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Chinese President Hu Jintao arrives in Seattle next week for his first state visit to the U.S. During meetings with the likes of William H. Gates III, Yale University students, and finally President George W. Bush, there will be plenty of talking. Given the huge geopolitical and economic stakes riding on that dialogue, it's appropriate to ask: Why do China and America have such difficulty communicating?
Sure, the two nations are half a world apart, geographically, historically, and politically. But the cause of their at times cacophonous discourse could lie in something less obvious: the strikingly different academic training of their political leaders.
The majority of American senators and congressmen were schooled as lawyers. But each of China's senior leaders -- all nine members of the Politburo's Standing Committee -- was trained as an engineer: President Hu in hydropower, Premier Wen Jiabao in geological structure, for instance. Perhaps the difficulties between China and the U.S. lie less with dissimilar languages, cultures, and histories, and more with the divergent ways of thinking between lawyers and engineers
Originally posted by XphilesPhan they model their goverment after our former enemies government.
Originally posted by XphilesPhan
Well dissimular government is definately a huge part....
they model their goverment after our former enemies government.
I have also heard somewhere that china is producing weapons at a rate unseen since nazi germany.
Originally posted by TONE23
Second thing though is that China is NOT cummunist.. they are Captialist, socialists.
Originally posted by TONE23
And we are capitalist democracy. Russia was NOT communist. they werew in fact socialists aswell... but china will succeed where russia has failed since they have adopted capitalism. True communism has NEVER manifested itself in world govt. What most think of as communism is really socialism. Ture communism is called utopia-where everyone has what they need and theres no rich or poor...etc. Of course thats just fantasy land.
original quote by:pawnplayer
China is governed under a communist government system with Chinese characteristics as long as the Chinese Communist Party is the ruling power. There are socialist principles and policies as allowed by the CPC but such socialist policies and economic liberalization have to be endorsed by the majority of the CPC.
Originally posted by FallenFromTheTree
China looks at the world and their goals over a matter of centuries, where
our brilliant leadership sees things over a matter of years.
China could crush our economy without so much as lighting a firecracker.
Originally posted by TONE23
I guess I just get confizzled sometimes since IMO, Russia and China are so vastly different ion their approach to "communism" that I dont like calling china communist.
sorry for any confusion
Be careful if you say that in China, you could be arrested, interrogated and perhaps jailed for saying seditious words about China not being communist.
Originally posted by k4rupt
Hahaha! Sigh.. another perfect example of Western ignorance of the PRC. It's truly amazing how things so false and ignorant can be said here on ATS. Just to let you know... it is no longer the 1960s... Times have changed in China. No one would give a damn if you said "China is not a communist country," no one would even give you a second look.