harry wrote:

Don't fall into their propaganda trap. The Chinese gov. is truely
evil. When they were a communist society, every person in China was
entitled to a job, a house, education and free medical treatment.
It was of course a repressive society but people had rights.

That was the theory, but the practice was very different. In practice, Chinese
of that era were slaves. You lived where you were told, worked at the job you
were told, paid what you were told, in many cases, married who you were told.

All could be taken away at the whim of a bureaucrat. While the constitution
promised rights, there was no effective mechanism to enforce them, so they
didn't exist. While the current government is no model of western democracy, it
is far better than the pre-1985 government. Ask anyone who has lived through
both.

You should visit China. It is a fascinating place.

-- Doug