December 2011
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The www.dontow.com is the website of Don M. Tow. It contains articles in three topical categories (or pages): Political/Social Commentary, Taiji, and Other Topics. A new release of this website is published usually every two months (due to unexpected house problems that occupied a lot of my time, this new release was delayed). The website also has a fourth category “Soccer” about the soccer book that I published in 2006.
Any article in a particular category can be accessed via the corresponding category on the menu bar at the top of the page. Any article in a particular release can be accessed via the corresponding release on the right sidebar.
This website began in October 2006, and the website has been redesigned twice, once in October 2008, and the second time in November 2009.
We welcome comments from readers. Readers can directly submit their comments at the end of any article.
Being a Taijiquan [1] student and teacher, I, of course, can say something about what Taiji is. Being involved in Taijiquan, invariably on many occasions I have also heard of the term Wuji. However, in spite of the fact that I have heard of Wuji many, many times and have come across this term and its definition in numerous Taiji books I have read, I still was never able to understand what the term Wuji really means and the relationship between Taiji and Wuji. So recently I thought to myself why don’t I use my own knowledge from 14 years of studying Taiji to try to understand what Wuji is and the relationship between Taiji and Wuji. Instead of relying on what others have written about this subject, why don’t I try to explain this subject using my own words, knowledge, and experience. This article describes the outcome of that thinking process.
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This summer my family and I took a two-week cruise/land-tour of Alaska. While we were immersed in enjoying the tranquil beauty of Alaska, we were also fascinated by the history of Alaska, in particular, how did Alaska leave Russia and become part of the U.S., which is the topic of this article.
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An Assessment of China’s Future
An earlier article in this website “An Assessment of America’s Future” pointed out that there are fundamental problems facing the U.S. Unless the American government and citizens acknowledge the existence of these fundamental problems and are courageous to address seriously the root causes of these problems, the U.S. will no longer continue to be the richest and most powerful country in the world. This however does not necessarily mean, as some people concluded, that China will replace the U.S. as the richest and most powerful country in the world, because in many respects there are still large gaps between the U.S. and China, and more importantly, China also needs to solve its own problems. This article provides an assessment of China’s future.
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