Aspen, I'm not sure what your point is about all of those atrocities. Are you saying that the US government was right to invade Iraq? What does that have to do with everything else?

In any case, I disagree with you that protesting the war on the basis that there were no WMDs is the same as saying that Saddam was a advocate of social justice. Most people who protested the war (that I knew of, anyway) did not like the Saddam regime, but did not think that invading without UN approval was the best way to go about helping the Iraqi people.

I still think that people have the right to protest, regardless of what their governments are doing at the time. There are some serious issues that China needs to address, and if it wants an international spotlight, then it will have to accept the fact that the world will see its flaws as well as its glories.