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U.S. calls for democracy in China. Chinese bitch.

2005-09-23

China on Thursday rejected a U.S. call to adopt democracy, telling Washington to respect its communist path. Foreign Ministry spokesman Qin Gang told reporters he had "taken note" of comments by Deputy Secretary of State Robert Zoellick on Wednesday that China's one-party system was unsustainable. Qin said the country was stable and that communism had brought substantial benefits to China's 1.3 billion people. Zoellick made the Bush administration's most explicit call to date for a political transition in China, where the Communist Party will mark the anniversary of its 56th year in power on Oct. 1. "Closed politics cannot be a permanent feature of Chinese society," Zoellick told a meeting of the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations in New York. "It is simply not sustainable." China "needs a political transition to make its government responsible and accountable to its people," he added.

I dunno. They've been doing it for 5000 years now.

On Thursday, Qin said the United States had no right to dictate political morality to China. "The internal affairs should be handled by the government and people of each country," he said. "We should respect another country's right to chose its own development road."

Posted by:Fred

#8 Apologies for quoting myself... I offer the single man who stopped the line of tanks in Tiananmen Square as the only proof I've seen there's any substance for hope.

"If the Chinese had any trace of honor or justice or guts or gumption or even masculinity left in their genes - after millenia of being yes-men, patsies, servants, suckers, tools, and fools - they'd toss this cabal, this tiny group of a few dozen wankers, into the dog-pits for a snack and get their asses into freedom and capitalism - in a big way. What potential. What waste. Wotta buncha fools. A few dozen wannabee ChiCom dictators holding hostage a billion people. But it's been this way since the dawn of China. An endless stream of kow-tows. This example, China's thousands upon thousands of years of history, is the height of cowardice, the pinnacle of stupidity, the peak of weakness, the pluperfect example of the failure of man's will and sense. China is the ultimate example of the failure of man, thus far. No wonder they're so fucking sensitive. The shame of their perpetual failures is mind boggling. History's perfect losers."

Posted by: .com 2005-09-23 18:46

#7 Communism in china is already pretty much over.... the problem now is just old fashion dictatorship.

Posted by: Damn_Proud_American 2005-09-23 13:32

#6 China would have gone down in short order after Russia and Communism or Socialism in general would have been discredited and crushed forever. Clinton revived the great Socialism as a viable option under some dumb as* idea that if we make thier current system work and prosper they will suddenly drop that system and go to our system. sounds dumb is dumb

They would be like the Norks starving and in desperate state weaker than Tiawan and all free neighbors and their system would be proven as the failure it is.

Posted by: C-Low 2005-09-23 10:35

#5 Should just go back to having an emperor. Tradition, you know.

Posted by: Steve 2005-09-23 10:23

#4 China already sees the writing on the wall. Witness:

1. No full-blown commie takeover of Hong Kong in 1997.
2. Dramatically increased trade and entrepenurship being "allowed" by the Chinese government, which sustains the whole country.
3. Their war posturing is just that - posturing. Trade is too valuable to toss away for expensive military actions. China can build up their military all they like, but they would be completely insane to act on it. Their actions in 1. and 2. show that they are not lunatics.

Look for communism in China to fall within ten years.

Posted by: Chris W. 2005-09-23 09:56

#3 Yah, once every couple hundred years they have a violent change of dynasty.

And usually forshadowed by massive corruption both at the top and in the provinces. None of that going on there now, nah, nothing, not here. Move along.

Posted by: Whealet Fleling9790 2005-09-23 09:05

#2 I dunno. They've been doing it for 5000 years now.

Yah, once every couple hundred years they have a violent change of dynasty.

I'm not eager to see how that works out in an age of nuclear weapons.

Posted by: Phil Fraering 2005-09-23 08:49

#1 The US needs to pick the right words if they wish the message to really sting. Suggest that a one-party system is "imbalanced", using several homonyms for the word. The very essence of Chinese culture is that "balance" is good and "imbalanced" is just bad all the way around. Even the universe itself doesn't like it.

Since emperors used to have a four-way balance, they could be really tweaked by implying that they are trying to defy the natural order of leadership. Even the communists are acutely aware of what the old system says they are supposed to be, and still have to pay homage to it.

Posted by: Anonymoose 2005-09-23 00:22

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