User: VocationalZero

Re:hmm.. i think the chinese are doing a good job

On: Chinese Government Accused of Hacking Congress

One thing I'd like to point out is, this is much less due to "years of propaganda", as you say, than the fact that the US has not exactly made friends throughout the world recently. It's viewed as an arrogant superpower trying to police the world. Obviously, sir, you've either never watched the news in china (or not watched it, as it blacks out quite frequently), or have watched far too much. As for policing the globe, our military is largely confined to just a few specific countries, but personally I could go for some more policing in places like Darfur, Myanmar, etc... Too bad they don't have oil fields =(

On the flip side, US media is doing its best to foster a national sentiment that is very unfriendly towards China. The US media hardly ever reports anything nice on China because the media hardly reports anything nice period. Except about how Angie Jolie looks hawt even when preggers.

Yeah, Chinese companies are not meeting standards, and they are probably cutting corners. BIG shock. It's obviously not shocking, but you come off like its no big deal, like the US somehow had it coming.

As far as openly executing executives? I've heard of one case where that's happened, and - I don't have any sources handy - it was for something egregious, like intentionally shipping a product resulting in hundreds of deaths (I'll stop because admittedly, I don't remember the details. I wouldn't say the guy deserved to die, but that's just me). It was just a fluke that that story ever saw the light of day, and if history is any metric, why proclaim that this was probably a one-off event?

So what are you suggesting with the "kill themselves" in quotes? That the Chinese government is running some secret program whereby company execs who embarrass the name of the country are killed off? Not just for execs, but many who gain sufficient publicity and damages the name of China often seem to "dissapear", whether that means prison or death, it's likely a life sentence.

But well, China is clearly a world threat, given its aggressive tendencies...you know, Red China ramping up their military, how dare any country do such a thing. But we're in no position to point fingers here, because we've been the country going around, occupying other countries, for - as time goes by - reasons which become more and more farcical. Tell that to Tibet, Inner Mongolia, Taiwan, and Hong Kong. At the moment, our current war/occupation is seemingly (if you believe the government) based on removing Saddam from power and silencing terrorism. If you believe the media, it is also based on controlling the oil supply. Previously, our wars were founded on stamping out communism. "more and more farcical"? What logic are you basing this on? Communism is more of a threat than Saddam and terrorism is less than the threat of communism? Then why defend China so much?