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Originally Posted by Flamenspiel
A couple of things, let’s not talk about “western values”. Japan and Korea are not holding hostages, the PRC is. Secondly, the “Republic of China”, known as Taiwan is also not holding hostages and is also a democratic country.
Secondly, there is no way that any sort of protests conducted in the PRC will ever be seen by either PRC citizens or even in the west. I certainly do not remember any from Bejing 2008.
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To me the Japan and Korea, would be Countries I would consider have 'Western values.' Western European/North American/Countries that uphold and embrace freedom. It's a catch-all phrase. I/E you are free to live your life out of direct state control, free of propaganda, free of regimes that inflict suffering on their citizens for not towing the regime line. We came close to losing that South of the Border, but freedom won out.
As to the second paragraph of your statement. It just shows why, China should not have the privilege to host Olympic Games at this point in their existence. People should be free to protest genocide with out censor. The only type of Government that would want to hide that protest from its citizens, is one trying to hide genocide from its citizens.
The Chinese Government is bad, and I feel sorry for those that have to live under it's rule.