** Irony Alert **

1999:  China trashes the Falun Gong sect, calling it, "An evil cult."

2000:  Beijing vilifies Taiwanese Vice-President Annette Lu as, "The scum of the nation."

2006:  The PRC blasts Taiwanese President Chen Shui-bian as, "A destroyer of peace."

2008:  The Chinese government labels the Dalai Lama, "A wolf in monk's robes.  A devil with a human face, but the heart of a beast."

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But the icing on the cake?  A headline on the front page of Monday's Taipei Times:  "Media 'demonizes' China, Beijing's UK envoy says"

LOL