Hypocrites

American politicians seem to worry a lot about a rising China. Politicians like Romney blame China for depriving jobs from Americans (that's stark nonsense from the perspective of economics of course) and I'm really shocked at the reality that China now acts as  the scapegoat of weak economics in America and it seems that these bureaucrats consider scolding China as a means to get attention and vote. Now I consider this problem from politic perspective and find another irony of this kind of act.

America politicians fear that China will surpass America and become the world's biggest economy within 25 years or so. But in my opinion China SHOULD and MUST be the biggest economy or it will lead to great humanistic disaster. As we all know, China has at least 1 billion more people than America does. That means even if China is as prosperous as America does, still from the perspective of an ordinary American, Chinese will be poor on average. (The denominator is 1.4 billion or larger in the future) So if China fails to develop well and fast, how can we pull so many people out of poverty?

Besides, American politicians care about the human rights situation in China. In my opinion, a very great part of human rights is poverty right, which is not just materialistic property or wealth, but also innate rights. Serfs don't have human rights because they are the belongings or lords rather than owners of their belongings. Similarly, if China doesn't develop or slow down the pace of development, how can we improve the living standards and dignity of those poor people? SO it's very ironic that American politicians on one hand bemoan the problem of human rights in China (and it's pathetic of them to think that way because now Chinese people can use microblog to show our opinion and supervise the work of bureaucrats, more and more citizens have the enthusiasm to get involved in the discussion of social issues. In fact, some scandals are first discovered by citizens and government officials consider these opinion as crucial suggestions in solving problems) but ON THE OTHER HAND repress the development of China. China doesn't steal the jobs of American people. Self-sufficiency is the road to serfdom.

In the end, China now faces domestic problems in economics (debt, inflation, for example) and thus we really need a relatively benign international atmosphere to make adjustment and get better, but now America forces all the countries globally to boycott Iranian gasoline. Personally, I think it's kind of commit suicide of economics.