But we look away when China does things….

Beijing
– The Chinese government is threatening foreign correspondents that
their visas will be revoked if they continue to try to report on
demonstrations held as part of a Chinese “Jasmine Revolution.”

The move is the latest in a series of harsh measures
authorities have taken recently, seeking to ensure that popular
movements aimed at overthrowing autocratic regimes in the Middle East do
not spread to China.

Over the past 10 days, scores of human rights activists
and noted lawyers have been detained, disappeared, or put under house
arrest, according to reports gathered by Human Rights in China, a New
York based watchdog organization. The word “jasmine” has been censored
from many websites.

The Chinese government
“goes from moments of great confidence to moments when they seem scared
of their own shadow,” says Jeffrey Wasserstrom, a historian of China at
the University of California. “This seems like one of those ‘what are
they thinking?’ moments.”

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Dozens of foreign journalists who tried to cover
putative demonstrations Sunday in central Beijing and downtown Shanghai
have been summoned this week to interviews with the police, the Foreign Correspondents Club of China said Thursday in a warning to members.

The interviews have followed “a common theme” the
FCCC said, after gathering multiple accounts. Reporters have been told
that they have “broken Chinese regulations, officials know about it, and
the journalist will face consequences if he or she does it again. Those
consequences include being arrested or detained until the visa or work
permit is canceled.”

Such threats appear to mark a significant step back
from the liberalized reporting regulations introduced four years ago,
which specify that “to interview organizations or individuals in China,
foreign journalists need only to obtain their prior consent.”

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China fears no country at this time-except-Japan.  Japan also holds nearly as much US notes as China.  If I recall Japan is only a few hundred million behind China. Of course, Uncle Stupid continues to stumble and drool.  Collectively (in the institutional sense), I don't think the US Gov't learns anything from experience.  If the Korean "Police Action" didn't provide a lesson for the sensational stupidity of Viet Nam, we did it again in the Gulf War and then just to show Daddy, the Simpleton Son, invades Iraq while "fighting terror" in Afghanistan.  In the meantime, Somali (thanks to Uncle Bill Clinton?) pirates are operating more or less with impunity-and Minneapolis is the new home of a horde of Somalis, forming gangs and living off welfare, invited to our homeland by ICE.  The "Great Communicator" Ronnie Reagan had a chance to deal with Gadafi (trained in the US by the USAF as a fighter pilot) and pulled one of his famous PR moments, just a scene from his B movie presidency.  Rule One, pick your battles very carefully and use all the force necessary to eliminate the problem.  Rule Two, clone Teddy Roosevelt; that old Bastard knew how to be accommodating, parochial in a nice way, and how to kick ass when it needed to be kicked.  Just imagine if Teddy had a few Minuteman II and Poseidon missiles for his "big stick."  Ol' Ike wasn't so bad either (he led a lot of folks to their death and he remembered that-could have entered Hungary, but did not, etc.) and he had the Dulles brothers, Barry Goldwater, Curtis LeMay, etc.  The present generation of political stumble bums are corporate lackeys with little foresight, some of them claiming divine inspiration, just pathetic.  Excuse my diatribe, I'm just old and severely pissed off.