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China: A Role Model to All Nations

China is a role model to all developing nations around the globe.

After centuries of oppression and domination by western nations, most developing nations are trying to pull their nations up from poverty. They look at China's rapid progress as an example.

China also give aid and technical help to these nations and have formed many bilateral relations for the benefit of everyone.

However, it is not only the developing nations that benefit from China. The developed nations benefit as well.

Recently, China has helped to arbitrate between the US and North Korea. There are also many more examples too numerous to mention.

Question: Is it a good idea for China to act as a role model or should she just quietly mind her own business?

2007-7-22 09:04 AM

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China has shown all nations that you can still be successful by expanding through commerce and diplomacy, not by the imperialism demonstrated by the US/UK.

China has not exhibited any desire to step outside its own borders.

2007-7-22 09:08 AM

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she acts not only as a role model but also she focuses more on business development. Just like Great xiao ping said, we must put full energy in business establishing as our key task. So do business, do relationship firstly...

2007-7-22 09:16 AM

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The cost of roads, railways,power stations and bridges being built in Africa by chinese companies is reckoned by experts to be 25-30% below those of their western counterparts.

In South Africa we see the same trend, where chinese firms have been winning work on major projects because they are bidding considerably lower than other companies.

Also, the chinese reputation for the speed of construction is widely recognised.

2007-7-22 09:18 AM

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QUOTE:

Originally posted by changabula at 2007-7-22 09:08
China has shown all nations that you can still be successful by expanding through commerce and diplomacy, not by the imperialism demonstrated by the US/UK.

China has not exhibited any desire to ...

her expanding diplomacy is based on her huge financial power...

2007-7-22 09:20 AM

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China is improving the lives of so many who live in Africa.

It seems to me that the this sleeping tiger has woken up and is trying to improve life not only for her own but others as well.

She is not going into countries with arms to destroy the people and their livelihoods.

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2007-7-22 09:20 AM

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warmhearted is our each chinese characteristic...hehe

2007-7-22 09:22 AM

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QUOTE:

Originally posted by changabula at 2007-7-22 09:20
China is improving the lives of so many who live in Africa.

It seems to me that the this sleeping tiger has woken up and is trying to improve life not only for her own but others as well.

Sh ...

she is always going into other countries with humanitarianism and assistance.

2007-7-22 09:26 AM

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The sycophants that lurk around here make me want to vomit... blind patriotism is not a sign of wisdom, and it helps no one except the selfish few in power at the top, who only want to help themselves.

2007-7-22 10:51 AM

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Poor literacy skills.

sock & scribe are both uncomfortable with Chang's assessment of the direction China is taking . I agree with Chang that China is a breath of fresh air . China is more a nation behaving normally than extraordinarily . After centuries of colonization, exploitation, humiliation and subjugation, the poor ( developing ) countries are prone to view any outsider , especially apparent benefactor , with suspicion.

China has , over the past decade and a half , shown them that she is interested in equal partnership and sharing of profits and benefits. China is transferring technological know how in building infrastructure to help them for the future. It is the case of teaching them how to fish rather then giving them the fish .

There will always be the lemon sucking not-to-be-pleased China ill-wishers who would talk up a conspiracy or ulterior motives when they see what China has done in decades what their colonial governments could not do ( had no intention of doing ) for centuries.

Let them rant and let them rave. I only wish they can be a little more literate with their writing . I would like to improve my English . You know what , this is not the place to do it . Cheers.

2007-7-22 12:13 PM

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Just personal ?

You have completely lost it now , haven't you scribe ? Calm down. Those comments are not personal , unlike your retaliation against me personally .

Confucius said " If you don't like the message, do not kill the messenger " please .

2007-7-22 01:15 PM

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Reply #13 schreiber's post

schreiber, how are we treated in a humiliating way....I have yet to experience that!

2007-7-22 01:25 PM

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Lets talk about colonization.

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Originally posted by schreiber at 2007-7-22 12:59
Mengzhi, you mean colonization like in Tibet, right? You mean exploitation as in rampant corruption or demanding sole recognition in exchange for diplomatic ties? Perhaps you refer to humiliating w ...

I'd like to talk about the glorious days of the British Empire beginning with the ventures of the East India Company around 1620, to the handover of Hong Kong in 1997. This period may seem too far away but with lasting impacts on societies around the world.

When I visited Britain, the superpower during that colonial period, I could not help wondering where did the riches go? Except for some treasures they took from other countries (Egypt, India and China) and kept in the museums, I could not see a significantly high level of living standard compared with other European countries which were not a colonial power.

Does that mean that Britain was moral and kind?
They colonized but never pilfered?
You have a child's heart if you believe so.

Here's my observations based on facts scattered everywhere for you to reflect.

1. Britain's colonial ventures were a joint project between the government and the business elites (e.g. East India Company, Jardine Matheson, Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank, etc.) There was no need for popular support for ventures far away. The people wouldn't know it in the first place if the newspapers (another elite group) did not talk about it (Remember there were no TVs or Internet during that time). As a consequence, the population did not have the right to share the benefits of colonization. If you want to see the magnitudes of these benefits, just look at how the business elites live, their auctioning of world treasures which wound up in their homes, their country mansions, their investments overseas,etc. These are the facts for you to dig up. Especially, look at the salaries and retirement benefits for government and business officials who have worked in British colonies overseas.

2. The British people either don't care or are kept in the dark regarding their country' colonization overseas. When you talk to an average Britisher, he does not seem to know much about his country's glorious days as a result of colonization one or two generations ago. When Britain handed over Hong Kong in 1997, the Hong Kong press went to London and tried to get a sense of the popular mood by interviewing students and business people in the streets. Most of them did not know the handover event took place. Some expressed surprise to hear the question. Some even thought that Britain returned Hong Kong back to Japan! For the British people to know: Hong Kong is a big deal although it's a tiny dot on the map. HK was the most successful British colony, maybe the longest kept too (150 years). Certainly, HK had brought a lot of money to the British Treasury, to the business elites, and to a lot of English civil servants who had worked there before. All you need is to look at the HK government official records, the salary scales of English officials, the subsidized housing they got, and the retirement benefits they enjoyed. Remember the British colonial government in HK ran continuous huge surpluses every year, a clear sign that they were not spending the money where they earned. The money was deposited in the British Treasury and major banks. If you are a responsible English citizen, you should ask where did the surplus money go, if it did not go to serving the people.

http://forum.greenpeace.org/int/archive/index.php/t-2192.html

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2007-7-22 06:44 PM

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Colonization cannot involve justice because the act of colonizing is occupation and rule by a powerful minority.

Therefore, colonization is never conducive to peace.

Examples:

* A few centuries ago, Britain colonized Africa and brought the natives to their American colonies as slaves. It took the American civil war to abolish slavery, but racial discrimination is still a burning issue in America today.

* European settlers, mainly Dutch and English, colonized South Africa and practiced Apartheid which threatened a civil war until it was abolished not long ago.

* Britain left the Indian subcontinent in a hurry in 1948, arbitrarily creating a Hindu India and a Moslim Pakistan which have fought several wars since then and are still in a semi-warring state.

* Britain also left the Middle East in a hurry after the end of WWII. Look at the mess of that region today.

* All the European colonial powers such as Britain, France, Germany, Russia, Portugal,etc., together with Japan and US occupied pieces of territories on the China coast known as extra-territorial regions where their own laws applied. They almost succeeded in dividing China among themselves.

* British merchants were pushing opium to the Chinese people around 1840. When the Chinese government burned the opium, the British navy intervened and China lost. The British called it the Sino-British war but the Chinese called it the Opium War.

* They fought wars on Chinese soil over the Chinese territories they occupied. The loser rewarded the winner with a piece of Chinese soil. Example, the Russo-Japanese war of 1904.

* Part of the reason for World War I was due to conflicts between the European colonial powers over their African and Asian occupations.

* All of the above caused a lot of illwill toward Western countries. As a result, the corrupt governments of Asia and Africa tend to blame their own problems on the West, and the people believe them. This creates a lot of difficulties for the West to get cooperation from Asian and African countries especially regarding the issues of economic development and climate change.

One thing always puzzles me:

Do the people of the colonial powers know what their governments were doing one or two generations ago?
Do they get the real picture or a "good" picture invented by the government?
Are there any books exposing the injustices of that era?

I only know that the Japanese government has tried to change their textbooks to gloss over their colonial past with just a few words like "our China campaign".

In other words, how much of Western colonial history is being rewritten to paint a good and kind picture of their governments?
Any opinion from my European friends?
What did you learn about your recent history?

http://forum.greenpeace.org/int/archive/index.php/t-2192.html

2007-7-22 06:49 PM

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The West has created a situation by colonization that the rest of the world has a good reason to blame them for their own development problems.

The Americans want to take advantage of this because by comparison they did less colonizing except to the native Indians, and they kicked out the British in 1776. So they sympathize if everyone blame the Dutch, the South Americans blame the Spanish and the Portuguese, and the rest of the world blames the English. But you see, the American government never knows how to play this game of rallying the former European colonies.

However, we know that blaming somebody is convenient but will not take us anywhere. That is why China is just going ahead withouit blaming anyone.

Malaysia, Singapore, and Hong Kong developed faster due to their individual unique circumstances, not because they were former British colonies, although the British very much want to say so.

If you don't believe me, look at Thailand which has never been a Western colony before, Japan which the West wanted but failed to colonize, South Korea and Taiwan which were Japanese colonies until 1945. Also look at South Africa mostly colonized by the Dutch but on the verge of a breakout.

2007-7-22 06:59 PM

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Another point.

The people of the colonizers besides the colonized are also the victims.

Everybody knows the injustices done to the colonized people. But do the ordinary people in the West know that colonization also did them wrong?

They will never find out if their history books all depict the "good" picture rather than the real picture. The real picture is that the riches obtained by colonization only went to the monarchy, the high officials in the government, and the top executives of the big corporations. Because the government has to protect the big corporations in their foreign ventures, the sons of the average family had to fight and die for the corporations. What benefits did they get in return? How many wars did Britain have to fight during the colonial period, where, and what are the casualties? What do the history books say?

The people of the West should scrutinize their governments for what they did one or two generations ago.

by Chungtfung ( http://forum.greenpeace.org/int/archive/index.php/t-2192.html )

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What benefits did they [people from the west] get in return?

Better infrastructure and more wealth that trickled down from to to bottom.

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2007-7-22 07:01 PM

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