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April 18, 2012 marks the 70th anniversary of the legendary Doolittle Raid that involved personal sacrifices, engineering ingenuity, human compassion, and deadly vengeance.  In the several months after Japan bombed Pearl Harbor, Japan continued its military success with one victory after another. [1]  In spite of the government rhetoric, because the American government didn’t appear to be able to fight back and infringe damage on Japan, the morale of the American people was very low.  To his credit, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, together with the American military, proposed what at first seemed like an impossible mission:  Send bombers on a surprise but non-suicidal attack to drop bombs on Japan.  What resulted was the Doolittle Raid.  This article discusses this “impossible” mission, and its impacts on the U.S. and China.
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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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