...and I suppose the excess of 40 million Chinese killed by their own government under Mao and the Cultural Revoultion were all acceptable stepping stones to what they have today. Get this man, the masses there are still not free, or anything close to it. They are not intended to be by their communist rulers. As I said before, the best hope will be for them to rise up en masse...but that's going to be hard to do when we solve the communist's economic problems for them as we are doing and allow them to consolidate more and more power and control over these people and their labors. Oh yes, their lot will improve marginally (and anything over what they have been used to will be viewed as a lot), so they can be kept in order to continue the productuion house.
But let's keep going with this benevolent state. Teinnammen Square I suppose was just an unfortunate riot by unruly, barbarous and ingrateful young people that had to be put down by the benevolent and friendly communist commisars for the good of all?
Our entry into Korea in defense of the free people there in the face of blatant invasion and horror was some kind of crime on our part? ...and the benevolent Chinese were just helping a friend being unjustly brutalized by the merciless, war mongering United States? Get a life. I had family shed blood there in defense of the freedom of those S. Korean people and your absolute bravo sierra and defense of the indefensable is beyond the pale.
Man, I have neve seen such a blatant example of progogandized, apologists, sympathetic BS in all my life.
We have a saying where I was raised in Texas. It goes like this...that dog don't hunt
If you don't catch the idiom because you're not that familiar with such things I am sure, it means the following...No one is buying what you have to sell.
Look, pardon my emnotion...we are absoultely at odds on this. Differ fundamentally. I value every life as you do...but I value free will and expression more than life, as my forebearers did. I pray the Chinese people can attain that...but it's not going to happen with the current regime and the support we are giving them economically. Sooner or later, as they build their own Greater Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere under their totalitarian government, the results will lead to the same as when the Japanese foisted the same thing in the 1930s and 1940s...and the results will be the same after tremndous loss.
IMHO, better to challenge them directly now economically and take the lesser pain, as hard as that may be, and head off the major conflict scenario before it takes shape. I am afraid it is rapidly becoming almost too late for even that.