China's Angry

This article (address at the bottom) is a very good one. It discusses China's reaction to the U.S. selling F-16's to Taiwan. China is very against it, stating that it threatens the safety of China's people. Since when has China cared about it's people? They throw them in jail for the simplest of crimes, they promise certain groups twenty years in a village to only go under the table and force them out (both of those stories can be found in the New York Times newspaper). China has been nothing buy empty threats since the U.S. sold $6.4 Billion in arms to Taiwan and President Obama met with the Dali Lama. This is only my opinion, but with my experience with Chinese and Taiwanese people, I think it is a pretty good hypothesis.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/26/world/asia/26china.html?ref=world

Security Costs

I was astounded by the numbers in this article. The Vancouver Olympic Games Committee had originally budgeted 175 Million Canadian Dollars (About 167.5 Million US Dollars) for security. I thought that that was a lot of money. Well, they will in all actuality, spend about 1 Billion Canadian Dollars on security for these games. On what do you ask? About 20% of Canada's entire police force is in Vancouver. Over 11,800 members of Canadian police and air forces are patrolling Vancouver and surrounding areas. This does not include the American forces who protect all American athletes and their living quarters. Is this too much? In my personal opinion, no. It is better to be safe than sorry. If something would happen, then Canada would be blamed for having not enough security, now there is no way this can be said. They have done everything in their power to protect the athletes and spectators. Some may ask if they used too much money for security. My response is, there is no price on a human life.

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Freedom?

My blog post today is about an article I've read in the New York Times recently. It is named, "Chinese Court Denies Appeal by Jailed Activist." For those who don't know, China's official name is the People's Republic of China, and is a Communist government. Wait, is that an oxymoron? After reading this article, you will think so. Liu XiaoBo, a Beijing scholar (funny thing is, China usually prizes their scholars; at least until they become too smart), wrote a document stating that China was in need of political and legal reforms. He has been sentenced to eleven years in prison, and the government is not even considering changing the sentence. Tan ZuoRen was sentenced to five years in prison after sending e-mails with information about the military crackdown on protesters in Tiananmen Square on June 4, 1989. Does this sound like a "People's Republic?" We should be grateful for the freedom we have here in America. While living in Taiwan (Taiwan is located about 50 miles of the coast of southeast China) for two years, I had a lot of contact with Mainland Chinese. It was funny that when you asked them how the government was, they would almost always respond that it was a great government, then in hushed tones as if they were afraid to be overheard, they would state how things really were. These people were in a different country and they were swill afraid to say anything about the government. Like I stated before, let us be grateful for the wonderful country that we live in and all the freedoms we enjoy.

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