(In case of any political problem, I declare that this is only my own opinion...)
There is a hot current affair which is highly discussed around China. This case is about Confucius institute. On May 17th, USA government made an announcement that all Confucius institutes in USA should be identified(ps. Other countries' similar institutes do not need to...) and their Chinese teachers should leave USA before June 30th . But on May 27th, USA government made another announcement saying that Chinese teachers do not need to leave US this year and Confucius institutes in USA is legal. This case turned out to be a technical issue--"strict visa policies"(ps.as reported...). However, Chinese people got hurt by this, they think that USA government did this deliberately.
Because of this case, I started to learn something about these institutes which are named with Confucius. First of all, these institutes are mainly to teach foreigners to learn Chinese rather than spreading the "Ru" culture as some Chinese people think. Secondly, all these overseas institutes are all built by the invitation of foreign countries, and all the fees are paid by the Chinese government. That is to say, foreigners are using Chinese people's money to learn Chinese! I think the reason why Chinese government does this is because they want to promote China and have a better international image. Chinese people felt hurt because even we paid money for American, our institutes are still treated unfairly and our teachers are forced to leave by an excuse which is even like a joke.
This case reminds me a comment made by a famous host in CCTV, Bai Yansong,he said that :why China always helped other countries but still had few friends? Yes , that is China's sorrow. When we were short of food, we bought food to help Albania, but at last we became enemies with each other. We supported Vietnam freely, finally we had war with them. In 2007, CNPC(China national petroleum corporation)became "Asian's most profitable enterprise ". When wenchuan broke out an earthquake in 2008,they only donated 10 million yuan. But when Japan suffered from earthquake, they donated money and oil which worth more than 200 million yuan! Why they donated 20 times of the money as they donated to wenchuan to Japan, a country which invaded us last century! What's more sarcastic , Japanese still said that we Chinese did not donate money to them after earthquake and burned our national flag! What else can I say? Well, I am speechless. Why Chinese still treat foreigners far away so well while our own people still struggle to survive?
I am not against foreigners, I just want China to be clear that taking good care of ourselves first before we help others.
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