How can one be so arrogant and full of himself to laud CDT for “pulling together these very relevant stories regarding China”, and at the same time ask CDT to restrict its comment section arguing “Many of the riff-raff who comment here are extremists who have nothing constructive to say”.
That is a seriously narcistic mental disorder and shows an utter lack of personal insight.

CDT – your are great as you are!

In light of this tragic disaster, thousands of school children parished on top of ordinary poor people. PLA offiers said all PLA facilities are ok and not damaged, including the nuclear sites. Local govt. buildings also stood up, but why all major school building collapsed??

Now there are victims families pointing to the school rubbles that no proper safety regulations were followed, i.e. no proper mix of cement, no proper iron standings, etc….

Victims’ families express anger and frustration and disgust that local officials and building contractors colluded, sipping up money and building cheap n poor school buildings.

Furthermore, although it is a natural disaster, yet these questions must be answered for and that all complicit in negligence of protecting citizens must be brought to justice, even if it leads up to Hu Jintao, Jain Zemin or granpa Wen.

This earthquake has shown lights on so many issues, which ordinary chinese people has rights to held thier govt. accountable. Hope this time, there is through independent investigation, leaving the CCP regime no chance to cover up and blame on something else.

My prayers and condolences to all the victims and their families. Cheers!

The Olympic Committee is also using the celebrations to raise money for earthquake victims.

You claim that you are a Chinese, but your hatred shows that you do not love them at all. Why are you so jealous that the Olympics are in China? Perhaps you think that it should be held in Taiwan.Perhaps you think that Taiwanese are the best and the only human Chinese in this world. Wait till I tell you how we Malaysian, Singapore and Indonesian & Australian Chinese think of you. Perhaps you think that your half-white blood gives you the right to regard every other Chinese as an inferior savage.
My brother & sister and relatives married whites and live in Western countries, yet all them regard themselves as staunch Chinese when encountering Western racist prejudice, and so do their children.

All your words show nothing but hatred for the Chinese people.
The way you n your friends talk shows that you believe there are no good Chinese in China and that all of them are so evil that they do not deserve the Olympics.Yours is such a childish and immature attitude.
Any mature person knows that there are good and bad people in every nation and race. And hating or badmouthing others of your own race ( without qualifying your generalisations by the reiteration that the evil ones are the minority) reveals a pathological hatred, vengeance, unforgiveness and meanness of the heart.

My philosophy is very different from that of yours or ur friends.
To me, it does not matter whether this Chinese comes from taiwan , Hong Kong or Mainland China. We are all brothers & sisters not only by blood ties but in the eyes of Jesus. And the same I see for every other nationality. My best friends are Africans, Bangladeshis, indigenous natives of any country, Latin americans ( & Indians there), Irish,Iranians, Mexicans etc. etc. Even some American Peace Corps members are still my best friends.
You cannot even love your own Chinese brethren in mainland China.

My dearest desire is to see ALL CHINESE ( no matter where they come from )love each other as brothers and sisters, and also love other races and be loved.When I was studying at British and German Universities, my flat was always the gathering place for all Chinese from everywhere : Taiwan, Mainland China, Singapore, Indonesia,Hong Kong, malaysia etc. Never for one moment did we feel that we are different from each other. We also gladly accepted Koreans, Lebanese, Arabs, Iranians and Cypriots in our midst.
What the hell are you doing : separating the Mainland Chinese from the common brotherhood of all human beings? Even Communists – one can change them if you have unconditional love for everyone.
Rather than hating mainland Chinese and stereotyping them as incorrigible devils, love them and reach out to them as Jesus does, with genuine love and patience. I have met many who are lovely in their hearts.
Teaching at 2 Universities ( including a Western one ), I enjoyed having Mainland Chinese ( & Africans, Bangladeshis) as my students.I really love them, they are lovely people and I was able to bring 85 % of them to Christ, EVEN DIE-HARD COMMUNISTS.In fact many mainland Chinese make the best Christians.They know what is real love and what is just posturing of “democracy” and “human rights” See the difference between Love and Demonization( your approach).

You may say ” Oh. But I am against the Communist Party in China”.You are stating the obvious and there’s nothing new in that. Who likes communism? It’s just another fallible human system like democracy or socialism which will be hijacked by an evil person cos all humans are evil thru the original sin.
I believe in the right to stand up and rebut any racist stereotyping of any race( not only just Chinese but anyone who is bullied), the right to practise my own religion and form my own opinions.
Just because the leaders are authoritarian does not mean that the entire nation should be demonized. The West sees everything in one blanket stereotyping, seeing the 1.3 billion Chinese as all the same inscrutable slit-eyed monolith.This is borne by my ( & my friends’) experience in the West.We are not communists but whenever we walk down the streets of British cities, we hear cat-calls of Chinks, Ching Chong. etc. Now tell me is that because of communism ? Just plain racism, so don’t give us the communism shit excuse.
Do you know of Christ’s exhortation ; ” Render unto Caesar what is Caesar’s, render unto God what is God’s” ? Whatever government is in power, we continue to do God’s work to sow HIS LOVE AND HIS TEACHINGS.To confront head-on an authoritarian gov’t is not the answer. Change it from within, start at our workplace & colleagues, then spread the change thru the institution, then local authorities, the leadership, the county levels, then regional etc….
I have a wonderful Christian brother who radiates so much character & love in his Department that even all the Muslims love him and the director protects him. Love, not demonize.

Do you think only the communist leadership ( actually authoritarian capitalist)is solely to blame for the present state of lack of freedom in China? Isn’t it PARTLY because of fear of the outbreak of anarchic forces among the people? Think carefully. DO THE CHINESE PEOPLE IN GENERAL ( ASIDE FROM THE TRULY EDUCATED ONES) REALLY UNDERSTAND WHAT DEMOCRACY AND ITS INHERENT RESPONSIBILITIES ARE?
Have they eradicated their old basic ( or rather BASE)character : SELFISHNESS,EGOCENTRICNESS, I AM THE BOSS, JEALOUSY & ENVY, GIMME GIMME,If you oppose me I’ll do you in, or I’ll purposely oppose you for the purpose of opposing you cos I don’t like you, personal attacks and playing out grudges rather than focussing on the issue,… you can write a whole page. I am afraid the majority still hasn’t rooted out their old nature.
BEFORE ONE CAN GIVE FULL DEMOCRACY TO THE CHINESE, THEY HAVE TO BE CHRISTIANIZED to remove all traces of selfishness and infighting divisiveness.This will take many years. For some nations like S. Korea or Taiwan, it takes more than 50 years of military rule before the peoples can mature to democracy, riding on the back of Christianization.
Your Taiwan had to go thru a shamefully long military rule, killing 10,000 aborigines in a week,before you arrive at a slugging fist-fight form of democracy in your parliament.So did S> Korea, which had to kill thousands of students in Kwangju to mature into a democracy now, actually enabled by Korean christianization.
That is why Singapore is not going to give democracy yet to the Chinese there. Wait till they feel as one people and love their country and each other. USA loves Singapore in spite of its authoritarianism. Its previous leader is a gifted Cambridge graduated lawyer .What say you?

And Ma Bole says to me not to go to Taiwan or Hong Kong. Who wants to go to places inhabited by Chinkies who only know how to fight themselves??
I have many brothers and sisters living in Western countries and they all tell me that if I ever come to the West, I must never live in any area with lots of Chinese cos they will not only do you in but there are many Chinese gangsters( enjoying western democracy) there who have spoiled the image of all Chinese, causing the whites to hate ANY Chinese there.Two places that I don’t want to go are especially Taiwan and Hong Kong.Both only know how to bash their brother China in front of the Westerners, as if they are the paradise on earth .Actually they are gangster-ridden places with Chinese bashing and killing each other.

You talk as if Chinese gov’t is the worst in the world. I wish you tried living in Indonesia under the Suharto regime not long ago. Every now and then there was a terrible pogrom against the Chinese, rape, killing, looting, burning. Chinese could not speak Mandarin, were badly discriminated,Chinese business were openly extorted at every turn by the Police and army.After living there, you will feel that China is a better place.But of course you are ignorant.

I should have listened to my dad who said ;” Why should you care so much for the Chinese? They only care about their own selfish interests and will be the first to do you in in spite of the passionate love in your heart for them.” How true it is. Taiwan, Hong Kong, Ching Chong , King Kong, Ding Dong, Dim Sum, Ah Chong, Fu Wong, Sing Song, Chop suey, Taiwan Beef noodles, Wonton, Two Tonnes,Pak Choi, Wong Bok, …

Last Comment: Any Chinese who cares for the entire Chinese people( throughout the world )and truly loves them will die a broken-hearted person.
Confucius died a broken & diappointed man. He taught so much to Chinese, but no one listened to him. Everyone is mad with money, Taiwan & H
ong Kong dollars, Yuan etc. Sun Yat Sen said:” Chinese are but a handful of loose sand “– slipping thru the fingers quickly and disappearing. Qu Yuan killed himself by throwing himself into a river to protest the materialism of the Chinese after pleading in vain for more spiritual and moral renewal… Taiwan, Hong Kong Dollars, Renmimbi….. Lu Xun, the Chinese writer, talks of Chinese people: ” Even when the Japanese are beheading the pitiful Chinese, there are still crowds of Chinese crowding roung the execution site, talking about the victims, their stupidity… ” Such trite people…..Taiwan, Hong Kong, King Kong, Ding Dong Dollars and Renmimbi…..

FIGHT, FIGHT AMONG YOURSELVES. KILL EACH OTHER OFF. NO WONDER THE WESTERNERS CALL ALL OF YOU “CHINKS”.
THE ONLY THING YOU KNOW: “AI PAK BOH? AI PAK LAI LAH.” ( You want to fight? If you want, come now! )

And Ma Bole, please don’t parade your qualifications to show that I am an ignoramus.Everyone in ignorant in some areas.
A wise man knows that he knows nothing, or at best a wee bit only.
And i am just as educated as you. I am teaching at 2 Universities and speak,read & write 14 languages: German, French, Spanish, Italian, Swedish, Portuguese ( Continental & Brazilian) , Russian, Korean, Hindi, English ( my mother tongue), Mandarin, Malaysian national language, Japanese, Hokkien, Foochow, Hakka and some Cantonese plus another native language of Malaysia.
What’s the use of all this parading? Knowledge does not make a noble person but genuine love in one’s heart makes one.
Jesus reigns!! I look only at our Lord Jesus, not to any human being, especially Chinese, Taiwanese or Hong Kongites or any westerner.
One thought: Only when a Chinese has stayed in the West or anywhere not Chinese and experienced denigratory name-calling and discrimination ( & persecution) will he/she begin to appreciate the importance of a strong China.You are too lucky- Taiwan & Hong Kong.
This will be my last posting about you Chinese.Don’t bother to answer.I won’t read it anymore.Those who care about Chinese will die an early death. Stuff yourselves with your wonton soup and Taiwan beef. noodles!

Commenting on the particulars of you response to my first post would be a waste of time. Suffice to say, you are a monumental ignoramus. Next time you feel cause to respond to a post, try not to lose your mind in the process. And please, stay away from Taiwan and Hong Kong!

In response to B.Singhee. See a shrink. You’ve got a loose screw – or two or three. Your post says a lot more about you than it does about Ma Bole. Run, Mr. Singhee, don’t walk, to the nearest mental healthcare professional. You are looney tunes.