[peterloo]

I would like to respond to Skybird's post (sorry as I can't quote due to its long length. Combined with the length of my post, it would make this post unnecessarily long)

Skybird, you get the point that "face" is really quite an important stuff in all Chinese, especially for the leaders. Admitting errors is considered to be the ultimate face loser these days.

I don't mind admitting errors, and I believe most other Chinese don't as well as we don't put excessive emphasis one the face stuff. All of us do care about our face but we will not do it in an overdosed way. We have an idiom saying that if we can know our mistakes and if we can bring out change, this will be one of the best things in the world

Unfortunately, the government, especially the leaders, who gained some power by trade, by holding the USA bonds, by its ballistic missiles inventory, become so arrogant that they do not, under any circumstances, admit errors that they had made. Shifting the burden of the mistake to the other seems to be one of the ways to solve problem.s

IF you read my first post here, I made a clear statement that, I don't agree with the way how Beijing is handling this crisis.

But I'm afraid that there are some sort of massive generalization here and in other foreign communities, and this type of generalization, of course, will not hurt me as long as I choose to remain annoymonous. But, this type of generalization will bring out mis-understanding between Chinese and Westerner who avocate peace and freedom. This misunderstanding is dangerous since we all know that crisis and wars evolves from misunderstandings.

I am not trying to defend the Chinese government, after You ,skybird, proofed me how improper is the government has been when trying to handle the Tibet crisis in a post before. I am NOT trying to say that Beijing is all right these days, however, I just feel that some of the misunderstandings should be resolved. This is especially important when the globalization is the global trend.