Letters to the Editor
-
It's about perspective
The Chinese government has so little respect for human life, how could they possibly have respect for anything else?
Or maybe they are just operating under a different set of conditions than we are in the US and therefore frame "respect for human life" differently? Remember, many of these Chinese govt. officials have direct memories of famines that killed tens of millions of people--brought on by policies grounded in wishful thinking by one man and his yes-men. I refuse to believe that the Chinese govt. officials do not care for the fortunes of their people (every bit of evidence points to the contrary). They are simply operating under drastically different constraints.
Nations who's governments do not care about the welfare of their people are easy to spot (N. Korea) and are treated drastically differently by Western powers that nations which clearly do.
Whatever your feeling may be about the Tibetan people and their right to independence, do not filter the workings of a government as large as China's through a simple lens of "they don't care about human rights".