Beijing's leaders should grow up

[dArKeR]

If we take a look at the way China has been treating Taiwan over the past few years, we will find that it has been using unorthodox methods that have made it a laughing stock in the international community. The incessant attacks on Taiwan make it clear that the mental make-up of Chinese leaders is different from that of normal people. In most international conflicts, there has been hatred between the opposing peoples and national borders have changed, but this hatred has subsided with time. It is rare that such national hatred continues for decades. Except for the hatred between Arabs and Jews, this kind of hatred is probably only found within the Chinese nation.
China has been defeated once by Britain, once by France and three times by Japan. These humiliations have been deeply impressed in the Chinese nation's collective memory. The goal for modern China, whether under the leadership of the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) or the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), has been to restore China's past glory.

http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/editorials/archives/2005/08/04/2003266384

[still_one]

1. that is what the concept of face is all about

as far as the goal to restore China's past glory, I think it is well on the way, and that comment is NOT meant to distingish between the mainland and Taiwan, because each in their own was have showed the West

[ochazuke]

2. Not likely

They seem to be reading the same book that Rove is.

1. Unify the nation with the desire of the people of the PRC to once again be the center of the universe. It's their Manifest Destiny.

2. Play the victim card to remind the people how much foreign powers have hurt China in the past (especially Japan). They think that they can get away with anything while distracting the Chinese people with Japan-hatred. I guess they're right.

[Running Free]

3. Hmmm...

It would be interesting to see who was dumber:

The average Republican, the average Kuomintang supporter, or the average Hong Konger opposed to Leung Kwok-hung's agenda...

[rfkrfk]

4. where do murdered Tibetans rank on your scale of dumbness? nt