CHINA'S INNERMOST SECRET FEARS

By Gabriel Lafitte, 22 Nov 2010

IS CHINA’S MODERNITY ONLY SKIN DEEP?

China's greatest fear is that modernity is skin deep, and is easily lost. The gleaming modernity of the glass towers is just a skin, covering what lies behind: a vast sea of seething irrationality, superstition, ignorance and mutual obligation; which modern China left behind only yesterday, which could reassert itself at any time. Modern China fears that its grip on modernity, and on the hearts of the masses who are yet to benefit much from modernity, is fragile, and could easily be shaken.

AUNG SAN SUU KYI: LIGHT OF FREEDOM IN MYANMAR

'I extend my support and solidarity with the recent peaceful movement for democracy in Burma....and the early release of fellow Nobel Peace laureate Aung San Suu Kyi.'- His Holiness the Dalai Lama, 23 September 2007

Myanmar juntas today made final arrangement for the release of the most prominent Burmese Democratic leader and the Nobel Peace Laureate Madame Aung San Suu Kyi from her lakeside villa prison. After prolong hiatus, people of Myanmar applauded with rejoice and triumph of hearing the news of her release, which clearly shows the unfathomable desire for freedom and democracy in Myanmar.

Myanmar for the last couple of decades was blended with trauma under the bloody realm of Military Juntas which makes headline every other day. Rangoon, despite being a member of United Nations plainly nullifies the international principles on human rights and carries out her own rigid control over its people, which is deeply a cause of concern for the United Nations. Myanmar paid no heed to the repeated calls and sanctions imposed by the International communities as it was silently supported by People's Republic of China (PRC).