The Asian Economist

Jack Cafferty’s remark on China on April 9, 2008. “I don’t know if China is any different, but our relationship with China is certainly different,” Mr. Cafferty said, according to CNN. “We’re in hock to the Chinese up to our eyeballs because of the war in Iraq, for one thing. They’re holding hundreds of billions of dollars worth of our paper.We are also running hundreds of billions of dollars’ worth or trade deficits with them, as we continue to import their junk with the lead paint on them and the poisoned pet food and export, you know, jobs to places where you can pay workers a dollar a month to turn out the stuff that we’re buying from Wal-Mart.

“So I think our relationship with China has certainly changed,” he continued. “I think they’re basically the same bunch of goons and thugs they’ve been for the last 50 years.”

The Chinese people are demanding an apology from Jack Cafferty and CNN for his remark, but it does not seem that this “strongly” opinionated news host will ever apologize. Jack Cafferty claim that the comment was made toward the Chinese Government and not the Chinese people. One thing that Jack Cafferty might not know is that those two words might as well be interchangeable.

One thing I learn being here in China is that, the Chinese people’s relationship with their government is very different from American’s relationship with their government. Especially during this time before the Olympic, the feeling of nationalism is everywhere. You can even see the rise of Chinese nationalism within Chinese who are not living in China. Pro-Chinese protests are starting to sprout up everywhere in the world to contest against the Ant-Chinese protests during the olympic torch relays.

It does not matter that Jack Cafferty’s comment was made to the Chinese Government. The people of China and the Chinese Government has never come this close to unity like they are right now, because of the Anti-Chinese protests and the upcoming Olympic. With the Olympic and the anti-Chinese protest around the world will rise the new Chinese Nationalism.