I have been trying to think of a good article to write on for the past few day and I have finaly selected a topic that definitely needs attention.
Now to sum up the topic I only need to say two words, China and Obama. As most of you people out there should know the president of the U.S.A has been on a tour of the Asian countries such as China and Japan. On the 16th he met with the leader of China Hu Jintao to discuss the economy and the environment as well as giving an address to university students where he talked about Internet censorship. If you were not aware of this the people of China are blocked from certain parts of the internet such as Twitter and FaceBook. It is called "The Great Fire Wall." during the presidents address he stated that we should ally ourselves with the upcoming super power rather then fighting the changes.
This is a great point in time where we can see that there can be some form of prosperity in either a Democracy or a communism, but the question that keeps running through my head is if the two forms of government can function under each others arm. I find that in the world we live in all boundaries have been broken. We are all so connected that our differences seem to become less and less and the ideas and practices that we do on a daily basis are more like our friends all the way in China, but there are still the people that are trying to control every aspect of our lives, and a good question is what will happen to the people that would rather be alone?
Another question is if our government is genuinely trying to create a relationship with China or are we just trying to hang with the highest bidders? If this trip is for creating a friend out of our past enemy then lets hope that the President does a good job. With China's population of 1,325,639,982 it seems very important that we have a good friendship with 1/6 of the world's population.
I think this is a really interesting post and I never really thought about a change in relations during the new administration. I do think that when looking at this we should keep two things in mind:
ReplyDelete1. Not all diplomatic meetings are what they seem; the media often paints a rosy picture depicting civil communication when there is underlying tension and strain.
2. I love the last paragrpah; I never thought about it those terms. But we can be friendly on a personal level, politics aside. Unless there is severe animosity between cultures (which usually stems from religious conflict or propoganda) I think we can still be friendly with people of other countries. I'm sure if we were exchange students in China we would be met with kindness and hospitality by many, as we would (hopefully!) treat them well if they visited us.