Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site brl-tgr.ARPA Path: utzoo!lsuc!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!whuxl!whuxlm!akgua!gatech!ut-sally!seismo!brl-tgr!matt From: matt@brl-tgr.ARPA (Matthew Rosenblatt ) Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: Admiring China todasy Message-ID: <1195@brl-tgr.ARPA> Date: Fri, 3-Jan-86 08:33:39 EST Article-I.D.: brl-tgr.1195 Posted: Fri Jan 3 08:33:39 1986 Date-Received: Sat, 4-Jan-86 22:18:08 EST References: <2279@burdvax.UUCP> <1871@uwmacc.UUCP> Organization: Ballistic Research Lab Lines: 19 > Many estadounidenses seem to be admiring China these days, also, > because of the large market it represents and foreign-policy considerations. > [JEFF MYERS] Estadounidenses can admire China only by ignoring practices that would lead them to condemn any non-Communist country practicing them, such as extensive use of capital punishment, absolutely no reproductive freedom, pervasive government spying on individuals, and so forth. It's like "admiring" South Africa because of its mineral wealth and strategic location, or "admiring" the Third Reich because of the large market 350 million European slaves represented. Don Black and his ilk deny the Holocaust with its 6+ million murders; the writings of Chinese generals in the Fifties BOAST about the liquidation of 15 million "landlords, parasites, and exploiters." It may be expedient to suck up to these murderous dictators as a way of tying down X number of Soviet divisions on the Russo-Chinese border, but we sure as hell don't have to admire them. -- Matt Rosenblatt (matt@amsaa.ARPA)