Re: China-a country to be feared not cheered
China - is a ruthless country, with hardly any freedom.. No freedom of thought, no freedom of speech, no freedom of action.
Many countries have limits on these, as suits their circumstances and needs. Pakistan limits religious thought to combat heresy, Pakistan does not allow speech that insults the Prophet (pbuh), Pakistan does not allow the burning of Qurans.
So what if China has a different set of limits to Pakistan?
It has a single party rule-the communists.
That single party of more communist in only name. It’s more capitalist in action. And many journalists reported that the single party system helps China deal with crises given China’s enormous scale.
For example, during the SARS and other virus crisis, only a single party police state could have successfully implemented the strict limits on personal activity needed to successfully prevent it from becoming an epidemic. And the presence of the communist party at all levels at all locations in China is acknowledged as having been critical in spreading SARS and virus awareness.
Given China’s circumstances - its political structure is an asset.
It killed hundreds of unarmed students for daring to ask for Democracy (Tainaman (sp)Square).
Irrelevant. None of those involved in making the decision to open fire are in power any more. They either died of were forced out of power by the communists opposed to firing.
When they build modern city/roads etc - they just flatten everone’s house. There is no recourse to justice or law.
Happens elsewhere too, like India.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/05/07/AR2005050701004.html
They made a rule, that a couple were allowed only ‘one child’ or else!!!.
The one-child policy was introduced because China’s food production was growing at a rate that would be insufficient to feed a fast growing population. The one child policy is how China avoided starvation and thus made good sense.
They do not allow any protests on anything
They allowed protests against the US bombing of the Chinese embassy in Yugoslavia and against Japanese textbooks that hid the scale of Japanese atrocities
They crushed Tibet, they threaten Taiwan everyday.
“Threaten” Taiwan? Taiwan is a part of China that refuses to acknowledge Beijing’s rule. How is attempting to deal with such rebels “threatening”?
**They crushed the Muslim uprising in China ruthlessly - and all you Pakistani’s feel proud you are friendly with them. **
You overlook the fact that China significantly supports the overwhelming majority of its Muslim population, who are from the ethnically Chinese Hui group. Most mosques and Islamic education in China are paid for by the Chinese government.
Repression only took place against the small minority of Muslims who are from the Uigher ethnic group.
Speaking of ruthless crushings of Muslim uprisings, this may be a good time to mention the Indian Army’s nefarious activities in Indian occupied Kashmir.
Come to think of it, if we go back further, I remember talking to my sister-in-law’s uncle about his memories of watching the Indian army invade Hyderabad state in 1948. Even though he was only a child at the time, he remembers a group of Muslim teenagers getting ready to fight the Indian army with the only weapons they had at hand… hockey sticks, cricket bats, shovels, farming tools…
He very bitterly told me how he saw the Indian army using tanks to machine gun a few dozen teenagers armed with just these crude implements.
He particalarly remembered the sight of seeing one group of kids live to get close enough to an Indian tank to climb on top of it and start hitting the turret with improvised clubs. He saw the tank behind open fire with its machine guns and blast the kids to pieces.
Yes, that was a ruthless crushing of Muslims worth remembering.
Even your frendship you had to buy from them by giving them part of Kashmir illegally, and now giving them access to the Indian Ocean(Gowdera(sp). Time will prove that they are to be feared not cheered.
China gave its hand in friendship straight after the 1965 war - before either of these two events.
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