March 26, 2001

Tunku Varadarajan chastizes the Murdochs

Tunku Varadarajan chastizes the Murdochs for toting water for the Chinese communists. He also thinks the Chinese are playing the Murdochs and not vice versa:

But China is run by sophisticated tyrants. They see the use of people like Messrs. Murdoch--père et fils--and will use them. They are not taken in by the flattery, the unctuousness, the bowing of the corporate knee. They are not unduly impressed by the Murdoch attempts to be more Catholic than the pope when it comes to China. They know that he wants to make more money in China and that he is willing to pay any price to do so.

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