China Shouldn’t Be Inscrutable

I agree with the writer. I also think the west countries know little about China. When I talked with my foreign classmates about china, they just know china is a big city. In their view, china is still in the old time. The main reason is they cannot get more information about modern china in their own country. You know, most westerns don???t know Chinese. They depend on translation. The translations just introduce the old things which differ china from them greatly. This obstacle results the westerns have misunderstanding about china. When then come to china, they care about china traditional culture. They visit the Forbidden City, the Summer Palace, and the Great Wall in Beijing. They drink douzhier, eat roast duck. They listen the Beijing Opera. No one will sit down and try to understand the new china. The other reason, I think, is the different social system. Some west country have misunderstanding about the china government. Because china has different opinion with west country, some west country regard china is a different one. They just want to change china into their category. It is impossible. So the media maybe mislead the public.
Compare with the westerns, Chinese people knows well about the west countries. One simple reason is many young people want to know the outside. They learn English well. They get the information directly from the newspaper, magazine or internet. They have no bias on west countries. This is quite different from the west countries.
China has made great development since 1978. If you come to china, you will find globalization has influence on the social life. China has market economy. China government pay more attention to the citizen???s life. Chinese are satisfied with their life. China government is a responsible government in the world. For example, China has taken a lot of measures to protect the environment. This is part of participation in the world issues.
If west country could knows china well, the world will get better. Just as Beijing Olympic said: One world, one dream.

I agree with the writer. I also think the west countries know little about China. When I talked with my foreign classmates about china, they just know china is a big city. In their view, china is still in the old time. The main reason is they cannot get more information about modern china in their own country. You know, most westerns don???t know Chinese. They depend on translation. The translations just introduce the old things which differ china from them greatly. This obstacle results the westerns have misunderstanding about china. When then come to china, they care about china traditional culture. They visit the Forbidden City, the Summer Palace, and the Great Wall in Beijing. They drink douzhier, eat roast duck. They listen the Beijing Opera. No one will sit down and try to understand the new china. The other reason, I think, is the different social system. Some west country have misunderstanding about the china government. Because china has different opinion with west country, some west country regard china is a different one. They just want to change china into their category. It is impossible. So the media maybe mislead the public.
Compare with the westerns, Chinese people knows well about the west countries. One simple reason is many young people want to know the outside. They learn English well. They get the information directly from the newspaper, magazine or internet. They have no bias on west countries. This is quite different from the west countries.
China has made great development since 1978. If you come to china, you will find globalization has influence on the social life. China has market economy. China government pay more attention to the citizen???s life. Chinese are satisfied with their life. China government is a responsible government in the world. For example, China has taken a lot of measures to protect the environment. This is part of participation in the world issues.
If west country could knows china well, the world will get better. Just as Beijing Olympic said: One world, one dream.

So, after "Inscrutable Indians", now it is "Inscrutable Chinese"!

hjk

Which is more harmful and vicious to this world ?
Between a drug labeled with "drug" or a drug labeled with "Candy",
Between a known propaganda or a propaganda in disguise.
and beteween the propaganda in China and America.
The propaganda is known in China and people just don't take it seriously;
However, the propaganda in America and the west is propaganda in disguise,
The media are manipulateed by a very small but powerful intrest group in a cunning way,
That's the ultimate drug will claim your mind and soul,
Relax, you will not feel the least pain....

Which is more harmful and vicious to this world ?
Between a drug labeled with "drug" or a drug labeled with "Candy",
Between a known propaganda or a propaganda in disguise.
and beteween the propaganda in China and America.
The propaganda is known in China and people just don't take it seriously;
However, the propaganda in America and the west is propaganda in disguise,
The media are manipulateed by a very small but powerful intrest group in a cunning way,
That's the ultimate drug will claim your mind and soul,
Relax, you will not feel the least pain....

The most nationalists are those who study abroad (me too),not inside china.
Why?!
Because the closer you get to the west, the more truth about the west you will find
-- A mean, greedy, resentful heart under a well dress ....

The most nationalists are those who study abroad (me too),not inside china.
Why?!
Because the closer you get to the west, the more truth about the west you will find
-- A mean, greedy, resentful heart under a well dress ....

To the concerned Canadian, get out your butt and do something for yourself and your country and stop whingeing. Why can't you work a bit harder and achieve what others could by sheer hard work. It is people like you that disrupt the harmony of this world. The world does not owe you a living. Get a life, mate!

You are such a terrible person!

As a Westerner who speaks Chinese and has lived in Shanghai for many years, I agree with most of these insights too.

Yes, there are problems in China and I like the fact that we, the people, can fire incompetent or corrupt officials in Europe or the US; unfortunately, we often still elect the wrong people.

Above all though, if you must critisism should be something done and discussed in private. Many of my friends or colleagues here critisize their own gevernment, but they will not do it in a way that causes loss of face.

The Chinese people rightly take pride in their history and 5000-year old cutlural legacy. Grandstanding and critisizing "China" is taken as a huge slap in the face by most people here, as the distinction between its people and government is not always clear; it is much as someone in the US may take cristism of the current Bush administration as anti-American.

As a chinese, I agree with what you said. This is a article about true china.

As a Chinese, I agree with what you said. This is a true article.

Mr. Zakaria has actually pointed out two ideologies here in America:

The old one: A government so called as communist must be toppled with or without the use of US military force (so as to add glory to US as the leader of western democracies);

The new one: China is our ideological enemy deserving constant public humiliation unless it begins immediately to behave like a western liberal (by giving up its claim on Tibet).

To soften condemnation from the right-wing conservatives, China should renounce its nominal belief in communism (although it is no long truly beheld), but some communist hardliners (especially some high-ranking generals might rather die than give it up as a failure);

To soften condemnation from some Western liberals, China might need to give up Tibet, but this would anger the majority of the Chinese people who believe in a historical justification of China???s claim over Tibet.

In the face of the size of the nation and the pride that the Chinese people take in their long-lasting history and their ability to think clearly, believers of the two above-mentioned ideologies appear as somnambulists, not giving any damn to the maintenance of the current world order.

The right-wing somnambulists should ask two little questions: Why has US never really threatened to topple the communist Cuba (there was a buzz when the word of Castro???s near death came out), and why has US never formally threatened the North Korea with bombing of its nuclear facilities (even though such a move might gain popular support)?

Those liberal somnambulists should know that nothing is more ridiculous to the Chinese people if someone thinks that China would please western liberals by giving up Tibet. The world moves on in spite of somnambulism or explodes due to somnambulism that is common-sensibly called ignorant or ideological by Mr. Zakaria.