Should China Be Given a Chance or Taken to Task?

Message Board

As the finishing touches were put to the Olympics in Beijing, readers leapt both to defend and to condemn the host country, at ios.typepad.com

Neil McGowan

I am not going to be “flexible” on human rights merely to suit some vicious communist toerag who has a penchant for throwing the javelin. The whole Olympics hoop-la is a pathetic sham.

Floo

Chinese people around the world must unite to resist arrogant and ignorant Westerners from shaming our race and culture. We had thousands of years of civilisation before they came out of the cave.

Mack

China has a long way to reach the state that we are in now. I don’t mean that we are fully there, but I reckon our people are better off in expressing opinions, with fewer restrictions.

oohkuchi

China has improved more lives than any other government on earth in the past 20 years. Its people have an optimism and energy that this country lost decades ago. Why the hell should they “change” anything?

youngchinahand

Last week China ran its first Bullet Train, and Shenzhen “legalised” its 12 million migrant workers, a significant step towards ending a major injustice. But what the West read about was internet blocks.

john appleby

You can build all the skyscrapers you like and whore yourself to Western corporations for all you are worth. Until you get the hell out of Tibet, China will always remain a pariah state.

Richard Alexander

I do not see China supporting a regime which incarcerates an entire population in Palestine. What hypocrisy, to fail to see the remarkable progress China has made over the past 60 years.

phoebe

If Britain punishes China now, we shall be on sticky ground in 2012. Our invasion of Iraq was an abuse of human rights, and, further back in history, our track record was lamentable.

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