China issues report on US human rights

[Nan Yang]

深度国际。Just watched on CCTV.

 

[Dungeness]

You guys understand that no one takes these 'reports' from China seriously, right?

Learn to listen to different voices, or you would be at risk of being brainwashed without you even knowing it.

 

[Super Falcon]

Good time to show face if champion of human rights what it is doing itself great

 

[Dungeness]

I worked and still works with a lot of Chinese engineers, from both mainland China when I used to work for Micron Tech, to today in the semiconductor industry. My current employer shall remain unnamed, suffice to say that I work very closely with Intel.

Anyway, one of my good friends from China bought a house in the US, not only that, he and his wife became business owners, a Marco's Pizza franchisee. His first child, a son, was borned in China, but his daughter is a US citizen and they are determined to keep it that way. They had the girl before China did away with the one-child law.

Once, after the alcohol flow, he said one thing about the Chinese government that stunned me for a couple of seconds. He said that the Chinese government have no concept of shame, but it will do everything about face. I was stunned for a couple of seconds as I have never looked at China from that perspective before. Engineers often, if not usually, look at things in ways non-engineers do not or cannot. I never lived in China long enough to dissect China from an engineer's objectivity.

He explained it further that there is a difference between being 'shameless' and having no shame. To be 'shameless' implies at least you understand the concept and at one point adopted it before you abandoned it. But to have no shame means the concept never bothered you at all. My friend asserted that the concept of shame never factored in how the Chinese government functions. Hence the gross corruption and abuses of powers that are rampant up/down and sideways in the Chinese government.

As I am former military, when I read that Chinese generals and admirals sold ranks and assignments, I can only be amazed at the 'no shame' aspect of it all. This is beyond stealing some piece of hardware to sell on the black market. This is exploitation of one's authority, institutions, and worst of all, the subordinates, for personal financial gains. The audacity of it belongs in the third world. You can sell one tank at one time, but you can extort a number of subordinates throughout their careers that span yrs, and as you rise in ranks, the pool of victims enlarges.

So this rebuttal from the Chinese government on US is about saving face. All the while knowing that what the US espouses as universal human rights are popular enough throughout the world. China is seeking to rival US, not just in economic and military powers, but also in image and perception.

If you get "stunned" easily by a story of a random individual, you are a naive dude. You are a veteran and a professional, you should be a step above that level.

 

[TaiShang]

 

[gambit]

Learn to listen to different voices, or you would be at risk of being brainwashed without you even knowing it.

How many human rights groups are based out of China? Am not talking about the ones the Chinese government cooked up and staffed with Party lackeys. Am talking about groups that calls China home, that Chinese interpretations of human rights are held up and espoused to be worthy of adoption, and that challenges the Chinese government with no fear of state retaliation about any issue.

 

[TaiShang]