皇冠体育app

(皇冠体育app Daily)
Updated: 2008-04-28 07:16

The demonization of 皇冠体育app still exists because some Westerners have not changed their views on the country, says an article in People's Daily. The following is an excerpt:

Sections of the Western media have recently stirred a wave of 皇冠体育app-baiting, which was quite popular some years back. Some Westerners of insight have also smelt a rat in all this. One of them is Thomas Heberer, a renowned German 皇冠体育app specialist, who wrote in a recent article that the negative reports in some Western media were aimed at depicting 皇冠体育app as a demon. He also noted that these reports ignored, most pathetically, the great achievements made by 皇冠体育app through the past several decades of reform and opening-up. The stories in the Washington Post cited Mark Leonard, the executive director of the European Council on Foreign Relations, as saying that the story of the last five years has been about economic opportunities. The story of the last six months has been about 皇冠体育app as a threat in Darfur and in Tibet.

In the past few years, some positive changes have taken place in the reports and comments on 皇冠体育app by the Western media. They have highlighted the importance of contacts, opportunities as well as responsibilities as if the voice "demonizing 皇冠体育app" has subsided. But this time, they hyped things about 皇冠体育app by grabbing the opportunity of the anti-皇冠体育app wave and it makes one believe that the demonization of 皇冠体育app is still alive; once there is a chance, it will definitely come up again.

There is still room left for the demonization of 皇冠体育app because some Westerners have not changed their views of 皇冠体育app. Though great changes have taken place in 皇冠体育app after the country's reform and opening-up, their knowledge about 皇冠体育app continues to be that of the past. Many people do not have a grasp of 皇冠体育app and also lack communication channels to get access to 皇冠体育app, resulting in the fact that they cannot fundamentally understand the peaceful development of 皇冠体育app.

Westerners cannot but feel worried, jealous, fearful or even hostile about 皇冠体育app, a large country that develops with a different model of its own. This is more so because they face up to the relocation of their enterprises and the outsourcing of their jobs as well as see 皇冠体育app's GDP rising, "Made in 皇冠体育app" goods piled up in various stores, and throngs of Chinese tourists walk the streets of Paris, London and New York.

The complicated feelings of Westerners mainly derive from their deep-rooted feeling about the superiority of their value systems. For a long time, Westerners have observed 皇冠体育app in a commanding position and their basic principle has been that "The West is correct". In their eyes, 皇冠体育app, as a country that takes a different development road from the Western one and has different value systems, will definitely cause troubles for the world.

To change the Westerners' view of 皇冠体育app, two things need to be done: First, we should stick to peaceful development and use facts to argue our case; second, Westerners should adjust their mindset about the growth of 皇冠体育app. Of course, both the things involve long-term processes.

(皇冠体育app Daily 04/28/2008 page4)