Brookelyn Kjenstad
12/1/11
Adv. World Studies
U.S. relations with China I think isn’t a necessary evil. I think that the United States and China have a relationship because they depend on each other for exports and imports. China has a different type of government than the U.S. and China has their way of doing things. I don’t agree with going against your people and killing them, I think that’s totally wrong, but that’s China. I don’t really know the mood with the relationship between China and the U.S. but I do know that president Bush tried to get involved with the massacre, and we don’t know if it was in a negative or positive way, but the person in power at the time ignored his call. So it makes me wonder if China has anger towards the U.S. and I think they shouldn’t, they should have anger towards themselves.
With the whole Tiannanmen Square thing threatening the relationship between China and the U.S., that is something to worry about because the Tiannanmen Square is a symbolic importance to many people and countries such as Washington D.C. China would of lost the exports to the U.S. and the U.S. would of lost imports from China. Both countries would of been hurting, but I think China could of handled the protest in a better way instead of saying, “rich is good” or something like that.
China has a Communist government and students wanted a Democracy government. The students didn’t know what democracy was, all they knew was they wanted freedom, they wanted to have some type of control, and I don’t blame them. Even though they have stopped the protesting, there is still going to be tension in China. Things didn’t get resolved in a good manor and those students were so determined, that they will strike again.
Yes China is evil for what they have done in the past, but the U.S. isn’t innocent either. We have done some bad things also. The U.S. probably has evil towards China because what they have done and for not letting the U.S. in on the massacre. I don’t know whether it was good that we didn’t get involved or not. But I think that there shouldn’t be evil in the relationship because it’s important to keep the relationship, we need China. We need China’s imports for our economy, and China needs our exports for their economy too. Both countries need to make money so we rely on each other for that.
For many years China has refused to accept Western ways, they thought what they were doing was right and they didn’t want to change their ways. This is a cause for the Tiannannmen protest and massacre. China has suffered a lot, but I think it’s because of the way they handle things, or the way they do things.
Mao Zedong had led China right into the ground, people didn’t like him but people didn’t like Deng Xiaoping either. He was the one who sided with one person that was in power, and the massacre started. Deng Xiaoping was very open and stuff to his people, he sounded like a decent guy until he declared the massacre against his own people. I find it really sad that people are killed just because they are sick of the way they are living and they just want to be heard. Some have said they at least they died with their dignity of protesting and saying what they feel, I agree with this, but I still find it awful.
