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SCARY TIMES?

Worst case scenarios: India and Pakistan engage in a 4th war but this time one or both use their nuclear arsenal. With prevailing easterly winds in the south, the resulting radioactive mushroom cloud would sweep across southern China. The fallout would kill or sicken hundreds of millions of innocent Chinese people.

North Korea drops a nuclear [...]

Dali Lama: Deity or Devil?

The west perceives the Dali Lama as a deity, the 14th spiritual leader of Tibet. China views him as a devil, a warlord of sorts.

Is either view correct or are they both extreme?

The west receives the Dali Lama on official state visits, as a spiritual leader akin to the Catholic Pope. [...]

TABOO

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2011/11/05/chinese-premier-wen-jiabao-criticizes-cultural-revolution.html

China’s Leader Breaks a Taboo

Nov 6, 2011 12:00 AM EDT

In a startling break with official custom, Premier Wen Jiabao spoke out publicly last month about how his family suffered during the Cultural Revolution.

On Oct. 25, an audience of 1,500 at Nankai high school in Tianjin turned out to hear the popular Chinese Premier [...]

GENTICALY ALTERED FOOD

GENETICALLY ALTERED FOOD

4 legged and 4 wingged chickens? Are they the future? Is this how KFC will reduce production costs and increase profits?

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GADDAFI

He governed Libya with an iron fist for more than 40 years.
He held the world hostage to terrorism for more than 40 years.
He ordered the Lockerbie bombing of an airborne airplane.
He appointed his sons to the most important government positions.
He stole the peoples’ money and squandered it on a lavish lifestyle.
He entertained dignitaries from around [...]

Pakistan

Back in the 1960’s our junior high school political science teacher taught us that Pakistan invented international terrorism, trained international terrorists, financed international terrorism, exported international terrorism and gave safe haven to international terrorists.

I grew up believing that Pakistan was an enemy of the USA.

Imagine my surprise when after 9/11 the US Government announced a [...]

BURN THE KORAN?

A lunatic fringe “Christian” pastor in Florida held a mock trial, judged the Muslim’s Holy Book, The Koran, to be evil, and then burned it. This person belongs in a hospital for mentally ill people. The Christian Bible (Holy Book) says DO NOT JUDGE LEST YE BE JUDGED.” The so called Christian pastor is a [...]

“News” or “news”

During the last week of January 2011 I was surprised to see a public service announcement on CTTV 9, extolling the need to protect intellectual property. This is the first such announcement I have ever seen on any Chinese TV channel in the past 10 years. I have been promoting a public education project to [...]

TAIWAN (Formosa)

Taiwan

When I commenced teaching business in Wuhan, China in 2002, all the new foreign teachers were subjected to an orientation by the Wuhan Public Security Bureau. We were informed that we were precluded from discussing Taiwan, Tibet or Religion with Chinese people, in or out of our classrooms. Having great respect for the rule of [...]

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