American Media should Indeed Report on This Guy

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Saturday January 23, 2010 · 6:38 PM PST

2010/01/23 · 18:38

This is a story about an American young man who fell in love with a Chinese lady. After several years, the lady was paralyzed in an accident. The American, who is not rich, has not deserted her, but has tried very hard to make money in order to cure her. He went through substantial hardship and the lady is now getting much better.

This is indeed one of the most touching love stories I have ever read. It is real, not a fiction!

Hopefully, American media would be interested in stories of this kind. We should try to lend him a hand.

The Chinese version of this story is attached below.

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Friday November 06, 2009 · 5:28 AM PST

2009/11/06 · 05:28

A sentence in news reports about Fort Hood shootings is revealing.

"Officers raided the apartment of the soldier suspected in the shootings at Fort Hood, Texas, early Friday, searching for clues as to what caused the military psychiatrist to allegedly gun down soldiers he had taken an oath to help, a police spokeswoman said."

The above sentence demonstrates one typical response when things of this kind occur, puzzlement: we Americans are so nice, why would anyone treat us in such a nasty way?

Most Americans indeed are pretty nice and I deplore the loss of lives due to terrorist attacks. But why every now and then, someone did try to target especially Americans in such attacks? I condemn terrorists, but let us try to explore one possible cause behind their irrational behavior.

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Saturday January 24, 2009 · 8:12 PM PST

2009/01/24 · 20:12

I have been writing blogs in both Chinese and English and I wish here to make a comparison between the two.

Anonymous Comments: Chinese blogs allow anonymous comments and Chinese internet users strongly oppose the idea of banning anonymous comments. Chinese people wish to express their opinions on a lot of sensitive or non-sensitive issues and they do not want to bring trouble upon themselves because of exercising their free speech rights. It seems that no internet sites in the US allow anonymous comments.

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Tuesday January 20, 2009 · 10:50 AM PST

2009/01/20 · 10:50

Many people around the world have long wondered whether America’s beacon still burns bright. Finally, President-elect Obama gave us an emphatic YES. But as mentioned in my first blog diary, I honestly doubt whether American people would be able to make it.

I sometimes thought that America’s beacon was dimmer than, perhaps, Hong Kong’s. Let me mention a case in Hong Kong.

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Sunday January 18, 2009 · 10:13 PM PST

2009/01/18 · 22:13

When I arrived in this land in the mid-1990s, a heated debate was going on regarding U.S.-China relations: engagement or containment. As a Chinese studying in the U.S., I had been a great admirer of the U.S., I loved the country where I was from – China, and I also treasured universal values such as peace, cooperation, brotherhood, and mutual understanding.

I understood that there were a lot of Chinese who were very pro-U.S. Consequently, I wished in my dissertation to objectively discuss the Chinese attitude toward the U.S., including the deep reservoir of goodwill in China toward the U.S.

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Friday January 16, 2009 · 12:24 AM PST

2009/01/16 · 00:24

It has been a story consisting of many episodes. In September 1994, I was admitted into a university as a university fellow, which guaranteed four years of financial aid from either the university or the department. As the department had the policy of granting at least five years of financial aid to a student in the Ph. D. program, the admission basically guaranteed five years of financial aid to me.

In the first year, I was doing fine. After the departmental evaluations of first year graduate students in 1995, one professor commented that everything would be fine for me in future, including funding for subsequent years and a good job after graduation.

But my situation abruptly changed shortly afterwards. In early 1996 students in my class were to submit a career plan. I included one or two sentences there to the effect that the media in this country were lopsidedly negative about China (which was the case then but not now) and that a more balanced approach would serve the U.S.’s interest better. Largely because of such a statement, some professors gave me extremely negative evaluations and tried to terminate my academic career.

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Thursday January 15, 2009 · 12:29 AM PST

2009/01/15 · 00:29

I have long believed that the U.S. owes me an apology. In accordance with the advice of an ACLU official, I tried to have this issue resolved by a university where I studied, but the university deliberated for a long time and finally declined handling my complaint. I have contacted quite a few attorneys, endeavoring to bring the case to the court, but similarly to little avail. After sustained efforts over a decade, I decided to write a blog in Chinese. I wish to see according to the Chinese sense of justice whether my complaint was justifiable. It turns out that an overwhelming majority of Chinese readers believe that I was in the right. Well, I am a Chinese and a permanent resident of the U.S., once pursuing my Ph.D. in an American university. I intend now to write a blog in English, and I also wish to see whether readers in the U.S. would find my claim legitimate. All too likely, nationalism might interfere with one’s sense of justice, but it would be in the interest of the U.S. and the world to let justice be done. Moreover, many American courts and attorneys also believe that justice should be done even though the heavens fall (Fiat justitia ruat caelum). Well, not even a piece of the heavens would fall because of this case anyway.

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