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George W. Bush was correct.
"I have come to the United States to increase mutual trust, enhance friendship, deepen cooperation, and push forward the positive, cooperative, and comprehensive China-U.S. relationship for the 21st century.
Over the past 32 years, since the establishment of diplomatic ties, the China-U.S. relationship has grown into one with strategic significance and global influence. Since President Obama took office, with concerted efforts of the two sides, our cooperation in various fields has produced fruitful results and our relations have achieved new progress. This has brought real benefits to our two peoples, and contributed greatly to world peace and development.
As we enter the second decade of the 21st century, the people of both China and the United States want to see further progress in our relations and people around the globe want to see greater prosperity in the world. Under the new circumstances, and in the face of new challenges, China and the United States share broad common interests and important common responsibilities.
We should adopt a long-term perspective, seek common ground while resolving differences, and work together to achieve sustained, sound, and steady development of our relations. I hope that through this visit, our two countries will advance the positive, cooperative, and comprehensive relationship, and open a new chapter in our cooperation as partners."
These are not times to point fingers, jump up and down like Magilla Gorilla, nor suggest that political prisoners aren't political prisoners.
Regardless of China's holding of the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize winner, Jose Padilla was held for years by the Bush administration and virtually driven to insanity by the separation from humanity. Now I'd like to be able to say that America's withholding the rights of an American citizen accused of terrorism is something different than a Nobel Peace Prize winner, I can't. China put away a man against his will for his political beliefs without due process, and America put away a man against his will for his political beliefs without due process.
I'm not certain where the divide is, but it is obvious that there are more circumstances which equate to each other than not.
Did China put a political activist away? Very possibly, but one can wonder if America did the same.
It appears to me that we are equal partners in this world of continued growth and decadence. We have a stake in or debt to China, and China has a stake in what we owe them. If we demand that a citizen of China is released from political oppression than they have the right to ask for the same from America, even if they haven't.
But the point is that we, as American citizens, also have the same right to demand the same rights for others. First Amendment. The Right to Redress our Government. Not by guns, not by shootings, but honest conversations which don't hold political overtones and subterfuge.
Now in America Jose Padilla was convicted in a trial of several other individuals with whom he had never associated, yet he was sentenced without his own wherewithal being present. He could not help in his own defense because he lost his mind in 4 years of solitary confinement. Makes you wonder about Stockholm syndrome, doesn't it?
Regardless of how Jose Padilla was tried, he was convicted without his own help to defend himself, and therefore it is not possible to say that Americans have their freedoms because one man does not, today, have his freedom due to the revocation of his rights.
If it is one person, it can be 3 people, or 1000 people. Who knows? It is all secret.
So how do we differ all that much from China?
Eh.
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Hu is a fine student of diplomacy, if his publicist was telling the truth.
So - it would be a highly charged event, in my opinion.
One man, talking from a position of economic strength - the other coming from a position of imposed need for fairness in all matters political and economic.
I am on President Obama's side.
in the picture, the chinese flag looks to be set/flying a little higher, doesn't it?
We, Chinese and Americans, have more common interests and values than people on both sides are inclined to believe. No doubt there are also compeating interests and some problems that cannot be easily resolved, but that should never be an excuse to not try.
I hope Times readers will try to be open-minded and drop the easy retoric that seems to infect our world today and take the more difficult challange to look at facts, to engage on problem solving and question our own assumptions.
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