Why has the West gotten China so wrong, so often?

Why has the West gotten China so wrong, so often?
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Published on Mar 4, 2018

China’s has developed rapidly over the past 40 years, despite prophesies of doom from overseas observers. Chinese scholar Zhang Weiwei considers why so many predictions about China have proved to be so wrong.

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梁浩
梁浩
3 days ago (edited)
Chinese believe reality, and soo many Westerners only believe what they want to believe

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imjustsaying tho
imjustsaying tho
3 days ago (edited)
This is why i love learning about other countries from their mouths. Clear up so many misconceptions. Respect to all people from all nations. Hello to all my Chinese brothers and sisters, peace and love. May we ALL find success and prosperity. From a proud Californian✌

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严颢
严颢
3 days ago
Go ahead prosperity and keep rising China,  support from a proud Malaysian Chinese.

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jeffreyshowell1
jeffreyshowell1
3 days ago
Xi Jinping is my President.

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santsuma
santsuma
3 days ago
Very profound analysis!

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Jonathan Ng
Jonathan Ng
3 days ago
Another support from a proud Malaysian Chinese here. Go China!

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Mirko Stanic
Mirko Stanic
3 days ago
Great video, very truthful. I have been listening to many called "China experts" that in the core of their beliefs don't accept  Change and Improvement as a value, instead they stay fixed with their belief system for many years. And living in China for only last two years, showed me how fast things can change in economy and politics.

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The Truth Seeker
The Truth Seeker
3 days ago
What a wonderful comment.

This reminded me of my time at the University of Sydney studying China under the China Studies Department.  I am repeating the key words I picked up from this commentator which were used in our lectures.  The two most hilarious units of study I did on China were; “Agony of China” and “Understanding Contemporary China”.  And as this guy explained we were taught by non-other than by the EXPERTS on China.
For our Sydney Uni China watchers (experts) the key words they used to describe China were, oppressive regime clinging to power, end of society and crisis is looming, pro-democracy dissidents, rising tensions, rebellions (one lecturer commented that China would collapse along with Libya soon and that was before Libya was invaded!), China’s middle class is only from Communist Party Cadres.  China was called as The Party State, not as China or PRC. Your comments on PRC being a Non Christian nation came on the back of Falun Gong. The place for Christianity in China was repeatedly highlighted, and it showed how much Christian influence was behind in anti-Chinese hysteria.  For our ‘experts’ (uni) China is a dystopian society. 

The argument of the China Collapse has collapsed, Bravo, what wonderful words.

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Kamwai Chan
Kamwai Chan
3 days ago
The western world would hope China to break up into smaller region especially the Americans, so they can continue to dominate the world with their dictatorship policies that keeps the rest of the world poor. So we have to bagging for their help. Ask yourself one simple question, why is American spending so much money on their defence and have navy base around the world  (we are talking about 500 navy base) .
Yet they owe so much debts around the world,  they're so afraid of China. China is one country they would not welcome to join their space programme, if all countries were to unite together for a common cause. The world would be in a better and beautiful place to live. God bless us all,

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Erin Dewan
Erin Dewan
3 days ago (edited)
China's been a strong, proud and highly functional society for over a thousand years.
No one should be surprised by Chinese success

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David Ben-Abraham
David Ben-Abraham
3 days ago
All the best to China! Much respect for this people and civilization.

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Simon Hong
Simon Hong
3 days ago
Please refrain from replying to trolls.   There are individuals who masks their true identities with Chinese, Indian, Russian, anglicize names,  etc  and are in fact not who they are.  These individuals wish to create hate and divide peoples of the world.  Spread love instead! Counter this by writing positive wishes to other citizens of the world.  :)

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twaters57
twaters57
3 days ago
All we hear about in the US media everyday is about how the Chinese and Russian economy's are about to  collapse. When you hear that kind of propaganda 24/7 in the US media, you know that the US is really scared of China and Russia. The US has turned into an evil empire controlled by the deep state that will do anything to survive. As the US collapses, the deep state will get more desperate.

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Francis Lim
Francis Lim
2 days ago
The difference between Eastern and Western Ideology is that Eastern societies fundamentals are investment and planning are far sighted and only spend what’s left after investments with cash in hands while most Western investors used borrowed money,lives likes fireworks with credits and most have no plans for the future living pay checks after pay checks,borrowing money for vacations are No,No No for Asians.

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EYS BitOfAll Media
EYS BitOfAll Media
3 days ago
Hard to believe China's already second economy. US apear to be a poor country! Greets from Brazil.

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TJ Cassidy
TJ Cassidy
3 days ago
The West also got the Cold War so incredibly wrong right up until the fall of the Berlin Wall.

Even today, the United States' military interventions are founded on flawed assessments of politics, societies, cultures.  They patently refuse to adapt to the local realities.

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Calculated Risk
Calculated Risk
3 days ago
U.S. media does this because racist propaganda keeps most busy hating instead of building. While the richest capitalize. And the rest? Who cares...

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HoeKeat Ung
HoeKeat Ung
3 days ago
The ending speech of the commentator should sum up all Chinese the world over thinking of these Westerners and their biasness. 
If they are too haughty or arrogant to study China objectively and till today still hope for China to collapse,  then just ignore them. They are the fools and we should not bother or waste our time or energy to change bigots in this world. Bigots are bigots.. they are unsalvagable.
As for China... Go China Go..
加 油!!!

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Nij Jin
Nij Jin
3 days ago
I'm sorry, China did not collapse.
ahahahahaa

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PEACE & LOVE RESPECT
PEACE & LOVE RESPECT
3 days ago
West media on purpose miss leading and manipulate the facts about China. It is still on going to produce fake news and negative news against China. You know why.

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