Video: Korean BBQ at Santa Clara – Chungdam Restaurant on Oct 8 2022 在加州聖克拉拉 – 清談韓國燒烤餐廳
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Video: Australia is ANGRY that China has the experience to build the $2000 MILLION TEKZE HYDROPOWER STATION 澳大利亞對中國擁有建造 20 億美元泰克澤水電站的經驗所以失去合約感到憤怒
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Dragon Fruit from our garden 我們花園的火龍果 Oct 7 2022

Video: Elon Musk offers Taiwan solution today that US is the main culprit that stirred up problems. If US leave Asia, there shall be peace 馬斯克今天提供台灣解決方案，美國是挑起問題的罪魁禍首。如果美國離開亞洲，就會有和平.
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US and NATO said China was built too close to the US military bases therefore with 100s of missiles aiming at China 美國和北約稱中國建得太靠近美國軍事基地，所以將有數百枚導彈瞄準中國

Video: My brother Albert Choi was interviewed in Canada, his eye witness on the Japanese Crimes Against Humanity in HK during WWII 二哥蔡永祥在加拿大接受采訪，他是二戰日本反人類罪在香港的親歷者
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Video: American and European talk about the real China that both AngloSaxon and Chinese racists hated to hear because it is a slap on their faces 美國人和歐洲人談論真正的中國，白人和仇中國的中國人種族主義者都討厭聽到，因為這是在他們臉上的一記耳光
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Global audiences are fed up with US-led West’s ‘show’ on human rights lies and fake news propaganda to demonize Chinese, Chinese Americans and China 全球觀眾厭倦了以美國為首的西方關於人權謊言的“表演”和妖魔化中國人、華裔美國人和中國的假新聞宣傳 Oct 07 2022

The 51st session of the United Nations Human Rights Council (HRC) on Thursday voted on a US-led Xinjiang-related draft decision. The result shows that the draft was strongly opposed by most members of the HRC, especially developing countries, and was not passed. The US and some other Western countries have already consumed a substantial quantity of resources in advance for propaganda and diplomatic agitation for the draft, hyping the vote as a “duel” with China, and sparing no effort to force other member states to be obedient. But this weaponization of human rights is deeply unpopular.

This is the second time in the council’s 16-year history that a draft decision has been rejected. Public opinions worldwide almost unanimously believe this is a “major setback” for Western countries. Some Western public opinion even made another stab – calling the outcome a setback to the “West’s moral authority.” This undoubtedly upset the sensitive nerves of some organizations and individuals in the US and the West. They argue that the result “makes a mockery of everything the Human Rights Council is supposed to stand for,” the Muslim countries which voted down the motion are “shameful,” and African countries “yielded.” Some even call Ukraine’s abstention “betrayal.”

The draft was put forward by Western countries including the US, the UK and Canada in a bid to hold a debate on “Xinjiang human rights situation” at its next session in March. Many Western media outlets said in their reports that the draft lowered the tone and “called just for holding a debate,” in order to avoid the scenario in which enough other countries reject their proposal.

Yet this exposes the real purpose of this draft: It is by no means to discuss any human rights issue, but to try to indefinitely hype up a “problem” that does not exist, so as to suppress and contain China.

Western media have shown their disappointment toward this result, because they were too “confident” before. They have ignored that the majority members of the HRC are not pawns that can be manipulated at their will. Chen Xu, representative of China’s Permanent Mission to the UN Office at Geneva and other international organizations in Switzerland, said during the HRC conference that “China is targeted today. Any other developing country could be targeted tomorrow.” This sentence has been widely quoted by the international media, and we believe it is just what the representatives of many countries in the conference have been thinking.

The US and the West have politicized and instrumentalized human rights issues. They have been sitting on judgment seat for a long time, and tried to firmly control the direction of public opinion outside the courtroom. They arbitrarily concoct a crime, and the vast number of developing countries will be forced to prove their innocence, which is very difficult. It must be pointed out that Western countries are not qualified to force other countries to stand such a “trial.” Ending this humiliating cycle is one of the biggest motivations for developing countries to understand each other, sympathize with each other and unite in the international arena to resist the evil winds.

The essence of Xinjiang-related issues is about countering terrorism, radicalization and separatism, and it is not at all a “human rights” issue. Even some Western media admit that the US and West’s hype of Xinjiang-related affairs is essentially a geopolitical friction with China. It is noteworthy that many countries that cast opposing votes are Muslim-majority societies, such as Indonesia, Pakistan, the United Arab Emirates and Qatar. These countries have a better empathy for the governance of Xinjiang, and they have far more say than a few developed countries in the US and the West.

In fact, at the same time as Washington’s manipulation of Xinjiang-related affairs is intensifying, nearly 100 countries, including majority of Muslim countries, have publicly and continuously voiced their support for China’s just stance on Xinjiang-related affairs and opposed interference in China’s internal affairs through Xinjiang-related affairs on various occasions such as the Human Rights Council and the Third Committee of the UN General Assembly. Aren’t these voices of justice more convincing than the hypocritical attitudes of the US and some Western countries?

On March 15, 2006, the UN General Assembly passed Resolution 60/251, replacing the previous Commission on Human Rights with the new Human Rights Council, the original intention of which was to change political confrontation in the field of human rights. However, over the years, the US and some Western countries have abused international multilateral platforms to seek geopolitical self-interest, and human rights have become politicized and even weaponized, which has led to serious challenges to the international human rights cause in the true sense.

This session of the HRC which started on September 12 has been going on for nearly a month. It was supposed to be a good opportunity for countries to sit down and discuss how to cooperate on urgent human rights issues. The so-called draft decision on Xinjiang-related affairs by the US and the West has been foiled, and it has once again shown that the performance of smearing others and playing with presumption of guilt is destined to attract few audiences no matter how hard they try, because the global audiences are fed up with these tricks.

Why the US won’t step back from the warpath with China. Washington’s policies are guided by threat inflation and a vision of global control

By Dr. Radhika Desai, a professor at the Department of Political Studies at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg, Canada and director of the Geopolitical Economy Research Group. She also writes on current affairs for Valdai Club, CGTN, Counterpunch and other outlets and is the author of Geopolitical Economy: After US Hegemony, Globalization and Empire and Capitalism, Coronavirus and War: A Geopolitical Economy

The drums of war being beaten in Washington DC are picking up tempo. Nancy Pelosi’s ill-advised visit to Taiwan was followed by that of more members of Congress. Only weeks later, President Biden declared that the US stood ready to defend Taiwan in case of Chinese invasion and, within two days of that, US and Canadian warships were conducting another of the provocative ‘Freedom of Navigation’ operations in the Taiwan Strait that have become increasingly frequent since President Obama’s Pivot to Asia, and now it has accelerated the passage of the Taiwan Policy Act, which aims to “support the security of Taiwan and its right of self-determination.”

If it passes, it will become Biden’s signature foreign-policy legacy, the proxy war against Russia through Ukraine notwithstanding. It will overturn the US’ long-standing observation of the One China policy, turning its decades-old ‘strategic ambiguity’ into the strategic certainty of US commitment to Taiwanese independence.

After Obama’s Pivot to Asia and Trump’s noisy trade, technology and currency wars, Biden was elected to take a more moderate and peaceable approach. Instead, his presidency has engineered a veritable fourth Taiwan Strait crisis, one that risks nuclear war.

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Even amid all the tumult of the Ukraine conflict, US policy-making circles are rife with alarmism over China. Take the prestigious Council on Foreign Relations, a critically weighty part of the US foreign policy community since 1918, when its founders’ report formed the basis of the famous Fourteen Points with which President Wilson responded to the Bolshevik Peace decree with its call for self-determination of all peoples. In recent months, Foreign Affairs, its flagship journal, has featured headlines like ‘Taiwan Can’t Wait: What America Must Do To Prevent a Successful Chinese Invasion,’ ‘How to Survive the Next Taiwan Strait Crisis,’ ‘Washington Must Be Ready For a Showdown With or Without a Pelosi Trip,’ ‘America Must Prepare for a War Over Taiwan,’ and ‘Time Is Running Out to Defend Taiwan: Why the Pentagon Must Focus on Near-Term Deterrence,’ the last by none other than Michele Flournoy, once tipped to be Biden’s Secretary of Defense.

These headlines are not just hot air. In addition to reactivating the Quadrilateral dialogue, forming AUKUS, and giving NATO an unprecedented focus on China, the Biden administration has overseen a massive concentration of forces in the Western Pacific, with 57 of its 111 ships operating worldwide attached to the Seventh Fleet. It includes three ‘super’ and three smaller aircraft carriers, home to nuclear-capable F-35 fighter jets. In addition, the US has been engaged in numerous military exercises in the region, including the so-called ‘Freedom of Navigation’ sailings through the Taiwan Strait.

Of course, declining US economic power over recent decades has also been accompanied by declining US military power, as evidenced in the string of military failures this century that culminated in the ignominious withdrawal from Afghanistan. Inevitably, therefore, there are also voices of caution emerging in the US. While Foreign Affairs itself can also sport stories headlined ‘Beijing Is Still Playing the Long Game on Taiwan’ and ‘Why China Isn’t Poised to Invade,’ new counter institutions have also emerged. One of the most important is the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, on the premise that ‘[t]he practical and moral failures of U.S. efforts to unilaterally shape the destiny of other nations by force requires a fundamental rethinking of U.S. foreign policy assumptions.’

However, how much can such new institutions change? After all, there is consensus – between the two major parties and across the divide between ‘realist’ and ‘liberal internationalist’ schools of foreign-policy thinking – that China constitutes the main threat to the US. To be sure, the principal expert of the Quincy institute on China warns against ‘threat inflation’ with regard to China, recommends that US policy-makers “[p]roduce more balanced, fact-based assessments of China’s capabilities and intentions,” and urges them to “to create a regional and global system centered on a maximum level of positive-sum interactions, including, among others, cooperative structures, and agreements to address specific common regional and global threats, including climate change, pandemics, financial instability, cyberattacks, and WMD proliferation.” He also advocates “the revitalization of the One China policy toward Taiwan alongside greater efforts to increase incentives in both Beijing and Taipei to compromise in ways that make possible eventual political talks.” However, even he recommends that the ultimate goal of US policy should be “a more financially feasible active denial force posture designed to deny China clear control over its maritime periphery.”

If denying China its sovereignty over its rightful waters is to be the goal of US policy even in the eyes of the critics of current US bellicosity, the US is unlikely to be shunted off the path of military aggression.

Japanese Crimes Against Humanity / Jenny Chan (Pacific Atrocities Education) and I just returned from NARA (National Archives and Records Administration) after 2 weeks visit. 日本危害人類罪/ Jenny Chan 太平洋暴行教育和我剛從國家檔案和記錄管理局訪問兩週後回來 By Nancy M Lee Ph.D. in San Francisco Oct 6 2022

We have found a lot about Japanese crimes in World War II. All that we did not fully know before. For example, there are:

Mukden (Shenyang) POW Camp and Japanese Army “731 Unit” Bacterial Warfare, more than 12,000 pages.

Five thousand pages of Kampetai (Japanese Military Police) files.

There are also documents about the American Doolittle fliers and Seagull Mission fliers.

In the Doolittle case, the Japanese Imperial 13th Expeditionary Army captured three American airmen (Hallmark, Fallow, and Spatz) in 1942. They were interrogated, tortured, tried without legal representation, and finally executed. In another case from the Seagull Mission, three airmen (Brown, Forbes, and White) were captured in 1943, paraded, tortured, and finally burned alive in Shanghai. President F. D. Roosevelt issued Executive Order (EO 9512, 1943) to capture the involved. In 1945, these Japanese officials were executed after a trial in Shanghai.

These are things we did not know before. We were surprised and fortunate to find tens of thousands of historical documents after almost 80 years.

These data are all because of Senator D. Feinstein’s proposal in 1999 and passed in 2004 (Japanese Imperial Army Disclosure Act of 1999). We could not have seen so much material without this bill. Back then, Ding Yuan and GA’s former president, Ivy Lee, representing the Alliance for Preserving the Truth of Sino-Japanese War organization (APTSJW), promoted and cooperated with Sheldon Harris and others so that we can benefit today.

It is hard to imagine how difficult it was for Sheldon Harris (Death factories, 1995) and Iris Chang (Rape of Naking, 1997). They had to gather relevant information prior to the NARA declassification. Without Ding Yuan’s hard work behind the scenes, they probably could not have written such masterpieces.

Recently, the APTSJW has been sorting out its 30-year history. However, we have not heard the APTSJW board of directors mention these works. Ding Yuan’s hard work and contribution to APTSJW and GA were commendable. It should be remembered.

剛从NARA 回来，在那里二个星期，找到了很多关于二次大战日本罪行的资料。都是我们以前不完全知道的。譬如其中有：1）Mukden (沈阳) POW Camp 和 日軍《731部隊》細菌戰獸行, 12,000页多 ; 2) 5,000 页Kampetai （日本宪兵司令部）擋案； 3）还有关于美國Doolittle team 的三位飞行员（Hallmark, Fallow and Spatz）的资料。他们在1942年被Japanese Imperial 13th Expeditionary Army抓到，经历了审问，和种种拷打折磨, and finally executed。

Another team from the Seagull Mission, three airmen (Brown, Forbes, and White) were captured in 1943, paraded，tortured and 最后在上海被活活烧死。President F. D. Roosevelt issued Executive Order （EO 9512, 1943）to capture the involved。 1945年，这几位日本将领在上海经过审判後执行死刑。这些都是我們以前不知道的。我和Jenny看到这么多的资料， 惊喜到晚上都睡不着觉，很庆幸这么多年后还能找到这些宝贵的历史文件。

这些资料都是因为Senator D. Feinstein 1999 年的proposal， 后来在 2004年通过的 bill (Japanese Imperial Army Disclosure Act of 1999）。没有这份bill 我们不可能看到这么多的资料。當年丁元和 GA的前任会长Ivy Lee出力，推動史维会策划和Sheldon Harris 合作才使我们今天能受惠。

我们真難以想像， Sheldon Harris （Death factories， 1995） 和 Iris Chang （Rape of Naking, 1997）當年在NARA档案 沒有解密之前，是多麼不容易搜集到相關的資料。從而可以理解到如果沒有丁元幕後的辛勞和努力，他們大概不可能寫出這樣的巨著。

最近史维会在整理30年的历史，但是一直没有听到理事们提起这些尘封已久，却仍旧值得大书特书的往事。觉得颇有遗憾，我認为當年丁元为了史维会和GA的辛勞和貢獻，是非常難能可貴的，是不能，也不應該不紀錄下來的。