China rounds up, beats mourners for deposed leader Zhao: witnesses

Yahoo News ^ | Thu Jan 27, 6:40 AM ET | AFP

[.cnI redruM]

>>>>China announced last week it would not hold memorial services for Zhao but only a "farewell activity for the body," which is effectively a funeral.

Now that's how to write government propaganda! I admire someone who can cram that much BS into one sentence. lol!

[MisterRepublican]

This reads like one of Hitlery Rodham-Stalins most cherished dreams. I bet she salivates hearing of such unbridled, ruthless government power.

[bahblahbah]

Where are the pictures at?

[WmDonovan]

The soldiers should have had sponsors' patches on them, you know, like in auto racing where a driver's uniform has patches from STP, Champion Spark Plugs, etc. They [the Chinese police] are paid from taxes in China, and the tax revenues include proceeds from items coming over here on all those cargo ships. Guess what the sponsor patches would read: "Wal-Mart", "Home Depot", and "Consumers who save a buck by buying junk".

I know not everyone agrees, but China isn't going to become a free society by an infusion of green backs, and all the barrels of cash going over there are propping up a dictatorship and modernizing its military. The USSR was broken by letting its economy implode, but with the PRC we seem all on fire to transfuse it with billions of dollars of cash. Did we just lose the will to fight? At the least we should refuse to trade with any country that does not have a free press.

It used to be said that capitalists would sell the rope that they'd be hanged with. Now capitalists are falling all over themselves to get a piece of the huge billion + rope market and think that so long as they are the ones providing the rope that they'll never be hanged.

[Pan_Yans Wife]

The USSR was broken by letting its economy implode, but with the PRC we seem all on fire to transfuse it with billions of dollars of cash.

I doubt we want to renew the arms race, and try to outspend the Chinese, do we?

[Do not dub me shapka broham]

http://www.christusrex.org/www1/sdc/tiananmen.html

[tallhappy]

Where are the pictures at?

Here

[WmDonovan]

"I doubt we want to renew the arms race, and try to outspend the Chinese, do we?"

Well, first of all they'd "outspend" us with the money we give them for the junk we import--and that can be stopped.

Secondly, are you proposing that we would have been better off to have sent money to the USSR for trinkets and toasters made in Siberian factories instead of isolating the USSR and letting it collapse on its own? If so we'd still be in an arms race with them.

Thirdly, not trading with someone should not precipitate an arms race by itself--did South Africa get into any arms races over the embargoes of the 1980's? A lack of trade does not cause arms races; a belligerent dictatorship can. And if no one has noticed, the Chinese seem to think they are in an arms race already.

[Pan_Yans Wife]

Secondly, are you proposing that we would have been better off to have sent money to the USSR for trinkets and toasters made in Siberian factories instead of isolating the USSR and letting it collapse on its own?

It's not the arms race that I am against, it is the economics of the race that interests me. We overspent them, driving their economy to the ground, which lead to the Soviet's collapse. I don't see us using the same tactic against the Chinese.

And yes, there the Chinese are acting like there is an arms race on. I just don't see how we could outspend them, when Congress is complaining about spending another 80 billion in Iraq. And our national deficit just keeps growing, without any cuts in spending.

[SevenofNine]

It nice to know that Chinese govt is still up to old tricks

Why we doing business with China govt???

[Irish Rose]

"We will encourage reform in other governments by making clear that success in our relations will require the decent treatment of their own people." --President George Bush

Well, he said it. Here is where the rubber meets the road. I wonder if the Chinese Communists' brutality will be held against them by this administration.

[Imal]

"Why we doing business with China govt???"

Because it's profitable. That's basically it.

[PeterFinn]

But isn't China nice and peaceful? This must be a lie about our friends in China!

[tet68]

Could it be that the cadres are making the same mistake with
Zhao that they made with Hu Yaobang?

[PeterFinn]

"I doubt we want to renew the arms race, and try to outspend the Chinese, do we?"

No, the point is that the USA should not be enriching China so it may become a more potent adversary than it already is.

[PeterFinn]

"At least three people, including a woman in her 70s, were punched and manhandled by police officers outside the government offices which receive complaints in the Chinese capital, witnesses said."

Freaking heroes.

[PeterFinn]

"Why we doing business with China govt???"

*Anything* in the PRC is the Chinese Government. There is an illusion of private business - but those businesses can be seized at will by the Party. Their laws are little more than window dressing becuase, as we see here, their laws do not apply to the government. Just to the governed.

Wanna free China? Send guns.

[PeterFinn]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1330038/posts

Hu says China is peaceful.

Hahahahahahahaha!!!!

[Dr. Marten]

Is there any way you can post those pictures on here? As you might have guessed I can't open the site over here.

TIA

[tallhappy]

See the other thread

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1330031/posts

And, I think the photos have made the wires now. I saw one in Taipei Times