There is a bit of truth in that. Leaving aside the frankly odious history of Western imperialism in China, it -- along with the historical memory of constant ci

There is a bit of truth in that. Leaving aside the frankly odious history of Western imperialism in China, it -- along with the historical memory of constant civil war and the aftereffects of Maoism -- has left a kind of pervasive paranoia and nationalistic hypersensitivity in the Chinese political mind, where every event is exhaustively scanned for evidence of bias, slights, and conspiracy, and presented in the media as such. This, of course, coexists with a more positive and open attitude within the culture and people, but it shouldn't be underestimated as a driving force of Chinese policy and politics.