I was listening to a Radio Free Asia podcast about Charter 08 and heard this quote by City University of Hong Kong Professor Yushuo Zheng: “这些…异见分子，其实他们也是爱国的，就是提出不同的意见.” This translates roughly to: “These activists, they are actually patriotic, but they are just putting forward different viewpoints/suggestions.” It used to be that the majority of Chinese people were apathetic or ignorant about politics, but now more and more are becoming interested and active in politics. However, while all of the politically active/vocal Chinese people are patriotic and nationalistic, they are polarized between neoconservatives and liberals. Neoconservatives in China tend to support the current government, distrust foreign states (e.g., Japan, Western democracies), and promote the territorial and political sovereignty of China (e.g., Taiwan, Tibet, Xinjiang). The New Yorker wrote a very interesting article this summer about Chinese neocons. It profiled one man in particular, Tang Jie, who defends China against criticism, opposes Western political ideals, and supposedly represents the many ?? (angry youth) whose presence seems to increase as China continues to develop. The article seems to show a general trend of Chinese youth who believe that foreign countries have agendas against China’s rise, which incites a nationalistic and defensive reaction. Here is another example of