US House of Representatives Has Become a Garbage Heap for Anti-China Sentiments

[unhappycamper]

http://watchingamerica.com/News/240285/us-house-of-representatives-has-become-a-garbage-heap-for-anti-china-sentiments/

I hope U.S. lawmakers have the necessary skills of introspection to clearly perceive the odors that abound in their assembly rooms.

US House of Representatives Has Become a Garbage Heap for Anti-China Sentiments
Huanqiu, China
By Qu Yafei
Translated By Xiangyi (Apple）Jia
30 May 2014
Edited by Eva Langman

On May 28, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a resolution severely attacking the Chinese human rights situation. It revisited the political turmoil that occurred 25 years ago in Beijing; accused China of taking various measures to maintain social stability; urged the U.S. International Broadcasting Bureau (IBB) to engage in information infiltration against China; and demanded that the U.S. government prioritize the human rights issue in bilateral dialogues with China. The usually quarrelsome House reached an unprecedentedly unanimous agreement when it came to attacking China; with only one vote in opposition, the resolution overwhelmingly passed.

The number of anti-China resolutions the U.S. Congress has come up with in the past decades is innumerable. They constitute an element of Sino-U.S. relations by demonstrating the deeper perceptions and attitudes of American elites toward China, but they do not represent the Sino-U.S. relationship itself; China basically scorns the voices that come from the U.S. Congress.

In reality, the more aggressively the U.S. Congress attacks China and the more arrogant their demands, the more they ruin the image of the U.S. in mainstream Chinese society, allowing us to believe that “they are all such people.” To a certain extent, those congressmen have molded Chinese people’s understanding of the U.S. and strengthened the composure of Chinese society.

Due to our disregard for the accusations and preaching of the United States, China has become the biggest winner in mankind’s competition for social development in the last 20 years. In the early ‘90s, China was still struggling to break away from what was typically defined as poverty. Back then, buying color televisions and refrigerators was considered the highest possible [tier of] consumption for urban households; purchasing cars and owning private property was unimaginable. People did not plan vacations, there were only one or two national highways, and only provincial capitals had airports.

[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

1. Given polling among Americans about Congress

it sounds like the American public agrees with China about 'basically scorning' the voice of Congress.