we do and why

We are not an organization, just a loose group of people who share some opinions and interests, but not all. Our main means for action is this website, which has got three objectives:

• to inform about the world and in particular about China and other developing countries,
• to offer a forum for direct intercultural dialogue
• to put some pressure on the journalists and researchers whose methods are somewhat problematic.

This is not about questioning freedom of opinion. Everybody has got the right to have his own convictions about China and other countries in the world and to express them. However, if somebody uses facts and data to support his opinions, this must be done with a minimum of rigour.

The lack of rigour is quite often the problem, not only in trash newspapers (lots of investigations have shown this in detail), but also in the most prestigious newspapers and academic publications. Unfortunately, not many people dare pointing out these problems. Even the researchers who analyze our media will avoid using external data in order to evaluate the quality of the reporting of prestigious newspapers. With our website, we wish to fill this gap.