The Arab revolutions inspire small but vocal China protests!

U.S republican senator of Nevada, John McCain, described the protests in Egypt and Tunisia as a virus that must be stopped. I say if freedom were a virus then it needs to spread like the plague. In an age where the world is a global village and web communication allows people to know in an instant what is happening on the other side of the world, it is a mistake to assume that the protests for freedom and democracy will be contained to the middle east. They will echo with anyone living under authoritarianism and censorship...like the Chinese. Today a few of them made that clear in Shanghai.

I'm not saying that the dictatorship in China will fall tomorrow or even next year, but it does put a smile on my face to know that a bunch of protests half way across the world are putting the fear of God in every dictatorship and authoritarian regime on the planet...even the biggest and the baddest of them all.

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