Saturday, January 29

Electoral hypocrisy?

Critics See Hypocrisy in China's Support for Baghdad Elections By Mark Magnier:
China has contributed $1 million to help organize Sunday's election in Iraq, raising questions at home and abroad about how a country that supports balloting in another land can deny its citizens a chance to vote for their leaders.
Still more ironic in light of the fact that at least some of Hu Jintao's advisers saw Yushchenko's victory in Ukraine as the specter of a domino effect, leading to China's transformation into a capitalist state via a process of "peaceful evolution". So democracy is OK in some places, at least.

1 comment:

pkd said...

Given the photos above, it may have been a mistake to label the Chinese government as hypocritical. The Chinese leadership may not be quite so monolithic.