To: RealMuLan who wrote (41850 ) 11/21/2003 6:06:57 AM From: Seeker of Truth Respond to "China has never publicly finger-pointed how the US should do this and that". Just yesterday the Chinese government protested about the recent US move to limit the import from China of various textiles. The US action was denounced. Can we really believe that this was the first time in history that the Chinese government denounced an action of the US government? Come on! Just after 9-11 the Chinese government expressed sorrow about it but pointed out that US unjust policy toward Palestine was one cause. So your statement about "never publicly" is false false false. Of course I personally agree with that statement by the Chinese government. I hope they will even much more vociferously express this opinion. Now I personally believe that Taiwan has been part of China for many centuries, they speak Chinese, Fujian dialect and Mandarin; it should remain part of China, in name certainly. Should I really keep my mouth shut about this because it is an "internal affair" of China. Suppose the US public is deceived by the media into thinking that today Taiwan and tomorrow maybe Shidzang are and have always been independent countries. If there are not shouts from myriad bystanders like me, maybe they would go to war. It seems anything can happen with Bush. Go back and read Mao's writings on Dr. Norman Bethune. It was precisely the failure of Bethune to distinguish Chinese affairs from Canadian affairs that he praised. (Proletarian internationalism). Now if the Kuomintang mentioned him in a history book it would surely be to denounce him, probably on your grounds that he was interfering in Chinese affairs. The world is full of people minding other people's business. If you don't want to live in such a world then you should perhaps insist that the government of China stop commenting on any actions of the US. Your standard remark, essentially "don't talk (and don't think?) about China since you are not Chinese", doesn't make sense to others since countries are constantly interacting and are no longer a year's perilous journey away from each other. Booms, Busts, and Recoveries is about trying to understand the world, so we can protect our financial interests. It's not about refraining from discussing Hungary unless we are Hungarians etc. etc. Don't you yourself see the absurdity?
