I have no blind trust of the Chinese government. But I don't have a blind trust in the U.S. media either. I do, however, have considerably more knowledge of China than 99% of American's. This comes from my major in college, having lived in China, and having Chinese in-laws. If you pull off your anti-Chinese blinders and read chato's and my posts more carefully you'll see that we are not so much praising the Chinese government as we are bashing the Western media. Yes, the Chinese government does some fucked up things, so does our own government. But what we see in the papers is just a small slice of China which is twisted and manipulated to make them appear as bad as possible. Because that is what sells more newspapers and that is what sells more advertising.

My wife's grandfather died in a Chinese "re-education camp" so I know what the Chinese government has done. But that was nearly 40 years ago and the current government is quite different. While it is true that the government tolerates little criticism, it is no longer sentencing people to death simply because they speak out. Even the leaders of the Tiananmen Square uprising were only imprisoned, and most, if not all, have been released by now.

I'm not asking anyone to believe the Chinese government is not fucked up. I'm just asking that people open their eyes a bit and not beleive everything the media says about it. And that goes for pretty much anything the Western Media says. it's all just bullshit designed to make more money.