Even as China’s position in the world continues to rise and its people become more self-confident, China’s history of weakness before the Western powers and Japan sustains a “victim culture” that leaves most Chinese sensitive to any foreign challenge. Publishing jingoistic, anti-foreign articles plays to national sensitivities that always simmer, and thus can easily be brought to a boil, with obvious benefits for the bottom line.
这样做也有利可图。尽管中国在世界上的地位日益提升，人民也开始变得更为自信，但是中国在西方力量和日本维持“难民文化”之前的那段衰弱的历史让大部分中国人对任何外国挑战十分敏感。出版主张强硬外交政策、反外国的文章总是能引发密云不雨的民族敏感情绪，并很容易地将其演变为大爆发，其结果就是带来显而易见的利益。