Beijing's mandarins don't take anything short of praise lightly. Many of China's citizens, too, ra-ra along, condemning such 'acts of anti-nationalism' as a galling affront to their stakeholdership in their country's continuing Great Leap Forward. This is 'democracy' with Chinese characteristics, one that is ill-willed, ill-prepared to confront, never mind tackle, genuine questions that don't go with the rest of the BHP - Big Happy Picture.