First Chinese Man Ever Gets Nobel Peace Prize - Chinese Government Up In Arms!

Nodin wrote: »

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Blueboyd wrote: »

I like this prize. I bet it means a lot to his family and people who know him or are like him.

Unfortunately the story is that most people in China are not like him. We think of China and immediately get the image of opresssed people or some poor worker in a factory who works for 0,0009 € a month and sleeps in cardboard box, but the truth is there are 400 000 millionares in the country and the size of the middle class is getting as big as the whole population of the US. Okay they have loads of poor people too. But I guess my point is that most of the Chinese don't care that much for democracy. If people were asked today most of them would say it would put the country and especially the economic growth into jeopardy when all sorts of extremist would take ower and the country would split. And what concerns people the most is their own well-being. It is still a totalitarian communist state but with only the outer symptoms of it - the business is growing and people are getting richer. One westerner who works in China for global company joked that he quite likes Chinese communism - no labour unions, cheap work-force - a businessman's dream. The growth of the economy has made nationalism even stronger and people think China will be the number one nation in the world with or without democracy - it doesn't matter.

For us westereners peace prize feels good - especially after seeing that all our governments and big corporation have sold their souls to get to the giant Chinese market. Google Does No Evil. (but does the the fine print exclude China)