I had to reply your post too. For most part it is misleading, untrue, or at least unfair. Let's go through you comment by bit too.
First thing - who says they hate "China?" I don't hate China, of course, and I don't hate Chinese people - I feel pity for them. What I do hate is the government, who feel it necessary to restrict our access to information, and constantly feel the need to distort the truth, or flat out lie to us. Of course distortions and bias exist in the west, but they're private news companies. Everything here is controlled by the CCP, and through this fact alone, I think we ought to think clearly about whether or not the government is always telling us the truth. Loving the motherland is admirable - loving your people is admirable - loving an unjust government who has tortured us and lied to us and brainwashed us is not. In fact, in this case you could even be labeled and enemy of the Chinese people, as this kind of nationalism that has risen up lately has only put us back into the same place we were mentally during the Cultural Revolution: that is, that the west it out for China's blood, and China must be independent and go down it's own path. How wrong could you possibly be?
I'm not sure if you have heard what Cafferty said on CNN, so plz let me quote:
Chinese products is rubbish.
Over the past 50 years the Chinese people are basically mob and the culprits.
Plz tell me how that is targeted at the Chinese government instead of the Chinese ppl.
I don't believe it is an isolated event, since this kinda crap can be played on CNN, that means it must be somewhat accepted inside CNN itself. And plz don't give me the "freedom of speech" crap either. Freedom of speech protects you for expressing your own opinion, it certainly does not grant you the right to say crap to generally insult a group of ppl and get away with it. And don't tell me American government don't distort the truth, where's the "weapon of mass destruction" that they swear they saw? We love our country, we love our people, we don't really love our government - we make fun of it as much as you do, if not more, but we do feel responsible to the government, and we are trying to make it feel responsible for us.
Racism is a shameful thing. I agree, designating people by the color of their skin can be humiliating. Perhaps the Qing left us in a shamble due to their own xenophobic economic and cultural policies.
I agree. I see no problem with this.
Who calls China a threat? Nearly every other large nation. This isn't a personal attack - in very real terms, China is a threat to large western powers, economically and militarily (although admittedly less so). Not to mention, it's not likely China will ever be a superpower in the same vein as the USSR or the USA. There are simply too many problems at home, socially, politically, and environmentally that have yet to be solved.
No, it is not a personal attack, but it is where the attacks are coming from. The west attacked China at such a time in such perfect unison, and are willing to go as far as manipulting the truth and fool the crowd. Plz don't tell me that they "just wanna be friends".
Whether admit it or not, like it or not, China is on its route to become a superpower in the world. Of course, they are still many problems at home, but we are solving them and will solve them. They shall not slow down our footsteps.
The opium trade was shameful. I find no problem in this at all. Agreed.
Agreed as well.
A minority of people do this. Chinese should feel ashamed for allowing their people to work for slave-like wages. Unfortunately, the Communist Party was good at selling us out to the lowest bidder.
Burning Chinese shoes, boycotting or calling to boycott Chinese goods. That is a little too much to be called "minority".
Also, since you are so against Chinese cheap labors, how about you find a way provide jobs for those ppl at high wages? I am not supporting cheap labor, but I don't see a better alternative either.
It was an invasion. Read your history books - of course every country has conquered lands, but I'm quite sure if the majority of Tibetan people lived as prosperously as the Han Chinese and were allowed the freedom to worship, you wouldn't hear anything from the west about Tibet. Think about that.
Unless you consider United States invaded the Confederation, China did not invade Tibet. Tibet is a part of China. Tibetan ppl do have the right to freedom to worship, and they do live prosperously, at least more so since Dalai went into exile.
Not sure what you mean here. The cold war mentality split east and west. Who exactly is "you" anyways? The general western white man?
The cold war was as much fault for the western world as the Soviets. And even though I am not completely sure, I do believe the "you" here refers to the western world.
Mao Zedong's policies for child birth were absurd and far beyond what China needed. Being a "hero mother" was another brainwashing mechanism to bring up a generation of "red" children, willing to die for the cause of Chinese communism. Look at all the problems the population has caused us already!
Yes, we realized that it was a mistake. That's why we tried to fix it.
I don't agree with this, national policy to control the population is admirable given the circumstances, but it cannot be denied that the one-child policy placed rural families in a bind, which resulted in thousands of cases of infanticide and continues to this day. Again, do some more research.
Again, plz provide an alternative. China is already at a critical point that we don't have enough resource to feed this many ppl now. If you could find a way to control China's population growth without any side-effects, then plz.
I don't think anyone referred to the Chinese as dogs. In fact the Chinese received aid and help from western countries while fighting with Japan. Does the Flying Tigers mean anything to you?
I believe he is refering to a park in Shanhai(Which was in the area "on loan" to either Britain or France, I can't find which one it is) at the beginning of last centery. The park had a sign that said "No Chinese and dogs allowed."
Finances are a bit beyond the scope of my understanding, but it seems to be the value of the RMB being out of whack to what it should be. Perhaps here in China we should be looking at the inflation we're experiencing and how to lift all of the people out of poverty in the impoverished areas.
How is this any related with China buying over 40 billion American bonds, then having them turn around and blaming us for buying too much?
Because most of them use coal - an abundant and cheap material in China, and also the most polluting. Not to mention lax regulations regarding dumping of waste. Check the case of the dolphin, Bai Ji, recently gone extinct in large part due to factory pollution.
US pollutes about four times more than China per person. And they are the one who refused to sign both the Tokyo Protocol and the Kyoto Protocol, along with many other things that promotes pollution reduction.
Can't disagree with you here, mostly. However the Chinese certainly should have some sort of responsibility in regards to Sudan. Not to mention the Chinese supplying those responsible for genocide with Chinese-made weapons.
"None interventon in other country's domestic affair." It is written in the UN Charter.
What period are you referring to here, exactly?
The Culture Revolution I presume.
According to the Chinese constitution the people are guaranteed freedom or speech, press, religion, and the right to protest. In practice, this never happens. Such is the way of life under authoritarians. When was the last time a western country shot down it's own citizens demanding change?
"All men are created equal." -- Thomas Jefferson in Declaration of Indepence
Then how come US had slavery for almost 90 years? Because "All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others. "?
Again, not sure what you mean by this. Do the Chinese not want free speech, or are they mostly unaware of what free speech is? Given the events of the past few weeks, clearly this concept is beyond most of them.
When we spoke our mind, and what did Cafferty call us? "Mob and Culprits". Why are they afraid of Chinese finally telling the world what they think? Or they are just afraid that China was not free to the way they wanted us to be?
Refer to my previous comment. Xenophobic ideas have been brewing among the mainland communities for years, mostly encouraged by government propaganda about the motherland and the "Chinese" olympics.
Actually, a lot of ppl believe in the western media much more than they believed in the government. But this time, CNN taught a lesson. The western media are full of crap just like the government properganda. That is the reason why they raged.
Yes, all of those networks are independently run, and are free to air their views as they wish. Such is the right of any country with a free press. Again, this is something hard for most Chinese to understand. Perhaps it's China that doesn't understand the west?
Refering to my previous comment. Freedom of speech is protects for expressing you opinion, it doesn't grant you the right to insult other country and ppl then get away with it. Or is this something that's hard for the western world to understand for that you are used to making up crap to insult the others?
This seems threatening and ridiculous. Are you implying China can survive on it's own? We've seen where that has taken us from the past 60 years. We must remember China was able to build up so quickly due to manpower and an incredible amount of overseas investment. Let's not forget where most of our production technology came from to begin with.
No, your comment seems threatening and ridiculous. Don't push China too far, for if we fall, we are not going down alone.
China's production techonology came from the Soviets in the early 50's, then when China and the Soviets relations went to crap in the late 50's and early 60's, China developed most of it own techonology.
Last time - nobody is criticizing the Chinese people - no government is doing so. The Chinese can and should be proud people, but we have a responsibility to learn the truth, and no longer allow ourselves to be dragged around and used by an authoritarian government that disallows freedom of speech, press, and thought. It's time for the CCP to leave China, and under the heels of a proud Chinese people.
Good, cause if any government is criticizing us, they shall know that it will cost them. China will go in its own route, and we are the ones who will decide which route that is. If overthrowing the current gov't is in our favor, we will do it. But we are not puppets of the western world, we will not do so just cause you pulled a string and told us to.