Sunday, April 27, 2008

西方看中国 - China in the Eyes of West

同胞们,看了以下文章摘抄,有何感想? 加油!把中国建设成不光是经济大国,而且是政治,文化,科技,环境,卫生,医疗,教育,等各方面都领先的大国。

又,我收集这些材料,不是让大家当“愤青”,而是用于自勉!

Thomas Wilkom's Now 'Fu Manchu' has a harvard MBA April 26, 2008, Toronto Star

A former Congressional staffer named Edward Timperlake has been particularly busy, producing Year of the Rat: How Bill Clinton Compromised American Security for Chinese Money (1998), Red Dragon Rising: Communist China's Military Threat to America (1999), and Showdown: Why China Wants War with the United States (2006).

Indeed, the new Fu Manchuism has made its ways into the highest councils of Washington. In 2000, the Project for a New American Century, a conservative think tank whose members would eventually become key figures in the administration of President George W. Bush, called for the U.S. to deploy more troops to Asia as a way of "coping with the rise of China," adding that "the new strategic centre of concern appears to be shifting to East Asia."
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In terms of democracy, it is no worse than Saudi Arabia or Egypt. What's the fuss?

Alas, the fuss is that China is China. China's economic success (it is now Canada's second-largest source of imports) reminds the West of its historical ambivalence toward this populous and powerful empire.

Westerners want a cut of the action. But they worry that, if they drop their guard, the Golden Horde may suddenly show up again at the gates of Vienna. They lust after the cheap manufactured goods China produces. Yet they are angry that these same goods undercut their own jobs. They chuckle at Sax Rohmer's Gothic description of the evil Fu Manchu. But they fear that, behind the Harvard Business School rhetoric of the new China, he lives on.

Bill Emmott's Tibet is one thing, but India and China tensions spell bigger disaster March 30, 2008, The Sunday Times
That is why this month’s events in Tibet, as well as the purchase by India’s Tata Motors of Land Rover and Jaguar from Ford, need to be seen in a wider context.

Bush, meanwhile, has managed to cast aside 40 years of hostility and suspicion between America and India – and even agreed to start collaborating over nuclear energy – in the hope of strengthening India and its economy. And all for a special reason: the rise of China.
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If a Chinese car maker had sought to buy Jaguar and Land Rover, it would almost certainly have encountered opposition in America’s Congress – but India, unlike China, is seen as an ally.

India, however, needs help in financing the construction of its roads, airports and power plants and it needs help with technology. In fact, it is already being helped by Japan – egged on by America – with its infrastructure financing. And Bush’s civil nuclear deal was aimed at providing the technology that India desperately needs.