Chinese warning for Nobel peace prize

Even basic human rights should be seen in context.

The Chinese though totalitarian are not as bad as other Dictatorships.

The degree of corruption of their programs is very small. Corruption

is limited to individuals and does not make their development programs

ineffective.

As compared to that India's democracy is a pure sham and

effectively all power remains in the hands of those classes that always

had power. It makes it possible for Upper Class Indians to feel quite safe while

we permanently maintain about half a billion individuals in conditions of

abject poverty, illiteracy, and hopelessness, far worse off than the black

slaves of USA before the Civil War. Development programs have been

rendered largely ineffective because our corruption is a sort of

Class Corruption, the central purpose of which appears to be to deny

intended beneficiaries the benefits of equity and development. Chinese have

almost completely reformed their society long back and removed all old

social evils, while we in India have decided not to disturb the

status quo ante as far as our primitive social structure is concerned.

I think the Chinese can be excused their human rights violations. For a

traditionally poor and backward country it needs several generations of

hard regimented disciplined development work before they can afford the

luxury of leaving every citizen free to do their own thing. Now that they

are economically much stronger than before we can already see that they

are opening up the economy to outside influence. In time the continuous

exposure to outsiders not accompanied by feelings of inferiority (unlike

India) will make them accept social change and bring about a kind of

liberalization.

I feel that a strong China is better than a "free" or "liberal" but weak China.