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I was shouted “Go back to China”

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I was shouted “Go back to China”

 By Dr. Chao Wu, Clarksville, chaowu2016@gmail.com

On Monday, March 20th 2017, I submitted this article to Columbia Flier ( Howard County Times) for publication. Since it was not published by them in two weeks, I am sharing here now.

Recently, several incidents of Indian, Chinese, Sikh Americans being murdered occurred around country. It is a sad reality we are facing and it is challenging us to unite our diverse community.

As a Chinese immigrant, I have experienced racism first hand when I was studying at University of Maryland, College Park. One spring day in 2007, while I was riding my bike to school on Adelphi Road, Hyattsville, I was yelled at “go back to China” and more than ten school girls (little and not too little) threw stones at me. I was scared but brave enough at the time to shout back: “How do you know I am from China”?  That was my first encounter with blatant racism.  Later my friends and coworkers told me that I should never argue with them because they may have guns with them.

What did I do? I told my colleagues and friends about this incident, then quit riding to school. I studied hard and worked hard. Life moves on. I am now living in one of the best counties, raising a family and serving the community.

History will repeat itself unless we are vigilant. I am well read about the history of the Chinese Exclusion Act and Japanese internment camps. I also understand the difficulties that many new immigrants are facing because I am one of them.  At the same time, we should be careful not to call all accidents as racism which will negatively dilute the message and not help facilitate discussions. Issue based discussions are much easier to start and can actually result in something useful since people will fight to the death about religion and ideology.

Furthermore, we should not just pander history, which unfortunately is very complicated, and sometimes very cruel. Instead, we should focus on thinking forward – on how to provide better education, create more jobs, and how to build a harmonious community.

Denouncement of White Nationalist Poster in UMD

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The accident happens unfortunately at UMD where I spent and enjoyed much time there. See the link and picture:

White nationalist posters found in at least 4 UMD locations Monday

Maryland Chinese American Network (MD-CAN) Statement on University of Maryland White Nationalist Posters

March 21, 2017

Maryland Chinese American Network (MD-CAN), a nonpartisan, issue based community advocacy group denounces the content of the white nationalist posters found in University of Maryland at College Park campus on March 13, 2017.  It is against MD-CAN’s devotion to a diverse and inclusive Maryland.

We fully support President Wallace D. Loh’s statement on March 14 and University of Maryland Police Department’s diligent follow up action.  While understanding the freedom of speech right, we consider these posters offensive and abhorrent.

MD-CAN commits to working with the community in making sure students, including international students, feel safe and welcome on campus in State of Maryland and our great country, the United States of America.

Sherry Chen’s Fighting for Fairness and Justice

http://www.sherrychendefensefund.org/mspb-hearing-sherry-chen-vs-doc.html

Sherry Chen’s Upcoming MSPB Hearing: Fighting for Fairness and Justice for Herself & the Community

WASHINGTON, March 2, 2017 /PR Newswire/ — The Merit Systems Protection Board will hold a public hearing on Sherry Chen’s appeal in the U.S. Court House, Cincinnati, Ohio on March 14-15.

Sherry Chen was an award-winning hydrologist at the National Weather Service.  For over a decade, she worked tirelessly on developing flood prediction models to save lives and properties throughout the Ohio Valley.  However, in 2014 her valuable work was halted when she was wrongfully charged by the government for spying for China.

The New York Times broke the story about Sherry Chen (http://nyti.ms/1J3RKSe) and its editorial board demanded an apology from the government.  CBS’s 60 Minutes broadcasted her and Professor Xiaoxing Xi’s story as “Collateral Damage” (http://cbsn.ws/1Nvsii1).  Congressional members, the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights and thousands of community organizations and individuals requested the Department of Justice to explain the pattern of investigating and prosecuting innocent Chinese American scientists.

Then government abruptly dropped Sherry Chen’s case without explanation, apparently due to lack of credible facts and criminal intent.  However, she was wrongfully terminated from her job by the Department of Commerce for the same unfounded justifications.

The Chinese Exclusion Act and the internment of Japanese Americans have been among the most racist and discriminatory actions against Asian Americans.  Targeting an individual and then finding a crime to fit devastates the person and the entire community, violating the civil liberties all Americans value.

Dr. Jeremy Wu, Trustee of the Sherry Chen Legal Defense Fund, commented, “we must heal these wounds by voicing our concerns and fighting for fairness and justice to protect innocent people.  To help Sherry Chen is to help ourselves.”

Sherry Chen is continuing her fight – for fairness and justice – not just for herself but also the future generations of Asian Americans.  Join this cause and support by

  • Sharing Sherry Chen’s story to your friends and colleagues: Click to Tweet
  • Attending and reporting on the public hearing:

           http://www.sherrychendefensefund.org/mspb-hearing-sherry-chen-vs-doc.html

  • Donating to the Sherry Chen Legal Defense Fund:

          http://www.sherrychendefensefund.org/donate.html

About the Sherry Chen Legal Defense Fund
The Sherry Chen Legal Defense Fund was created in 2015 to receive donations and support Sherry Chen’s continuing fight to defend herself and seek fairness and justice for the broader community.  Visit http://www.sherrychendefensefund.org to learn more.

Media Contact:
Jeremy Wu, Ph.D.
Trustee, Sherry Chen Legal Defense Fund
Dfundschen2016@gmail.com

Support for Garmin Victims

I used to work at Garmin for a short period of time. I really enjoyed the work environment ,my team, and the middle of the country there. I heard the tragedy there and feel really sad about the status of the country.  We should unite and make the country better.

CHINESE AMERICAN COMMUNITY SUPPORTS THE CALL BY SOUTH ASIAN AMERICAN COMMUNITY FOR FULL INVESTIGATION OF OLATHE, KS SHOOTING
(FINAL)

The Chinese Community expresses its deepest condolences to Srinivas Kuchibhotla and his family, and its sympathy to Alok Madasani for the violent crime committed against them by suspect Adam Purinton in Olathe, Kansas. We also praised Ian Grillotan, a true American hero, who risked his life to protect others.

The shooting is now under federal and local investigation as a possible hate crime against two immigrants from India. It reminds the Chinese American community of the bitter memories of the 1982 killing of Vincent Jen Chin in the suburb of Detroit. Chin was mistaken as Japanese and was beaten to death by a Chrysler plant superintendent and his stepson. The killers were convicted of manslaughter through plea bargain, and served no jail time, with 3 year probation and $3,000 fine and were cleared of all federal civil rights charges.

Facing the increasing racial tension, hostility, and senseless killings of Asian Americans and other minorities, the Chinese American community supports the call by the South Asian American community for a full investigation of the Kansas shooting. We also urge the federal and local authorities to condemn the hate crime if it is proven to be the case.

The Chinese American community shall, as always, stand in solidarity with our brothers and sisters from every Asian American community. Together, we shall work with the government to confront the rising hatred and divisiveness across the country.

Inhumane and unbelievable of US visa application

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I am trying to ask our elected officials to help with a visa application for a family whose son was brutally murmured in Bowie, Maryland. The victim’s family want to attended their son’s funeral and the US consular denied their visa application. Just read how the visa application was denied in five seconds, the process sometimes is inhumane and unbelievable wrong.

Our state senate Susan Lee called me back and offered to help. I really appreciate her effort.

Dear our elected Asian American Caucus,

(Their email is aapicaucus@senate.state.md.us)

We need your urgent help for a visa application.

There was a triple murder in Bowie, Maryland in January. The news is here:

http://wtop.com/prince-georges-county/2017/01/police-id-3-victims-in-homicide-at-bowie-restaurant/

I just heard that the victim’s family members of Mr. Jin Chen in China applied for visa to attend the funeral in Maryland and were denied the visa. They were thinking of applying for the visa again on this Friday (Feb 24) at the US consular at Guangzhou, China. It was reported that Chen’s family member was asked a question whether Mr. Chen was married.  After the family member replied with a “yes”, then the visa application was denied immediately. I just could not think of a situation like this. A visa to attend a family funeral in a terrible murder case was denied without any sound reasons.

 

Can any of you do something to help their family members to get a visa? You can write to the state department and the US consular at Guangzhou, China to express your support to grant a visa to Mr. Chen’s family member.  Such kind of letters usually help.

Thank you very much.

Dr. Chao Wu

A resident from Howard County, Maryland

Grandpa Jiansheng Chen’s killer was charged finally and questions on HOA security service

FROM NBC news: Johnathan Cromwell was charged with second-degree murder and use of a firearm in the commission of murder in the Jan. 26 shooting of Jiansheng Chen, Commonwealth Attorney Nancy G. Parr said in a statement.

Ref: http://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/security-guard-charged-fatal-shooting-grandfather-n722156

The process was very confusing to many people. While the victim’s family could not even get the killer’s name for three weeks, the company’s attorney was all over the news that the killing was justified. Sure, that is their PR tactics.

Looking at indeed, https://www.indeed.com/cmp/Citywide-Protection-Services/reviews, this company has a really low ratings from its own employee (2.3 out of 5).

A larger issue was shared from this post: “How security service is provided for many HOA? “. Their residents should be clear on the policy.

Questions abound over Citywide Protection Services shooting at Riverwalk HOA (VA)

Questions abound over Citywide Protection Services shooting at Riverwalk HOA (VA)

Their grandfather is my grandfather

大家好，

最近Chesapeake， VA的一位华人大爷惨遭保安杀害，见报道：

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/60-year-old-grandfather-killed-security-guard-while-playing-pokemon-n715311

我们希望我们社区的华人们同心协力，都留心一点，关注我们的上一辈的安全。他们的父母，也是我们的父母；他们的安全，也是我们的安全。我第一次看到陈先生庆祝六十岁生日的照片的笑容，都紧不住流泪了。
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你的父母来美国和你同住过吗？他们英语交流能力是不是非常有限？他们外出你担心吗？

1月26日，也就是腊月二十九的晚上，维吉尼亚州Chesapeake市60岁的福建籍华人陈建生老先生，晚上11点左右，将车停在离自己家不到半迈远的小区俱乐部门前玩手机游戏“口袋精灵（Pokémon Go）”，老人想通过玩游戏增加同孙子、孙女的交流。然而却被小区保安从驾驶座前窗和侧窗的位置，至少开了5到10枪，射击要害部位，导致陈建生当场身亡。

保安是一名保安公司的员工。保安公司和陈老先生居住的小区签有保安合同。合同规定的是unarmed patrol。 陈老先生英语交流能力非常有限。看照片个子不高，体型瘦小，事发时手无寸铁。现在只有保安的一面之词，没有录像，只有另一名保安是目击证人。

如果你居住的小区有保安巡逻，周围有不谙英语的华裔父母来访，请你关注一下保安巡逻合约，是armed patrol or unarmed patrol? 保安和小区居民起争执，有什么样的程序解决争执。我们不希望老人们仅仅因为语言能力，种族，或身体不够强壮就被本该保护他们的保安bully，被无辜伤害。

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CAPA会持续关注这一件事情，给大家沟通。只有通过我们社区的一次次的努力，我们才能更坚强，悲剧才不会重演。

谢谢。

伍超

Immigration and American Values

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Committee of 100 Urges Immigration Policy Consistent with American Values

Contact: Holly Chang, Executive Director
media@committee100.org or 212-371-6565
(New York, NY, January 30, 2017) — The Committee of 100 affirms the greatest ideal of this nation of immigrants: that we welcome all individuals who believe as we do, in freedom and opportunity. As an organization consisting of Chinese Americans, from those who have arrived only recently and then naturalized to join this community, to those whose families came more than a century ago to establish new roots in the new world, we celebrate immigration even as we understand the painful history that affected our ancestors. Chinese Americans in particular, and Asian Americans more generally, have had a defining experience through exclusion and expulsion, before achieving acceptance and equality. Our unique past offers insights for our shared future.

America’s immigrant tradition is not a partisan issue. Many of every political persuasion are themselves proud to be descended from those who came for freedom and liberty. Every nation draws a line between those who are citizens and those who are not. The United States of America, however, does not draw lines based on race or religion. It has extended citizenship over time, regardless of skin color or faith. It has constantly improved itself by doing so. Chinese Americans know this story only too well. We owe it to ourselves to remember the progress we have made.

In 1882, Congress passed the Chinese Exclusion Act. It did so following agitation in California and throughout the country that portrayed Chinese in racial and ethnic terms as “obnoxious” and undesirable. Chinese in America were attacked, including physically, for every vice. They also were attacked for their virtues, said to work so hard as to constitute “unfair competition.” In essence, they were a “yellow peril”, threatening the American way of life. They were turned away and barred from entry.

The Chinese Exclusion Act marked the first time the federal government enacted a ban on a specific community based on their identity. It was later expanded to cover an “Asiatic Barred Zone.” There were only a few exceptions. Even those already here, who had arrived legally, were forbidden from naturalization. They were deemed not to be “free white persons”.

Yet over time, thanks in part to the contributions of the few Chinese immigrants there were, and the alliance between China and the United States, these restrictions were repealed. In 2011 and 2012, the United States Senate and House of Representatives, respectively, passed formal statements of regret for their earlier actions.

They realized that Chinese Americans are patriots. They have succeeded and integrated themselves. In every field of achievement, from science and technology to arts and athletics to business and politics, Chinese Americans are to be found, loyal to this nation, adding to its diversity, and contributing to its distinction. Chinese Americans, like other Americans proud of their ethnic heritage, guarantee America’s paramount position leading and innovating for the world.

Because of that history, we give pause when America considers any public policies akin to the Chinese Exclusion Act to stop immigration from unwelcome countries. We understand the need to protect national security and the ongoing debate about immigration reform. As the nation considers how to define itself, the Committee of 100 urges our leaders to make good on our profound experiment in self-governance that continues to inspire peoples the world over. The best sign of our strength is that others wish to join us. Let us demonstrate that we are the land of the free, and the home of the brave.

Volunteering on 2016 Election Day 

I took half day off from work today and helped to distribute fliers for Howard County Board of Education candidates at Clarksville Middle School from 7:30 to 11:00. I greeted more that 400 people and gave out more than 100 fliers.

It was really nice to talk to many many people. We still believe the power of ballot.It is also my first vote too.

Several observations:

1) People from Virgnia helped on our county’s Ballot A issue. Unbelievable. I talked to two girls from that group.

2) Many people knew who to vote for already.

3) The voting process was very smooth.

4) We had supporters for different candidates. I chatted with all of them. All of us were pretty relaxed.

5) There were more Trump signs than Clinton signs outside the polling station, considering this is a deep blue state and county. One person explained to me: Clinton did not need any of that at all in Maryland. That is true. She even did not campain at Maryland at all.

6) The Apple Ballot is very strong and well organized. It is a very strong political force. It only supported Demcrat unfornately.

Shame on KUOW, Seattle NPR

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This is what KUOW, Seattle ( a NPR member station in Seattle, Washington)  said today: The reason that Chinese Americans support Donald Trump is because they want “bring USA down“.  This is a hateful racial charge.  They interviewed one international student to support their point, even did not bother to interview any one from”WA Chinese American for Trump” group which initiated their original report.

My point is Chinese Americans are Americans. They want US to be strong. They want world peace.  The news station just should not do something like this at all.

What a shame of this station! That is the reason the main media is losing credibility. They should be more careful.

They dare not replace “China” with any other countries in the world(Maybe Russia), but not one African country or European country. For example, it is easy to coin another story titled “xxx American support xxx because they want USA fail and xxx to be strong.” for them if they like.

Please write to them. Their email contacts are: programming@kuow.org, management@kuow.org, cdodge@kuow.org, timie@kuow.org,newsroom@kuow.org

The link is: http://kuow.org/post/trump-has-fans-among-chinese-us-and-abroad

Keep a copy as reference in case they deleted later.
By • 20 hours ago
A study released last month suggested that Asian-American voters including Chinese Americans are gravitating toward the Democratic party and hold unfavorable views of Republican candidate Donald Trump. But Trump has his fans among Chinese people at home and abroad.

You might not expect him to be popular in China or among Chinese-Americans in the U.S., given the candidate's many comments about China draining away American money and jobs. And yet on Friday, an airplane flew over Seattle with the banner, “Washington Chinese Americans for Trump.” One Trump supporter in Los Angeles founded the group, Chinese Americans for Trump. 

John Pomfret, the former Washington Post bureau chief in China, said there’s a lot of pro-Trump talk in China and among Chinese-Americans.

“There’s a very active debate within the American Chinese community, as witnessed by that banner on the airplane that just buzzed your office," he said, "and also within China, on ‘WeChat’ and ‘Weibo,’ two social media platforms which are very popular among Chinese.”

Pomfret said in China, there’s a certain nostalgia for what he terms “the big political man,” a character that Trump inhabits well. And he said, “in China, there’s no love lost for Hillary Clinton. Partially because in a way, Clinton regained her political mojo in China in 1995 during the International Women’s Conference.”

That’s where Clinton pointedly criticized China’s treatment of girls and said, "women's rights are human rights." She’s seen as a hawk on China and an experienced negotiator. Meanwhile Trump’s perceived isolationism would create more room for Chinese leadership to expand. “And so there’s kind of this sense – almost this gleeful sense – that if the Americans elect this guy, China will really be the beneficiary," Pomfret said.

At the University of Washington campus in Seattle, canopies line Red Square with tables for various Asian student groups. One of them is the Chinese Students and Scholars Association, where senior Haoyu Wang is a member. He's majoring in political science and plans to attend law school in the U.S. as well. 

Wang feels some of that glee at the prospect of a Trump presidency. “We don’t like Trump as a person, but we like him as a tool to kind of bring American down," Wang said. 

He said his views aren’t necessarily typical of his peers at UW. Many students he knows, both Asian and non-Asian, are supporting Clinton, who Wang sees as tough and experienced. But Wang wants to make his career in China, and he thinks a Trump victory would be good for his home country, which is already on the rise. 

“We turned the tables," he said. "So more and more of us, international Chinese students, would like to obtain certain knowledge in the United States and try to go back and serve our country.”

But he said, "there's a huge division among Chinese students." Perhaps a third of those students he knows hope to stay on in the U.S. after college. 

Wang said his support for Trump verges on being sarcastic. But his excitement about what the future holds for him in China is quite sincere.

The “art” of debate (This egg tastes really bad)

After the four presidential debates, I recalled an old article which discusses unhealthy debate. It is not my original idea. I just translated from the Internet. It is a good reflection how to “debate”. We probably could find each tactics used by both candidates.

A-1: This egg tastes really bad.

B-1: How much did the other chicken pay you to bad mouth my egg?

A-2: This egg tastes really bad.

B-2: I love the banana so much. I love the milk so much. 

A-3: The egg tastes really bad.

B-3. You can lay a better tasted egg if you are so capable.

A-4: This egg tastes really bad.

B-4: The chicken who laid this egg is a courageous, kind, straight and hard-working chicken. 

A-5: This egg tastes really bad.

B-5: Anyway, it is our chicken who laid this egg. Just for this single fact, you should not say it tasted bad.

A-6: This egg tastes really bad.

B-6: The taste has improved a lot comparing three years ago.

A-7:  This egg tastes really bad.

B-7: You grew up by eating these eggs. How dare you say it tasted bad?

A-8:  This egg tastes really bad.

B-8: What is your horrendous hidden agenda by saying this?

A-9:  This egg tastes really bad.

B-9: It is our own chicken who laid this egg. Are you with us?

A-10: This egg tastes really bad.

B-10: The egg next door even tasted worse. Why didn’t you say that?

A-11: This egg tastes really bad.

B-11: Forgot this egg. You should go to eat the egg next door.

A-12: This egg tastes really bad.

B-12: Duck’s egg tastes better. But that is not our situation now.

A-13: This egg tastes really bad.

B-13:Nonsense. Our egg tastes at least five times better than our neighbor’s egg.

A-14: This egg tastes really bad.

B-14: It takes time for chickens to lay better tasted eggs. It is not time now to eat those better tasted eggs.

A-15: This egg tastes really bad.

B-15: Why complaining? If you have the time to complain, go and work hard to earn some money. You get a life. 

A-16: This egg tastes really bad.

B-16: Your are a really mean spirit person, even complaining a bad tasted egg.

A-17: This egg tastes really bad.

B-17: There is no absolute tasteful egg. May xxx country (China or Russia)  has better eggs. You move there. 

A-18: This egg tastes really bad.

B-18:  Keep quiet! There are may family conflicts because their neighbor’s egg tastes better such that they keep arguing with each other.

A-19: This egg tastes really bad.

B-19: This is an ill-intention inflammation. I will sue you to death. 

A-20: This egg tastes really bad.

B-20: You dare say our egg tasted bad. Who do you support?

A-21: This egg tastes really bad.

B-21: If it is not our government, you will have no eggs to eat, even rotten eggs. You are still nagging all the day.

A-22: This egg tastes really bad.

B-22: Your grandparents ate this. Your parents eat this. How dare you complain it tastes bad?

A-23: This egg tastes really bad.

B-23: Our neighbor’s egg tasted the same. All the eggs in the world tasted similar. There is no egg which tasted good.

A-24: This egg tastes really bad.

B-24: You are egg-phobia. We should love egg. 

A-25: This egg tastes really bad.

B-25: Be careful. This guy’s IP is from Russia or China.

A-26: This egg tastes really bad.

B-26: Go away. You are un-American. You are not welcomed here.

Please add any other A-B in the comment section if you like. Thanks.

 

this-egg-tastes-really-bad

It is difficult to find the original source. One reference is http://bbs.tianya.cn/post-worldlook-1669351-1.shtml.

Washington Post called for prosecution for its own source

I feel it is relevant to HoCo. NSA is sitting there and really close to us.

WashPost Makes History: First Paper to Call for Prosecution of Its Own Source (After Accepting Pulitzer)

Three of the four media outlets that received and published large numbers of secret NSA documents provided by Edward Snowden — The Guardian, the New York Times, and The Intercept –– have called for the U.S. government to allow the NSA whistleblower to return to the U.S. with no charges. That’s the normal course for a news organization, which owes its sources duties of protection, and which — by virtue of accepting the source’s materials and then publishing them — implicitly declares the source’s information to be in the public interest.

In doing so, the Washington Post has achieved an ignominious feat in U.S. media history: the first-ever paper to explicitly editorialize for the criminal prosecution of its own source — one on whose back the paper won and eagerly accepted a Pulitzer Prize for Public Service. But even more staggering than this act of journalistic treachery against the paper’s own source are the claims made to justify it.

US Senate gets older and older

I heard the news that Senate John McCain won his primary and he is more than  80 years old. My impression for John McCain is that there is no war he does not like.

Then I checked around and found the average age for US senators is becoming older and older. The trend starts from 1979. What is happening in the society?

http://online.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/info-CONGRESS_AGES_1009.html

US senate gets older and older

For the current US senate age, please see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_current_United_States_senators_by_age.

Some statistics:

There are eight senators who are over 80 years old, six from Republican and two from Democrat. Even they are old, either Republic or Democratic parties seems worried at all about this aging issue. Since the governors from those states probably belongs to the same party as the senators. If the senate position vacant suddenly, those governors can assign a new senator from the same party.

There are 5% senators served more than 30 years. There are 20% senators who have served more that 18 years, another 10% severs more than 12 years. That is 30% serves more than three terms.

There are 13% senators who just served over a year and half.

US senators more than 18 years

Two senators from Maryland are:

7 Barbara Mikulski Maryland July 20, 1936 January 3, 1987 50 years, 167 days 29 years, 241 days 80 years, 42 days Democratic
19 Ben Cardin Maryland October 5, 1943 January 3, 2007 63 years, 90 days 9 years, 241 days 72 years, 331 days Democratic

#HoCoPolitics

 

NATO and the establishment media

#HoCoPolitics

Just think about NATO and many Americans defend NATO without a hesitation. The problems are that there are so many unknown dangerous factors in so NATO members. A blank check to defend them should not be correct.

Recently Japan picked up a new female defense minister Ms. Inada. See http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2016/08/15/japans-new-outspoken-defense-chief-courts-controversy/88753106/. She also denied the World War II atrocity in China. There was a Contest to Kill more Chinese Using a Sword between two Japanese officers. The winner killed 106 Chinese and the loser killed 105 as shown in the Japanese paper. The story was widely published in Japan newspaper to encourage men to join the Japan Imperial Army.

A history replay:

The Japanese newspaper during World War II reported a competition between two generals in China “Who can kill 100 Chinese and hang their heads first?” as following:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contest_to_kill_100_people_using_a_sword

In 1937, the Osaka Mainichi Shimbun and its sister newspaper the Tokyo Nichi Nichi Shimbun covered a contest between two Japanese officers, Toshiaki Mukai (向井敏明?) and Tsuyoshi Noda (野田毅?), in which the two men were described as vying with one another to be the first to kill 100 people with a sword. The competition supposedly took place en route to Nanking, directly prior to the infamous Nanking Massacre, and was covered in four articles, from November 30 to December 13, 1937, the two last being translated in the Japan Advertiser.

Kill_100Chinese Competition

The Nanjing “Murder Race”, http://humanum.arts.cuhk.edu.hk/NanjingMassacre/NMHT.html

We should ask ourselves :

  1. If this new Japanese defense minister accidentally/secretly attacks China to promote her agenda and China fights back, should US come to defend Japan?
    1. People should not forget Japan attacked US during World War II even US gave an almost free pass for Japan attacking and evading China for quite a long time.
  2. If German chose a World War II atrocity denier as a defense minister, what will happen to the German government?

There are more and broader benefits for a good US-China friendship.  When the US-China relationship is stable, there will be nothing serious happening in the Pacific. However, when some US politicians or newspapers give a false hope to some Asian countries, they will be bold to attack, just like WWII.

 

Dr. Ho Feng Shan, A Chinese diplomat saved thousands of Jewish people

During the World War II, a Chinese diplomat, Dr. Ho Feng Shan, saved thousands of Jews by issuing them visas to Shanghai. He was responsible for saving thousands of Jews in Nazi occupied Austria in 1938 and 1939 while no other country’s diplomat would do that. “Shanghai Ghetto” is a phrase for those dark, but inspiring stories for humanity.

I am wondering whether any of those Jewish people or their children now live in Howard County.  I would like to write a story on that.

Recently, I am thinking of writing some stories about Chinese Americans who have made an impact in the American society. Somebody recommended Dr. Ho Feng Shan to me.

Quote: Why was Feng Shan Ho willing to help the Jews of Austria when most others would not? His reason was simple: “I thought it only natural to feel compassion and to want to help. From the standpoint of humanity, that is the way it should be.” from http://isurvived.org/4Debates/Exhibit-RickshawORG/FengShanHo-bio-Eric.html

Ho Feng Shan: The ‘Chinese Schindler’ who saved thousands of Jews

http://www.cnn.com/2015/07/19/asia/china-jews-schindler-ho-feng-shan/

http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/ho.html

1280px-Ho_Feng_Shan_plaque_(Shanghai_Jewish_Refugees_Museum)

 

 

Break unhealthy partisan fight

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Just read this month’s Fortune’ editorial:”No time for socialists”. It seems not very persuasive. It will be helpful to see why people feel excluded from the system and provide some concrete steps to fix it. Even a small step foward helping to break away from the unhealthy partisan dog fight will change the dynamics. Chinese Ming dynasty died partially because of partisan fight between the king and two other major parties.

Federal money spending in 2015

Got a picture about 2015 total federal spending: 3.8 Trillion. The interest on debt is more than the total of the following:

  1. science, energy& environment, housing& community, transportation,
  2. Education, transportation, housing&community
  3. Food and Agriculture + science + energy
  4. Veteran’s affairs + science + energy
  5. or any other combinations you want to put together.

The interest on debt is the number four spending in the federal spending. This is a huge concern to me

I remember one number very well when I was still a graduate student: “one day of Iraq war costs more than a whole year spending of National Science Foundation”.

2015 total spending