by Rick Lowe

Numerous commentators around town are using a lot of ink to justify The Bahamas governments closer ties with China.

While we are firm believers in trade, it should be left to business people to establish trade – not the government.

With all the talk today about govenrment censoreship of the movie Brokeback Mountain (sic?) there is a peculiar censoreship happening in China through Google and their search engine.

Jim Harper of the Cato Institute has some interesting thoughts on this matter. Watch his interview on CNBC via this link from The Cato Insitute web site.

Here are a couple excerpts from the link above:

“To avoid government bans on their products and information services, several technology companies have agreed to cooperate with restrictions mandated by Chinese authorities.

“Nothing should take the focus off the fact that the Chinese government persists in maintaining a deadly communist ideology.”

“Abandoning China would be no help to the Chinese people. “

Don’t forget to visit the Cato Institute online.