China blocks comments on the pope

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It looks to me like the sites in question have a history of spewing some nastiness. So it was probably wise of the Chinese people who made the decision out of respect for the pope and his memory. I don't this this reporter went deep enough to make any definitive statements, but there at least a clue given that maybe there was a rational reason besides the "evil communist government" stereotypical mudslinging.

China is a different country with a very different culture and different way of life. I saw a program discussing that the chinese environment seems to be condusive to a different way of thinking. The program compared Chinese persons' and a U.S. Americans' (I think, maybe western European) brain activity locations when given similar tasks. So, there you go, Chinese people are different that U.S. Americans. Point being, just because they did something you might not agree with or understand, doesn't mean they were evil in doing so. I think they know how to better deal with their people than we do.