Sounds like you refuse to even consider other possibilities. Okay, but there is still the question of his genesis as a terrorist and a murderer. Do you refuse to discuss that too?
Imagine someone born in China who moved to canada when young, and grew up there until after university, then went back to china to take advantage of their western education with their Chinese heritage.
Is that person Canadian or Chinese? The answer is likely both.
Hi there, Chinese here. Perhaps you would be interested in learning about East Turkestan, or as we like to call it "XinJiang", or perhaps South Mongolia, or "Inner Mongolia".
Calling us out on Tibet is nice and all, but it does get so very boring.
If you are a CCP employee, please contact me to give me my 5角, cheers!
What about the attempts to alter political discourse in Hong Kong, such as the Umbrella Revolution. How about their reaction to 零八宪章 (Charter 08)? Are those things we can criticize China on?
I guess China's folks would be a hell of a control group for Stockholm syndrome. I can't really think of any reason in the rational realm why would somebody in their sane minds would support a government that doesn't even let you Google... [..]
> why would somebody in their sane minds would support a government that doesn't even let you Google
As a matter of fact, people who can see your comment certainly would not support a government that do not let them use Google. But this group of Chinese people are tiny.
I guess at least 90% of Chinese citizens do not know Google.
So the problem is not that Chinese citizens like totalitarianism, the problem is that they do not see it as totalitarianism, or even think it's truly democratic. Like many people here believe that Trump is for the people and will be serving them faithfully (I am not saying that Trump will not do that, I am saying that it should not be taken as a thing that will happen for sure), which has to be the case if people can put Trump in check and hold him accountable.
But I don't know how to educate 1.3 billion people...
I can buy your comment for Chinese < 30 years old because they don't know anything better. But what about middle-aged Chinese? Don't they know the difference?
I don't know China history, but have they never lived in a democratic fashion at least in the last 50-60 years?
I was offered a coop position at the Singapore Genomics Institute this summer, but I turned it down because the pay was truly terrible. I would've been paid 1500 Sinagpore dollars a month IF I was able to successfully apply for the A-star scholarship, otherwise it would've been only 1000. I was seriously consider taking the offer, because I believe the experience would've been very rewarding, especially since I don't know a lick of biology, and was hired because of my quantatitve toolkit and modelling experiences, but declined when I found out they don't even pay for the plane ticket.
The man is clearly mentally disturbed and needed medical care, but that in no sense should dimish his academic accomplishments and raw intelligence.