China: The People Don't Love Us Anymore

CSM has an article on how the US is not that popular in China anymore. Apparently we are trying to keep China down and attempting to contain the Reds. I'm not going to even argue those points. What I am going to argue is the piece suggesting that this is our problem and that we need to fix it. That is all fine and dandy until you consider that most of the information that the Chinese reads comes from gov't approved sources - there is no way for us to communicate directly with the Chinese population. That makes it kind of hard to change our image...unless we kowtow to the regime, then we can count on them to say all sorts of nice things about us. So if we have no problem with human rights violations, slave camps and autocratic regimes with interests that run contrary to ours we can expect our reputation to improve.

Oh by the China isn't too popular here either...