His critics, meanwhile, ask if Duterte, a self-confessed
Sinophile and a novice in foreign relations, is the right solo player to place all the Philippine chips on the line against a veteran player.
(23) Jim Bertram, 'known as a
Sinophile with pro-Communist leanings in the past', was also identified.
Guangzhou is an ideal post for the
Sinophile and those new to China.
(40) Guido Vitale, an Italian
Sinophile interpreter, served at the Italian Legation beginning in the 1890s and took a great interest in all forms of folk writing and songs.
Directed by Hollywood
Sinophile Rob Minkoff and uniting Jackie Chan and Jet Li onscreen for the first time, the 2008 fantasy martial arts actioner remains one of the few Chinese films to do well in North America (where it was released by Lionsgate) and in China.
The "Chinese approach to world order," writes Kissinger in his new book "On China," is dissimilar to the Western system of "balance of power diplomacy," primarily because China has "never engaged in sustained contact with another" on the basis of the concept of the "sovereign equality of nations." As Kissinger, a committed
Sinophile, points out: "That the Chinese Empire should tower over its geographical sphere was taken virtually as a law of nature, an expression of the Mandate of Heaven."
A perception that Australia might attempt to balance its international relationships by drawing closer to China was exacerbated by the election in November 2007 of a new government led by the Mandarin-speaking, self-professed
Sinophile former diplomat Kevin Rudd.
We do not need, as
sinophile Kevin Rudd resolutely believes, a boost in Asian language education, at least not for mercantile or strategic reasons.