Today I received a YouTube video via Facebook by a Chinese friend of mine.

My friend is a very honest and kind girl and I am quite sure she didn’t send me this video in order to show me how much present regime is able to manipulate history in order to preserve itself at expense of people civil liberties… and this makes me sad. I am still convinced it is time to ask, it is time to ask China to start its democratic reform.

At present we Europeans are living under United States military umbrella. I never liked United States imperialism, as it is called by someone, but at least it has the side effect of enhancing democratic development. Besides imperialism, I am not a fan of exporting democracy by bombing people too… Nevertheless I want to be able to keep my liberties and possibly to expand them and I do not think China, when it will be the new world emperor, will be able to grant me my present liberties, unless it will become an actual democracy.

So there are only two possible choices in my view: increasing European military expenditures in order to be ready to face any military threat China will be able to directly or indirectly pose to our democracies since the middle of this century on, or… trying to work through cultural and economical channels diffusing as much as possible the civil liberty ideals hoping they will root in that country.

Sincerely I prefer the latter, definitely.