The Chinese President Hu Jintao had a meeting with President Obama on Wednesday. According to the press conference held after the meeting, both agreed on strengthening ties and on going further in economic cooperation. President Hu said, "China always respects the human rights". President Obama refers to the human right issues and declared his support for the talk between his Holiness the Dalai Lama with the Chinese government. They announced the $45 billion Chinese purchase of the US goods, "selling all sorts of things" according to President Obama, including 200 Boeing airplanes. The trade deficit and yuan, the Chinese currency rate is another major topic of the talk. The trade deficit with China last year surpasses the 2008 level to $252.4 billion over the first 11 months.
I was reading the articles on the talks and found out some of the articles on China are totally not based on facts. An article says "Chinese citizens are not aware that they are the superpower" or something of that sort. As if they do not know the word China means -- 'the center of the world'. I do not know whether they do that intentionally or not, but one thing for sure; they've got the deal and nothing is coming up that indicate any improvement on 'human rights issues' that the President Hu said he cares about.
The concept of human right itself, is a fairly recently created idea proclaimed in Weimar Constitution, 1919. On the face of it, the concept itself does not mean much to those who are used to execute people for 'public interests'. The Chinese government reportedly executes thousands of its citizens a year. Some are held for political reasons as well, as the public enemies. Some cases are hardly justifiable -- could refugees from Tibet who were shot dead by the border guards be the enemy of the public? The execution of a UK citizen lead the formal protest from the UK government. The executions of four Japanese citizens were tragedy. But again, when no power hinders them from shooting and executions, what makes them aware of the rights of the refugees to life? When there is no election in China, the voices of people hardly never reaches the government or the party. The nation, is not for the party, nor the forces, nor the nation itself. The whole system is for the people in it. The sense of unfairness causes more than 80,000 riots within the nation a year. Executions are too brutal a way to convince people to be on the side of the government.
President Obama and President Hu will set the course of the nations and the world. As the leaders of 21st century, they must show that they are going in the direction of peace and prosperity, not of forces, crackdowns, arrests, torture, and executions, wondering why people are so disobedient. At the press conference, the question of human rights seemed to have angered President Hu. So does this mean that -- nothing is going to change? Why should there be so little change in the dealing with the respect towards the life of people?
China indeed became too big for a nation under dictatorship. Nicely held election can give the constituents the feels of unity and mostly not quite satisfaction yet something close to acceptance of status quo out of the struggles. The essential thing is to make them believe the election is fair. There will always be some who complain the elections are never fair and that creates hostility. That should be avoided. The next thing is set the term limit so that people can get another chance. It becomes something like not this time then wait for in a few years.
President Hu is the 'face' of the entire region of Asia. The economic prospect of China is bright and it is time to move on to better future, not of 'tyranny' backed by massive military power but under reasonable and trusted leadership, trusted by its people and by the international community. President Hu suggested to take measures for more Chinese people to travel in the US, which would be beneficial to the US businesses. Insisting existence of the Chinese people, however, incites both reactions positive and negative; more and more will be expected from its leadership. Let us hope President Hu and President Obama will work out a solution that indeed will set the pathways of the world of the 21th century.
I was reading the articles on the talks and found out some of the articles on China are totally not based on facts. An article says "Chinese citizens are not aware that they are the superpower" or something of that sort. As if they do not know the word China means -- 'the center of the world'. I do not know whether they do that intentionally or not, but one thing for sure; they've got the deal and nothing is coming up that indicate any improvement on 'human rights issues' that the President Hu said he cares about.
The concept of human right itself, is a fairly recently created idea proclaimed in Weimar Constitution, 1919. On the face of it, the concept itself does not mean much to those who are used to execute people for 'public interests'. The Chinese government reportedly executes thousands of its citizens a year. Some are held for political reasons as well, as the public enemies. Some cases are hardly justifiable -- could refugees from Tibet who were shot dead by the border guards be the enemy of the public? The execution of a UK citizen lead the formal protest from the UK government. The executions of four Japanese citizens were tragedy. But again, when no power hinders them from shooting and executions, what makes them aware of the rights of the refugees to life? When there is no election in China, the voices of people hardly never reaches the government or the party. The nation, is not for the party, nor the forces, nor the nation itself. The whole system is for the people in it. The sense of unfairness causes more than 80,000 riots within the nation a year. Executions are too brutal a way to convince people to be on the side of the government.
President Obama and President Hu will set the course of the nations and the world. As the leaders of 21st century, they must show that they are going in the direction of peace and prosperity, not of forces, crackdowns, arrests, torture, and executions, wondering why people are so disobedient. At the press conference, the question of human rights seemed to have angered President Hu. So does this mean that -- nothing is going to change? Why should there be so little change in the dealing with the respect towards the life of people?
China indeed became too big for a nation under dictatorship. Nicely held election can give the constituents the feels of unity and mostly not quite satisfaction yet something close to acceptance of status quo out of the struggles. The essential thing is to make them believe the election is fair. There will always be some who complain the elections are never fair and that creates hostility. That should be avoided. The next thing is set the term limit so that people can get another chance. It becomes something like not this time then wait for in a few years.
President Hu is the 'face' of the entire region of Asia. The economic prospect of China is bright and it is time to move on to better future, not of 'tyranny' backed by massive military power but under reasonable and trusted leadership, trusted by its people and by the international community. President Hu suggested to take measures for more Chinese people to travel in the US, which would be beneficial to the US businesses. Insisting existence of the Chinese people, however, incites both reactions positive and negative; more and more will be expected from its leadership. Let us hope President Hu and President Obama will work out a solution that indeed will set the pathways of the world of the 21th century.