I've had just about enough of hearing from uninformed foreigners spout overused rhetoric about China and their "oppressive" regime, whose source of information is from the evening news on their favorite TV channels spouting bullshit on the daily abuses of human rights in China and how shitty China is.

I have heard claims that my sources of information are false because the people are too scared to speak to me because I am a "loudmouth foreigner". Let's see. I'm fluent in Mandarin and Shanghainese, like many other Shanghainese people. I'm Chinese. Many of my friends speak to me openly as a friend, not to a foreigner, because I don't even look like one. So you people are saying that the evil regime has reached so far as to scare people as to not speak the truth, even to a friend, because they are afraid of persecution? I think you're way too delusional. China is not straight out of 1984. Read pseudo-communism. My eyes and ears don't lie, and I've been all over China. I don't think you have.

Of course, you would think that China monitors all of its internet activity. OK, let's see if they can read this.

Fuck Jiang Zemin up his fat 100 year old asshole!

Probably not. Of course, I don't mean what I'm saying here, but the "great firewall" doesn't exist. I've tested it personally myself. In fact, there is a list of forbidden sites in China that is publicized. It includes Time, Newsweek and the Washington Post. I've had no problems accessing them, if not directly, or through a proxy. You can't regulate the internet.

The liberal use of the term "oppressor" amuses me. How do you know that these people are oppressed? Let me guess. Human rights watch? Amnesty International? CNN? NBC? Drudge Report?!? Since you intend to continue to use false terminology, I have no way of arguing my point. Of course, you can always to try to argue about China and Tibet against a person who has actually lived in China for numerous years, attended its schools, mingled with its people, and spent a total of almost 9 months on the road travelling in China. Go right ahead.

In fact, I'll go to the laogai outside Suzhou, about 100 miles out of Shanghai, and take some pictures for you. I'll even record a tape walking around the walls. Perhaps I might be able to catch a couple prisoner's screaming from the torture. Oh wait. There is only human rights abuses in Tibet. Sorry.

Yes, while travelling in Asia I do use a Chinese passport. It is more accepted than my Canadian passport. Regarding the Tiananmen Square Massacre, please go read my node it. You might learn something.

You want to know why China cares about Tibet? Do you really? One word. Money. There is a large market there.