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Chinese Netizens Question Obama
Netizens ask thousands of questions before Obama's China visit
Jay Hauben (jhauben)
Published 2009-11-23 11:33 (KST)
Last week, the gaze of netizens in China was put on the visit of US President Barack Obama that was to occur Nov 15-18. As part of his visit, a session was planned in Shanghai where President Obama would answer questions form a live audience of students and young people. The US Embassy in Beijing also requested that netizens send questions for President Obama some of which would be included. Xinhuanet and People's Daily, both national news media in China, also requested questions from net users. Within days, they received thousands of questions.
Blogs (1) exist which regularly translate netizen posts and discussions into English that appear first in Chinese. Quickly, some translated a few of the submitted questions.(2) The questions translated covered a wide range of topics.
Many questions had an internationalist perspective. For example:
"It was proven that Iraq did not have WMD. Can you represent the US government in apologizing to the Iraqi people and make war reparations?"
"I want to ask President Obama, how do you deserve the Nobel Prize? Please be honest!"
"American soldiers are not welcome in Afghanistan so why are you still there killing their civilians? Why are you going there to 'provoke' them to become human bombs? Right, it's your anti-terrorism business but it's innocent civilians who died. Before you were there, they had a better life."
"Mr. President, do you think it is a little ironic to receive the Nobel Peace Prize while American troops are deployed all over the world and involved in two wars?"
"Almost every US president waged a war. Will you do that during your term of office?"
"I am very concerned about the Middle East. I remember during the election campaign, you said that if Iran is willing, the United States and Iran have contact. I would like to know what kind of contact with Iran? Have the two sides talked on how? In addition, how do you look at Israel's policies?"
One netizen, rather than asking President Obama a question, gave his advice:
"Obama, for your soldiers and all the peace-loving people around the globe, please stop your invasion of the world!"
Many of the netizens questioned what they see as a double standard in US foreign policy:
"How would Americans feel if our leader hugged Osama Bin Laden like US presidents did to the Dalai Lama? The meeting would hurt our feelings, and we are all hoping for mutual respect in this relationship."
"If in the United States expression of the will of the people is democracy, then when the Chinese people express the collective will, what do you think that is? Did some of you think about the US policy toward China but did not consider the examination of the Chinese people's wishes? What is the reason so many Chinese people are very disgusted with some American politicians?"
"If someday Hawaii wants to separate from America, will your government and people support it? If one country uses the excuse of helping Hawaii to protect its people to sell them weapons, in order to keep balance between Hawaii and US, will you still support the 'friendly' relationship with that country?"
The US wants China to strengthen its currency because China has such a large trade surplus. The theory is that a stronger currency will make exports more expensive and thus correct a trade imbalance. But a netizen asked:
"If exchange rate caused trade imbalance, then the Korean won and the Australian dollar should be appreciated since the two countries had trade surplus for a long time. Based on this, I want to know, as US President why don't you think more about how much US plundered from the world's laboring people with depreciation of its dollar? Even with appreciated Chinese RMB we can't buy Unocal!"
Some had economic questions for President Obama:
"Chinese Hong Kong will probably introduce EU dollars to its financial system. What do you think?"
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