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April 19, 2008
Some comments on Ms. Wang Qianyuan
Hereby we have to question the direction to which the voice should be
heard. We're very fortunate, so is Ms. Wang, to hear different voices
in terms of interpreting double standards. Many friends, again, fall
into the direction of pushing themselves confused the Chinese
government with Chinese citizens ( or in general, Chinese people).
Seriously, it's not my position to judge well-financed, organized
protests representing various single-issue groups that normally do not
even talk with each other or work together. We're not even foreign to
"Free Tibet movement",
Darfur issues, global warming ( or cheap labor) , Burma's
dictatorship, jobless situation in the U.S., the Falun Gong and Taiwan
independence activists, etc. (the weirdest is Manchurians independence
movement), when we're in China, learning mess of information dispersed
all over the Internet. Ms. Wang, unfortunately, moves for a direction
being tortured by unestablished guidelines.
Why the media, as usual, continues pouring fuel onto this unrests? Why
NYT had different sections of opinions published? Why nobody dislikes
same problems in U.S. in terms of invasion of Iraq (or so called Iraq
War), unlawful detention
and mail censorship as endorsed for national security? Do they accept
all those unfairness or intentionally ignore them?
I feel very upset that most Americans or Europeans, even those
educated ones, are not informative of international issues especially
to China, which, finally turn into ignorance, instill fear,racial
hostility, or worse, hatred toward China or Chinese people.
I had confirmed a thought with a few US attorneys, ethnically
speaking, a quarter-native American, AS- American, "Taiwanese
American", and Filipino American, that they treat (believe) China as a
(potential) post-Cold War opponent to U.S. (let alone the lagged
European economy). They have fears on a united China when they think
about this fragmented world or ethnic disparities all around --
thinking about the size of China's population, economy scale and
military capacities. They have
fears (concerns) on China's reaching out to Middle-East, the Africa,
the S. America and most seriously, the reality that more and more "new
Chinese" immigrate to U.S. and Europe. Seriously, I was shocked by
such candid and bold confirmation as hopefully, we, our friends or
colleagues will become the leaders of or dominant powers on this planet
in 20 years. This voice should be heard, as well as Ms. Wang's words
as a "moderator."
True believers of democracy would view Olympics as an opportunity to
attract more and more different voices to China and more visitors to China to
learn about what is going on with this largest emerging economy and
giant country, and ferment the sense of change or nurture freedom of
all kinds with various groups IN China. I have not seen, ever never,
any event like Olympics could make Chinese that dedicated and
collectively mobilized (as we have not had hard experience on Cultural
Revolution).
U.S. and China, like many countries in the world, is flawless. U.S.
still has problems on handling treatment to minorities such as Native
Americans, African-Americans, Latinos, Chinese-Americans and others as
committed in the Constitution. China has yet to learn how to equally
take care of its minorities -- such as Tibetans, Uighurs, Muslims,
Hmongs -- as equal to Han Chinese.
I am against any anti-free-speech and anti-legitimate-protests against
biase including mistakes central Chinese government has suffered.
However, I am more opposed to taking the Olympics to demonize China
and, mostly, its people by using disruptive, confrontational, and
violent tactics. Stop insulting and blackmailing (fist in air?:))))
Neither of us likes the set-backs of openness and development of
China, where our beloved families, relatives and friends are happily
residing. Wang made a mistake, which however, is curable and
tolerable.
Posted by google at April 19, 2008 05:02 PM