From Chinese Press

Who is China threatening?

(China Daily)
Updated: 2011-05-24 07:58

China's high economic growth rate may have helped the world economy recover faster, but some countries still see it as a threat, says an article in the People's Daily Overseas Edition. Excerpts:

Some foreign media outlets have started their China-bashing game again, blaming it for one international ill or the other.

Japanese magazine Sapio has said China's huge population is the main cause of rising food prices across the world. The New York Times and The Guardian fear China will spread its high inflation to the rest of the world. And American billionaire Donald Trump has said that if he became the US president, he would impose "25 percent punishment tax" on all Chinese products to banish them from the United States.

There are three main allegations against China: Its rapid economic growth poses a threat to other countries, its becoming a strong military power and Chinese people's consumption has gone up drastically causing a global crisis. None of these allegations is true.

The truth is that China is still behind 100 countries in per capita GDP and China's rapid economic development has helped the world economy immensely instead of threatening any country.

More importantly, China's top leaders have emphasized time and again that China is committed to peaceful development and a defensive defense policy.

The "China threat" theory that some people talk about is the opposite of Chinese culture and principles. China does not fit into the Western logic that assumes a rising power is meant to expand.

Some analysts rightly believe that Western politicians are trying to slow down China's economic development by trying to rattle it with their attacks.

This is the age of information technology and globalization. So instead of looking for threats, we should try to live and grow together as a global community.  

(China Daily 05/24/2011 page9)