harry potter said...
Good friends with China ? You have got to be kidding! We should be very cautious there remember Tiananmen square, you would not be able to say half the political comments you do here on seabreeze if you were in China, their human rights abuse record is longer than just about every other country torture is commonplace.
China is a good trading partner but remember if you disagree with the government you disappear, remember they still have aspirations to take back Taiwan, remember they along with Russia block just about every UN resolution, remember they ( government) control the media even the Internet is censored ( and we are not talking porn )
Having said that China are doing a reasonable job at giving ther people some freedoms gradually but they still wave the big stick and think nothing of getting rid of troublesome citizens.
The communist regime are not saints and you can include their intervention in Tibet in your list of tut tuts .The problem is it that we should be careful throwing stones from our glass house . Was it Jesus who said he who hath not sinned may cast the first stone( BTW i'm not pushing the christian cause here but I often think of that line )
