It would be good if the more virulent posters here actually lived in China for a while or at least checked their information before shooting their mouth off. Look. I know there are some BIG problems here in China but there are in America and elsewhere too. China doesn't have gun deaths like America for a start. But back on topic. I've lived in China for more than 4 years, I'm a very spiritually inclined person and have no problem openly discussing spiritual philosophy. I have students who are Christians, Buddhists, and Moslems and all are quite open about their religious practices and beliefs. Religious organizations have to obey the law as they do in any country but to suggest people can't choose their religion is rubbish (Falun Gong excluded). New church and temple buildings are being constructed all over the country, old ones are being refurbished, and Christians now outnumber Communist Party members by almost 2 to 1. As I said, there are problems. Religious freedom is not one of them.

TB:"There is an increasing recognition that religion is a social good both in the sense of providing social cohesion and moral norms in a society troubled by massive economic migration and by healing the social impact of a rapidly developing capitalist economy."

Tony Blair recognizes religion for what it is, and the Chinese gov't is beginning to realize it can use religion like it has long been used in the West and Mideast.

As Socialism is falling apart, and wealth moves upwards and society stratifies along class/money lines, Religion becomes one of the tools to help keep the citizens happy with their lot.

To Blair, Religion is one of the tools of capitalism to keep the masses from thinking about how they are being used by the industrial military complex. He says it himself.

Wait and See, soon soon very soon, What happens to the whole of SINO-landa when finally the "Paper-Tiger"s ECONOMY's Bubble also bursts.

China is a Paper Tiger; They always was, so don't think otherwise! Note: Even Stupid People can Build Atomic Bombs. So that does'nt make them Smarter; only COPY-CAT-NATIONS [People!]! Zero Originality. They are like Parasites. [Islami's and Sino's & Wannabe's].

Please see: "UNESCO and Japan join forces to conserve birthplace of Buddha in Nepal".

http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=35453&Cr=nepal&Cr1=

PS: LUMBINI "NEPAL" is now Officially Earths Home (of GAUTAMA) and Center of "BUDDHISM" ; Not, or no-more LAHASA, TIBET!

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Soo Goodbye Mr. Buddha [G-D] Player, aka Mr. Tenzin Gayatso, aka Dali Lama & his Lazy Monks Army.! Please see ; May the Real Dali Lama (includes the Hidden Lama/Imam) please stand-up!? See:

".. The Worlds 3 Dali's..."

http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia-pacific/2010/03/20103142538748679.html

Hey Tony, George says hello.

His lap is missing its favorite poddle.

For those whjom have never travelled to China, religion is illegal. No one is allowed to convert or speak of religion in the public in China. Tony Blair must have gone to alternate world China where people are free to practice any religion they choose.

How deceiving! The so-called Christians including Catholics is less than 2% of those practicing any religion! Something like 5 Million; while Muslims are 40 Million and Buddists are more than 1 Billion. More likely than not, those Christians are practicing many Buddist ceremonies with their dose of Chrisianity! How any peoples with a more sane and intellectual religious philosophy could be seduced by the dark side Abrahamic ignorance is beyond me! Good Luck Tony; I assume you are well paid to pursue this fool's errand!

The arrogant and insupportable pretensions of China that she will hold commercial intercourse with the rest of mankind not upon terms of equal reciprocity, but upon the insulting and degrading forms of the relations between lord and vassal."

-John Quincy Adams

Nothing has changed Blair. China aims to dominate global trade and they're chipping away at it piece by piece. it was our HUGE mistake to invite them into the WTO when they had 0 intention of playing by the rules in the first place. They aim to have the last laugh.

Is it time for the British to engage in another Opium War?

You know the Chinese haven't forgiven you all for that right?

What claptrap.

It's a pity there's not a huge resurgence of interest in Taoism in China - the practical mysticism of their ancient forefathers.

Theism is just bound to muddy already autocratic and authoritarian waters. Mao supplanted by God the Father is not necessarily a salutory change.

It's a pity there's not a huge resurgence of interest in Taoism in China - the practical mysticism of their ancient forefathers.

Theism is just bound to muddy already autocratic and authoritarian waters. Mao supplanted by God the Father is not necessarily a salutory change.

Tony Blair is now a paid commercial endorser for China. China's only foreign policy objective is to take every single job possible from the western world to insure its own unhappy people have something to do other make revolutions and labor strikes.

Dear Tony,
Perhaps you've heard of this place called, "Tibet?"
Your incredible, astonishing China has done everything it can to destroy the entire Tibetan culture, and like Mr. Obama, your lack of guts to face the Chinese head on and demand justice for the Tibetan people is very noticeable to the same public you'd like to impress with your flattery of the Chinese government.
By sweeping the Dalai Lama under the rug and only focusing on China, you have bitten the bait as China hoped, and now you are hooked,

Why would anyone have faith in Bush's Poodle?

We learned our lessons.

I wish Tony better luck here than his search for weapons of mass distruction. I can't help to wonder if he is setting up any foundation that's purpuse is aimed at providing compensation for families that lost innocent children as a result of his ill thought out war. Probably not.

The Chinese Communist Party(CCP) is a brutal regime that practices slavery, torture and even organ harvesting on its own people.
The U.S. House of Representatives passed a resolution Tuesday, Mar.16, 2010, urging the Chinese Communist Party to end its decade-long campaign against Falun Gong and expressing solidarity with victims of persecution in China.

House Resolution 605 recognizes, “the continued persecution of Falun Gong practitioners in China on the 11th anniversary of the Chinese Communist Party campaign to suppress the Falun Gong spiritual movement and calling for an immediate end to the campaign to persecute, intimidate, imprison, and torture Falun Gong practitioners.” “The Falun Gong spiritual discipline is based on truthfulness, compassion, and tolerance,” said Ros-Lehtinen. “Yet these innocents are brutally targeted by the Chinese regime. The stark reality which this resolution addresses gives new meaning to the phrase 'Butchers of Beijing.’”
The Governments of the World are aware of these atrocities and many more but continue to do business as usual because of corporate greed.

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