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Chandran Nair
Founder and CEO of the Global Institute For Tomorrow
钱德兰.奈尔 全球未来研究所的创始人以及CEO
The truth is that, despite its media portrayals as a spiritual and cultural wasteland, China is home to more than 200 million people who are either "Buddhists, Taoists or worshippers of legendary figures such as the Dragon King and God of Fortune." China also has 36,000 mosques, 45,000 imams and over 21 million Muslims. By 2030, it will have a Muslim population larger than Saudi Arabia's today and a Christian population larger than any other country in the world. The world's largest publisher of Bibles, Amity Printing Company, is located in the Chinese city of Nanjing.
尽管被媒体塑造为一个精神生活以及文化生活的荒地， 有2亿多中国人不是佛教徒就是道教徒，或者是龙王以及财神爷的虔诚信徒。中国并且有着36000座清真寺， 45000个伊玛目以及超过两千一百万的穆斯林。到2030年，中国穆斯林人口数目将超过现阶段的沙特阿拉伯（穆斯林人口）；中国将会拥有世界上最大的基督徒人口。全球最大的圣经出版商，爱德印刷公司，就坐落在中国南京。
译文来源:龙腾网
Unfortunately, when it comes to China, religion is just one example of the mismatch between the mainstream media narrative and the underlying reality.
很遗憾的来说，当谈到中国的时候， 宗教并不仅仅是凸显主流媒体论调与现实不符的唯一事例。
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The transformative changes that have taken place in China have always been accompanied by changes in the way it has been perceived abroad. For many years the conventional wisdom was that China would fail because it was autocratic, corrupt and inefficient. When it did not fail, its critics changed tack to instead accusing it of an empty materialistic success. This "valueless China" narrative claims that spoiled princelings, grasping businessmen and venal officials are all symptoms of a society has sold its soul and replaced its culture and traditions with pure greed. Take this much reported 2013 poll that "Chinese today are just too materialistic," or this Economist cover from August. Entitled 'What China wants," the photo is of a Chinese dragon hungrily eyeing a globe, inside, the caption proclaims that China "does not know how to achieve or deserve [respect]." But this most recent oversimplification is no closer to the truth than any of the old ones.
伴随中国国内革命性变化而来是国外（媒体）对其评论的变化。长久以来。（西方世界的）传统认知就是中国绝对会崩溃，因为它的专制，腐败以及低效率。但是中国没有崩溃，这种认知就变为谴责中国的成功是物质的，虚无的。这种“中国无价值”论调认为被宠坏的官二代，贪婪的商人和腐坏的官员象征着中国出卖了它的灵魂，用它的文化和传统在和纯粹的贪欲做交易。看看2013年的民调“现在的中国人都是物质主义”和经济学家八月份的封面“中国想要什么（画面描述的是饥饿的中国龙虎视眈眈着世界，标题叫嚣着中国不配也不知如何获得尊重）”，这些近期的过度简单化的论调，却比之过往的“中国崩溃论”论调都（在真实的揭示中国国情方面）都有所不及）
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USA as a world power? In E-Sim it is possible!
In E-Sim we have a huge, living world, which is a mirror copy of the Earth. Well, maybe not completely mirrored, because the balance of power in this virtual world looks a bit different than in real life. In E-Sim, USA does not have to be a world superpower, It can be efficiently managed as a much smaller country that has entrepreneurial citizens that support it's foundation. Everything depends on the players themselves and how they decide to shape the political map of the game.
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You can go bankrupt or become a rich man while playing the stock market.
The international war.
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E-Sim is a unique browser game. It's creators ensured realistic representation of the mechanisms present in the real world and gave all power to the players who shape the image of the virtual Earth according to their own. So come and join them and help your country achieve its full potential.
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