Meanwhile, domestic tension in China – particularly the scandal surrounding the purge of former Chongqing Communist Party boss Bo Xilai and the country’s economic slowdown – has probably prompted the government to play the nationalist card more forcefully than usual. The Party’s upcoming Congress to anoint the country’s new leadership for the next decade adds to its desire to manipulate public emotion.
与此同时，中国国内的紧张局势——特别是前重庆市委书记薄熙来落马的相关丑闻以及经济增长的减速——可能迫使政府比以前更坚决地打出了民族主义的牌。将产生未来十年新领导人的十八大的临近也增加了引导公众情绪的必要性。