More on China

In the weeks before the Olympic Summer Games in Beijing I highlighted an example of how China, in my view, is failing in the world.  Another issue is the ongoing melamine contamination problem and how melamine is popping up all over the place - the latest I have read about is in pretzels imported from China.  Now we are hearing about how China is spying on Skype users, making copies of messages containing such "nasty" words as Falun Gong or Taiwanese independence or Tibet or democracy or, or, or.

When is this autocratic, controlling, paranoid, childish, egotistical government going to wake up?  When are they going to start having confidence in their citizens?  When are they going to start believing that these same citizens are the ones that will advance China culturally, economically, politically?  These citizens will be the ones that portray a positive image of China throughout the world.   The sooner the wave turns positive the better off China as a whole will be.  As it stands the government has no confidence in its system, in its nation, in its people.

Parents tell their children to be accepting of differences.  To be open to opinions.  Just like a child depends on its parents a government depends on its citizens.  It depends on its citizens accepting its actions.  I am looking forward to the time when these parents will start controlling their child.

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