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Hurt Feelings? Blame Deng Xiaoping
Reading the People's Daily is a bit like recess in elementary school. Someone always gets their feelings hurt. And more often than not, that someone is the "Chinese people." For reasons that have defied analysis, Chinese state press wordsmiths and government spokespeople love to say that acts by other countries or world leaders which Beijing disagrees with "hurt the feelings of the Chinese people." (In the past year Tim Johnson of McClatchy Newspapers and James Fallows of the Atlantic have both pondered the frequent use of this phrase.)
The playground of international affairs can be a pretty rough place, but some bullies are worse than others. A Chinese reader recently examined 60 years of the People's Daily and counted more than a 100 cases of hurt feelings, then posted the results on a bulletin board. The survey was "incomplete," the unnamed author wrote, but one country was far in the lead. Japan hurt China's feelings 47 times. The U.S. was a distant second with 23 mentions. NATO was next with 7.
But you don't have to be a economic or military giant to malign the Middle Kingdom. The Vatican, Guatemala, Albania, Iceland, Jordan, Nicaragua and the Nobel Committee all got their kicks in, too. Jerks.
Interestingly, there was only one case of "hurt feelings" from before 1978. Getting your feelings hurt, the author concludes, is an inevitable cost of China's 30-year-old policy of "opening up." Clearly the ultimate blame lies with Deng Xiaoping.
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But that list only includes news up to 2006. There are probably a much richer list for 2007 and 2008 - think the glorious torch relay, the Tibet victory, the excellent quality of Chinese products, Dalai meeting all the people, the peace prizes...
A more interesting analysis would be the cause of these hurt feelings: Dalai, Taiwan, Tibet, Human Rights, Press Freedom...
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Hahahaha! Other words that are frequently used by the CCP and its flunkies: "western anti-China elements(or forces)西方反华分子(势力)","people who are ignorant of truth are instigated by a small pinch of bad elements(不明真相的群众在一小撮坏分子的煽动下)","quisling(卖国贼)", and so on.
Chinese people have been hijacked by the CCP who holds this huge shield to withstand the arrows of blame successfully, a time and a time!
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hahahaha It sounds so unflattering to say "hurt our feelings" so much and sounds like such a weak argument.
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[...] (0) | Permalink | Trackbacks (0) | Email This Danwei.org has more details on just who has been hurting China's feelings, including a list and map of the [...]
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In addition, "Having ulterior motives(别有用心)".
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[...] post was inspired by Austin Ramzy, a Hong Kong-born bastard writing for The Times, who again does his China-bashing in the magazine’s [...]
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[...] who follows international political news involving China can shoot themselves in the head each time they read about it, yet [...]
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