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To: Seeker of Truth who wrote (1441)	10/22/2005 6:39:16 PM
From: brian h	Respond to of 218428

"How do Chinese surviving inside of China pressure their government in any way? I don't see how it can be done."" You know Hong Kong is a free society according to Jay. He certainly bears the responsibility to educate the uneducated when he is in China. As for Chinese who actually lived inside China, they would expose their misgivings to outside China to people like those media, opinion leaders, dissidents, "FreeChina", Maurice and such. Then the officialdom will be under pressures to act properly. If nothing gets done, here comes riots without any activist to promote such activities. There the officialdom still has to act properly. CCP tried to cut down both media and internet to contain those complaints within China because those corruptions reflected badly on CCP images. Does it help by saying that is normal and dissidents are being treated a lot beteter than ever and such. I thought that is what Jay did all the time. The issues are to understand the real stories behind those riots or dissident's stories before brushing aside those stories as normal or subsiding accordingly. ""Do business."" I am all ears. And I add to educate those Chinese inside China by showing them how to excise, think and respect their own rights in a democratic way. BH

To: Seeker of Truth who wrote (1441)	10/24/2005 4:08:57 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Respond to of 218428

Unlikely: <Chinese will be the lingua franca of scientists and engineers. > Japanese ravamped it with hiragana and katakana to try to make it more useful. Mao's gang revamped it too, by simplification. English is certainly a pain in the neck because of gross inconsistencies in pronunciation and other weirdness, but it's nevertheless much better than Chinese, and better than other options, partly because it's already used by such vast numbers of people around the world. <Chinese will be the most cultured and the richest people in the world.> That's quite some prediction. Do you mean richest per capita or total wealth in the country? The 22nd century is so far away, that I don't think it's worth even guessing in regard to "national" entities. I'd bet the cybercommunity will rule the world wayyyy before that. Probably within 20 years given the trends, let alone another 100 years. Okay, things seem to take longer than I think, so maybe it'll take another 40 years. I doubt it. Mqurice