Yesterday afternoon, I had a conversation class about U.S.-Sino relations. I, of course, asked the students what they thought and felt about America. The students feelings ranged form love-hate to hate for America. The students admired America's economic and business power, and its democracy. They expressed the typical anti-American foreign policy view as a reason for their hatred. On Taiwan, they said America should get out of China's internal affairs. America went to Iraq for Oil. They said they wanted democracy. But when I asked them what they heard about America's current presidential election, they said the news was that if was very expensive to run in it.
I could tell they had been fed a pile from their government. Any contrary views I offered the students were probably not understood anyway, and I doubt if the students could have offered an argument if they did.
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