{"id":7213,"date":"2021-09-01T00:15:00","date_gmt":"2021-09-01T04:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dontow.com\/?p=7213"},"modified":"2021-09-01T01:22:40","modified_gmt":"2021-09-01T05:22:40","slug":"campaign-to-demonize-china-must-not-be-left-unchallenged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.dontow.com\/2021\/09\/campaign-to-demonize-china-must-not-be-left-unchallenged\/","title":{"rendered":"Campaign to Demonize China Must Not Be Left Unchallenged"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The recent deluge of Western mass media reports and U.S. government pronouncements are full of false accusations against China. [1][2] This has critical implications for not only Chinese Americans, but for Americans in general, and also for other citizens of the world, because it seriously increases world tension and could easily lead to wars, including nuclear wars that can destroy the world as we know it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We understand that China is a major competitor to the U.S., in economics, in military, in politics, and in all other aspects, but it is immoral and illegal to create and spread false accusations on your opponent. This is stooping down to the Tonya Harding treatment of your opponent. Unfortunately, the consequences in this case are much more serious. Such demonization of China based on fabricated accusations will surely increase tension between the U.S. and China, and drastically increases the risk of war between the world’s two major military powers, each with sufficient nuclear weapons to destroy the whole world multiple times. <\/p>\n\n\n

Of all the critical problems facing humanity today, none is more important than war and peace. The occurrence of nuclear wars must be stopped. We must promote peace and stop hate.<\/strong><\/h4>\n
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There are many peace-promoting organizations doing very important work. Unfortunately, it doesn’t seem to have enough support or powerful enough, as evident by wars still occurring in various parts of the world just during the 21st century, as well as the recently escalating amount of hate crimes.<\/p>\n
Perhaps a coalition of various peace-promoting organizations can consolidate and create enough influence and power to make a difference [3]. In light of the recent neglect of science and truth, to promote peace and stop hate must be done with truth and accuracy as reflected in the banner shown below:<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n
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Educational Webinar Program:<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
As part of our program to promote peace and stop hate, we are organizing an educational webinar program to begin on Wednesday, 9\/22\/2021, 8:00-9:00 PM (Eastern Time) for 9 consecutive Wednesdays ending on 11\/17\/2021, on the three following topics:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
U.S.-China Relationship:<\/span><\/strong> To understand current U.S.-China relationship, we need to understand the historical relationship between U.S. and China and the evolution of that relationship, as well as how the world has evolved over time.<\/li>
Modern Chinese History:<\/span><\/strong> We need to understand how China was treated by the foreign powers, including the U.S., starting with the 19th century, then into the 20th century with non-acknowledgement of history leading to potential flash points in the 21st century, and recently with the demonization of China. <\/li>
Chinese American Experience in the U.S.:<\/span><\/strong> U.S.-China relationship is also reflected in the Chinese American experience in the U.S., starting with the first Chinese settlers during the days of the gold rush and the building of the first trans-continenatal railroad, to the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act, and to the recent increase of hate crimes and fabricated espionage charges against Chinese Americans. <\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n
Details about the webinar program, including the bylines of the speakers, and the list of co-sponsors, can be found in Ref. [4]. We hope that as the result of the webinar program:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Chinese Americans, and more generally speaking Asian Americans, will realize that the current political climate leads to a lot of unfair treatments, and they will take actions to raise their concerns and eliminate the unfairness.<\/li>
Americans in general will realize that a lot of valuable resources will be taken away for military and war expenditures, instead of using it to improve our competitiveness, our economy, environment, infrastructure, healthcare, racial harmony, and peace, and Americans will steer our country to a more far-sighted direction.<\/li>
People of the world will realize that there will not be resources to spend on critical global problems like hunger, illiteracy, climate change, pandemics, terrorism, and peace, and will push the governments of the world away from a zero-sum game.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n
All these people will realize that the fabrication of false accusations will just increase the animosity between nations and therefore the probability of wars, instead of the world working cooperatively to increase the size of the pie and share it more equitably in a win-win situation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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[1] For a discussion of false accusations of China in Xinjiang Province, see D. Tow “Xinjiang: Horror Story or Historic Transformation?”: https:\/\/www.dontow.com\/2021\/06\/xinjiang-horror-story-or-historic-transformation\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
[2] For other flash points between U.S. and China arising from U.S. not acknowledging history, see D. Tow: “It Is Time for the U.S. to Acknowledge History”: https:\/\/www.dontow.com\/2021\/06\/it-is-time-for-the-u-s-to-acknowledge-history\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
[3] For a description of the Coalition Peace Initiative, see https:\/\/www.change.org\/CoalitionPeaceInitiative<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
[4] See the accompanying article “Educational Webinar Program”<\/a> by D. Tow posted under “Other” category of this release.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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