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CNN主播辱华用词分析

'So I think our relationship with China has certainly changed. I think they're basically the same bunch of goons and thugs they've been for the last 50 years."

Cafferty's remarks say a lot about CNN and the mainstream Western media in general. They also tell a lot of course about how little Mr. Cafferty understands what he's talking about. It was ungracious of him to accuse China of anything because China has been more victim than perpetrator in the so-called free trade. China did not call the shots in the beginning, not then, not now. It was not China which invested in those sweatshops. It was not the Chinese government that forces a trade deficit with American businesses – it was rather the other way around. It was American capitalists who moved businesses to China, creating those sweatshops and fattening up in the process – keeping most of the profits. To the capitalists, the sweatshops and the trade deficits are not moral or immoral, they are just good business. Pity Mr. Cafferty could not see this and have empathy with Chinese workers who, like Mr. Cafferty himself in a way, are just workers who own nothing but a good day's labor. Given a choice, the Chinese workers would leave those sweatshops this very minute, much in the same way Mr. Cafferty would move to a better job if there was one on offer.

Mr. Cafferty's remarks just show how ignorant the Jack Caffertys of America are. China has for the past thirty years allowed itself to be the global workshop and allowed its people to toil under harsh conditions so that Mr. Cafferty and other Americans can have a cheaper shirt to wear to the office. China has bought American Treasury bonds to keep the United States going. And now this. "Goons and thugs" are what China gets from the Jack Caffertys in the mainstream media. You wonder what else China should do to please Mr. Cafferty. Give the billions of dollars of trade surplus back to America for free?