Who are you kidding Diver Dan.The most aggressive nations on the planet are the USA Eurpean Countries and Britian.China has taken Nepal.The USA has invaded Afghanistan,Pakistan,attacked North Korea, Somalia,Iraq,Libya just to name a few.They have over turned the heads of numerous Govts for their economic gain.

They want to invade Syria and steal Iranian oil and look like starting WW3.

579,

"Iran does need regime change. To be ruled by someone that takes their instructions from a book is dangerous..."

Quite so...although God (apparently) bypassed the literary version and went straight to the dope at the top.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2005/oct/07/iraq.usa

Was that god talking or was it something in the joint talking. What ever it was lets hope it is all for the better. Hard going when one tribe can't get on with the other. maybe the country needs dividing. One thing is for sure any change is not going to come any time soon.
Syria is a basket case, Russia is not going in to stop the onslaught, so what do you do, let the country and amenities disintegrate. How will that help the world.
Arjay is frightened of ww3 i don't think there is much hope of that at all. Russia should be with the US in policing these uprisings. What the people want is what the people should get. Power drunk dictators have no future, their days have expired. Syria and its oil should be protected, the world may need it.

Good article Chin Jin.

China's leadership needs to think hard.

Syria is wicked, similar to blocking action as Burmese junta murdered the people. ALL human rights abuses are abhorrent, and cannot be excused or hidden.

Why another Cold War? These backwards movements (like current barbarity in Tibet, and all human rights atrocities in China, aren't 80 million deaths enough?) are weird old paradigms, similar to Russia's 'rolling out the rusty tanks' to frighten the world!

It is all such bizarre thinking.

China needs openness, and democracy. It does not need (or have to) to operate from Mao insanity and paranoia, neurotic control, or Cultural Revolution emotions! Freedom is great!

China's belated resource grab is discordant, and shows little global environmental awareness.

India needs to clean up its infrastructures, corruption, education and health. It does not need nuclear weapons, it needs to to plant trees, build roads, secure electricity supplies and have clean water sources!

Both huge nations (2/3 of the world) need to increase women empowerment and leadership, and to have less children. It is said that Chinese women are the cruellest torturers: I don't mean this type of woman.

A Chinese world is only exciting to proud propagandised flag-waving Chinese, part of a latter day global neo-colonialism, based on myopic greed and tragic propaganda and spiritual deprivation (cold materialistic thinking)- just what others tragically did. It is hard to see the joy in Chinese New Year when one knows what is happening to Tibetans in Tibet, or Chinese dissidents in China, in 2012.

Tibet IS the litmus test of China's humanity.

EVERY nation, including the most powerful, should be working together. Global cooperation is surely the thinking of all higher minds.

You cannot tackle 21st C problems with fanaticism and tortures.

The whole world needs to look long and hard, and learn to work together peacefully, without bloodshed, and outdated agendas of rampant greed and dominance.

Tibet's gross suffering lies heavily on the heart of the world, US needs cleaner ethics, and China needs to drop its support of murderous dictators- and stop the nonsense.

Syria is no more wicked than Libya USA or Europe.While China is no beakon of freedom,since 911 the USA/West have destroyed any rights we had via the ,Patriot Act,Preventative Denention and now Obama's latest debacle, The National Defence Authorisation Act.

Is anyone at home here and in the USA,in the defence of true liberty?

Arjay:

...Compare personal liberty between America and China; consider also judicial outcomes, and consider rates of executions between both countries, and the good-guys have little to worry about in America.

...If some "clown" wishes to plant a bomb in the local market, how should he be dealt with Arjay? I vote to catch them first; and if the anti terrorist acts you mentioned, assist in their purpose of saving innocent lives by rounding up these "Clowns", then there is another vote from me!