| A centralized government that controls everything in | | | | areas. There is really no reason for China to go out |
| its state has quite a few advantages when it wants | | | | of its way to treat its people like that, and if it wants |
| to do something. It doesn't have to ask anyone, | | | | to keep the consumers of the world happy and |
| because it just does it. Now, couple that with the | | | | buying their products then they are going to have to |
| fact that China is a communist state; meaning it can | | | | disengage in this sort of unethical, immoral, and |
| basically do whatever it wants within its boundaries, | | | | un-humanitarian actions. |
| and no one can stop them. Still, the world has a | | | | It is quite obvious that China really doesn't care, and |
| problem when large nation states engage in human | | | | perhaps we should understand this considering they |
| rights violations attacking their own people. | | | | are a communist nation, and communist nations have |
| The Chinese Government is having growing pains, it's | | | | obviously, been challenged with ethical behavior in the |
| trying to find itself, and it has got quite a bit of | | | | past. This is because as the government gets too |
| support from the United States, as our middle class | | | | big, or its resources stretched so thin it no longer |
| has been buying their products and we have helped | | | | needs its own people, or it cannot afford to cover all |
| that nation in providing it's GDP with 10% | | | | the promises that it has purported to the people. |
| year-over-year for the last two decades. Of course, | | | | Nevertheless, if China wants to continue to be in |
| the United States middle class can only buy so much, | | | | route to becoming a world superpower, that China |
| and if China wants to continue to expand they will | | | | needs to grow up. Please consider all this. Not long |
| have to sell the same amount of products they sell | | | | ago, I mentioned this to Guang Wu, the author of a |
| to the United States to the European Union. | | | | new book; "China: Has the Last Opportunity Passed |
| Indeed, the European Union consumer is much | | | | by!?" and he indicated that the perception of China |
| different than the US consumer and they don't much | | | | by the outside world is often much different than |
| take kindly to human rights violations such as what's | | | | the perception from within China. |
| going on in Burma, Tibet and other disputed border | | | | |