Actually, the crack down is on several different avenues for posting thoughts and opinions on freedom on the Internet. It's amazing how much we take for granted here in the United States. People will live and die in a country like China and never feel free to express themselves politically. Sad. I suspect our long range policy is to hope the Communist apparatus simply whithers away in China ... that's not necessarily a very safe bet.
via Pundita - “It really was one of the last resources left to us—one of the last bastions of justice and social conscience for academics and rights activists alike,” Hou said. “A forum like that is really very rare in China.
This really is a very big attack by the government on rights campaigners.” China issued a revised set of regulations governing Internet news content last week, which observers said were aimed at tightening controls on information related to demonstrations and street protests on Web sites, bulletin boards and Web logs, or blogs.
One of the biggest blights on the Bush administration when historians look back in hindsight will be how he took his eye off the ball with China while squandering global and political capital on Iraq.
If left-wing and right-wing apologists for China don't get their acts together we're gonna get S-C-R-E-W-E-D!
Posted by: Flahr | Monday, October 03, 2005 at 10:48 PM
I work with china on a daily basis. No worries. Aren't there some bloggers here we'd love to shut down. Move on , Cindy, Michael M. etc....
Posted by: splashtc | Monday, October 03, 2005 at 10:56 PM
If left-wing and right-wing apologists for China don't get their acts together we're gonna get S-C-R-E-W-E-D!
Posted by: Flahr | Oct 3, 2005 10:48:57 PM
You nailed it Flahr!
No communist system can last without massive transfusions of capital. If you check the history of the Soviet Union, you will find that it would have fallen quite rapidly had the USA not massively supported the regime (under the table at first, then with massive loans that, of course, you and I are paying off since they conveniently defaulted on every one of them!) with capital and material.
If we want to see an end to communism, let them take care of themselves. It cannot function as an economic system. The people, faced with starving WILL eventually overthrow a communist regime, as they did that of Czecheskau (sp.)
If we leave N. Korea to fend for itself, and if China did the same, it would be a matter of months until it fell. But, of course, our trade with China helps them support their puppet, and thereby, we keep another people enslaved.
Unfortunately, we have kept the slaves in slavery by our "trade" agreement. Not only have we kept them enslaved, we have gone broke....and China holds most of our national debt.
Anyone want to bet whether they will call it? And when they do, anyone have an idea what the results will be? Big boom!
Posted by: TheAlamo | Monday, October 03, 2005 at 11:05 PM
Not only have we kept them enslaved, we have gone broke....and China holds most of our national debt.
Posted by: TheAlamo | Oct 3, 2005 11:05:35 PM
Very true. Foreign governments are financing our national debt at an alarming rate. Doesn't anyone ask why?
Posted by: iwabwu | Tuesday, October 04, 2005 at 03:47 AM
Thanks to Yahoo,they gave up these bloggers for their own greed.
Posted by: oldtimer | Tuesday, October 04, 2005 at 11:29 AM