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US views on China is "simple"?

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Dai Bingguo and Wang Qishan with Hillary Rodham Clinton in Washington.



Vice-Premier Wang Qishan on Monday described US views of his country as "simple" and said that a Middle East-style democracy uprising would not happen against Beijing.


Wang, in a rare foreign television interview during high-level talks in Washington, said that most US media did not cover China much and showed a bias when they did.


“It is not easy to really know China because China is an ancient civilization and we are of the Oriental culture,” Wang told Rose on public television, according to a transcript. "The United States is the world's number one superpower, and the American people, they're very simple people," he said.


"If they're asked to choose to understand a foreign country, their first choice would be the European countries, and the South American countries may come second."


What did Wang mean by “simple”?


Different media have different interpretations: One comment by By Kevin Voigt said that " Sounds dangerously close to  "dumb"  to American ears."


Producers from  CNN's Beijing bureau weighed in, saying “单纯 is simple and pure, in a good way. Sometimes we translate it into “innocent ,” meaning their thinking is very straightforward, not complicated.” Another producer said “depending on tone, it’s (somewhere between) neutral to patronizing.”


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US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (R) listens to the closing statement by China's Vice Premier Wang Qishan during the US-China Strategic and Economic Dialogue at the Interior .


Asked for response, Geithner said: “You know, the thing about America and the world is that our role in the world, we took on this huge role in the world well ahead of the understanding of Americans about what was happening in the world. And that’s changing now.


“When I went to China to study Chinese 30 years ago, it was a unique, exceptional thing,” Geithner continued. “And now, of course, there’s tens of thousands of Americans sitting in China all across the United States. And you’re starting to see a much greater investment by Americans in understanding – not just China – but all the countries that are so important to our interests.”


Jin Canrong , vice-director of the School of International Studies at Beijing-based Renmin University, said he was quite surprised by Wang's remarks.


"Wang knows diplomacy well. Such remarks might lead to a bad impact," he said. "But on the other hand, it is a reflection that Chinese officials are more confident in expressing themselves. They probably would not make such a comment several years ago."


There has been a frustration in China about being misunderstood by overseas countries and their media, which Jin said sometimes portray a "generalised" and "simplified" picture of the country.


"By stressing China is a big place with long history, Wang was trying to deliver a message to an overseas audience that China is a complicated country that should not be perceived by a fixed set of ideologies," he said.


What do you think - is the U.S. a parochial nation that too simple to get to know China?
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