Why is it that often, when one asks a critical question about Chinese government policy.... ?

Question

......hypersensitive Chinese nationalists reply with "Tu quoque" responses that don't actually answer the question? Are they afraid of actually trying to answer the question?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tu_quoque

Answer 1

Critical questions about Chinese government?  Depends on what types of questions.  The critical questions are limited, consider the fact that the Chinese Government governs the largest population in the world.  No other nations will ever understand how difficult it is to maintain order and peace for 1.3 billion people.  Especially when majority of the people are in poverty.  The US will be really bad at it if they try to govern 1.3 billion people.  

With 5000 years of history, China has only opened its border for 30 years or so.  Before that, it has always been the westerners that were invading China, spreading capitalism.  The British wouldn't stop importing Opium into China for three centuries.  Over 2/3 of the Chinese population was addicted to Opium.  The Chinese government went to war with the British twice, trying to stop the importation of Opium.  

Worry about other issues, instead of the Chinese government policies.  

Olivegal - I agree that nations need to interact through peace talks.  But what are your critical questions regarding Chinese government policy?  With all the wars around the world, the Chinese government policy is not the top priority.  Why don't you worry about possible war with Iran, that can potentially spike oil prices pass $8/gal and bringing back the military drafting system?  What about Russia backing up Iran that can turn into a possible W W 3?  How about all the civil wars in Africa?  Where are the peace talks for these issues?  How come the media seldom broadcast any of these issues?  Are they not worthy for your so called "INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY" to interact with each other?  

Stick my head back in the sand?  First of all, I didn't say I don't want to worry about world issues.  I mentioned that there are other issues that you should worry about instead of the Chinese government policies.  Let me tell you, all these issues around the world is a never ending process, You can worry for the rest of your life.  

The key is to set priorities, in my opinion, WAR is the top issue I would be worrying about.  Obviously you don't know that invading other nations by tapping into their resources and geographical markets is the way to fuel capitalism.

Answer 2

A fallacy is applied when person B attack person A's argument NOT question of being hypocritical which most China detractors are (that is 99.9% true.

If you take philosophy; you will understand what fallacy means?

I know it because there's a little war called Iraqi War. What they are doing is 5x worse than what China is doing.

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Ahaha! You think Iraqi War is what only the US is supporting. Please save me that joke. Tony Blair is a war criminal that should have been hanged. The two pairs has caused destruction and has killed 3x people than what the Sudanese president did.

Some key nations through the destructions: Spain, Canada, and Australia.

And then there's the Israelites: Every week the Israeli government evicts Palestinians from their homes, steals their land, and kills Palestinian women and children. These crimes against humanity have been going on for decades. Except for a few Israeli human rights organizations, no one complains about it. Palestinians are defined as "terrorists," and "terrorists" can be treated inhumanely without complaint.

Iraqis and Afghans suffer the same fate. Iraqis who resist US occupation of their country are "terrorists." Taliban is a demonized name. Every Afghan killed – even those attending wedding parties – is claimed to be Taliban by the US military. Iraqis and Afghans can be murdered at will by American and NATO troops without anyone raising human rights issues.

Don't get me wrong. I'm for holding all governments accountable for their criminal actions. It is the hypocrisy to which I object. The West gives itself and Israel a pass while damning everyone else. Even human rights groups fall into the trap. Rights activists don't see the buffoonery in their complaint that President Bush, who has violated more human rights than any person alive, is letting China off the hook for human rights abuses by attending the Olympics hosted by China.

Answer 3

.....'who knows?'

....'if anyone knows they will be re-educated!'

Recently a Chinese girl told me that "a Chinese woman, who speaks excellent English, should at lease try to pretend  to be a little bit modest....."

Her skills enable her to 'escape to a clean country, but leaving her sisters behind, suffering poorly, while making the CCCP richly blessed."

Next time a Chinese person seems a little modest, try to understand that they are all under tremdous pressure to serve Nationalist interests by 'pretending to try be a little bit wiser than all others.'

Sadly, the world society has watched China for the past hundred years, and tried, at times with great difficulty, to empathise with the Chinese citizens, in light of their "small, highly centralized, extremely controlling government' that has provided the incubus of saddness and social ineptitude for such a large population.

The Chinese society is perhaps the very most self-centered, self-interested, indignant social culture outside of the obviously maladapted sociopaths of Africa and the middle east.

Bearing in mind the intensity of the self-centered Chinese citizen one readily understands how their "Tu quoque" postulation seems plausible to the Chinese mind......in short, this is due largly to a lack of awareness of self-presence in this world and in that also a lack of experience in speaking to others' who have receivd an 'open-minded' education and social upbringing

I know all of this sounds so mean,,,but, the Chinese make their bed and sleep in it just like anyother culture

....just in China, men still urinate in the middle of town, babies still do not wear diapers, just leaving human defication waste plainly exposed to the other fellow citizens who simply 'do not see' those common sanitation issues, much less the behavioral issue as any sort of problem....and I can go on with a much longer list of social practices by Chinese that are simply distasteful, unacceptable, and quite insulting to the Western cultures who would otherwise perhaps try to do some business with Chinese people, rather than their government, who no one likes....not even Chinese Nationalists

This is my opinion