The Chinese view the state as an intimate -- not just as an intimate actually, as a member of the family -- not just in fact as a member of the family, but as the head of the family, the patriarch of the family.
Kinezi vide državu kao blisku – ne samo blisku, zapravo, kao člana obitelji -- u stvari, ne samo ni kao člana obitelji, već kao glavu obitelji, patrijarha obitelji.