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In all these cases, it is tempting to conclude that the regime is worried about its own survival, and, in order to rally nationalist passions, feels compelled to portray the country as a global victim.

The strongest evidence to support the theory of insecurity at the highest levels of Chinese society is the practice of the “princelings” (wealthy children of the ruling elites) to buy homes in places such as the United States, Canada and Australia. These are not luxury homes of the sort favored by wealthy businessman and officials from the oil-rich countries of the Middle East. Rather they are typically “normal” homes of the sort a potential émigré might want to have in reserve in case things went bad back home.

地震24小时后，他们的希望落空了，只留下愤怒，他们诅咒每一个人：士兵来的太晚了，建筑者偷工减料，官员——他们声称——是吸血鬼。她的丈夫说，“承包商是不称职的...里面有450个人，9个班级，它完完全全很彻底的倒塌。不是倒下来，而像是发生了爆炸。”....“外面有些建筑物已有20多年历史了，没有塌，这所学校只造了10年....这不是一场自然灾难，它完全是人为的。”

We hear that Tibetans suffer “demographic aggression” and “cultural genocide”. But we do not hear those terms applied to Spanish and French policies toward the Basque minority. We do not hear those terms applied to the US annexation of the Kingdom of Hawaii in 1898. And Diego Garcia? In 1973, not so long ago, the UK forcibly deported the entire native Chagossian population from the Indian Ocean island of Diego Garcia. People were allowed one suitcase of clothing. Nothing else. Family pets were gassed, then cremated. Complete ethnic cleansing. Complete cultural destruction. Why? In order to build a big US air base. It has been used to bomb Afghanistan and Iraq, and soon maybe to bomb Iran and Pakistan. Diego Garcia, with nobody there but Brits and Americans, is also a perfect place for rendition, torture and other illegal actions.

The Chinese Context The Chinese government is responsible for the well-being and security of one-fourth of humanity. Race riots and rebellion cannot be tolerated, not even when done by Buddhist monks. Chinese Civilization was already old when the Egyptians began building pyramids. But the last 200 years have not gone well, what with two Opium Wars forcing China to import drugs, and Europeans seizing coastal ports as a step to complete colonial control, then the Boxer Rebellion, the collapse of the Manchu Dynasty, civil war, a brutal invasion and occupation by Japan, more civil war, then Communist consolidation and transformation of society, then Mao’s Cultural Revolution. Such events caused tens of millions of people to die. Thus, China’s recent history has good reasons why social order is a higher priority than individual rights. Race riots and rebellion cannot be tolerated. Considering this context, China’s treatment of its minorities has been exemplary compared to what the Western world has done to its minorities. After thousands of years of Chinese dominance, there still are more than 50 minorities in China. After a few hundred years of European dominance in North and South America, the original minority cultures have been exterminated, damaged, or diminished.

China’s one-child-policy seems oppressive to Westerners, but it has not applied to minorities, only to the Han Chinese. Tibetans can have as many children as they choose. If Han people have more than one child, they are punished. There is a similar preference given to minorities when it comes to admission to universities. For example, Tibetan students enter China’s elite Peking University with lower exam scores than Han Chinese students. China is not a perfect nation, but on matters of minority rights, it has been better than most Western nations. And China achieved this in the historical context of restoring itself and recovering from 200 years of continual crisis and foreign invasion.

结果今天论坛接到省公安部下发的协查通报，抄走了他的IP，作为证据 不知道结果会怎么样，猜测认为如果没什么行动，顶多请去喝喝茶，但肯定开始监视。

一个尚没有正式文本出来的OOXML居然成为了国际标准，这个消息今天被“开放文档协会”(OpenDoc Society)提前公布。

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大中华局域网，大中华岛，大中华时空，大中华宇宙——告诉下一代：我们的宇宙有960万平方公里，宇宙之外尚不能探索。

This lack of freedom stunts any real debate on the future of China. Thinking is still circumscribed. There are areas that are still taboo or where intellectuals can only hint at what they mean. In three vital spheres, this is deeply damaging to China’s national interest. The first is foreign policy. China has evolved in less than a generation into a world power, one now placed alongside America in a newly minted category of G2. But the country is uncertain how to exercise this power. And as long as the party restricts the debate to a known ideological framework, it cannot mobilise China’s vast intellectual capabilities to address this. The second area, intellectual property, is equally damaged. As long as there is no real freedom to question the foundations of society, China will not produce innovators. It will be able to copy and develop, but not to outstrip competitors and set the framework for the world. And the third area is the legitimate assertion of religious and regional identities alongside Chinese citizenship.

面对侯宜中的遭遇，我们看到的不正是一幅类似西西弗的艰难情景吗？看到的不正是当下推进环保的窘境吗？看到的不正是环保人员面对各种复杂利益纠葛时的辛酸吗？ 而且这并非孤例。很多地方局长要通报当地的污染，居然只能给总局写匿名信。这不是危言耸听，是来自环保部副部长潘岳的说法，他还说有个资源大省的环保局长，一边被省长骂为什么摆不平环保总局，一边被“我”(指潘岳)骂为什么不能严格执法。 在GDP的指引下，在狭窄政绩观的导向下，在公众还无法参与到环保监督过程中时，侯宜中的遭遇或是可以想象的事实。据报道，“十五”时期，全国各省市GDP指标全都超额完成，惟独能耗指标和环保主要指标没有完成，全部都欠账，而且还有反弹。并且在当下，由地方政府与某些企业特别是大企业结成的特殊利益集团，已经成为环保的陷阱。

“经济发展要上，环保要适当让一让”，这种政绩的短期目标实现是以成本的外部化，比如环境破坏为代价的，其结果是资源的低效配置和经济增长可持续的基础受到损害。而环保总局对全国11个省区126个工业园的调查结果——— “近九成存在环境违法问题”也是佐证。 上世纪90年代中期，世界银行把我们每年因环境造成的损失评估为GDP的5%至7%，现在，已经到了10%，这是一个让人害怕的速度。据环境问题专家估算，如果把环境的恶化考虑在内，中国的GDP的实际增长要减少2-3个百分点。这是一种可怕的零和博弈隐忧。

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