China should apologize to the US

[Henry C.K. Liu]

I used to think the extreme right was a fringe group of little importance in
the real political world.  But increasingly, it has become a potent force in
the nomination process if not in the election itself.  The fact that the issue
of China, the new future evil empire, is now a permanet bone of contention in
American domestic politics, not unlike the post Truman era when who lost China
was a recurring campaign issue.  Bipartisanship in foreign policy is a thing of
the past.  This time it is who has been bought by China and who fed China
nuclear secrets.  The extreme right is getting more and more mainstream.  It is
not so benign.

Henry C.K. Liu

Doug Henwood wrote:


> Wojtek Sokolowski wrote:
>
> >At 12:22 PM 5/17/99 -0400, Henry C.K. Liu wrote:
> >>It is views like Safire's and Buckley's that justify Chinese anger.
> >>And such views are not in the minority in America at this moment.
> >>If the right wing thinks it's to America's interest to make China an
> >>enemy, they will success and may not live to regret it, along with the
> >>rest of us.
> >
> >
> >henry, I think you take these two clowns too seriously.  What they say
> >should be viewed as a Dennis The Menace's fart - there is no meaning in it
> >other than obnoxious behavior designed to piss the target audience.
>
> Oh maybe they're a bit extreme, but there's a lot of agitation on the right
> to demonize China these days. The campaign contribution scandals, the
> spying scandals, etc. And it's not just the right - it's the front page of
> the New York Times, which has been featuring both stories pretty heavily.
>
> See the incomparable Jude Wanniski's memo on China, freshly posted today at
> <http://www.polyconomics.com/>, with links to earlier rants. Today's
> missive contains this great line about the bombing of Yugoslavia: "As Jack
> Kemp put it, this is an international WACO, where women and children are
> incinerated or ripped to shreds by cluster bombs in order to protect them
> from a fate worse than death."
>
> Doug