Totally OT: The PRC Chinese generally prefer Republicans to Democrats.
The Republicans tend to pressure China on issues like free trade, Taiwan handsoff, and potential strategic partnership (whenever the world gets warm). These are practical and material issues, and are issues for which there are "give and takes". The Republicans are more answerable to MOT, LU, IBM, GM, AIG etc.
The Democrats tend to pressure China on issues like democracy, human rights, labour rights, weapons proliferation, and these intractable issues leave no room for "give and take". The issues of of human and labour rights is a 10 or zero concept, but actually and only dependent on the country's overall development in economy and rule of law, and thus can not be hurried. There are teams and teams of folks in China translating and understanding the laws of many countries ... very time consuming. The experiments with village level elections has only been in place for several years (Shenzhen special economic zone, an economic experiment, was run for 10 years before being rolled out across the country). Weapons proliferation is another phrase for weapons export, or simply commerce. If weapons export is proliferation, the US is the most guilty of them all. The Dems are too answerable to the labour unions and such, and are even too ready to destroy perfectly good American corporations (MO, MSFT, etc).
I believe the PRC administration would prefer to deal with the Republicans. If asked to choose, the PRC leadership would in fact choose to be Republicans, thinking the Dems are generally "out to lunch". Same goes for HK, Taiwan, and Singapore, for different specific reasons but the same common thread ... it is so much easier to deal with practical and rational business folks in an environment of "give and take".
The Republicans merely want to run the world. The Dems wants everyone in the world to be like themselves; reminds one of the communists. |
