Comments by "Peter Jacobsen" (@pjacobsen1000) on "Amanpour and Company" channel.

Things people should know about Keyu Jin: -She is not 'world renowned', but she is an associate professor at London School of Economics, so of some repute. -She is the daughter of Jin Liqun, former Vice Minister of Finance of the PRC, a man who has life-long career in the Chinese state. Currently the chairman of the Asian Infrastructure Development Bank, a relatively new bank set up by the PRC. Her thesis can best be summed up with a Snoop Dogg quote: "Lodi Dodi, we likes The Party, we don't cause trouble, we don't bother nobody". But people would be best advised to pay attention to what China does, not what it says.
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@adamiskandar5107 It's unreasonable to claim that an understanding of a country can only be attained if one speaks that country's language. If that were the case, we would only be able to speak knowledgably about a very small handful of countries. At the same time, Simply having the ability to speak and read a language doesn't make us experts on any country.
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@adamiskandar5107 "which I assume you could not read nor understand". Why would you make such an assumption?
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@adamiskandar5107 No need to apologize, but generally it's better to attack people's arguments than to attack their person/character. Mind you, China has a right to follow its own path, as Ms. Jin points out, but I also have the right to critique that path. And you have the right to speak in favor of it.
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@adamiskandar5107 Fair point, but I know many Chinese people (here in China) who have only a rudimentary understanding of their own country. Primarily because they don't care: "I concern myself with my life, the govt. can concern themselves with the country". This is a common sentiment.
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