DON'T BEFRIEND A TYRANT

By Bayawanon

In some ways China is already democratizing, thanks to that failed 1989 Tiananmen Square people power uprising which resulted to the massacre of hundreds if not thousands of young students who were just clamoring for change. After that failed Tiananmen cry, the Chinese Communist Government improved its service regarding the delivery of the basic goods and services to the people, the citizens are given the right to travel by the government and many of them have already indulged in business. The effective governance has somehow silenced the critics and dissidents of the government. Another rationale why the would be oppositionists won't question the government is the fear of reprisal and the possibility of another bloody massacre in exchange of freedom.

Because of the lifting of the prohibition to travel of the Chinese socialist-communist government to its citizens, the massive industrialization of the same and the government's condonation of business activities of its citizens, some of us would assume that China is now in the process of democratization.

Is China now a democratic country? My answer is in the negative on three grounds to wit: 1) The Chinese government does not observe press freedom; 2) There is only one political party in the country which is the Communist Party of China and 3) There is a glaring suppression of religious freedom in the red state. Because of these, I can still safely claim that China is still a communist-socialist country.

So why would the Philippines befriend China when in truth and in fact it is still a communist country? Will the Philippines not weigh the advantages and disadvantages it may get from China? I believe that the mending of fences between the two countries would do great favor to the collossal country and would do more harm to the Philippines since through the passage of many Chinese in the Philippines, the latter may not effectively check the entrant Chinese communist agents who may eventually aid their ill equipped Filipino counterparts, and if that happens the communist insurgency may continue in the Philippines.

As China grows stronger, eventually becoming a geopolitical hegemon and a world super power, it starts to flex its muscles not just in the West Philippine Sea nee' South China Sea. She starts to own islands not belonging to her from the islands proximate to Japan to the Paracels, to the Spratlys down to the Natuna island of Indonesia thereby owning almost all of the West Philippine Sea and part of the Sea of Japan. In connection to these, the supreme leader of our state, the president of the Philippines should think over his decision to coalesce with this hegemon since the same is purely a WORLD TYRANT which is a threat to democracy and universal peace.