At least the Chinese don't preach freedom and democracy with the barrel of a gun pointing at the 'liberated'.

The title of the editorial "ALERT TO BUT NOT LURED BY FOREIGN INFLUENCE" may give a nationalistic impression. But the context of this article, which I believe was a translation fault, is that local governments in China should stop blindly pointing all the issues they have to a so-called "foreign forces" while ignoring their side of the problems. This editorial is actually a response to the Chen Guangcheng's case, in which local government accused Chen is a puppet manipulated by the West.

Unfortunately, the translator who was assigned to translate this article or the copy editor who did the correction to the article, might fail to grab this meaning in the Chinese editorial. Thus produced a translation actually warning to be cautious with the "foreign influences", rather than suggesting not to blindly bagging the west.

First of all TURZOVKA I don't agree with you. China is not Soviet Russia and thank GOD not religious^^

Back to topic, I see no difference between these articles and let's say Fox news and certain FP articles.

IF I EVER HEAR A GOOD WORD FROM FOX NEWS ABOUT CHINA I WILL KNOW THE WORLD as we know it HAS ENDED.

IF I EVER READ A GOOD WORD FROM CHINAS GLOBAL TIMES ABOUT USA I KNOW THE WORLD as we know it HAS ENDED.

From my point of view all media is biased, but I like to find bias in news. So please keep it coming.

The new old blood of the CCP-PRC apologists have begun to swarm this aspect of the GT story. The new same-same CCP Beijing lines against criticism of China are already boring. This recent Beijing tact that we don't know anything about the PRChina is weak and feeble. It reveals further the consecending mindset of the lecturing and scolding Chinese elites and their appendages whose traits are smugness, distance, aloofness. China is indeed a country and culture that has known only emperors, dynasties of emperors and most recently Leninism with Chinese characteristics.

Global times has made comments about this article, please enjoy:

http://www.globaltimes.cn/NEWS/tabid/99/ID/682396/Foreign-Policys-limited-view-of-Chinese-media.aspx

I think you are quite bored by repeating your stance on almost every article about China and yet no one has given you a good reply. If you have some credible arguments, I may spare some time to answer your rant. Can you clarify your stance with proper argument rather than use copy and paste as comments.

I predict once China gets democratized, you will see a much more anti-America and "saber-rattling" country. Of course, that's if they can survive disintegration first.

I’m not crazy about Global Times (the house organ of Chinese hypernationalism) but I like the sniggering condescension of Foreign Policy magazine(the house organ of neo-lioberalism) even less.

Actually, Christine Larson’s recent profile of Global Times in Foreign Policy is reasonably even-handed.

FP’s editors, however, couldn’t resist juicing the story—and signaling to its readership that GT and its views are not be taken seriously--by titling the piece “China’s Fox News" and adding a sidebar, “The Top 10 Screeds in China’s Global Times,” with takedowns by Uri Friedman.

Example:

Money Quote: " Living in an international environment that China temporarily cannot change, we need to be alert to foreign interference as well as keep a sober mind, clean house and constantly improve governance ... No country is fond of interference from the outside. China is no exception. In addition to hostile forces originating in foreign countries, China also has to face the mixed chorus formed by Tibet separatists, East Turkistan terrorists and the Falun Gong cult, who have gone abroad. Inner calm is specially needed when dealing with the collusions of the above-mentioned forces."
Context: The editorial, which reflects on China's rise in a globalized world, sounds a lot like the paranoia about foreign interference expressed by dictators during the Arab Spring. The appeal at the end to "inner calm" may sound tranquil, but one can't help but wonder whether it's a euphemism for a crackdown.

In case you don't see the out-of-control dingbattery you're supposed to detect in these excerpts, in the interest of full disclosure, I should say that I’m on Global Times’ side of the fence on about half of the pieces, which concern America’s cynical stirring of the South China Sea pot.

Pop Quiz:

Which nation is more likely to pose a long-term threat to freedom of navigation in the South China Sea?

China, which imports most of its oil through the region?

Or the United States, which routinely uses unilateral and multilateral sanctions as a tool of foreign policy, keeps a carrier strike force on tap in the west Pacific, has something of an obsession with bottling up the Chinese strategic nuclear submarine fleet stationed in Hainan, and adores the idea of building an anti-China bloc around the South China Sea conflict?

If you answered China, well, that puts you squarely in Foreign Policy’s preferred demographic: people for whom the US system of liberal democracy and free market capitalism a priori put it in the right in any disagreement with China.

Nevertheless, the US model, which has recently displayed a pretty strong bias toward military coercion and financial dysfunction, has its own flaws.

The Occupy Wall Street movement has, I think, generated a certain amount of cognitive dissonance among Chinese democracy advocates.

The Chinese government can, of course, be mocked for its anxious banning of the word “Occupy” from search engines and microblogs. Crowds of disgruntled, idealistic people showing up in high-profile downtown venues is the ultimate nightmare for the CCP.

At the same time, the OWS movement is a statement that US democracy in the age of Citizens United, runaway corporatism, and abjectly craven politicians is simply not delivering the goods for many Americans.

Hurrah! Americans can impotently demonstrate against the fact that their system isn’t working!

Global Times has a pretty tough row to hoe, of course. Authoritarianism and state capitalism are not popular among the Chinese or foreign intelligentsia.

But their writers are trying to make some sense out of the world beyond regurgitating government propaganda.

I was struck by a statement in a Global Times editorial on the OWS movement that I found charming in its awkward truthfulness:

Western countries can withstand street demonstrations better, since their governments are elected.

The editorial, presumably written by editor-in-chief Hu Xijin (according to Larson he keeps an iron grip on the editorial page) continues:

People think the street demonstrations will not lead to the overthrow of the Western political system. They are merely valves that can help ease pressure built up in democratic societies while the pressure and dissatisfaction on the streets could end up helping the opposition party seize office.

The conflicts may be minor or serious, but it will not bring significant change.

This is a fair argument, but it also reveals one of the core reasons why the western world lacks determination for real change. Political parties have been taking advantage of dissatisfaction in their societies, manipulating them to serve their own short-term political interests, rather than eliminating the causes.

It’s a worthwhile observation that democracy provides a measure of political stability but may also serve as an obstacle to political and economic solutions by empowering forces that want to block a solution.

That’s something that Global Times, which is trying to make the case for the advantages of China’s authoritarian system, is eager to point out; it’s also something that liberal periodicals like Foreign Policy are constitutionally unable to confront.

Like I said, if you read Global Times you might learn something.
I have to admit what really set me off about the article was this passage, which also provided an interesting perspective on where Hu Xijin is coming from:

In 1989, Hu joined the People's Daily as a reporter; from 1993-1996 he was a correspondent in Yugoslavia covering the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina. He returned to Beijing in 1996, and at age 36 joined the new Global Times newspaper as deputy editor.

… "But Global Times has been increasingly relevant since 1999," says Anti, "since the bombing of the Chinese embassy in Yugoslavia." -- i.e., the accidental bombing of the Chinese embassy by U.S. and NATO forces, which stirred conspiracy theories in China and happened to take place in Hu's old reporting stomping grounds.

That “i.e. the accidental bombing” is, to me, redolent of smug ignorance. How dare China accuse us of bombing their embassy!

There is plenty of evidence—including an investigative report by England’s The Observer, presumably amply endowed with North Atlantic neoliberal cred in the eyes of FP—that the bombing was intentional and, indeed, was a watershed in elite Chinese attitudes toward the United States.

As a positive gesture towards the PRChina, Prez Clinton had US military berets manufactured in China to include bearing the label "Made in China." This was but one reason the CCP in Beijing was sure it had a playdough sap in their hands in the White House. Conversely, Prez Clinton was tough on Beijing while he was being tough on Belgrade for its genocide in Kosovo. One plus one still equals two, such as for instance when Clinton okayed the bombing of the PRC embassy in Belgrade because Beijing at the UNSC had disapproved of the NATO intervention (as had Russia). (Of course it's more cause-effect than pure and simple addition.) It was particularly hilarious when Washington said the bombing occurred because the CIA had used an outdated souvenier shop map in its targeting processes.

As to democracy being slow and easy for the loyal (or otherwise) opposition to obstruct, I haven't seen any evidence FP or any other so characterized "liberal publications" have failed, The mass media in the US for example has made clear the Republican party is the party of obstruction - other journals and media have presented the GOP as reactionaries. In democratic systems, the general population know and understand opposition - indeed, they welcome its scrutinizing and generally constructive nature.

In Greece and in Italty senior statesmen are stepping forward to form unity governments while the pandering politicians are getting the proverbial boot. Voters and all political parties know they will soon pass ultimate judgement, as they well should and must - you know, consent and consultation with the governed (and all of that wonderfully messy stuff).

The strength of dictatorships such as the CCP-PRC is that they get things done fast, such as creating the property bubble in China, a 400 billion yuan high speed rail system on hold because of catastrophic failures, posioned food as a regular feature of everyday life, printing twice as much money as GDP etc. The great weakness of dictatorships is that they get things done fast.

Its sad the impact these articles have on the uneducated people in China, who believe this crap like gospel. The nationalistic pride present in China is a scary thing and I wish there was a way to get some reason to infiltrate the country. I fear that china is getting too big of a head with their recent economic success and they are able to use this power to control their citizens with almost almost complete ease. They need to learn how to calculate gpa and get better educated or else I fear China will drive the world into another cold war/spitting match. Let us hope there is a way out of this quagmire before things get too bad...I am just trying to find out a solid tinnitus cure...the day may come but do not hold out hope.

soon, china is going to own big parts of the western economy. I believe they are going to buy companies like google, youtube and facebook. quite soon. The investor Jim Rogers has moved to Singapore because he wants his daughter to learn to speak chinese, because that is going to be one of the most important skills in the 21st century. china is the worlds largest creditor nation, us is the biggest debtor nation in the history of the world, and the biggest owner of the us bonds is china.

soon, china is going to own big parts of the western economy. I believe they are going to buy companies like google, youtube and facebook. quite soon. The investor Jim Rogers has moved to Singapore because he wants his daughter to learn to speak chinese, because that is going to be one of the most important skills in the 21st century. china is the worlds largest creditor nation, us is the biggest debtor nation in the history of the world, and the biggest owner of the us bonds is china.

China has patiently grown its bilateral trade surplus with the United States almost every year since 1980, when the Carter Administration granted China “Most Favored Nation” status. Chinese exports pe treatment to the U.S. have grown at a 20% compounded annual rate for the last 27 years, rising to from $102.3 billion in 2001 to a projected $388 billion this year.