Why is USA playing the double standard against COMMUNIST governments?
131531
who knows, we don't have any control over our government...
103472
Rule of law from the weakest person to the strongest should be a goal of every country, unfortunately, the Chinese communist party is threatened by the "spiritual" movement Falung Gong, so it's possible these acts are condoned tacitly to "scare "citizens back into the communist fold. Any acts like these, if true, would be signs of desperation. The Chinese government will be on it's best behavior until the Olympics in '08, then I believe there may be great confrontation in China. Their economy is more and more capitalist, the people want and are getting, to a certain degree, a more free and materialistic lifestyle, yet the Communist party still holds sole political power. At some point one will have to give way to the other.
217398
You are either with us are against us! you dont believe in that do you? thats the same line we've fallen for for centuries. stalin, mao, cheng, wassalib, hitler, poipot, melosovic, il & leone have all used that to commit terrible things while in power. heres another slogan for ya, 'those who can be made to believe absurdities can be made to commit attrocities'.
292044
American imperialism after World War 2. The US tried to stop Communism everywhere, in an attempt to manipulate everyone into thinking democracy is better than communism. The conflict is the fact that the USSR did not have a communist form of government, but was run by the so-called Communist party. The Communists didn't follow the rules of communism, and America did what it did to show us how we need to rely on our government to protect us from "evil".
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This is not new.  Successive US governments have failed to acknowledge one of the most basic ethical rules of diplomacy - i.e. that a principle applies equally to all states.\n\nFor example, if you claim you believe in democracy, then that applies equally to French, US or Venezuelan democracy.  If you claim to believe that torture is wrong, then torture in a Pakistani or Iranian prison is no better or worse than torture in Guantanamo or Baghram, Afghanistan.  If you claim to believe in the rule of international law - oh, I forgot, the US doesn't.  The US has blocked the extradition to other countries of terrorists working for - or with links to - the CIA.\n\nSo this is quite normal for US governments.  Democracy is only really acceptable if other states elect who the US government favour.  International law applies to all countries - the US governement would say - as long as we agree with it.  And torture is OK for us because we have special reasons for doing it but we do not accept that anyone else might.\n\nIt is worthy of note that despite the shameful arrogant hypocrisies of successive US governements, all the most recent US Presidents have made a big noise about their 'Christian Faith' and claim to 'speak regularly with God'.  What exactly is it that sets Bush (just one example) apart from, say, the (current) Iranian 'supreme' leader, Ali Khamanei?  Both were 'democratically elected', both are religious bigots who still live in the 14th Century, both literally believe in prehistoric works of fiction on the basis of no empirical or provable evidence, and both wield huge power over the lives - and deaths - of the world's population.  Isn't it time we grew up and recognised these as people who belong on the margins of our society and not at its centre?
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Because we live in the age of the (undeclared) American Empire, and what the US says, even if it reeks of double standard, goes. \nIf people are pissed off it's only because they are inherently evil...
95981
Look at the map.  Notice that China is way, way over there, on the other side of the Pacific, while Cuba is within spitting distance of Florida.\n\nGeography is pretty important when it comes to questions of national policy.  Anyone who calls it hypocrisy isn't paying attention.
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It's got nothing to do with communism, but with international trade barriers. China has got lots of people who are willing to work for $2 a month, compare that to the US! And in Europe the FORMER communist states like Poland have very cheap labor service too. So it's not amazing that the USA who is CAPITALIST moves out their business to places that have CHEAP labor.
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I read your comments, and I don't think that leon_trotsky1940 is calling you a communist; he is saying that he is a communist (or at least a Marxist) and that capitalism is fundamentally flawed. To him I say: it's true that capitalism isn't perfect, but in practice capitalism works out substantially better than communism or any other alternative. As an economist, I could give several arguments for why this is so, but they would be more appropriate in a discussion about froms of government. (I'd like to have a seperate discussion with the Marxist.)\n\nLike you, Michael, I support President Bush, though he certainly isn't perfect. My support for him is not unconditional, and there are certain policies that he has that I find questionable at best. \n\nFor example, I don’t support his warrantless wiretap program. There is no doubt the program has helped gather important information about terrorist attacks, but I’m not sure that the means justifies the end. One of the reasons that the colonists fought off the British is because the British troops were going into people’s homes and searching their property without warrants. Maybe the British had good reason to suspect that there was illegal activity taking place in these homes. Perhaps they thought that weapons were being stockpiled, or revolutionary plans were being drafted. In any event, this practice irritated colonists so much that they made it clear that warrantless searches were unacceptable and were a violation of people’s Constitutional rights. \n\nThis doesn’t mean that searches and wiretaps shouldn't be done; it only means that judicial warrants must be issued first. Failing to maintain a separation of powers is fundamentally dangerous to the integrity of out system of governance.\n\nBush authorized these searches, and though they probably helped thwart terrorist attacks, he overstepped his Constitutional power. A better solution would be for Bush to support legislation for a new department in the judicial branch. This branch could be set up to specifically handle warrants for suspected terrorists, and could process them much more quickly then the current system allows. This would lead to a positive outcome, while maintaining judicial oversight, and thus an appropriate separation of power.\n\nWith that said, I think Bush has done a lot of things right.\n\nFor example, Bush acted appropriately when he invaded Afghanistan. Terrorists from Afghanistan attacked the United States of America, and the corrupt Taliban government refused to give them up. Even when the Al Qaeda terrorists in Afghanistan publicly announced that they were responsible for 9/11, the Taliban refused to bring them to justice. The Taliban and Al Qaeda were so intertwined that they depended on each other for support. The Taliban wasn’t about to give any Al Qaeda up. Bush did the right thing when he took out the Taliban and a huge portion of the Al Qaeda terrorists in Afghanistan.\n\nBush was also right for invading Iraq. Saddam Hussein had attacked Iran and Kuwait before and had used WMDs in these attacks. During the Gulf War, Saddam was driven out of Kuwait and ordered to destroy his weapons of mass destruction as a condition of staying in power. He agreed to let U.N weapons inspectors come into the country to verify that the weapons had been destroyed, but as soon as the U.N troops pulled out, Saddam started playing games. He refused to let the U.N inspectors do their jobs, and he intentionally made it look like he still had WMDs. When the U.N inspectors came to check a specific site, Saddam made them wait. Satellite photos show that while the inspectors were waiting, Saddam had whole convoys of trucks drive out the “back door”. Saddam wanted everyone to think he still had WMDs and that is why almost all of the world’s intelligence agencies thought that he did. Bush made an intelligent decision based on the information that he had. \n\nInterestingly, Saddam made h
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Icy relations between NATO and the Warsaw Pact? Never directly confronatational, mostly passive aggressive and alot of proxy fighting in the third world. Heh. We and the Communists used the Third World for a chess board. The Third World is having a hard time getting over it, too.
577331
well they are a communist nation, and censorship is what communists do. impure communism is corrupt and the ruling group still feels it needs to crush dissent. if the chinese government allowed uncesored blogs and search engines, the people would organize and overthrow the communist regime. china is just trying to hold to to what will soon be an extinct form of government.
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They are doing it with General Motors cars as well. Televisions from RCA (Thompson Electronics), and I am sure thousands of other things America has given them with our outsourcing. Our trade with Communist China is upside down too with the Republican Administration of George Bush. 3% from us to them, and over 20% from them to America. They have broken Americas trade agreement for years now, and Bush wont do anything about it. They are Communists and an enemy to the United States. They are using the extra revenue to extend their military also. It's a bad deal all around. America is going to try to remove the republicans from our Congress in November hopefully.
473654
Yes it's only a slight difference... In Asia communism is the chief underlying political movement... In the US, socialism is the primary force guiding the leftist - moving government we have had now for over 12 years.
101828
Well I gather that you are concerned about western governments lacking anything concrete to curtail persecution by the Chinese government. I am American (USA) and I completely understand that enough is not being done to stop persecution in the world.  (not just by China, but look at the Sudan, at North Korea, at Iran, the Israel/Palestinian situation and at all the genocide that takes place in Africa) The problem is that their is no solution other than diplomacy.  Look the USA is trying to make things better for the Afghans and the Iraqis and while we have seen some success, we have also seen what a mess comes about.  The fact is we can not save everyone and we are definitely not going to take on China.  Sorry, hopefully China will change for the sake of the Chinese
308506
governments all over the world usually brag about having things under control, and when things turn out wrong they find excuses\nwhy would the American one be any different?
127739
It's a great system in a world without human emotions. Unfortunately, no government could ever run a communist nation and still give its citizens the rights America does. So it's a good idea on paper and in books, but real life, I don't think it will ever work out positively.
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Because China is an oppressive communist country. They sensore everything their people see, they don't want any individuality or new ideas. China is a country that forces the people to believe what they want them to believe.