If this is true, this is very bad news. You can criticize the government in America; you take quite a risk by doing so in china (particularly depending on in w

If this is true, this is very bad news. You can criticize the government in America; you take quite a risk by doing so in china (particularly depending on in which you are). This extends to most other freedoms of religion, association, etc. I have no doubt that as usual, some one will come running to point out something America did wrong. I claim not that she is perfect, but that she is better than china. This is obviously true. There are also cultural issues: china is based on the Confucian philosophy that power flows from the top down; from the father to the son. Western philosophy is based on the idea that the individual is sovereign over himself, and delegates power up into local->state->federal gov'ts. One is inherently equipped to protect freedom and foster innovation; the other is not.