American "frank and open discussion" make me yawn . At least Chinese call thing what they are "realations at a stalemate, dangerous situation". It seems that americans doesn't understand that a danger of a direct conflict (between china and usa, not between china and some allies like japan or taiwan) is very real. The same for russia, they are joking with fire.
Who is the woman with blue hair? They are joking...
translator
Trump’s grand daughter could probably translate better.
Is there a video of her translating English to Chinese?
No, but she is at least fluent, which is more than I could say for purple hair.
Oops. I should have clarified myself a bit more, my bad. Is there a video of blue hair translating? I'm sure the Chinese web managed to create clips of her translation to laugh at.
AssassinsMace
Lieutenant General
I was watching cable news this morning and Richard Haas was being interviewed and he was talking about some foreign policy guy who is traditionally a hawk on China even calling for cooperation on China in some areas if the US wants to get anything done because Sino-US relation are stuck going nowhere. The US always talks they want cooperation but it's basically the US orders and China obeys. Americans think they're coming from the high moral ground that they are not motivated by their own self-interests which is why they think they can bark orders and expect China to obey. This technological cold war exposes how the US is completely motivated by self-interests and they're openly worried about China's technological rise supplanting their superiority and profit. And then they hide behind human rights to cover that up. If they were truly motivated by human rights, why do they take their stand on Uighur human rights? Why not earlier when they accused China of slave and child labor throughout China that their corporations exploit? It's just an excuse to stop China and make China submit to the same demands they've always made that will give them control over China aka serving the Western world order and fall in line with how the West wants to shape the world and help punish others that also don't submit to them. Their goals are the same as when they didn't care one bit about human rights when they were colonizing the world.
To China's fault, the West knows China wants its respect and they take full advantage of it. You know what's wrong with Confucius? As with many philosophers of the past, the problem with them is that was then. This is now. Confucius never saw anyone but a Chinese in control of Chinese society. It was easy for him to tell everyone respecting authority was paramount for a stable society but he never saw someone not Chinese in higher authority. The West has more power and money and are of higher authority that even Beijing recognizes hence why having their respect is important to them. What happened in Hong Kong is very Confucius of them. It's just they don't recognize Beijing as their authority. They recognize the West as a higher authority. They're doing what Confucius demands not what an ideal Westerner is suppose to stand for. They don't know what democracy means. They attack people for not agreeing with them because that's what the West, their authority, wants to see happen to those that are not loyal to them. This may not be what Confucius had in mind because he lived in the past and it sometimes clashes with the realities of today. What's wrong with China is they want respect from their enemy. Respect is worthless especially from an enemy that does not seek anything good for you. China would be much further ahead today if they didn't value wanting the West's respect. They don't deserve China's respect. They don't even follow what they claim to believe in. See even Hong Kongers align themselves with the more authoritarian right-wing of the West and not with democratic principles when it comes down to it. It has nothing to do with democracy and human rights.
To China's fault, the West knows China wants its respect and they take full advantage of it. You know what's wrong with Confucius? As with many philosophers of the past, the problem with them is that was then. This is now. Confucius never saw anyone but a Chinese in control of Chinese society. It was easy for him to tell everyone respecting authority was paramount for a stable society but he never saw someone not Chinese in higher authority. The West has more power and money and are of higher authority that even Beijing recognizes hence why having their respect is important to them. What happened in Hong Kong is very Confucius of them. It's just they don't recognize Beijing as their authority. They recognize the West as a higher authority. They're doing what Confucius demands not what an ideal Westerner is suppose to stand for. They don't know what democracy means. They attack people for not agreeing with them because that's what the West, their authority, wants to see happen to those that are not loyal to them. This may not be what Confucius had in mind because he lived in the past and it sometimes clashes with the realities of today. What's wrong with China is they want respect from their enemy. Respect is worthless especially from an enemy that does not seek anything good for you. China would be much further ahead today if they didn't value wanting the West's respect. They don't deserve China's respect. They don't even follow what they claim to believe in. See even Hong Kongers align themselves with the more authoritarian right-wing of the West and not with democratic principles when it comes down to it. It has nothing to do with democracy and human rights.