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> They have no rights and should not have any to pressure any country to push their own idea of how things should work in another country To believe that China
by Mediterraneo10 8y ago
> They have no rights and should not have any to pressure any country to push their own idea of how things should work in another country
To believe that China does not attempt to influence other countries is naive. China puts a great deal of pressure on other nations with regard to things like recognition of Taiwan or inviting the Dalai Lama to speak. These have occasionally been in the news over the last few years, e.g. China’s retaliatory measures against Norway for Liu Xiabo winning the Nobel Peace Prize, but in fact they go back decades – when Michelangelo Antonioni was showing his documentary film Chung Kuo around in the early 1970s, in European countries where a screening was organized the local Chinese embassy would raise scandal.
- neom 8y agoChina certainly has a very strong view on the make-up of the region, much is historical, some of it fair. However, we don't see them going around converting everyone to communism. In fact, even all the investment they are doing in Africa right now, very little of the social aspects of china are being exported. Xi Jinping has always maintained: china is not for export.
- Mediterraneo10 8y ago> In fact, even all the investment they are doing in Africa right now, very little of the social aspects of china are being exported. China has repeatedly lobbied, with some success now, for East African nations to adopt its "Great Firewall" network infrastructure.
- vermontdevil 8y agoDon't forget the pressure on Marriott to fire an employee for clicking 'like' on a Tibet-related topic. And for pressuring airlines not to list Taiwan on their websites for booking.