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I think it's because the Chinese government embraces, although to a severely limited degree, capitalist ideals when it comes to business. They repress the freedoms of the common people to the delight of the leftist establishment in the West, but it really pisses them off when the Chinese use Western capitalist ideals to run their businesses.

That's because all the leftists who worship the Dalai Lama, like Richard Gere, are calling for boycotting the Olympics, bashing China, etc.

Possibly because China does not make a big, loud, showy deal of being anti-American. Next to Castro, Inc., the Chinese are far more discreet and subtle. Also, China and its brand of totalitarianism was never nearly as fashionable or as hip as the Russian version among Western "progressives," and Cuba obviously went for the Russian version. Also, China is how and where it is mainly due to Chinese factors, not because Western media bastards made Mao a star, for instance. There are still lots of people, influential people, who have long supported Castro, Inc. one way or another, and they can't bear to "lose face" by admitting that was seriously wrong.

Possibly because China does not make a big, loud, showy deal of being anti-American.

Bingo!

That's what I think it is.

Fontova's answer:

because China is much freer than Cuba. When Mao ran China she was every bit as popular as Cuba, as was The USSR when Stalin ran it. It was only when these mass-murderers passed that the sheen wore off for Useful Idiots. Same will happen in Cuba, you watch. When some "China-model" finally kicks in--that's finally when Castro-mania will begin fading among the Intelligentsia. The more repressive (especially by a single charismatic" figure) a regime, the more popular it is for pinks.

It's all about Tibet. We conservatives and classical Liberals (note the capital L - there is a difference in classical vs. everyday liberalism leftism) want Tibet to be free the same way leftists also want it to be free because for them, the American left, it's a trendy thing and kind of a 1960s hippie thing.

and China doesn't have the "Afro Cuban experience" that many leftists travel to Cuba to enjoy - if you catch my drift.

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