@Zhang Fan
No need to go down to their vulgar level
You can delete your comment if possible
Dont get the Mod's attention for needless retributory remarks
咱们犯不着跟他们斗烂
Exactly. Do not blame an Indian for being ... an Indian.
Please ignore them, if possible. They will go away.
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By Edward Liu:
Stephen Harner blogs about the Schadenfreude ---the deeply-entrenched China-bashing biases of Anglo-Western media coverage of and about China.
The layman term for this affliction is aptly termed by me as the "Gordon Guthrie Chang" disease.
Schadenfreude is a German-origin term defined by the Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary as “a feeling of pleasure at the bad things that happen to other people.” Schadenfreude is rarely expressed plainly, or in relation to a specific event or situation. Rather, it is an attitude and bias that disparages achievements, discredits sincerity, and hopes for failure.
We see this vile sentiment often in Western media coverage of news events, in reporting on Chinese business, and particularly in analysis and commentary on policies, plans, and initiatives of the government and the Communist Party.
Whenever one reads news from the New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg News..... or from across the Atlantic.... the BBC, the Economist, the Independent, the Guardian, or from Down Under, the Sydney Herald, or the Australian Broadcasting Company.......
the smart and intelligent way to do it is to first look at the byline of the reporter who writes the story, or posted the op-ed piece...... then you read the story, read between the lines, go behind the lines...... go to the internet, check out alternative news media sources as to the truth and veracity of what is being published.
As Gordon H. Chang (
not the China-bashing Gordon G. (as in Guthrie) Chang), the Stanford University professor and scholar and author of "Fateful Tales," his new book about America's Preoccupation with China, history in America has an undercurrent narrative about the
American manic-depressive psyche...... its relentless mania to look at that Far East.... and the word, "Far" is to be underscored..... and the China is at the core of this manic-depression.
I would even go further than Prof. Chang.
U.S.-China relations is characterized by wild "pendulum mood swing.".... that pendulum swings from an arc which is characterized by intervals of positive love and affection, euphoria, awe and over-exuberance..... then would swing in the opposite direction of hate, spite, venom, vengefulness.
As an "American Watcher," and "Watcher of American China Watchers," I have always proposed that U.S.-China relations should not be like a pendulum..... but a catamaran sail boat...... even-keeled, calmly manuevarable, not susceptible to being knocked around by waves and turbulence.
But as I keep hoping against hope, I am beginning to understand why this can never happen...... why? Ever engage in a debate with an intellectual from the New York Times or many of these journalists who proclaimed to be "China experts"? Try arguing with Paul Krugman about China and its economy. You will know why. They have no brakes. They are culturally afflicted with a blindsidedness and neuroses...... it is impossible to change the New York Times. I give up.
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