Chinese Side of Story, Told in Silences

It seems that the Chinese people live in a bubble that is completely different from American people's bubble.  Here are my thoughts about 2 recent events:

1.   World's animal lovers are understandably outraged by the Yulin Dog Meat Event.  Note however, this "tradition" was a recent addition and its introduction coincided with Mongolian invasion/occupation, when the Chinese culture was nearly massacred and starved into stone age.   Yulin itself is a minority self-government area, for it to represent Chinese people's tradition is like saying:  America starts and ends with Baltimore riots.  Chinese animal lovers increasingly are standing behind their pets and wild animals.  Witness the recent burning of illegal Ivory stash by the Chinese government.  The Chinese people once decide against something clearly cruel , tend to go all way against it.  I talk with my Chinese friends, and the overwhelming majority support a vigorous ban on such cruel "traditions", much like the notorious dolphin hunts by Japanese ships.

Yet, mainstream media never mentions all this background.

2.  A couple weeks ago, US government computer hacking by China dominated the headline with sinister names of "Deep Panda" (by security company, say A).  The latest news is security company B, says: no no, This is not done by Deep Panda.  It's actually done by another player.

Truth is: nobody knows.    Whoever tells you: "we know it's China hacking", he's lying.  The security experts could pretend, but not know for sure.

A couple of days ago, a critical vulnerability "Xara" rocked the Apple world.  Guess who found it?  Someone at Peking University, China working in a team with Americans.   Yet China is left out of all the headlines but buried in text(if mentioned at all).

Why?   Chinese culture tends to be self-deprecating and humble and quiet, encouraging "pregnant pauses" and listening to "silences".   Pregnant pauses are well and good, but the long silences are interpreted universally as "admission of guilt".   Chinese culture of insensitivity and long silences gives its enemies (who wish it to Jericho, if I'm allowed to mix this metaphor) the excuse to demonize China and all things Chinese.   Chinese Americans need to go out and tell their side of the story.

The Most Rewarding Job in China: Jack Ma

Jack Ma, the billionaire founder of Chinese ecommerce giant Alibaba, today claims he want to help more American businesses access the Chinese market.  The Internet let out a collective gasp of disblief.   Could he actually mean it?  Is this a big bad Chinese trick?  

I do not know.  But first consider the following background about Jack Ma and China.
1.  Jack Ma graduated from a relatively obscure Chinese teacher's college in Hangzhou.
2.  The Chinese Confucianism traditionally honors the teacher as the 5th most honored relation, ranked right below Heaven, Earth, Emperor/King, Parents, Teacher (天地君亲师).   This deep respect for the Chinese teachers permeated the Chinese history for 3000 years, even through hundreds of years of enslavement, wars and famines.   Rewards for teachers were institutionalized, similarly the betrayal/murder of a teacher was punished institutionally as regicide, patricide and matricide.
3.  The Chinese Taoism honors the "Genuine man" (真人) as the highest level of wisdom humanly achievable.  Hence the Chinese tradition retains a deep respect for true-speak, rather than the hypocritical double speak that is sadly fairly common in Western media/political circles.
4.  The Chinese tradition suffered a extended and barbaric attack in the years 1894-1945.  American educators and funding helped start the prestigious Tsinghua University and other modern educational institutions in China.  During the 1937-1945 2nd Sino-Japan War (WW II Chinese theatre), America helped fund the mass evacuation of Chinese universities from the Japanese occupied zone into the safer Kuomingtang government zone in Sichuan.   It was one of the greatest evacuation of educational institutions ever attempted.  Most educated Chinese people understood that Americans' help was vital in Chinese culture's survival.  This Great Debt was widely known and acknowledged.  
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yale-China_Association 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Southwestern_Associated_University
5. Generations of Chinese like Jack Ma grew up learning from American ideas and technology.  They respect the Americans of all civilized people, as teachers and as friends and allies.  By extension, American brands engender great goodwill among the Chinese consumers.
6. Jack Ma picked a nickname for himself Feng Qin-Yang 风清扬“, a character from a martial art novel by Jin Yong.  Feng Qin Yang was a teacher and a master of swordsmanship, apparently from the Taoist tradition.  Two other characters from this novel were more famous.  Yue Buqun entered the lexicon of East Asia as the architypical hypocrite, while the protagonist Ling Huchong became a gentle master who does not seek power or supremacy.  Ling Huchong was raised and taught by Yue Buqun for a decade, before their relationship degenerated into suspicion, slander and multiple murder attempts by Yue Buqun.  Faced with clear evidence of his teacher Yue Buqun's dangerous nature, Ling Huchong could barely fight back (in this Ling Huchong was clearly influenced by Confucianism).  Feng Qinyang taught Ling Huchong for only days, yet the trusting bond between the two remained a powerful force throughout Ling Huchong's adventures.   Both Feng Qinyang and Ling Huchong were clearly going the track of "Genuine Man" rather than the opposite, and they are widely admired in Chinese business/political leadership.  

It is extremely hard for the westerners to understand Chinese business/political leadership, but I think martial arts novels, Taoism and Confucianism could have shed a lot of insight.  They exercised a deep influence that I am barely scratching the surface here.


Now back to my original question. 
Is Jack Ma sincere or faking it?  
I will let you reach your own conclusions.

Who wants Bad-China's Bad Jobs? Japan

China are just accelarating job creation in the USA.  Only thing is:  the USA is too racist to want it!   Well these jobs could go elsewhere, maybe Japan will welcome Chinese with open arms.   Wait a minute, isn't Japan's Abe the one crying CHINA-BIG-THREAT?   

China's market is getting more profitable and lucrative. American brands have always enjoyed a premium in the Chinese hearts and minds (due to that little history of WW II, when Americans practically single-handedly-saving-China-from the occupation of a particularly evil neighbor).  

Strange then it is, just at this time, when Japanese lobbyists blanket American media/government with "how evil the Chinese are" message, yet Japan is touting Japanese tourism/trade to the new Chinese middle class. Can't Americans see how beautiful this trick is? Iago never ceases to be amazing.

Abe told his Dear Americans: "everybody hates China and their money. You buy Japanese, we good friend! China bad threatens me, help me to whack China and give me all your jobs so that I could be protected! "

Abe told this to the Chinese: "come buy Japanese goods and give us your money! The Americans, coarse and dumb people, they hate you and are very racists. We are the master race. China, come to me. Together, we will rule the world... "

Whenever Japan's Abe is involved, we could always expect good theatrics and dead bodies all around at the end of this theatre.

Anti-China News Everyday Is Distraction from The Real Heist TPP

There's an anti-Chinese witch hunt going on, probably trying to scare people into hysteria and the base for TPP.  Chinese is in the news everyday for some rocks in the ocean or accusations of spying.

The media never cares if the current best drug for fighting Malaria is a Chinese med Artemisinin discovered from a 2000 year old Chinese recipe; HIV AIDS was conquered when a Chinese American scientist figured out the AIDS cocktail; current most advanced Ebola vaccine is also made in China. For thousands of years, the Chinese have tried to better the humanity and enrich the world through creative arts, science, medicine and philosophy. They do not deserve this periodic hate-fest just because Lady Macbeth feels threatened by their very existence.

The best of science is always open source. The Chinese have contributed their share and will continue to do so. The Americans are being hoodwinked into a siege mentality while the very Lady Macbeth is openly stealing from American workers without a hue and cry.

Case in point: Mitsubishi, notorious abusers of American POWs, are now major supplier of Boeing. Learning enough about aircraft design and building to aunch its own military and civilian aircrafts, directly competing with Boeing. Same Boeing that is pushing TPP through the American congress to please its Lady Macbeth mistress.

Wake up Americans, go out and fight the very real Corporation takeover of your government through TPP.    Support Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders and 250 tech companies coming out against TPP.

Boycott Microsoft and Boeing and Sony and Citibank.  They support TPP and laid off tens of thousands of American/Japanese workers to outsource to countries like Japan and India,  in the process endangering American data and American jobs and even American lives.  Now they are proceeding to sell out all the Americans.

A Toymaking "Chinaman" Answers Mr Bob Beckel

Background:  Fox News host Bob Beckel used a racial slur in a rant about China on 'The Five' July 10th.  "The Chinese are the single biggest threat to the national security of the U.S.," he said. "They have been, they will be and they can wait, they're very patient. Do you know what we just did? As usual, we bring them over here and we teach a bunch of Chinamen -- er, Chinese people -- how to do computers and then they go back to China and hack into us."... He continued: "Doesn’t anybody worry about these people? There’s billions of ‘em. And all they do is hack into our stuff, they send us cheap toys, all of which got lead in ‘em and they’re killing kids.“

Here's a toymaking Chinaman's answer to Mr Beckel.

Ironically as a toymaking ”Chinaman", I agree with Mr Beckel.    We the Chinese did make some cheap toys: like paper, printing press, gunpowder, compass.  During our millenia of
uncivilized isolation, we only by pure accidents managed to send these cheap
toys abroad to enable Western Renaissance, the Religious Reformation, great
navigational discoveries and the age of global conquests.  Some of these
cheap toys even killed people, we wish we could unmake them.   We definitely
should work on them more.

I also agree with Mr Beckel:  America was the birthplace of internet and computers, plus great many other worthier toys, and even some worthy ideas .   For these, the humble toymaking Chinese are deeply indebted to America.  

Mr Beckel's America was also a racist America, that out of all the worlds' people, singled out the Chinese for particular discrimination, legally barring the Chinese from both immigration and interracial marriage.  This semi-genocidal policy effectively erected a great divider between the Chinese and the Americans for three generations, and profoundly damaged America's national interest in the latter half of 20th century.  My earlier post explains this connection more fully.

In the first half of 20th century, the Chinese were betrayed by their former friends of millenia past, invaded, brutalized, murdered by the millions.  Their collective trauma was so extensive,  that many Chinese learned not to trust modernity and friendship.  Yet, the Chinese never forgot our American friends and allies in our dire need either.   Some Chinese still trusted in America, honoring America by becoming Americans, honoring America's principles as ambassadors of peace and equality, like Millie Vautrin and Robert O Wilson did in 1937 during the most trying circumstances.

These Chinese Americans have many faults, but shrinking from a challenge is never one of them.    In his own way, Mr Beckel is handing them a challenge: "Make Mr Beckel the last China-hating racist on media".     By rising to this challenge, they contribute to America's future, fortify America's peace and honor their Chinese heritage, toys and all.

Anti-China Bias in Media (11)

URL: http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/obamas-asia-rebalance-turns-into-headache-as-china-japan-relations-spiral-down/2014/01/23/b0a158b8-7f5b-11e3-93c1-0e888170b723_story.html?tid=hpModule_949fa2be-8691-11e2-9d71-f0feafdd1394
Title:  Obama’s Asia rebalance turns into headache as China, Japan relations spiral down


My commentary: Unilateral Japanese ADIZ is ok and even unilateral enlargement is fine.    Chinese ADIZ (with 2 year advance notice to Japan) is suddenly worse than Japanese PM worshipping Yakuzuni.   How biased does Washingtonpost get?

However, actually this piece did hit the danger and hypocrisy of "Rebalance to Asia" aka "Pivot to Asia" head on.   No matter how the administration and the media try to whitewash it, "Rebalance to Asia" =  Containing China's peaceful rise, and is inherently adversarial and antagonistic.    It must be renounced and abandoned for real peace.

How The Chinese Exclusion Act Lost China in 1949

America had a long history of anti-China immigration policy since 1880s.
The Chinese Exclusion Act being a prime example.  Was it just a footnote
of history, or did it carry a serious consequence?

My thesis is the latter.

Due to the Chinese Exclusion Act, between 1880s to 1930s,
few ordinary Chinese had the opportunity to live and
 work in America and China-US exchange were limited to educated elites (many
 thanks to the US inviting and funding China's students in US).  After 1930s
, despite close military alliance between the KMT and the USA, the common
people of China remained deeply ignorant of this far-away friend called the
USA.  

When American pilots (Doolittle raid 1942) landed
in China, the Chinese villagers helped to evacuate the majority to safety.
The common Chinese supported American war effort not
because they knew anything about American character and friendship,
but simply because an enemy of the enemy (Japan) is my friend.
Even without a deep understanding of their friends the Americans, the
common Chinese made enormous sacrifices for the China-US alliance.
250,000 Chinese villagers were murdered by the Japanese
in retaliation for Doolittle Raids alone and in total 20+ million
Chinese perished and innumerable women were raped during the
Japanese occupation.   Most if not all the Chinese's first hand
experience with any foreigner came from their life experience
dealing with the Japanese, a modern people and a courteous people,
who turned out to be mass murderers and rapists.

As a result of this hard lesson in modernity, the common Chinese started
 by being mostly ignorant of Americans, ended up losing trust in both
 humanity and modernity, and could easily be turned against a far-away
unknown friend like the USA.    The Chinese public witnessed the
slow progress of American justice against Japanese war criminals
with bewilderment and incredulity.  In 1946,  the rumored rape of a Chinese girl
by American soldiers triggered massive anti-US demonstrations in China.
Guess who raped many Chinese women?  The Japanese.
The Chinese people were jumpy and angry and still suffered from PTSD of
Japanese occupation, and they did not have enough interaction with Americans to
convince them that Americans were that much different from the Japanese,
both being foreigners, courteous and modern.

In 1943, the Chinese Exclusion Act was repealed.   But the repeal came too little,
too late.  The vast gulfs separating two people, artificially created by an unjust law,
had already done its damage.   By 1949, the common people of China turned
 away from the KMT, America and the world, they turned inward and towards
the Marxists' doctrines in hopes of  salving their incredible suffering under
 the Japanese occupation.

This is how the world works in strange and unexpected ways.   This is how
 the Chinese-Exclusion-Act (1882) indirectly contributed to China's
anti-America policy between 1949-1976.

Back to today, vast overwhelming majority of Americans were good people and
are still good people, trying to make peace and make friends.  So are the
vast majority of Chinese.   I do not think there's a conspiracy against
Chinese Americans.

But the current foreign policy "Pivot to Asia" is as close to an anti-China
"conspiracy" as tainting the entire Obama Administration
and casting the American role of traditional peace maker in East Asia
into a very suspicious and un-peace-loving light.

This anti-China foreign policy must be renounced and abandoned.   It
jeopardizes America's interest and if allowed to continue could escalate
tensions on East Asia and embroil America in a conflict that neither China
and America want.

China and US have worked together before, and must continue to work together
for world peace for as long as humans live.   There is no turning back, there is
 no turning inward.   We must build bridges and build trust and build peace
together.   In order to do that, the USA needs to drop the hidden dagger and
approach China in peace, and ask for trust again.   True bridge of trust must
be built between two people,  a bridge once weakened and corroded by the
unjust Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, but is absolutely necessary for future peace.