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Something amusing about “anti-China prejudice” is that generally speaking most countries don’t especially care if you badmouth them. Can you imagine Americans up in arms that someone in China doesn’t like or respect America? And don’t scour the internet to find outlier examples, any reasonable person well acquainted with American culture knows the answer.

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  Can you imagine Americans up in arms that someone in China doesn’t like or respect America?

Yes. Absolutely.

But in general, Americans have hate China at a personal level. The Chinese do not hate Americans at a personal level. They see the conflict as just political - not personal. The level of anti-China propaganda in the US far exceeds the level of anti-American propaganda in China in my opinion.

There is far more anti America propaganda than anti China.

Now that’s just wrong. The level of anti china propaganda in the US is magnitudes higher than anti American propaganda in China.

Anyone who disagrees has never stepped inside China. Maybe not even in US.

Meanwhile in reality China spreads anti America propaganda at school while in America, China runs positive China propaganda classes and programs.

Yikes.

The same line was said by Soviets during the Cold War, or Americans during the Iraq Invasion...

In reality, in any relationship both sides must share some of the guilt for the failure in getting along.

I dont think so. America is clearly the big bully in the school yard.

See, this is the thing. It’s just wrong in spirit. Americans just don’t care about China. Americans don’t particularly think about any other countries, period, and they definitely don’t care what those countries think of them.

That seems wrong. Every mainstream American news publication is doing anti China propaganda. Major politicians are using China as something scary they can protect you from to win elections. Even on HN, you get one or two anti china posts everyday.

Are there any news articles from mainstream journalism you could point to that were harsh but fair regarding China, or is any negative or unflattering statement about China “anti China propaganda”?

Let me ask you this, when was the last time you read something that portrayed China in even a semi positive light in mainstream?

Off the top of your head. Don’t Google.

It’s not what the news publication publishes. It’s what they choose not to publish.

I read about economic growth and modernization and brilliant public transport projects in China all the time. I read about how Shenzhen is a Mecca for technology product development. I read about the great success of Chinese software companies — essentially the only country in the world to have a real software industry other than the US.

Your view is distorted, it is worth considering if that distortion is motivated. Is it emotionally important to you to believe this? Would you be unhappy if you entertained the alternative?

No. You don’t read about those. You just know about those.

Do me a favor, type this into Google “site:Bloomberg.com china”. Count the ratio of positive to negative articles.

> Can you imagine Americans up in arms that someone in China doesn’t like or respect America?

Easily, yes.

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