60 minutes archives: interview with China’s Jiang Zemin

小公主
楼主 (文学城)

I saw this "60 minutes" rewind interview with Jiangzemin this morning. I was surprised how friendly and humble Jiang was during the interview. 

 

The reporter Mr. Wallace asked lots of tough questions including China’s dictatorship, the tank man at Tiananmen square, the Falun Gong in China etc. From my perspective, most of Jiang's arguments are pretty reasonable. Only when the reporter asked about the censorship in China, Jiang’s respond made me laugh out lord: lots unhealthy meterials especially pornography on the internet which does great harm to our youngsters... Jiang responed.

 

On the contrary, I feel Wallace was kind of arrogant. I totally agree with one comment left on Youtube:“Wallace was very condescending tbh, can’t imagine him interviewing POTUS in a same manner” 

 

BTW, I googled. “tbh” means “to be honest”. 

 

I expressed my thoughts about the interview to my husband during lunch. He said I am too young too Naive. "Of course westerners are very condescending and patronizing, but Jiang was an old Fox too." My husband said: "Jiang was playing nice person cards before his US visit. The US did not view China as a threat for decades. Until now..."

 

What are your thoughts? At least I can not imagine the current Chinese leader will do a sit down interview with western media (or with any media) like Jiang did decades ago.

 

Thank you for reading. If you see any mistakes in my writing please let me konw. I really appreciate

it:)

 

Below is the link in case you are interested.

https://youtu.be/1tNMH2M_jJ0

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beautifulwind
LOL, also, plz check your spelling:) Ur writing is so fluent now
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beautifulwind
LOL, also, plz check your spelling:) Ur writing is so fluent now
移花接木
Staying low is Deng's foresight, Jiang didnt spoil the rich heri

The older I am  the more I understand Deng and Jiang.

Deng laid down the cornerstone, China started taking off from Jiang.

Staying low is also Deng's great foresight, winning decades for China,  Jiang didnt spoil the rich heritage.

Thanks Little Princess, I will watch it later 

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moiausis
+1, I agree
移花接木
I thought she spelt right :-)))
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beautifulwind
Imean “LOL” should be “Laugh out loud”:)

Not "laugh out lord":)

Which word do u mean? 

 

移花接木
I mean 'lord' spelt correctly

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beautifulwind
LOL
移花接木
Lord O'Lord
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beautifulwind
哈哈哈
才歌
He is an old fox! 美国人可能听不懂这句
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beautifulwind
我觉得应该听得懂吧,都知道 A fox is cunning. :)
小公主
sorry. did the correction:)
小公主
Thank you all for sharing your thoughts here:)))))
甜虫虫
Good writing. Thank you for sharing what you saw and read here:)
忒忒绿
old folks