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While the Chinese government’s army of Internet harmonizers are busy blocking free discourse as well as your humble correspondent’s website (and once you’ve boiled that down, what’s the difference?), the naysayers keep branding those with a grip on reality as alarmists. Here is the first of ten reasons why they might just want to put the spliff down and take a cold shower:

Reason #1

They gave the bomb to Pakistan, and then cheered as Iran and the DPRK enriched away while embroiling the US in a strategic tarpit. And now they’re turning a blind eye and a deaf ear to the nuclear ambitions of their military dictator buddies Burma.

Real responsible, boys.

Update

I’ve decided to head in another blogging direction, so just for the record the other current and pending areas of globally irresponsible behaviour emanating from Beijing are as follows:

#2 Claims to the Arctic (unbelievable, but true)

#3 Antarctic treaty and exploration (they’ll pass on any accord and start digging)

#4 South China Sea disputed territories/claims (question of time before they occupy a disputed island)

#5 Exhaustive mass fishing of southern hemisphere oceans (lots of mouths to feed and they don’t give a crap about the damage to the ecosystem)

#6 Monopolising rare metals (thereby holding a gun to the world’s head – a strategy already well underway)

#7 Corruption of foreign politicians in return for CCP-friendly policies/access to resources (this is the latest example, and I see their fingerprints all over Rudd’s demise in Australia)

#8 Malevolent use of cyber capabilities to track, steal, punish, and control (this isn’t alarmist – it’s already happening)

#9 Building and controlling of ports in Asia, Africa, and Europe (Again, already happening and a conflict-generator in the making.)

#10 Ongoing efforts to undermine the efforts of other nations through misuse of growing influence at the table of various world bodies/conferences (e.g. UN, WTO, G20). This was a classic example.

… for the last twenty years the Chinese government have lived a face-saving game of denial. I have a lot to say about that, and I’m blessed with the right to say it. In playing my small part in building a future where more people enjoy the same right, I find myself without the time to do justice to the memory of 6/4 this morning. But those that gave their lives or played their part in the lead-up to the defining moment of China’s modern zeitgeist will never be forgotten. Neither will the event itself ever be wiped from hearts and minds of the Chinese people. Over to you Hong Kong …

Many more images from today’s source here:

http://freedom-democracy.spaces.live.com/blog/

Update

Hong Kong never lets the Chinese people down:

From last night’s vigil … 100,000 + again! Total Respect.

… short of the 21st anniversary of a wholly unnecessary slaughter of innocent lives. The punitive regime responsible for the bloodshed is still firmly entrenched in denial – and determined to whitewash history of their own misdeeds.

It’s now Jun 3 1989 and things are about to get ugly as soldiers prepare to cut off access to Tiananmen Square.

… to go and soldiers were still singing with the protestors. Within 48 hrs the CCP would turn the PLA on its own people.