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7 Dec 2010
by Admin
Will It be the Second
Korean War or the Third Opium War?
On
24 November, just one day after the
exchange of artillery shelling between
two Koreans, a border conflict
provoked by the South by entering a
disputed territory and opening fire in
the water, the Obama administration immediately moved to
exploit the situation by escalating the
tensions further.
On
26 November, just two days after Obama
announced to send nuclear-powered
aircraft carrier Washington along with
five warships to the Yellow Sea to play war games in
China’s front gate, Obama’s
genetically-powered crop-seeds carrier Monsanto along with
Beachell-Borlaug International Scholars
Program entered Chinese Academy of
Agricultural Sciences in Wuhan and handed
cheques to 25 Chinese students pursuing
Ph.D.s in GM wheat and rice breeding.
The
deputy chief of the CASS Liu Xu was
terribly grateful for US GM businessmen’s
generosity and promised to hold more GM
summit meetings, to carry out more joint
research projects, to establish more
shared laboratories and to scale up full
collaborations between American GM
company and Chinese GM players with a
collective business objective which is to
force-feed 1.3 billion Chinese with GM
rice, and beyond. By “beyond”, it
means to achieve an ultimate goal of
feeding GM crops to the world-wide
population. In so doing, Monsanto will be
the god to control everybody’s food,
and the life, and with the help of their
Chinese collaborators, like deputy chief
Liu Xu, like Professor Zachary Burton’s
watchdog Shi-min Fang, the most fanatic
promoter of GM food in China. (Please
refer to the news on CAAS official
website: 颁奖仪式上，刘旭向获奖同学表示祝贺，向孟山都公司在推动双方合作过程中所作的贡献表示感谢。刘旭介绍了孟山都公司与农科院的交流合作情况，希望通过开展科学家峰会、联合开展合作项目、建立联合实验室等多层次、多形式的合作模式促进双方的全面合作。他鼓励广大学生努力学习，牢固掌握专业技能，为将来走向社会做好准备，为推动我国乃至世界农业科技的发展作出贡献。--中国农业科学院研究生院
).(From now on, there is no
more use for any Chinese GM players –
in laboratory or in office – to play
innocent regarding China GM research's
close association with Monsanto)
On
28 November, just two days after US
Monsanto brought GM rice related cheques
to China’s Academy, US troops brought
nuclear-powered aircraft carrier and
related warships to China’s front yard,
and fired, and bombed, and are still
firing and still bombing, and threaded
Chinese, alleged by South Korean media,
that if China dares to fight back (go to
the war), US will make China go back 100
years.
It
is said that South Korean President Lee Myung-bak has
prepared to sacrifice 100,000 South
Korean lives to unite two Koreas by
force.
If
history is any guide, 60 years ago,
another South Korean president Lee had
already put this war-business plan into
practice but ended up with American troops
experiencing a spectacular defeat first
time in its military record.
And
if surveys produced by South Korean
authority could also be any guide, we do
have one conducted by it just shortly
before the military conflict on the
peninsula.
The
study questioned 2,400 primary and high
school students in South Korea, China, Japan and United States in
terms how proud they feel of their
country. China scores the highest with
84.2 percent responded positively while
South Korea and Japan are at the bottom,
with only 62.9% and 55.3% giving a
positive hint. When inquired how willing
they are to fight for their country,
again, Chinese youths top the charts with 74.8
percent replied yes, while among the
American youths, more than half declined
to help their country (only 49.7% said
they will). The situations are not any
more promising in South Korean and Japan,
with only 56.3 and 29.3 said yes
respectively.
In
1950, General Douglas MacArthur’s promise of “home by
Christmas” ruined not only his next 14
Christmases but the myth of US military
invincibility. In 2010, a former US
commander’s vow to make China go back
100 years may result America itself
slipping back 500 years to a
pre-White-colonial era when native Indians freely lived on their own
land.
But
hang on! We may need to think again over
the whole scenario. And again, if history
is any guide, 60x3-10 years ago, Mr Obama’s
maternal ancestors in Britain sent
gunboats to fire at China’s water gate
as a measure of military support for
British businessmen inside China selling
opium to Chinese with the help of
corrupted local scholar-officials.
Is
history really a guide?
Will
the next military confrontation between
China and the United States be the second
Korean War or the third Opium War?
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