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- shewasjustagrl, on 03/11/2009, -0/+6Dugg for quality article and not dumbing down the submission's title. Thank you.
- LoJack, on 03/11/2009, -0/+3Saw it outside the whitehouse all the time. lol...
- Frozenpees, on 03/11/2009, -1/+4I'm Chinese and I understand exactly what this man is feeling. The Chinese government is excellent at hiding the worst of its country to outsiders. However, having been on both sides (being born in China but raised and educated in America), I can tell you that the people that are being hidden by the government have it a lot worse than the guy in this article. At least he lives in Beijing. It's brutal for the people that have been relocated to the country side to get them out of the way. Tons of people had their houses bulldozed for the Olympic games, and what they did get? About 50 US dollars and a slap in the face. Overpopulation has gotten out of control (not just in China but the world), and the 1 child policy is simply not working quickly enough. China needs help. Sure it has a blossoming economy and is quickly gaining the race to the be a world superpower, however, these problems (deemed small by their government) need to fixed before it can gain any real international stature. Every gain China has made has been at the expense of "the little guy's" loss.
- Haoie, on 03/10/2009, -0/+2I was in Beijing in November last year and actually saw this in action.
Of course I had no idea what was going on until I asked my guide. It doesn't look much like a typical protest at all. - JohnnyHu, on 03/11/2009, -0/+2The so-called "brutal and unjust" relocation of people is rather biased. In fact, a lot of poor people who lived in old houses are counting on the relocation compensation they will receive from government to get out of poverty. You will get A LOT of money if you live in old houses that are in the way of real estate development.
"Every gain China has made has been at the expense of "the little guy's" loss."
Thats because we can no longer accumulate sufficient capitals to transform China into a modern capitalist country by colonizing other countries, a strategy that was used by almost all developed countries in the West in 19th century. So, we had to resort to becoming the factory of the world to gain necessary technological know-how and capital investment. It is sad but thats how real life works
btw, despite the fact that you were born in China, you need to live there for an extended period of time in China in order to understand this country. Don't trust everything that western media feeds you, they are almost as bad as the Chinese state-controlled media. They are just much more skillful in manipulating the general public. - inactive, on 03/12/2009, -0/+1ya don't trust the media and dont trust anything this idiot says ^. There isn't one country the west colonized that brought us 'sufficient capitals'. Do you mean Africa? Yea that worked out real well. However I'm sure it'll work much better for China whose trying to colonize Africa right now.
- spoon088, on 03/11/2009, -0/+1Lowest comment to digg ratio in a while. I guess that's proof people don't actually have any independent thought on this issue and rely on brute xenophobia and show in numbers to try to prove a point.
- xster, on 03/30/2009, -0/+1If anyone cares about human rights for what it is, the welfare of all humanity and not just for your own psychological satisfaction derived from knowing your country is better than another, you should be more involved in stories like these than trolling at stories like "Tibetan monks arrested after attacking police station"
- RequiemHunter, on 03/11/2009, -0/+1I feel bad for the man, but this is the hard truth in most of the East Asia. The culture structural of east asia is like a heavily interconnected web. The highly organized connections held the cultures together much strongly than most western cultures, but without proper connections and influences, it is virtually impossible for any individual to get anywhere...
The situation is further complicated by the communistic government structural which is very prone to corruptions. - britoca, on 03/11/2009, -0/+1at least they got promised no multiparty democracy. Ever.
- badqat, on 03/10/2009, -0/+1I'm heading there this summer - mix of Japan and China, and Beijing is on the itinerary.
- mattofasia, on 03/10/2009, -2/+2Actually now having read the article, this guy just has a crap life. He wouldn't get 'justice' in any country most likely.
- mattofasia, on 03/10/2009, -3/+1... but are you seaching for justice?
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