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    2/29/2008

    Special Day, Worth a blog

    Feb. 29th. Next time that I can get such a date stamp will be 4 years later.

    Remind me that I should begin to do my tax.
    2/12/2008

    The Return of the Cold War, presented by China. (What a laugh!)

    It is those cases that when it becomes headline in the media, it is already too late. WSJ posted the news titled

    DOJ: Chinese Espionage Marks Return to Cold War Threats

    I've also pasted some of the readers' comment after the article at the end.

    Isn't it funny? China, a country that rarely behaved aggressively in her 5000 years history(Genghis Khan belongs to a minority group that is not representative of the majority culture in China. Although I personally feel proud that we can boast having people like him), is being criticized and, dare I say, denigrated by some country who just recently tramped Afghanistan and Iraq, and with the possibility of another Republican in the white house, who knows how many other victims in the future. That's some kind of humor that I didn't get.

    Let us not talk about fairness, because we all know that ain't going to happen any time soon, but simply put it this way, acting hostile in the past has never done any good to the U.S. and in the case of relationship with China, I can't see any reason why it would work this time . Please face the fact that the domestic market of US is just not enough to feed its gluttonous appetite for profit and wealth, and it is for your own benefit to keep the way clear to dance with China. At least we are more gullible people (which is to your favor) than the "allies" you used to deal with who has almost stolen your thunder in the past. So, take it easy and just follow the music.

    P.S.: I know the majority of American people are nice and friendly, but please speak up and try not to let the image of U.S. go through mud like this.

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    Courtesy of WSJ and her readers. Abridged from The Wall Street Journal Reader's Comments:

    To all those who thought China wasn’t a threat: we told you so, hahaha. Oh yeah, first.

    Comment by UB2L - February 12, 2008 at 9:11 am

    Does anyone understand why Huawei has developed advanced telecom gear so quickly and sell it so cheaply and why that gear looks so similar to Cisco’s? Companies that purchase Huawei’s highly-discounted products are indirect beneficiaries of the Chinese theft machine.

    Comment by Mr. X - February 12, 2008 at 9:36 am

    “Companies that purchase Huawei’s highly-discounted products are indirect beneficiaries of the Chinese theft machine.”

    Cry me a river! If you’re so sure that’s what they’ve done, go offer to represent Cisco in a patent infringement/trade secret misappropriation/copyright infringement lawsuit against them.

    Comment by Denver Lawyer - February 12, 2008 at 9:44 am

    sure, denver lawyer, we shouldn’t care that our govt isn’t currently holding china to existing trade laws?

    go back to settling divorce actions and equitable divisions of double-wide trailers, and stop pretending to be a real lawyer.

    Comment by g man - February 12, 2008 at 9:51 am

    All it proves is that you prejudged the chinese government. You though they were a threat before this story and now your convinced the Chinese government is hostile. These incidents could just as easily be corporate espionage, there is no evidence of central government involvement whatsoever.

    Comment by ignorant - February 12, 2008 at 9:55 am

    Why to we do any business at all with China - their scum!

    Comment by VPIS - February 12, 2008 at 9:58 am

    I am very concerned that this country is becoming nationalistic again. We are trying to establish a global economy and there are still old school, old money Americans who want the good old 1950s back. I think some of the older though processes in this country need to die out. I am 30 and I am truly tired of living in my grandfathers’s country.

    Comment by distressed - February 12, 2008 at 9:59 am

    When my anger subsided to rational levels after 9/11, and we properly geared up to invade Islamic countries, I worried that we would, by necessity in some respects, take our eye off of China. The People’s Republic is a threat just the same as Islamofascists. In fact, in an actual war, the Red Chinese could inflict much more damage than jihadists, save for a suitcase nuke. Reinstitute the draft, I say. We need Reagan-era strength as the Red Dragon grows. I don’t bask in UB2L’s joy. I fear that we are unprepared for the gathering storm.

    Comment by Addington - February 12, 2008 at 10:01 am

    Spy stories are brought out at a certain time and place not because of the facts of the case but because they serve some purpose in a wider context. If all that mattered was the spying, it would be easy and far more effective to neutralize the spies in place, or quietly eliminate them. My guess is that the wider context here is domestic politics. The people are tired of the latest wars and worried about the economy, and that is undesirable for the war freaks in the government. Their business, too, needs a shot in the arm.

    Comment by Anarcissie - February 12, 2008 at 10:02 am

    2/8/2008

    Super Tuesday and beyond

    In a country like the U.S., it is hard to say that a day like super Tuesday will catch more eyeballs than the Super Bowl, but I am certainly more interested in the first one. This definitely helps me to understand the American people better than I did before. To put it in a simple way--they are much more gullible than we Chinese, in politics, of course.

    Why? I guess that might have something to do with the fact that they have never gone through the ordeal as we did in the past, and therefore still have so many false hopes in new faces in politics, while most of us already take it for granted that a politician can only do what a politician can do. Don't get me wrong. I have nothing against politician. In fact, they are quite respectable and certainly important people in my opinion. After all, we all depend on them to make decisions for us.

    However, what I despise most is when a politician goes all the way out as to suggest that he is the "saint" and "savior" in the race while all the time knows that he is playing a really dirty game. I am by no means saying that Hillary be the perfect candidate for the job, but let's face it, when you elect president, you have to keep in mind that his/her job is to run the country with most competence, not to be prince/princess charming. If "likability" and "believe in God" were able to deceive the country in 2000 and 2004 resulting such painful 8 years for America and the world, I guess "hope and change" can do the same magic and pave the way for another fervent but thoughtless decision that this country has now become so used to.

    At the end of the day, when the hype is cooled down and the dust starts to settle, I am afraid that the only "hope" we can get is to hope for 2012 and the only thing that's almost surely to "change" is Obama himself.

    2/2/2008

    Decision 2008 (sorry, can't help bringing it up)

    I know it is none of my business, but I am in America now, so I have got the ticket to play this game too, as least as a spectator. This is how it feels like when you are auditing a class--free show going on everyday and don't have to suffer the consequence if the grading policy turns out to be brutal.

    My no-reason choice? Hillary.
    My reasonable choice? Obama. May he bring us real "change, future, and hope". There is just so much more unexpected fun to be expected if he get elected, again, from an outsider's point of view. The best novel or drama is never the one with sophisticated professional doing well-calculated moves, but always the one with young and charming ideologist finding his dream crashing to ground when forcing against the hardness of the real world. As one writer used to say, "tragedy is beauty broken into pieces", and that's what every audience loves to see. As human beings, we tend to be carried away when we see the possibility of such a drama in the making, and can't help indulging ourselves into playing a part. Well, I guess that makes sense. After all, if we are only making safe bets, life might be too predictable and stop being interesting.

    Strange but true, I seem to have a better understanding for the life that I have never lived simply from imagination. I have to say that helps to lighten up my days a lot.