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Internet celebrity Bai Yansong's commentary article: Why China lacks friends (must read) Why does China help other countries everywhere but lacks friends? Chinese people all have this...

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Why does China help other countries everywhere but lacks friends? Chinese people all have this feeling: why do we, when our national strength is not strong and our people are not rich, prefer to suffer poverty and devote all our national strength to support some countries, but we do not get friendship. The Chinese people tighten their belts and dedicate the best materials to our friends, but the result is often hatred. When our country was in very short supply of food, we used our precious foreign exchange to purchase food to support Albania, but in the end the two countries turned against each other; we supported Vietnam for free, but ended up fighting each other; we supported North Korea's oil and food, but found that it was a bottomless pit that could not be filled; we supported the construction of Outer Mongolia, but they imprisoned Chinese workers; we supported African countries to build factories, but they blamed China for backward equipment. The governments and civilians of these aid-recipient countries do not have a good impression of China. China's sacrifice and dedication cannot win friendship. Are the Chinese people the biggest and biggest fools in the world? Bai Yansong tells us why. Bai Yansong said that he visited a newspaper museum in the United States, which collects newspapers from major countries in the world. After the 9.11 terrorist attacks in the United States, almost all newspaper headlines in the world on September 12th were about 9.11. The only headline in Chinese newspapers was about the leaders’ meeting. Bai Yansong lamented that the biggest disconnect between China and the world is universal values. China does not have common values ​​​​with other countries in the world, so it cannot get friends.

On September 22, Wen Jiabao said in his speech at the United Nations High-Level Meeting on Millennium Development Goals that at the end of 2009, China canceled 25.6 billion yuan of debt from 50 poor countries. Wen Jiabao also said: By the end of June 2008, China had forgiven a total of 24.7 billion yuan of debts of 49 heavily indebted poor countries and least developed countries in Asia and Africa; provided various aids of 206.5 billion yuan, including 90.8 billion yuan of free aid; and granted zero-tariff treatment to goods from 42 least developed countries, with tax items ranging from 736 to 1,115, accounting for 98% of the least developed countries’ exports to China. China has also trained 15,000 talents of various types for Africa, dispatched 100 senior agricultural technical experts, sent medical teams, assisted in the construction of 30 hospitals and 100 rural schools, and provided free malaria prevention and treatment drugs. At the end of 2007, in order to enhance Africa's self-development capabilities, China decided to provide 2.377 billion yuan in free aid and 700 million yuan in interest-free loans... In recent years, disasters have occurred frequently in China, including the Wenchuan earthquake, ice and snow disasters, southwest drought, Yushu earthquake, and mudslides. According to relevant data, the state finance allocated 500 million yuan for the Yushu earthquake. Due to severe drought in southwest China, the state allocated 126 million yuan. In October 2000, at the first ministerial meeting of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation, the Chinese government announced for the first time that it would reduce or reduce the debt of 32 African countries totaling 10 billion yuan within two years. By the end of 2005, a total of 198 debts worth approximately 16.6 billion yuan had been forgiven and exempted from 44 developing countries.

In June 2008, it donated 5,000 tons of aviation fuel and 100 million yuan to North Korea, totaling US$15 million. In March 2009, all US$75 million in loans provided to Afghanistan were converted into free aid. Throughout 2009, more than 40 billion yuan in debt was forgiven by 46 countries. In February 2010, China's State Council approved the reduction or exemption of 80% of Iraq's debt to China, approximately US$6.8 billion. That month, due to the failure of North Korea’s currency reform, it was rumored that China would provide $10 billion in aid to North Korea. In April 2010, the Chinese government provided a US$20 billion loan to Venezuela.

In August 2010, two news items appeared simultaneously on the CCTV news broadcast: First, to support Russia’s disaster relief, China would donate US$1 million in cash and materials worth 20 million yuan; second, Zhouqu, Gansu Province was short of drinking water and instant noodles, and the government called on everyone to actively donate. Critic Xia Xiaoqiang wrote in "Why Such Internationalism?" "The article pointed out: China has the largest number of children who have lost or dropped out of school in the world; China is currently the only major country in the world that still charges high tuition fees for primary and secondary education, while other major countries provide it to its citizens for free; China's 900 million farmers have almost no medical and social security, ranking first in the world. However, XX ignores the lives of the people and spends a lot of money to buy the favor of other countries.

Many netizens asked: Is my country a developed country? Does China have money? The people have the final say whether they have money or not. When can we also reduce the debts of our own poor people? Some netizens said that it seems that the government is still not short of money, and donations should be carefully considered in the future.

A few days ago, PetroChina donated 30 million to Japan, and yesterday it provided 30,000 tons of gasoline to Japan for free. What a generous act! The total price is close to 200 million! The Japanese sighed: What a good philanthropist! But what happened after the Wenchuan earthquake in Sichuan? What did PetroChina and Sinopec do? In 2005 and 2006, Sinopec received state financial subsidies of 10 billion yuan and 5 billion yuan respectively. In 2008, Sinopec announced that the company received financial subsidies of 12.3 billion yuan, of which 4.9 billion yuan was included in the company's subsidy income in 2007, and 7.4 billion yuan was included in the subsidy income in the first quarter of 2008. On March 19, 2007, PetroChina announced yesterday that its profit last year exceeded 142.2 billion yuan, setting another record high. In 2005, PetroChina surpassed HSBC for the first time to become the most profitable company in Asia with a profit of 133.3 billion yuan. Jiang Jiemin, general manager of China National Petroleum Corporation, said at a meeting of central enterprise leaders: "PetroChina is the most profitable company in Asia, not one of them, but the first." PetroChina was listed on the Shanghai Stock Exchange on November 5, 2007, and began to be included in the Shanghai Composite Index and the Shanghai and Shenzhen 300 Index as a heavyweight stock on November 19. The online subscription price was 16.7 yuan, the opening price was 48.6 yuan, and the listing opening price was almost three times the issue price. The listing of PetroChina A shares made many people experience a moment of happiness. However, great joy brings sorrow, and it is precisely because of the high opening price of PetroChina that locked up countless ordinary investors. PetroChina and Sinopec have received so many unreasonable government subsidies, and have collected so much money from investors. In addition, they have earned the title of "the most profitable company in Asia". It can be said that they have earned enough respect and face. When the national crisis hit, including the Wenchuan earthquake, the wealthy Chinese people contributed money and strength, and devoted all their efforts to overcome the difficulties. PetroChina and Sinopec alone donated 10 million. The Sichuan earthquake and the generosity of people across the country showed the world the great love during the disaster. But what did PetroChina and Sinopec show us? Today, Japan, which has committed ever unforgivable crimes against our country, is hit by a disaster. The death toll is only one-tenth of the number of people killed in the Wenchuan earthquake in China. You even donated 200 million in money and oil! ! ! However, the domestic people are paying almost the lowest wages in the world with the most expensive gasoline in the world! Are you still Chinese? Is this company still a Chinese company? ! Are the Japanese your biological fathers? Why else do you do such ridiculous things of showing kindness to your enemies and being cunning to your friends? ! There is only one word that can describe you - traitors! Angry! ! ! Angry! ! ! After the earthquake, the Japanese said that China would not donate money to them, but actually burned the Chinese flag on the spot. . .

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