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To: Rolla Coasta who wrote (29)7/16/2001 12:17:56 AM
From: Hawkmoon  Read Replies (1) of 41
 
A political climate in an island is quite different from that in a large continent with foreign threats all over the place.

What a cop out!!!! A civilization as old as China's can't manage to do what their fellow Chinese have managed to do in Taiwan?

And foreign threats??!!! Against a nation that can raise an army of 200 million????!!!!

Who are you trying to kid?

The only Chinese who feel truly threatened are the communists. And the Communists in Bejing are threatened both from external and internal threats in the form of political and economic freedom, which everyone desires.

And if Bejing doesn't get it's act together with political reform, they will find themselves being forcibly removed should they stand in the way of progress.

For the mainlanders, they seldom flat-out oppose against those with power,

Damn straight they don't. That can easily result in them sent off for "re-education" as has happened to several Chinese that I have chatted with on other forums.

But if you can't oppose those with power, there is nothing to prevent leaders from abusing that power. Any "corruption" that is "uncovered" is on the part of those rivals who threatened the establishment. The "unchosen few" are free to be as corrupt as they desire.

Overall, you're providing a ridiculously lame set of excuses for why political reform should not take place in China.

Hawk
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