Article: Beijing's mixed message: the Chinese can't decide whether to loathe or love the United States.

The lights were dimmed. Then came the propaganda slogans ("Love the Motherland" and "Oppose Feudal Superstition"), followed by Rumble in the Bronx, the latest Jackie Chan kung fu movie from Hong Kong. On the screen, America was on the brink of anarchy. Motorcycle gangs terrorized Chinese convenience-store owners in New York amid rats, dark alleys and underworld villains. The film played to a packed house, as it had every night for two weeks.

Images of the United States in decline have resonance in China today. "The international standing of the United States continues to decline, as does its ability to intervene in international disputes," Wan Guang of the ...

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