Word: westernness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...land. Only later on, especially in the late Qing Dynasty, [did] the feudal rulers adopt [...] a policy of seclusion, which hampered China's progress and its exchanges with the outside world. After the Opium War, generation after generation of enlightened Chinese people have spared no efforts in learning from Western countries advanced science and cultural achievements in combination with China's realities and pushing for China's social reforms and development. Today, the Chinese people who are struggling to achieve modernization have made the opening-up a basic state policy and conducted extensive exchanges and cooperation with the rest...
...said the Chinese people realize that "something's wrong" with the ruling regime but are reluctant to draw negative attention to the country's problems. Those problems are compounded, he said, by the isolation of the Chinese people from Western democratic influences...
Close observers of the president said they were impressed by his ability to show his American audience a very Western side...
...Western ideas of democracy and human rights must take a back seat to basic needs, like food and shelter...
...Western media has skewed coverage of Chinese political situation, Zheng adds...