http://a-collection-of-articles.googlegroups.com/web/Chinese%20Nationalism%20ST%20080806.pdf?gsc=J4KrTgsAAADNTRvf3BOLn8fFpJa0Sn9H
inspired this letter to the Straits Times (9 August 2008)
PROFESSOR Wang Gungwu made an intriguing comment in his article on Wednesday, 'Chinese nationalism: Pride and pitfalls', that the international media were astonished by the strong reactions of better-educated Chinese youth in support of China during recent events.
This should not surprise anyone as leadership, including members of the Chinese communist movement, has often come
from the intellectual class.They were more likely to form visions of their nation's future and see the shortcomings of the society they lived in.
In the present context, many Chinese students living abroad saw the double standards engaged in by the media when they singled out China for sins which many other nations also commit.
They also set an impossibly high standard of international code of conduct for China which they themselves would have trouble meeting in similar circumstances.
The media's worst mistake was to brand the Chinese students blind followers of the Beijing communists when all the students wanted was to show their love of their country.
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