China: Freedom on the Rise

Fire of Liberty

David Warren has a great column in The Ottawa Citizen on the clouds of discontent that the citizens of China have for their Communist Masters. Though the press has this obsession with attributing the current street demonstrations in China to Japan's textbooks and its actions prior to and during WWII, Warren notes that this anger is more than likely directed at the Politburo and their tyrannical paradise. Just read this selection from his column:

The government in Beijing had been feeding the demonstrations, with wild and selective government media revelations about the foibles and oversights of Japanese school history textbooks. But the chauvinism and xenophobia in Japanese school books is hardly a new story; foreigners have been moaning about it for generations. It was being pumped recently as a means to direct the anger of the oppressed masses away from the Communist government itself. This is the same device authoritarian Arab regimes have used -- letting steam out of their own oppressed masses by encouraging them to demonstrate against the United States and Israel.

That the Communist strategy has backfired is indicated by the sudden cancellation of fresh protests in major cities, and the deployment of huge numbers of soldiers in several provincial cities to begin intimidating the freely-assembling crowds. But as the Communists try to reign them in, the target of anger becomes the Communists.

I hope that the people in China will eventually roll these henchmen of evil up in the red carpet that they strolled in on some 50 plus years ago. No-one except a select few got it right about the implosion of the Soviet Union, maybe David Warren is an oracle on the demise of the Chi-Coms. Anything can happen.