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China kills and imprisons its own people when they speak out.
Tiananmen Square, Tibet, beatings of dissidents, imprisonment of
reporters. The country has rooms of people censoring the
internet. The government owns large swaths of the economy, and
has plans to increase ownership of 12 key sectors. The country
pollutes the air and water heavily. They conduct the most
aggressive political, technological and corporate espionage in the
world.
They are our biggest creditor, our biggest supplier and
are buying up assets in the U.S. Editorial pages say China is
just more "efficient".
CNN's Jack Cafferty called out the Chinese government, and that government now demands an apology.
"I don't know if China is any different, but our relationship with
China is certainly different," Mr. Cafferty said, according to CNN.
"We're in hock to the Chinese up to our eyeballs because of the war in
Iraq, for one thing. They're holding hundreds of billions of dollars
worth of our paper.
We are also running hundreds of billions of dollars' worth or trade
deficits with them, as we continue to import their junk with the lead
paint on them and the poisoned pet food and export, you know, jobs to
places where you can pay workers a dollar a month to turn out the stuff
that we're buying from Wal-Mart.
"So I think our relationship with China has certainly changed," he
continued. "I think they're basically the same bunch of goons and thugs
they've been for the last 50 years."
The China government - via Jiang Yu, a Foreign Ministry spokeswoman, demanded an apology:
"We are shocked at, and strongly condemn, the vicious remarks" by
Mr. Cafferty "against the Chinese people," Ms. Jiang said during a
regular news briefing. "We solemnly demand that CNN and Cafferty
retract his vicious remarks and apologize to the whole Chinese people."
Cafferty "clarified":
Mr. Cafferty clarified his comments on Monday's broadcast of "The
Situation Room," saying his phrase "goons and thugs" was intended to
mean China's government, not its people.
The Chinese government, despite its sins, is vigorous in protecting the Chinese citizens from insults. Some U.S. Senators also "insulted" them, apparently:
The greatest purported authority on what the Chinese people
believe, of course, is the Communist Party itself. Just yesterday, for
example, a Foreign Ministry spokeswoman issued a "demand" to the "few"
U.S. senators who are promoting a resolution in support of peaceful
dialogue between China and the Dalai Lama: They should "abandon
prejudice and immediately stop wrongful remarks and deeds that hurt the
Chinese people's feeling."
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