Jiang backs Bush on terrorism, nukes

UPI ^ | October 24, 2002 | Jim Forsyth

[smalltown]

I was certain that the takeover of Hong Kong would lead to a quick and total destruction of their largely free economy and press. I was wrong, it hasn't happened, at least not nearly to the extent that I expected.
Don't quite understand why not, but it is a good sign in a country where signs of change are hard to come by.

[Ramius]

You're right in that it *is* interesting. But the reality is that even the ChiComs don't have the horsepower it would take to shut down Hong Kong. Market economies are a funny thing that way.

[PoorMuttly]

Give N.Korea to China.

[smalltown]

Maybe, but they have allowed a free press, freedom of religion, unions (real ones), and many of the trappings of a free society to continue largly unhindered.
Frankly, I expected tanks in the streets which would have provided all the horsepower necessary.

[JamesWilson]

Long Duc Dong, I think.....

LOL! And his sexy American-style girlfriend, too?

[MissBaby]

Give N.Korea to China.

Why in the world would China want N. Korea?

[Just another Joe]

He added Taiwan could "maintain its economic system and its lifestyle" under a peaceful reunification, and could manage its economic and military affairs independent of Beijing.

Oh yeh, I'm gonna take THAT to the bank.

[tallhappy]

Now Texas State Troopers guard their fascist dictator.

It's sickening. Police guard a mass murderer from the very people he would throw all in jail to a person in his own country.

President Bush does not know how much this friendliness with such a person and regime hurts him, in a multitude of ways.

[tallhappy]

It's a strange world indeed, when the red china supports us more than the red france.

But they don't.

France talks like that but comes down on our side and provides tangible help.

Chinese communists talk like they do but come down as obstructionist and do not provide any tangible help.

[1rudeboy]

About 1,000 human rights demonstrators stood in a pounding rainstorm in a field surrounded by a chain link fence about 300 yards from the auditorium where Jiang spoke. Several dozen Texas state troopers stood shoulder to shoulder around the enclosure.

Darn, those Rangers must be huge.

[tallhappy]

I was certain that the takeover of Hong Kong would lead to a quick and total destruction of their largely free economy and press. I was wrong, it hasn't happened

Actually both have happened. The rapidity in which it happened is astounding.

There is no longer a free press in Hong Kong. Certain things can't be said. Rest is self censorship.

It is an empty shell economically. The people are basically stranded in a one country two system netherworld which means they have no rights at all in China proper. The communists micromanage poltically from Beijing.

It's very sad.