Chinese communists play US visa game

CHINESE COMMUNISTS are claiming today that a staggering 30 per cent of visa applications from nationals are being rejected by the United States, the People's Daily says.

This, says the state organ of old man's views, is damaging the economy. The plagiaristic Peep's Daily alleges the US government is shooting itself in the foot.

What has any of this to do with the IT business? The answer is everything. It is alleged that Communist China had deals of exchange of techology with the US government authorities at least 10 years ago.

Now the article here discusses, or maybe philosophises on the reasons.

The INQ considers this to be a very interesting game from the country which had no qualms killing its own citizens in Tianamen Square all those years back.

It's a bit rich from aggressive Chinese communists who still appear to be, with their apparatchiks, still in control of major media in the billion citizen plus country, init?

To the best of our knowledge, the US National Guard hasn't been called out to shoot kids since the infamous Kent State University scandal.

Plus the famous organ of the peeps, like every Chinese communist organ, displays no sign of organic shame about Tianamen Square.

Whatever the United States is doing or not doing, we doubt it would get away with shooting its own kids in the 21st century.

While there are undoubtedly limitations on US citizens' rights, a la the Patriot Act, how can they compare with the Chinese government state control of everything?

Let us British hacks give you an angle on this. In the disastrous 1956 Suez crisis, the UK government, by diktat, imposed a so-called D notice on the press here in Britain.

Our uncle owned a garage in Ballater, Scotland at the time, with the famous Queen stamp, Ballater being very close to Balmoral, the Scottish seat of our Hanoverian queen.

We were passing close the spot where Rob Roy is supposed to have fought to the death at a glen, when Uncle Mac threw the 1956 newspaper to the back of the car and said to us kids whether we could explain why vast sheaves of the British newspaper was covered in white space.

The answer is, of course, censorship. The hacks had written their stories but the government forbade the UK press from running them. So the editors left white space where the stories should have been.

In Britain, we've no rights at all. We're subjects of the Queen, who is also in charge of the state religion. So we can't cast stones towards glasshouses.