"Fear of a Chinese Planet"

[EjazR]

Whats suprising is how hostile are theTurks to Chinese military and economic power, it looks like Turks don't have a positive image of China, possibly because of the Uighur/East Turkistani issue?
In comparison Indians have a more positive view of Chinese.

 

[below_freezing]

Unfortunately, too many elites from China are too focused on English and trying to leave the country to make more money overseas. The local PhDs are seen as "2nd rates" that couldn't make it into a PhD program overseas. That's the attitude that has to change if we are to make more progress. No quantitative evidence suggests that a PhD trained in China is a worse researcher than a PhD trained in the US. In fact, US schools welcome Chinese PhDs as professors all the time. It is rarely the top students from 清华 or 北大 that are the next generation of chinese engineers or scientists (instead they'll become the next generation of western engineers and scientists) , the next generation of chinese scientific leadership are in the top 3 to top 50 schools.

 

[CardSharp]

Whats suprising is how hostile are theTurks to Chinese military and economic power, it looks like Turks don't have a positive image of China, possibly because of the Uighur/East Turkistani issue?
In comparison Indians have a more positive view of Chinese.

I would think it has to be the Uighur thing because most chinese people know next to nothing about turkey. I was surprised by the poll as well. Maybe they've forgotten about china since the floatilla thing

 

[Hafizzz]

Whats suprising is how hostile are theTurks to Chinese military and economic power, it looks like Turks don't have a positive image of China, possibly because of the Uighur/East Turkistani issue?
In comparison Indians have a more positive view of Chinese.

The Turks do not like anyone who is non-Turk. Turk Nationalists are also calling for the Central Asia to be ruled by Turks :

Turks rediscover Central Asia
TURKSAM | Turkey’s Plan B? Turks rediscover Central Asia | Gareth Jones

'Turkey is looking at Central Asia more attentively again but we have a more realistic view of the possibilities than before,' said Sinan Ogan of the ASAM think-tank in Ankara.

'There was a lot of excitement in the early 1990s. Turkey saw itself as the elder brother rediscovering long-lost members of the Turkic family. But we then found the Central Asians no more wanted a Turkish elder brother than a Russian one.'

Pan-Turkism
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