i really don't get it why people have such a strange view about China.
China isn't warmongering like
United States - United Kingdom - Germany - Italy - France - Canada - Poland - Netherlands - Turkey - Australia - Romania - Bulgaria - Spain - Denmark - Czech Republic - Norway - Belgium - Hungary - Sweden - Croatia - Slovakia - Lithuania - Macedonia - Latvia - New Zealand - Albania - Estonia - Greece - Finland - Azerbaijan - Slovenia - Portugal - United Arab Emirates - Singapore - Ukraine - Luxembourg - Iceland - Ireland - Jordan - Austria - Bosnia and Herzegovina - Georgia, all bringing "
democracy" to Afghanistan
then we got USA again in Iraq
Russia's invasion in Georgia
Israel - Egypt - Jordan - Lebanon - Palestinia - Syria still fighting for the "holy land"
Pakistan vs India
Venezuela vs Honduras (no armed conflict but both poking with sticks)
last but not least Iran & North Korea not really pushing for any kind of war (my opinion) but don't want to be neglected by the rest of the world, i'm sorry but who are we (the western civilization) to deny any one nuclear power / atom-bombs? if i would be a citizen of Iran i would be very happy to have atom-bombs, too. after seeing the west invade Afghanistan and Iraq and knowing only with an atom-bomb at your disposal you could keep them (us) out. (i'm
not saying launching it!! because that would be suicide)
i left every domestic policy conflict out. China - Tibet would fall in that category but the same goes for Spain - ETA aka
Basque Homeland and Freedom and Canada - Quebec, okay the last one is not that resent but i hope you can see my point that conflicts like these are problems of the respective state and no one else! unfortunately we have two examples how it went wrong both ways see Russia - Georgia (Abkhazia and South Ossetia) and Sudan - Darfur.
so China has done nothing but nothing wrong,
where does that hate and fear come from?
China is trying to close the gap to the G8 - let's better say G2 (USA - Russia in turns of military and space technology). some might say i'm naive to believe China on this one.
but i think there are two important things that the West is forgetting here. first it is a developing country that means the West needs to do the first steps not China! second it is a
completely different culture.
i'm not saying in any way China is perfect but the United States (and most of the western civilization) are not in any way better.
Global Peace Index shows United States on rank 83 and China on 72 (lower number is better)
comparison between US China and Russia the interesting thing is that China's bad rank is mostly because of the political instability regarding Tibet.
So why the hate and fear?