(Xinhua)
Updated: 2008-04-13 21:13

The economist maintained it was very important for people to "do everything possible" to build a pipeline of information between these countries, because close friends would talk about their problems and put their resources together. "If you are strangers, and then you have a conflict, you fight with each other."

Rutledge stressed the move was especially crucial for the younger generation as they would be the future leaders.

He pointed out that policies of the US government could be very unstable in the short term as they very much reflected the short-term emotions of media. "To sell newspapers or TV shows, the media are very much listening to the emotions of the people."

Professor Kenneth Morgan of the University of Western Australia echoed Rutledge by saying the world should open its mind to understand the transition China had made. "China is a modern country. It's not a country to be feared."

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