China blocks Wikimedia from entering World Intellectual Property Organization
(Disclaimer: I'm a franco-Canadian of mixed European descent.)<p>This article doesn't give China a great image, sure. I can think of a million criticisms to levy against China.<p>However, I feel like a lot of the comments aren't just criticizing China, they seem to be outright anti-China.<p>I wonder if, in the grand scheme of things, Americans/Westerners might be feeling threatened by the shift in power. I wonder if Americans/Westerners are capable of appreciating the things that China gets right, or does right. I wonder if Americans/Westerners are capable of acknowledging the things that their countries get wrong, or do wrong. I wonder if we here in the West are as fair and balanced as we tend to think.<p>This isn't merely an academic question, I think it goes to the core of the state of mind that is required to view situations objectively (regardless of whether we might be right or wrong in any specific context).<p>In this case, I'm totally on Wikimedia's side. But I feel like we in the West are standing right on the slippery slope of nationalism.