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发信人: beijingren (to thine own self be true), 信区: Military
标 题: Re: NY Times: China Versus America
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Tue Oct 21 01:03:06 2014, 美东)
Brian NYC 13 hours ago
There are degrees of exceptionalism and Chinese and American notions are
entirely different in both theory and practice. Cohen’s attempts to draw
parallels between the two, therefore, miss the mark. American exceptionalism
unmentioned in polite company includes genocide (Native Americans), slavery
, torture (Guantanamo), xenophobia (Chinese exclusion laws) predatory
capitalism (2008 global crash). No such parallel can be found in Chinese
history of the past 238 years.
Since WWII, the US has bombed Korea and China 50-3, Guatemala 54, Indonesia
58, Cuba 59-61, Guatemala 60, Congo 64, Laos 64-73, Vietnam 61-73, Cambodia
69-70, Guatemala 67-9, Grenada 83, Lebanon 83/84, Libya 86, El Salvador 80s,
Nicaragua 80s, Iran 87, Panama 89, Iraq 91, Kuwait 91, Somalia 93, Bosnia
94/95, Sudan 98, Afghanistan 98, Yugoslavia 99, Yemen 02, Iraq 91-03, Iraq
03-, Afghanistan 01-, Pakistan 07-, Somalia 07-08/11, Yemen 09/11, Libya 11.
No such parallel can be found in the world.
Cohen disapproves of the Chinese Ebola response, and yet the Council on
Foreign Relations published a paper that indicates the Chinese “horizontal
” approach is more effective than the West’s “vertical” approach (“
Ebola and Cultures of Engagement: Chinese Versus Western Health Diplomacy”)
. And the Chinese aren’t conducting war exercises just beyond US coastal
waters, but the US has been doing so off China's coastal waters with
impunity.
US exceptionalism is a cultural myth used to promulgate state violence on
others. |
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