First, China is not xenophobic. Rather, Sino-phobic can pretty well describe a lot of Americans if their words are true to their hearts. Secondly, freedom and

First, China is not xenophobic. Rather, Sino-phobic can pretty well describe a lot of Americans if their words are true to their hearts. Secondly, freedom and rights all have prices. One's freedom is another one's lack thereof. Say you are free to speak your mind, what if I don't like to hear it? Like the N word, or anything that is not appropriate to pronounce even in "freedom of speech" countries. Is there complete freedom? Are there unlimited rights? Of course not. The issue is just where we should draw the line. As to democracy, well, how do you tell it apart from populism? How to stop the elites from hijacking it to their own good? You know, if the propaganda machine is working full force, democracy or not is not that different. And you lose the efficiency. IMHO, a mature person, and the collective of mature persons, aka a mature society, should know that there is nothing inherently, and absolutely good or bad. Everything requires compromises and tradeoffs. If you point to something and ridicule anyone else's unkind opinion torwards it, it is you being naive.