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Ordinary Chinese Wait For Obama's Deeds, Not Words
November 17, 2009
http://ww.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=120488554
Before the summit in Beijing on Tuesday, President Obama had metseveral times with his Chinese counterpart, Hu Jintao. But making hisfirst presidential trip to Asia, this is Obama's first contact withpeople in China, and he did not receive the rock star reception thathas greeted him in other regions such as Europe.
One of Obama's main messages has been that the U.S. does not seek to contain China or force its values on it.
Many Chinese welcome that message, but they don't necessarily trust it.
"Thishumility is a kind of pose," says Yu Baoping, a Beijing resident. "Ofcourse, as America's president, he's got to protect America'sinterests, and I suspect that could harm China's interests. Forexample, he's slapped high duties on imports from China, and this hashad a big impact on us."
Beijing-based blogger Rao Jinacknowledges that Obama is charismatic. But he sees little differencebetween Obama's China policies and those of his predecessor. ManyAmerican analysts see President Bush's China policies as relativelysuccessful and advocated that Obama continue them. But not Rao.
"Chinesepeoples' opinion of him will only change when he does things that bringsubstantial benefits to U.S.-China relations, such as refusing to meetwith the Dalai Lama, stop taking protectionist trade measures and stopselling arms to separatist forces such as Taiwan."
Last year, Rao founded Anti-CNN, a Web site devoted to exposing perceived bias in Western media reports about China.
TheU.S. Embassy in Beijing had invited Rao to blog Monday's town-halldiscussion in Shanghai, but Chinese organizers had already picked theaudience, and Rao didn't get in.
The U.S. also had pressed tohave the discussion broadcast live, but Chinese officials declined. Itwas only broadcast live in Shanghai, thus limiting the reach of Obama'smessage. On Chinese Web portals, censors deleted parts of thediscussion that dealt with Internet censorship.
Rao argues thatObama's use of the Internet has won him many online fans in China. But,he says, he has also created unrealistic expectations of a morefriendly United States.
"When these fans discover that he can'tmake good on his promises, the mood on the Internet could coalesce veryquickly and turn into a force against him."
An online survey by the Global Timesshowed that 86 percent of respondents were indifferent to Obama'svisit, while 46 percent said they disliked the U.S. president. The Global Timesis known as a nationalist tabloid, but the poll still suggests a bigchange since the end of last year, when an online poll by the China Daily found 75 percent support for Obama.
Other Chinese had hoped that Obama would raise the human rights issue more forcefully with the Chinese government.
"Ican't say that I don't feel any sense of loss," says Pu Zhiqiang, aBeijing-based civil rights lawyer. "Over the past decade, I've had toconvince myself not to hope that external forces can change China."
Pu is particularly critical of the highly staged town hall events.
"Thiskind of event does not represent the thinking of China's youth. It'sthe same as previous visits to China by American presidents," Pu says."This sort of rehearsed performance is disrespectful to our guests anddeceitful towards our own people."
Pu notes that U.S. PresidentsGeorge W. Bush and Bill Clinton visited Beijing's top universities in2002 and 1998 respectively, and held discussions with students.
WhileClinton and then-President Jiang Zemin fielded questions from reportersin 1998, Obama and Hu each made statements to the press Tuesday, buttook no questions.
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