China, The Anti-America (part deux)

Twenty-one of your Earth "days" ago, I blogged about how the Chinese dictatorship had graciously unburdened the people of Hong Kong of their right to political self-determination. Well, Earthlings, they're at it again.

In their last foray into belligerent foreign policy, they told Hong Kongers that the Chinese government could veto any political reforms they might care to implement. Now, they've indefinitely forbidden Hong Kong from electing its own political leaders.

So, again, I ask you: is China not the Anti-America? As the United States leads the international effort to help establish democracy in Iraq, China leads the effort to squelch it in Hong Kong, and cower it in Taiwan.

And, again, I ask: where is the international outcry? Apart from some angry reporters at Reuters, of all places, and the angry people of Hong Kong itself, the silence is deafening.

Makes me sick.