Beware an angry China

International Herald Tribune ^ | Tuesday, April 8, 2008 | Philip Bowring

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Tibetans have a strong case against Beijing. But mixing it in with the Olympics and Darfur is a red rag to a wounded young bull.

Nationalism is more often aroused by setbacks than success, so the Tibet problems and the possible threats to a triumphal Olympics are stirring it in China.

On the horizon is the possibility that these will combine with high inflation, stagnating exports and trade tensions with the United States to create a perfect nationalistic storm.

The Chinese leadership faces a difficult balancing act.

As its legitimacy is now based on national achievement, not communist ideology, it must appear in step with popular feeling. Yet stability at home and good relations abroad require keeping nationalist emotions in check. The paranoia about evil foreign designs that thrived under Mao and was discarded by Deng Xiaoping is still close to the surface.

Almost all of China is offended that foreigners are so keen to lecture them and to encourage the petty boycotts that could spoil the Olympic party. It genuinely infuriates the Chinese that they are blamed for Darfur while their Western critics occupy Iraq. Beijing is happy to let such nationalist resentments vent in the sometimes violent language of Internet blogs and chat rooms.

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Boycott the Peiping 2008 Genocide Olympics.

Hit China where it hurts by minimizing trade with the ChiComs and by avoiding PLA-manufactured Chinese products.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

I'm going to do my part to completely ignore the Olympics.

Just like I usually do.

[clamper1797]

Almost all of China is offended that foreigners are so keen to lecture them and to encourage the petty boycotts that could spoil the Olympic party.

Hey China .... tough

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Ping

[Redbob]

"Almost all of China is offended that foreigners are so keen to lecture them and to encourage the petty boycotts that could spoil the Olympic party. It genuinely infuriates the Chinese that they are blamed for Darfur..."

P!ss on 'em!

[Larebil]

“I’m going to do my part to completely ignore the Olympics.
Just like I usually do.”

I haven’t watched the olympukes since the Roy Jones Jr
fiasco.

[Snickering Hound]

[mgist]

Since when does “all of China” have a vote or voice? I think this little piece of propaganda was bought and paid for by by the only Chinese that are able to opine.

[colorado tanker]

This conflict is going to go on for a long time, until it explodes IMHO. One of the historical trends of the 20th Century that is continuing into the 21st is the breaking down of empires and polyglot states into smaller states, e.g., the breakup of the Austrian Empire, Russian/Soviet Empire, Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia, etc. Places are being given autonomy nearly equal to independence, like Catalonia and Scotland.

China is swimming against this tide in trying to piece back together the Chinese Empire and it will continue to cause unrest.

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No doubt about it.. China is looking at the world thru squinty eyes..

[E. Pluribus Unum]

I don't even know who Roy Jones Jr is.

[17th Miss Regt]

Almost all of China is offended that foreigners are so keen to lecture them and to encourage the petty boycotts that could spoil the Olympic party.

The other part of China, the 100,000,000 Chinese murdered by their own communist government, had no comment on this matter.

[jpl]

I won’t be watching the Olympics (I never do), but I’m less concerned that China has the Olympics than I am that we’re selling off the future of our country to them.

[MrB]

Some things deserve ridicule.

The Chinese communist government is one of those things.

They deserve to be embarrassed and exposed, as do all leftists.

[MrB]

Those darn Mongorians!

Oh No! Not my C(h)ity Chicken!

[RightWhale]

China is this, China is that. There is no China, it is all in our minds. Learned that from ‘Network.’ There is General Motors, General Electric, General Foods.

[gridlock]

We have to go to the Berlin Olympics or the Germans will be offended, and then who knows what they will do!!!

I am tired of people making excuses about why we should knuckle under to China. They should just admit that they are bought and paid for, and leave it at that.

[steel_resolve]

It genuinely infuriates the Chinese that they are blamed for Darfur while their Western critics occupy Iraq.

Which just goes to show you that the Chinese people are about as clueless as to what we are doing in Iraq as the mainstream media. Not only that, but how do they draw a moral equivalence of one country paying for another's stabilization in blood and treasure (Blood for No Oil) and the systematic economic rape and blind eye turning of China's efforts in Darfur? Screw China

[The Toll]

If we took them out with a “first strike”. Would ANYONE complain?

[KC_Conspirator]

Nice to see that the author, Phil Bowring, is following in the footsteps of the lying Walter Duranty of the NY Slimes by white washing China’s communist crimes against humanity.