It Feels Weird at the Moment Being Chinese
Recently I have been a diligent news reader, following both The Guardian and the Wall Street Journal, and isn’t there an awful lot of news about China.
Latest has it that the US is reasserting its economic and military presence in Asia-Pacific to supposedly stand off China’s increasing influence and potential threat to other countries in the same region.
I can understand the other countries’ fears. It is certainly not a sound sleep next to a neighbor that is way more massive in size and almost all other aspects.
But I just can’t help feeling a little being ganged up on by all the neighbors. I am beginning to wonder what it is that makes some nations friends but others enemies. The diplomats and political scientists might say there is never friendship but forever vested interests, but I always felt that under all the science there is a very simple, and very human reason: no reason, it’s just some people/country one instinctively likes and others that one just doesn’t.
As an insider, I am not feeling all the politics, all I am feeling right now with respect to what the U.S. and the other Southeast Asian countries are doing is that China is being purposefully turned into a monster and being alienated, just like in a school and China is like a freak that no one wants anything to do with.
I mean, nobody has this much to say and do when the U.S. or Japan was on the rise. Is it just because culturally the US is closer to the European, or Japan was then backed by the US, and that the pan-European bloc is one big happy family where everything is a-Okay?
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