[at bay]

Wenyi Wang should have the ridiculous charges against her dismissed immediately. Then she should be invited to the White House to discuss the butchery in China directly with the President.

[defenderSD]

This is a rather dumb editorial. Diplomatic visits are not the proper place to make statements about abuses of human rights. The US makes those statements frequently in official reports on human rights and foreign policy. The question of official independence for Taiwan is a complex issue, and this writer seems to take a simplistic view of the issue. It looks like our plan is for Taiwan to not become officially independent until China ultimately becomes more free and democratic, and we're working on ways to open up the Chinese political system and move China towards democracy. We don't want Taiwan to provoke China into a war where we could potentially get involved in a nuclear confrontation with China.

Try a search on "China"; there was a thread recently about all the changes in US Navy strategy to containt the Chinese military threat.

[Just A Nobody]

It is amazing there have been no comments on this post.

If Ms. Wang was a member of the communist Code Pinkos that interrupted the inaugural address of President Bush and the confirmation hearing of John Bolton, or if she was a member of CONgress and had punched a federal police officer, nothing would have come of it.

[Longbow1969]

Heckler's suck...period.

There are plenty of responsible ways to get attention. Shouting people down or interrupting a speech is flat out childish.

It is embarassing for any White House to host a foreign leader and have that guests speech interrupted by a bunch of shouting.

All heckling should be discouraged. It is nasty when some leftwing moonbat heckles people on our side, and it is no better when people we might otherwise agree with heckle those we surely do not approve of.

I hope this Falun Gong woman is prosecuted and jailed.

[joesnuffy]

Lots of T Bills in chi-com (and Muslim) hands...don't want the reserve capital in Euros now do we?

[Mike Darancette]

Did Chinese President Hu Jintao blow into Washington last week as a triumphant victor, inspecting his vanquished foe?

Like Red Buttons Hu Jintao, "Never got a dinner". That actually means something in the diplomatic world.

[The Duke]

Because of the ringing silence about China's horrid, ongoing abuse of human rights.

We lost that bully pulpit - and much more - several years ago in a place called "Waco".

[Paul Ross]

Did Chinese President Hu Jintao blow into Washington last week as a triumphant victor, inspecting his vanquished foe?

It has felt that way for some time. There is incontestably a dearth of courage and virtue...and at the highest levels... in the supposed "land of the free, and the home of the brave."

The flag is still flying...but for how much longer?