Words don't mean much, while America continues to plot selling
arms to Taiwan, and just this week President O met in the White House
with diehards sworn to bring down and abolish the form of
government authorized by the Chinese Constitution.
There is no question in any Chinese's mind that
America is still trying everything to subvert China.
Reader-commenter Zjubajie, Hong Kong,
responding to a New York Times story about
Secretary of State Clinton's address about China
It is a wrong policy not to contain China.
Reader-commenter Kodali, Virginia
Excerpts from George Washington's Farewell Address, 1796
"Observe good faith and justice towards all nations; cultivate peace and harmony with all...- It will be worthy of a free, enlightened, and at no distant period, a great nation, to give to mankind the magnanimous and too novel example of a people always guided by an exalted justice and benevolence. Who can doubt that, in the course of time and things, the fruits of such a plan would richly repay any temporary advantages which might be lost by a steady adherence to it? "
"In the execution of such a plan, nothing is more essential than that permanent, inveterate antipathies against particular nations, and passionate attachments for others, should be excluded; and that, in place of them, just and amicable feelings towards all should be cultivated."
"The great rule of conduct for us in regard to foreign nations is in extending our commercial relations, to have with them as little political connection as possible."
"Our detached and distant situation invites and enables us to pursue a different course. If we remain one people under an efficient government. the period is not far off when we may defy material injury from external annoyance... Why forego the advantages of so peculiar a situation? Why quit our own to stand upon foreign ground? Why, by interweaving our destiny with that of any part of Europe, entangle our peace and prosperity in the toils of European ambition, rivalship, interest, humor or caprice?
Dear reader-commenter Zjubajie: In 1944, my father flew more than 100 supply missions from India to China. Many of his pilot-friends gave their lives to help China.