Our most popular Asia posts of 2012, by the number of readers and/or the number of comments:
China Calls for ‘No Delay’ on Gun Controls in U.S. This recent post on China’s reaction to the Newtown shooting tragedy brought nearly 200 comments, some enraged at China’s hypocrisy, some enraged at the American gun lobby and a few saying that China, despite any hypocrisy, wasn’t wrong.
China Demands Apology From U.S. This post, about Chen Guangcheng, the 40-year-old human rights lawyer taken in by the U.S. Embassy in Beijing before leaving for New York, also generated nearly 200 comments.
The Best Countries to Be a Woman — and the Worst. After the recent events in India surrounding the rape and murder of a woman, the debate that ensued in the discussion of this post — whether India really was as bad for women as the poll respondents (experts in gender relations) said; worse than Saudi Arabia and China — takes on a new light.
From Milk to Peas, a Chinese Food-Safety Mess. Many of the 125 comments on this post came from outraged readers in China complaining about their government’s failure to safeguard their lives and their children’s.
Watch Your Language! (In China, They Really Do). Before China shut out most content from The New York Times, the International Herald Tribune and Rendezvous, China was home to the third-largest number of Rendezvous readers, outranked only by the United States and Canada. Ironic.
East Asia’s Sea Disputes: Scar Tissue from War Wounds. This analysis, in August, about Chinese activists being arrested by the Japanese Coast Guard for planting flags on one of the Senkaku/Diaoyu islands, was just one of many seeking to explain a host of Asian territorial disputes, and the rising stakes.
A Telling Language Lesson in Hong Kong. When Leung Chun-ying, the new chief executive of Hong Kong, made his inaugural speech in Mandarin rather than Cantonese, it generated nearly 100 comments that showed the depth of the divide that still separates Hong Kong and the mainland. (As did this post, one of Rendezvous’s first, in January.)
It was not all geopolitics. This post on basketball phenom Jeremy Lin, Did ESPN Cross the Line Into Racism? received more than 100 comments, many touching on the role and view of Asian-Americans in the United States and globally. But our first post on Mr. Lin was back on Feb. 5: Asian-American Christian Basketball Star.
And this story generated nearly 100,000 page views: Finally, Outrage in China Against Bear Farming. Similarly, this story received more than 100 comments: The Slaughter of Elephants in Vietnam Is Nearly Complete.
‘Gangnam Style’ Becomes Most-Watched Video Ever on YouTube — 805 Million Views. Of course, the video by the K-pop star Psy has since surpassed the billion-view mark. But the comments, and those on an earlier post, showed the ambivalence many Asians felt toward the image of Asian men they said Psy was portraying.
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