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Is Wei Jingsheng right to urge Prime Minister Kevin Rudd to do more to promote democracy in China?
YOUR SAYIs Wei Jingsheng right to urge Prime Minister Kevin Rudd to do more to promote democracy in China?
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Our relationship with China is the solution NOT the problem. The real issue is good
I am sick and tired of jounalists reporting so much negative stuff about China in the lead up to Beijing Olympic. I have never ever heard of a single positive comment on China. Everything she does or doesn't do is wrong and evil.....Its so pathetic.
Is my comments been censored? And this report is in regarding democracy in China, what a baloney?!
A very interest piece of news report but somewhat bias with traditional "cold war" mentality. As a US citizen who was born and raised in China, and happen attended Tian An Men demonstration in 1989, I must saw Wei has lost his touch of the current situation in China. It may not be entirely his fault since he was jailed for 18 years and was put in exile after he was released in 1990s. Anyone who observed changes in China can not argue china had developed in a much faster pace then any other countries on earth, including both economic and personal freedom progress. To skip the economical improvement, let me tell you how was the human right situation in China when it was back in 80s. I graduated from a Chinese college in mid 80s, my job was "assigned" but not selected by myself. At the time ordinary people will not be able to travel freely inside let alone going outside China. It took 3 generations of CCP leadership to change from Stalin style society to currently more open and more vital capitalist society. Today, people live in China pretty much select their own destination and life style, even thought it is not 100% mirror what the western society is now. What more impressive is, Chinese did it without the social turmoil and instability. When China is under going the significant change, Wei himself is mostly absent from the change which he can observe first hand. Granted, China is not a perfect society and the social system in China is far from perfect. But again, give the progress in China, I am confident democratic will come from the people in there when it reaches the certain maturity of demanding political engagement from the middle class. Wei's suggestion should be looked as a good will, but mostly a Hollywood stunt for politician like himself. he has no other life skill besides bashing the Chinese government and Chinese people in exchange for certain funding from interested western organization, which is regarded as "salary and pension" for Wei's alike. His constant challenge of Chinese government is based on his idea of "revolutionary" change in China but not the peaceful evolution. Most importantly, he offers no solution of how to managing the society after his theory of liberation of Human Right, neither does he know how to manage a country as self proclaimed opposition leader. Any country in the world is not a perfect society. not Australia, not USA. Just imagine that George W Bush criticize Australia in a public engagement when he meets Kevin Rudd, what type of effect it may causes on ordinary Australian's mind even if the criticism does have it's base. China needs encouragement, engagement and respect. If anyone who really cared about the human right in China and followed Chinese history in last 120 years' history, you would know what I mean by how respect and encouragement can work rather then the hostile imperialist mentality. I am not familiar with the reporter and producer so I can not make any comment of their work, but one thing for sure that the film is very biased. There are 2 more interesting issues Wei had brought up which I would like to bring people for some deep thought. 1) Wei keeps saying that Kevin did not confront Chinese leader because he was afraid of offending the interest of big business in Australia. If his claim is true, people need to start worry about the democratic election system in Australia now rather then what is happening in China. 2)Wei keeps saying that Mr. Rudd was more right on human right when he was a college student and much less intelligent on China's issue now. People who had gone college age will know you do not get less smart when become more established compare to your college years. Most of us will not even trust your own college kids to manage their own finance, let alone political judgment. Well, i had wasted enough comment on this subject, let me just say I enjoyed my stay in Auzi and hospitality of Australian even it it was a cold winter day. My stay in Sydney led me to see the many Chinese tourists on the street, which it self is a testimony of Human right improvement in China. China has come from a long way and it still has a long way to go. But Chinese people all over the world had never been proud of themselves in the last 150 years, and I hope rest of the world will cheer china for it's continuous improvement.
I am saddened to see people even trying to hijack this forum to sell the Tibetan separatist’s cause, yeah right, the mere mention of ‘undercover camera’ should attract attention shouldn’t it ? are the camera’s really undercover or are they contrived ? In any case does some camera works showing people being treated roughly reflect more on the attitude of the people involved or that of the policy of a government ? How do you interprete the behaviour of the Los Angelese police during their beating up of black rioters in Los Angelese ? Do you blame the US government’s human right policy for it ? give me a break again.
I am very amused by the western media obsession in demonizing China. Go to China for a visit and you will see that the Chinese are living happily, with no restrictions on their speech or action besides obeying the law. The only human rights abuse the Chinese have been suffering is the obsessive and prejudiced attacks on the government and people. After all, is the US led invasion of Iraq liberation or ultimate abuse of human rights? The invasion has led to an avalanche of unrest and violence, yet embroidered by fancy lace of lies, lingering in a simulated haze of national security; jeopardizing the freedom of the victims involved, including Australian soldiers and their families and friends. Is this what the western world refer to as \"freedom\", \"human rights\", or is it axis of evil? Talking about Tibet recently, that the Chinese should leave the Tibetans alone...please, for god sake, do some research and study some history instead of just blindly following what others are saying, and start accusing. If Chinese have to leave Tibet, then americans have to leave America and hand it back to the native Indians; and Australians have to return Australia to the Aborigines. Human rights yeah?
If u don't know chinese history, don't talk about China. my grandparents love our new country, my parents love our new country,too. me too. If u want change our goverment it means u must change our mind. But i must tell u that's impossible because our goverment makes our life much better than before. they makes us have rights to live that means they give us human right. I believe our life will be better than now, we must give our goverment time to change. we don't care what kind of goverment we have, we just want a peaceful country. So please don't point us any more, please respact us. I am not good at English, so if some words is not correct,i am sorry.
Its wonderful to be Chinese nowadays. If you commit crime and are punished by your government, you can always claim human right abuse, sneak out, and guaranteed a place in some Western country provided you say what some people like to hear there. In some other countries, they call it treason and a threat to national security and put you in prison, look at the case of the US jailing some Chinese professional accused of providing sensitive information to the Chinese government, even though it was later on proven that those info have been available on the internet for quite some time ? and it wasn’t very clear exactly how the Chinese or any government for that matter would make use of the information and to do what ? I didn't hear anyone accusing the US government of human right abuse.
It's sad to see that he has become a selfish (wanting turmoil in China so he can go back earlier) and liar (about human organ harvesting).
oh, and talking about democracy. chinese internet surfers are able to pressure the gov to make changes in policies, isn\\\'t that democratic??? i doubt about how much freedom do we have on expressing our comments online as an average australian, and make the gov change its policies... i think the chances are limited.