Remembering my father as Beijing Olympics 2022 will be just a week away. 2022北京奧運下星期把中國帶到世界舞台上, 我想念我的父親.
My father Tsoi Ping Fan was a soccer player for South China Athletic Association in Hong Kong from 1917 – 1953. He had also represented Hong Kong at the Far East Championship Game in Manila Philippines in May 1921.
My father was a graduate of Wanchai Government School and Queen College graduate. My Grandfather Tsoi Ying, was schoolmates at Queen’s College with Ho Tung, Chow Shou Sun and Lee Ming Chat. Grandfather, Tsoi Ying had turned down HK Government to offer him to become a Justice of Peace as he was required to pay an annual fee to HK Government, but what he didn’t know that his signature would make a lot of money as a J. P.
Albert Choi (my 93 years old 2nd brother lives in Vancouver Canada): My Grandfather Tsoi Ying was manager director of Taikoo shipyard and he was the one who had started free primary school for the children of the worker and subsidised housing for all the workers. He also donate coffins and expenses for their furneral. Even though I was young, he wanted me to give speech at the opening of the free workers primary school at that time. I was lucky to have a grandfather like him. Contrary we had hardly see our father as he always spend most of his time at the tennis courts or soccer fields. He always participate in Hongkong annual swim across the harbour and he almost lost his life once due to the strong current in the harbour. By the way grandfather also represented his company to receive the surrender by the Japanese on August 15 1945 and South China Morning Post had took picture. The Japanese general surrendered his sword to my Grandfather who gave it to me when I came to Canada. I left the sword in Penticton BC Canada at a Exhibition of Chinese Cultural Show before moving back to Vancouver. Penticton museum had refused to give me the sword back as I wanted to donate to the Chinese Cultural Center in Vancouver instead.
Gu Ailing is a student, model, and a star freestyle skier. She’s the first female to ever land the Double Cork 14-40 – two flips and four rotations on skis. See how this 18-year-old, American skier will be playing for Team China 谷爱凌是一名學生、模特、明星自由式滑雪運動員。 她是第一位使用雙軟木 14-40 的女性 – 在滑雪板上兩次翻轉和四次旋轉。 看看這位 18 歲的美國滑雪運動員將如何為中國隊效力.
Endless War is the Empire’s Last Dance – As the U.S. threatens endless war with Russia over Ukraine, confidence in China surges 無休止的戰爭是帝國的最後一支舞 – 隨著美國威脅要與俄羅斯就烏克蘭進行無休止的戰爭，對中國的信心高漲 by Danny Haiphong Jan 26 2022
This moment of history will be remembered for the massive shift in global relations currently underway. On one side stands the forces of peace and multipolarity led by China, Russia, and their allies in the Global South. On the other is the forces of empire and conquest spearheaded by the U.S. and its allies. The conflict between these two “camps” is about much more than competing visions for planetary development. World politics have transitioned from a war between socialism and capitalism to a protracted struggle for the survival of humanity itself.
The forces of Empire have reached the following conclusion: the preservation of imperialism requires endless war, no matter how counterproductive. Take recent escalations with Russia over the question of Ukraine. The U.S. sponsored a coup in Ukraine in 2014 which propelled neo-Nazi forces into state power. For the last seven years, a steady stream of U.S. military and financial assistance has gone to the coup government to suppress widespread opposition in the eastern portion of Ukraine. The Biden administration has taken this assistance a step forward by encouraging NATO membership for Ukraine and making baseless claims about a future Russian “invasion.”
Russia has understandably identified NATO membership of Ukraine as its “red line” given that the two countries share a 3,000-kilometer border. Since 2014, this border has been largely unfortified despite the fact that the U.S. has sent $2.7 billion in military aid to Ukraine. This includes Javelin missile systems and other weapons of mass destruction that have been cited by the White House as serving the explicit purpose of countering “Russian aggression.” In other words, U.S. relations with Ukraine are motivated by war—making Russia’s recent military build-up on its own border hardly surprising.
Recent talks between Russia and the U.S. have failed to ease tensions. According to the U.S. Embassy in Ukraine , 200,000 pounds of “lethal” military aide has been shipped to the country. Furthermore, U.S. interference in Ukraine has been complimented by a non-stop propaganda blitz against Russia. The most widely known example is the ongoing elite conspiracy theory that Russia undermines U.S. elections in order to weaken U.S. influence around the world, otherwise known as Russiagate.
The implications of Russiagate have been far reaching. Russiagate worsened an already waning public confidence in the corruption-ridden U.S. electoral system. The conspiracy theory also laid the ideological basis for a New Cold War by using Russia as a scapegoat for the ills of the U.S. empire. Instead of healthcare, living wage jobs, student debt relief, working people were told by the likes of Rachel Maddow that Russia was plotting to steal their votes and shut off their heating systems .
Russiagate has also served as a key weapon in the U.S. government’s censorship crusade. From the suspicious PropOrNot list of independent media sources labeled “Russian propaganda” to the State Department’s official documents that advocate for even further censorship of RT and Sputnik, a concerted campaign exists to suppress voices critical of U.S. foreign policy. The U.S. military state has used its deep ties with big tech corporations to render independent media, including Black Agenda Report, virtually invisible on major search engines and social media platforms. Russiagate has been employed to smear Julian Assange in the U.S.’s campaign to extradite the journalist and discredit Wikileaks—a campaign that threatens the fate of independent journalism itself.
All of these maneuvers are part of the Empire’s Last Dance of endless war. However, endless war is not a full proof strategy. In fact, it isn’t a strategy at all but a rather a host of violent acts of desperation. Significant blowback and has left the U.S. empire more isolated than ever. The U.S.’s New Cold War against China and Russia has brought the two major powers closer together. Economic cooperation and integration independent of U.S. influence has accelerated in the form of China’s Belt and Road Initiative and the Russia-led Eurasian Economic Union . U.S. wars of destruction and sanctions against Syria and Nicaragua have compelled these nations to join the Belt and Road Initiative .
International isolation has only exacerbated the U.S. empire’s crisis of legitimacy at home. As the U.S. wages endless war to maintain hegemony, public trust in the U.S. government continues to decline. Joe Biden’s approval rating fell to its lowest point of 33 percent to enter the New Year. In 2021, only a quarter of the U.S. population said they trusted that the government will do the right thing “almost always.” In a new survey conducted by the Edelman Trust Barometer, the American public’s trust in the government was only slightly better at 39 percent.
An entirely different trend exists in China, where a whopping 91 percent of Chinese respondents reported possessing a high level of trust in their government. This is in keeping with prior reports from the Harvard Ash Center and York University that suggest upwards of 95 to 98 percent of Chinese people support their government. The Edelman Barometer provides a decent analysis of the deepening trust that the Chinese people possess in their government. China swiftly contained COVID-19, reopened its economy, cracked down on corruption, raised the standard of living of the people, and promoted a policy of solidarity and cooperation globally.
The United States has done the exact opposite. U.S. leadership on the world stage has understandably waned amid surging inflation, stagnant economic growth, mass death due to the pandemic, and an overall political indifference to the wellbeing of the people and the planet. War is the empire’s last dance because war is all that it has left to offer. The more that the U.S.’s legitimacy crumbles, the more that a competent and people-centered model of development like China’s garners prestige domestically and internationally.
While this is objectively a good thing, it doesn’t tell the entire story. The U.S. public is being primed for war. Corporate media headlines routinely demonize Russia and China to serve the empire’s militarist agenda. Public opinion toward Russia and China remain dangerously low, with more than seventy percent of the U.S. public holding an unfavorable view toward both countries. If the empire were to start a war tomorrow, then the world would not be able to depend on the masses of people in the U.S. to demand and fight for an end to the carnage; at least not yet.
Much of the U.S. public therefore finds itself outside of the multipolar world currently taking shape across the globe. This has created an irreconcilable contradiction. On the one hand, the empire is in a state of terminal decline which threatens to take humanity down with it. On the other, the peace movement within the U.S. and the West is neither large enough nor organized enough to demand societies that align with the principles of self-determination and multipolarity. It is essential, then, that all progressive and left forces make the struggle against imperialism a primary component of the movement for social justice. Failure to do so means de facto participation in the empire’s last dance of endless war and the annihilation of humanity which it portends.
MIT Scientist Gang Chen, a professor of mechanical engineering: “No American Dreams” only American Nightmare. All Chinese in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) are warned, you are not welcomed in US. 麻省理工學院 機械工程教授、科學家陳剛：“沒有美國夢” 只有美國惡夢。 所有在 STEM 的中國人都被警告了，你在美國不受歡迎.
Video: The Beijing Winter Olympics Torch Relay Short Film “The Covenant of Ice and Snow” is online! Ailing Gu, who was born in San Francisco, California became a Chinese citizen to represent China at the Beijing Winter Olympics 北京冬奥会火炬传递短片《冰雪之约》上线！現年18歲在美國加州舊金山出生的谷爱凌成為中國公民代表中國參加北京冬奧
Eileen Gu participated at the FIS Freestyle Ski and Snowboarding World Championships 2021, winning two gold medals in Freeski Halfpipe and Freeski Slopestyle. Gu became the first freeskier to win two golds at the FIS Freeski World Championship. She also won a bronze medal in Freeski Big Air. She was also injured at the event with a broken hand.
In 2021 Gu became the first woman to land a forward double cork 1440.
The mayor of San Francisco expressed despair over the increase in reported hate crimes against Asian-Americans and Pacific Islanders last year, up an astonishing 567 from the previous year, according to preliminary figures released by the police department on Tuesday.
Expect US and the 5-eyes anti-China alliances to step up attacking China using more fake news propaganda before Beijing Winter Olympics to start on 2-4-2022. I thought to share with you my personal experiences to debunk the continuous fake news on Xinjiang and China. 預計美國和 5 眼反中聯盟(美加澳英紐)會在 2022 年 2 月 4 日北京冬奧會開始前使用更多假新聞宣傳加強攻擊中國。 我想和大家分享一下我的親身經歷，以揭穿它們對新疆和中國持續不斷的假新聞.
My 2 trips to Xinjiang China, I saw no evidence by US or Western Media on human rights violations through fake news propaganda to demonize Chinese, Chinese Americans and China. How can Chinese Americans living in US has social Justice and not facing discrimination when US since passing the Chinese Exclusion Acts in 1882 continues to renewed it under different names till today! 我兩次去過中國新疆，我沒有看到美國或西方媒體通過假新聞宣傳妖魔化中國人、華裔美國人和中國侵犯人權的證據。 美國自 1882 年通過排華法案以來，一直以不同的名義更新它，直到今天，生活在美國的華裔美國人怎麼能擁有社會正義和不受歧視！
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