China vs. Taiwan.

I shouldn’t be blogging right now. I should be thes-ass storyboarding. But anyway, I just wanted to say something about the Chinese president’s recent visit to my beautiful city: it made me sick. Here is an oppressive, Communist leader who promotes torture and human rights violations on a regular basis, yet what do we do here in the Emerald City? Roll out the red carpet. Maureen Dowd of the NY Times sums it up nicely:

“If Hu wants somebody to kiss his ring, he should have stayed in that other Washington. Those computer geeks and coffee beanheads treated him like a conquering hero. They’re such die-hard liberals, but they don’t seem to give a good google about a little censorship or mind collaborating with the state’s crackdown on human rights crackpots when it comes to their Chinese meal ticket. They saw him coming and said, ‘Ya-Hu!’ “

We were talking to my Taiwanese friend, Chang-Ling, about it at Mark’s house tonight. She was telling us how the Chinese set off missile tests in the harbors of Taiwan whenever they hold their own elections in order to instigate fear in the Taiwanese, whose government and independence they refuse to recognize. And yet we welcome their leader with open arms. That’s effed up….