On Mar 11, 2:12=A0pm, rst0wxyz <rst0w...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> On Mar 11, 1:32=A0pm, bmo...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > On Mar 11, 11:49=A0am, "J.Venning" <J.Venn...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > > <bmo...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>http://www.atimes.com/atimes/China/JC12Ad01.html
> > > > No matter what Beijing's censors say, Taiwan's presidential
election=
> > > > on March 22 will be a reminder to mainland Chinese that a
democratic=
> > > > society flourishes in the "renegade province". The im****tant race,
> > > > which could write a new chapter in cross-strait relations, has
young=
> > > > mainlanders abandoning the hard line of their elders and calling
for=
> > > > flexible attitudes and harmonious relations.
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> > > =A0 =A0 Anyone touting Democracy to the Chinese people and uses
Taiwan=
as an
> > > example
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> > I was not touting democracy to the Chinese people, but rather noting
> > that there is interest in democracy among the younger generation of
> > Chinese, seemingly moreso than among the older generation.
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> > Obviously Taiwan and China are very different cases and the evolution
> > of democracy in China will probably happen very differently. But as
> > the only real democracy currently existing in "Greater China" the
> > Taiwanese model is certain something that young Chinese are
> > noticing.
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> > > should also present the differences of the area the two places
> > > encompass, the number of people the two places have to govern, the
cul=
tural
> > > and historical background of the two places, and the amount of
financi=
al and
> > > military aid that the United States has injected into the two
places. =
I can
> > > just as well ask you why you don't run for the U.S. Presidency, if
you=
> > > question why China doesn't adopt the American system of Democracy.
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> > This isn't about American democracy, it's about how the next
> > generation of Chinese perceive and feel about democracy and what it
> > might mean for China.
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> Yes, it IS about American democracy
You've got a one tracked mind. I was not talking about American
democracy.
> as it is in the interest of
> America to ex****t its brand of government as the best in the world.
> The young people around the world imitates what they see on TV,
> in movies, in magazines, in commercials with America's version
> of the world of fast cars, fast women, fast food, short skirts,
> ***uality,
> and also confrontational ways of lives... =A0It is America's
> confrontational
> ways that is causing problems around the world today.
It's a little too easy IMO to simply blame America for everything as
so many do here on Usenet. And ironically, they often blame America in
a very confrontational way. Things are not that simple. It's not a
black and white world.
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