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A very short word on ChinaI have been very critical of the USA and of my own country, Australia. In tern I have been criticised because I have not written similar pages on other countries that have equally bad, or perhaps worse governments. The reason I have concentrated so much on the USA is because the government of my country (governments of both major parties are equally bad on this point) follows and supports the USA government in almost all its excesses. The reason I concentrate on the government of Australia is obviously because it is the government of my country.In this page I pick on one of the other countries that the government of my country trades with and very rarely criticises.
I'd certainly appreciate feedback from any Chinese reader.
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Freedom of speechThe freedom to say and read anything is a great and important freedom. It is highly questionable that any government has the right to limit what a citizen can read or say. In particular, what right does the illegitimate Chinese government have to decide what the citizens of China read? |
The Chinese GovernmentThe present Chinese Government was not elected by the people of China and therefore is not a legitimate government. It has forced itself on the people of China. China has never had a government that had the mandate of the Chinese people.Western governments criticise the governments of nations like Burma, Fiji, and Zimbabwe because they do not represent the people of their respective countries; they do not criticise China because they do not want to offend such an important trading partner. As a form of government, democracy has many faults, but because it is the only form of government in which the people choose who is to govern them, it is the only legitimate form of government. All other forms of governments are tyrannies. |
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TibetAll indications are that the people of Tibet do not want to be ruled by China. Why should they not have the right to self-determination? The essence of democracy is that a people have the right to be ruled by the government of their choice.I have written more on the subject of secession on my page on patriotism. |
The one child policyChina has often been criticised for this. In my view, not only is the criticism unfair and ill-informed, but China should be congratulated for the one child policy.China is overpopulated, many of the world's countries are overpopulated, the world itself is overpopulated; if the world had half it current population then the climate change problem would be half as bad; many other problems would be much less seveer. China took on the very dificult overpopulation problem in what was probably about the most humane way that it could. Many other countries have just ignored the population problem because it was seen as too hard. Perhaps this is one of the advantages of a non-democratic government. |
Nuclear test deathsForty tests of nuclear weapons were carried out in Xinjiang province between 1964 and 1996 at the Lop Nur site. Research published by Japanese physicist Jun Takada in his book, Chinese Nuclear Tests (Iryokagakusha, 2009) includes an estimate of the probable number of deaths among the Uygur population: 194 000, from acute radiation exposure. He estimates that another 1.2 million would have received doses of radiation high enough to induce leukemia, solid cancers and fetal damage. He also stated that "My estimate is a conservative minimum."If Takada's estimates are correct, this was a terrible 'crime against humanity' committed by the Chinese government against the Uygur people. It probably should also be considered to be genocide. |
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