Reply #9: This shows their total lack of understanding of China... [View All]

[wickerwoman]

To ask the Chinese to look at Japan as a positive example is about the dumbest goddamn thing you could say to them. Does Ms. Rice lack a single staff member aware of the deep animosity and resentment the Chinese continue to feel over the largely unacknowledged and un-apologized for atrocities commited by the Japanese in WWII? The rape of Nanking anyone? The point to Japan as an example of a "decent and successful society" is rubbing salt in some pretty deep wounds.

Plus, for the poster above who thinks China is a totalitarian atheist state there are thousands of active monasteries, churches, synagogues and mosques in China. Falun Gong was surpressed because they were advocating the overthrow of the government. I don't agree with that suppression but to assume from that that there is *no* freedom of religion in China is incorrect.