Originally Posted by waitingtables

We have specifically put China in a catbird seat, even more so since Iraq. We should have been paying a lot closer attention a very long time ago to China. I am ashamed that we do such big business with them, at the cost of so may innocent lives, and not just in China. If China cared, or thought we actually cared about human rights enough to cause tensions between us, they would have done something about Darfur. And they wouldn't be rounding up all the dissidents and cracking down in Tibet before the Olympics in fears of a large population of press that will be there. It's only a show. Just like we have been doing in regards to the human rights violations that other actual allies of ours commit, or the water-boarding that we don't find to be torture.