... mark Taiwan as a part of China anyway so that Google will be able to do business in both places. China has the authority and means of cutting off google.com to all its people. Taiwan cannot do the same because it's a "free country". Sure a percentage of people may boycott the site but that's a lot better than losing a potential 1.5 billion customers.
It may not be politically correct, but it's the best solution for the company I see.
The Chinese people must be fiersome if the cowardly technocrats and the corrupt bureaucracy and army have to go this extent to hide reality from them.
Any government fearful of its own people has no moral right to rule.
These are actually the dutiful patriots trying to preserve social order. The corrupt bureaucracy part is still smoking their cigarettes and slacking off.
Any government that allows its own people to harm the country thereby harming themselves and their overall status in the world have mo moral right to rule? The decision to support freedom of speech must come from within China, not as a result of pressure from the US or any other outside political bully.
The Chinese people will hurt themselves if the government returns freedom of speech and religion to everybody today. Throughout its history, the uneducated public in China formed a variety of local religions which called for different levels of animal and human sacrifices. Credit goes to Mao for wiping these out on his watch and declaring China to be non-religious.
The best thing China can do is to educate as many people as it can, to be capable of think for themselves rather than doing what the next guy says or just blindly follow the leader. What good would it do to give people the vote if people don't know they're supposed to cast it based on the candidate's qualifications rather than who's richer, who has more connections in the government, who's more famous, or who's more likely to die sooner?
do you happen to be from thina? I'm just wondering aloud, but from the grammar structure it sounds like it. In your 1 sentence you have the word "communist" 2 times. We all know that communism is dead so I guess something bad happened to your family back in china causing you to have a strong grudge against it?
Interesting. Allowing capitalistic activity while retaining ultimate control over the people.
As China moves to become more capitalistic, it will surpass even the United States easily. The only thing holding it back was trying to control industry. Just look at where Japan is now, and that's only a relatively small Asian country.
As the greatest economy and country in the world we must strive to infect China with that greatest threat to progress: Free Speech.
Unfortunately, since the average Chinese are not motivated enough to do this, you'd get people like the social terrorist group falun gong that advocate outright overthrow of the government. They're against government oppression, but for the wrong reason.
China basically got fed up with the thousands of religious groups trying to take out each other. Let's face it, there's no religion that embraces all the other religions. They all want to increase their own membership and be #1. The idea is similar to rival gangs, not necessarily without the violence and killings.
1. Chinese people are still pretty passive about freedom of anything at this point. China has only recently opened up to the world so you don't see Chinese bussiness people aggressive like the Japanese ones.
2. We in the U.S. are constantly under pressure from our governments to regulate the internet "for our own good" and it looks like they're going to get their way sooner or later.
why does democratic South Korea compare N. Korea to the U.S.? Is this something they want to draw international attention to because it "threatens" their security? I know S. Korea is the closest land to N. Korea but this is over-reacting.
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Good one. I was going to say this is pretty much what the RIAA wanted all along.
... mark Taiwan as a part of China anyway so that Google will be able to do business in both places. China has the authority and means of cutting off google.com to all its people. Taiwan cannot do the same because it's a "free country". Sure a percentage of people may boycott the site but that's a lot better than losing a potential 1.5 billion customers.
It may not be politically correct, but it's the best solution for the company I see.
The Chinese people must be fiersome if the cowardly technocrats and the corrupt bureaucracy and army have to go this extent to hide reality from them.
Any government fearful of its own people has no moral right to rule.
These are actually the dutiful patriots trying to preserve social order. The corrupt bureaucracy part is still smoking their cigarettes and slacking off.
Any government that allows its own people to harm the country thereby harming themselves and their overall status in the world have mo moral right to rule?
The decision to support freedom of speech must come from within China, not as a result of pressure from the US or any other outside political bully.
The Chinese people will hurt themselves if the government returns freedom of speech and religion to everybody today. Throughout its history, the uneducated public in China formed a variety of local religions which called for different levels of animal and human sacrifices. Credit goes to Mao for wiping these out on his watch and declaring China to be non-religious.
The best thing China can do is to educate as many people as it can, to be capable of think for themselves rather than doing what the next guy says or just blindly follow the leader. What good would it do to give people the vote if people don't know they're supposed to cast it based on the candidate's qualifications rather than who's richer, who has more connections in the government, who's more famous, or who's more likely to die sooner?
do you happen to be from thina? I'm just wondering aloud, but from the grammar structure it sounds like it. In your 1 sentence you have the word "communist" 2 times. We all know that communism is dead so I guess something bad happened to your family back in china causing you to have a strong grudge against it?
Interesting. Allowing capitalistic activity while retaining ultimate control over the people. As China moves to become more capitalistic, it will surpass even the United States easily. The only thing holding it back was trying to control industry. Just look at where Japan is now, and that's only a relatively small Asian country. As the greatest economy and country in the world we must strive to infect China with that greatest threat to progress: Free Speech.
Unfortunately, since the average Chinese are not motivated enough to do this, you'd get people like the social terrorist group falun gong that advocate outright overthrow of the government. They're against government oppression, but for the wrong reason.
China basically got fed up with the thousands of religious groups trying to take out each other. Let's face it, there's no religion that embraces all the other religions. They all want to increase their own membership and be #1. The idea is similar to rival gangs, not necessarily without the violence and killings.
1. Chinese people are still pretty passive about freedom of anything at this point. China has only recently opened up to the world so you don't see Chinese bussiness people aggressive like the Japanese ones. 2. We in the U.S. are constantly under pressure from our governments to regulate the internet "for our own good" and it looks like they're going to get their way sooner or later.
I think the idea is that Chinese sites are making good money and the government wants a portion of it.
why does democratic South Korea compare N. Korea to the U.S.? Is this something they want to draw international attention to because it "threatens" their security? I know S. Korea is the closest land to N. Korea but this is over-reacting.