Yo my man Carlosa. Can you read VNese? It would be great if you could take a look at the article in my above post. Don't worry the author has a pretty neutral tone and the content is no ultra nationalist smearing on China either. I am looking forward to your comment, cause you are a good poster, your post always worths reading.
Xin chao Bro, I had to translate it using Bing translator (google translator is blocked in China). The translation is pretty bad, but I get the idea.
Yes, the article is correct. Even chinese that have very bad opinions of the government and by the way, most of the people that I talk to in china, tell me that the government is bad and they don't believe anything the government says, but as soon as there is a foreign policy issue, the chinese will rally behind the flag and they follow the government line, never mind that they used to say that they don't believe anything the government says. Chinese are very nationalistic, period. Obviously the government manipulates the nationalistic feelings of the people.
The way they go for the gold medals is an expression of their nationalism; Americans are also that way by the way.
In these type of foreign policy issues, I would classify the chinese into 2 groups, the brain washed ones, those are the one that believe the government propaganda and all the bs about the historical claims, etc. Those are pretty fanatical most of the time and is usually a waste of time to talk to them.
The other group are smart, they know that all that is incorrect, but they believe that is ok to do because that's what big powers do.
By the way, I like what you wrote with Gambit, you defended yourself very well man.
yes, we are witnessing a historic moment my friend.
actually, communism is alien to China. Chinese are more capitalists. the ruling elites just use communism as empty cover.
Indeed !!!!!! I see some second hand, refurbished F-16's coming up (like what Indonesia is getting).