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The past few weeks I have been reading some very opinionated articles about the Olympic torch procession making its way around the world. While unrest in Tibet with the way the Chinese authorities have been handling the situation, associated with the demonstrations in the west.
Chinese-Tibetan relationship is a long and complicated one, with royal marriages, and administrative officials being exchanged since before the Tang dynasty. I find it odd that a western person can declare Tibet Freedom while the French government administers French Guiana, the Seychelles, and its other territorial possessions. The same goes for England with its Falklands, Gibraltar, and Indian Ocean military bases. How can U.S. citizens pontificate to the Chinese when it is guilty of illegally occupying country's of Iraq, Afghanistan, Guam, Porto Rico, the Hawaiian Islands and much of the continental U.S.. You can refer to Tibet as China's "Manifest Destiny".
The Olympics are about sports, not politics and China did not boycott the 1964 Olympics in L.A., when the U.S. was at war in Vietnam. There is no comparisons between the brutality of what is going on in Tibet or Darfur with what Bu$h & Co. have been engaged with its "War Of Terror", with much of the west a part of the "Coalition".
Americans can also "Thank" China with its monthly $7,000,000,000 in Treasury Bonds it buys, help keeping the American economy afloat. Too bad Bu$h & Co. are such bad MBA's in squandering this money in a mis-guided illegal occupations of both the M.E. and the U.S..
China did not steal jobs from the west, multinationals off-shored with cheaper labor and no environmental laws to maximize profits. The .02% of substandard quality products imported into the U.S. is a small percentage of the total and China can accuse the U.S. of exporting bad beef. 13,000,000 manufacturing jobs left China last year to country's which have cheaper operating costs. How can administration officials complain that the RMB is artificially low when the average Chinese person makes less than $1,000 per year?
When I discuss China-Tibet-Western subjects in my Chinese English classes, the students are all quick to point out that the west has no authority to demand China grant Tibetan independence until the west abandons its imperialistic possessions.
Mr Cafferty's comments of Goon's and Thug's are far more descriptive of what Bu$h & Co. are and have done to the U.S. over the past seven years than what I have observed during my 4.5 year stay in China.
