In such an atmosphere, neither the American public nor their elected representatives are likely to give much credence to businessmen who contend that their activities in China should go forward because they are designed to aid the Chinese people and not the government.
While it is obvious that any lasting democratic reform in China cannot be imposed from the outside, it is equally obvious that the Chinese people currently do not yet enjoy the requisite civil and political rights to turn internal dissent into effective reform.
The Cuban people are not free, but neither are the Chinese or Vietnamese, and America has concluded that it is in its interests to have normal relations with their countries.
The Chinese people, not the party establishment, express willingly their desire to be better represented, to have a say in their local affairs.
We must make it unmistakably clear that the West will not turn a blind eye toward or otherwise facilitate the Chinese government's behaving towards its people in ways anathema to Western values and traditions.
Sensitivity to public opinion is a welcome change on the part of China's rulers, but the Chinese people wouldn't be so angry at the U.S. if their government were not lying to them about what transpired.
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The party struck a new compact with the Chinese people: As long as you do not threaten our monopoly on power, we will let you go about your business and maybe even prosper.
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However, there are still people who remain homeless, though the Chinese government has not released official figures.
Long-time Africa campaigner Sir Bob Geldof says people should not worry about Chinese investment in Africa and rebuffs the idea of economic colonialism.
Although he says the region desperately needs people, he made it clear Chinese immigrants were not an option.
When I started to write my book The Chinese Dream three years ago, people in the United States did not even believe there was a middle class in China.
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The Chinese view is why should we not do what we want to do with these little people who used to pay us tribute?
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Between the Black Sea and the Chinese border, more than 70m people live in eight countries that did not exist in that form a decade ago.
Odd, not because there aren't a lot of people around the world clamouring to hold the Chinese currency - but because it has become before anything else.
So while China's size will be a huge opportunity for Chinese people and the rest of the world as they consume more, it might not mean China and its customs will be copied all over the world, as has been the case for America over the past 50 years since it became so important.
The Chinese, too, recognise that the uses of space do not, for the most part, require people to be up there.
Bill Gates and the Google (nasdaq: GOOG - news - people ) boys are still heroes to millions of Chinese and Indians, if not to the French or Bolivians.
Yet the Chinese people cannot absorb all that the country produces at this time, and so they will not be able to buy the resulting output of the new mills, mines and facilities.
At times like this, when the commentary seems so disconnected from my own experience, I like to do a reality check by speaking with as many Chinese business leaders as I can people that have a real stake in the economy, not economists, government officials or foreign commentators.
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