Speaker: It’s Beijing, but not as Beijingers know it
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more importantly Rich of Obervationz, i think is the disingenuousness of your reply adequately reaffirms and mirrors that vague perception of threat and or discreditation the people here also feel, when outsiders here offer to 'improve' their political system.
it's one helluvan eye-opener, watching George H W Bush (first ambassador to China) within China, speaking frankly positively and almost with admiration for the Chinese system, making no mention of democracy, followed up by an NBC interview with a US athlete in front of the Forbidden city mentioning nothing of the political system, in which the reporter curtails by mentioning this country "without democratic freedoms".
who holds the incentive there?
the real question is.
who do democratic citizens trust more?
our countries?
or our private media providers?
who issues our passports? marriage licences? birth/death certificates? educates our children? cares for us when we're sick?
and why should we believe the media portrayal and popular definition of democratic governments as institutes to be doubted, satirized, mocked and popularly undermined?
how does that benefit the growth and progress of the nation?
but far be it from me to suggest any change to any system. -
the report i mentioned was on NBC
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and 'pologies for lack of suitable punctuation
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God, how embarrassing...
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Simon, I'm pretty hopeful (!) you'll find the changes were pretty purely related to Olympic security concerns and carving out some needed space around the place, as far as i can see things have already begun returning to status quo since since the purge of 1-7-08, and it was mainly a case of getting gray visa holders out to vet them and let them reapply from home countries to save on deportation/ relocation.
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