When in a speech delivered by Chinese president Hu Jintao among students of a Chicago school, which spoke about the youth as the future of the country and hope of the world, it brought back to my memory the words of the national hero of the Philippines, Dr. Jose P. Rizal, a nationalist and a martyr.
It takes one to benefit the whole, just as it takes one Chinese leader to benefit the world.
In the world history, there had been a lot of heroes and martyrs who sacrificed their lives to benefit the many people they loved dearly. The world has never been that old enough to fill every ground with blood spilled to serve as a nutrient of freedom or downfall of a dictator. In addition, I believed that there would be many of them on the waiting line ready to serve their beloved nation.
Although heroes are also perceived as martyrs and in many perspective, they serve as models of righteousness, what is the world to judge and what is left to the minds of those who would love render a bitter part of their endeavor. Freedom indeed is an exercise of free will and the consumption of what is worth dying. Now, I remember Senator Benigno “Nino” Aquino, whose blood has toppled the authoritarian regime of then Pres. Ferdinand Marcos.
On the other part of the world, the most recent event that transpired in the North African nation of Tunisia where a 26-year-old sacrifice of his own life ignited the whole nation into an uproar against the well-entrench dictator, Pres. Zine El Abidine Ben Ali whose 23 years of rule called one to sacrifice to benefit the whole nation. Indeed, world history has never been hungry of self-sacrificing people to carry on the noblest act that would turn tyrants down on their knees or fled away fearing the wrath of an onrushing rage of their own people.
China, just like many other countries, also committed blunders in their own governance. Moreover, one of the greatest blunders it committed was the suppression of a democratic movement in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square in 1989 that students and intellectuals demanded government reforms. This same year witnesses the collapse of a number of communist governments around the world. Nevertheless, it never shook China. There was felt a tremor, but it hardly affected its own yard.
Human rights are one of the fundamental requisites to foster a country towards entering a community of nations. Suppressing human rights is tantamount to an offensive to humanity in freedom, endowed with all the privilege and opportunities to exercise judgment and be responsible for its continued propagation. Human right for many is freedom. It symbolizes the inner value of the person.
China and America are two different nations endowed with differing culture, and are free to choose which path they should take without the interference of each other. Each country sets their respective priorities just as a person to another. No one controls the other but relatively with unified passion to creating a peaceful environment where everyone has all the rights to live by the spaces each government can provide. They both have differing laws and people’s voice representation; one by elections and the other by appointment of those who are collectively trusted to govern the whole will of government. Though both believe the power of the people to set goals and inspiration in their own respective rights and privileges, they significantly differ from how governments run its own affairs. On either sides each represent the positive or negative, but the possibility that they would meet at one point on the middle is great.
The visit of Chinese president Hu Jintao, in my view, is a stark attendance to a wedding ceremony of two differing economic giants, and to the great advantage of the completely wide world that fixed their eyes on these two key world players. Leadership of a nation may change, but the legacy of the outgoing leaders has concretized the value of action that it can offer as they exercise the authority entrusted for their cause.
China’s visit to the Western world is one of symbolic, though some may find it insignificant, but it left a great gesture for the future generations who will view this day of event with careful examination on what it can offer for everyone else in the world.
It is hope that what the two leaders of these great nations have accomplished in those four days can bring out the best of it in the future. In my own view, I feel that the geopolitical wedding that I have witness behind the views of the camera assures the peoples of the world for a greater peace and prosperity.
It is indeed my wish and prayer.
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