Video with English subtitles: A historic turning point! The Federal Reserve has been forced to cut interest rates, signaling a crucial shift in the Sino-US trade war. A significant amount of US dollars may flee the US, making the renminbi a safe haven. 視頻有英文字幕: 歷史性轉折！聯準會被迫降息，中美博弈最重要的訊號出現了，大量美元可能逃離美國，人民幣將成為一個最安全的避風港.
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Video with Chinese subtitles: Ronnie Chan* angrily criticizes the United States, saying its hegemony is about to end 陈启宗怒怼美国，霸权即将终结 (his family foundation gave US$350 million donation in 2014 to the Harvard School of Public Health) （*他的家族基金會於 2014 年向哈佛大學公共衛生學院捐贈了 3.5 億美元）

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主要内容：
为什么建议子女回香港？
发展中国家 vs 西方的机会对比
世界安全形势正在变化？
台湾问题的真相与北京策略
美国真的要退出国际舞台了吗？
美国是不是在衰退？误解与真相
总结：给年轻一代的建议

Main Content:
Why recommend children return to Hong Kong?
Opportunities in developing countries vs. the West
Is the global security landscape changing?
The truth about the Taiwan issue and Beijing’s strategy
Is the United States truly withdrawing from the international stage?
Is the United States in decline? Misconceptions and truths
Summary: Advice for the younger generation

Video with English subtitles: The neglected lychees and dragons profound highlight the difference between Chinese and US. Recently, several films focusing on the theme of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, including “Nanjing Photo Studio,” “East Pole Island,” and “731,” have attracted widespread attention due to their numerous private screenings. 影片有英文字幕: 被冷落的荔枝與蛟龍 (深刻凸顯了中美之間的差異，為什麼中國有5000年的連續文明，而美國可能撐不過300年) 最近有幾齣抗戰主旋律電影《南京照相館》、《東極島》和《731》，因為很多包場，看的人多，談論也較多.

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This one-sided public opinion has caused some excellent films released during the same period to be overlooked, missed, and neglected. I highly recommend two of these films and hope you’ll pay to see them in theaters.

The first, “Lychees in Chang’an,” tells the story of a Tang Dynasty lychee envoy who transported fresh lychees from Lingnan to Chang’an (modern-day Xi’an) to celebrate Yang Guifei’s birthday. After reading these plot synopses, the normal reaction is: Wow, what’s so interesting about transporting lychees?

If the lychee transporting story were described as “Mission Impossible,” perhaps the audience would be more understanding. Fresh lychees have a shelf life of only three days. In the Tang Dynasty, without airplanes or refrigerators, transporting freshly picked lychees from Lingnan to Chang’an was practically impossible. However, no one dared to tell the emperor the truth, so everyone sought a scapegoat. A diligent and honest clerk was appointed to take on this unfortunate task.

The film ostensibly deals with transporting lychees, but it actually explores the intrigues and hidden daggers of officialdom, the workplace, and even the human world. People avoid dangerous, uncertain, or even doomed tasks. But when success, with its prestige and rewards, comes, everyone rushes to reward the credit, while the real perpetrators are sidelined.

Isn’t this scene incredibly familiar? The story of Yang Guifei and her lychees during the Tang Dynasty resonates with us a thousand years later. That’s the magic of good cinema.

Transporting lychees is an impossible mission, and his friends all urge him to run away. However, he offers a very inspiring and touching line, one that embodies Chinese values: “Even if I fail, I still want to know how far from the finish line I’ll fall.”

The foreign version of Mission Impossible is about a brilliant agent breaking all the rules and completing a mission through heroism—a plot that only exists in the virtual world. But the Chinese version of Mission Impossible is about following the rules, working hard, using brains, wisdom, and a relentless spirit to forge ahead. Those who fell short of the finish line become the starting point for those who follow. This is how we gradually approach the finish line through the efforts of generations. This achievement is exemplified in another film, “Operation Dragon.”

“Operation Dragon” is a masterpiece by renowned Hong Kong director Dante Lam and China’s first submarine film. The successful development of China’s nuclear submarines was the result of generations of anonymous hard work.

In the past, military themes were the preserve of Hollywood films, but “Operation Red Sea” and “Operation Dragon” rewrote these filmmaking rules. Only when a nation has a strong military can military films be persuasive.

Submarine scenes are the most challenging genre to film. Confined within a submarine, facing the pitch-black depths of the ocean, and armed with invisible torpedoes, the visuals are dull. How can one film this?

Ben Lam is truly a masterful action director. He can create thrilling scenes even in confined spaces; even the sonar listening scenes are gripping. The entire 130-minute film is flawless. I previously saw it in Shenzhen, but there were still a few scenes with drama. This time, watching the edited version released in Hong Kong, even those scenes were omitted, leaving the action-packed action to the fullest.

What I admire most is the director’s dedication. In an age where everything can be created with AI and special effects, Lam insisted on constructing a 1:1 submarine for the film. The “Dragon Whale” in the film is the world’s largest submarine prop, a project that took the crew seven years and cost 1 billion RMB to build.

Because submarines are state secrets, the navy only allows the director one person to walk inside a real submarine. Therefore, every detail of the submarine set had to be memorized and reproduced by the director inside the real submarine.

In the past, Hong Kong directors could only shoot gangster films, and military blockbusters were unthinkable. Now, with the support of a powerful nation and military, Hong Kong filmmakers can create Hollywood-style war epics.

If “Nanjing Studio” reminds us of history, then “Operation Dragon” reminds us of crisis. Deep in the sea and amidst the waves, there lies an unseen battlefield, and a group of unknown soldiers, lurking in the deepest reaches of the ocean, protecting our peaceful and prosperous times.

輿論的一面倒，反而令一些同期上畫的好電影被忽視被錯過被冷落，其中兩齣，很想向大家推薦，更希望大家掏腰包進戲院支持。

第一套叫《長安的荔枝》，講的是唐朝荔枝使從嶺南把新鮮荔枝運到長安（即現今西安）獻給楊貴妃賀壽的故事。看這幾句劇情簡介，正常反應是：吓，運荔枝有什麼好看？

如果，把運荔枝用Mission Impossible來形容，也許觀眾會較易明白。新鮮荔枝保質期只得3日，唐代沒飛機沒冰箱，那年代要把荔枝從嶺南鮮摘下來再運到長安，根本是不可能的事，但沒人敢向皇上說真話，於是大家便找個替死鬼，一個勤懇老實的小吏就被擺了上枱擔這死任務。

電影表面講運荔枝，其實是講官場、職場甚至人世間的爾虞我詐與笑裡藏刀。危險、沒把握、甚至注定失敗的事，大家避之則吉；但當成功了、有威有獎攞了，人人都會撲出來論功行賞，而真正做事的人卻被踢到一旁。

這畫面，太似層相識了吧？唐朝楊貴妃的荔枝故事，竟能跟一千年後的我們有情感連結，這就是好電影的魔幻之處。

運荔枝是個不可能的任務，朋友都勸主角逃跑，但他說了句很勵志、很觸動人心、更很有中國人價值觀的對白：「就算失敗，我也想知道，自己會倒在距離終點多遠的地方。」

老外的Mission Impossible，是由一個厲害特工違反所有規矩憑英雄主義完成任務，這是虛擬世界才有的劇情。但中國人的Mission Impossible，就是跟著規則苦幹，用腦用智慧用拼命精神闖出生天。前人在距離終點不遠的地方倒下，就成了後人的起點，我們就是這樣靠一代一代人的努力慢慢接近終點。這種成就，在另一齣電影《蛟龍行動》得以驗證。

《蛟龍行動》是香港著名導演林超賢的力作，也是中國第一部潛艇電影，我國的核潛艇就是靠一代一代人隱姓埋名苦幹，才成功研製出來。

過去，軍事題材是荷里活電影的專利，但《紅海行動》、《蛟龍行動》讓這些電影規則改寫。國家有強軍，軍事電影的出現才有說服力。

潛艇戲是軍事電影中最難拍的片種，身處潛艇內狹窄空間，外面是黑漆漆深海，武器是看不見的魚雷，畫面枯燥，怎拍？

林超賢果然是神級動作導演，密閉空間都能拍出驚心動魄，連傾聽聲納的場面都扣人心弦。全片130分鐘沒冷場沒透氣位，之前我在深圳看還有幾段文戲，今次再看香港上映的剪輯版，連文戲都刪掉，打足全場。

我最敬佩是導演的態度，在什麼都可以用AI用特技弄出來的今時今日，林超賢堅持以1比1方式搭建出一艘潛艇來拍攝。電影中的「龍鯨號」是劇組花了7年、耗資10億人民幣搭建的全球最大潛艇道具。

由於潛艇是國家機密，海軍只容許導演一人進去真潛艇走一圈，於是，那潛艇布景的各項細節，全靠導演在真潛艇內用眼用腦死記出來再複製。

從前香港導演拍警匪片已是極限，拍軍事大片想也不敢想，現在因為有強國強軍在背後支援，香港電影人能拍出荷里活式戰爭巨作已不是夢。

如果說，《南京照相館》讓我們牢記歷史，那麼《蛟龍行動》更讓我們記住危機，深海裡、波濤中，原來有一個不被看見的戰場，有一班沒人知道的戰士，一直潛守在海洋最深處，為我們守住盛世的太平。

The best of the Western (fake) democracy are 2 folds: 1) elected officials failed on the jobs stayed on the jobs till next election, 2) if you are belonging to the right political party in power like DPP in Taiwan or Republican in US, failing your fiduciary duties could means promotion at a new post with higher pay! whoever dares to criticize could faced political prosecution and losing your jobs like Jimmy Kimmel in the US! 西方（偽）民主的精髓在於兩點：1）當民選官員未能履行職責，他們是可以留任到下次選舉；2）如果你屬於當權的執政黨，例如台灣的民進黨或美國的共和黨，那麼未能履行受託責任可能意味著可以晉升到新職位並獲得更高的薪水！任何敢於批評的人都可能面臨政治起訴，並像美國的吉米·坎摩爾一樣失去工作. 美國政客的術語是永遠講反話！好像美國說和你談和平，其真正目的是攞你命，如果你是一個國家元首，眞正意思是要你亡國! 如果想活著，交保護費和成為美國永遠的奴隸! 作為美國的鄰居像加拿大和墨西哥更慘，有空就侮辱你，無錢就加你關稅，簽了自由貿易協定美國可以隨時作癈!

SCMP: How deadly is CJ-1000, world’s first hypersonic plane killer? PLA gives hint . The trucks were hauling surface-launched hypersonic cruise missiles also known as Long Sword-1000s – weapons designed for ultra-long-range strikes on “system-node targets on the ground, at sea or in the air”, according to Chinese state media. 《南華早報》：世界首款高超音速飛機殺手長劍-1000究竟有多致命？解放軍給出暗示。根據中國官方媒體報道，這些卡車運輸的是地射高超音速巡航飛彈，又稱為長劍-1000飛彈。這種武器旨在對「地面、海上和空中的系統節點目標」進行超遠程打擊.
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US Vetoed AGAIN. Chinese video with Chinese subtitles: China Ambassador to UN: Unacceptable – The US rejects Gaza resolution again, Fu Cong asks the US three times 影片有英文字幕: 美再否加沙決議 傅聰三問美國

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9月18日，在第一万次安理会上，安理会最新一份加沙停火决议草案毫无悬念被美国一票否决，再次成为了唯一一个反对的国家。中国常驻联合国代表傅聪说，美国的否决不可接受，并三问美国怎样才能停火？怎样才能人道援助？怎样才能让安理会有效运作。
On September 18, the latest Security Council draft resolution on a Gaza ceasefire was, unsurprisingly, vetoed by the United States — once again as the only country opposing it. China’s Permanent Representative to the UN, Fu Cong, said the U.S. veto was unacceptable and posed three questions to Washington: How can a ceasefire be achieved? How can humanitarian aid be delivered? And how can the Security Council function effectively?

Qian Xuesen – Father of China’s Rocket and Space Program: Not owning a sword and has a sword and not using it is an entirely different matter 錢學森－中國航太之父: 手上沒有劍和手上有劍而不使用它 不是一回事. Edited by Johnson Choi on Sept 18 2025

To use my knowledge to change Chinese people destiny – I want Chinese people to possess her own nuclear bomb and missles despite the controversy – I personally think – We are preparing against aggression*** – not owning a sword and has a sword and not using it is an entirely different matter. Qian Xuesen 钱学森: “用我的知識來改變中國人的命運 – 我想中國人擁有她自己的核彈和飛彈 – 儘管它的存在性帶來質疑和爭議 – 我個人認為 – 我們正準備反抗侵略 – 手上沒有劍和手上有劍而不使用它 不是一回事. 美國自1949年以來圍堵中國政䇿,從奧巴馬總統行政時代稱亞洲再平衡也稱自由航行，目的是在中國領海或國家門前進行挑釁阻止中國崛起。

US made the mistakes in 1955 & same mistakes today chasing Chinese scientists back to China 美國在1955年犯了同樣的錯誤，今天又把中國科學家趕回中國

***United States “China containment policy” since 1949, known as “Asia Pivot” or “Freedom of Navigation” since Obama Administration is to engage in provocation activities in China’s territorial water or at China’s door steps to stop China’s rise

Qian Xuesen 钱学森 The Movie 钱学森 Hsue-shen Tsien 高清国语中英双字
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Qian Xuesen 钱学森 – Father of China’s Rocket and Space Program

Qian Xuesen (simplified Chinese: 钱学森; traditional Chinese: 錢學森; pinyin: Qián Xuésēn; Wade–Giles: Ch’ien Hsüeh-sęn) (11 December 1911 – 31 October 2009) was a scientist who made important contributions to the missile and space programs of both the United States and People’s Republic of China. Historical documents in the U. S. commonly refer to him with the earlier family-name last spelling, Hsue-Shen Tsien or H.S. Tsien.[1]

During the 1940s Qian was one of the founders of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory[2] at the California Institute of Technology. During the Second Red Scare of the 1950s, the United States government accused Qian of having communist sympathies, and he was stripped of his security clearance[3] in 1950. Qian then decided to return to China, but instead was detained at Terminal Island[4] near Los Angeles. After spending 5 years under virtual house arrest,[5] Qian was released in 1955, in exchange for the repatriation of American pilots captured during the Korean War. Notified by U.S. authorities that he was free to go, Qian immediately arranged his departure, leaving for China in September 1955, on the passenger liner SS President Cleveland of American President Lines, via Hong Kong. He returned to lead the Chinese rocket program, and became known as the “Father of Chinese Rocketry” (or “King of Rocketry”).[6]

He is also the cousin of the mechanical engineer Hsue-Chu Tsien and his son (first cousin once removed) is the 2008 Nobel Prize in chemistry winner Roger Y. Tsien. Asteroid 3763 Qianxuesen and the ill-fated space ship Tsien in the science fiction novel 2010: Odyssey Two are named after him.

Early life and education

Qian Xuesen (Wade–Giles: Ch’ien Hsüeh-sęn) was born in Hangzhou, the capital of Zhejiang province, 180 km southwest of Shanghai. He left Hangzhou at the age of three, when his father obtained a post in the Ministry of Education in Beijing. Qian graduated from Chiao Tung University (now spelled Jiao Tong) in Shanghai in 1934 and received a degree in mechanical engineering, with an emphasis on railroad administration; he then spent an internship at Nanchang Air Force Base. In August 1935 Qian left China on a Boxer Rebellion Indemnity Scholarship to study mechanical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and earned a Master of Science degree from MIT a year later.

While at MIT he was influenced by the methods of American engineering education, and its focus on experimentation. Qian’s experiments included the plotting of plot pressures, using mercury filled manometers. (By contrast, most engineers in China at this time were not the “hands on” type; instead, theoretical studies were preferred.) Qian sought a school where his mathematical skills would be appreciated, and went to the California Institute of Technology to pursue his studies under Theodore von Kármán. Qian earned his doctorate from Caltech in 1939 with a thesis on slender body theory at high speeds. He would remain on the Caltech faculty until his departure for China in 1955, becoming the Robert H. Goddard Professor of Jet Propulsion in 1949, and establishing a reputation as one of the leading rocket scientists in the United States.[7]

It was shortly after arriving at Caltech in 1936 that Qian was attracted to the rocketry ideas of Frank Malina, other students of von Kármán, and their associates, including Jack Parsons. Around Caltech the dangerous and explosive nature of their work earned them the nickname “Suicide Squad.”[7]

Career in the United States

In 1943, Qian and two others in the Caltech rocketry group drafted the first document to use the name Jet Propulsion Laboratory; it was a proposal to the Army for developing missiles in response to Germany’s V-2 rocket. This led to the Private A, which flew in 1944, and later the Corporal, the WAC Corporal, and other designs.

After World War II he served under von Kármán as a consultant to the United States Army Air Force, and commissioned with the assimilated rank of colonel. Von Kármán and Tsien both were sent by the Army to Germany to investigate the progress of wartime aerodynamics research. Qian investigated research facilities and interviewed German scientists including Wernher von Braun and Rudolph Hermann.[8] Von Kármán wrote of Qian, “At the age of 36, he was an undisputed genius whose work was providing an enormous impetus to advances in high-speed aerodynamics and jet propulsion.”[2] The American journal Aviation Week & Space Technology would name Qian its Person of the Year in 2007, and comment on his interrogation of von Braun, “No one then knew that the father of the future U.S. space program was being quizzed by the father of the future Chinese space program.”[9]

During this time, Colonel Qian worked on designing an intercontinental space plane. His work would inspire the X-20 Dyna-Soar, which itself would later influence the development of the American Space Shuttle.

Qian Xuesen married Jiang Ying (蒋英), a famed opera singer and the daughter of Jiang Baili (蒋百里) and his wife, Japanese nurse Satô Yato. The elder Jiang was a military strategist and adviser to Kuomintang leader Chiang Kai-shek. The Qians were married on September 14, 1947 in Shanghai, and would have two children; their son Qian Yonggang was born in Boston on October 13, 1948, while their daughter Qian Yungjen was born in early 1950, when the family was residing in Pasadena.[10]

Shortly after his wedding, Qian returned to America, to take up a teaching position at MIT; Jiang Ying would join him in December 1947.[11] In 1949, upon the recommendation of von Kármán, Qian became the first director of the Daniel and Florence Guggenheim Jet Propulsion Center at Caltech.[7]

Imprisonment

In 1949,when he was applying for naturalization[12], allegations were made that he was a communist, and his security clearance was revoked in June 1950.[5] The Federal Bureau of Investigation located an American Communist Party document from 1938 with his name on it, and used it as justification for the revocation. Without clearance, Qian found himself unable to pursue his career, and within two weeks announced plans to return to mainland China, which had come under the government of Communist leader Mao Zedong. After Qian’s plans became known, the U.S. government detained him at Terminal Island, an isolated U.S. Navy facility and federal prison near the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach. The Undersecretary of the Navy at the time, Dan A. Kimball, tried to keep Qian in the U.S., commenting:

“It was the stupidest thing this country ever did. He was no more a Communist than I was, and we forced him to go.”[3]

Release and exile

Qian became the subject of five years of secret diplomacy and negotiation between the U.S. and China. During this time he lived under constant surveillance with the permission to teach without any research (classified) duties.[5] Qian found himself in conflict with both the FBI and the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service, and at one point was arrested for allegedly smuggling secret documents out of the US; these ultimately turned out to be simple logarithmic tables. During his incarceration, Qian received support from his colleagues at Caltech, including the institute’s president Lee DuBridge, who flew to Washington to argue Qian’s case. Caltech appointed attorney Grant Cooper to defend Qian. Later, Cooper would say, “That the government permitted this genius, this scientific genius, to be sent to Communist China to pick his brains is one of the tragedies of this century.”[13]

Career in China

Qian, exiled to China, had a successful career there, leading and becoming the father of the Chinese missile program with the construction of China’s Dongfeng ballistic missiles and the Long March space rockets. A book about this scientist’s life was written by Iris Chang, entitled Thread of the Silkworm.

Return to China

In 1979 Qian was awarded Caltech’s Distinguished Alumni Award. In the early 1990s the filing cabinets containing Qian’s research work were offered to him by Caltech. Most of these works became the foundation for the Qian Library at Xi’an Jiaotong University while the rest went to the Institute of Mechanics. Qian eventually received his award from Caltech, and with the help of his friend Frank Marble brought it to his home in a widely-covered ceremony. Qian was also invited to visit the US by AIAA after the normalization of Sino-US relationship, but he refused the invitation, having wanted a formal apology for his detention. In a 2002 published reminiscence, Marble stated that he believed that Qian had “lost faith in the American government” but that he had “always had very warm feelings for the American people.”[14]

Qian retired in 1991 and maintained a low public profile in Beijing, China.

The PRC government launched its manned space program in 1992 with much help from Russia (due to their extended history in space) and used Qian’s research as the basis for the Long March rocket which successfully launched the Shenzhou V mission in October 2003. The elderly Qian was able to watch China’s first manned space mission on television from his hospital bed.
Science fiction author Arthur C. Clarke, in his novel 2010: Odyssey Two, named a Chinese spaceship after him.

Later Life

In his later years, since the 1980s, Qian advocated scientific investigation of traditional Chinese medicine, Qigong and “special human body functions”. Some people claim that Qian actually did not spend his effort[clarification needed] on qigong, but that he just expressed that people should consider the widely practiced qigong in a scientific manner. He particularly encouraged scientists to accumulate observational data on qigong for the establishment of future theories.[15]

From the early 1980s he studied in a number of areas, and created systematics, contributed on science and technology system and somatic science, thinking science, natural sciences, engineering science, literature and art, military science, systems science, geography science, social science, and education.

Advanced the concepts, theory and method on system science: open complex giant system, from qualitative to quantitative integration of Hall for Workshop of comprehensive and integrated system,[16][17] and opened up a Chinese school of the Science of Complexity. Organizated scientific seminars and train successors.[18]

In 2008, he was named Aviation Week and Space Technology Person of the Year. This selection is not intended as an honour but is given to the person judged to have the greatest impact on aviation in the past year.[2][19]

In 2008, China Central Television named Qian as one of the eleven most inspiring people in China.[20] He died at the age of 97 on October 31, 2009 in Beijing.[21][22]

In July 2009, the Omega Alpha Association named Qian (H. S. Tsien) one of four Honorary Members in the international systems engineering honor society.[23]

A Chinese film production 钱学森 预告片 （陈坤主演） Qian Xue Sen directed by Zhang Jianya stars Zhang Tielin as Qian Xue to be release on 11 December 2011 in both Asia and North America.

OBITUARY

November 1, 2009

Qian Xuesen dies at 98; rocket scientist helped establish Jet Propulsion Laboratory By Claire Noland

Qian Xuesen, seen in 1948, a Chinese-born aeronautical engineer educated at Caltech and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, was credited with leading China to launch intercontinental ballistic missiles, Silkworm anti-ship missiles, weather and reconnaissance satellites and to put a human in space in 2003. (Associated Press)

Deported in 1955 on suspicion of being a Communist, the aeronautical engineer educated at Caltech became known as the father of China’s space and missile programs.

Qian Xuesen, a former Caltech rocket scientist who helped establish the Jet Propulsion Laboratory before being deported in 1955 on suspicion of being a Communist and who became known as the father of China’s space and missile programs, has died. He was 98.

Qian, also known as Tsien Hsue-shen, died Saturday in Beijing, China’s state news agency reported. The cause was not given.

Honored in his homeland for his “eminent contributions to science,” Qian was credited with leading China to launch intercontinental ballistic missiles, Silkworm anti-ship missiles, weather and reconnaissance satellites and to put a human in space in 2003.

The man deemed responsible for these technological feats also was labeled a spy in the 1999 Cox Report issued by Congress after an investigation into how classified information had been obtained by the Chinese.

Qian, a Chinese-born aeronautical engineer educated at Caltech and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, was a protege of Caltech’s eminent professor Theodore von Karman, who recognized him as an outstanding mathematician and “undisputed genius.”

Qian’s research contributed to the development of “jet-assisted takeoff” technology that the military began using in the 1940s.

He was the founding director of the Daniel and Florence Guggenheim Jet Propulsion Center at Caltech and a member of the university’s so-called Suicide Squad of rocket experimenters who laid the groundwork for testing done by JPL.

But his brilliant career in the United States came to a screeching halt in 1950, when the FBI accused him of being a member of a subversive organization. Qian packed up eight crates of belongings and set off for Shanghai, saying he and his wife and two young children wanted to visit his aging parents back home. Federal agents seized the containers, which they claimed contained classified materials, and arrested him on suspicion of subversive activity.

Qian denied any Communist leanings, rejected the accusation that he was trying to spirit away secret information and initially fought deportation. He later changed course, however, and sought to return to China.

Five years after his arrest, he was shipped off in an apparent exchange for 11 American airmen captured during the Korean War.

“I do not plan to come back,” Qian told reporters. “I have no reason to come back. . . . I plan to do my best to help the Chinese people build up the nation to where they can live with dignity and happiness.”

Welcomed as a national hero in China, where the Communist regime had defeated the Nationalist forces, Qian became director of China’s rocket research and was named to the Central Committee of the Communist Party. China, whose scientific development lagged during the Communist revolution, quickly began making strides.

Qian was born in the eastern city of Hangzhou, and in 1934 graduated from Jiaotong University in Shanghai, where he studied mechanical engineering. He won a scholarship to MIT and, after earning a master’s degree in aeronautical engineering there, continued his doctoral studies at Caltech.

He taught at MIT and Caltech and, having received a security clearance, served on the Scientific Advisory Board that advised the U.S. military during and after World War II.

Sent to Germany to interrogate Nazi scientists, Qian interviewed rocket scientist Wernher von Braun. As the trade magazine Aviation Week put it in 2007, upon naming Qian its person of the year, “No one then knew that the father of the future U.S. space program was being quizzed by the father of the future Chinese space program.”

Qian returned to Caltech in 1949 and a year later faced the accusation by two former members of the Los Angeles Police Department’s “Red Squad” that he was a card-carrying member of the Communist Party.

He admitted that while a graduate student in the 1930s he had been present at social gatherings organized by colleagues who also were accused of party membership, but he denied any political involvement.

Few can agree on the question of whether Qian was a spy. An examination of the papers Qian packed away failed to turn up any classified documents. Colleagues at Caltech firmly stood behind him, and he continued to do research there after he lost his security clearance. In fact, the university gave him its distinguished alumni award in 1979 in recognition of his pioneering work in rocket science.

Although federal officials started deportation procedures in 1950, he was prevented from leaving the country because it was decided that he knew too much about sensitive military matters that could be of use to an enemy.

For years, Qian was in a sort of limbo, being watched closely by the U.S. government and living under partial house arrest. Eventually he quit fighting his expulsion and actively worked to return to China. Some associates said that he was insulted because his loyalty to this country was questioned and that he initially wanted to clear his name.

Once he returned home in 1955, he threw himself into his research with what some saw as calculated revenge.

“It was the stupidest thing this country ever did,” former Navy Secretary Dan Kimball later said, according to Aviation Week. “He was no more a Communist than I was, and we forced him to go.”

Qian survived the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s, when many Chinese intellectuals lost their positions, probably because his scientific research and development for military purposes was considered too vital to suspend.

He is said to have supported the government’s crushing of the rebellion in Tiananmen Square in 1989. And he never returned to the United States.

Information on survivors was not immediately available.

claire.noland@latimes.com

US made the mistakes in 1955 & same mistakes today chasing Chinese scientists back to China

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