I cannot help but wonder about China... I am convinced they are extremely clever in toying our Western system of capitalism and number games one way or another. The only example coming to mind right now is the artificial surge in car sales in China and the government is behind a lot of it, buying and storing cars in huge parking facilities. And the refusal of publishing economic statistics or just blatantly making them up.
And they are just as incredibly clever and diplomatic in political affairs; the rhetoric used in their more recent foreign affairs are nothing but jaw dropping and display an unprecedented self-understanding an pride that is bordering smugness. They do not even try to hide or acknowledge violations of human rights; they simply wipe it off with "none of your frakking business" kind of answers. They are showing very clearly: we bow to no one.
For me as a European, their last display of power here in Europe felt like a slap in my face when they offered to "help" in the current financial crisis in Greece and the rest of the EU when I saw how little their ongoing violations of human rights mattered all of a sudden.
Please note I am not bashing Chinese people but wondering about Chinese politics and their regime and how the west, generally so proud of their "humanity" and "human rights", bends over back- and sideways now that China is becoming an influential world power.
I cannot help but wonder about China... I am convinced they are extremely clever in toying our Western system of capitalism and number games one way or another. The only example coming to mind right now is the artificial surge in car sales in China and the government is behind a lot of it, buying and storing cars in huge parking facilities. And the refusal of publishing economic statistics or just blatantly making them up.
And they are just as incredibly clever and diplomatic in political affairs; the rhetoric used in their more recent foreign affairs are nothing but jaw dropping and display an unprecedented self-understanding an pride that is bordering smugness. They do not even try to hide or acknowledge violations of human rights; they simply wipe it off with "none of your frakking business" kind of answers. They are showing very clearly: we bow to no one.
For me as a European, their last display of power here in Europe felt like a slap in my face when they offered to "help" in the current financial crisis in Greece and the rest of the EU when I saw how little their ongoing violations of human rights mattered all of a sudden.
Please note I am not bashing Chinese people but wondering about Chinese politics and their regime and how the west, generally so proud of their "humanity" and "human rights", bends over back- and sideways now that China is becoming an influential world power.