China Daily, as well as other Chinese media, fail to see the irony in their reporting, such as about the fines imposed on Samsung, LG and other companies for manipulating LCD panel prices. All that in the name of the Anti-Monopoly Law.
See the article in China Daily:
“Nipping monopoly activities in the bud”
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/cndy/2013-01/10/content_16100647.htm
As usual, the cartoon show a fat guy, big nose, with a cigar. Chinese cartoonists lack inspiration: always the same stereotype. We can assume the fat guy is a foreigner and the poor slim guy is Chinese? So, all the bad foreigners smoke cigars?
If one stops for a second and substitutes the foreign company names with some of the Chinese SOE, then it all looks weird. A number of Chinese SOE are monopolies, that’s it. But no mention of the similarities in China Daily. It is also the case when China complains about market access issues in the EU: it suddenly forgot EU companies face worse market access restrictions over here.
China is excellent in selective memory loss. And needs some more creative cartoonists.