Seems like the president of China will come to the United States of America, he won't be meeting with president Bush, however. Instead he will meet with the president of Microsoft, Bill Gates.
Slashdot is covering the news and I wanted to point out part of a comment from the Slashdot discussion and see if you've got any thoughts about it:
"Forty years ago, Nixon invented the policy of engagement to balance the dangerous Soviet Union against an equal dangerous but hungry Communist China. Ten years ago, with the Soviet menace defeated, Bill Clinton invented the complete sell out. Slave made goods have flowed into out country, jobs and money have flowed out. Parallel to this was born the myth of the "information economy" where the US would own ideas and the rest of the world would do our bidding because of it. Of course, for this ownership to be complete, it must apply to our own citizens. To enslave others, we must first prove our dedication to ruling by enslaving ourselves. You can draw a straight line to today, with the DMCA, Patriot act and rampant domestic spying from a tremendously expanded federal government. As the rich and powerful gateher in Redmond, ask yourself where the rhetoric of freedom has gone and why your boss is dining with a Communist. What in the hell are we doing?"
Note: I'll add links later cuz I'm posting from my mobile...
Update: Links added.
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