As the 20th anniversary of Tiananmen Square massacre looms large this coming Thursday, it apparently never happened again. Disproving claims by the Chinese government that it is increasing freedoms for its people, the government has stepped on the air hose of a number of U.S.-based blogging sites, including Twitter, Flickr and Blogger to ensure that no Tiananmen stories break past its great (fire)wall. There is already a ban on YouTube in China after it was shut down earlier this year when demonstrations against China by supporters of a free Tibet were caught on video – gasp! – demonstrating. On my first trip to China, the European news program I was watching one morning got as far as “Ti-an” before it went black. Silly me, I called downstairs to complain that there was something wrong with the feed in my room. It was miraculously “fixed” as soon as the “Ti-an” story was over. And I couldn’t access my email from China because our web address had the objectionable word “freedom” in it. There are 30,000 Internet police in China, and the number of inspectors employed to monitor China’s adherence to environmental rules barely hits one thousand. Priorities? The United States and its entrepreneurs negotiate and operate in good faith and respect the fundamental freedoms ensconced in our Constitution, among those - freedom of speech, assembly and a free press. As China continues its climb toward becoming the major player in the global economy, Americans should never be confounded by its cheating on subsides, human rights, its currency and environmental laws. A nation that has no respect for the fundamental human rights of its own people is unlikely to engage honestly with anyone from somewhere else.