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| Dec 21, 2008 16:17 |   |
 | Canada “Globe and Mail” on December 18 carried an article “ Sr. Bush blurted out the truth why the West countries to distort China”. Not long ago, in an official Chinese newspaper “China Daily” interview, Sr. Bush said: “ Today’s Chinese people have more freedom than before. The United States have still some people who do not understand that and still holding that the Chinese people are a group of communists.” 34 years ago, president George HW Bush went to Beijing to take over the U.S. liaison office in China. After 4 years of that, the watershed event in the Communist Party of the 11th CPC Central Committee really brought change. The meeting was closed in December 1978, that is, 30 years ago this month. Other things occurred at that time: Boeing, for the first time, made the sale of aircrafts in PRC; Coca-Cola entered China. 30 years later, thanks for the opening policy initiated by Mr. Deng, we can recite a series of alarming statistics: the world’s fourth-largest economy (now 3rd to USA and Germany), 40,000,000 new internet user each year, 600,000,000 cell phone users, 2,000 billions U.S. dollar reserves and as well as the Earth’s largest cement consumption country. It’s recognized worldwide that China put historically significant efforts in eradication of poverty. However, it does not mean China earns a parallel fair evaluation from the rest of the world. |
| Dec 21, 2008 16:20 | #1 |
| The rise of China brings up a number of interesting phenomena and one of them is the distorted view of China mixed with fear and greed. They fear because this country is so big, so ancient and so thick and filled with mysterious atmosphere. The greed is from the belief that China will give the benefit of a miracle- that is the resources can be exported there where cheaper products can be produced and the most importantly, the promise of the potential endless consumer market is there where the growth and profits depend on. The ultimate fear is if China only wants to buy our oil and minerals, the what if they will further buy our corporations? Since the financial crisis, the contradicted sentiments towards China has been climbing to the climax. A British magazine, “The Economist” a few weeks said that :” Can China save the world? 30 years ago, this is a paralyzed national economy, but now we are looking towards China’s engine enable the global economy to continue to operate.” In spite of overwhelming reports on China’s today, the majority west has no ideas on China, a nation that has been changing dramatically for 30 years. Part of the problem lies in the international media ‘nature’ and the ‘set-tone’ in which they report on China. Are there any other deep-rooted reasons that form the stupid theory – the rising threat from the rise of China? from other chinese websourse |
| Dec 21, 2008 21:16 | #2 |
| There are ignorant people everywhere. Please understand that the people who have a distorted view of China are those who never bothered to read and watch the news. I know people like that, but I also know people who are not like that. Majority of people do not even care whether China is 'open' or not. The only ones who follow about China are the travelers, businessmen and those with ties to China. As far as many people are concerned, there is no China Threat Theory. What you are reading are articles written by the paranoids who need to write an article for the sake of a deadline and attention. |
| Dec 21, 2008 23:22 | #3 |
| >>The only ones who follow about China are the travelers, businessmen and those with ties to China. << I agree with Shesgottobe! BTW, Shesgottobe I was in a drug store several months ago and was surprised to see a label on a product spelled very close, if not exactly the same as your name here! :) |
| Dec 22, 2008 00:36 | #4 |
| We consumers of the U.S. shouldn't have the attitude of "having our cake and eat it too" I.E. do not bite the hand that feeds you. However, there might be other elements both inside and outside this realm and spheres of influence with different ideas. |
| Dec 22, 2008 01:27 | #5 |
| China isa set to become the world no 1 economy and superpower. Therefore, to those who have an interest in mainaining the current situation, China is most definitely a threat! I forsee China behaving in a way internationally, that I do not approve of, but then I do not approve of much of what the US has been doing since WWII. This is the way things are. If it isn't China which nation(s) would be the top dogs. The USA is in decline and will never recover its lost glory (any more than Britain was able to), and the longer the US is the number one the longer we have a failing regime heading the world, and that is not healthy. Who else, Russia? That's a terrifying prospect with the extreme corruption and avowed imperialism of Putin. The 'muslim middle east" (sorry, I don't like to label it by religion but that is the reality)? It is too divided and has too many extremists who do not understand the benefit of co-operation withy nation that have a different philosophy. Oh there's Europe! Hmmm, nearly as failed as the US, but if they could ever get their act together instead of continuous petty squabbles they could be the world leaders...but they won't. So we'd better get used to it being China :) |
| Dec 22, 2008 21:47 | #6 |
| As far as many people are concerned, there is no China Threat Theory. What you are reading are articles written by the paranoids who need to write an article for the sake of a deadline and attention. LOL! I am thinking if they know this Chinese idiom "杞人忧天 (The man of Qi worries in case the sky should fall)". It is groundless worries. However, it is understandable that why those guys are so afraid. They just pre-warn people it is too late if this really happens. |
| Dec 23, 2008 01:23 | #7 |
| GUESTRUTH | NO NO NO... the threat is always from Japan, and its sponsor country, USA. Leaders & politicians (past and present) in both these 2 nations are evil hearted and have always been against PR China; which never threaten any country. Look at this Japan leader Sato who secretly asked the USA to bomb China with nuclear weapons; and he has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize - what a hypocrite!! Japan asked US to prepare for nuclear strike on China. The Japanese prime minister awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1974 for his opposition to atomic weapons secretly pleaded with Washington to use nuclear missiles against China in the event of a conflict breaking out in the region, it has emerged. Documents declassified by the government in Japan have disclosed that Prime Minister Eisaku Sato asked the US to retaliate immediately with nuclear weapons in the event of war. Mr Sato made the plea during talks with then US Secretary of Defence Robert McNamara in Washington in January 1965. China had conducted a successful atomic weapons test three months previously and there was concern in Tokyo that a relatively minor incident in the region might lead to a full-scale military exchange between two nations that still harboured hostility dating back to World War II. Mr Sato was prime minister from 1964 to 1972, making him Japan's longest-serving leader, and is best remembered for his opposition to nuclear weapons in a country that still bore the scars of the atomic attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. In December 1967, he introduced the "Three Non-Nuclear Principles," which forbade the production, possession or introduction of nuclear weapons onto Japanese territory. During his administration, Japan also joined the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and his opposition to nuclear weapons was recognised by the Nobel committee in 1974, one year before he died. Mr Sato's domestic legacy is unlikely to be tainted, however, by the release of the documents showing that while Japan would not develop its own nuclear weapons, it was happy to ask Washington to use them on its behalf. "The Japanese government superficially stated that it would not allow nuclear weapons on Japanese territory, but it was tacitly accepted that they were sited aboard US warships stationed in Okinawa," said Takao Matsumura, a professor of social history at Keio University. Many Japanese assumed the government's denials were false and some spoke out when it was announced that Mr Sato was going to receive the Nobel Prize, but the government got around the issue by stating that it did not have the power to search US vessels and that it took Washington's word that it would not breech Japan's non-nuclear principles at face value. "The release of these documents is very important for putting the history of Japan's approach to nuclear weapons into context, but I don't think it will change most people's image of Mr Sato," he added. (By Julian Ryall in Tokyo Last Updated: 4:17PM GMT 22 Dec 2008) |
| Dec 23, 2008 20:54 | #8 |
| >>NO NO NO... the threat is always from Japan, and its sponsor country, USA. Leaders & politicians (past and present) in both these 2 nations are evil hearted and have always been against PR China; which never threaten any country. Guestruth, perhaps you should start a thread in the Military Forum? This thread is about the rising threat of China in an economic sense, hence it was posted in the Economy Forum. Your post was the only one mentioning military power so far in this thread. |
| Dec 24, 2008 20:36 | #9 |
| "BTW, Shesgottobe I was in a drug store several months ago and was surprised to see a label on a product spelled very close, if not exactly the same as your name here! :)" Where? In China or Canada? Hmmm... someone's making money out of my handle???? I should file for some royalties! Early retirement, here I come. :P |
| Dec 24, 2008 22:17 | #10 |
| >>Where? In China or Canada? Hmmm... someone's making money out of my handle???? I should file for some royalties! Early retirement, here I come. :P << It was in Canada! The next time I have a chance I will see if I can find the product (it might be a while) and I'll let you know what it was. :) |
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