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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: RealMuLan who wrote (121110)	12/7/2003 9:26:56 PM
From: Dennis O'Bell	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Simple way to put it, with the surging of the nationalism in China (one of consequences of a stronger economy), a lot of Chinese think Chinese government are too soft (the doctrine of the mean) on its foreign policy This doesn't make any sense. Nationalism is usually the result of lost prosperity, not the result of it. Every example I can think of shows this. Every time when something happened on the international front, like the US bombing of Chinese Embassy in Yugoslavia, or this recent students demonstration in XiAn because of a couple of Japanese teacher/students dirty performance, it was the Chinese gov. tried very hard to control the mass demonstration and the anger of the majority of Chinese. The only reason for any authoritarian government to "control mass demonstrations" is to retain their power and control. It has nothing whatsoever to do with being "soft", bien au contraire. It generally has to do with corruption, something that's a problem in every government known to man.