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Incredible you think complain about India's bad manners as a host is the same thing as internal stability being threaten inside China? No one is denying that the Govt. carefully controls and micro-manages the media inside China but to place say that Chinese people put weight on what Indian media says is delusion of self-importance.
No Indian media outlets have been banned in China. India is not the leader of the democratic offensive in China, it is a 2nd rate follower.
Do forgive me but that statement 'India's bad manners' hardly suits the occasion coming from a Chinese.
I feel sorry that I have to append this:
BAD MANNERS IN CHINA
Mother and peeing child Chinese have a reputation for having bad manners: spitting in streets, making loud slurping noises when they eat, walking around in public without a shirt; cutting in line; urinating in public; jostling aggressively. This wasn’t always the case. In imperial times the Mandarin class in particular was known for its refined tastes and manners. Confucianism taught people to treat others with courtesy and respect.
Chinese tourists traveling outside of China have been warned not to embarrass China with uncouth behavior such as walking around in hotel lobbies in pajamas, tossing chicken bones on the floor of restaurants and talking loudly. Chinese state-supported travel agencies warn their customers that “spitting, slurping foods and jumping queues merely disgust people at home. But is intolerable in other countries.” Chinese tourists are also coached not to roll up their trouser legs and strip off their shirts to keep cool.
Overseas Chinese are among those who find mainland behavior to be the most uncouth. A Hong Kong newspaper ran a picture of a mainland mother helping her child pee on a wall at Hong Kong Disneyland and reported that many benches at the theme park were unusable because middle-aged Chinese men were sleeping on them. A Hong-Kong-born, London-based Chinese wrote a guidebook in which advised Chinese “Don’t ask foreign women how old they are” and “Don’t clean your ears in public.” Some mainlanders find mainlanders to be intolerably uncouth. In the essay the The Ugly Chinese writer and social critic Bo Yang criticized his countrymen for being too loud and too crass.
Georg Arit, a German sociologist who has studied Chinese tourists, told the Los Angeles Times, "Chinese are rude to people they don’t know. Unfortunately, when it comes to tourism, you don’t know most of the people you meet." He also said Chinese tourists were notorious for consciously breaking rules. “You’ll see people flouting ‘no smoking’ signs in luxury outlets, knowing few will complain when they’re spending $10,000. There’s also a feeling that ‘foreigners have been trampling on us for 200 years, and now it’s our turn.'”
EXPOSED BELLIES, SPITTING, PAJAMAS AND BAD MANNERS IN CHINA - China | Facts and Details
It does not matter if Indian correspondents are banned or not in China. India is not really keen to know about China since everything is regulated in China and reality will never be known to be reported. India has just four correspondents in China. On the other hand, China has scores of correspondents in India (Check Google). That should show the interest levels of each country in knowing about the other.
I totally agree with you that the Indian media assumes a larger than life importance. That is a positive indicator of a vibrant society and yet some media houses take it too much to their head and assume an air of self importance as you have rightly said.
Because that is the Indian media in fantasy.
Take a look at Google and Baidu. Who's afraid of each other?
Indeed.
How incisive from one who is attuned to controls and selective information as allowed by the Chinese Govt.