13th Man wrote:wco81 wrote:13th Man wrote:Nobody is pandering to the Chinese. Their situation is extremely complicated, stay out of their business. You meddle into **** you know little about and chances are you could get burned.
Nothing complicated. Chinese Communist Party is authoritarian and will run over civilian protesters with tanks.
They suppress that information so now a lot of Chinese lemmings have this mistaken sense of nationalistic pride so they support suppression of dissent in places like Tibet or the muslim minority and now HK as well.
You're seeing this from a western perspective. It's their country, who are you to tell them how it should be run?
Man, working overtime today, I see.
Just because you have a perspective doesn't mean it's valid. Slavery, genital mutilation, foot binding etc. are common cultural practices, but the Western perspective is just more enlightened.
There are also universal declarations of human rights that bring genocide, for example, under international law.
And, of course, the Chinese made a treaty agreement with the UK to maintain 50 years of a separate system with basic human rights in Hong Kong, before quickly closing all independent book stores, censoring media, banning politicians, abducting/disappearing people, and now extraditing Hong Kongers to the kangaroo courts (if you're lucky) of the Mainland, etc.
And it's a simple fact that the United States doesn't agree with you that all possible perspectives are equally valid. It has a very specific public (clandestine is another story, of course) policy of promoting democracy and human rights.
