Did you know that a particularly talented Chinese physicist and gifted mathematician who was chosen by von Karmann to succeed him as Head of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, in the late 50's, was harrassed endlessly by the U.S. authorirties and trumped-up charges were brought against him? In disgust, that scientist returned to China. (The authorities feared he stole secrets. So, during a stopover in Hawaii, they searched his belongings but they came up empty). In the years following he helped Red China launch its own satellites into orbits.
Why did they harrass and embarrass him? Simply because having a Chinese as Head of the JPL (a very political thing during the Cold War) was a No-No!!!
Yes, against great odds, China did much to develop her own Hydrogen Bomb. (The bomb the Chinese exploded in 1964 was essentgially a hydrogen bomb, not a atom bomb). The pariah "Yellow Peril" at tremendous self-sacrifice, had marshalled enough resources to make the bomb for very obvious reasons.
Many Westerners still think that if China achieved anything of significance, China must have copied it from some super powers or stolen their secrets because they believe the Chinese are just not smart enough. At one time, Japan was looked at in the same way too. Little do they realise that no one nation has the monopoly on the laws of science and the principles of math and engineering!!!
If Professor Phillipe Rushton of the University of Western Ontario were here, he would have said something very favorable about the potential of Oriental people. (Use the search engines to look up Phillipe Rushton).
Did you know that because of unfair treaties and indemnities imposed upon China especially during the last century and also because of internal problems and the invasion by Japan, China was practically broke for a very long time? |
