China has succumbed to hubris – General
www.telegraph.co.uk — China has succumbed to hubris. It has mistaken the soft diplomacy of Barack Obama for weakness, mistaken the US credit crisis for decline, and mistaken its own mercantilist bubble for ascendancy. There are echoes of Anglo-German spats before the First World War, when Wilhelmine Berlin so badly misjudged the strategic balance of power and over-played its hand.
That is a grand question indeed: "Will China ever forgive the West for the ignominies of the 19th-century?"
So what do you think? Will it ever cease to be a factor?
More study required on the part of all concerned. I'd like to see some Chinese university-level courses that offer up perhaps something of a different narrative.
"I'd like to see some Chinese university-level courses that offer up perhaps something of a different narrative."
And therein lies your answer. The resentful, chip-on-shoulder attitude of many Chinese (experienced firsthand) is not - as some suppose or the Chinese themselves would argue - part of their cultural dna, it is carefully nurtured by the CCP through what can only be described as a selective historical discourse.
Yeah, I kind of wish this would stop: "Yeah Adam, I knew you were from abroad because you have a big nose."
I don't have a big nose, but Chinese kids almost feel an inbred need to say so. This seems to dovetail nicely with the narrative they're taught at school.
I'd like to be a part of this new discourse as well...I have some ideas...