China - say no to Olympics!

The recent Tibet violence is slowly spreading to other districts and towns in China and should give the Communists there some off for thought to see the countless thousands who are not very happy with the governance so say the least. That said,it would be a mockery to write off the current Tibet violence as a public relations disaster. It shows at the very least the amount of discord that is prevalent in this Buddhist capital, one that no matter how much the communists may try to whitewash it as something else. It is quite evident that the communist rule has been very harsh on the Tibetans living there and then to say that the Dalai Lama, his holiness, was behind all this is just typical of the kind of behaviour that one may expect from the current Chinese government.
The fact of the matter is that the current government and the style of governance is not exactly loved in China or out side of China either. The neighbouring countries like those of Japan,Taiwan and India well know the risk and the danger that China poses to the whole world. China must understand that in order to develop further and to be considered developed, it must get rid of its dependence on the age old policy of fear and intimidation and must start embracing the concepts of free speech and religious tolerance. Until and unless this happens, the other countries would soon become developed long before China has. Take a look at Japan,in spite of its connection to the war time atrocities, today Japan is accepted as a widely developed country and one that is also highlighted as a model of development. Take a look at India, with so much baggage and so much poverty, India is growing much faster than all the other developed countries put together and is already three quarters of the way to getting that label 'developed'. China,on the other hand,if it keeps on suppressing its own people, would soon find itself in very hot waters, not the kind that one would find at a spa, but one that preempts a revolution. All I can say to any Chinese reading this is to batter down, because a storm is indeed coming and it is heading for the Chinese mainland!

North Korea de-Fangs!

North Korea has shot down one of its main nuclear reactors,thus giving peace a change as well as the possibility of both Korea's merging into one.but of course thats too far into the future so lets see what happens.anyway for the present moment the chief U.S. nuclear envoy expressed optimism after a day of meetings Tuesday with his North Korean counterpart, saying no new obstacles to progress on disarmament have emerged following Pyongyang's shutdown of its sole operating reactor.
With Pyongyang taking such a move well for one thing Japan as well as South Korea can now rest a little bit easier.of course credit should also go to the Chinese without whom this would not have been possible.now all that remains to be seen is how far would
Pyongyang go to appease the Allied Forces as regards its nuclear arsenal.it is rumored that North Korea has already an operable nuclear bomb.well,now that Pyongyang has taken this step one can only hope that North Korea would continue the rest of the path to peace and prosperity!