Comments on: Chinese Learn Concept of Weekend

By: Timothy

Timothy — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 18:38:12 +0000

It’s one thing to hate on the Chi-Coms, it’s another to try to force a billion people to remain poor because you lack a basic understanding of international trade economics.

By: Vincent

Vincent — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 17:04:27 +0000

I’m pretty tired of lawsuits seeking money for people who were “offended.”

By: Sean Jin

Sean Jin — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 15:54:23 +0000

I wasn’t interested in Cafferty’s comments so much as protesters and their zeal. On a Saturday.
Sure, we have our share of protesters here, but we take the weekends off, last time I checked.

By: Niedermeyer

Niedermeyer — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 15:33:08 +0000

I’m all for criticism of every government, but I’m afraid China-bashing is becoming a national pastime. Not only is it hypocritical (so now we’re the authorities on human rights again?) but it’s also largely ignorant of actual conditions there.

You run a country of over a billion people in the midst of wrenching social and economic change and then tell me how easy it is to uphold the full portfolio of human rights in all cases. Sounds apologist, I know, but regime change starts at home. Or at Walmart.

Also, Nik Kristoff is an unbearable bore.

By: Sean Jin

Sean Jin — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 15:31:41 +0000

Disagree. Every “people” is self-righteous and proud in one way or another. Difference is, after some persuasion, we’re willing to admit our mistakes and change.

By: Ford

Ford — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 14:31:12 +0000

“I have never known a more self-righteous and proud people than the Chinese.”

Nick Kristof, of the NYT, recently suggested that the only other “people” that come close in terms of pride and self-righteousness is… US.