The curbs are high in Beijing. You won't find slopes or slanted paths leading the old or crippled from the chaotic street to the safety of the pavement. China ignores its most disadvantaged. Millions living in abject poverty while the government spends $3 billion on an opera house. The 7% of the country able produce food for 1.3 billion people now shrinking due to the relentless rate of desertification, and yet $3 billion had been earmarked to send a …showed first 75 words of 695 total…

…showed last 75 words of 695 total…in the day to suddenly rearrange the programme. In the course of the Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao's last state visit, Bush actually denounced democracy in action when he complained that "the comments and actions made by the leader of Taiwan indicate that that he may be willing to make decisions unilaterally to change the status quo, which we oppose." With such a regime, what could be expected of its actions towards its minority groups?