Australian Police Raid Home of Pro-China Politician

They sell three types of customized masks as well.

What do you want him to be reporting on?

“If one day China should change her color and turn into a superpower, if she too should play the tyrant in the world, and everywhere subject others to her bullying, aggression and exploitation, the people of the world should identify her as social-imperialism, expose it, oppose it and work together with the Chinese people to overthrow it.” ~ Deng Xiaoping speech at the United Nations, April 10, 1974 https://opinion.inquirer.net/73236/china-defies-deng-xiaoping-warning Globalization went terribly wrong, but to be fair to the Americans, every East Asian ally that started off as a dictatorship (Japan, SK, Taiwan) eventually became a high performing, high income democracy. Given the cultural similarities, Deng Xiaoping's exhortation, and then, following his economic modernization, the way China opened up to Westerners (both in terms of its economy, and the preferential treatment afforded to westerners), it wasn't hard to believe that China too would eventually liberalize and democratize. Many people have suggested that China's historical claims to greatness, and its desire to avenge its historical wrongs (including the century of shame) is part of what prompted its current descent to lunacy, but there have been a number of developing countries in the area including India and Vietnam that didn't let their colonial legacy overwhelm them, and in fact have strong relations with their former colonial powers. The issues with China, I strongly believe, lay significantly with themselves, and specifically with their government. The cultural devolution removed all traces of the old morality, religion and sense of moderation and balance that the country traditionally followed. The CCP murdered 70 million Chinese (including in large part intellectuals, professionals and thinkers) which was 7 times the loss of life faced under the Japanese, and tore apart the social fabric of society. A nation can't go through a purge like that and come out healthy or sane on the other side of it. The arguments you suggest do make sense, but on the other hand, would a poorer China with nuclear weapons, a 2 million man army, laboring under the belief that throwing man after man against an enemy, and with much less to lose really have made very different choices? The Sino-Soviet split happened, in part, because the Chinese were much too loony for the Soviets. The CCP wanted to bring the communist revolution to the world by force, if necessary. The Soviets under Khrushchev, had denounced Stalin and his oppressive policies, were in process of bringing about political and economic reform, and were looking to cool things down with the west. They didn't want a crazy China upsetting those plans. Had western rapprochement to China been piecemeal and qualified, it would have been far less likely to change China. Instead, we would have still had a China with hundreds of millions of poor, living hand to mouth with little to lose. The current situation while seemingly untenable now, does present a glimmer of hope in that the hundreds of millions of Chinese who have tasted some measure of economic freedom and prosperity, when faced with loss of their former freedoms via concerted actions from the rest of the world, will rise up against their government. That change has to come from within China, there's little the outside world can do until the Chinese citizens begin to desire that change.

Wouldn’t that bottleneck the supply of organs? Seems as short sited as the one child policy.

It's a requirement for all politicians everywhere. It takes years of training to be able to vocalize from your anus