I just read an article that frankly pissed me off. Chine has revoked the visa of Joey Cheek - an Olympic gold medalist and human rights activists. Apparently, though China doesn't need an official reason to revoke any visa, Joey has been speaking out against human rights violations in Darfur that China was involved in - and that was too much for the Chinese government.
Maybe instead of sitting on their high horse, the Chinese government should take a look at their country, at their actions, and see what they are doing to their own people - as well as other people. They are polluting their own drinking water - do they need an epidemic like the London cholera situation to set them straight? They have incredibly polluted air - do they need people to die from pollution or asphyxiation to change this? They inflict human rights violations - do they need the whole world to shut them out to realize how wrong this is?
I'm not too thrilled at having the Olympics in China anyway, but I think they've taken it too far with Joey Cheek. What's your take on this?
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Well, I wouldn't say it's a high horse as much as it is a fearful, secretive horse. The Chinese government will do whatever it takes to stay in control while presenting an acceptable exterior and keeping its population from revolting, I think.
They're well-aware that no matter how many protests there are in other countries, they can easily protect their citizens by censoring the Internet and the incoming media, and they have the populace probably too much in fear to protest very much. So, in a sense, they feel that they can do anything they want and be basically invulnerable, particularly as long as they keep their economic lines in with the United States and other major industrial nations.
In order for somebody to do something about them, they'd have to do something overt, and they'd never do that.
As long as their internal populace doesn't have a pverty rate of about 70% (which is roughly what's required for revolution), they're probably going to keep on going (barring somebody coming in somehow and making some difference in their M.O.).
-Max
Thanks for the comment! That's a very good point. I also didn't know the stats on the poverty rate and revolution. The rest of the world could actually force them into that poverty bracket rather easily - but I don't see that happen anytime soon either.
It is so interesting how the most "Communist" country in the world acts like the mythical "Capitalists" of the 19th Century.
- Build a factory without proper pollution control - if it makes a profit then ignore the regulations and build it anyway.
- Someone has the nerve to object to what you are doing that is making a profit - throw him in jail, deny his visa or quietly kill him.
- Control religion so you can control the people to get more out of them and destroy any religion that is not under state control.
- Whatever makes a profit is okay.
These guys are worse than any Emperor ever was.
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