Comments on: America’s Export to China: Arrogance

By: Kävaar

Kävaar — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 12:42:52 +0000

In reference to the statement about giving China a break, they are not a developed nation such as the USA or the European countries so don’t expect them to be comparable.. That’s a crop of shit… Surely Europe and the USA should be examples of what to do, and not to do for a country like China. The developed countries of today never knew what the result of many of their actions would be, due to the fact noone had done half the shit they did… It’s much easier to copy all the correct answers than work them out for yourself….
Also… I’m an English language teacher… I teach international students from Africa, Asia, Sth America and the Middle East.. The Chinese are by far the most arrogant!! and can’t, and don’t want to intergrate with any person from another country or culture.. Why?

By: nanheyangrouchuan

nanheyangrouchuan — Wed, 07 May 2008 22:09:58 +0000

The underbelly is the ugly, naive childishness of the Chinese population, coddled, insulated and beaten into submission by bad China’s bad government.

By: cathy

cathy — Mon, 05 May 2008 15:27:15 +0000

The underbelly is not arrogant alone, there’s genuine national pride, there’s a sense of insecurity and sense of hurt, it’s all brought on by what they perceived as deliberate one sided reporting by the western news media.

By: stuart

stuart — Mon, 05 May 2008 10:30:48 +0000

It’s very true that the confident, nationalistic swagger of today’s China displays a little more of its arrogant underbelly as the country’s global influence increases.

The worry has to be that, for a regime lacking checks and balances and press freedom, there will be no dissenting voices when China decides it’s time to flex its muscles to settle territorial disputes and old scores.

Peaceful rise? I hope so, but I doubt it.

By: cathy

cathy — Mon, 05 May 2008 05:15:29 +0000

The people in Africa are much stronger voice in forcing Chinese govt to change their policy, it’s much more powerful and convincing seeing local Africans putting up signs to try to stop the ship of shame from docking on their shore, than hearing western govt denouncing the CCP. If people in mainland China saw the Africans protest(which I doubt they have since CCP wouldn’t want people to see this part), they would start having more empathy and perhaps start writing more about this in the papers and blogs, and persuade the CCP to change their policy. The African nations need to stand together to denounce the CCP in their foreign policy, it’s much more affective that they do this than the western nations.

By: cathy

cathy — Mon, 05 May 2008 04:45:49 +0000

The west is as morally corrupted, look at New Orleans, to this day, it’s still remained as a dump, it’s not cleaned up, the US govt don’t care about it very much because majority of the people economic levels are not like folks who live in LA, Beverly Hills, imagined something like that happened in LA, the govt would have had a massive clean up done in efficient time. The Chinese have the right to enjoy the fruits of their labor, they have worked damn hard to get here, let them enjoy the cars and the high rise, it’s all part of the process of becoming a developed country, all the excess, entire western Europe and North America had went through it, even Japan, so China has to learn the hard way as the rest of the developed countries did. The west, stop bitching, start working with China in creating fuel efficient big cars and renewable energy, there aren’t that many options.

By: Hopi

Hopi — Sun, 04 May 2008 23:52:02 +0000

Josh, you are good at describing the Chinese’s shortcomings but you don’t have any empathy for the Chinese — for their struggles or their plight and you do not give the Chinese the benefit of the doubt whereas you give yourself plenty.

I was like you at one point. But I learned to have empathy and to understand people and their point of view. Because of that, instead of preaching from my high horse, I have been working diligently to spread democracy (in the tradition of Mill, Rousseau, Locke, etc. and not the NeoCon’s brand of democracy) in China in a way that’s effective and that will actually make a difference.

By: nanheyangrouchuan

nanheyangrouchuan — Sun, 04 May 2008 23:29:30 +0000

Bad China always has a ton of excuses for this and that but no follow through on any pledges to do anything better.

By: cathy

cathy — Sun, 04 May 2008 18:08:20 +0000

The US use ethical ideology as the cover for their policy of self interest, it’s like a slogan they pull up for conveniences, for their middle east policy, especially, but underneath is all about self interest, whatever is best for the interest of the US-we are talking about economic interest and domination interest. The ethical ideology is something the US govt try to preach to the middle america and the rural america, big cities in the west and east coast, people know right away what the US govt try to do whenever they pull up the excuse of fighting for democracy. I know no one who believe in those words anymore.

By: cathy

cathy — Sun, 04 May 2008 18:00:18 +0000

Josh-When the US average citizens were buying and driving the big utility cars, no one criticize its people, why do the Chinese get criticism? You are very arrogant in your attitude, the US up to last year had been buying and driving the big cars, yet they don’t get criticized by the rest of the world, yet when China does it, they get labeled and pointed at, if the west want to get a piece of the golden egg in terms of business opportunities, work with China car manufactures in coming up with big cars that are fuel efficient, or even run by electric or solar, stop sounding so sour about China becoming big, do something constructive to help China be more environmentally friendly-there are tons of business opportunities in that area.