http://www.visitchn.com/2009/07/chinese-fireworks-display.html Sun, 28 Feb 2010 19:42:23 +0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://www.visitchn.com/2009/07/chinese-fireworks-display.html/comment-page-1#comment-4330 James Chan Sat, 04 Jul 2009 16:02:08 +0000 http://www.visitchn.com/?p=6733#comment-4330 The word "Chimerica" sounds like the name of a monster. China and America have had a commercial relationship, not a "symbiotic" relationship. America has not pointed a gun at China to force it to sell cheaply-made goods to us. On the contrary, our large companies (and we the taxpayers in varying degrees of complicity) help set up the factories in China and help make those imports into America possible. China is practising what a proverbial expression in Chinese says, "the bitter meat strategy (ku ru ji)," namely, they (as a nation) are willing to suffer for now (such as environmental degration, extreme income inequality, bipolar ego, etc.) in the hope of becoming economically prosperous for the future. And America bites. No one in such a commercial relationship is more morally superior than the other. The word “Chimerica” sounds like the name of a monster. China and America have had a commercial relationship, not a “symbiotic” relationship. America has not pointed a gun at China to force it to sell cheaply-made goods to us. On the contrary, our large companies (and we the taxpayers in varying degrees of complicity) help set up the factories in China and help make those imports into America possible. China is practising what a proverbial expression in Chinese says, “the bitter meat strategy (ku ru ji),” namely, they (as a nation) are willing to suffer for now (such as environmental degration, extreme income inequality, bipolar ego, etc.) in the hope of becoming economically prosperous for the future. And America bites. No one in such a commercial relationship is more morally superior than the other.

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