Posted on 11/06/2008 7:50:15 PM PST by nickcarraway
China responded to Barack Obama’s election with a mixture of wariness over the uncertainty of the change he promises to usher in — and relief that the global financial turmoil, which is hurting China badly, can be better addressed under his leadership.
President Hu Jintao and premier Wen Jiabao sent messages of congratulations to Obama, and expressed the hope that bilateral relations would remain stable and make progress. A commentary in the official newspaper China Daily claimed that China was “elated” by Obama’s victory and hoped he would bring America “out of the present financial quagmire as soon as possible, and re-energise the world’s largest economy with his brand-new ideas and vision”. It also expressed hope that Sino-US relations would be sustained and extended under Obama’s presidency.
Analysts, however, say that China has reason to be wary of Obama’s victory. “Chinese leaders don’t like uncertainty, and they can already see that Sino-US relations could change dramatically under an Obama presidency,” says Gordon Chang, author of The Coming Collapse of China. “That’s because Obama has the capacity to change people’s perception of the US in a favourable way, and China may no longer have a free run in Asia.”
“There’s a general impression in China that America is a highly segregated and racially polarised society,” says Kaiser Kuo, a Beijing-based Chinese-American and internet ad professional. “When the US state department issues statements critical of human rights in China, the Chinese foreign ministry often responds by focusing on the human rights situation in America, and often that focuses on issues of racism.”
In addition, China is “especially concerned about whether its special economic dialogue with the US will continue”, adds Kuo. This is particularly accentuated by the fact that Obama has campaigned on a platform of keeping US jobs from being shipped overseas, which would impact China’s strength as a beneficiary of outsourced manufacturing. “But that said, a lot of Chinese people understand that that there are certain positions particularly a Democratic candidate is going to have to take to address the traditional base.”
Licking chops, soon we get to eat Taiwan.
Speaks volumes! ;-)
Keep in mind that as the first minority President he must prove himself as capable. This concern of china may be valid.
Communist dictatorship elated over Obama win....In other shocking news, this just in, Clay Aiken is gay.
Wasn’t Warren Harding half black?
You tell me.. :^)
Harding, Jefferson, Andrew Jackson, Lincoln and Eisenhower were all reportedly of mixed racial makeup.
Were any a geographical minority?
In what context, Charlie?
Well, in America, an African background vs a European background came to the fore-front in the 1900’s as the majority vs minority status that was being determined. Reason being that minority’s had protections built in to the Constitution because of different beliefs involved between different ideology because of history and heritage.
The context evolved to where we have been for the last 150 years.
They're going to be *really* relieved when the gub'mint scarfs up all the disposable income that we use to buy their slave-crafted products.
In a nutshell IMHO, the walls of Congress came down and included the entire populace of America. That created a socialist look at minority and majority. It wasn’t just Congress anymore.
Note to China...if you want Tiawan, now is the time to slowly to insert the hooks and squeeze.
Desperate I would put it, I don’t think any nation on Earth would have more self interest in America’s economy recovering. Just imagine hundreds of millions of desperate unemployed in China, the mind boggles.
The American consumer rules the planet as never before.
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