Aug 25 2008
The convention in Denver is competing with tennis for my attention - Blake is playing. The repeating vocabulary I heard describing Michelle Obama is ‘beautiful’ and ‘smart’. I won’t dispute her intelligence, a Harvard lawyer can’t be dumb and with $300,000 salary, she has to be smart. But beautiful??
1. It sounds like the over used term ‘classy’ [...]
Aug 05 2008
Obama The Patriot, Barack Obama recently finished a $500,000 total overhaul of his 757. And as part of the new design, he decided to remove the American flag from the tail…
What American running for President of the United States would remove the symbol of his country? And worse, he replaced the flag with it with [...]
Jul 25 2008
So the heads of European countries are receiving the prince charming - guess McCain isn’t going to get an invitation from Uncle Hu or Grandpa Wen any time soon. The Frenchie gone as far as to predict Obama would win when commenting of their last met in the US, “one of us has become president, why [...]
Jul 08 2008
Rudy Giuliani was on CNN last week, talking about the criminal vs military action against terrorists. On 1993 WTC bombing, the interviewer asked, “you were happy at the time that they were prosecuted by (civilian) law ..” Rudy agreed, “yes .. because we didn’t know about 9/11 .. after 9/11, we see those acts as [...]
May 28 2008
King likes history. He asked me what history course should he take in his sophomore year, World or European. I teased him, how about Chinese history? He replied, “Mom, there isn’t one.” I know, I know. Our school language department has expanded to inlcude Chinese in the middle school, but history curriculum hasn’t changed. Asia is [...]
May 28 2008
If it takes ten thousand deaths to make the Mandarin to be more humane in public, so the earthquake in Sichuan would be it. The 1976 quake didn’t do it. Loosen up Grandpa Wen (this is so uniquely Chinese would never ever happened in the west.. .. can you image dabbing W Grandpa Bush, or Grandpa Kissinger??), [...]
May 26 2008
Front page news that the saint in orange is losing the support of many of his followers inside Tibet because of the Chinese government’s refusal to strike a deal with him over the territory’s future. How timely when China and the rest of the world is centered on the earthquake in China, trying to save [...]
May 22 2008
Did Kishore Mahbubani develop this idea from me? :) A well written article. And this one was published in the newspaper, not as a letter to the editor. .. When the 1.2b Muslims seeing China and India prosper, they’ll learn to ask why can’t we look like Chidia? And a successful Beijing Olympic game is a positive [...]
May 17 2008
A newspaper compares the two First Lady in waiting, Cindy McCain and Michelle Obama. Cindy’s dad is the beer baron who’s biggest distributors of Budweiser while Michelle, likes her husband, rose from not so prestigious background. But Michelle had gone to Princeton and obtained her law degree from Harvard, now as the public relations officer [...]
May 16 2008
Published: May 16 2008 03:00 | Last updated: May 16 2008 03:00
From Dr Hai Xin.
Sir, I take issue with the tone and choice of topics in your coverage of the earthquake in Sichuan province, which has caused more than 10,000 deaths. Faced with such a horrific natural disaster, the country and its people have shown [...]
May 15 2008
By Victor Mallet
Published: May 15 2008 03:00 | Last updated: May 15 2008 03:00
Being a superpower is not all pomp and pleasure. There is more to it than attending summits, deploying aircraft carriers and overthrowing irritating regimes in the Caribbean with which you disagree. You also have to be able to handle criticism, even [...]
May 12 2008
Tibet is only one of 55 ethnic minorities in China, totalling 123m, or 9% to han Chinese. I was reading the dream theater forums, someone there mentioned that “fuck tibet, there are many minorities suffering in china that don’t get any attention because they don’t have a rockstar lama in orange filling stadiums.” ha ha [...]
May 12 2008
Beijing is calling! Susan Rapp, the former Olympic silver medalist in 1984 is now Susan von der Lippe, mother of 2, at age 42 is trying to qualify for her fourth Olympic! WOW !! You go girl!! Refreshing and romantic.
A little sad note that she had to sit out in 1980 when she’s 15 (who’s to dispute [...]
May 07 2008
So the surging China is the evil empire, exploiting Africa, polluting, counterfeiting .. the list could go on. The western foreign polices are largely failed in that region, might be, just might be the Chinese way would work? IF China can lift the Africans out of the poverty like it did to its own people on the way to [...]
May 07 2008
Is there any thing worthy to report other than the screaming headline by CNN that hundreds protest as Chinese president arrives in Japan? How about ‘The president arrived to the sound of applause and well-wishes from supporters’ instead? Why can’t China win the media war? Average Joe Doe isn’t interested in China, average Jane Smith doesn’t [...]
May 01 2008
Wow ..
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Eisenhower overruled some of his military commanders in summer 1958, ordering them not to use nuclear weapons against China if communist forces blockaded the Taiwan Strait, according to declassified Air Force documents.
Eisenhower "made it clear that the Chinese would be given a warning with conventional explosives [...]
Apr 28 2008
A few good men feel the same ..
Not sure that Jack Cafferty is a racist, but he sure said some inappropriate things at very inappropriate time. It’s a long story - history - how the western media portraits China and everything associated with it, starting from their so called China-hands. Mere a century ago, China was the sick man of the [...]
Apr 18 2008
I have been wondering if Chinese can hack into Pentagon, why couldn’t they stop the Tibet/torch avalanche? Different war fare? If 9/11 made Puritanical Americans realized that deep down they’re proud of themselves and have plenty of patriotism, then this Tibet/torch is making Chinese stick together for the first time, and be proud of their accomplishment. Dalai Lama isn’t [...]