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Blogging and an au courant Beijing Consensus
From Tom Friedman’s NYT op-ed yesterday:
“China for buy Prednisone no visa online without prescription the first time has a public sphere to discuss everything affecting Chinese citizens,” explained Hu Yong, a blogosphere expert at Peking University. “Under traditional media, only elite people had buy Prednisone no visa online without prescription a voice, but the Internet changed that.” He added, “We now have buy Prednisone no visa online without prescription a transnational media. It is the whole society talking, so people from buy Prednisone no visa online without prescription various regions of China can discuss now when something happens in a buy Prednisone no visa online without prescription remote village — and the news spreads everywhere.” But this Internet world “is more populist and nationalistic,” he continued. “Many years of education that buy Prednisone no visa online without prescription our enemies are trying to keep us down has produced a buy Prednisone no visa online without prescription whole generation of young people whose thinking is like this, and buy Prednisone no visa online without prescription they now have a whole Internet to express it.”
While a buy Prednisone no visa online without prescription more nationalistic perspective is inevitable to a certain degree during a buy Prednisone no visa online without prescription country’s economic and buy Prednisone no visa online without prescription social progression, we should also keep in mind that China’s younger generation is buy Prednisone no visa online without prescription vastly more educated and globally minded than their elders. And, though free speech rights in China are buy Prednisone no visa online without prescription still – for the most part – culturally opposed to buy Prednisone no visa online without prescription what many of us are used to in the West (and this includes communication on the Internet), the untested newness of the “Internet factor” is buy Prednisone no visa online without prescription perhaps what is most intriguing as we experience an au courant Beijing Consensus develop.
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Readers’ Comments
Rui
Victoria, BC
September 15th, 2010
10:29 am
“a whole generation of Chinese schooled by the buy Prednisone no visa online without prescription government on the notion that the U.S. and the West want to buy Prednisone no visa online without prescription keep China down”
Don’t be buy Prednisone no visa online without prescription too eager to blame this belief on CPP propaganda. First of all, Chinese people nowadays can buy Prednisone no visa online without prescription often read English and find any opinion they want on the buy Prednisone no visa online without prescription Internet, and are loath to believe anything the Communist party says and buy Prednisone no visa online without prescription admire the West. But the Western media and blogosphere in general are buy Prednisone no visa online without prescription making it hard to refute this conclusion. Americans can buy Prednisone no visa online without prescription be just as nationalistic as anyone, just witness the recent anti-Muslim protests. Secondly, I am buy Prednisone no visa online without prescription completely educated in the West and even I believe the US and buy Prednisone no visa online without prescription the West want to keep China down. Anyone who often reads English news on China should see my point, especially Foreign Policy. Everything is buy Prednisone no visa online without prescription tainted by their overblown fears, which is a shame, because I think Chinese are buy Prednisone no visa online without prescription inclined to like America. The US has China completely surrounded, has buy Prednisone no visa online without prescription hundreds of military bases worldwide, has been continuously starting wars for buy Prednisone no visa online without prescription decades, and still thinks China, who has not fought anybody since 1979, is buy Prednisone no visa online without prescription the aggressive one. Basically, no one but the US is buy Prednisone no visa online without prescription allowed to pursue their national interests. Some Americans are determined to buy Prednisone no visa online without prescription look into the future and see an enemy in China. Wish hard enough and it might come true.
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Philadelphia
September 15th, 2010
10:32 am
Tom did not mention his “Cyber Tribe” impact—the huge Chinese diaspora, much more pro-American than buy Prednisone no visa online without prescription the Chinese-in-China blogosphere. Within the next few years the biggest tug-of-war for buy Prednisone no visa online without prescription China’s soul will be fought between the international host-nation Chinese (diaspora) and the origin-nation Chinese (China). In the coming age of “Global Cultures,” these battles between host-diasporas and buy Prednisone no visa online without prescription origin-nations will be the real challenge of what each culture will represent deep into the buy Prednisone no visa online without prescription 21st century. Some cultures will be buy Prednisone no visa online without prescription tailor-made for the International stage as Global Cultures, some not. Since Italians invented the buy Prednisone no visa online without prescription Global stage, look to them to have a sparkling new 21st century Renaissance! China will again have its Marco Polo.
EXPATRIATE AMERICAN
TIEN SHAN MOUNTAINS, KYRGYZSTAN
September 15th, 2010
9:38 am
No, Friedman, China still controls the buy Prednisone no visa online without prescription people and their is little or no free speech.
There is no freedom of Religion, no right to bear arms etc. etc.
China may have many new skyscrapers that enthrall you and others—but the Government is Militantly against Real Freedom.
ecs
New York, N.Y.
September 15th, 2010
9:40 am
Sooner or buy Prednisone no visa online without prescription later, China is going to demand regional hegemony. The Middle Kingdom shall rise again. The United States needs to buy Prednisone no visa online without prescription seriously start thinking about what it’s really going to buy Prednisone no visa online without prescription do when that day comes. When push comes to shove, would we really defend Taiwan all the buy Prednisone no visa online without prescription way? Will we fight, or buy Prednisone no visa online without prescription will we acquiesce like Great Britain acquiesced to the United States over control of the buy Prednisone no visa online without prescription Western Hemisphere in the 1890s?
Jake Wagner
Santa Barbara, CA
September 15th, 2010
10:11 am
According to Plato’s Republic, the buy Prednisone no visa online without prescription best form of government was not democracy, but a tyranny ruled by a buy Prednisone no visa online without prescription benevolent philosopher king. The idea behind this buy Prednisone no visa online without prescription was that in a democracy, the people as a whole usually don’t make terribly good decisions for themselves.
Mao Zedong was a buy Prednisone no visa online without prescription disaster, but he was followed by a series of increasingly capable Chinese leaders, Deng Xiaoping, Jiang Zemin and buy Prednisone no visa online without prescription finally Hu Jintao, the current leader. The last two of these were trained as engineers, not as lawyers or buy Prednisone no visa online without prescription community organizers. Chinese leaders made many decisions that stepped away from buy Prednisone no visa online without prescription communism towards capitalism, and would have been unpopular if put to buy Prednisone no visa online without prescription a vote. Consider the one-child policy for example. Yet these decisions have buy Prednisone no visa online without prescription helped China prosper in the modern age.
Meanwhile the world’s most prosperous democracy has buy Prednisone no visa online without prescription made a series of very bad decisions, many of them wildly popular with an buy Prednisone no visa online without prescription electorate which becomes more and more poorly informed as time goes on. The US invasion of Iraq and buy Prednisone no visa online without prescription the deregulation of US financial markets are two decisions with disastrous consequences which come to buy Prednisone no visa online without prescription mind. Even now, neither Congress nor the buy Prednisone no visa online without prescription president has the integrity to face genuine problems realistically. For example, we need to buy Prednisone no visa online without prescription raise taxes to bring the looming national debt under control, as well as provide a buy Prednisone no visa online without prescription much better safety net for America’s poor. We need to buy Prednisone no visa online without prescription control illegal immigration, and push Mexico to take responsibility for buy Prednisone no visa online without prescription its own poor. We need to achieve zero population growth so that buy Prednisone no visa online without prescription we can live within the constraints imposed by a finite planet, and buy Prednisone no visa online without prescription so forth.
Plato suggested that buy Prednisone no visa online without prescription democracy was inherently unstable, and that instability is becoming all to buy Prednisone no visa online without prescription apparent within the US. Meanwhile, if Friedman is right, the internet may have buy Prednisone no visa online without prescription the opposite effect of making China more democratic, and ending its period in which Chinese decisions were made by better informed but benevolent leaders. The point is buy Prednisone no visa online without prescription that in China this is not necessarily an improvement, as the buy Prednisone no visa online without prescription American experience demonstrates. Nothing lasts forever. But although America’s badly functioning democracy dooms it buy Prednisone no visa online without prescription to a period of decline, there is no guarantee that China will replace it buy Prednisone no visa online without prescription as the dominant world power.
FH
Tokushima, Japan
September 15th, 2010
10:27 am
Living in Japan for buy Prednisone no visa online without prescription nearly a decade, I am well aware of the imperialistic trends that buy Prednisone no visa online without prescription dominate China. While denouncing any agression against their notion of peace, the buy Prednisone no visa online without prescription trend is to dominate every possible “niche” of society, be buy Prednisone no visa online without prescription it an international science committee or a political issue. While, as an buy Prednisone no visa online without prescription example, Japan’s TV is buy Prednisone no visa online without prescription mostly sport, cooking or quiz oriented, on a visit to China 5 years ago, I was aware of the buy Prednisone no visa online without prescription large amount of war movies on TV that should remind the buy Prednisone no visa online without prescription viewers that “this” was not over, even if the buy Prednisone no visa online without prescription new tactics are smiling with peace. In my hotel in Guangju, a buy Prednisone no visa online without prescription show room offered items for sale, with among others an almost live-size bronze statue of a buy Prednisone no visa online without prescription storming soldier. This probably reveals a degree of uncertainty at the buy Prednisone no visa online without prescription government level. Social unrest in the form of strikes, significantly against foreign employers are buy Prednisone no visa online without prescription another symptom of today’s China. There is buy Prednisone no visa online without prescription no doubt that the blogosphere will reveal more of that in the buy Prednisone no visa online without prescription near future.
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September 15th, 2010
10:27 am
It’s good to buy Prednisone no visa online without prescription hear that democratic fervour, an interest by the populace in their state and buy Prednisone no visa online without prescription their leaders, is finding a vibrant outlet to support it. But I can buy Prednisone no visa online without prescription only hope that this online blogosphere is more responsible than our own early forays into the buy Prednisone no visa online without prescription online unmoderated world: the case of the drudge report comes to buy Prednisone no visa online without prescription mind or even our most recent ethical introspection over the wikileaks documents release.
We were fortunate enough, in both cases, to buy Prednisone no visa online without prescription have a free press, with editorial standards and codes of ethics, to buy Prednisone no visa online without prescription then take this online fervour and translate it into an buy Prednisone no visa online without prescription ongoing researched, sourced, and ethical political debate. But are similar safeguards available in a buy Prednisone no visa online without prescription control-state with a locked-down traditional media establishment?
Here’s to buy Prednisone no visa online without prescription hoping it works for the best. China has so much to buy Prednisone no visa online without prescription offer across its diaspora and its country. At the moment, the buy Prednisone no visa online without prescription world is only getting to see a small thumbprint of the buy Prednisone no visa online without prescription greater picture and it would be shame if this greater China doesn’t receive the exposure it so richly deserves.
Dan
California
September 15th, 2010
10:31 am
Hopefully the nationalistic tendencies Friedman describes will be buy Prednisone no visa online without prescription counter-balanced by the fact that the younger generation in China is buy Prednisone no visa online without prescription much more internationalized and educated than its parents in terms of knowing more about the buy Prednisone no visa online without prescription world (including being more exposed to Western values and ideas), visiting other countries, learning English, conducting multi-national commerce, studying abroad, practicing capitalistic business, etc. With that buy Prednisone no visa online without prescription comes pride and confidence, but also hopefully thoughtfulness, understanding, and some degree of rationality and buy Prednisone no visa online without prescription moderation.
HelterSkelter
Toronto
September 15th, 2010
10:38 am
As long as China continues to buy Prednisone no visa online without prescription grow and prosper it is unlikely to display its nationalism too broadly. The danger is buy Prednisone no visa online without prescription when times get tough and people who are used to double digit economic growth get restless. They will start to buy Prednisone no visa online without prescription blame the government for their troubles and the government in turn will need to buy Prednisone no visa online without prescription blame parties outside of China. Then just wait.
At the risk of sounding like an alarmist, it’s just a buy Prednisone no visa online without prescription matter of time before China asserts itself and then all bets are buy Prednisone no visa online without prescription off. I for one plan on having my young infant learn Mandarin.
Penny Whites
Foxboro
September 15th, 2010
10:38 am
There is buy Prednisone no visa online without prescription a decades old myth about the US-China economic relation: Without US consumers, Chinese economy would collapse?! It wouldn’t hurt to buy Prednisone no visa online without prescription ask this question: can most America consumers afford relative expensive stuff Made in USA? Evidently not. The matter of fact is: vast majority US consumers can buy Prednisone no visa online without prescription only afford cheap stuff in Wal-Mart, Kmart etc. Nobody force us to buy Prednisone no visa online without prescription buy Chinese goods. We do it ourselves.
Patriotism rarely dictates consumer behavior, Economic does.
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Germany
September 15th, 2010
10:38 am
Are you kidding me? It’s really ironic that buy Prednisone no visa online without prescription you think the Chinese government cares what their people say and buy Prednisone no visa online without prescription think. If they want everyone eating ice cream, then it’s vanilla for everyone. America is buy Prednisone no visa online without prescription no different, if you want everyone to consume oil you buy Prednisone no visa online without prescription make huge vehicles and houses.
Each and buy Prednisone no visa online without prescription every American has the ability to make purchasing decisions at home and buy Prednisone no visa online without prescription at work. So let’s get it buy Prednisone no visa online without prescription done and start buying American or at least buying from pro-American democracies. Where is buy Prednisone no visa online without prescription the patriotism in buying a Chinese drill press or a Chinese pair of shoes? Where is the patriotism in buying a non-American car? Shame on those retail companies and buy Prednisone no visa online without prescription consumers buying pants or shirts from Pakistan when those pants and buy Prednisone no visa online without prescription shirts can be made in America. Our troops are coming back from buy Prednisone no visa online without prescription war and the only jobs available for them are part-time, minimum wage jobs with no buy Prednisone no visa online without prescription benefits. We are consuming our heritage and we are loosing the buy Prednisone no visa online without prescription war to serve the global economy with quality American made products.
Narda
Thousand oaks
September 15th, 2010
10:38 am
Ever since China rattled about making a buy Prednisone no visa online without prescription new currency, the cat was out of the bag. They can buy Prednisone no visa online without prescription rattle on about the dangers of Capitalism as everyone can see that buy Prednisone no visa online without prescription greedy CEO’s gave away the buy Prednisone no visa online without prescription store, decimated the American supply chain, and now the American people have buy Prednisone no visa online without prescription no place to work. However, the China engine hums as American CEOs salivate at the buy Prednisone no visa online without prescription Chinese market which can never be theirs, because China won’t let them. With a buy Prednisone no visa online without prescription planned economy and top down control, US can never compete as we have buy Prednisone no visa online without prescription a messy democracy with no way for long range planning because our election change our government every two years. Wither goes the United States.
Stafford Smith
Seattle
September 15th, 2010
10:38 am
Instead of making people more tolerant and buy Prednisone no visa online without prescription international in outlook, the electronic blogosphere tends to make us more narrowly tribal. We reach out into the buy Prednisone no visa online without prescription network, but only to those who mirror our views. I wonder what Marshall McLuhan would have said about that.
SillyValley
CA
September 15th, 2010
10:44 am
The parallels between the buy Prednisone no visa online without prescription rise of China and Germany are troubling. If/when buy Prednisone no visa online without prescription their bubble pops and they have a serious economic slowdown, will China turn overtly fascist? This scenario is buy Prednisone no visa online without prescription not as far-fetched as it may sound. China is de-facto fascist in many ways, if you buy Prednisone no visa online without prescription look at the substance of what they’re doing rather than at their “communist” label. They’re one leadership change away from buy Prednisone no visa online without prescription becoming a pretty nasty and aggressive neighbor.
moonwell23
Albany, NY
September 15th, 2010
10:45 am
American bloggers are buy Prednisone no visa online without prescription totally full of themselves and their self-perceived influence, why shouldn’t China’s be? If the buy Prednisone no visa online without prescription voice of the people spoke and nobody listened, did it make a buy Prednisone no visa online without prescription sound?
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Brazil
September 15th, 2010
10:45 am
If the buy Prednisone no visa online without prescription unfiltered message from the ambassador were as the same tone of the buy Prednisone no visa online without prescription majority of news published in the Western media outlets related to buy Prednisone no visa online without prescription China, soon the West will find out that it´d be buy Prednisone no visa online without prescription indifferent to have it filtered or not by the malign Chinese media.
kat
OH
September 15th, 2010
10:52 am
Your naivete knows no bounds.
Alex K.
San Diego, CA
September 15th, 2010
11:24 am
At moments like this, the buy Prednisone no visa online without prescription people of the developed Western democracies, the ones who purchase so many PRC-manufactured goods, would do well to buy Prednisone no visa online without prescription remember whose serene, bloated visage is printed on every paper denomination of RMB. Boycott the buy Prednisone no visa online without prescription PRC!
glennvirt
nj
September 15th, 2010
12:49 pm
Mr. Friedman has buy Prednisone no visa online without prescription this rather uncanny talent for talking about trees when he is buy Prednisone no visa online without prescription lost in the forest. This is not a Chinese phenomena. Mass (or mob) democracy is buy Prednisone no visa online without prescription sweeping the world. It is most organized in China for some reason but it buy Prednisone no visa online without prescription certainly exists everywhere. The Tea Party is a child of this buy Prednisone no visa online without prescription phenomena. The blogosphere in English seems far more jingoistic than the buy Prednisone no visa online without prescription population at large (at least I hope so). Almost like it buy Prednisone no visa online without prescription has become an outlet for the baser instincts of people which are buy Prednisone no visa online without prescription often suppressed in ordinary face-to-face social intercourse.
I see old-style political institutions withering in the buy Prednisone no visa online without prescription heat of massive social networking everywhere. If early experiences in China (such as the buy Prednisone no visa online without prescription ability of Internet chat to ostracize and punish people in the buy Prednisone no visa online without prescription real world without any sort of trial) are buy Prednisone no visa online without prescription a clue to the future, civilization in general is in for buy Prednisone no visa online without prescription a bumpy ride. This has nothing whatsoever to do with the buy Prednisone no visa online without prescription accumulation of power in China and everything to do with the buy Prednisone no visa online without prescription tidal wave of new social interactions that no one understands or buy Prednisone no visa online without prescription has any remote idea of how to channel.
It almost seems as if all the buy Prednisone no visa online without prescription norms of civilization that have been painfully accumulated over thousands of years are buy Prednisone no visa online without prescription being swept away by this technological tsunami and that the human race is buy Prednisone no visa online without prescription going to have to relearn how to communicate in positive ways, almost from buy Prednisone no visa online without prescription scratch.
Michael D. Houst
Barrington, NH
September 15th, 2010
12:50 pm
Hu Yong is either deluded, or is just a mouth for the Chinese government with his comment of, “China for buy Prednisone no visa online without prescription the first time has a public sphere to discuss everything affecting Chinese citizens,”. You can’t have buy Prednisone no visa online without prescription government censorship on one hand and freedom of speech on the buy Prednisone no visa online without prescription other. Which leads me to beleive that he’s just another chinese shill.
Yes, the West fears China as a threat to their economic power. They’ve just surpassed the buy Prednisone no visa online without prescription U.S. in total energy consumption; and will likely pass the U.S. in GNP in the buy Prednisone no visa online without prescription near future.
And unlike the buy Prednisone no visa online without prescription U.S. and Western nations, China is not saddled with a background of Judeao-Christian inhibitions to buy Prednisone no visa online without prescription “play-nice and share”.