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...people. "If it's good, then we can write it," Yang says. Moreover, the primary duty of the press is to explain Chinese policy and to convince the people that the policy is right, she continues. "Of course, we only say the truth, not the false," Hsiao adds...
According to Hsiao and Yang, the Chinese press functions on principles entirely different from American principles. Hsiao says that in America "you write anything you like," citing the articles published in The Washington Post and The New York Times about the Pentagon Papers in 1970. If an incident of a comparable top-secret nature occurred in China, "we can't issue it," Hsiao says...
...four--page limit of most Chinese newpapers also limits the breadth of an article. Hsiao laughs when thinking about the 90 pages of The New York Times. "Here, a reporter can write a long article about the background, details and even his own opinion," he says. In China most writers must concentrate only on the news...
...behind the differences in newspapers exists a difference in attitiude between the two nations. One characteristic that both Hsiao and Yang find lacking in the Chinese is the American aggressive spirit. Hsiao says, "How can we modernize such a huge country with one billion people? If we want to go forward we must have that kind of spirit." Traditionally, the Chinese wait. He explains that especially in the 1940s aggression was not a very good word in China because the Japanese were aggressive, and that meant...
...Hsiao also comments on another American characteristic symbolized by "a word on the Harvard shirts--veritas," He adds, "At Harvard there is a special spirit, in everything you pursue the truth." Not only do teachers and students seek the truth, but everything they want to say, is said. Hsiao, who is taking "The American Presidency," commented on Professor Richard E. Neustadt's criticism of President Reagan in class. "In China if you have some opinion like that, you better keep it to yourself," he says...