Shoe Is Thrown at Chinese Premier

Almost the same thing happened after former American President Bush was thrown with a pair of shoes. Days ago, when Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao was giving his speech in Cambridge University on China during his visiting to Europe, he was thrown with a shoe by an Cambridge University Student. It is said that he did this out of his anger about the dictatorship.
The audience present were all angry about such mean action, and shouted out together “Shame of you” to that student. After the audience calmed down, Chinese Premier resumed his speech calmly, slowly by “Teachers and students, this mean trick can’t stop the friendship between Chinese and English people.” This immediately cause the audience’s strong applause. And he went on his speech as if nothing had happened.
We can compare Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao and former US Present George Bush’s different reactions. At that time Bush said he was pleased to see that people in Iraq still had the right to throw shoes. George Bush tended to deal such situation in a humorous way, to distract people’s attention and then go back to his topic while Wen Jiabao took it seriously and brought everyone to the conformity to despise such action.
If top governors like Wen Jiabao and George Bush can represent their countries, then we can say that they can also represent the countries’ value, tradition and culturel.
So, through these two people, I think we can find something different between China and US in term of value, tradition and culture.