How China sees the world,
And how the world should see China.
IT IS an ill wind that blows no one any good. For many in China even the buffeting by the gale that has hit the global economy has a bracing message. The rise of China over the past three decades has been astonishing. But it has lacked the one feature it needed fully to satisfy the ultranationalist fringe: an accompanying decline of the West. Now capitalism is in a funk in its heartlands. Europe and Japan, embroiled in the deepest post-war recession, are barely worth consideration as rivals. America, the superpower, has passed its peak. Although in public China’s leaders eschew triumphalism, there is a sense in Beijing that the reassertion of the Middle Kingdom’s global ascendancy is at hand.
Already a big idea has spread far beyond China: that geopolitics is now a bipolar affair, with America and China the only two that matter. Thus in London next month the real business will not be the G20 meeting but the “G2” summit between Presidents Barack Obama and Hu Jintao. This not only worries the Europeans, who, having got rid of George Bush’s unipolar politics, have no wish to see it replaced by a Pacific duopoly, and the Japanese, who have long been paranoid about their rivals in Asia. It also seems to be having an effect in Washington, where Congress’s fascination with America’s nearest rival risks acquiring a protectionist edge.
Originally posted by scherzoAnother bird brained, dimwit comment, Charlie.
Maybe something without a heavy, heavy right-wing bias? Something centrist like CNN, or better yet, but harder to find, something left-wing like al-Jazeera english? No?
You now demonstrate you can't tell your Right from your Left.
Charlie's mouth is moving, words are coming out, this is never good!
Originally posted by generalissimoI don't think anyone should take any article about Chinese culture serious if it doesn't mention Confucianism.
How China sees the world,
Without understanding the impact of this on China for the last 2500 years (or so... at least from the Qin onwards), one can't really come to grips with how China actually sees the world.
Originally posted by shavixmirYou don't think at all, Milo, I want you to know that it is perfectly all right to have an unexpressed thought. In your case I even recommend it.
I don't think anyone should take any article about Chinese culture serious if it doesn't mention Confucianism.
Without understanding the impact of this on China for the last 2500 years (or so... at least from the Qin onwards), one can't really come to grips with how China actually sees the world.
Confucius say Milo reminds us of opium, a slow working dope.
Confucius also say man who have last laugh, not get joke.
Originally posted by generalissimoChina doesn't have to worry about economic rivals. The crap they are sending to the US (and we buying it) is all toxic anyway. The world will be a toxic waste dump when China gets through with us. Baby food, milk, drywall that corrodes houses, plastics that cause cancer....China doesn't care what goes into their exports.
How China sees the world,
And how the world should see China.
IT IS an ill wind that blows no one any good. For many in China even the buffeting by the gale that has hit the global economy has a bracing message. The rise of China over the past three decades has been astonishing. But it has lacked the one feature it needed fully to satisfy the ult ...[text shortened]... where Congress’s fascination with America’s nearest rival risks acquiring a protectionist edge.
Originally posted by dystoniacYou're right, it's all toxic. I can see my shirt eating into my skin right now.
China doesn't have to worry about economic rivals. The crap they are sending to the US (and we buying it) is all toxic anyway. The world will be a toxic waste dump when China gets through with us. Baby food, milk, drywall that corrodes houses, plastics that cause cancer....China doesn't care what goes into their exports.
Originally posted by dystoniacyou buy it
China doesn't have to worry about economic rivals. The crap they are sending to the US (and we buying it) is all toxic anyway. The world will be a toxic waste dump when China gets through with us. Baby food, milk, drywall that corrodes houses, plastics that cause cancer....China doesn't care what goes into their exports.
what does that say about you? stupid or traitor?
