Some days I don't even have to try to dislike the Chinese government. I mean, I also often don't have to try hard to dislike the US government, but honestly...how can the world's wealthy nations continue to ignore China's brutal stance on human rights and free speech. For fucks sake, there are more important things than selling PCs aren't there?
Less than a week after President Hu Jintao called for a "harmonious society" in China, the AFP caught Jintao's top security official Luo Gan calling for "a crackdown on hostile forces". Gan's comments unsurpsisingly highlighted the "importance of safeguarding stability in the Tibet and Xinjiang regions" and warned that "the Internet must also be strictly supervised to prevent it from being used by those hostile forces to spread their messages."
I mean, why did the USA bother invading Iraq when the Chinese are clearly supressing free speech, religion and indigenous culture and we KNOW they have weapons of mass destruction!!! Go get 'em Dubya!
How about Israel? Known to have nuclear weapons. Oppresses, invades and occupies its neighbours. Fires weapons at people armed only with rocks...
Posted by: poddy | March 01, 2005 at 06:02 AM
Let's invade Belgium. Frankly, no-one would care and they've probably got some oil reserves we could plunder.
Posted by: David | March 01, 2005 at 11:39 PM
Actually, I did invade Belgium, four months ago. I have installed a puppet government who pander to my every whim.
So far no-one outside Belgium has noticed.
Posted by: poddy | March 02, 2005 at 02:25 PM