Tuesday, March 01, 2011

Out of the Frying Pan

It strikes me that the Chinese evacuation of 30,000 citizens who worked in Libya back to China risks putting 30,000 people who witnessed a popular uprising against an authoritarian state back into a country already irritated at government privileges.

Remember that Stalin considered Russian POWs freed from German captivity in 1945 a threat to his regime just for seeing what the West looked like.

I wonder if the evacuated Chinese will be happy with their treatment once back home.