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My Turn: China a great power that can be trusted
By Kenneth Beilstein / My Turn | Monday, August 19, 2019, 12:05 a.m.

Your publication of Mr. Greg Gerard’s letter on Aug. 17 (China: A worrisome partner) marks a new low for WHT editorial standards. Why not use the incendiary headlines of a century ago: Chinese – Need Not Apply?

The descriptions of China contained in the letter — aggressive, hostile, can’t be trusted — are the views of someone who knows nothing of China. Views based on irrational fears and intolerance.

I have lived and worked in China for much of my adult life. A few facts about China to set the record straight:

1. China is a great power. The restoration of its dominance in East Asia was inevitable. Geography dictates its dominance and assertion of its national interests.

2. Hong Kong is China. It is an SAR — a special administrative region — but it is China. Interference by anyone or any other country in Hong Kong is a violation of Chinese sovereignty. The current demonstrations in Hong Kong are largely based on the unique economic realities of Hong Kong. It is an over-crowded city. Housing costs are astronomical. The western media tries to portray the Hong Kong demonstrations as focused exclusively on civil liberties, but that is just a very small part of the picture.

The main issue is affordable housing, especially for young Hong Kong people.

3. The TMT telescope is an astronomical observatory. It cannot be used for terrestrial observations — no matter how high it is placed on Maunakea. Satellites can, and are, used for terrestrial observation; land-based observatories cannot be.

4. The observations of the TMT and most other telescopes are glimpses into the history of our universe. Astronomers are looking at events which happened years ago — for nearby stars. Millions of years ago for events in other galaxies. Very little, if anything is being viewed in real time. Almost everything the astronomers see happened light-years ago.

The idea that China is a worrisome partner in the TMT is just ludicrous. China, Canada, Japan and India are all valuable partners.

The success of China is unique in the history of our planet — 500 million people raised from the depths of poverty to a middle class standard of living in a generation. Not everything China does is successful and there is much more to be done.

However, China is not aggressive or hostile. And China can be trusted — once we accept that China has legitimate national interests. Every great power has national interests and China is a great power.
https://www.westhawaiitoday.com/2019/08/19/opinion/my-turn-china-a-great-power-that-can-be-trusted/
 
Reading the history of China, we can understand Chinese today.

Chinese civilization has been destroyed and rebuilds multiple times, because of politics, and invasions.

The destructive was massive.

I think to compare with other nations, Chinese is the most understand about the darkness of politics.

Peace, stability, and harmony are the most precious thing in the world.
 
Reading the history of China, we can understand Chinese today.

Chinese civilization has been destroyed and rebuilds multiple times, because of politics, and invasions.

The destructive was massive.

I think to compare with other nations, Chinese is the most understand about the darkness of politics.

Peace, stability, and harmony are the most precious thing in the world.

The hallmarks of a learned and progressive civilisation.
 
The rise of China was inevitable, and many of these so called Western Experts on China belong to the same category of Western Experts on Pakistan. They are a slave to their own biases and inabilities to get over them. I still remember the western views before the Olympics were held in China.

These people also understand little to nothing about Chinese history, given that Mao's policies did had an adverse affect on the social fabric of Chinese society, but I would argue that the subjugation of past 2 centuries before formation of Peoples Republic laid the seeds for that. They also fail to understand the Chinese idea of self reliance and how the people of China remembers century of Humiliation and subjugation, instead of running away from that dark period, it is something kept very fresh in its memory, so it is never allowed to repeat.

China is one of the powers that rarely interferes in domestic issues of other nations, one can disagree with Chinese way of doing business but at the end of the day Chinese still are far better to renegotiate any deal. Both Greeks and Malaysians can attest to that. The west is also up in arms regarding One Belt One Road initiative and rarely lets a chance slip by to pounce and underscore it, labelling it as a non-starter and a failure, looks like its a sign of worry instead.

China is striving to reinvent its economy from top down with Made in China 2025, from manufacturing to high tech industry and domestic consumption, although an ambitious plan but a good step in the right direction.
 
My Turn: China a great power that can be trusted
By Kenneth Beilstein / My Turn | Monday, August 19, 2019, 12:05 a.m.

Your publication of Mr. Greg Gerard’s letter on Aug. 17 (China: A worrisome partner) marks a new low for WHT editorial standards. Why not use the incendiary headlines of a century ago: Chinese – Need Not Apply?

The descriptions of China contained in the letter — aggressive, hostile, can’t be trusted — are the views of someone who knows nothing of China. Views based on irrational fears and intolerance.

I have lived and worked in China for much of my adult life. A few facts about China to set the record straight:

1. China is a great power. The restoration of its dominance in East Asia was inevitable. Geography dictates its dominance and assertion of its national interests.

2. Hong Kong is China. It is an SAR — a special administrative region — but it is China. Interference by anyone or any other country in Hong Kong is a violation of Chinese sovereignty. The current demonstrations in Hong Kong are largely based on the unique economic realities of Hong Kong. It is an over-crowded city. Housing costs are astronomical. The western media tries to portray the Hong Kong demonstrations as focused exclusively on civil liberties, but that is just a very small part of the picture.

The main issue is affordable housing, especially for young Hong Kong people.

3. The TMT telescope is an astronomical observatory. It cannot be used for terrestrial observations — no matter how high it is placed on Maunakea. Satellites can, and are, used for terrestrial observation; land-based observatories cannot be.

4. The observations of the TMT and most other telescopes are glimpses into the history of our universe. Astronomers are looking at events which happened years ago — for nearby stars. Millions of years ago for events in other galaxies. Very little, if anything is being viewed in real time. Almost everything the astronomers see happened light-years ago.

The idea that China is a worrisome partner in the TMT is just ludicrous. China, Canada, Japan and India are all valuable partners.

The success of China is unique in the history of our planet — 500 million people raised from the depths of poverty to a middle class standard of living in a generation. Not everything China does is successful and there is much more to be done.

However, China is not aggressive or hostile. And China can be trusted — once we accept that China has legitimate national interests. Every great power has national interests and China is a great power.
https://www.westhawaiitoday.com/2019/08/19/opinion/my-turn-china-a-great-power-that-can-be-trusted/

If China is able to recognize and analyze how Zionists own and control America, Britain and France. It would realize that these people play very dirty and are masterful in portraying themelves as benevolent, while scheming and plotting behind closed doors. Zionism is the "Parasitic Cancer" that feeds on it's host bodies, namely America, Britain and France. Zionists work under the guise of various identities, be they Christian, Jew, White American, British or French, Australian, New Zealand, Canadian or etc.
 
Ask random Vietnamese. 99 percent will say: joke of the century!

The only thing we can trust is our country’s military might!
 
It's pretty obvious the claims are just made up by Vietnam to claim all those islands which they otherwise have no historical claim.
 
Delusion is good for you. I bet Indonesian navy is even stronger than you in ASEAN.
Whatever you bet on.
Indonesia does not exist when our ships crossed the seas. We have traditionally the strongest navy in the region, with history going back 1,000 years, with battles at sea such as the two decisive battles of Bach Dang.

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some temples that remember of the military leaders.

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Delusion is good for you. I bet Indonesian navy is even stronger than you in ASEAN.
:cheers:

Whatever you bet on.
Indonesia does not exist when our ships crossed the seas. We have traditionally the strongest navy in the region, with history going back 1,000 years, with battles at sea such as the two decisive battles of Bach Dang.

C%E1%BB%8Dc_B%E1%BA%A1ch_%C4%90%E1%BA%B1ng.jpg





some temples that remember of the military leaders.

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Have ever you read majapahit raid viet on 14th century? Hehehe....did ever cross in your mind where those hindu influence in your culture came from? And why your navy never dare to cross malaka strait in any era of historic shipping in south east asia? LOL

Lets be true... Point me overseas historical setlement of viet in strait malaka sumatra or event java, but maybe you'll find some java village or bugis or melayu in your southern tip LOL... Oh boy poor fisherman...please educated yourself
 
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