Chinese Racists Or Something

clipped from pajamasmedia.com WHAT’S NEXT? A CHINESE TEA PARTY MOVEMENT? In front of a roomful of government officials, businessman Zhou Jusheng took the mic and made a simple demand: finish paving and landscaping the industrial park that houses his drill-bit factory. His request at a public hearing was modest by Western standards. But in China, where the communist government muscularly guards its political monopoly and where people mostly defer to authority, Zhou’s assertiveness points to a telling change. “You could say that I was just wasting my breath,” he said later at his factory. “But as a citizen, I should speak out.” “Ordinary people have the right to ask, how are you spending my money? Are you spending it on me? What are you doing with it?” said Li Fan, who runs a private think tank in Beijing that promotes political reform and is advising Wenling officials. Obviously, they must be racists or something.