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02-25-2009, 05:38 PM

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Originally Posted by kirakira View Post
But China really isn't interested in being a "Super Power" as it doesn't really give it many benefits. All it is interested in is how to keep the country together (Tibet, Taiwan included) and how to get everyone out of poverty (educated and clothes etc.). It doesn't exert any political influence on any other country and it will do business with anyone in the world if it bring economic benefits for her citizens.
Then it'll be better for China to not openly claim that she is the superpower of the world, instead.

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Although sometimes, this back fires when you deal with a REALLY nasty regime like Dafur incident and Zimbabwe. She's learnt that the economic benefit might be outweighed by the bad publicity by associating yourself with an bad apple.
Or perhaps the western media is all American CIA mumbo-jumbos.
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