it was churchill who said "Democracy is an awful way to run a country, but it's the best system we have".
Bernard Shaw said dancing is the vertical expression of horizonal desire. So what? As far as I am concerned, both of them were expressing their own personal views that cannot be subject to objective test and quantification.
If you think the remark carries great truth because Winston Churchill was a great man of wisdom and a political genius, then how is the sentiment of yours different from our own towards our leaders such as Mao that you seem to despise?
Yes we are different. There is no diplomatic way of stating that glaring truth. And this is the corollary imperative given the difference in our geography, our climate, our resources, our neighbours, our built, our health, our brain structure etc etc, and therefore our history, civilisation, belief system, our economic system etc etc.
You seem surprised by the existence of difference, why?
we all might have our problems but our governments are mature enough and the people want freedom enough to make sure that a) the army never gains control and b) when we get sick of them enough we kick them out of power.
Don't get us wrong, we are not necessarily the quiet suffering type. It's just that we tend to give the government a longer trial period. But every few hundred years, we kick them out by brute force too and kill every single one of them associated with power and authority. But only after we have tried to outwit the system and failed and after we have been feeling hungry for long enough.
Our mentality towards the authority is that, you do your business and govern properly and I go on minding my own and paying my tax. I think that is fair enough.
all governments are corrupt.it is how far we let them go. in thailand the people are fighting tooth and nail to keep democracy because they know what a dictatorship is about. unlimited corruption.
If I have to be brutally honest I think the red shirts are a bunch of brain washed mud-legs who are either bought or so stupid that they even forget their own tradition and values. What have the West given them, is Thailand not the first country to be plundered by Soros and his banksters and suffered deeply for years?
The main cause of corruption is not political system, but general IQ of the citizens. Amongst some of the cleanest countries, Finland, iceland, Singapore, HK, the former 2 are democratically arranged, but not the later two. India and the Philippines are both democratic countries but horrendously corrupted.
the stern hu case just shows thta no matter how much china becomes stronger it will never (in its current form) be acceptable to people who know what an open legal system is (no matter how bad it is )
Yes, I see you have made up your mind
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the secret trial, a chinese standard is an indictment of the governments hatred of the chinese people. there are more than enough chinese scholars who say that. and no they arent haters of the chinese people. some time in the future unless there is change in china there will be a clash between countries wanting a powerful china trade and all it brings and the values that we (who believe in justice, fairness, transparency, responisve government )in the west (and in many countries they dream of) believe in. maybe we will lose and victory willbelong to those who want to rule from above, without any constraints. but it will be a hollow victory.a shallow victory and not a lasting one.
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