“I believe that Chinese peacekeepers will win the glory for the motherland with their own strenuous efforts and successfully implement rescue and peacekeeping missions in Haiti.”

Hu Yunwang, director of the 5th anti-riot police force in Haiti in 2007, to Sina.com. He is being deployed there again to help with peacekeeping efforts in the earthquake aftermath.

In China, EVERYTHING is about China and how to bring glory to the Motherland, even in the wake of tragedy half the world away.

If China were a person, it could be psychoanalyzed as such: China suffers from an inferiority complex that has stunted its emotional and psychological development. Thus, it acts like a baby and shows an appalling lack of maturity in how it conducts its public relations.

China makes up for its insecurity by bragging about how great it is — because if you say it enough, surely people will catch on. It is always bragging about its economic development. After Copenhagen, the Chinese media bragged about China’s role in its “success”. Now, after the Haiti earthquake, they are bragging about their peacekeeping forces.

The quote above is from a (horrible) story I had to polish today, in which Hu seemed to mainly talk about what he will be doing in Haiti and the political and social conditions that might present challenges to his mission. It was tacked on at the end, out of nowhere (as Chinese writers are wont to do). To be fair, the reporter may have prompted Hu to say it, so Hu could have a heart. As for the Chinese as a whole, my faith in them is shattering.