is china weak or strong

[billy]

Despite being allowed to tell her husband he won the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize, the wife of Liu Xiaobo was detained in her apartment in Beijing, China, according to a human rights group and her attorney.

Upon hearing he had received the peace prize, Schwanke said, Liu Xiaobo began to cry, and said, "This is for the martyrs of Tiananmen Square."

At least two international television networks -- CNN and BBC -- were blacked out as the Nobel committee announced the winner on Friday, and CNN's reports on Liu remained blacked out for most of the day.

Liu was sentenced in 2009 to 11 years in prison for inciting subversion of state power.

He is the co-author of Charter 08, a call for political reform and human rights, and was an adviser to the student protesters at Tiananmen Square in 1989.
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my question is this: is china weak or strong, it locks up dissidents, puts innocent people incommunicado, closes down access to news channels and internet sites in order to control what can and cannot be accessed.

my personal view is china is extremely weak and insecure as a government. and extremely strong as a people. specially the younger generations. under such a strict regime as china has, these people are prepared to go to prison for what they believe is right. some even to he point of death. i know many countries are the same but for me this guy is a genuine hero. so! china, is it a goody or a baddy?