Originally posted by zarzar
Zarzar,
Here are a few articles which are one of the better analysis of what is going on recently. Please read it first.
Risky geopolitical game: Washington plays ‘Tibet Roulette’ with China
China and America: The Tibet Human Rights PsyOp
The Hypocrisy and Danger of Anti-China Demonstrations
Western Media Fabrications regarding the Tibet Riots
I presume you have read it by now, or maybe even decided to make a research if the authors have any valid points and did not simply "fabricated"
some information.
Now, what everyone has to understand when dealing with China is that we are a different people, we have a different culture, hold different norms and
values. We value things much more different than Westerners. So what is important to you, might not be as important or maybe even not important to us
at all. Of course there ARE universal ideas, like no stealing or murdering. However, does it mean the Western-viewed human rights are also as
universal as you have claimed to be? Even in Western countries you will find a variety of opinions of what they would consider as basic "universal"
human rights, some would be for the death penalty, many are against it. So do we not value human rights? Of course not, but let me explain my second
point first.
Secondly, we have a long history, a very very long history, of 5000 years old. Throughout this we have relatively long periods of stability and
prosperity, and every time when a dynasty is falling to be replaced for a new one we have a relatively short period of sometimes hundreds of years of
Wars, Instability, Disorder and many suffering. Now, ever since the empirialists knocked on our doors it have speed up the falling of the Qing dynasty
but also over more than 150 years of Wars, Instability, Disorder and many suffering. We are talking about wars with foreign colonial empirialists,
even being invaded and our capital plundered (which USA also took part of), Japs who were conducting a Chinese holocaust with the most horrible Rape
of Nanjing, Civil wars killing millions, two disastrious policies with the most terrible one Cultural Revolution. ONLY 30 years ago, Deng XiaoPing
laid out a peaceful long-term plan to abandon collectivism and opening up China embracing free market trade and capitalism. This is a new socialism
with Chinese characteristics and a capitalistic economy.
The case is that in a country with over 1,400,000,000 Chinese people who share a unique culture the over majority will rather prefer stability and a
hope to gain prosperity over most of the other things, which Westerners are valueing more like freedom of speech or certain angled "human rights".
Don't ever forget that we have built up our nation again at the edge of total collapsing and even worse than the worst 3rd world countries. The China
of today is providing everyone the spirit and hope that one day they might be able to earn enough to buy that luxurious color-TV. As long as the
current government is doing the things the over majority of the people is expecting them to do, which is building up the country again and maintain
stability against any unrest and wars, then you will see the people giving this government the support and mandate they need. This means, we would
rather sacrifice the lifes of a small minority of criminals rather than allowing these criminals to destabilize China. It is all about the grand
picture and make sure the over majority of the Chinese people get prosperous first in their basic needs. I believe the Sichuan Earthquake has exposed
to the world how poor certain places in China still is....
This all said, maybe it is time to raise up another article for you to take a look at:
The
Chinese Brand of Democracy
Democracy is in my opinion still very over-stated as "THE" solution to run a country. What is needed right now for China is clear-minded capable
strong leaders, who never loose sight of that grand picture. So that's why our clear-minded leaders are also continuously improving themselves, shown
by how impressive they acted in the Sichuan disaster. This in comparison with how they handled the Snow-Storm disaster earlier this year or the Tibet
unrest show to the public that they ARE improving and learning. This means keep on reforming the politburo, the central and local governments,
increase the pace of it. Introduce openness & transparancy (free media as example), accountability (eliminate corruption) and a new system with Ruling
by the Law. Of course and never forget tackling the hundreds if not thouands of other pressing social and economic issues with this new system or
bluntly top-down decisive and swift action. And one of the very most important thing is continue listening to constructive criticism, this is becoming
more and more the responsibility of the millions of Chinese Netizens. If ever you learn Chinese, you will see how many forums similar to ATS we have
and political new ideas, suggestions, comments, adressing isue and so on are blooming, guess what I do believe Beijing is listening. So eventually,
especially for now, we rather don't need elected leaders, but capable, experienced and strong ones, who is at least acting in such a way that the
over majority of the people are benefitting from.
We are living in a very unique era, we are seeing how China is pulling ourselves together after 200 years of black pages in the history books, and
transitting our civilization to a Modern China. One in which we will have our own unique system which will become equally as succesful as the European
or American equivalents and bring prosperity to each corner of China.
Disclaimer: I do not share 100% of the analysis of the articles I brought up as supporting sources.
