[Olympics] Is it just me, or..

[Professor S]

Originally Posted by Bond

You can't just call China a blanket communist state anymore... it's more complicated than that. The country now has certain zones of economic freedom: Beijing, Hong Kong, etc.

But yeah, long way to go on the political freedoms front.

Yeah, now they're just a Totalitarian Oligarchy. You can't be communist and participate in capiatlism, but that doesn't make their government less awful (not that I'm saying you think they're better or good).

My neighbor's son is a missionary in China, and he spends his life jumping from hiding place to hiding place because the "unofficial" Chinese gestapo are always trying to hunt down people like him.

China talks a big game, but its still a ton of lies and oppression. Just because the master gives the dog a few more links of chain, it doesn't mean the dog is free.

But overall I find it hilarious that everyone is saying how China is now the leading world power because of the opening ceremonies. It'll take a little more than that to impress me. Something like, oh I don't know... giving their people the right to choose their own government.