The Deep Roots Of China’s New Economic Nationalism

Come on, be nice people. If Malinda wrote nice things about China she'd be sacked from her job and will have to live on the street begging for pennies. Lets face it, western media is no place for nice stories about China, so its not her fault.

I think that accusing Melinda of suffering from a "banana complex" or being a Nazi in the guise of a liberal is probably going a little too far. She suffers from other defects as a professional journalist, however,which are almost as egregious.

Melinda Liu strikes me as being naive and credulous enough to believe most of the views that she espouses, and she probably knows and understands as little of China's history and culture as her colleague, the staggeringly inept Mary Hennock.

This article is just another example of her inability to present an accurate and faithful account of affairs in China. Wen Jiabao and Zhou Xiaochuan were not engaging in any kind of gross or aggressive "economic nationalism" by making the statements that she cites . Wen Jiabao's concerns about China's vast investment in U.S. government debt is perfectly legitimate, and Zhou Xiaochuan's proposal has been supported by a considerable number of the most respectable economists in the profession.

Liu then has the gall to link these quite tactful approaches to international relations on the part of China's leaders to Wang Xiaodong's strident demagoguery, which the Chinese media has in fact publicly rebuked. An essay published in the "China Youth Daily" only several days ago , which made the Sina news portal's home page, referred to "China is Unhappy" as promoting a sick form of nationalism.

Perhaps Liu lacks the time to conduct sufficient research.

She has a " banana complex", yellow outside but white inside. I do not know what is her hidden agenda but her articles are very biased towards China and an insult to all Chinese. I have more faith in China than with the west. These western medias are willing to go all the way to distort the truth to serve their own geopolitical interests. You cannot rely on their information to make a decision. I wish China a blessed Easter and may GOD's grace be with her always.

Melinda is a new Nazi under the cloak of a liberal jouralist. In her :The Next Saffron Revolution," she dared to instigate the use of violence by young Tibetans; in her essay on the Beijing Olympiics, she dared to calll China the people as "collective anemic;" in her "A Muder in Beijing," she retold an old and irrelevant story to poison the Sino-US relations; in her lastest "THere is Plenty of Blame for All," she presents China as a big military threat, blind to the following facts:

CHina's warships are a few thousands miles away from the US coastlines while the US warships are only a a few hundred miles from China;
China's nuclear war capacity is no more than 10% of that of US.

Melinda is a hate-saturated and dangerous neo-conservative hiding under the cloak of liberals.

Melinda is a hater of China for sure; her reasoning is thus: anything that is not fully on the American agenda is anti-American or anti-West; basically non-Westerners can only keep their mouth-shut according to her mentality!!!

Chinese comments attacking this author is an example of why the world isn't ready for China. You're very immature and paranoid because it's difficult for you to accept another point of view. Why don't you argue her points using smart discussions and your opinions of why she may not have it right? It's so childish and easy to try the old fashioned shame game to make her feel like she is a traitor. It's just easier, isn't it, to make her feel like she is against China rather than perhaps engaging in an adult conversation? Many of her articles are positive about China yet questioning leadership decision while backing it up with very reasonable facts of why one should doubt leadership. I'd say she's very healthy and open minded. You seem paranoid and not interested in open dialogue.

Joely, Medelin liu has already toned down her anti_Chinese retoric quite a bit. Y should see her earlier report. pure slander, not anything journalistic involved. her reserve now may have sth to do with her getting death threat. pity, sb lower
than an animal

Although this author is a Chinese, she is trying very hard to frame China as an aggressor, maybe for her self-interest of having more readership or just to keep her own job at Newsweek.

All I can say is she is willing to sell her own soul for money $. A traitor indeed!!!

This story mentions "... the recent South China Sea naval confrontation, in which the U.S. accused five Chinese ships of harassing an unarmed U.S. subchaser." The ship involved is the USNS Impeccable which, although a surveillance ship involved in tracking submarines, is very different from a US Navy subchaser. Subchasers have not been used since WW2, were 110' long, and had a wooden hull. The Impeccable is 2.5 times that length and has a steel hull.