At the time I spoke with him (this past September), he had just begun his first semester here. We talked more about political stuff than his personal experiences in America, so I don't have much to tell you about that. But I did pick up a few things from him that were interesting. I don't know how representative he is of most Chinese, but if he is, then 1) The Chinese feel threatened by the United States, but they don't have a deep historical sense of enmity towards the US like they do with Russia and Japan. Their feelings towards the US are very mixed. 2) The Chinese are comfortable with having an authoritarian government. They feel it's a good fit for their culture. It's not so much the socialism in communism that appeals to them but the authoritarianism in it.
And of course as I said before, the Europeans had downloaded the full suite of leftist anti-American junk into his head, so he was full of conspiracy theories about George Bush and Iraq and all that. He had a thousand and one questions for me -- I think I was the first Republican he had had a chance to speak with -- like, did I really think we were doing this to spread freedom and not just for oil? And does George Bush really mean it when he talks about democracy in his speeches?
I think I may have made some headway with him. He seemed to accept my answers without much dispute even though they flatly contradicted the premises of his questions. We were working in the same area that day and he was really quiet and pensive after we spoke. My sense was that I had managed to plant some doubt into his mind and that he was mulling things over. I can imagine him weighing the words of the Europeans against what I said. If there's a followup conversation, it should be interesting.
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