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To: Ilaine who wrote (9108)	9/14/2001 11:21:50 AM
From: TobagoJack	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

Hi CB, Understood now about relevance. I will put on my Chinese hat, and say no arguments with most what you say in the post that this responds to, except and/or adding ... <<1. Washington is a long way away from China, even further away in 1927. No good intelligence.>> Still true. <<2. Chinese were not liked in the USA>> Still true, the mainlanders mostly. <<3. Much prejudice against foreigners in general>> Still and more true recently. <<4. Communism and socialism and anarchism were threats to the power structure. They were not popular with the people, either, because they were foreign "isms.">> Guess what, FLG, controlled out of New Jersey, is not liked in China. Just and simply is. and not even <<3%, during the Progressive era>> that is today. <<The fact that some of the Communist party members did not actually believe in Communism is a subtlety that got lost in the translation>> Shame, an opportunity lost by the world's leader, and hopefully not again. <<5. Chiang Kai-Shek and his followers were admired in the US. I learned in school that he was a great hero.>> Not true and never true in China or Taiwan or Hong Kong, and that should tell the US something about taking sides lightly. I make a distinction between Chiang and the KMT, but you know that:0) <<6. Between the World Wars, the US had zero interest in geopolitics or being a world leader, and did not perceive itself as such>> and at least part of the war cost is attributeable for the failing. <<The government is a different story, even today. There is an incomprehensible brutality in the way your government treats dissenters.>> You should have seen the way it was before! I did. <<We know how to live with dissenters and we are extremely proud of that.>> and I know about dissenters, smae with the proud part. <<In America, dissent is honorable. We say, "I may not believe in what you say, but I would fight to the death for your right to say it." That is the way we raise our children. So killing dissenters is contrary to a belief that we would die for. I would die for, personally. When your government kills dissenters, it makes me want to fight. I would willingly die rather than stand by and allow my country to be governed by a government such as yours. But I would rather not die, I would prefer to win. I just mean, I wouldn't give up.>> And so who has given up? Thousands of ways to skin a ___ whatever, because I do not want to use the word "cat", and the task is best left to the guys closest, with them choosing the way that would work. <<We don't hate all lefties>> Well I got news for you, in China the lefties are very unpopular, such that few would ever practice it again, with fewer still admitting to ever having practiced it before, and we do not care for the Swedish system, and we will get our freedom due to our own struggles and work, and not do so by depending on the largess or interference of outsiders who stand a much better chance of failure, as proven already by history. We just want to do it our way, the way that has worked in Singapore, Taiwan and Hong Kong, already. Chugs, Jay