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Western Ideological vs. Chinese Nationalistic Sentiment

Tuesday, March 10th, 2009 @ 04:49 UTC

by Oiwan Lam

Countries:: China
Topics:: Ideas, Diaspora, International Relations, Politics
Languages:: English

Inside-Out China blogs about the nationalistic sentiment shared by overseas Chinese, as a result of direct confrontation with Western Ideology: if the Chinese government were smarter, it should send all dissidents overseas instead of putting them in prison, as living the West seems to be more effective in changing views.

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