Renewed protests over China’s mining investments in Myanmar this week confirmed this trend, one that China’s leaders seem either to dismiss as trivial, or to regard as somehow unrelated to their bullying. Indeed, like Russian President Vladimir Putin, who faces widespread public antipathy in Ukraine, China’s leaders appear to believe that popular protests against them can only be the product of an American plot.
中国的单方面行为将掩盖在许多亚洲国家平静表面下的汹涌的反中情绪揭开了一丝。本周在缅甸发生的新一轮针对中国矿业投资的示威确认了这一趋势，而中国领导要么认为这一无关紧要，要么认为这与其恃强凌弱的行为没有什么关系。事实上，与在乌克兰饱受千夫所指的俄罗斯总统普京一样，中国领导人似乎认为针对他们的群众示威只不过是美国人煽动的产物。