tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8786764158320829279.post2426738926044191334..comments2024-03-26T12:44:30.308-07:00Comments on Blue Heron Blast: Uighur TragedyBlue Heronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13516946085702606491noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8786764158320829279.post-49851586629209013622019-01-11T05:57:41.932-08:002019-01-11T05:57:41.932-08:00Well, it is poor grammar I suppose, What might ha...Well, it is poor grammar I suppose, What might have been more clear would have been something like. We engaged China thinking that open trade, etc. would liberalize Chinese society and bring China into a more open world and trading system. That was folly and it has backfired as China became a great economy that is integrated into the world but it never left its repressive Communist system. Indeed the intense social control remained under a facade of a capitalist economy. Proof of this is in the horrid treatment of the Urgers. OK, now I am clear and now I am boring. Oh well, life is hard.Jon Harwoodhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07167557407360477540noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8786764158320829279.post-57335027749624747272019-01-09T20:29:18.924-08:002019-01-09T20:29:18.924-08:00Is changes a typo? Assuming that you meant charges...Is changes a typo? Assuming that you meant charges, I beg to disagree. Putting a whole ethnic population in a gulag is beyond despicable.Blue Heronhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13516946085702606491noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8786764158320829279.post-35726877945736170002019-01-09T18:37:03.088-08:002019-01-09T18:37:03.088-08:00I doubt the Chinese government changes are as big ...I doubt the Chinese government changes are as big as our folly in thinking we could change them. Our judgement was clouded by greed as we contemplated access to a huge market. The jokes on us.Jon Harwoodhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07167557407360477540noreply@blogger.com