The End To Any Real Blogging In China...

No, it's not what you think. Pajamas Media has not cut a deal with the Chinese government, Microsoft has, and that's nearly as bad.

Microsoft Shuts Down Chinese Blog - Yahoo! News

BEIJING - "Microsoft Corp. has shut down the Internet journal of a Chinese blogger that discussed politically sensitive issues, including a recent strike at a Beijing newspaper.

Microsoft's Web log-hosting service shut down the blog at the Chinese government's request, said Brooke Richardson, group product manager with Microsoft's MSN online division at company headquarters in Redmond, Wash.

"When we operate in markets around the world, we have to ensure that our service complies with global laws as well as local laws and norms," Richardson said.

Richardson said the blog was shut down Dec. 30 or Dec. 31 for violating Microsoft's code of conduct, which states that users must be in compliance with local laws in the country in which the user is based."

Laws. China. Put those two words together in a sentence at your own peril. All we hear is how strong the anti-government factions are becoming, and how the people won't stand for so totalitarian a government much longer, and how powerful the middle class Chinese are soon to become. Bullshit.

Such bilgewater began surfacing in earnest back in '89 during the Tianamen Square ruckus, and the only thing that has changed is the fact that videos of tanks pushing aside the citizenry doesn't stand a chance of making it to anyone's 6 O'Clock news. I mean, what do you expect from a country so incapable of modern manufacturing that they're forced to buy weapons from France? The single best thing that could EVER happen to China would be for them to lose a war to us.

Check out the Japanese. The ONLY asian country modern enough to do business on an even footing with the West.

And it sure didn't happen because the Emporer said make-it-so.

And if you're looking into your crystal ball, you'll find this: the day after REAL anti-ICBM technology becomes a reality is the day China no longer exists as a threat to anyone; economically or militarily. Then, and only then will the people take the country for themselves. With tons of help from a West that isn't afraid of pissing off the despots in Peking.