Due to the influence of the Western media, most foreigners’ understanding of China is limited to large eastern countries, with a long history and delicious food. There are no correct reports on many deep cultural backgrounds, living environment, social status, and national security. From the perspective of a Chinese, I think these deceived Westerners can have a correct understanding of China and fall in love with China.
Westerners’ negative impression of China:
1. China is a huge “factory”
Due to the influence of the Western media, the impression of China in the minds of Americans and Westerners may be that only 10% of people are business people. These people live in luxury houses and drive luxury cars, while the remaining 90% are poor workers. , Working in a sweatshop, oppressed by employers.
Western media often report that China’s air pollution is very serious. Everyone wears masks to live, as if factories and pollution are everywhere.
Truth data:
You can see from the macroeconomic operation of the Chinese government website (http://www.gov.cn/shuju/chaxun/index.htm) that the country’s GDP, CPI, PPI, population, grain output, industrial production The growth rate of social consumer goods retail sales, fixed asset investment and other changes, to feel the living conditions of the Chinese.
The news about sweatshops and the huge gap between the rich and the poor was something more than ten or twenty years ago. The fact is that many people don’t like to work in factories, but choose to work in offices. Because people in the 80s and 90s are generally well-educated and have their own ability to improve their job status.
As for the state of air pollution, there has been considerable improvement in the last ten years. More than ten years ago, some big cities did have smog and other situations. However, the country has also taken decisive measures to improve. The city’s daily PMI index can be easily found in any weather forecast app or search engine.
2. Inferior products made in China
Western media’s biased reports on China are also reflected in the mockery and suppression of Chinese-made products. The fact is that in the United States or Western countries, most of the clothes, furniture, and electronic products that people need in their lives are made in China, but they have not studied it carefully. In the current Chinese society, there are a number of brands that surpass foreign brands in high-tech fields such as automobile manufacturing, mobile phones, and drones. This is the true Chinese strength.
3. China has no human rights
There is really no need to refute these old-fashioned remarks about “human rights,” “democracy,” and “freedom.” Perhaps the challenge of the United States and Western countries to China has already begun since the founding of New China. But people with a little brain know how to distinguish the authenticity of news.
First of all, Westerners habitually provoke the division and chaos of Eastern countries. This is something they are happy to do. So as long as any country has organizations or separatist forces that oppose the government, they will be happy to support it. Then, in turn, they accused these countries of being “undemocratic” and “suppressing the people’s right to pursue freedom.” And if the same thing happens in their own country, the nature is completely reversed, directly defining others as “separatist” and “traitor.” This is a terrible double standard, but it is also a Western approach. For this situation, I just smiled.
Second, Westerners fear the rise of China. why? The Chinese have very terrible cohesion. They are afraid of hitting them after China’s rise. Because this is their inherent thinking, they feel that Western countries have been suppressing China, and that once China rises, they will implement anti-repression. But anyone who really understands Chinese history knows it. China has never invaded other countries, but China has risen from being invaded. The Chinese experienced being invaded by the Allied Forces of the Eight Nations during the Qing government, and only after the founding of New China did they escape the fate of being bullied. However, the West has never stopped suppressing and bullying China, but their mistake is to think that China is still the Qing government that had been bullied.
Therefore, if you want to understand what the real China is like, you cannot unilaterally obtain information from Western media reports, but come out and see it yourself. But the COVID-19 epidemic in Western countries is quite serious now, so let’s wait until the epidemic is over.