China, which executes more people each year than any...

China, which executes more people each year than any another country, was restrained in its reaction to America's execution of Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh on June 11.
Foreign Ministry Spokesman Sun Yuxi said he had "no comment whatsoever" on McVeigh's execution by lethal injection, which he called America's internal affair.
In stark contrast to the outcry in Europe over the execution, most Chinese Communist Party newspapers only carried news agency reports, with no added commentary.
But on the streets of Beijing there were different reactions.
A peddler surnamed Xu, 36, said he believed that the United States executed far too few people."Any government should have the right to protect society," he said.
Other Chinese said U.S. society had spawned McVeigh.
"I think a country has to take responsibility for such a man," said a shop vendor Liu Xiaoling, 29."Anyone who would go as far must have been treated unfairly by society," she said.
On the bulletin board of the web portal sina.com, young, educated web hounds displayed a mix of morality and anti-American sentiment. Some said McVeigh should die, but others dubbed the execution a tragedy and condemned the death penalty as immoral.
"Hatred has triumphed over justice," wrote one person. "This proves that Americans have not yet become civilised. As for China, who knows how many years it will be before the death penalty is abolished!"