[GregBuchholz]

>Is their government evil?

I suppose people can argue about how things are different now compared to the past, but I once worked with a man who was the sole survivor in his village. The rest of his family and village were starved to death. The cleanup crew found that he was still barely alive and nursed him back to health. He eventually smuggles himself to the U.S. It is one thing to hear about abstract atrocities in far-away lands, that happened a long time ago, but it is quite another thing to look someone in the face who has suffered from them.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Chinese_Famine

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jan/01/china-great-fam...

[notahacker]

Calling the current Chinese government "evil" for what happened during the late 1950s is arguably less reasonable than blaming the Obama administration for the Jim Crow laws and McCarthyism that existed during the same period, especially given the relatively sweeping systemic changes that have happened in China since then. There are no shortage of living victims of various US administrations' foreign policy errors either. The present Chinese government might have many flaws, including a reluctance to acknowledge past misdeeds even happened, but starving the population to death through intervention in agriculture is not one of them.