BTW, my brother likes to criticize everyone’s misdeeds, including the US. He got into a bruising fight when he started complaining that a school bond was a good idea, but the money should be spent on something educational, like teaching Mandarin, rather than on athletics which only benefit a few students and don’t provide people with useful skills.
]]>So it’s pretty easy to censor myself — pretty much anything I would criticize the Chinese government for doing, I’d have to be a hypocrite to say it, because the U.S. government has done either the same thing or something even dumber. E.g. the YouTube issue… yeah, that’s stupidity on the part of the Chinese government. But is it as stupid as invading Iraq — the one and only country in the Middle East (well, other than Egypt, Syria, and Israel) where al Qaeda was not welcome in 2003? I think not. Not to mention that a million plus have died because of that U.S. stupidity, and AFAIK nobody has died because China stupidly cut off access to YouTube…
– Badtux the Hypocrisy-allergic Penguin
]]>Actually, I spent a lot of time looking for a folk art version, but they really don’t look much like tigers. This is a modern watercolor Asian version, that is obviously more realistic.
Yes, China is emerging and moving at the same time as the US is retreating.
My bother was working in Hong Kong for a few years, and he still has trouble adjusting to the change in status when he talks to friends there. He isn’t good at being oblique, and doesn’t like censoring himself.
]]>BTW, no, we do not talk politics, we assume we are being watched. We talk music and software engineering, both of which are safe subjects. The closest we’ve gotten to politics is when I had to pull down some music videos from YouTube to share with him because he could not get to YouTube, and even there we didn’t talk politics, just treated it as an act of nature, like a flooded road or something, that we had to take an alternate route around.
– Badtux the China-watching Penguin
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