How is this topic related to my life and why did I choose it

First of all, it feels really good to go back to my blog. It's quite an enjoymement to write posts. Now, today I'm going to explain why I chose this topic in the first place. When I was a little kid, probaly at the age of 6 or 7, I became so obssessed with weapon systems. I was most likely influenced by my uncle since he himself is a fan of armament and has all those kinds of magazines in his house and he showed them to me quite often. Since then I became a weapon fan like him and started reading every single piece of news and analysis about weapons.

When I received this blog assignment that asked me to relate our topics to our own countries I figured out my knowledge about the military can be of great help. As the result, I chose this "default topic". It's about whether China is growing into an aggressively expanding or a peaceful country which will be serving justice and order. But after I finished my first post, I realized that it's far from easy to be objective and avoid biases when analysing the materials because what comes to mind is always based on my personal experience and knowledge I learned from magazines. The biggest problem I encountered was when I had to read
newspapers and assess their biases. I found that task quite difficult because I can't be absolutely sure about the reliability of the materials. For example, there's one newspaper from Washington Posts claims that China's military budget in 2007 is $300 billion, however, the offical number reported by Chinese governmet is $45 billion. Hence, it is very intractable to determine which one is the truth, from my personal experience I would say that the U.S newspaper is exagerating or twisting the reality but I fear that I might be wrong the whole time. Generally, this is the hardest part in my blog.

Another reason why I chose this topic is because I want to show people a real, undemonized China. Although China is a socialism country, there's still a huge revolution undergoing in that place. I was keep asked some strange questions about China, some people ask me whether Chinese are allowed to walk freely in the streets and I consider that question quite ridiculous. People shouldn't regard all socialism countries as another Soviet Union, ruthless tyrany cannot happen in this 21th century unless that country dob't have any basic communication system. China is one of the countries that have been "demonized" and I really want to make some contributions to help change people's impression towards China.