85340 - Transcription: West and China

N. Lygeros

This podcast is dedicated to the relation between West and China. We know what it is happening in China, we know that the human rights are spoiled, we know that we have to deal with a dictatorship and it’s rather funny to see that every president of China is unhappy when he’s qualified as a dictator. We knew this already with the US but now we also listen to Germany, so the minister of foreign affairs of Germany qualified the president of China as a dictator and it was again a problem for China. But the problem is in reality another qualification or denomination. The problem is the reality. The reality of China is a problem for all the people of China. We have a communist system which spoils any human right and it doesn’t matter if we are talking about a big population because the problem is just bigger. The reality is that they don’t like to be called like this. But they don’t change any practice. So the policy is always the same. They just talk about diplomacy but never about democracy and they are unhappy when we say that we are talking about a dictator. So we have to continue to say things that they don’t like because we are with Humanity, we are with Time. We don’t waste our time talking about that because we have to do that, because we have also to protect  those populations because if we don’t do this, and I mean we are in free countries, so if we don’t do this who is going to talk about them like this? I think that in reality it’s a duty for democracies to call a dictator, a dictator because we have to say the truth and we don’t care only about diplomacy and to be political correct when  the problems and the troubles are so big. I’m thinking of the students,  I’m thinking of Hong Kong, I’m thinking about the population. In any case we have to say the truth, we have to say what ‘s going on in China and we shouldn’t stop just so as to be politically correct. So if China wants to be called with another name and it’s the same for its president then this country should protect innocent people, should protect human rights.