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Originally Posted by Rick Lee
Let's see here. Since Fidel has been in power, China has had numerous leaders, Cuba only one. China has adapted to the modern world and become more capitalist than we now are. Cuba has not. While I haven't been to Cuba, I have been to China and plenty of real communist countries back in the old Soviet Bloc days. Night and day difference. China may not have elections and they may have a state controlled media. But walk around any city there and you have no idea whatsoever you're in a communist country. Walking around Dresden or Magdeburg in the 80's and you could see the fear in people's eyes and wondered when that place was start cleaning up the rubble from WWII. Cuba, AFAIK, is still a totalitarian police state. Only sign of that I ever saw in China (and I've been all over that country and not in a tour group) was once in a while in an Internet cafe I'd have to give my passport # to get on to check my email and surf. That fact that Fidel is still in power (or was until a few days ago) and regularly has dissidents sent to labor camps or even executed speaks far more about that system than any US gov't. propaganda ever could. |
Rick,
What did you expect to see in China...yellow skinned devils with horns coming out of their heads just because it's a communist nation?
That was one of my points. Our nation has done some horrific things in the past because of the great "Communist threat" and yet China gets a free pass. Why?
My former company got into a Technical Assistance agreement with China where some of our guys had to go there to assist at the factories. I was never asked but I would have went in a heartbeat. But they had some real horror stories about what actually went on at those plants.
So I'm not pointing fingers here...I did many short assignments in foreign nations for my former company after I retired and I often felt as if I was part of the problem!