NYKBocker wrote:http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2012/02/the-global-note-irans-nuclear-news-assads-vote-xi-in-the-heartland-chinas-jeremy-lin-problem/

CHINA HAS A LIN PROBLEM
Sure, there’s Jeremy Lin Fever in Asia. But is the Knicks new superstar a problematic poster child for the Chinese government? “Linsanity” has taken hold in China where his ”jerseys have sold out, even including the counterfeit ones”, according to The New York Times. The paper traces Lin’s ancestral home to Jiaxing, a city on the northeastern outskirts of Hangzhou where Lin’s maternal grandmother grew up. Lin’s following on Weibo, China’s Twitter-like microblog, has exploded to more than a million fans. But official Chinese media have been notably quiet. Gloria RIVIERA notes there are signs that his Taiwanese background and devout Christianity sit uncomfortably with government censors. On Wednesday morning, the sports channel of CCTV ran a taped Champions League football match instead of a live broadcast of Lin steering the Knicks to victory. Chinese fans have been asking why CCTV has not shown his games. Online forums are awash with speculation that the Taiwanese flags waved by some of his fans are the impediment. China considers Taiwan a breakaway province and rejects any displays of Taiwanese independence. As Gloria puts it, “Lin is an interesting story here for two reasons beyond his talent on the court: his ancestry and his faith.” NYTimes: “Lin is commonly described as Taiwanese-American because his parents grew up in Taiwan before moving to the states, where Lin was born. But mainland China is already starting to claim him as his own, part of an incessant rivalry across the Taiwan Strait.” Also on Weibo are several comparisons not to Yao Ming but Tim Tebow for their shared Christian faith. ”You are the miracle, you are the God, Jesus is with you!” wrote one today. Christians suffer from religious prosecution here, but Lin is giving them a new reason to praise God.

Oh snap

NYKBocker wrote:http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2012/02/the-global-note-irans-nuclear-news-assads-vote-xi-in-the-heartland-chinas-jeremy-lin-problem/

CHINA HAS A LIN PROBLEM
Sure, there’s Jeremy Lin Fever in Asia. But is the Knicks new superstar a problematic poster child for the Chinese government? “Linsanity” has taken hold in China where his ”jerseys have sold out, even including the counterfeit ones”, according to The New York Times. The paper traces Lin’s ancestral home to Jiaxing, a city on the northeastern outskirts of Hangzhou where Lin’s maternal grandmother grew up. Lin’s following on Weibo, China’s Twitter-like microblog, has exploded to more than a million fans. But official Chinese media have been notably quiet. Gloria RIVIERA notes there are signs that his Taiwanese background and devout Christianity sit uncomfortably with government censors. On Wednesday morning, the sports channel of CCTV ran a taped Champions League football match instead of a live broadcast of Lin steering the Knicks to victory. Chinese fans have been asking why CCTV has not shown his games. Online forums are awash with speculation that the Taiwanese flags waved by some of his fans are the impediment. China considers Taiwan a breakaway province and rejects any displays of Taiwanese independence. As Gloria puts it, “Lin is an interesting story here for two reasons beyond his talent on the court: his ancestry and his faith.” NYTimes: “Lin is commonly described as Taiwanese-American because his parents grew up in Taiwan before moving to the states, where Lin was born. But mainland China is already starting to claim him as his own, part of an incessant rivalry across the Taiwan Strait.” Also on Weibo are several comparisons not to Yao Ming but Tim Tebow for their shared Christian faith. ”You are the miracle, you are the God, Jesus is with you!” wrote one today. Christians suffer from religious prosecution here, but Lin is giving them a new reason to praise God.

Censorship in China is a trip. I remember trying to watch CNN International and the sound or the whole thing would go out for seconds or minutes at a time. And trying to use Google there at the time was pretty humorous.

TheSage wrote:

knicks1248 wrote:

Allanfan20 wrote:People on the radio keep saying that Lin is FROM Asia. This is not true folks. The man was born here in the US. It's his parents that were born in Asia. I hope media personalities learn this fact ASAP because he's Asian American, not Asian.

The dude speaks better english then half the league..

Half the league???????????

islesfan wrote:I'm only a fan because he's Asian. And because Isiah had nothing to do with him being here.

I am non-religious Jew from Soviet Union speaking Russian and I am an American Citizen from New York.
So what's now? Which team I should root for and what this all has to do with Jeremy Lin?