Internment camps for Japanese Americans during WWII, same could be expected for Chinese-Americans if war between US-China 第二次世界大戰期間日裔美國人的拘留營,如果美中之間發生戰爭,美國華人也可以預期獲得同樣對待
The U.S. – China Relations: 80-20 Initiative is NOT into the U.S.- China relations. For cost-effective-ness reasons, 80-20 chooses to protect your rights in domestic issues only, but, in a fearless manner.
However, when the tension between the U.S. and China is so high, even our goal to protect your rights in domestic issues only faces a terrifying question resulting from the tension: Will Chinese Americans face internment?
Here is 80-20’s best guesstimate. Even assuming a direct conflict between the U.S. and China, the internment of Chinese Americans will be unlikely for 2 reasons:
First, our government might have finally learnt from its shameful deeds of interning Japanese Americans during WWII, although, personally, I don’t think our government learns much from its past mistakes. For example, we started wars in Vietnam and Iraq to our detriment. Has our government learned from those mistakes to avoid wars? The U.S. has fought 13 wars since 1990. It is almost one every 2 years. Don’t believe it? Click here to verify https://www.thoughtco.com/american-involvement-wars-colonial-times-present-4059761
Fortunately, there is a second reason – a huge logistic barrier against interning Chinese Americans. Interning 125,285 Japanese Americans is one thing. Interning 5 million Chinese Americans is an incredibly difficult logistic task. The task will be 40 times more severe, using a linear projection. Given the very high concentration of Chinese Americans in higher education and high tech, the cost of the economic damage that would result from interning Chinese Americans could be astronomical.
Is 80-20 saying that internment of Chinese Americans can’t happen? No! Our government could adopt selective internment – not interning those who are needed for the war effort, as our government has already practiced during WWII.
Please note that all Japanese Americans on the mainland were interned, but not those in Hawaii for fear of collapsing Hawaii’s economy. Don’t believe it? Click here and go to a sub-section entitled “non-military advocates who opposed …”.
All governments become the most shameless and unprincipled orgs., when fighting a war! Therefore, while there is still time, all of us, be us Chinese Americans or non-Chinese American, must make our MAXIMUM EFFORT to
(1) stop the ever-increasing tension between the U.S. and China at which many of our politicians seem to aim, and
(2) forge UNITY within the Chinese American community which we’ll need protect ourselves
Racist Anti-China alliance ‘Hill & Valley’ is formed in Silicon Valley. It could backfire on US firms by touting ‘decoupling’ using 1882 Chinese Exclusion Acts as their business model 種族主義反華聯盟“Hill & Valley”在美國矽谷成立。鼓吹以 1882 年排華法案作為商業模式的“脫鉤”,可能會對美國公司產生適得其反的效果
As the Biden administration blatantly threatens to ban TikTok if its Chinese owners don’t divest their stake in the popular video app, a group of Silicon Valley executives and Washington lawmakers are banding together forming an anti-China alliance called “Hill & Valley Forum.” The group quietly plans to host a dinner on Wednesday to mobilize against China’s involvement in the US tech industry ahead of TikTok’s testimony before Congress, The Wall Street Journal reported on Friday.
In addition to planning to speak about its “concerns about China” at the coming dinner, the group will also prepare more attack lines for Congress to question TikTok during Thursday’s testimony, according to Jacob Helberg, a former Google policy adviser leading the effort to create the anti-China group. He has been meeting with lawmakers in Congress every couple of weeks to urge them to ban TikTok, according to the report.
It is no secret that some radical anti-China politicians in Washington are hysterical and irrational on the issue of technological competition with China. In the face of the rise of Chinese technology companies, some Silicon Valley executives have long spoken with a sense of resentment about China. Nevertheless, openly discussing how to destroy or rob the success of a legally operating Chinese internet technology company is still outrageous and worrying.
First and foremost, there is no evidence at all supporting the US government to ban or rob such a globally successful app on national security grounds. The US government’s forced sale of TikTok’s operations is baseless and a hegemonic act. Over the past three years, the US has conducted thoroughly scrutiny on the Chinese company and got nothing.
Moreover, to soothe the “national security concerns” of the US, TikTok has committed to spend $1.5 billion on a plan known as “Project Texas,” inviting third parties to monitor, review and verify data security. It can be said that TikTok has established a global benchmark for securing data security.
The founding of the “Hill &Valley” anti-China alliance indicates that no matter how much TikTok has tried, radical China hawks in Washington won’t quit the plan to ban or strangle it. The relentless attacks on TikTok from the anti-China group only expose its hooligan nature much clearer.
American politicians and some interest groups have long been collaborating to contain Chinese tech companies. However, these interest groups do not represent the entire US business community.
It should be noted that these so-called anti-China political-business alliances like “Hill & Valley Forum” have no specific plan to promote the development of American tech companies to win the technological competition. Instead, they only resent Chinese companies leading competitiveness and focus on excluding Chinese companies from the marketplace.
These so-called Washington elites and Silicon Valley consultants are best at advocating and exaggerating “decoupling” and technology war. As many companies in the US technology industry had experienced sharp drop in stock prices at the end of last year and layoff waves, such an irrational approach can only further escalate the risks faced by US technology companies and force China to step up efforts to enhance its ability to independently innovate in science and technology.
From Huawei to TikTok, the fundamental motive of the US’ seemingly endless crackdown on and blockade of Chinese companies is to allow US companies to monopolize advanced digital technologies and sustain their leading positions in the industry. But just as the suppression of Huawei cannot help US communication sector to catch up in the 5G field, the crackdown on TikTok by the US will not help American social media behemoths such as Meta to overtake TikTok in core technology areas such as algorithms.
The “Hill & Valley” anti-China alliance’s touting of hysterical “decoupling” and vicious competition can only harm others and the US itself, but to expand cooperation while allowing proper competition with Chinese companies will benefit the US’ technology field and Silicon Valley companies.
If the US government really blocks TikTok on the grounds of so-called national security, it will be tantamount to going against the trend of technological and economic development, and it will eventually backfire on its own technology sector.
Bank of Hawaii, First Hawaiian Bank and Well Fargo are on the list. It is the list you don’t want your bank to be on and that was how Silicon Valley Bank ended in bankruptcy. Have you notice no China banks on the list! It is because they are the safest. BOH, FHB和 Well Fargo銀行都在名單上. 矽谷銀行就是在這樣名單上不久便宣布破產告終的,你的銀行在名單上的嗎? 有沒有注意到中國四大銀行不在名單上! 因為它們是全球全安全的銀行!
Chinese FM Wang Yi talked about the “Ten Cruel Realities” in the next 3 years and explained the rise and fall of the world very thoroughly, and every sentence is powerful!
Wang Yi Foreign Minister of PRC: My country should be ready to face the【Ten cruel realities】of the next *three years.
Wang Yi: 2020 will be a difficult year for China-US relations, and this difficulty may continue for several years, or even longer, because there is no antidote. And in the next three years, we also need to face the ten cruel realities!
The first cruel reality: Sino-US relations are the key and core of all relations, there are 10,000 reasons to prove the importance of doing well in Sino-US relations, China has no cost advantage against the US.
It is not that China is afraid of the United States, but it is not worth playing against; China must use wisdom in dealing with the issue of American hegemony. You can hate the United States, dislike the United States, hate the United States, but don’t affect the importance of the United States. It’s not because he thinks the United States is good that he has a good relationship with him, but only because the United States is the “boss”, the maker of the rules of the game, and the largest consumer market in China. This is a cruel reality and fact , You can’t not accept it.
The second cruel reality: Now China can influence the world, but it cannot control the world. At present, only the United States can control the world. We must accept this reality. You must know that there are many countries that influence the world, and this influence is also phased. While you are influencing others, others are also influencing you. Everything in the world affects each other, so don’t feel superior. Superiority will lead to blind self-confidence, too much self-confidence is conceited, too much self-confidence will be pretentious, and in the end it can only be self-consciousness and self-confessed bad luck.
Third cruel reality: The “China model” only applies to China.
China’s rapid development cannot be replicated. Because China has no other country in its history, and the twists, pains and tortures we have suffered are rare in human history. China’s current development model is a model formed by combining China’s national conditions. So, don’t try to sell the “Chinese model” at every turn. Others will not accept and will not acclimatize.
The fourth cruel reality: Don’t talk about war lightly.
If China said 40 years ago that it is not afraid of war, it would have been a kind of confidence, because we are poor, and those who are barefoot are not afraid of wearing their feet. But if you still say “not afraid of war” now, that’s a bluff. Because you are already “pretty” wealthy, your big cities in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen are comparable to any big city in the world. “The city of Rome was not built in a day”, but “destroyed the city of Rome in an instant”.
Americans are the one most afraid of war in the world, because they have the most prosperous urban agglomeration, so the purpose of the United States to develop the most powerful army in the world is to “held back war from thousands of miles away”, and never let war occur in the homeland. China does not have this capability yet. If China fights a powerful enemy, it must be a local war. We are not longing for war to grow our army, but to prevent war from being introduced into our homes.
The fifth cruel reality: China will always be a developing country.
Our circle of friends is always in the third world. Remember: those developed countries in the West will not take us to play, and in their eyes always have a “sense of superiority”. The West will always look down on our values and always consider China to be “backward”. In the eyes of Westerners, there will always be “East-West differences”. Don’t think that you can integrate into the Western world, and naively think that you can.
The sixth cruel reality Don’t take the initiative to promise anything to the world, let alone use money to buy status and act as a world leader.
The real leaders are not actively applying to be one, but accept the mission under dangerous and difficult condition, and they are all being pushed to the position by force. Therefore, it is not easy to be a leader, and it is thankless. If you become a world leader, you have to give up a lot. The whole world wants to play a “trade surplus” with you, but you don’t dare to have a temper. If this leader is good, the United States will not be so miserable now (In Trump’s eyes, the United States is the worst, and it is a world-class fool).
The seventh cruel reality: China has no way to go back, it is impossible to go back because of “crossing the river by feeling the stones” and falling into the deep water area.
Time will not go back, it is impossible to stop this game because of fear of risk. From the day we started to open the country’s door, we are destined to have no turning back. *The country’s door must be opened wider and wider, and come across more traps as you move among . *Can’t give up lightly*, and *can’t “get rid of the scar and forget the pain”*.
The eighth cruel reality: You can’t be “addicted to speeding” in pursuit of “more speed and better savings”, don’t make the “Great Leap Forward” at every turn, don’t show off the so-called “curve overtaking”.
It’s not because of your skill, it’s just a fluke. Obeying the rules is never sticking to the old rules, and paying attention to credit is not stupid. All opportunistic exploits will result in mutual harm, and the more powerful people will treat the rules as life.
The ninth cruel reality: You surpass others today, others will surpass you tomorrow. Overtaking the strong ones is not to prove your strength, but to let the people enjoy the benefits of being a strong ones.
It turns out: Really smart people are willing to always be a follower, and will not be a transcender/surpasser. Maybe you think that keeping a low profile cannot show the true character of a hero, but being a low-key person is precisely the basic quality of a master who is hidden .
Tenth cruel reality: all friends bought with money are unreliable.
“Who are our enemies? Who are our friends? This is the primary question of the revolution.” The real friends are those who often quarrel openly and scold each other. When you are eager to bribe others with money, you are accidentally used by others. A truly powerful country is not attracted to others because of more money, but because of your value beliefs and governing ideas deeply convincing.
Reality is often cruel, even *brutal . However, many times it is not because of cruelty that people dare not face reality, but because of *lack of self-confidence and distorted reality*.
Wang Yi From “The Dawn of the People”。
Wang Yi explained the rise and fall of the world very clearly, and every sentence is powerful!