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2008-05-02 China-Japan-Koreas

Bin Laden can't touch China: satire from Chinese people

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Posted by gromky 2008-05-02 07:41|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 Interpretation can save your life when the jackboots come in the night. Or not. Still this is clever.

Posted by rjschwarz 2008-05-02 12:01|| 2008-05-02 12:01|| Front Page Top

#2 It is hard to tell whether the author is truly proud of China and in support of the boycott, or is in fact ridiculing patriotic fervor because it obscures domestic issues, such as poor infrastructure, rampant crime, and strong-armed governance. The satire genre leaves plenty of room for interpretation.

Yes, you can be proud of your country and make fun of its foibles. Yes, you can criticize your country and get pissed off when others do.

Posted by DoDo 2008-05-02 12:12|| 2008-05-02 12:12|| Front Page Top

#3 Well, DoDo, China is currently being swept by a wave of nationalistic fervor. Nobody is allowed to criticize China at all, anyone who suggests China has any faults is a traitor or foreigner, and any attempt at debate immediately results in a firm "shut up".

Posted by gromky 2008-05-02 12:26|| 2008-05-02 12:26|| Front Page Top

#4 amusing

Posted by liberalhawk 2008-05-02 15:33|| 2008-05-02 15:33|| Front Page Top

#5 WAFF.com > LA TIMES [paraph]> FUKIYAMA - CHINA'S POWERFUL WEAKNESS - BEIJING'S REACH/CONTROL IS NOT STRONG ENOUGH TO PREVENT LOCAL PARTY GOVTS FROM [independently?]ABUSING THE RIGHTS OF ORDINARY CITIZENS.

HMMMMMM, I'm not certain iff author Fukiyama is trying to argue about INTERNAL CPC CORRUPTION + INEPTITUDES, versus CPC NOT BEING STALINIST = TOTALITARIANIST ENUFF???

Posted by JosephMendiola 2008-05-02 20:21|| 2008-05-02 20:21|| Front Page Top

#6 In any case, 2008-2012/13 > IMO, BIN LADEN + ISLAMISTS for the time being are pointing the ISLAMIST-JIHADIST SWORD SOLELY AT CHINA, RUSSIA + CENTRAL ASIA as they seek to RAPIDLY acquire STRATEGIC NUCWEAPONS STRIKE-TERROR = MUTUAL DESTRUCTION/DETERRENCE CAPABILITIES, etc VV ANY AND ALL MAJOR WORLD POWERS, espec the USA, + ISLAMIST EMPIRE UNDER THE BANNER OF NUCLEAR SHIA IRAN.

* Local "ACTIVE DEFENSE" = SEEMING "EXPANSION" OF JIHAD, + GEOPOL/GREAT POWERS BRINKMANSHIP.

ASYMMETRIC, RUSSO-CHINESE, ANTI-US "LOCAL/
BATTLE/WAR ZONE" + "ASSASSIN'S MACE" STRATEGEMAS - ISLAMIST STYLE, save for lack of Cold War massive arsenals + ICBMS???

Posted by JosephMendiola 2008-05-02 20:35|| 2008-05-02 20:35|| Front Page Top

#7 China vs. jihadis could be amusing for the rest of us.

Posted by trailing wife ">trailing wife 2008-05-02 21:01|| 2008-05-02 21:01|| Front Page Top

#8 and good comparison to the "awful abuses" at Guantanamo

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2008-05-02 21:05|| 2008-05-02 21:05|| Front Page Top

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