The religious and cultural tensions the West faces are "payback" for slavery and colonialism, a Chinese state-run newspaper said Tuesday in the wake of the Islamist attack on Charlie Hebdo magazine.
The editorial in the Global Times newspaper — which often takes a nationalistic tone — dismissed the weekend's huge marches in Paris and elsewhere as "painkillers" that cannot halt the intensifying "clash of civilizations".
http://mg.co.za/article/2015-01-13-west-facing-payback-for-colonialism-china-paper
[Related]: http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/901536.shtml
What do you think ?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 15 2015, @02:32PM
Especially with all the ethnic-cleansing the Chinese government has historically participated in and currently participates in: Tibet, East Turkmenistan, Inner Mongolia, Malaysia, etc. As well as the current colonialism in Africa.