. . . in China very well, as she was born there, and lived in it, including her young adulthood. I lived there for a year myself, as you know. Your caricature of the Chinese totalitarian regime seems very quaint to me, as it would also seem to her, btw.

What I am trying to say is that, my wife is fairly politically aware, and we mostly agree on these issues. She takes the brunt of criticism much more personally when the odd retarded and misguided opinion is offered on a country most westerners know nothing of. She got a lot of flak over Tibet, while China was involved in no bombing raids on a helpless populace. She has come over to Canada to such an incredibly biased and misinformed opinion of China (as you well demonstrate) that it has brought her to near tears. She has had to suffer questions over photos depicting rural, backward peasants with plows when she herself has never even seen that level of poverty in her entire province - yet this is the sort of propoganda reprinted ad nauseum in most media outlets. I could go on and on about the mis and dis information, but what's the point . . . for the west, that's the truth.

I mean really - are you serious? Yes, she thinks the west is murderous and corrupt. We are. No, not all officials are appointed, btw - I bet you didn't know that local politicians are voted in by the public. MSM probably failed to mention that one. No, China's human rights record is not very good, but the US is making up ground fast. A Chinese cultural and political revolution has been slowly happening for about 15 years, any faster and it's an armed one. You're talking about two countries headed in different directions, except one is the imperial power with troops and bases all around the world promoting democracy.

You have no idea what you are talking about.

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