Everyone in my family and all my friends don't take offense - I can call my black friend nigga and pepper and my white friend cracker and salt and my asian friend slant eye while he calls me round eye and all of us give each other a big hug - taking offense is just as damaging if not more so than giving it. My comment was not to give offense to yiwu - I feel very bad for poor slant eye girl in china and wish things were much better for her - did you take offense grasshopper?
We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.
Abraham Lincoln
You add suffering to the world just as much when you take offense as when you give offense. - Ken Keyes
enlightenment.com
I did not take the tone of your message to be accusatory in the least. At any rate, as the Dalai Lama says, it is as harmful to the harmony of the universe to take offense as it is to give offense.
Yiwu thought when I said human rights, that I was talking about something other than the horrid conditions of child slave labor - which is what I have the problem with to support the cheap prices in some places. Some have advocated global human rights, global wage controls, and global currency controls, keynes talked about this during his day - no one seemed to listen - so here we are. Several economic academics already theorize over the next 100 years the concept of nation state in global financial matters will phase out to global concerns. Nationalist pride is going to deter that.
I just watched:
Call-In
U.S.-China Relations
C-SPAN, Washington Journal
Washington, District of Columbia (United States)
ID: 186291 - 3 - 04/17/2005 - 0:45 - No Sale
Mitchell, Derek, Senior Fellow, Center for Strategic and International Studies
Mr. Mitchell will talk about Chinese military capabilities and arms sales to China. He will also talk about Taiwan, the security situation in Asia overall, and U.S. policy on the region. He will respond to telephone calls, faxes and e-mail from viewers.
They said condoleeza rice - in the march 26 issue of the economist - china does not like our military interests concering taiwan and this concerned Condi.
They said chinese likes to compare thier plight to the US civil war - however Lincoln wanted to free slaves - china seems to want to enslave taiwainese freedom - where they have free press and free democratic governing. That US states had voluntarily entered into the constitution and Taiwan obligation to china was much less certain.
They said defining China was a problem - that China is a moving target when you try to say what it includes and what it doesn't - In one chinese foreign ministry official website they said All of north korea was a chinese territory - and therefore china? Huh?
They said 90% of chinese military arsenal comes from russia and they are frantically trying to domesticate thier military arsenal.
2 US trident subs possess as many nukular weapons as the entire chinese arsenal - but China was not going to compete with USA like russia did and sink their economy - but they were building enough military just to get taiwan.
They said China suffered a net loss economically because of environmental programs - causing civil unrest - I posted a link about that already.
www.csis.org
They said - why didn't hitler invade switzerland - because you don't attack your banker - chinese waiting for japan to fall and then going to get us debt for cheap - and that is why we would be dumb to go to war with china - but the guest said that same logic is why china would be dumb to go to war with Taiwan - tied economically to them - but that chinese leadership would do much economic stupidity to "SAVE FACE" and make the chinese people FEEL better with pride and get Taiwan back under thier rule - well in my world PRIDE is a dangerous thing. But the guest said he had hope china would not force things with taiwan, and therefore the USA would not force things with China - and it will all work out to support everyones economic interest because the chinese leadership would not be dumb like japan and germany of the past. |
