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“China Is the Real Sick Man of Asia” 这是WSJ上的一篇讽刺中国冠状病毒的文章 https://www.wsj.com/articles/chi ... s://t.co/NZHSuoDg2Q
每当我在五毛跟美分中摇摆的时候，洋大人总是用响亮的耳光告诉我，中国人不配活在这世上。

话是极端了点，但中国人面对世界上这无缘无故的的恶意的时候，真的有选择吗？

大概看了一下文章，其实就是说中国看着很强大但是实际上外强中干。其实人家这么说，我们内心愤怒，但是怎么反驳呢？本来社会就有很多问题，然而这次疫情政府不但没能打他们的脸，反而让自己各种问题接连暴露，完全配不上强国或者世界第二经济体的名号。细思极恐一点，如果应对疫情都这个样子，那么应对其他更残酷的情况，咱们又能好多少？标题起的是很过激，我们可以喷对方辱华或者美国狗，但是不从自己身上解决问题，我们还会有第二或者第三个湖北让别人嘲讽

没订阅，看不到全文。但是看开头和视频批注感觉又是媒体惯用的click bait title。我觉得还是要正视问题才行，如果解决了问题做得好，别人再怎么说都不会在意；反之如果只会封锁和让意见不同的人闭嘴却不直面问题本身，那么别人说一点话就戳到自己痛点，便会陷入恶性循环

全文

The mighty Chinese juggernaut has been humbled this week, apparently by a species-hopping bat virus. While Chinese authorities struggle to control the epidemic and restart their economy, a world that has grown accustomed to contemplating China’s inexorable rise was reminded that nothing, not even Beijing’s power, can be taken for granted.

We do not know how dangerous the new coronavirus will be. There are signs that Chinese authorities are still trying to conceal the true scale of the problem, but at this point the virus appears to be more contagious but considerably less deadly than the pathogens behind diseases such as Ebola or SARS—though some experts say SARS and coronavirus are about equally contagious.

China’s initial response to the crisis was less than impressive. The Wuhan government was secretive and self-serving; national authorities responded vigorously but, it currently appears, ineffectively. China’s cities and factories are shutting down; the virus continues to spread. We can hope that authorities succeed in containing the epidemic and treating its victims, but the performance to date has shaken confidence in the Chinese Communist Party at home and abroad. Complaints in Beijing about the U.S. refusing entry to noncitizens who recently spent time in China cannot hide the reality that the decisions that allowed the epidemic to spread as far and as fast as it did were all made in Wuhan and Beijing.

The likeliest economic consequence of the coronavirus epidemic, forecasters expect, will be a short and sharp fall in Chinese economic growth rates during the first quarter, recovering as the disease fades. The most important longer-term outcome would appear to be a strengthening of a trend for global companies to “de-Sinicize” their supply chains. Add the continuing public health worries to the threat of new trade wars, and supply-chain diversification begins to look prudent.

Events like the coronavirus epidemic, and its predecessors—such as SARS, Ebola and MERS—test our systems and force us to think about the unthinkable. If there were a disease as deadly as Ebola and as fast-spreading as coronavirus, how should the U.S. respond? What national and international systems need to be in place to minimize the chance of catastrophe on this scale?

Epidemics also lead us to think about geopolitical and economic hypotheticals. We have seen financial markets shudder and commodity prices fall in the face of what hopefully will be a short-lived disturbance in China’s economic growth. What would happen if—perhaps in response to an epidemic, but more likely following a massive financial collapse—China’s economy were to suffer a long period of even slower growth? What would be the impact of such developments on China’s political stability, on its attitude toward the rest of the world, and to the global balance of power?

China’s financial markets are probably more dangerous in the long run than China’s wildlife markets. Given the accumulated costs of decades of state-driven lending, massive malfeasance by local officials in cahoots with local banks, a towering property bubble, and vast industrial overcapacity, China is as ripe as a country can be for a massive economic correction. Even a small initial shock could lead to a massive bonfire of the vanities as all the false values, inflated expectations and misallocated assets implode. If that comes, it is far from clear that China’s regulators and decision makers have the technical skills or the political authority to minimize the damage—especially since that would involve enormous losses to the wealth of the politically connected.

We cannot know when or even if a catastrophe of this scale will take place, but students of geopolitics and international affairs—not to mention business leaders and investors—need to bear in mind that China’s power, impressive as it is, remains brittle. A deadlier virus or a financial-market contagion could transform China’s economic and political outlook at any time.

Many now fear the coronavirus will become a global pandemic. The consequences of a Chinese economic meltdown would travel with the same sweeping inexorability. Commodity prices around the world would slump, supply chains would break down, and few financial institutions anywhere could escape the knock-on consequences. Recovery in China and elsewhere could be slow, and the social and political effects could be dramatic.

If Beijing’s geopolitical footprint shrank as a result, the global consequences might also be surprising. Some would expect a return of unipolarity if the only possible great-power rival to the U.S. were to withdraw from the game. Yet in the world of American politics, isolation rather than engagement might surge to the fore. If the China challenge fades, many Americans are likely to assume that the U.S. can safely reduce its global commitments.

So far, the 21st century has been an age of black swans. From 9/11 to President Trump’s election and Brexit, low-probability, high-impact events have reshaped the world order. That age isn’t over, and of the black swans still to arrive, the coronavirus epidemic is unlikely to be the last to materialize in China.

看完全文发现挺标题党的，文章并没有对中国人民的仇恨言论，而是对中国政府的一番批判。
监督和批评公权力是公民的义务，只许歌颂功德或者对问题视而不见都是祸国殃民。
这些气焰嚣张的外部势力一顿说三道四。。。也许赵家人会觉得被冒犯了

jliu144 发表于 2020/02/06 14:54:29
大概看了一下文章，其实就是说中国看着很强大但是实际上外强中干。其实人家这么说，我们内心愤怒，但是怎么反驳呢？本来社会就有...

人家憋着劲想嘲讽你东亚病夫呢，普通流感也可以，找个模特拿筷子吃披萨也可以，以后被歧视先别找自己原因了，这文章符不符合美国社会对平等的追求？
总是被歧视了就先找自己的原因，觉得没了这些黑点了就能不被歧视了，这只是一种幻想，在幻想里中国只要啥都干好了自己就挺直腰板了

补充内容 (2020-2-5 23:45):
有一个国家人均一米一也不应被嘲笑为矮子，因为这种嘲笑是下作而卑鄙的，你可以自己偷偷喝牛奶努力长高，但别觉得自己应当被人嘲笑，不要认可种族歧视者的逻辑！

用reddit生生把我一美分逼成自干五。五年之内，回国拥抱自由

还是不够有钱 等中国成为发达国家世界第一的时候就没人逼逼了

sylviawong3527 发表于 2020/02/06 14:46:15
还是不够有钱 等中国成为发达国家世界第一的时候就没人逼逼了

先别把目标订的这么远，因为政府的应对失当，这次疫情完结之后应该会有一波移民潮，有能力的都会用脚投票的。路要一步步走，等哪天咱们不再是移民净输出国而是流入国的时候再来谈什么世界第一赶英超美吧，国家实力人民幸福度可不是GDP增长几个点造几艘航母就能提升的

这种文章受众是美国人，相当于央视主播说美国是怨妇搅屎棍做人不能太美国，主要是给国内观众听的，你想想好歹这东西还不是官媒，只是个人专栏。但楼主的心态我很能理解。我也是一方面并不相信美国/美国人，另一方面也不相信国内政府，完全没有归属感。

jonesG 发表于 2020/02/06 15:41:46
人家憋着劲想嘲讽你东亚病夫呢，普通流感也可以，找个模特拿筷子吃披萨也可以，以后被歧视先别找自己原因了，这文章符不符合美国...

完全同意你说的观点，不过政治正确传统来说只覆盖人而不覆盖国家，所以……