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Re:China's booming middle class is creating world's most dyn... by adventured on Friday September 18, 2015 @12:48AM (#10237513)
The sentiment is mostly anti Chinese Government, not the nation / people.

China's Government has been infamous for lying about economic statistics for decades. Their unemployment rate has hardly changed since the 1980s. For a while - 2001 to 2009 - their real growth was so dramatic it didn't matter much that they were lying about everything. Now that the tide is going out on the world's second largest economy, it matters in a big way.

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Re:China's booming middle class is creating world's most dyn... by z2 on Friday September 18, 2015 @01:51AM (#10237678)
Consistent to that, I'd encourage people to use "The Chinese Government" rather than the more common "The Chinese" that English media loves to use when generalizing. Missing a single word makes it easy to blur the lines, e.g.:

"The Chinese are corrupt and never tell the truth." "The Chinese are only good at at stealing and copying things." "The Chinese cyber-threat ..."

On the other hand, I've noticed in Japan, even with the pervasive anti-China sentiment, news sources are keen to use "Chinese officials" or "China's central government."

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