It takes some one who is either brave or crazy to challenge the authority of the Chinese government like this editor did. He got fired of course, and he's probably going to get messed with by the secret police for the rest of his life. That's the thing with China though, even though it is gradually easing away from an authoritarian regime, it's still an authoritarian regime. China's policy of suppressing civil society is intact as ever, and continuing to scare trade America's way, which is good, but it still looks a lot like an evil empire to me.
All those editors did was highlight problems China needs to continue to address. China's Houshold registration system, the Hukou system, is unjust and detrimental to the country and China has been working to reform the system. But since political opinions are banned, even one that advocates a similar policy to that of the government's is still illegal. That's China for you. But Americans who don't want to be overshadowed by the rising eastern dragon should take heart from these events. This latest show of China's backwardness proves that they are still light years behind America in terms of functioning civil government.
The Chinese are hurting themselves by silencing reformers, not America. I almost feel as though I shouldn't even be concerned that there's injustice being done there. Suppressing political free speech and monopolizing government is a major handycap in the free market after all. Why help a competitor fix his problems? The Communist party is weeding out its best and its brightest, and I say, America should be recruiting them hard right now. I would give my left nut to work for this editor, Zhang Hong, if he ever gets done being anally probed by the super corrupt communist government.
Hong had this to say to his government, ''To put it bluntly, I've lived for 36 years, but never known which representatives were chosen by me, who are able to seek justice on my behalf,'' Zhang wrote. ''We hope that the voices of the masses can make themselves heard among the representatives who 'represent public opinion." .
That about says it all.
Blah blah blah Tim. You would give your nut I bet. Yes lets recruit China's best and brightest to come over here. If we did that at least we can be assured no journalists would be among them. I love it when you support the free market when your messiah Obama is totally anti-capitalist. If Obama could silence media that spoke ill of his agenda he would. China does it because they can. This guy knew he would be in trouble for writing what he wrote and he did it anyways. China takes what the FCC does here and goes one step further. I would say this guy was crazy not brave.
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