For the last two years, the U.S. has been embroiled in partisican warfare over universal healthcare.
Universal values wasn’t an issue. The Political Correctness of the democratic mob decides that.
The American Republican Party says they will get rid of universal healthcare if they gain a majority in Congress in the mid-term elections.
However, in China, the debate is over universal values. In The Economist for October 2, 2010, there is a piece on this topic that mentions a “smouldering” debate in China for the past two years.
The lead sentence says, “It is not quite true that China is rejecting Western values such as democracy. Rather, it is fighting over them.”
If there is a Politically Correct belief in the West driven by Sinophobia that the Chinese have no freedom, consider this quote from The Economist, “A philosophical question of whether universal values exist has turned into a political fight, dividing scholars, the media and even, some analysts believe, China’s leaders.”
It even appears, according to The Economist, that China’s Vice-President Xi Jinping, who is all but certain to take over from Hu Jintao as party chief in 2012, has been involved in this debate about values.
See Misconceptions of China – The Chinese Government
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Lloyd Lofthouse is the award-winning author of the concubine saga, My Splendid Concubine & Our Hart. When you love a Chinese woman, you marry her family and culture too.
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