Comments on: Counter-Productive Protests http://www.justaverageamerican.com/2008/04/17/counter-productive-protests/ Discussing today's political and cultural issues Wed, 23 Jun 2010 01:37:18 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: howard pomeroy http://www.justaverageamerican.com/2008/04/17/counter-productive-protests/comment-page-1/#comment-82 howard pomeroy Sat, 19 Apr 2008 17:52:13 +0000 http://www.justaverageamerican.com/counter-productive-protests/#comment-82 "Misguided ignorant west" is it? Yeah, well the ignorant west is waking up to the fact that greedy Chinamen will sell drugs laced with antifreeze, toys filled with lead, and a whole host of totally useless and poorly made junk to whomever will buy it. Trusting westerners, of course, will wake up eventually and recognize China for what it is. China has a very highly efficient spy system in the USa and has had it here for years to steal technological info which they are not smart enough to create for themselves. I do agree that a boycott of the games is useless. A boycott of Chinese junk exports though, would be excellent. “Misguided ignorant west” is it? Yeah, well the ignorant west is waking up to the fact that greedy Chinamen will sell drugs laced with antifreeze, toys filled with lead, and a whole host of totally useless and poorly made junk to whomever will buy it. Trusting westerners, of course, will wake up eventually and recognize China for what it is.
China has a very highly efficient spy system in the USa and has had it here for years to steal technological info which they are not smart enough to create for themselves.
I do agree that a boycott of the games is useless. A boycott of Chinese junk exports though, would be excellent.

]]> By: DJ http://www.justaverageamerican.com/2008/04/17/counter-productive-protests/comment-page-1/#comment-81 DJ Fri, 18 Apr 2008 17:52:42 +0000 http://www.justaverageamerican.com/counter-productive-protests/#comment-81 Regarding "Communists never change willingly," I completely disagree. It is pretty much exactly 30 years that Deng and his supporters successfully convince the party and the nation that China needs to change its course. The results, I suppose, need no explanation. China has been reforming and improving non-stop ever since 1978 and will keep going forward as well. And this is not because of the "guidance" and "prodding" from the west. Chinese people expect improvement in all areas and they are also seeing such improvements with their eyes as well. Frankly, what annoys me to no end is the attitude from a significant fraction of well meaning but misguided/ignorant west regarding China. (I won't bother to address those non-trivial amount of attacks that are racist in nature.) It's not a case of glass half full or half empty. The glass is 80% or 90% full and people are still claiming it's empty. Now you see why we, Chinese in or out of mainland, supporter or not of the government, are so unified in opposition and anger towards these recent wave of anti-China behaviors. Regarding “Communists never change willingly,” I completely disagree. It is pretty much exactly 30 years that Deng and his supporters successfully convince the party and the nation that China needs to change its course. The results, I suppose, need no explanation.

China has been reforming and improving non-stop ever since 1978 and will keep going forward as well. And this is not because of the “guidance” and “prodding” from the west. Chinese people expect improvement in all areas and they are also seeing such improvements with their eyes as well.

Frankly, what annoys me to no end is the attitude from a significant fraction of well meaning but misguided/ignorant west regarding China. (I won’t bother to address those non-trivial amount of attacks that are racist in nature.) It’s not a case of glass half full or half empty. The glass is 80% or 90% full and people are still claiming it’s empty. Now you see why we, Chinese in or out of mainland, supporter or not of the government, are so unified in opposition and anger towards these recent wave of anti-China behaviors.

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