Enter the dragon
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1664003,00.html
China's much-heralded rise has business in thrall to an enemy of
democracy
Essay by Ian Buruma
Saturday December 10, 2005
The Guardian
Some hot topics come and go: the End of History; Imperial Overstretch;
Europe as Venus, the US as Mars. And some keep coming back, sometimes
after long pauses. The Rise of China is back, with a vengeance, in the
papers, on television, in magazines, conferences, seminars, and so on.
It is as though people have suddenly woken up to the fact that China is
a major power again, and it may be that both the benefits and perils of
this phenomenon are being exaggerated. This tends to happen whenever
the west feels challenged by a non-western people. It may also be that
western fears are not exaggerated, but simply misplaced. For the past
several hundred years, China has been either a "sleeping dragon" or on
the rise. Many people might prefer the sleeping mode. Either way, the
Chinese dragon is seen as a fearsome beast that has excited the greed,
envy, terror and fascination of many generations of Europeans and
Americans.
Ian Buruma
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.atheism/msg/6bfb36532cf43492
China
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.atheism/msg/d3294ecc38a6a57d
China / Meiguo
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.atheism/msg/772524fe8bf033d4
China / EU
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.atheism/msg/9dc461a537bab550
Is the wakening giant a monster?
http://tinyurl.com/iws6
A Blueprint for the Future
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.atheism/msg/59c28cd6dfe6f60f
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