pender:
Do you think you can represent most of German? And your opinion is their opinion?
I would never dare!
...contrary to you speaking of course for 1 Billion chinese, right?But I can safely say that the majority agrees with me. And not only in Germany but in the whole of Europe:
URLEuropeans View China as Biggest Threat to Global Security
Another interesting article:
THE DRAGON'S BLUNDER
URL...The Chinese Communist Party had carefully organized the sequence of events down to the very last detail: a jubilant People's Congress in March, the triumphant arrival of the Olympic flame and, on Aug. 8, the gala opening ceremony of the Summer Olympics, with the key Western politicians in attendance. China's aim was to play the glamorous host, and it was intent on all of its guests marveling at the impressive Olympic facilities and admiring Beijing as a new international metropolis. Its plan was to present a manifestation of political power, reinforced, to the greatest extent possible, by athletic triumphs and a strong showing in the gold medal count. Look at us, China hoped to say, "we are back in the fold of the world's most important and modern nations, and we have moved up alongside the United States as a new world power. We are even the world's leader in some areas."
The Central Committee planners had thought of so many things in their campaigns to promote civility ("wenming"), even instructing Beijing residents to give up their habit of spitting in public and police officers to wave more pleasantly. But there was one thing the political calligraphers, in their obsession with detail, had ignored: the big picture....
To bad! :)
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