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To: Robert B. who wrote (12278)	6/17/1999 10:53:00 AM
From: RealMuLan	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 17770

<<Does the Chinese gov't send the U.S. aid for its natural disasters? >> As an IMPERIALIST country, the US has robbed from China since mid-19 century. As for whether China should send any disaster relief to the US, I think only a downright idiot can ask this kind of question. Say no more, you have made an COMPLETE fool of youself on this thread.I don't want to waste my time for you.

To: Robert B. who wrote (12278)	6/17/1999 10:53:00 AM
From: hui zhou	Respond to of 17770

Russia hates America We hate your guts." This was my hello from Mikhail Yuriev, deputy chairman of the Russian parliament, who in the next breath assured me that it was nothing personal. And without taking a breath added, "We like to see you dead." This warm response was in answer to a simple question: "How do Russians feel about America in light of the war over Kosovo?" When I smiled, Yuriev insisted that he and his country were dead serious. "The day you started bombing, the polls showed that 63% here would go to war for Serbia. They'd do it today. We hate your guts — understand this, America." Nothing personal? "America is a great country — for Americans. Not for the world, because you want to dominate the world. It's not personal; it's a reaction to the thirst for empire. "You won't get away with it. In 1930, the sun never set on the British Empire. Where are they now? It'll happen to you." But if it happens to America, what will happen to Yuriev, who happens to have most of his great fortune invested in American companies? "I guess it looks like a conflict of interest," he says. "If I want you dead, I'm dead. But it's not inconsistent. It's the very point I'm trying to make. If America stays within itself, true to itself, if it stops trying to run the world, we stop hating your guts, and we all win." Yuriev is hardly the only one here who resents American intervention in Kosovo, but he articulates it more forcefully than I've heard in my few days in Moscow. Nobody else has said to me that America is out to rule the world — and I'm sure few people in our country look at it that way. Indeed, the knock on President Clinton from the right is that he is weak, that he vacillates, that he refuses to use American power in a manner that would get things done properly. The beef here has to do with humiliation — the Russian ego, in wrack and ruin after the destruction of the nation's military prowess, has taken a hit too many in Kosovo. That is why Russians love the caper that saw their paratroopers grab the Pristina airport — while NATO slept. The Russians know better than to think the incident means more than a hit of cocaine, but it's better than nothing to do. On the other hand, they get no kick out of Boris Yeltsin. I ran around to bars with my friend Igor in an effort to gauge the opinions of the average Muscovite. My poll returns show that three out of four Russians were unhappy with America's bombing of Kosovo. One woman, a lawyer named Masha, thought that we did it for Dow Jones. She is the only evidence I have that Marxism lives in Moscow. But even she despises the Russian president. Everybody despises Boris — except James Collins, the American ambassador. I spent an hour with him the other morning at Spaso House, our embassy that the girls would say "is to die for." Collins is a career diplomat, one of the very few who ever got posted to the top job in Moscow. I asked him what he thought of Yeltsin. "A historic figure," Collins said. "He took Russia from party rule to the rule of the people. He is a populist. And he brought the country into the world instead of running at its neck." I told this to Yuriev, and Yuriev scoffed, "What do you expect from an American ambassador?" But on reflection, Yuriev said, "Yeltsin crushed communism. He will be remembered for that, just as Lincoln is remembered for freeing the slaves." Nothing personal. Response to Kosovo: 'We like to see you dead"