Monday, May 12, 2008

China a bigger threat than Bin Laden and his 'motley crew'

World leaders ask for China to display more transparency on their investments in their military spending! Doesn't this story and the recent news of a below seabed submarine base near the Indian border offer enough clues to China's agenda?

I's time to get our heads out of the sand. Take a look at history at read how the UK and USA thought that Hitler's military build-up was nothing to be worried about.

It will soon reach a point where China will take a bold aggressive stance on some global issue, and challenge someone to knock the chip off their shoulders. If you think Bin Laden and his motley crew are a problem, then think again. China will make 9/11 look like a walk in the park.

Michael Squires
Sydney, Australia

Monday, May 12, 2008

China got too powerful too fast

It's in the interest of the U.S. to balance the rest of the world.

It's in the interest of China to dominate the rest of the world.

It would take at least 2 generations for China to understand this. They got their power too fast. So now we're in a situation where both countries will be required to treat each other so very, very badly.

Thomas Pfaff
an Francisco, Ca.

Friday, May 9, 2008

China threat? Well duh

Why has it taken 20 years for these military bureaucrats to see this? And where were their voices when Clinton sold them advanced military technology? China considers itself the cradle of civilization and, in the end, the civilization which, therefore, should guide the world. Their desire for world hegemony is inevitable.

And because of their one child policy which has led to the mass abortion of girls, they have 110 million unmarriable men that they can waste in war while at the same time stabilizing their populace by gender, either by getting their men killed and/or by hauling off other countries' women.

Finally these four star idiots have turned on the radar.

Will
Chowchilla, Ca.

Friday, May 9, 2008

China a threat? Only in your ignorant mind

Your column on the Chinese military threat is pointless, not well-researched and one-sided. You should Chinese history and understand Chinese affairs.

How many times had China ever invaded other countries in her long history? Most of her military conflicts with others neighboring countries were defensive in nature. She had never sent her forces to out of her ways places as the U.S. has done in the past or even nowadays.

China has more than enough problems of her own without attacking other countries now. And China has no intention to do so in the future.

Your article on this is totally baseless and out of line.

George Cheng
Santa clara, Ca.

Wednesday, April 30, 2008

How's Koch doing? In the tank for Hillary, that's how

Ed Koch said in his article "I believe that, if he is the Democratic candidate for president, Senator Obama will lose in November." I smell agenda … yup, that’s the smell, scrape that Clinton bias off your shoe Ed. Obama will do just fine, with or without the bigot vote.

Thistle Rose
Savannah GA

Wednesday, April 30, 2008

Barbara Walters: Where's the outrage?

Barbara Walters revelation of an ancient tryst; what an horrific attempt to assuage the ego! What?, the "ole grey mare' couldn't just retire quietly and go in peace; How pathetic!

Gina Rebich
Orange, Texas

Wednesday, April 30, 2008

Good news from — and for — Iraq

Iraq needs the oil output increase, and it is timely they are increasing revenues and the central government is sharing the money and helping with rebuilding efforts and expenses. This helps our chances for success against radicals in that region. Thank you for the report.

Donnie G. Cheesman
Elizabeth, AR

Friday, April 11, 2008

On that luxury embassy in Baghdad, one taxpayer wants Washington to 'get a grip'

I would like to know how our government can erect a massive, luxurious, and extravagant embassy at a cost of $474 million when the national debt is already in the trillions. This figure does not even cover operating expenses which, I'm sure, will be enormous.

It appears that we are in Iraq to stay. I am a conservative taxpayer. I try to live within my means, but it is getting more and more difficult with the steady increase of food and fuel prices. If the "pork" is taken out of the Senate and House bills, this revenue could go far in funding necessities for those in our own country and possibly decreasing the national debt.

Our legislators need to "get a grip." Evidently they have ways of avoiding the hardships that we "common folk" have to endure.

I am also all for eliminating the secret service for ex-presidents and their families. Heaven only knows that they are wealthy enough to afford their own protection if they should so desire. Our country is very unbalanced and has strayed far from the basis upon which it was founded. God help us!!!

Cherise Miller
Ringgold, Georgia

Friday, April 11, 2008

Yay 'strong and wealthy China'; Boo 'bad-mouth' western media

China is strong and will be stronger with lots of support from its national people, overseas Chinese and many others who know and love China. We strongly support the Chinese government for it has carried out policies to make a better life for Chinese people.

The bad-mouth from CNN and western media shows the dark side of them under the name of civilization. It is so powerless and can never stop China from becoming a great country.

All over the world Chinese are united to support and develop a strong and wealthy China.

Eunice
Hong Kong

Friday, April 11, 2008

Using the military against religious minorities in China . . . and Texas

I share your concerns about China and I am doing my part for my country.

But I am questioning why our government is sending tanks with mounted machine guns (see yahoo pics) against this religious group in Texas. All over one teenagers' accusation. Note that they released the accused from custody.

"Who is John Gault?" - Ayn Rand - Atlas Shrugged

John Caras
Austin, Texas

Friday, April 11, 2008

Most Overseas Chinese are backing Beijing, speaking for myself at least

It appears to all you “free world media” that anyone doing anything supporting Chinese government or Chinese people has the Chinese government behind them. Shame on you and wake up!

Millions of Chinese living in U.S. and Europe are so disgusted by the bias, arrogant, sometimes even racial or simple false reports on the whole Tibetan issues.

We are extremely angry and generally supportive to the actions taken by the Chinese government. If you think Chinese government has no support, you are fooling you self.

You can either continue hide you head in the sand or wake up and accept the fact! If you don't believe, try taking a polling in U.S. on Chinese to see it.

Larry Li
St. Paul, MN
liyuan88@hotmail.com

Friday, April 11, 2008

'Disgusting' anti-China bias from western media

I graduated from Peking University and I know one of the founder of anti-cnn is a graduate of Tsinghus University. If you know something about China you may know that students in these two universities are very independent, and there is no way to control students there. That is also why they were very active in Tiananmen Incident in 1989.

I have been in USA for about 10 years and I used to trust western media very much when I was in China. But I don't any more after I came to U.S.A. I can't remember when it started, but definitely not starting from the riot of XiZang (so called Tibet) recently when all the western media are trying to describe the arsonists and criminals as victims, and ignore the real victims including an 18-month baby who were burned to death, who were killed, who were seriouly injured, whose houses and shops were burned, damaged and robbed. Don't tell me anything about human rights.

Don't say that I am controlled by the Chinese government. No one can control me, no matter it was Chinese govermernt or U.S. government, no matter I was in China or am here. Don't say I can't access western so called "true" information. I can access any resource unless something is filtered by U.S. government. I am independent and I have my own opinions. Yet I don't trust western media.

Is it ironical? I trusted western media when I was in China but not any more after I stayed in U.S.A for so many years.

You suspect the anti-cnn is sponsored by the government. Let me ask you, how did you get this conclusion? Do you really know the government sponsored this web site? Do you have any proof? Can you show me to convince me?

This is really disgusting. We need real story from both sides, we want to hear different voices. Give the chance to the victims of the riot in XiZang, let their voices heard, and you can regain the trust of well-educated Chinese middle class like me and the founder of anti-cnn. Don't forget they are more than the population of U.S.A.

Jenny Liu
Herndon, VA
Jennyliu2003@gmail.com

Friday, April 11, 2008

Given new Cyber war realities, why is U.S. military still using the Internet?

As someone who has worked in the Telecom/IT industry for over 36 years, I still find it amazing that our military uses the public Internet for "anything". Yes, it would cost more if the military had it's very own physically and logically, isolated, private network, transmission systems and all But the price may be nothing compared to what may come if the Chinese or any other foreign power could easily cripple our military's IT infrastructure in a time of need.

Since I worked on military communications systems a long time ago, i.e., the original CONUS AUTOVON, I recall that the military voice networks were always separate from the public networks. Cost reduction was the reason for merging the infrastructures. Modern cyber-warfare could (and should) force a re-visitation of that decision.

Leonard Yanoff
Sterling, VA

Friday, April 11, 2008

Cyber command story should be wakeup call for 'over 50' corporate executives

Good Read!! I am a cyber security professional and I appreciate this type of coverage. It helps us get our point across the over 50 executive club who still think all this computer mumbo jumbo is BS. They tend to pass todays experts off as just some expense that federal regulations require them to have. A and I don't work for a small company either .... lets just say it's one of the companies that would be a target.

TC
New Jersey

Friday, April 11, 2008

Dear round-eye reporter: Come to China [for interviews with hackers?]

Hello, I'm a Chinese. From your news, I find a similar fact: Some reporters in Western [world] like you can compile news without investigation, studying and professional morals. If you have chance, you are welcome to China to see what the fact is, and what a reporter should be. Thanks.

W
China

Friday, April 11, 2008

Dear round-eye reporter: All we are saying is give peace a chance

I am a normal Chinese citizen, and I didn't know whether or not our government support the anti-cnn web site. I can't prove it isn't, but I believed you can't prove it is too. I am sure I am not a guy who was employed by government. I would like to express my point to you and hope it is useful. I think what the most important it not whether government support anti-cnn, it is whether normal Chinese poeple support it. I love my country and nation, and I like to communicate with your West world, it is good for me to understand West culture and all of the world. Meanwhile, I hope you and your West world can realize China and East culture too. Maybe China would be a competitor to your country and West world. Let's pick a way by ourselves, it is just freedom we want, give a peace to the world. Thanks.

Simon
Shanghai, China

Friday, April 11, 2008

White House computers hit by virus, not by Chinese hackers

In the article "U.S. Air Force sets up cyberspace command against continuing China attacks" published today, April 10, 2008, the author mentions that the White House web site was hacked in 2001 by the Chinese. The White House web site has never been hacked by the Chinese. Over the years, particular groups of hackers have compromised the White Houses site, but in the 2001 incident, the site was not actually hacked, it was hit by a computer virus that claimed included a message that said "Hacked by Chinese." The fact of the matter is that the virus never made it past the web site's security, and was actually from a group of hackers called GlobalHell.

Niko Tzoumas
Tampa, Florida

Wednesday, April 9, 2008

Tibet protests are justified, China's polices are not: Boycott the Olympics

The Tibetan unrest is justified and as the Chinese have not made even an iota effort during the past 60 years to settle the problem in an agreeable manner. The Olympics should be boycotted by the world nations until a just solution is found to the Tibetan problem. The Chinese ruling clique should not be supported and that country should be cut down to size.

O Jagannadh
Visakhapatnam, India

Wednesday, April 9, 2008

Pennsylvania and the election belong to Hillary!

Please tell Ed Koch not to worry. Barack Obama's numbers are down in Pennsylvania as revealed by the latest "U.S.A. Survey" poll in Pa. Hillary Clinton 56 percent and Barack Obama 38 percent. She will win Pa. with double digits and then the Superdelegates will really have to ask themselves, "who can win the general election?" The answer will be plain as day," Hillary Clinton." PRAISE GOD!!!

Katie McCants
San Marino Calif.

Wednesday, April 2, 2008

Israel exercise or the real thing?

I'm wondering if Israel's nationwide defensive war drill scheduled for the week of April 6, 2008 is perhaps much more than a practice drill. Is the announcement of the drill perhaps a cover to permit Israel to prepare itself for Iranian and Syrian retaliation in response to an imminent U.S. strike on Iran? A number of other important ominous signs indicate such a U.S. strike may indeed be imminent. If it is, and if it has been scheduled for the Week of April 6, Israel's defensive war drill would be a brilliant way to get set for the effects of the U.S. strike.

W. Joseph Stroupe,
editor_in_chief@geostrategymap.com
Colorado Springs, Colorado

Friday, March 14, 2008

China extends its suppression of Taiwan to global organizations . . .

I was pleased to read your thorough coverage of the cross-Strait situation between China and Taiwan in the March 14 article, “China’s military surge looks beyond Taiwan.” Taiwan is indeed constantly threatened by China’s military behemoth and is struggling to preserve its vibrant and economically successful democracy against such suppression and saber-rattling, which flies in the face of Beijing’s promises to clean up its human rights record in preparation for hosting the 2008 Olympic Games.

Furthermore, China irresponsibly keeps Taiwan out of the World Health Organization (WHO) in the same way it bans Taiwan from the United Nations, meaning that Taiwan is often cut off from vital health information such as how to limit the spread of new diseases. Taiwan’s inability to participate in international organizations affects us all; therefore it is my sincere hope that the United States and other leading nations will support Taiwan when it reapplies for WHO membership this May.

Eddy Tsai, Director
Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Office
Washington, D.C.

Sunday, Feb. 17, 2008

Not on board with the China Express . . .

This doesn't surprise me. What does surprise me is how quick the many American executives I've talked to are willing to concede the next century to China.

Perhaps, they should pick up a copy of the Art of War.

Sun Tzu: An opponent's great weakness is always next to its greatest strength.

John Murray
Irvine, California

Sunday, Feb. 17, 2008

If you knew China like I knew China . . .

It never ceases to amaze me: another article pointing out the problems and negatives of China's economy by citizens whose economy can't come close to China's boom of the past years.

There are two Chinas: the one I see when I visit there on business and the one I read about in the Western media.

Don't worry boys and girls: the Chinese have NEVER in their history lived so well or been so happy and optimistic.

James Fees
Las Vegas, Nevada

Sunday, Feb. 3, 2008

Bye bye Miss American Pie

Benjamin Franklin, the great genius of the 18th century and not unknown to us Mericans, once famously said, "You have a democracy, if you can keep it."

Well, fellow Americans, we, you and I lost and trashed our democracy, the Declaration of Independence, The Constitution and the Bill of Rights.

Good night and good luck.

Stephen Bennett
Burlingam, California

Sunday, Feb. 3, 2008

Annoyed with the 'old media' and its 'blackout' of Ron Paul

I am very disappointed with the almost complete media blackout of Dr. Ron Paul. The Associated press reported early this week that Paul has beaten former Massachusets Gov. Mitt Romney in the Louisiana GOP caucus by placing 2nd overall. I can not understand why my local newspaper could overlook this.

If you care about your unalienable rights as a free citizen, you should . . . . be very annoyed and upset with the old media. From what I have observed, the media do not care about your rights and they do not care about you. If you care about America, you will think about finding an alternative or demanding a change.

The future of freedom and limited government rest in your hands. So far, the media have shown what side they are on.

Vera Martin
Buhl, Idaho

Monday, Jan. 28, 2008

As a matter of fact, U.S. headway vs. Al Qaida is news

Thank you for the information you're getting out about the progress our military is making against Al Qaida cells and the destruction of their caches & safe havens.

I certainly don't hear this type of news on TV (even on Fox which is supposed to be fair and balanced!) and certainly not on Yahoo headline news, where I get most of my news.

Janice McClanahan
Hillsboro, OH

Monday, Jan. 14, 2008

Looking back on time well-spent with the 'awesome people' in Anbar

Al Anbar is the province in which I operated. I hope that all goes according to plan there, safely and smoothly.

I really became attached to the Iraqi interpreters, soldiers, and citizens. I feel we started something - maybe some things I would have gone about differently - but regardless, we have the responsibility of finishing it. For the sake of the awesome Iraqi people that I met, and for my friends in the military, I hope that the transition to a functioning Iraqi security force can take place as soon as safely possible.

It feels good to be able to tell a friend that I think I made a bit of difference within a bigger scheme. I hope that soon the people I connected with can continue on with their own lives.

David Morgante
New York, NY
morgantedr@gmail.com