User talk:Jgsilva8

There is a paragraph regarding Macau's history (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macau) where it is said that the Qing government was forced to sign the Treaty of Amity and Commerce, and that Portugal pledged to seek China's approval before transfering Macau to another country. There are two gross mistakes in those affirmations: 1. The Treaty was not imposed by no one: it was peacefully negotiated, and I must say, more in favor to China than to the counterpart. In fact, discussions were initially engaged by China due to financial interests... I can add more to that if necessary; 2. The Treaty had a clause, imposed by the Chinese (under influence of the British), saying that Portugal could not, and I quote "alienate Macao without previous agreement with China". 'Approval' is definitely not the right word as it presumes a relation of master and subordination, whereas 'agreement' presumes equal status (not above, not below). This is indeed a relevant aspect! Different words mean different things!

Both 'forced' and 'approval' are strong words used by the writer in a non partial fashion that, I would say, is not an appropriate conduct according to wikipedia's code of ethics.

These two utterances, widely spread across the net due to Wikipedia, are leading to misunderstandings with regard to Macau's "ownership" and the Portuguese presence. It would be good, for the sake of truth, that all facts were correctly made available in Wikipedia.

Thank you.

Your article Beatriz Amélia Alves de Sousa Oliveira Basto da Silva
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