China is perfect

Here in Skypeland, one meets people from all over the world. With the help of people willing to translate, one can talk to a wide variety of people. And one can find out they might have very different world views. This is particularly true if one meets someone from a place with restricted news access like China. One gentleman thought that North Korea should be allowed to possess nuclear weapons and was no threat. He had no idea that China had negotiated with North Korea to get them to remove their nuclear capability. He had no idea that the Tibetans had been massacred by the Chinese or did not want to be part of China. He had no idea that Taiwan wanted to stay independent. He had no idea that China was supporting the disaster in Darfour. He had no idea that China had ever done anything wrong, ever. He was shocked to hear that hundreds of thousands of Chinese students had stayed in the USA after the Tiananmen Square Protests rather than return home. He wondered why the news coverage in China was so poor. When I told him that many Chinese journalists were in jail for trying to report too much news to the Chinese public, he flipped. He had his eyes opened. One for truth this time....

Update: I just heard from a Japanese friend that this Chinese guy has decided that there is an imminent war brewing between the US, China, Japan and Taiwan. He bases this on some newspapers he has been reading in China. He claims that China is so big that it is invincible. I guess he has forgotten the wars in the last century with Russia, India, Japan and Vietnam and the wars with the European powers before that. Yep, it sure was invincible, wasn't it?