white horse is not horse
To say that China hasn't helped mankind is like an unemployed SUNs SAP specialist accuses Indian intellectuals did nothing but take away American Jobs. I bet you hear no-good-to-mankind complaint right there. But folks, getting jobs done faster, more efficiently has to be good to mankind, although unpleasant to smaller group of individuals of the bigger set.
You have to be from Mars not knowing that Indian and Chinese make up the majority of EB immigration cases. These are not cheap labors working in the restaurants and sweat shops, these are engineers, basic life scientists, physicians, IT specialists, entrepraneurs, or decision makers in the business world. To put down either nation is wrong.
I have a lot of respect for India, her people has every right to be proud, and please speak out by any means! But let me say a few good things about my motherland-China first:
UN is not a democratic entity, rather it was a product of war. China absorbed over 70% of Japanese war effort in WWII (hundreds of millions of Chinese sacraficed for the common struggle against imperialism). That allowed the Brits and American to focus on the European continent. What's more, China didn't just fight Japanese in China. Suffering enormous domestic loss, she still dispatched 100,000 Chinese soldiers to fight Japanese in south asia. More than 80% of those dispatched China's bravest sons/daughters died route to Burma, Indo-China and the Indian subcontinent jungles. The blood support it lent to the world-wide anti-fascism battle won China respect from the big four and a seat in the UN. Whether Mainland China or Taiwan Nationlists represent China is irrelevant, they would all represent Chinese.
China did a great many good to a great many mankind for a great many years. Over the span of two thousand years, Chinese language, culture and technology had positive influence. Need I say more about its influence on Japan, Korea and Vietnam, is it a coincidence that asian-pacific nations sharing similiar cultural traits with China are among the newly wealthy? Don't give me that Sino-domination-phobia lecture. All nations that were once conjugated with Chinese dynasties were treated w/ respect and generosity. In its weakest era, the Qing dynasty would still fight against Japanese occupation of the Korean Pennisula at the petition of the Korean Royals. Unfortunately, Qing lost the battle in yellow sea and hence began a one hundred-year humiliation. No nations treat China w/ respect when she was weak. Led by England, which countered its trade deficit by exporting opium to China. When Qing refused, the Queen sent warships of soliders (however unfortunate, Indian soldiers among the ranks), waged the Opium War. Guess who followed suit, Russia, Germany, France, Japan, Italy, Portugal and last but not least USA, who forced unequal treaties one after another to China, who was forced to give land, gold/silver, free lease of major cities and sea ports in exchange for peace and "protection". The famous MacMahon boundary line between Indian and China was drawn during that period, by the Queen, which arbitrarily severed hundreds of square miles of Tibet land from Qing Dynasty to India. When the Union Jack was lowered from the Indian sky, thanks to Ghandi's immortal leadership, the McMahon line stayed, and set stage for the 1960 India-China war. From my side of border, I see much more land were being occupied by India. So who is right? What a legacy from Her Majesty!
China won respect by acting conciliatory. However difficult to comprehend, Mao didn't ask for one single penny war restitutions for the trillions of dollars damage Japanese army inflicted to Chinese people, and Chinese people supported his decision.
China did a great many good to human kind by being the UN's sole permanent member in the Security council. It represented the developing countries across the globe, and supported the weak, the underprevilliage in a selfless manner. However unfortunate to China and other nations, Mao really believed and acted what he preached, that is communism. Millions of Chinese people died of starvation while food were shipped to other "brother" third world nations across Asia and Africa. If communism is truely 100%, then Chinese people suffered no worse than anyone affected, while being coached to lose life in the many frontlines between the third world and the developed countries.
Nowdays, China improved the world's living standard by outputing cheap but good product. I suppose if you live in the States, unless you are a big fan of "Made in America", you enjoyed the obscenely low price of Dell computers, DVD players, furnitures all labeled"made in china", while still have extra bucks to enjoy other episodes of your American Dream.
What do you mean we did nothing good to mankind, are you not of my kind, man?