Teemant wrote:It is bad. If you read the Freedom of Expression part you can't say that China has become more open country.
I'm not saying that it's not bad. It is bad. But it's better than it was. And yes, I read that part, and yes, it is more open, if only incrementally. They're shutting down blogs, but they're not putting bullets in the backs of the heads of bloggers.
At any rate, this conversation is exhausting. I invited you to understand what I was trying to say regarding how open trade and diplomatic relationships with various totalitarian "communist" states had been followed by a gradual lessening of restrictions. Rather than look at the Soviet Union or Eastern Europe, you chose to focus on the one nation that wasn't in the Soviet Bloc (China), and focus on a single metric (press freedom), while ignoring literally every other nation that we opened trade with.
Even granting that China is still a totalitarian nightmare, it has less in common with Cuba than the former Warsaw Pact nations, and the Warsaw Pact nations have less in common with it than literally every single nation in Central and South America. You're looking at a culture based largely on Confucian principles, and attempting to compare it with one that isn't based upon such principles. Change in China tends to be incremental. As we saw in the late 80s and early 90s, that isn't necessarily so elsewhere.
A question for you: Since China is still such an issue, would you support an embargo on them?