Comments on: Obama on China: ‘Neither Our Enemy Nor Our Friend’

By: John

John — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 14:25:17 +0000

To ?:

A person who even was afraid to disclose his name is not just stubborn, but a stupid, ignorant coward who is living under the US government’s propoganda against China or in his own narrow-minded imagination, for his entire miserable “old” life, who still can’t live without buying Chinese goods, who is greedy to invade any country in the world to rob others of their land, oil, life and ideaology. Please get yourself educated and grow up!

By: Dr. Zhang (Chang)

Dr. Zhang (Chang) — Thu, 15 May 2008 01:18:34 +0000

I have read all the three comments and I can appreciate where they come from. Because, after His Honorable President Nixon’s failed engagement with China after the distorted Watergate incidence, and, in order to engage China-America into closer cooperative relationship, I started His honorable President Carter who invited Mr. DanXiaopin to the UnitedStates; which in turn started the dialog of cooperation between the two nations.
My late father was an army General of the late Honorable Generalizimos Chiang Kai Shek who fought the second WW against the Japanese invasion into China. He retired to Hong kong after the surrender of the Japaneses. He was invited to go back to China “to serve the people”, which he refused to do. I graduated from the National Taiwan University. I must present certain facts instead of politics taking certain names. Since the Carter’s administration had given china the support in the United Nation on the permenant seat and consider china an equal trading partner, china had gradually discard certain socialist idiology- Hong Kong is as free a place as any place in the world, in fact has improved. Taiwan has not been militarily invaded, nor propagandary chalanged in my seven years studied on the island. Tibet incident a few weeks ago, the western reporter there on the first day of the incident was surprised that there was not one police or soldier there to maintain the order, let alone any form of suppression…..I can go on and on. These are the facts, so I am leaving these here for your dissection. To add one more, when I lost everything after over twenty years of practice in the USA , for an unforeseen reason, we lost everything. China let us sell the properties of my late father, and that is how I still have a home to live in, inside this “free” country, where I worked hard with my family for decades.

By: Confucius

Confucius — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 09:16:45 +0000

Obama has a group of about 20 advisors specifically designated to assist him with issues involving East Asia. The Obama campaign has declined to release the names of all the participants, but a published list of foreign policy experts officially endorsing Obama includes Mr. Art Brown, former National Intelligence Officer for East Asia and Chief of CIA’s East Asian Operations Division.

By: Graham Webster

Graham Webster — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 05:54:59 +0000

Thanks everyone for the comments. I wonder, does anyone have any thoughts on how a President Obama would really behave regarding China?

By: CL

CL — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 20:59:55 +0000

This is interesting. Let’s look at it with a bit of compassion shall we?

I speak from the standpoint of an American-born Chinese. China is not full of people who are ignorant by choice. I believe that they are a product of the kind of one-party education they were submersed in since birth, not attuned to making political and social decisions for themselves because they were never given the opportunity.

Communism is not solely an economic system; a communist nation can have all the goods it needs, but its people can still be totally shut off from information they need to form solid opinions. I dare call it brainwashing. For example, I have met so many people from Mainland China who have friends who practice Falun Gong, whom they admit they admire personally, but at the same time, they insist that Falun Gong is an evil cult as the Chinese government claims. They can’t seem to figure out that the disparity is the clear result of government propaganda that does not match up with true-to-life experience.

Yes, the Western world has been terrible to China. We should not treat them badly, and yet that’s what is happening now. In continuing to live the lie of “stability,” we are hurting both ourselves and China economically and socially. The US has become seriously dependent on Chinese imports while accumulating a huge trade deficit toward China, and the Chinese, driven by the US’ demands for low prices, are forcing their workers out of decent working conditions—and that force is coming from the top: Without the regime’s constant false reassurance that “Mother China is getting stronger,” Chinese citizens would surely wake up to the sad reality that is their situation.

By: NK

NK — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 03:17:21 +0000

To ?:
You need to travel more. China is no longer communist. It has single-party rule, still, but the economic system is no longer communist, and free enterprise abounds. There is even talk of renaming the Communist Party something else, because it is not communist any more. State-owned industries have steadily been dismantled and privatized since Deng Xiaoping. The Chinese historical mentality is not one of conquest but of maintaining stability (since Confucius first set the civil service exam system around 500 B.C.). The last thing the Chinese want is a war with the U.S. Don’t forget that China was carved up by European colonialism and wound up in a civil war because of this. The goal of China’s leaders is not to let that happen again. The U.S. bombed a Chinese embassy and a U.S. spy plane killed a Chinese airforce pilot off the coast of their country, and did China make any hostile moves? They had plenty of cause to, but they didn’t. The goal is stability. To achieve that, of course, they need to be strong and have relations so that no one will want to attack them.
So, it’s time to get over your paranoia. Instead, acknowledge that the West was pretty rotten to China during colonialism (e.g. Opium War).

By: ?

Mon, 28 Jan 2008 22:31:03 +0000

I really hate communism and communist! period. I just can’t hide. I know I am a stubborn old man.

By: ?

Thu, 06 Sep 2007 10:47:29 +0000

when will the U.S. realize that china is not our ally? They are a hostile nation that hides their true intentions. Is America really this ignorant and dumb? We better start becoming more self-sufficient , or at least have a back-up plan if a war starts with china , becoz more than likely it will sometime in the future, and we are too dependent on china. America is a hypocrite. Its all about the money. China is communist. What happened to the war on communism before?, What makes china special? China is nothing but a land of greedy , nasty, ignorant people and if they could , they will try to buy the U.S…… America= what a joke.