If you are aware of global events then you are up to date on China and human rights issues. Having been banned from the Chinese microblogging site Sina (am still trying to get back on it) and a regular new reader of Boxun at Blogger I can say that the Chinese government definitely doesn't want you saying that they stole Tibet from its people (clearly it is more complex than that with a long history of the Chinese borders growing and contracting, but this instance I stand by what I say, they stole it much in the same way we stole lands from the Native Peoples of America). They don't want you to stage protests, they have even gone so far as to tell University students to alter their out-door game playing routine so it doesn't look like they are gathering to speak! With March Madness upon us, I can only imagine a university here trying that, it sounds like something out of Harry Potter 5, "okay, you can play basketball but only the five players that are on the court can be allowed in the stadium, they others have to rotate in from a second building and they aren't allowed to speak to the starting 5."
What would the Wisconsin protests look like in Beijing? They are in a public building, could that even happen in China?
I think that like most countries the people of China are very much like the people of the US. We want personal peace, prosperity, family wellness, and a variety of gadgets. We don't want our gadgets to be made by slaves or come at the cost of a beautiful waterfall or forest. The difference is the fear. The Chinese government postures this ultra-control when it is clear that they are desperate to maintain their power. Every action they take spills out fear. It is clear that they are afraid of losing their control, of change brought on peacefully and democratically where all people have the right to speak, not just the right people.
I believe that the global community will get there. Taking Qaddafi as an example, he is widely regarded as a crazy joke rather than the unflappable leader he once was considered. Look at Al Qaeda, this group has not been able to accomplish with all the weapons and posturing in so many years what took a relatively small group of people a matter of weeks to do just through speaking and standing in place.
So when China closes down even more they are forgetting that we already know what they are doing. We are already familiar with their oppression, they have not forgotten the Tiananmen Square protests and neither has the world. We know what they are doing and if we can't see it for our own eyes through the work of global independent journalists than we will assume the worst.
What would the Wisconsin protests look like in Beijing? They are in a public building, could that even happen in China?
I think that like most countries the people of China are very much like the people of the US. We want personal peace, prosperity, family wellness, and a variety of gadgets. We don't want our gadgets to be made by slaves or come at the cost of a beautiful waterfall or forest. The difference is the fear. The Chinese government postures this ultra-control when it is clear that they are desperate to maintain their power. Every action they take spills out fear. It is clear that they are afraid of losing their control, of change brought on peacefully and democratically where all people have the right to speak, not just the right people.
I believe that the global community will get there. Taking Qaddafi as an example, he is widely regarded as a crazy joke rather than the unflappable leader he once was considered. Look at Al Qaeda, this group has not been able to accomplish with all the weapons and posturing in so many years what took a relatively small group of people a matter of weeks to do just through speaking and standing in place.
So when China closes down even more they are forgetting that we already know what they are doing. We are already familiar with their oppression, they have not forgotten the Tiananmen Square protests and neither has the world. We know what they are doing and if we can't see it for our own eyes through the work of global independent journalists than we will assume the worst.
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