陈凯通告：3/28 我将就孔学堂在美国国会作证 Kai Chen Announcement: I Will Testify in US Congress

陈凯博客： www.kaichenblog.blogspot.com 陈凯通告：3/28 我将就孔学堂在美国国会作证 Kai Chen Announcement: I Will Testify in US Congress Folks: I will be testifying on the issue of Confucius Institutes/Classrooms at a US Congressional Hearing on March 28, 2012. I am glad finally the Congress is paying attention to this important issue. The hearing is by the Foreign Affairs subcommittee on oversight and investigations will titled "The Price of Public Diplomacy with China" and it is on a broad range of topics involving China's public diplomacy efforts. It will be in Rayburn 2127 at 2:30PM. Hope you will attend and I will keep you all posted.    Best.  Kai Chen

林书豪 vs.姚明 = 自由人vs. 族群人 Jeremy Lin vs. Yao Ming

陈凯/千枫电视台采访-林书豪与中国政治文化及政体 Kai Chen TV Interview on Jeremy Lin and Chinese Political Culture

Jeremy Lin in Practice Sessions

陈凯博客： www.kaichenblog.blogspot.com 林书豪 vs.姚明 = 自由人vs. 族群人 Jeremy Lin vs. Yao Ming 林书豪作为一个自由人的影响早已压倒了姚明作为一个制度与族群的产物的宣传 Jeremy Lin as a free being has already overwhelmed Yao Min as an enslaved man “自由人” vs. “中国人”序列 “Free Beings” vs. “Chinese” Series By Kai Chen 陈凯 2/21/2012 www.kaichenblog.blogspot.com 自从林书豪在NBA的优异表现冲击了美国篮坛与世界舆论以来，我接受了来自多方位的媒体采访。 许多西方的媒体基于“政治正确”的左派倾向在采访中想用一些少数人的种族主义评论把我引入族群的争议。 一些在美的华裔政客们也想借美国少数人对林书豪的病态负面的评论为自己拉政治稻草。 但最让我反胃恶心的是大多数的华裔人士也都将林书豪作为种族、祖裔、中国专制文化的产物来为虚无的个体找认同，似乎林书豪的肤色与他家庭的来历是他取得成就的原因。 殊不知，林书豪的真正意义是在于“他是一个美国人，他是一个自由人”。 他的成就并不是“因为”他是一个亚裔人，而是“尽管”他是一个亚裔人。 （Jeremy Lin’s achievement is NOT “because” he is of Asian descendent, but “despite” he is of Asian descendent.） 林书豪的故事绝不是一个什么“亚裔人/中国人/台湾人/族群人”的故事。 林书豪的故事是一个“美国人/自由人/有信仰的人”的故事。 林书豪的故事是一个在自由世界中个体用自身的天才，努力，信念，勇气与自由意志战胜群体的无知，击败种族的偏见，冲破环境的限制，打碎人的“默默的绝望”的、充满激情与希望的“自由人”的故事。 当一位记者采访我的时候 ，她竭尽所能想用“族裔”来定位林书豪的成就。 我只是用“1+1=2”的常识逻辑向她说： “如果你认为其他人不应该用林书豪的肤色与家族背景来贬低他的话，你为什么要用林书豪的肤色与家族背景来抬高他呢？ 难道这不是一回事儿吗？” 当所有人，时常会是他的亲友们（不只是他的有种族主义倾向的怀疑者们），不相信林书豪的时候，林书豪本人并没有丧失自己对篮球的热爱，并没有丧失对自身与上苍的信念。 这难道不是他的故事的本质吗？！ 当林书豪在令人难以忍受的困境之中，在眼泪、内心的挣扎中，在怀疑与失败的痛苦中，在族群的偏见与无知中愤然/奋然挺起、冲破障碍、取得成功时，他并没有因为得志得意而放弃自己的操守、信念与自省。 这难道不是他的故事的本质吗？！ 当林书豪向世界证实“人绝非环境、族群、历史、贫富、文化背景、家族祖宗的产物”而是“个体的自由意志、对神的信仰、不懈的努力，勇气与毅力的自由的精灵”的时候，你难道不认为这才是林书豪的真实自我，这才是林书豪的真实故事的本质吗？  易建联曾自供：“林书豪付出得到了回报，我的付出没有得到回报。” 言外之意是我的命/运气不好。 殊不知，“求回报而付出/做好事求好报”正说明一个人没有真实的热爱与信仰，正说明易建联并不真正热爱篮球而是想从篮球中强取/偷取/骗取那些并不在自我认同/热爱中，也绝不是因为自我认同而产生的价值。 正是因为这些“中国奴”没有真实的热爱与信仰，他们可能会有因偷/抢/骗而得到的钱，而绝不会有因热爱与信仰而得到的真实幸福与对不懈意义追求的满足感。 中共党朝的官方媒体早就借各种渠道放出风来，说什么“林书豪永远不会有姚明的成就与影响”，说什么“林书豪还需要时间来证实他的实力与价值”。 一个被奴役制洗脑左右的人是绝不会懂得林书豪与姚明之间的根本对差的： 林书豪是一个自由人。 姚明是一个被奴役的非自由人（即使连他也懂得把自己的女儿生在美国成为一个美国人的重要。）。 林书豪是一个用自己的信念与品质击败了无知、偏见、怯懦与自我怀疑的人。 姚明是一个不得不在奴役体制中无奈的玩儿专制游戏、为专制站台的人。 林书豪是一个用自身的意志、勇气与能力战胜环境与背景束缚的人。 姚明是一个被环境、背景、专制强权左右的被奴人（姚明在与NBA签约之前被迫与中国篮协签了“卖身契”保证用自己的篮球、名、利为“中国/中共党朝”服务。 他也曾邀NBA队友到天安门为毛泽东站台与授意到台湾为中共党朝搞“统战”）。 林书豪向世界、向人类、向上苍证实了“人”是可以自由的。 姚明则用他的无奈与妥协向人们表达了“默默的绝望”是人生的唯一终结。 林书豪与姚明之间只有对照，没有比较。 林书豪与姚明生活在两个绝对冲突与对立的精神世界里。 姚明的八年NBA生涯是在被利用、被奴役、被迫就范的精神世界中度过的。 林书豪则正在用自身NBA成功的见证突破了历史与族群的束缚与界限，告诉着人们“人是上苍所造的自由人，而绝非政府、族群、历史、环境所造的无奈之物”，“人可以用自身的信念、勇气与努力设计自身的轨迹，书写自身的剧本，改变历史的走向与所生的环境”。 有什么能比林书豪所证实、所表达的这个真实的信息更使人振奋、更使人解放、更使人自由地去为自身的幸福与尊严无畏前行的呢？！ 我作为一个前职业篮球队员，作为一个曾在专制奴役的“举国体制”中受过煎熬、向往自由与激情的运动家，作为一个为自己的幸福付出代价无畏地奔向自由的人，为林书豪与他所真正代表的“自由人”的精神感到振奋与骄傲，并由衷地祝愿他取得更大的成就，得到人生对意义追求的满足感与真实的幸福快乐。

陈凯访谈/中国为什么出不了林书豪 Kai Chen Interview/Why Lin isn't in China

Jeremy Lin vs. Dallas

陈凯博客： www.kaichenblog.blogspot.com 陈凯访谈/中国为什么出不了林书豪 Kai Chen Interview/Why Lin isn't in China 林书豪奇迹震惊世界 折射举国体制弊端 新唐人电视 www.ntdtv.com 2012-2-20 20:22  Jeremy Lin Talks about Life, Basketball and Faith/Video Link : 林书豪谈生命，生活，篮球与基督信仰/视频连锁: http://shanghaiist.com/2012/02/17/jeremy-lin-god-taiwan-christian-tv.php 【新唐人2012年2月20日讯】 （新唐人记者朱智善 宋风采访报导） 林书豪从一个哈佛的经济系高材生，到落选NBA，再到NBA打短工，凭藉他对篮球的热爱和孜孜不倦的追求，终于在NBA打出了一片天。最近林书豪星光灿烂，不但成为纽约尼克斯队举足轻重的队主力控球后卫，而且是队里最近的得分王，还当选了东部周最佳运动员，那可是NBA运动员梦寐以求的荣誉。林书豪的NBA路令全世界关注篮球的人震惊，全世界刮起了“林旋风”。 据《福布斯》杂志估计，23岁的林书豪的品牌价值已经窜升到1400万美元，在全世界运动员中排名第六，是世界上品牌价值增长最快的运动员。 本台采访了前大陆篮球国手陈凯先生，中国体制下能否 “制造”出一个林书豪。 举国体育体制，不可能培养出林书豪 陈凯说：“比较林书豪和易建联，他们都在NBA打球，但气质风格截然不同。林书豪打球是非常有激情的，他非常热爱这项运动，而易建联打球没有那种激情、比较木然。” 陈凯认为，现行的中国举国体育体制，是地地道道的专制制度，缺乏自由的文化，抹杀了个性，更不需要激情，所以不可能培养出下一个林书豪。 第一：专制的奴役制扼杀了运动员个性 在中国这个专制体制文化下，抹杀了运动员个性和激情，把运动员爱好的基点消灭掉了，把篮球运动本身变成运动员在这个社会取得地位、取得金钱或是未来生活的保障上。所以运动员本身他并不一定爱好这项运动。在这种举国体制下培养的情况下，他们只要认为你有这项天才、你个高、球打得不错就培养你。但目的是把你培养成一个工具。在这样奴役体制下，就把个体的认同消灭掉了。 为此，到了重大比赛的时候，中国运动员不会像美国运动员那样每一场球兢兢业业、那样“倒地救球”，那样“扑”、那样“冲”，把自己的伤病置之度外。都是体制不同造成的。 第二：个体缺乏承担责任的勇气 当每个人感到自己是一个被他人利用的工具的时候，打球时就会有保留，就不会有激情和有承担责任的勇气。 中国的体制下，个人可以被任意的抛弃，你与教练关系不好或者你受伤了，你就会像一个被用残了的螺丝钉一样被抛弃。因为这个社会人有的是人，人只是一个工具，你的尊严、对生活的向往都不重要，重要的是你是不是服务于这个制度，这个社会、这个国家、这个群体。 篮球运动需要承担责任的，关键时刻敢于投篮、敢于进攻，敢于冲、敢于抢。在专制社会里的运动员想，我不去干这个事就不会犯这个错误，我不冒风险抢这个球、不投这个篮，我就不会承担这个错误。这就是中国篮球队、足球队打球发蔫的原因，出现问题后互相埋怨，怕自己承担这个责任，所以每个队员上场后都是小心翼翼，如履薄冰，怕犯错误。 当每一个人都想逃避个人责任的时候，他怎么能打出好球来呢？ 像林书豪，生长在自由社会，他选择他喜欢的运动，虽然有很大的风险，但他有有承担风险的勇气，能够承受失败的风险。 第三：举国体育是病态体育 中国体育取得好成绩的很多都是冷门，因为体育总局花巨资搞其他国家不搞的冷门运动，凑金牌数来证实国家强大。 如冰壶、体操等，如果国家不组织搞，在中国民间是不可能存在的。但是，像大家喜欢的篮球、足球反而不行，就是因为这个体制是消灭个体对任何事物的爱好、是消灭激情的。 第四：钱买不来人的喜爱 林书豪是非常热爱篮球运动，所以他非常投入，非常拼命，这也就是NBA值得欣赏的原因。中国运动员打球不是出于爱好，所以，经常到了关键时候，运动员就会要胁领导：我不能打了，我受伤了等藉口，那么领导就会安抚，提出晋升、住房等好处。这在中国是非常普遍的现象。 所以，体育也是社会文化的一种反射，中国运动员的情况也反映了社会的情况，人对生活的心态。这也是奴役制度中解决不了的问题，因为钱买不来人的喜爱。 “信仰”非常重要 林书豪是极其虔诚的基督徒，他在公开场合经常把他创造的“神迹”成功归结于神的原因：是神让他成功，是神引导他走该走的路，神让他有这样的成就。这对丧失了信仰的大陆人来说，感到不可思议。 陈凯表示，一个运动员相信自己与上帝之间的关系，相信自己的能力，相信自己热爱这项运动，相信自己是真诚的，这对运动员是非常非常重要的。因为有信仰的人不会对自己撒谎，那么打球的时候，就会把精力集中在打球上，而不是为自己找藉口上，这对运动员是非常重要的。犯了错误自己承认，可以从中得到教训下次做好，不试图推脱责任，这也是运动员进步的根本原因。 反过来没有信仰的人，只想给红包取悦于人，不敢承担责任，怎能进步呢？ 新华社喊林书豪加入“中国籍” 在“林旋风”横扫世界之际，中共官方媒体新华社说，在中国邀请林书豪加盟中国男篮的呼声很高。 新华社说，林书豪成为中国男篮一员的障碍不少，其中最大的问题就是林书豪必须放弃自己的美国国籍。不过新华社也指出，如果林书豪“下定决心，抓住机遇”，就有可能“将‘呼声’转化为现实”。 对此，陈凯指出，只有专制社会才有这样的想法，把一个人的皮肤作为奴役他的材料：你的祖宗是从这里来的，就得听我的，作为我私有的工具。这是多么邪恶的一个专制概念！把人看作是为专制服务的工具，只要你成功了，就要把你的成功归功于它的制度，就要要为它服务，为它站台。 中国的社会是一个强盗、小偷与骗子的社会，是一个奴役人、腐败人的社会。 陈凯说，“林书豪是一个在美国生长的美国人，是说英语的美国人，是虔诚的基督徒，完全西方价值化的美国人，而不是会说汉语和受专制文化教育的大陆人。把林书豪看成是中国人/台湾人，这是非常荒唐的逻辑。” 陈凯表示，在美国社会，他会尊重每一个人的自由意志的。

法新社陈凯访谈/林书豪意味着什么？ AFP Kai Chen Interview on Jeremy Lin

Jeremy Lin's Winning Shot against Raptors


Jeremy Lin Talks about Life, Basketball and Faith/Video Link :
林书豪谈生命，生活，篮球与基督信仰/视频连锁:

http://shanghaiist.com/2012/02/17/jeremy-lin-god-taiwan-christian-tv.php

陈凯博客： www.kaichenblog.blogspot.com 法新社陈凯访谈/林书豪意味着什么？ AFP Kai Chen Interview on Jeremy Lin Like Yao, Lin's success rubs some the wrong way By Greg Heakes (AFP) – 10 hours ago LOS ANGELES — The same racial stereotypes that dogged Yao Ming early in his National Basketball Association career are now being cast upon Harvard educated, New York Knicks star Jeremy Lin. American sports network ESPN was forced to apologize Saturday for an anti-Asian slur directed at Chinese-American Lin that appeared in a story about the point guard following the Knicks 89-85 loss on Friday night. The anti-Asian headline was included in an online story about Lin's role in the game that ended New York's seven-game winning streak. ESPN said in a statement it was "conducting a complete review of our cross-platform editorial procedures and are determining appropriate disciplinary action to ensure this does not happen again. We regret and apologize for this mistake." ESPN claimed that the headline appeared to only mobile browsers for a 35-minute period but long enough for scores of people to see it. The Knicks have been on a magical run since former part-time player Lin was called upon with two starters missing and answered with the most points of any NBA player in his first five starts since the NBA and ABA merged in 1976. Lin's fairy-tale story is further enhanced because he was cut by two clubs, including Yao's former team the Houston Rockets, before the season started. While the majority of Americans are captivated by the "Lin-sanity" phenomenon, others like US African-American boxer Floyd Mayweather are not. "Jeremy Lin is a good player but all the hype is because he's Asian. Black players do what he does every night and don't get the same praise," Mayweather said in a posting on his Twitter microblogging website. Like Lin, retired eight-time NBA all-star Yao had to face taunts and ethnic slurs when he broke into the league in 2002. Former Detroit Piston Ben Wallace said the then 21-year-old Yao would receive a rude welcome the first time China's national team played the United States in August 2002 in Oakland, California. "We are going to beat him up. We are going to beat him up pretty bad," Wallace said. "Welcome to the league, welcome to our country. This is our playground." Yao also had to deal with ethnic slurs from former Los Angeles Laker Shaquille O'Neal. Chen Kai, an author and former member of China's national basketball team who competed in the 1978 World Championships for China, told AFP the problem is that some people see this as a racial issue instead of a feel-good story. Chen said the attitudes towards Lin and Yao show there is still a lot of work to be done to help integrate basketball. "We have a culture in the US called political correctness. Affirmitive action is giving a minority a chance. At the same time the NBA is beyond that," said Chen, a human rights activist who nows lives in Los Angeles. "There is a conflict in the US. This rise of Jeremy Lin is just like Tiger Woods in golf or a great young black player in ice hockey. "It is a phenomenon. It is not a negative story, it's a positive one. Most people in the US embrace Jeremy Lin. They don't see it as a racial issue but just see that he plays good ball." The 23-year-old Lin said on Wednesday he hopes to change outlooks and stereotypes regarding Asians and Asian-American NBA players. "I think there are definitely (Asian) stereotypes," he said. "There are a lot of them. The more we can do to break those down every day the better we will become. "Hopefully in the near future we will see a lot more Asians and Asian-Americans playing in the NBA." Lin's parents emigrated from Taiwan to the USA in the mid-1970s. He is one of the few Asian Americans in NBA history, and the first American player in the league to be of Chinese or Taiwanese descent. "People in Taiwan and China fight to claim him but inside he is all American," Chen said. "He's all American. He graduated from Harvard, he was born in the US and he eats American food. He doesn't see colour. All he cares about is winning the game. That is the true American spirit." Copyright © 2012 AFP. All rights reserved. More » ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 种族偏见作怪  豪哥姚明屡遭讽/翻译 Published by AFP on 二月 18th, 2012 - in 体育 （法新社洛杉矶18日电） 纽约尼克（Knicks）球星「哈佛小子」林书豪如今蒙受的奚落和挖苦，重演8次入选明星赛的退休NBA球星姚明2002年生涯刚起步时带有种族歧视的遭遇。  2002年8月，回溯当年21岁的姚明率领中国大陆国家队首度在加州迎战美国队前夕，前底特律活塞（Piston）「班蛙」华莱士（Ben Wallace）放话要粗鲁地欢迎姚明。 「我们会打败他。我们会把他打得很惨。欢迎来到NBA，欢迎来到我们的国家。这是我们的球场。」 姚明也曾遭前洛杉矶湖人「侠克」欧尼尔（Shaquille O’Neal）嘲笑，欧尼尔对电视台记者说：「告诉姚明，亲穷羊哇啊缩。」（无意义模仿中文发音） 现为作家的前中国大陆国家队球员陈凯告诉法新社，问题在于有些人认为这是种族问题，而非振奋人心的故事。 陈凯表示，姚明和林书豪的遭遇显示，要消除篮球界的差别待遇还有很多工作得做。 陈凯说：「美国存在着对立。林书豪崛起就像老虎伍兹在高球界，或是优秀年轻黑人球员在冰球界的遭遇一样。」 陈凯说：「台湾和中国大陆人民争相宣称林书豪是他们的人，但骨子里他是土生土长的美国人。」 「有些人把他当成中国佬，但他是土生土长的美国人。他在美国出生，吃美国食物，自哈佛大学毕业。他不在乎种族，只在乎赢球。这正是真正的美国精神。」 （译者：中央社乐羽嘉） ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ESPN Uses Racial Slur To Describe Jeremy Lin’s First Loss February 18, 2012 By Bowers ESPN’s mobile site used the headline “Chink In The Armor” last night in recap of Jeremy Lin’s first ever NBA loss. On Sportscenter, ESPN employees also used the same phrase on the show. Awful Announcing has that screen grab and video, and below are some of their thoughts on it. Awful Announcing: “But my thought here, and I understand it’s just my opinion, is that this is pretty inexcusable given that ESPN.com is a huge platform with a lot of built in processes, people involved, and higher standards. The usage of this very common saying is not racist itself if you just go with its surface meaning. However, the worst racial slur you could call someone of Chinese or Asian descent would be “chink” and while it has dual definitions unlike most other slurs, it’s just all too convenient that it shows up here. At face value, the headline certainly makes sense. But the dual definition of that word essentially ensures that if published, their would be a s— storm. Now there is.” Then this from ESPN’s editors: “Ed Note: ESPN did indeed release a statement early Saturday morning profusely apologizing for the headline. The statement reads in full: “Last night, ESPN.com’s mobile web site posted an offensive headline referencing Jeremy Lin at 2:30 am ET. The headline was removed at 3:05 am ET. We are conducting a complete review of our cross-platform editorial procedures and are determining appropriate disciplinary action to ensure this does not happen again. We regret and apologize for this mistake.” ESPN.com Editor in Chief Rob King also took to Twitter to apologize, saying this with a link to the statement: “There’s no defense for the indefensible. All we can offer are our apologies, sincere though incalculably inadequate.” ESPN certainly recognizes the gravity of the mistake and took the necessary steps to show contrition, but the question still needs to be answered how in the world THAT headline was published.”

中国能造得出林书豪吗？ Can China's Culture Produce Jeremy Lin?!

Jeremy Lin vs. Lakers

“豪小子”林书豪（右）近来的表现，连NBA的总裁史腾都称是“奇迹”，是NBA的神话。(Getty Images） 陈凯博客： www.kaichenblog.blogspot.com 陈凯一语： Kai Chen's Words:  中国的专制文化只能产生工具与奴隶。 林书豪的篮球是一个自由人的表现。 只有一个自由人才能通过篮球表达自己的自由意志，努力与才能。 China's despotic culture can only produce despotic tools and slaves.  Jeremy Lin's performance on the basketball court once again demonstrates that only a free being can fully utilize basketball to express himself fully.  中国能造得出林书豪吗？ Can China's Culture Produce Jeremy Lin?! 【大纪元2012年02月18日讯】 一直以来默默无闻的美籍华裔球员林书豪最近十来天一夕爆红，以其在NBA的精彩表现获得了世界各地，包括中国大陆和台湾两地粉丝们的热捧。美国《时代周刊》出报导分析，尽管中国球迷们对林表现狂热，但在盛产奥运金牌的中国，要想培养出一个林书豪式的人才却几乎是不可能的事。  纽约尼克斯队的控球后卫林书豪过去一周来在全世界刮起了一阵“林旋风”。据《福布斯》杂志估计，23岁的林书豪的品牌价值已经窜升到1400万美元，在全世界运动员中排名第六，是世界上品牌价值增长最快的运动员。  * 中国造不出林书豪  美国《时代周刊》记者汉娜•贝茨近日撰文说，“作为奥运强国和姚明的故乡，中国能‘制造’出像林书豪这样有天赋、有自信的控球后卫吗？”文章认为：“就目前而言，几乎不可能。”  该文分析说，中国球探迷恋的是身高，却并不那么看重球员对篮球的热情。身高优势并不突出的林书豪可能不会被选中。此外，控卫最需要的是创造性，这往往在中国体育系统强调的不停训练和纪律中被磨灭了。 文章提到，中国体育有自己培养球员的一套系统，也就是官方成立的体校。半路出家的球员很难进入中国的篮球联赛。 据美国之音报导，中国选拔和培养运动员的制度是从前苏联照搬过来的“举国体制”。这是一个由体育学校、培训团队和政府机构组成的庞大官僚机构。统一动员、统一调配，目标直指世界各大赛事的金牌。 “举国体制”最大的好处在于可以集中力量，统一训练计划。身处这样一套体制下的运动员生活无忧，只需心无旁骛地刻苦训练。 前中国国家羽毛球队队员吴赤兵对媒体说，以前当运动员时，从袜子到内裤都是国家发。队里还自带按摩师、厨师，到哪儿都是车接车送，连衣服都不用洗。 前北京乒乓球队队员王昕月认为，“举国体制”有着“市场体制”不可比拟的优越性。从6岁便开始接受专业乒乓球训练的王昕月说，球员们什么都不用操心，完全是国家包了。她说，如果不是“举国体制”，中国的乒乓球不可能有现在的水平。  体制压制下的中国运动员 美国之音报导称，这套在中国实行了几十年的制度却使得身处其中的运动员感到压制。 报导表示，除足球、篮球等少数几个项目，绝大多数中国运动员不许谈恋爱，更不许结婚。运动员们训练、吃饭、睡觉、有时甚至连上厕所都要向教练汇报。  与哈佛毕业的林书豪不同的是，“从娃娃抓起”的中国运动员大多没有接受过系统的文化课教育。除了体育之外，他们没有应对真实世界的一技之长，一旦退役，便失去了生活的重心。   一个典型的例子是前奥林匹克冠军张尚武因伤退役后，因为没有生活来源，不得不以100元卖掉了他的金牌，甚至还走上了偷窃乞讨的道路。 在“举国体制体制”下，政府还可以以国家的名义扣取运动员的部份收入。拿到名次的运动员还必须向体育总局交出部份奖金，作为对国家多年培养的回报。 去年，从国家队“出走”的网球明星李娜赢得亚洲首个大满贯；而中国短道速滑的旗帜性人物王濛却因打架斗殴被国家队开除。这两起事件在中国引发了是否该废除“举国体制”的争论。 《时代周刊》的文章还说，“相比之下，看看培育未来NBA球星的美国公共球场，即使那里只有破旧的篮板和有裂缝的混凝土地。或者看看印度，在那里，任何一个尘土飞扬的场所都可以当做梦想成为沙奇・德鲁卡的小男孩的板球场。而在巴西，连政府补助都得不到的贫民区孩子们却在磨练着自己的足球技巧，等长大后他们就是另一个贝利或罗纳尔迪尼奥。”  林书豪被新华社呼吁加入中国国籍  在“林旋风”横扫世界之际，中国官方媒体新华社撰文称，“林书豪近来在NBA的出色表现，使得将他征召进已获得今年伦敦奥运会入场券的中国男篮的呼声一浪高过一浪。不过，他加盟中国队难度相当大。最大的障碍就是林书豪的国籍问题。要成为中国男篮一员，林书豪就要放弃自己目前的美国国籍，加入中国国籍……”。新华社更表示，如果林书豪“下定决心，抓住机遇”，就有可能“将‘呼声’转化为现实”。 一部份网友认为，让林书豪放弃加盟美国“梦之队”的机会，放弃美国国籍，从而转投中国男篮，简直是做梦。“楼主，你醒醒吧！进入梦之队，是每一个美国球员毕生的梦想，除了NBA总冠军，奥运会金牌和世锦赛冠军对NBA球员来讲是最大的荣誉，现在，林书豪无限接近梦之队，这个时候放弃美国国籍，实在看不出来有什么特别好的理由。” 有网友调侃称：“林书豪，你妈喊你加入中国国籍！”网友“头发太长要去剪”则模仿“新华体”写道：“针对邀请奥巴马加盟中国共产党这一话题，有关人士称......要成为共产党的一员，奥巴马就要放弃自己的美国国籍，加入中国国籍。”

中国资产外流减缓通胀 Outflow of Money Eases Runaway Inflation

China's Officials take money and run out of China.

陈凯博客： www.kaichenblog.blogspot.com 中国资产外流减缓通胀 Outflow of Money Eases Runaway Inflation Stealth Withdrawal of Wealth From China By Its Entrepreneurs Unwittingly Helped China Avert Runaway Inflation. But That Practice Is About To Be Halted. by Bill Sardi Predictions that economic bubbles would pop in an ever-growing Chinese economy have been frequent over the past 10 years. But prognosticators failed to realize that Chinese bankers are more conservative than the colleagues in the US and require 30-60% down payment on home loans. Furthermore, as China captured trillions of dollars in US money, it set much of it aside to guard against run-away inflation and to pour into the economy as the meltdown in the US economy beginning in 2008 resulted in a decline in exports from China to the US. Certainly China over-responded to this crisis and went so far as to build whole cities that remain unoccupied. However, incomes there are simply not sufficient for people to move into these modernized communities. China is cunning. It holds over $1 trillion in US treasury bills that may never be repaid in full value. It has begun to seek tangible wealth rather than hold US T-bills and has conducted a worldwide search to buy minerals, oil, unprecedented amounts of gold in the form of US bullion coins, or to obtain long-term contracts for the same, and to barter without using the US dollar as the medium of exchange. Marc Faber, financial commentator based in Asia, says China puts its money into building infrastructure whereas the US puts its newly printed money into consumption. American consumption also boosts China’s exports. What all the analysts missed, while they predicted the huge expansion of credit in China to result in uncontrolled inflation, was that much of China’s money was covertly leaving the country, serving as a counterbalance in its economy. Gordon Chang, a writer and commentator on Chinese affairs, wrote a largely overlooked article (just 3 posted comments on it) that was published online at Forbes.com in June of 2011. Chang’s report, entitled "Chinese Entrepreneurs Are Leaving China," said wealthy Chinese are leaving the country in droves and taking their money with them. How much money? (Are you sitting down?) An estimated $2.18 trillion exited China in hidden cash transfers between 2000 and 2008. Whoa! We know the Greeks are funneling their money into overseas banks, but that amounts to a vacuum of just $16 billion. But what is going on in China is a game changer for the whole world, especially if covert methods to move Chinese money offshore is put to a halt, as it is predicted will occur sometime soon with a leadership change and accompanying financial reforms in China. The US has benefited immensely from the entry of Chinese money into its economy. According to Chang, in the last five years there has been a 73% increase in Chinese investment to the United States. Chinese people are seen on bus tours in California, visiting real estate properties and paying the full purchase price in cash money. But just exactly how do the Chinese funnel their money out of the country? A US real estate executive gives us a hint at the answer to this question when he said in a 2009 interview published in China Daily that he didn’t think most Chinese individuals would qualify to purchase property in the US "unless the money is already here." The Chinese have had centuries of practice to side-step government confiscation of their money. One method is to export goods from China to the US in a shipping container where, in this example, the bill of lading cites 1000 cases of widgets being shipped. But there are actually 1400 cases of widgets inside the container. The profits from the sale of 1000 cases of widgets is returned to China, but the extra 400 cases are sold and Chinese goods are converted into US money where a Chinese counterparty here in the US houses it, sometimes in Chinese banks located here in the US. This is how Chinese home buyers get their cash to buy properties at full price. Chinese families send their children to be schooled in America, and the money for their education is already in the US. None of it has been taxed by China or the US. Chang quotes economic analyst Zhong Dajun to say: "We have been working hard to develop the economy in the past 30 years, but now these elite members of society are fleeing with the majority of the wealth." "The loss may be even higher than all the foreign investment we have attracted." Xi Jinping is expected to become the next Party general secretary at the end of 2012 and it is rumored that the hemorrhage of money from China will be put to a halt with economic reforms. That will be a game-changing event. China averted a flood of money hitting their economy and causing run-away inflation in part because Chinese entrepreneurs were siphoning money away overseas. Will a closure of this exit door then result in predicted inflation? My bet is the Chinese will be smart enough to dampen this threat. China has a bigger default to face – that of the US’ inability to pay back over $1 trillion China loaned to America in purchasing US Treasury bills. The Chinese know, if inflation drives up the cost of food that it must avert unrest in the streets. China could be forced to accept pennies on the dollar for these T-bills and receive its deflated money in the form of containers of grain and other foodstuffs from the US, who already supplies China with record sales of foodstuffs now. China knows it is holding a diminishing asset in US T-bills. So does the rest of the world. The US economy keeps getting propped by its lenders. A US default on its debt would result in an implosion of the world’s economies. At some point the US will not be able to pay interest on its debt and be forced to default and the dollar will collapse. That day may come sooner than predicted. John Williams of ShadowStats.com says the outside date for that event is 2014 (ShadowStats report #414). Then what? February 15, 2012 Bill Sardi [send him mail] is a frequent writer on health and political topics. His health writings can be found at www.naturalhealthlibrarian.com. His latest book is Downsizing Your Body.

林书豪给我们的十个启示 Just Lin, Baby!

Jeremy Lin vs. Los Angeles Lakers 

陈凯博客： www.kaichenblog.blogspot.com 林书豪给我们的十个启示 Just Lin, Baby! Eric Jackson (Forbes Magazine) 10 Lessons Jeremy Lin Can Teach Us Before We Go To Work Monday Morning Lin-sanity has swept up the NBA over the last week. Now it seems like the phenomenon has gone worldwide. Friday’s 38 point performance by Harvard grad Jeremy Lin for the New York Knicks against the LA Lakers was his greatest performance yet as a starter, since he burst on to the scene and propelled the team to 4 straight wins. Lin now has over 200,000 followers on Twitter. He’s got over 800,000 on Weibo – including 200,000 new ones in the 24 hour period after beating the Lakers. But there’s more to this story than basketball. This isn’t just a modern-day, real-life version of the Hoosiers movie. The Jeremy Lin story is incredibly popular because we can all see a little bit of ourselves in this man’s struggles and now successes. What can all of us learn from this young man — and how can we apply these same lessons to our own lives when we go back to work on Monday morning? 1. Believe in yourself when no one else does. 坚信自身 Lin’s only the 3rd graduate from Harvard to make it to the NBA. He’s also one of only a handful of Asian-Americans to make it. He was sent by the Knicks to play for their D-League team 3 weeks ago in Erie, PA. He’d already been cut by two other NBA teams before joining the Knicks this year. You’ve got to believe in yourself, even when no one else does. 2. Seize the opportunity when it comes up. 抓住机遇 Lin got to start for the Knicks because they had to start him. They had too many injuries. Baron Davis was gone. The other point guards were out. Carmelo Anthony was injured. Amare Stoudemire had to leave the team because of a family death. Lin could have squandered the opportunity and we would have never have noticed. But he made the most of it. You never know when opportunities are going to arise in life. Often, they’re when you least expect them. Make the most of them. Don’t fritter them away. 3. Your family will always be there for you, so be there for them. 欣赏亲助 It wasn’t until a few days ago that Lin got his contract guaranteed by the Knicks for the rest of the season. Before that, he could have been cut at any time. He had to sleep on his brother’s couch on the Lower East Side to get by. His family always believed in him and picked him up when he could have gotten down on himself. That made him continue to believe. If you want your family to believe in you like that, you’ve got to be there for them too when they need it. 4. Find the system that works for your style. 发现适己 Lin isn’t Michael Jordan or Kobe Bryant. He’s not a pure scorer. He’s a passer and distributor – who can also score very well. It didn’t work for him in Golden State or Houston – where he was before landing at the Knicks. But Mike D’Antoni’s system at the Knicks has been perfect for him to show off his strengths. You’ve got to do your best to understand what your strengths are and then ensure that you’re in a system (a job or organization or industry) that is a good fit for those strengths. Otherwise, people overlook the talents you bring to the table. 5. Don’t overlook talent that might exist around you today on your team. 莫错良才 You probably manage people at your own company today. Are you sure you don’t have a Jeremy Lin living among you now? How do you know that “Mike” couldn’t do amazing things if you gave him a new project to run with? How do you know “Sarah” isn’t the right person to take the open job in London that you’ve been talking over with your colleagues? We put people around us in boxes. He’s from Harvard. He’s Asian-American. Not sure he can play. How many assumptions have you made about talent around you? Don’t be like the General Managers in Golden State and Houston, and let talent slip through your fingers. With all their money, scouts, and testing, they didn’t have a clue what they had in their hands. Do you know what your people (or even yourself) is really capable of? Take off the blinders of assumptions you wear when you look at the world. 6. People will love you for being an original, not trying to be someone else. 忠实原己 You’ve got to be you. You can’t be some 2nd rate copy of Michael Jordan. There will never be another Michael Jordan. Just be Jeremy Lin — yourself. Whatever that is. That doesn’t mean you don’t work hard — it just means you find what you’re good at and do it. Fans will love you for being you, just like they love Jeremy Lin. Judy Garland said it best: “Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.” 7. Stay humble. 避免枉大 If you one day are lucky enough to have newspapers want to put you on the cover in order to sell more, don’t let it get to your head. It’s been remarkable watching how humble Lin remains through all this media frenzy. It makes his teammates and fans love him that much more. 8. When you make others around you look good, they will love you forever. 尊重同仁 I didn’t know how good Tyson Chandler was, until I saw him playing with Jeremy Lin. Lin has set Chandler up many times over the last week for easy dunks because he drew the defense and then passed the ball. That’s partly why the Knicks are playing so well. They are all working harder to share the ball with others. And it’s beautiful to watch. And when the media swarms Lin, he tells them how good his teammates are. Do the same with your peers and reports. 9. Never forget about the importance of luck or fate in life. 不忘感恩 Some people believe in God, some in destiny, some in luck. Whatever you believe in, be grateful for it. 10. Work your butt off. Lin couldn’t have seized his opportunity if he hadn’t worked like crazy for years perfecting his skills. 不走捷径 There are no short cuts to hard work. Success is a by product of that. If you’ve got a Tiger Mom who’s always pushed you to work hard, great. If not, let your conscience be your own Tiger Mom! Get up early, stay up late. Nobody gave Lin any free passes. Why should you get any? You can only control what you control and that means you’ve got to work harder than anyone else you know. I hope the Lin-sanity continues. And I hope we all can apply these lessons to our own work and family life. There’s a great line from a New York Times article on Lin and his faith which is worth it for all of us to remember: “suffering produces character, and character produces hope, and hope does not disappoint us.”

阿岚. 韦斯特：我们不要奥巴马 Allen West To Obama: ‘Get The Hell Out Of The United States of America’

阿岚. 韦斯特：我们不要奥巴马 Allen West To Obama: ‘Get The Hell Out Of The United States of America’

陈凯博客： www.kaichenblog.blogspot.com Allen West To Obama: ‘Get The Hell Out Of The United States of America’ 阿岚. 韦斯特：我们不要奥巴马 陈凯一语   Kai Chen's Words: 我的朋友阿岚. 韦斯特：我为你感到一个美国人的骄傲与希望。 My Friend Allen West: I am so proud of you for what you stand for - Freedom, Human Dignity and Hope for this great country. January 29, 2012 http://patriotupdate.com/17875/allen-west-to-obama-get-the-hell-out-of-the-united-states-of-america Rep. Allen West (R-Fla.) had a strong message Saturday for President Barack Obama, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz: “Get the hell out.” West made the comments during a speech at a Palm Beach County GOP event in West Palm Beach. “This is a battlefield that we must stand upon. And we need to let President Obama, Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi and my dear friend, chairman of the Democrat National Committee, we need to let them know that Florida ain’t on the table,” West said. The audience was booing by the time West got to Pelosi’s name. “Take your message of equality of achievement, take your message of economic dependency, take your message of enslaving the entrepreneurial will and spirit of the American people somewhere else,” he continued. “You can take it to Europe, you can take it to the bottom of the sea, you can take it to the North Pole, but get the hell out of the United States of America.”

陈凯谈社会主义对美国的危害与威胁 Kai Chen on the Danger of Socialism in America

Kai Chen interview on "Socialism - A Clear and Present Danger"

陈凯博客： www.kaichenblog.blogspot.com 陈凯谈社会主义对美国的危害与威胁 Kai Chen on Danger of Socialism Video Link 视频连锁： https://onlinemeeting.adobeconnect.com/_a999975952/p9tfz9jr5zq?launcher=false&fcsContent=true&pbMode=normal 1/22/2012 Kai Chen by the invitation of Tom Kewan, talking on the subject of danger of socialism in America

中国专制的三暴虐 - 文字，文化与政治 Trio of Tyranny in China

Tyranny in China 中国政治的暴虐

陈凯博客： www.kaichenblog.blogspot.com

中国专制的三暴虐 - 文字，文化与政治
Trio of Tyranny in China

China's Despotism - From linguistic tyranny, to cultural tyranny, to governmental tyranny

“自由人”对抗“中国人”序列
"Free Beings" vs. "Chinese" Series　　
　　

- The trio of tyrannies and its horrific effect on the formation of Chinese slave mindset – a treatise and indictment on the Chinese dehumanization process -

By Kai Chen 陈凯 （Written 4/10/2006, Reprint 1/18/2012)

　　As people puzzled over the persistence of the Chinese communist regime after the collapse of the communism as an ideology world wide, only a few saw the roots of the Chinese despotism. Many are not willing, some not able, others lacking courage to recognize the connection between the Chinese traditional culture and the current deplorable state of affairs in China. Almost all reject even the slightest suggestion that the Chinese character-based, syllabic language has something to do with the formation of Chinese mind-set which can only be properly coined “complete slavery and dehumanization of human beings”.

　Some even suggest that preservation of a Confucian culture is paramount in reforming the Chinese society and curing the ills in the Chinese mind. To me this suggestion is tantamount to saying that solution to communist tyranny and dictatorship is the communist party, and the cure of AIDS is introducing more HIV virus. Some, with various motives and deep secret complex, come in a hurry to defend the indefensible cruel Chinese feudal culture. And they defend even with more vehemence than the despotic masters the origin of the Chinese tyranny – the character-based, syllabic Chinese language. The panic feels like as if someone is digging into their ancestors’ untouchable graves. It is as if someone is touching that “sacred cow” in their hearts. No matter how much they hate the Chinese communist party and its despotic regime, they are willing to defend the roots of it with their blood and lives. Sounds comically contradictory, doesn’t it? Some, even come with more hilarious accusation against those who point out the intrinsic and inseparable connection between the Chinese language and culture with the miserable human condition in China today, calling them “traitors of the Chinese race” and “harboring ulterior motives to demean the Chinese”, and “potential dictators in the future”….   

Their entire defense not only fails to exonerate the evil culture that has been created to destroy individuals, humanity and freedom, their preposterous accusation against those who see the evil shows exactly how their mind-set of cultural, linguistic and governmental slavery has been formed. That mind-set is the living proof of the existence of evil.

The following is a treatise to detail the process of Chinese dehumanization of individuals through this “trio of tyrannies” and an indictment against this evil origin of the complete alienation and enslavement of Chinese mind over their own existence.

Chinese Linguistic Tyranny  中国文字语言的暴虐

(Since Chinese society is patriarchal in nature, I will use “man” and “he” in the composition of this essay. This is not to demean or ignore female human beings.)

From the moment a Chinese toddler starts to put sounds and symbols together, he is handed a brush with ink as his writing tool. (Nowadays a pen or pencil is usually the case) He is presented with a paper with lines and usually a series of rectangle boxes with four evenly divided quadrants in each box. In front of him is a text of writing samples dated maybe hundreds of years back to his ancestors. He is told that his task of learning to write is first and foremost to mimic the perfect symmetry and forms in those pictorial images his ancestors left for him. During this process of repetition, copy, mimic of his ancestors’ leftover in his initial contact with human knowledge, his own dehumanization against his own individuality has formally begun.

He learns that creativity and initiatives are not important; conformity is. He learns that his own mind is not important; his ancestors’ legacy is. He learns that he as an individual is not important; competing with others to see who comes closer to the original forms left by his ancestors is. He learns that meaning and substance of the word is not important; the appearance - the formation, the image and the shell is. He is further confounded, yet not knowing consciously, with the fact that language is not a tool to comprehend and analyze phenomena to reach to reality, rather it is an artistic endeavor to please the eye, and the others. However, in this supposed artistic endeavor, he is not allowed to create and produce. He is forced to copy, to memorize, to follow… His two hemispheres of the brain are inundated with conflicting input of symbols and images. (We now know that all humans have the same structure in their brains – one hemisphere in charge of language, analysis, abstract thinking, logic, rationality.., and the other art, music, concrete images, creative impulses…) His analytical hemisphere is being force-fed with pictorial images, instead of abstract symbols, while his artistic hemisphere is starved with a strict and deliberate stifling of his instinct and impulse to create. In learning to write the Chinese characters, he is weaving and knitting an elaborate and intricate mesh to smother his own brain, to restrict his own initiatives, to deny his individual uniqueness.

While humans are endowed by our creator to have a unique human quality to create, change and reform our surroundings and environment to serve our own purposes, as a distinctive quality from other creatures, the cruel and inhumane process of Chinese systematic stripping of this unique human quality has effectively taken place with their young, in the form of indoctrination of a confusing and crippling linguistic system. The very possibility of human creative spark is effectively eliminated. One does not have to snip the bud. The bud has never appeared for it has died long before it can ever manifest itself. The very mind of each distinct individual is thus insidiously being forced into a tiny rectangle box from which he will never be allowed to escape to return to his nature of free being.

By the time he is taught to compose sentences, he is further stripped of concept of time by a lack of tense in the Chinese verbs. Though the adverbs are constantly put in to modify the verbs, he has been reduced to never have had a strong sense of sequential events according to time. As his study of Chinese language progresses, he has found that he lacks a distinction between individual and collective, for in Chinese verbs there is no such differentiation of plural and singular. “People” can be viewed as something like an inseparable entity while an individual’s uniqueness is severely diminished. Last time I checked, a fascist view of collective as a living entity has the same connotation. He further learns that in pronunciation of chinese third personnel, there is no distinction between genders and between humans and animals or between humans and a rock. The dehumanization process is deepening.

He finds that he cannot read and write to communicate till he is six or seven years old, with barely enough storage of Chinese characters laden with pictorial images, memorized through repetition in his analytical hemisphere of the brain. He is forever crippled in coming up with new abstract ideas.

As he goes further in his study of his ancestors’ leftovers/feces, he finds that he is strictly forbidden from creating any new Chinese character by himself. All 50,000 Chinese characters are all he can copy and use in his understanding of his world of reality, though only about 5,000 in normal usage. By definition, all human knowledge on earth has stopped within the confinement of these 50,000 some Chinese characters. He can only try to manipulate, combine the existing characters to describe what he sees, not to invent new concepts. Thus the primary function of Chinese language is to describe, not to prescribe, is to inherit, not to expand, is to please, not to pursue, is to control, not to discover, is to possess, not to enjoy. the alienation is thus thorough and complete – the tool has become the master to be served with total devotion of chinese human lives. The creators of the language have become the slaves of the same language.

With the rigid and stagnant Chinese language in place and in charge, humans are not here to create; they are only here to procreate. Humans are not individuals with indivisible integrity, dignity and uniqueness; humans are only an indistinguishable blob of flesh and blood of fleeting images, banded together by a tiny rectangle box to experience excruciating pain and suffering, much like a contortionist. Conclusion: The Chinese language is an inhuman and inhumane language which only facilitates a perverse dehumanization process among the Chinese masses/population.

In sharp contrast, English, as a multi-syllable, alphabetic language, takes the premise that humans are free and unique beings. Language is their tool to serve their lives’ purpose, not their master to dominate and control their existence. With English language, children as early as three years old can read and write and communicate effectively with their peers. The abstract, alphabetic symbols of the language – the letters can be easily and freely assembled and dissembled and resembled to create new words that represent new discoveries and new concepts. They are designed to be abstract to input information into human brain’s abstract hemisphere. and the meaning of the word and compositions, not calligraphy, is the most important aspect of learning such a language. With this language, humans are allowed to be humans – free, creative and exploratative. With the way human brain is hardwired, there is no doubt that English language (alphabetic and multi-syllable) is a human and humane language.

Chinese Cultural Tyranny   中国传统专制文化的暴虐

From the moment a spark of consciousness starts to flicker, a Chinese youth witnesses at first hand, how humans treat each other and how he is treated by these humans around him. Another dimension of Chinese dehumanization process is taking place in his perception of reality – a cultural tyranny starts to dominate his life.

When the infant starts to observe his surroundings and tries to make sense out of them, the first thing that enters his mind is the fearsome hierarchy everyone carefully follows and obeys. In this invisible hierarchy, everyone’s identity is predetermined by his birth and gender. He discovers that one cannot open his mouth unless he does so according to the echelon he occupies in this hierarchy. He has to find out how old he is, how much money he makes, what connections his family has in relations with this classification of superiority and inferiority. He has to know his gender stratification, male as always being on top of female. He has to know every title and name in the generation differentiation and address his peers by proper titles and names. He has to know exactly all of these before he can open his mouth.

He is conditioned to know that the highest echelon in the hierarchy is the ubiquitous officialdom in the government, and the highest judicial judge in morals and all affairs affecting him is the highest official in this government – the emperor, chairman, president. He now knows that the God in his life is China itself – a nation with a border, a population with the same racial and ethnic features, a way to behave and think – never disturbing the existing order. China is the combination of all the desirable values in his life. He will be dedicating his entire life to this invisible God.

As he continues to grow up and further immerses himself in the Chinese literature, cultural habits and order of things, he finds that he himself as a person gradually dissolved and disappeared in the cultural soup everyone is stirring to cook into a shapeless entity. Everyone starts to behave in the same manner according to this invisible hierarchy, and no one is distinct and unique by himself. For the first time, he tastes the fearsome power of his cultural environment. That faceless everyone is called Big Family which he is obligated to preserve and please. Everyone seems to want to please everyone else and no one however, wants to initiate anything. Passivity is the order of the day and fate is everyone’s master. Learning to patiently live with desperation and helplessness is a must if he wants to survive. And it even becomes an art. He starts to cheat, lie, manipulate, intimidate, pretend… Anything he does is alright so long as he is to preserve and please the big family. Saving face is the biggest concern for everyone, from top down. The Big Family and the government that represents it has become his overlord and his entire individual worth is to be judged by only it.

He practices hard to write beautiful calligraphy, for he knows without the beautiful and unobtrusive appearance, everything else is meaningless. One will have hard time climbing the social ladder if one’s calligraphy is no good. The more he self-effacing his own being, the more likely he will climb high. He learns to entertain himself by practicing Chinese violin, but finds that the bow is stuck between the strings and he can only play one string at a time. The music that comes out of the instrument always bears a sad, lonely, helpless tone he can never escape. He picks a brush to paint a picture, but finds that only water color is available. The painting comes out will always be smeared and blurred. The human image that comes out of the water color has no spirit, no deep feelings, no facial expressions, and no passion (not to mention there is no shades and no one know where the light comes from). Even this dubious representation of humans on paper cannot last long. The water color always fades over time. A blurred image of reality for others to guess and feel is the standard of art.

He is frustrated, trying to find and etch a permanent mark for himself in the history of China. He starts to read the Chinese classic literatures, for in there he can find all kinds of intrigues, plots, manipulation of emotions, pretentious grace.., widely applied in the chinese officialdom. He attends school to memorize and mimic all the tactics and tricks to use, abuse and manipulate others humans so he can climb over their corpses to advance in this hierarchy. He learns how to mesmerize his victims by pretending to be their savior, making them believe they are all victims of others. Like a king cobra, he wants to desensitize and distract his prey by letting them focus on his beautiful and symmetrical markings, the carefully planned, mesmerizing movements, the ingenious camouflage, and the speedy and powerful strikes. He does not want others to know his nature. He is doing everything to hide it. He has learned all these through the books he has read and observation he has made and he is well versed in all of them. None of the education process has focused on the nature, the essence, and the substance of things and phenomena. No moral judgment has ever been rendered. So he is not about to start to attract others’ attention on his deadliness and his poisonous-ness. He has become the master of all his ancestors’ teachings. His only goal: to acquire power as much as he can. The more power he has, the more he is close to the omnipotent and arbitrary head of the big family, and the more he approaches God/being God.

However, he is very unhappy and insecure, for every step up he climbs, he is losing something - something he could not describe and may never recover. But he somehow senses that something is essential for his fulfillment and happiness. He becomes more and more drained and emptied, but the urge to climb even higher is so great that he cannot stop. It is just like, no, it is exactly like a narcotic addiction. The more you have, the more you want to have, even knowing it is killing your organs, killing your humanity. He now is in the deep grip of a powerful, enticing presence he can never escape without help from outside/divine forces.

But the outside help never comes. All the cultural narcotic addicts never admit they are addicts. He is no exception. His mental health starts to deteriorate. He can not distinguish right from wrong, illusions from reality, truth from falsehood, what is good for him from what is harmful…. Yet he continues the path of climbing toward that illusive peak in the officialdom, knocking down adversaries ruthlessly with no mercy. He never feels safe, for everyone else is doing just the same. He is exhausted but he dares not to stop or relax. Momentary reflection of himself scares the hell out of him, for he does not have guts to admit how deep and how far he has embarked on this road of self-destruction. And he knows it is all his making. and relentlessly, the atrocious/miserable/meaningless end is coming.

One day, a more ruthless and poisonous adversary knocks him off the ladder of officialdom. He falls and ready to give up and die. Before he dies, he curses the enemy; he curses back luck; he curses fate; he curses all others. He even curses the system for failing him, not knowing or admitting he is exactly the essential part of it, the foundation of it. His only lesson from all this is: (and he will tell all his children about it) next time, if there is ever going to be one, I will be more ruthless, poisonous and deadly. In the process of victimizing each other, everyone becomes inescapably victimized. The cycle of men-eating-men is thus completed.

Such is a soulless life’s story. Such is a loveless life. Such is a joyless existence. Such is a zombie’s journey. Such is a definition of evil and corruption. Such is the portrait of a Chinese cultural slave - a Eunuslawhore (eunuch, slave, prostitute).

Contrast distinctly from this cycle of dehumanization, Christian ethics stresses exactly the opposite of this men-eating. It preaches that every individual human being is an entirely unique universe, a beginning and end in himself. He is not to be used, abused and abandoned as some used-up tools by others, no matter how many they are in quantity. In short, he is not to be a mean to an end, but an end in itself. Because of such an inalienable and inseparable nature of the entity, he is endowed by god to have rights and freedom; therefore, he has the possibility to be happy and joyful. No one, no matter how powerful he is as in the case of a government, should be morally justified to define such a being. He is indeed a sacred creation and only god can design him and make possible for him to discover that sacred design. Bias, prejudice, power for the sake of control and self-degradation are detested in such an ethics and culture. Dignity and respect are coined to depict such a being as unique and irreplaceable. Nothing can be ever justified without his own individual consent, for only he knows his own values and worth. Group and government oppression is viewed as the embodiment of evil. Servitude and slavery is as insidiously detrimental to human mental and spiritual health as viruses and narcotic addiction. Equality among humans is a natural extension in the very fact that each and every one of individuals must ultimately face god and himself, not others and governments. Conscience and spiritual integrity is established in such a cultural environment. Self-direction rather than others-direction becomes the orientation of such moral being. Creativity and productivity, Not robbing, begging, cheating and stealing, flows like fountainhead, nourishing a new generation of such free beings. Values are constantly produced and nothingness inevitably sneered and discarded.

Such is a human ethics. Such is a human culture. Such will be the humanity's future.

Tyranny of Chinese Political Institutions  中国古今政体的暴虐

When a crippled Chinese adult, mentally and spiritually ill-equipped, enters into the political arena characterized by the omnipresent Chinese officialdom, he painfully discovers that he is further trapped and demeaned by the very institutions his ancestors left to control him. He is viewed as nothing more than a cog on an enormous grinder aimed to mix truth with falsehood, right with wrong, black with white, existence with nothingness. Every ounce of everyone’s individual energy is absorbed and usurped to contribute to the speed of the spinning machine. In the cultural soup it produces, nothing is distinct and unique and nothing can be used as values, particles and concrete foundation to build anything. The only function of such a political machine is to drown everyone with this toxic cultural soup and make him a part of its ingredient to kill still many others.

Fostered and boosted by the linguistic tyranny and cultural tyranny, the political machine his ancestors created and left for him is a ferocious and insatiable beast of destruction.

As his maturing consciousness starts to question his own being in his political surroundings, he finds that no one is in charge and henceforth no one is able to change this political environment. Everyone is only operating in it, much like everyone is using the same Chinese characters to write. No one is able to create anything in this political environment, much like no one is able or supposed to create any Chinese character by himself. He is trapped. He further finds that in this political culture, government precedes people. Government is viewed to have existed even before humans appear on earth. Government authority comes from the mysterious “heaven” and it has nothing to do with human beings. So the emperors have all been called “sons of heaven” and everyone who dares to question this order and authority is doomed to “hell” and eternal ostracism.

Thus, the government has always been viewed as parents, and the masses under it have always been viewed as some infantile children in need of care. Government officials are endowed with titles such as “parental officials” and the people “children people”. A person is born not free, but underneath this parental government and the power it wields. Any limited freedom is freedom in a cage, and freedom to obey and conform, for he is reared and raised by the government and the emperors. He has been taught that when the big river has water, the small creeks will flow. Even God in heaven is with a title “jade emperor”. It is the emperor that gives people their clothes and food. It is the nation and government that give people their livelihood and meaning of life.

He has read from all the literature that his ancestors have left that all heroes in Chinese history are “nation loving” heroes. All immortals he ever worships are ancestral officials in the emperors’ court. Everything that has any values in China is tied with officialdom. Government and officialdom is not only he depends on for his livelihood, but he depends on for his meaning of life. All the educational institutions have one aim – to produce “nation loving” and “emperor loving” officials in the echelon of governmental hierarchy. The higher he climbs in the official ladder, the more power he acquires and hence the more meaning in life he has. Thus, he stops/kills all his other interests and endeavors and focuses only on one thing – joining officialdom to climb the ladder.

In the process of climbing the ladder, he learns further from his ancestors and the knowledge they have left via those rectangle boxes written in those thread-bond books all the official tricks, plots, deceits, maneuvers, manipulations. He is well versed in the spirit all these books and the ultimate message they espouse – “the end always justify the means”. So long as he is for others and for the helpless masses, all his excessive tactics and murderous methods are thoroughly justified. His only slogans in his heart are “loyal to the emperors, loyal to the nation/party-dynasty, loyal to the ancestors and all the language, institutions, culture they have left to him.”

He has learned that the most effective method of controlling the masses with their infantile and meaningless existence is to hold their loved ones, their family, and anything including their own profession they love, hostage. If one offends the order of the court, the entire family suffers, the generations related to the person in anyway suffers. No one is responsible for himself anyway, so everyone else around him must be responsible. Here is the most effective weapon in his arsenal, among others like confusion, fatalism, superstition, jealousy, denial, blindness to truth… Though he himself is subjected to the same control mechanism, he is nonetheless enthusiastically enforcing the order using these means, for the illusion is the higher one climbs, the freer one becomes.

Not only family is used to be the hostage in this scheme of things, family is used as the very control mechanism to subdue everyone in it. Family has become the very basic unit of the government, to serve the government. The very word “nation” (Guo, Jia 国家) in Chinese is simply composed with two characters – nation and family. The saint of all Chinese – Confucius has long deemed the Chinese moral order to be inviolable – “emperor to subordinates, father to sons”. The bigger the government, the better, and since family has become the basic unit of the government, the entire society does not only belong to the government, it is indeed the government itself. Separation of government and society has never existed in China. Any political order in China is only the extension of personal order of the individual and his identity. An ingenious design it is indeed, by the ancestral saint-Confucius.

In the later years of China's modern history, Mao only further inherited/enhanced this very Chinese tradition of building the entire China into a giant prison, in which everyone can be potential a spy to report on others to the authority, particular within the family. So why build prisons to hold those unruly scoundrels like in the USSR under Stalin? Instead, the chinese under mao have followed our ancestors under emperors and confucius: They make the entire society governmental, and make the entire population prisoners of their own family, or their own relations with others. Yes indeed this is exactly what has happened during the notorious cultural revolution. The poison has seeped through every pore of the society and the corruption via total surrender by the individuals is thorough and complete.

America represents the exact opposite of the Chinese experience: It is based on individual freedom with a solid foundation in Christian faith; therefore each and every individual is fully aware of his or her responsibility to his own conscience and action. Its political institutions are established on the premise of human fallibility and subsequent potential abuse by government and majority. Separation of power, checks and balances within the political power structure, a constitutional base to limit government and guaranty individual rights, federalism to ensure a bottom-up direction from individual sovereignty to local autonomy to limited federal government.., all are the healthy and necessary institutions aimed at expanding individual freedom. Government is contracted to serve people’s purposes, not the other way around – people are subdued to serve the government. Legitimacy, transparency and openness are understood to be the concern of all the individual citizens in their eternal vigilance to guard their liberty and rights against tyranny. American political institutions are human institutions for human interests, freedom and happiness.

Conclusion  结论

Over two thousand years ago on this land that humans inhabited, a divergence of humanity began to emerge. In the East over the vast land of Asia, a process of dehumanization started with the unification by an emperor with his swords, bloodshed, and oppressive force over the population on his domain. Through the intrinsic defects of its own language, the facilitation of eunuch official intellectuals, and the state power, human beings had become the subjects and slaves of their own creation. They have been terrorized by the very alienation they created ever since and become deformed humans with twisted mind-set. A stagnant and vicious circular course of history has been the order even today.

About the same period over on the other side of the planet, a quiet and powerful revolution to recognize and confirm humanity also began to take shape, championed not by someone with swords, but by a mild-mannered man dressed in rags who never held any official position. A new kind of values was being preached upon the population and into the very soul of humans – truth, liberty, equality, individuality, fraternity, tolerance, creativity… Through the sparks he has ignited, a torch has been lit to light up the course of human history. History would never be a circle to trap humans with their corpses and misery. History started to advance toward life, freedom and joy. Humans are no longer the slaves of their own creations. They have become their own masters over their own language, their own culture and their own political institutions. A liberation of the human souls has enables them to advance through darkness toward better and better future. America is the epitome of this very advancement.

In the West, human beings continue to advance along the line of liberty for humanity. in the East, human beings continue to be trapped by the tyranny of their own culture and government. They are nothing but slaves of their own cultural conditioning and tools of the despotic state they have created and passively obeyed. The gap is gigantic.

In view and analysis of what has impeded Chinese society from entering modern history and join the community of free nations, I am confident that these three mountains – the three tyrannies that have oppressed the Chinese people without them knowing the nature of the tyrannies, must be removed before any healthy human institutions can be developed. The dehumanization process via these three tyrannies must be stopped and destroyed. Human beings must be returned to their original form intended by their creator – free, full of life, joyful and creative, the masters of their own environment, their own language, their own culture, their own political institutions, their own fate, their own future. The thorough and complete alienation of individual human beings to their creations must be reversed. The vicious dynastic cycles must be reviled, condemned and eliminated. a society of individual human beings, by individual human beings, for individual human beings must be finally realized. China must join the post-historical America by emulating its examples to release the tremendous energy of human creativity and productivity of its own citizens. Let’s start to remove the three mountains and the tyranny they have imposed on the Chinese people for thousands of years. Let's start this process from ourselves as free and responsible individuals.

新一年的中国面临危机 Happy New Year, China?

"Death by China" Introduction by Greg Autry

陈凯博客： www.kaichenblog.blogspot.com Happy New Year, China? 新一年的中国面临危机 Three questions businesses will be asking in 2012.. 生意人应该问的三个问题 By JOSEPH STERNBERG (Wall Street Journal) At the start of 2011, China's growth rate was above 9%. Beijing had scored a triumph only a few months earlier, at the November 2010 Seoul G-20 summit, in rebuffing Washington's pleas for more action on global rebalancing and thereby showing that China was an economic force to be reckoned with. As the U.S. slouched and the euro zone sank further into what now appears to be an interminable crisis, many businesses assumed China would be a good fallback. At the end of 2011, the world looks rather different. Now the main speculation concerns whether China's landing will be hard or soft. Businesses are newly wary; capital is starting to flow out. This turned out to be a year in which investors and managers started asking some new questions about China. Here are three that will be on a lot of minds in 2012: • Will China ever transition to domestic consumption? Often presented as a matter of macroeconomic rebalancing, this one has micro implications, too. When foreigners say they "want China to consume more," they quietly add "of our products" at the end of the sentence. So far, foreign producers of consumer goods and heavy equipment have enjoyed some success. Chinese are buying more shampoo, batteries, computers and tractors as they grow more prosperous, and some of those products are foreign-made. But consumption as a proportion of the economy still falls far short of where it ought to be, and consumer goods will go only part way to making up the difference. The real consumption challenge will be services, which also happens to be an area where countries such as the U.S. have a strong comparative advantage and could be exporting much more to China. Here Beijing remains stubbornly closed, not least for political reasons—services can be dangerous to autocrats for the interpersonal connections they foster, as service-provider Google discovered in 2010. As an added twist, during 2011 Beijing transformed this from a simple economic matter into a political credibility test. The government promised in its new Five-Year Plan to encourage more domestic consumption. Those who think this transition will happen argue that if Beijing says it will happen, Beijing will find some way to make sure it does. But will that hold true for consumption? While an investment-led growth model provides easy opportunities to pull levers (as long as the investment is done by a relatively discrete set of state-connected companies), true domestic consumption puts you at the mercy of 1.4 billion consumers. • How "real" are Chinese companies? This year has seen many Western investors become newly alert to fraud risks at Chinese companies listed in Canada, the U.S. or Europe. What started around this time last year as a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission fulmination against an obscure bit of financial engineering—the reverse takeover—has grown into a spate of delistings, shareholder lawsuits and regulatory investigations amid auditor resignations, charges of accounting irregularities, and a short-selling frenzy. This is a microeconomic story with macro implications. Some of these companies may be outright frauds. But for many others, a plausible theory is that they are legitimate companies that have dressed themselves up as "frauds" to navigate China's stifling regulatory environment. Such is a charitable interpretation of the most famous blow-up to date, Toronto-listed Sino-Forest, whose complex corporate structure may well be designed chiefly to secure its forest assets in China absent normal property-rights protections. Ponder for a moment what this state of affairs means for China. Why are its most entrepreneurial private-sector companies listing overseas at all? Why can't they access sufficient capital at home? And what does it mean for China's economic development that these companies find it so difficult to operate completely above-board? Can a sustainable economy be built on the back of a regulatory system that encourages—perhaps forces—firms to fudge their books? • What about Indonesia? One surprising theme for 2011 has been growing investor interest in Indonesia. No wonder, given 6% growth rates and a large potential consumer base coming online as the economy picks up pace. Suddenly investors seem less deterred than they used to be by Jakarta's infamous traffic jams and endemic corruption. The "Indonesia story" is part of a broader trend, as investors have rediscovered all the non-China parts of Asia. Thailand is set to throw out a welcome mat for foreign investors as it tries to recover from devastating flooding. Low-end manufacturers are heading to Cambodia. This year's anticorruption crusade in India evidences rising popular discontent with government, which could one day provide an impetus for more competitive economic policies. Foreign businesses are anxiously waiting the first opportunity to head to India. Even staid old Japan may soon be up for a rethink if participation in a Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal (a last-ditch effort by Tokyo to revive its stagnant economy) opens new opportunities for foreigners. All of which means that China can no longer count on being the only appealing prospect on the horizon. *** None of these questions necessarily presages a Chinese collapse in 2012. But they do suggest businesses and investors will be looking at China with new, more critical eyes in the new year. The most important question of all: How well will China stand up under that scrutiny? ------------------------------------------------ Mr. Sternberg edits the Business Asia column.

共产与纳粹的比较 Why Doesn't Communism Have as Bad a Name as Nazism?

共产的邪恶 The Evil of Communism

Mao's Statue in the Nixon Library, California 尼克松图书馆中的毛塑像 陈凯博客： www.kaichenblog.blogspot.com 陈凯一语： Kai Chen's Words: 普瑞格尔（Dennis Prager）的这篇文章分析了为什么今天在世界上人们仍不认知共产的邪恶，甚至对共产邪念抱有幻梦。 我希望人们能在这篇文章中对邪恶的力量与人们的道德混乱有清晰与足够的认识。 Dennis Prager's article analyzes why today people in the world, especially those of left-leaning in the West, still have illusions about communism and still cannot come to term with the evil of communism. I only hope people read this article and start thinking deeply about this crucial issue of our time. Why Doesn't Communism Have as Bad a Name as Nazism? 共产与纳粹的比较 By: Dennis Prager FrontPageMagazine.com | Tuesday, March 24, 2009 Why is it that when people want to describe particularly evil individuals or regimes, they use the terms "Nazi" or "Fascist" but almost never "Communist?" Given the amount the human suffering Communists have caused - 70 million killed in China, 20-30 million in the former Soviet Union, and almost one-third of all Cambodians; the decimation of Tibetan and Chinese culture; totalitarian enslavement of North Koreans, Chinese, Vietnamese, and Russians; a generation deprived of human rights in Cuba; and much more -- why is "Communist" so much less a term of revulsion than "Nazi?" There are Mao Restaurants in major cities in the Western world. Can one imagine Hitler Restaurants? Che Guevara T-shirts are ubiquitous, yet there are no Heinrich Himmler T-shirts. This question is of vital significance. First, without moral clarity, humanity has little chance of avoiding a dark future. Second, the reasons for this moral imbalance tell us a great deal about ourselves today. Here, then, are seven reasons. 1.Communists murdered their own people; the Nazis murdered others. Under Mao about 70 million people died - nearly all in peacetime! - virtually all of them Chinese. Likewise, the approximately 30 million people that Stalin had killed were nearly all Russians, and those who were not Russian, Ukrainians for example, were members of other Soviet nationalities. The Nazis, on the other hand, killed very few fellow Germans. Their victims were Jews, Slavs, and members of other "non-Aryan" and "inferior" groups. "World opinion" - that vapid amoral concept - deems the murder of members of one's group far less noteworthy than the murder of outsiders. That is one reason why blacks killing millions of fellow blacks in the Congo right now elicits no attention from "world opinion." But if an Israeli soldier is charged with having killed a Gaza woman and two children, it makes the front page of world newspapers. 2.Communism is based on lovely sounding theories; Nazism is based on heinous sounding theories. Intellectuals, among whom are the people who write history, are seduced by words -- so much so that deeds are deemed considerably less significant. Communism's words are far more intellectually and morally appealing than the moronic and vile racism of Nazism. The monstrous evils of communists have not been focused on nearly as much as the monstrous deeds of the Nazis. The former have been regularly dismissed as perversions of a beautiful doctrine (though Christians who committed evil in the name of Christianity are never regarded by these same people as having perverted a beautiful doctrine), whereas Nazi atrocities have been perceived (correctly) as the logical and inevitable results of Nazi ideology. This seduction by words while ignoring deeds has been a major factor in the ongoing appeal of the left to intellectuals. How else explain the appeal of a Che Guevara or Fidel Castro to so many left-wing intellectuals, other than that they care more about beautiful words than about vile deeds? 3.Germans have thoroughly exposed the evils of Nazism, have taken responsibility for them, and attempted to atone for them. Russians have not done anything similar regarding Lenin's or Stalin's horrors. Indeed, an ex-KGB man runs Russia, Lenin is still widely revered, and, in the words of University of London Russian historian Donald Rayfield, "people still deny by assertion or implication, Stalin's holocaust." Nor has China in any way exposed the greatest mass murderer and enslaver of them all, Mao Zedong. Mao remains revered in China. Until Russia and China acknowledge the evil their states have done under communism, communism's evils will remain less acknowledged by the world than the evils of the German state under Hitler. 4.Communism won, Nazism lost. And the winners write history. 5.Nothing matches the Holocaust. The rounding up of virtually every Jewish man, woman, child, and baby on the European continent and sending them to die is unprecedented and unparalleled. The communists killed far more people than the Nazis did but never matched the Holocaust in the systemization of murder. The uniqueness of the Holocaust and the enormous attention paid to it since then has helped ensure that Nazism has a worse name than communism. 6.There is, simply put, widespread ignorance of communist atrocities compared to those of the Nazis. Whereas, both right and left loathe Nazism and teach its evil history, the left dominates the teaching profession, and therefore almost no one teaches communist atrocities. As much as intellectuals on the left may argue that they loathe Stalin or the North Korean regime, few on the left loathe communism. As the French put it, "pas d'enemis a la gauche," which in English means "no enemies on the left." This is certainly true of Chinese, Vietnamese, and Cuban communism. Check your local university's courses and see how many classes are given on communist totalitarianism or mass murder compared to the number of classes about Nazism's immoral record. 7.Finally, in the view of the left, the last "good war" America fought was World War II, the war against German and Japanese fascism. The left does not regard America's wars against communist regimes as good wars. The war against Vietnamese communism is regarded as immoral and the war against Korean (and Chinese) communism is simply ignored. Until the left and all the institutions influenced by the left acknowledge how evil communism has been, we will continue to live in a morally confused world. Conversely, the day the left does come to grips with communism's legacy of human destruction, it will be a very positive sign that the world's moral compass has begun to correct itself. --------------------------------------------------------------- Dennis Prager hosts a nationally syndicated radio talk show based in Los Angeles. He is the author of four books, most recently "Happiness is a Serious Problem" (HarperCollins). His website is www.dennisprager.com. To find out more about Dennis Prager, visit the Creators Syndicate Web page at www.creators.com.