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To: Stitch who wrote (8608)	5/28/1999 1:36:00 PM
From: DMaA	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 9980

Here's the difficulty you run up against when discussing China by comparing it to USA. The government of the USA was founded on very clear principles which are documented extensively in the writings of the founders. We can compare the progress or backsliding of the USA by comparing the current state of affairs with this ideal. The closest thing that China has to founding principles ( that I'm aware of ) is the Communist manifesto and Mao's little red book. Where are they at today? This excellent thread has helped give me a little better understanding of that question. Where are they going? God knows. It all depends on what group muscles themselves into power tomorrow.

To: Stitch who wrote (8608)	5/28/1999 3:13:00 PM
From: Bosco	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9980

Hi Stitch - thanks for the kind words. In retrospect, maybe I only have myself to blame. I was trying to be didactic, but maybe it worked so well that it backfired and blew up in my face <SG>. I mean, I ve mellowed out alot in my old age and my youthful exuberance of toppling sacred cows is no more. I can still recall the horror shown on my friend's face when I told her of the tidbit about Thomas Jefferson plagiarizing John Locke's treatise [note: back then, plagiarism didn't exist, so no harm done. Besides, there is nothing new under the sun anyway, to claim a good idea proprietary is quite a new concept <VBG>.] More to the point, it seems that holding sacred cows unique to one's own heritage is one of the possible underlying causes of miscommunication. I mean, thinking China, or even the PRC regime itself, a monolith is only good in the realpolitik arena. Like every deep culture, a civilization is based more on a pile of paper. I'll bet more Chinese, with a rudimentary understanding of history, associated themselves with Dr Sun Yet San's Three Principles of Democracy more than the little red book, which has been in defunct for more than 2 decades. But I digress. Well, I guess I am like everyone else who is attracted to political sparring <VBG>. The problem is, unless we [as Americans] quickly separate the govt regime from the prevailing humanity, the following can happen, even here in the States, which I ve always considered as "the best of all possible worlds." exchange2000.com best, Bosco