China Won’t Be Strong Until They Can Accept Dissent

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/06/world/asia/06china.html?hp

China continues to show the world the weakness in their system. Of course, any criticism like this one (from an “ethnocentric Westerner”) will also be seen as an affront to their “benevolent stewardship” as opposed to a genuine wish that they could be come once again the Great Middle Kingdom. Let your culture flourish — don’t destroy it. Wasn’t that mistake made already (i.e., Cultural Revolution)?