I was actually refering to the headline that the West was becoming conceited
She didn't write the headline. The Westerners did.
Hers and that of just about every Chinese out there. Or are you still stuck in the mentality that Communists are out there to conquer the world?
So what you seem to be saying is that you don't want the Chinese government to be diplomatic, simply to say "we're great, like it or lump it"? That's not good PR, it's like a company telling the public "we have the best products - if you don't agree, buy someone else's!"
China isn't here to sell you anything.
He has to act like that,
because he can not afford to be seen being reasonable or rational with those Chinese.
Athenians used to despise any politicans who were willing to have reasonable compromises with the Spartans during the peloponnesian war. thus blood and treasures has to be lost for basically a mob mentality.
this is exactly the same thing happening again.
If this is the pinncle of human civilization, and end of history, then I would say human civilization has no future.
It's certainly not representative of human civilization, even though Western culture loves representing itself that way. (See, even *you* are thinking in those terms!)
This kind of reaction from the US vice president just reinforces what Mme Fu Ying has said. When was the last time Chinese politicians came back from a US trip and acted like they were "tough guys"?
Not to psychoanalyze too much, but I believe this kind of mentality is rooted in the West's colonial past. Though colonialism itself is gone, the attitude that the West is, *must be*, superior has remained.
