China protests target CNN, French store

http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/04/20/china.protests/

Some might be afraid of the verbal confrontations between China and the western world. In the long run I believe this dialog is a positive one. The Chinese have been sheltered and living in their own ethnocentric view of reality for Thousands of years. Communism only made that worse in some ways. The Chinese have been brainwashed for so long by their government as a way of controlling their hearts and minds to only think down a very narrow pathway that the world has to be open minded about a people so abused in this way by their government long term. I, personally, am amazed how far and how fast the Chinese people have come from where they were under Mao. I think they have moved about as far as 1.4 billion people can in the last 40 years.

Nationalism can be a good thing or a bad thing. The most unfortunate thing for me about all this is the Chinese nationalism driven by Chinese government propaganda will only cost more lives of Tibetans and other minorities within Asia under China's domination.
I don't have the answer to all this except that it is in the interests of EVERYONE on earth that China become a real democracy as soon as possible. Otherwise, the whole world will be abused, killed, starved and mistreated just like the Tibetans have been for the last 60 years now.

Even if it costs the west some dollars to let China know what we all feel, it is as necessary for us to let China know as it is for each of us to continue breathing air. All of our future survival depends upon this!