[WikiEN-l] Tearing down the Chinese Firewall

Ray Saintonge saintonge at telus.net
Sun May 14 22:46:03 UTC 2006


Prasad J wrote:

>Like I said, the Chinese government probably has it's reasons for
>doing what it does. And even if you do bring down this firewall-do you
>really think the government will just admit defeat? As for 1989, could
>the U.S or any other nation do anything during the  Tien-a-mien
>massacre? No. Because each country has the right to manage it's own
>affairs-even if that may see unfair to us.
>
Including Sudan?

>Countries don't go out of
>their way to help each other without there being something for them to
>gain The U.S is not trying to bring democracy to China in the interest
>of goodwill, the former has major geo-political interests in two
>emerging powers (China and India) the Americans are just trying to
>achieve their longterm goals by bringing about a change in the Chinese
>government so that when the U.S tries to better it's ties with that
>nation, it will not be accused of supporting the oppressive Peoples'
>Government. If indeed America wanted to rescue the oppressed why did
>it turn a blind eye to Tibet and (more importantly) the Rwandan
>genocide? 
>
Tibet is a part of China because it was given to them by the British 
after WWI to keep it out of the hands of the Russians.  The British have 
profitted greatly by giving away what nevr belonged to them.  It's a 
trick they learned from Napoleon.

Rwanda has no strategic importance.

Ec




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