Tuesday, October 16, 2007

China Tantrums

It seems that super-sensitive China is taking another tantrum. This time it is because President Bush is meeting with the Dalai Lama and because the Dalai Lama is scheduled to receive the Congressional Gold Medal on Wednesday. (See today's NY Times article China Warns U.S. on Dalai Lama Trip By JOSEPH KAHN.) Not only did Tibet’s Communist Party boss say he is furious, but four fifteen year old Tibetan boys are being tortured with electric prods "after they were accused of scribbling slogans on walls calling for the Dalai Lama’s return".

I am "furious" with China's leaders and demand that they renounce their stupid ideology and join the grown-up, civilized nations of the twenty-first century.

Perhaps China should be expelled from the World Trade Organization. If the WTO does not expel China, perhaps the US should leave the WTO and make separate, fair trade deals with nations which are more civilized than China.

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