U.S. calls for democracy in China. Chinese bitch.
China on Thursday rejected a U.S. call to adopt democracy, telling Washington to respect its communist path. Foreign Ministry spokesman Qin Gang told reporters he had "taken note" of comments by Deputy Secretary of State Robert Zoellick on Wednesday that China's one-party system was unsustainable. Qin said the country was stable and that communism had brought substantial benefits to China's 1.3 billion people. Zoellick made the Bush administration's most explicit call to date for a political transition in China, where the Communist Party will mark the anniversary of its 56th year in power on Oct. 1. "Closed politics cannot be a permanent feature of Chinese society," Zoellick told a meeting of the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations in New York. "It is simply not sustainable." China "needs a political transition to make its government responsible and accountable to its people," he added.
I dunno. They've been doing it for 5000 years now. | On Thursday, Qin said the United States had no right to dictate political morality to China. "The internal affairs should be handled by the government and people of each country," he said. "We should respect another country's right to chose its own development road."
Posted by: Fred 2005-09-23 |