When a kid second guess his elders...

http://acc6.its.brooklyn.cuny.edu/~phalsall/texts/chinprss.html

I refer to the above article. It is an old article, dated in 1994. Yet I think the unfounded fears (and childishness) that reeks from this article still applies today. (I am honored as an over-sea chinese that we featured in this alleged chinese threat. I doubt our brothers in the mainland hold us as high a regard.)

I wished to highlight the closing paragraph:

''Any major power will eventually act as a major power,'' said Leo Suryadinata, an Indonesian-Chinese political scientist and author at Singapore's National University. ''The only real question is whether Chinese expansionism will take the form of troops and territorial ambitions -- or economy and culture.''

Excuse me? This question has been answered a long time ago. Chinese has almost 2000 years of imperial management experience and all teachings tell us that foreign military intervetion ALWAYS spell disaster. (Some countries obviously never learn that lesson... I know people HATE to be patronized by Chinese, but I am telling the truth when I say chinese are the most experienced imperial beauracrats in the world, and any aspiring empire should learn a lesson or two.) Chinese are not even particular kin in expanding its culture. We are only interested in getting the next meal, and fulfilling it, the next new toy. Seriously.

The delusional American

Defense chief rebukes Putin's tough talk

Read the above article. One paragraph that particularly ires me is this:

Gates also said that prisoner abuse scandals in Iraq and Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and other mistakes have damaged America's reputation. It will take work, he said, to prove that the U.S. still is a force for good in the world.

While he did not mention the war in Iraq, Gates told officials at the security conference that Washington must do a better job of explaining its policies and actions.

For the past century, he said, most people believed that "while we might from time to time do something stupid, that we were a force for good in the world."

Many continue to believe that, Gates said. But, he added, "I think we also have made some mistakes and have not presented our case as well as we might in many instances. I think we have to work on that."


Mr Gates, why not start by dismantling the US arsenal of nuclear weapons? At risk of being called anti-american, I would venture that the US has not been a force of good in the world since WWI. I do not deny that there are good Americans, but they are not good nor strong enough to see through and stop their criminal government.

In any case, one very simple fact: It is hard for ANYONE (sane, of course) to believe a country is a force of good in the world when her military budget is equivalent to the rest of the world combine.