Shanghai, April 4 (ZXS) -- "If Western countries, especially countries like the United States, still feel that 'there is no need to understand you (China),' but 'I'll wait for you to explain it to me,' I think it is the West and the United States that I will regret it in the end." Zhang Weiwei, dean of the Institute of China Studies at Fudan University, said at the Blue Hall Forum on "Chinese Modernization and the World" held in Shanghai on the 22st.
At the "New Development in China, New Opportunities in the World" session, Thornton, co-chair of the board of the Asia Society, said that English dominates international communication channels and that "if a narrative starts to catch on in such channels, it is difficult to stop it." ”
"China has a systematic open-mindedness on every topic, and if there is one exception, it is communication with the English-speaking world." In his view, this leads to all information about China not coming from Chinese, so all the narrative is not accurate and not positive, which is completely unacceptable now.
At the sub-forum "Adhere to co-construction and sharing, promote global governance" held in the afternoon of the same day, Weng Shijie, chairman of the Malaysian New Asia Strategic Studies Center and former deputy speaker of the lower house of the Malaysian parliament, pointed out that one of the main reasons for the same thing, the Chinese and Western media have different or even completely opposing expressions, is that for a long time, the voice of the international media is not in the East. China's discourse power and economic power in the world are not symmetrical.
"There is a Chinese idiom called 'it's hard to sound alone,' and there is now a clear asymmetry: the West's desire to understand China is always relatively low, as evidenced by a lot of data." Zhang Weiwei said at the sub-forum "China's New Development, New World Opportunities" that for a country like China, the world's largest consumer market with a middle class of 4 million and at the forefront of science and technology, Western countries should not passively wait for China's "explanation".
"In fact, everyone is the same, and the needs are the same." Baucus, the former U.S. ambassador to China, believes that some needs and desires are universal, and "China should invite members of the U.S. House of Representatives to visit various provinces in China and let them eat stinky tofu, so that they can understand and better understand what China is like." He explained that many Americans who have not been to China and do not know China should come to China to see vitality, growth, and Chinese sense of family and community. (End)