No, but you might need a dictionary. And you might like to actually read people's replies to your questions before commenting, because we could see the accusation of hypocrisy coming from a mile off... your opinion was already formed.
So, to answer the accusation of hypocrisy, in terms that you might understand, or choose not to. I've never told anyone else how they should behave. Plus, I've openly admitted that it's not always possible to stick to my own beliefs. Those are not the attributes of a hypocrite, but of someone with a certain view, but one that he doesn't impose upon others.
The way in which the question was posited was infantile. The point I made was that the Chinese economy has boomed on the back of cheap labour. The need for slaves (upon which all the great empires were built) is irrelevant to China since it has such a huge population, the majority of whom are on subsistence level wages. China will argue that the economic boom has taken millions out of poverty. That's true, but that argument is spurious because the population has boomed and millions more still live on the poverty line (btw, I've been to rural China and seen this for myself). One of my nieces is Chinese. She tells me that besides a totalitarian system that allows no political freedoms or choice, the phenomenon that has kept the CCP in power is the rise of the middle class. Some time in the future, if and when the economy falters, the middle classes will turn on the CCP. Until then nothing will change.
.
. He is a man of principle too.
