Far East Claims half of Alexa Top Ten

[Rubber Duck]

Actually, I think that cooperation is the way forward.

The fact that there a Million Taiwanese in China working is highly significant, because they won't be cleaning the streets. Taiwanese expertise should be and clearly is highly valued in China. I am sure they are also pleased with the Capital Investment as well. Such inter-dependence should provide more stablity than a military stand-off, however fragile the relationship.

Best Regards
Dave Wrixon

Best Regards
Dave Wrixon

 

[alia]

I wish I could be as optimistic as you guys.

I have a forum mainly focused on political issues between the Taiwan Strait. It was meant for Taiwanese at the beginning, but now more than 90% of the members are from the other side. What I have learnt over the past three years has totally overturned what I believed things were supposed to be, and this is really annoying.

You might think the young generations (20-40) in China must all long for democracy. Wrong. The most popular terms are "be careful of the Western style democracy" and "don't rush", almost all the exiled Tian An Men Square student leaders are viewed as traitors and highly despised by ordinary Chinese people. It is amazed that more than half of the Chinese members of my forum would be glad to defend their government for shooting the students and civilians, for those victims were "trouble makers" and the whole thing was a conspiracy manipulated by foreign powers.

Everything I am telling is up to date, i.e. in 2005, not ten years ago. The CCP has survived the 21th century easily, and the leaders in Beijing are crowned with the true glory even Mao would have envied. But the press in this wonderland is gagged even harsher than 20 years ago, a priest just got three years for printing and giving away free bibles, Yahoo Hong Kong sold one of its user's personal Emails to the Beijing authorities and sent the unluck trouble maker directly to jail (for 15 years!) ....

In China, economic might just mean economic, no less, no more.