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October 15, 2008

the rights to criticize

First of all, I am a Chinese and I am sorry for the threats western journalists got in China. While I do believe that this is done only by a small portion of immature people, I want to remind the journalists to think about their own stand: Why are these civilians so hostile to you? Could it be that we get enough of distortion? And we are angry! Second, I like the idea brought up in "Objective Look", I do agree that there are so many misunderstandings existing between nations. The wisest way is to be open to each other and willing to take things the way they are. While so many western countries are criticizing China on its human rights situation, I would like to post one question for them: what makes you think you are qualified to criticize another country in a field that you are also experiencing trouble? I am not saying that China is perfect in human rights, we are far from that and there will never be a day for this perfection to come. However, I do want to say, as some friends previously said, we are making progress and the progress does take time. Think of the time it took America to finally emancipate slavery, think of the marginalized right now, do you still think you are the right one to blame another country for not changing the whole situation overnight?

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