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陈凯一语： Kai Chen's Words:

I now paste this article from liberal/leftist LA Times about how now American left views US-China relations. The mere fact they now coin the term "Civilization-State" to describe China shows the deterioration of American political culture as a freedom-loving principled existence. Political correctness is everywhere, dominating American thinking and behavior. The acceptance, accommodation and even appreciation of despotic cultures of other parts of the world in America precedes the forfeit of American responsibility as the leader of freedom in the world. By accepting the mode of development from China, even trying to emulate it, America is corrupting the core values upon which this great country was founded.

With regard to China, there is no such thing as "civilization-state" as the leftist author (Martin Jacques)of this article manufactured. There is only a communist "party-state" with a culture of state-slavery. There is no such thing as "clash of civilizations". There is only a clash of tyranny and liberty. There is no such thing as a collective "Chinese people". There are only those who love freedom and those who want to maintain despotism in China. If America will not or dare not to assume the leadership role in the world to combat the growing menace of Chinese despotism (and Islamic despotism for that matter), America will fail to live up to the meaning of its very existence, as enunciated in the Declaration of Independence, American Constitution and Emancipation Proclamation. The coming calamity with unprecedented tragic consequences will dwarf all the previous world tragedies/atrocities combined.

History, economy, cultural tradition, etc.., do not determine a person's/nation's destiny. Ideas, faith and ideologies (and the transformation of them) do. I, as someone from China and its cultural tradition, now having become a free man proves this point.

Make no mistake about it. Today, since 9/11/2001, freedom is retreating and tyranny is advancing. With liberal/leftist/socialist Obama administration in charge, tyranny/despotism around the world is emboldened to expand rapidly. Let's brace for a final conflict. --- Kai Chen

我现在将一个美国左翼（代表奥巴马观点的）作家的关于中美关系的文章贴在这里。 此作家发明的定义中国的新术词“（东方）文明政体”说明了美国左翼政治文化的新堕落。 在今天的美国，“政治正确病”已蔓延到美国政治文化的每一个角落。 接受、理解与纵容世界古老的各个专制文化作为“平等的不同”腐蚀了美国作为人类自由的先驱与领导的特殊地位/角色。 接受“中国式专制发展模式”甚至在美国仿效这种模式只说明美国的人们逐渐地淡忘了美国建国的原则与意义。

就中国而言，对我来说，根本就不存在什么像这个左翼作家所称的和编造的“（东方）文明政体”。 中国就是一个简单的、基于古典专制文化的、共产独裁的“党政”。 这世界上也根本就没有什么人造的“不同文明的冲突”。 这世界上只有简单而严酷的自由的个体与专制暴政的冲突。 这世界上根本就没有什么一锅酱的“中国人民”。 这世界上只有那些崇尚自由的人们（中国人在内）与维护专制暴政的人们。 这世界上根本就没有什么骗人的“中国/东方的文明”。 这世界上有的只是那个反人、反文明的、专制朝代恶性循环的、逐渐像艾滋病毒一样蔓延世界的中国式专制。 如果美国没有意愿与勇气承担起日趋艰巨的、领导世界自由的力量抵制/打击由中国与伊斯兰专制力量的攻击与挑战，美国将失去她立国的意义。 美国的“独立宣言”、“美国宪法”与“黑奴解放宣言”将淡漠成为废纸。 即将到来的由于美国的失职而导致的人类悲剧与暴行将是不可估量的与前所未有的。

历史、经济、文化背景等等（如马克思谬论所指）并不决定一个人/社会/国家的命运。 理念、信仰（及其转变）决定一个人/社会/国家的命运。 我本人，一个从专制文化中生长的人，通过自身的思考与努力并付出代价今天成为了一个自由人，证实了自由的可能与可贵。

有一点良知的人们都可以看到：自从“九一一”以后，世界自由的力量正在退却、世界专制的力量正加强攻势。 加上崇共、崇社、崇毛的对恶示软的奥巴马当局上台以后，邪恶的专制力量胆子一天天加大、力量一天天增强。 人们需要警觉并做好准备。 --- 陈凯

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[size=24]"Understanding China"-Leftist Article 美左向中共与世界专制投降[/size]

[size=18]Opinion/LA Times. 11/22/2009 [/size]

[size=24]Understanding China 理解中国 [/size]

The West has gotten it wrong on China for decades -- even as it embraces a market economy, it has shunned Western-style freedoms. And its power is only growing.

By Martin Jacques

November 22, 2009

The dynamics of President Obama's trip to China were markedly different from those evident on visits made by President Clinton and President George W. Bush. This time the Chinese made clear that they were unwilling even to discuss issues such as human rights or free speech. Why? The relationship between the countries has changed: America feels weak and China strong in their bilateral ties. This is not a temporary shift that will reverse itself once the U.S. has escaped from its mountain of debt. Rather, it is the expression of a deep and progressive shift in the balance of power between the two nations, one that is giving the Chinese -- though studiously cautious in their approach -- a rising sense of self-confidence.

Nor should we be surprised by the Chinese response. They may have appeared more conciliatory on previous visits by American leaders, but that was largely decorative. The Chinese have a powerful sense of their identity and worth. They have never behaved toward the West in a supplicant manner, for reasons Westerners persistently fail to understand or grasp.

Ever since the Nixon-Mao rapprochement, and through the various iterations of the Sino-American relationship over the subsequent almost four decades, there has been an overriding belief in the West that eventually China would become like us: that, for example, a market economy would lead to democratization and that a free media was inevitable. This hubristic outlook is deeply flawed, but it still prevails, albeit with small cracks of self-doubt starting to appear.

The issue here is much deeper than Western-style democracy, a free media or human rights. China is simply not like the West and never will be. There has been an underlying assumption that the process of modernization would inevitably lead to Westernization; yet modernization is not just shaped by markets, competition and technology but by history and culture. And Chinese history and culture are very different from that of any Western nation-state.

If we want to understand China, this must be our starting point.

The West's failure to understand the Chinese has repeatedly undermined its ability to anticipate their behavior. Again and again, our predictions and beliefsabout China have proved wrong: that the Chinese Communist Party would fall after 1989, that the country would divide, that its economic growth could not be sustained, that its growth figures were greatly exaggerated, that China was not sincere about its offer of "one country two systems" at the time of the hand-over of Hong Kong from Britain -- and, of course, that it would steadily Westernize. We have a long track record of getting China wrong. (Kai Chen: May be the author is wrong again, as his predecessors were. When the Berlin Wall collapsed, only 3% of Berliners predicted it.)

The fundamental reason for our inability to accurately predict China's future is our failure to understand its past. Although China has described itself as a nation-state for the last century, it is in essence a civilization-state. The longest continually existing polity in the world, it dates to 221 BC and the victory of the Qin. Unlike Western nation-states, China's sense of identity comes from its long history as a civilization-state.

Of course, there are many civilizations -- Western civilization is one example -- but China is the only civilization-state. It is defined by its extraordinarily long history and also its huge geographic and demographic scale and diversity. The implications are profound: Unity is its first priority, plurality the condition of its existence (which is why China could offer Hong Kong "one country two systems," a formula alien to a nation-state).

The Chinese state enjoys a very different kind of relationship with society compared with the Western state. It enjoys much greater natural authority, legitimacy and respect, even though not a single vote is cast for the government. The reason is that the state is seen by the Chinese as the guardian, custodian and embodiment of their civilization. The duty of the state is to protect its unity. The legitimacy of the state therefore lies deep in Chinese history. This is utterly different from how the state is seen in Western societies. (Kai Chen: Indeed the Chinese see the state as God and Savior, but innately each Chinese is an individual with God-given yearning for freedom and happiness. I myself is a proof.)

If we are to understand China, we must move beyond the compass of Western reality and experience and the body of concepts that has grown up to explain that history. We find this extremely difficult. For 200 years the West, first in the shape of Europe and then the United States, has dominated the world and has not been required to understand others or The Other. If need be it could always bully the latter into submission.

The emergence of China as a global power marks the end of that era. (Kai Chen: It would be a tragedy if China dominates the world. I bet during Cold War, many in the West accepted a permanent presence of USSR in the world.) We now have to deal with The Other -- in the form of China -- on increasingly equal terms.

China, moreover, is possessed, like the West, with its own form of universalism (Kai Chen: "Universal Despotism" indeed). It long believed that it was "the land under heaven," the center of the world, superior to all other cultures. That sense of self, which has engendered a powerful self-confidence, has been persistently evident over the last 40 years, but with China's rise, it is becoming more apparent as the country's sense of achievement and restoration gains pace. Or to put it another way, when the presidents of China and the United States meet in Beijing in 2019, with the Chinese economy fast approaching the size of the American economy, we can be sure that the Chinese sense of hubris will be far stronger than in 2009 (Kai Chen: If China's despotism can last that long is a big question mark.).

But long before that, we need to try and understand what China is and how it behaves. If we don't, then relations between China and the United States will never move beyond the polite and the formal -- and that will be a bad omen for the future relationship between the two countries. (Kai Chen: Is there a polite and formal relation between liberty and tyranny?!)

Martin Jacques is the author of "When China Rules the World: the End of the Western World and the Birth of a New Global Order."

陈凯一语： Kai Chen's Words:

赵静芝的文章很准确地描绘了奥巴马的中国行。 作为一个自由人，你对一个骨子里崇社崇共崇毛的人能有什么真实的期待呢？！--- 陈凯

Mr. Zhao's article accurately depicts the essence of Obama's China trip. As a freedom-loving person, what can any one expect from someone who in his heart is a Marxist, who worships socialism, communism and Mao?! --- Kai Chen

赵静芝：奥巴马是个不幸的乖宝宝
Obama in China - An Obedient Boy

作者：赵静芝

【大纪元11月20日讯】

中国人对于“乖宝宝”的评判标准有很多，大致是：你可以喜欢玩，但是要玩得有分寸。 你可以自以为是，但要考虑到别人的感受。 很善良，但要有点小笨。 很聪明，但要有点天真。 美国总统奥巴马刚刚结束的中国之行，因为其可爱程度超过了预期，中南海有点喜出望外，要不是碍于外交礼仪，胡锦涛可能真想“代表”全党全军全国各族人民深情抚摸奥巴马扁长脑瓜上那头略带卷曲的绒发，道一声：奥宝宝，真乖。

乖到连人权两个字也没办法直接从嘴里吐出来，只能用“暗示法“让人去琢磨，真是让人叹为观止，堂堂美国总统先是在日本天皇面前行过93度鞠躬大礼，如今又到世界上最大的共产国家向世界丢了个大脸，真让人感到害臊。 奥巴马17日在北京和中共国家主席胡锦涛见面。 他嘴里的“人权”变成是“所有的男女拥有的某些根本的权利”。 《华尔街日报》等美国主流媒体集体哀叹，总统“出手不辣”、“闪烁其词”。 人权观察亚洲研究员贝克难掩心中的无奈，他认为，奥巴马将争取自由说成政治文化，实在是一大错误。

中美两个老冤家交手半个多世纪，就总统而言，在中共眼里还属奥巴马看得最顺眼。 从杜鲁门到里根，个个都是反共老手，直到老布什，总算找到了一点感觉。 但美国总统到访中国的时候，一般都会让北京有所难堪。老布什在宴会上喜欢请几个中国著名异议份子共襄盛举。 克林顿会坚持要求把演讲会做直播，让中国人民获得几十分钟的不经过中宣部审核的讯息自由的机会。 小布什来华得空喜欢去教堂转一圈，藉以表达对信仰自由的尊崇。 相比之下，只有奥巴马怪异，月初令人意外地“缺席”柏林墙倒塌20周年的纪念会，如今来到中国更是模范执行“三大纪律八项注意”，一切行动听指挥，中南海不觉感叹：还是第三世界沾点血缘关系的人当总统靠谱啊。

奥巴马也知道，光凭一张嘴做些空泛的承诺只能获得“诺贝尔和平奖”，得不了中南海“乖宝宝”的注册商标，因为中共比诺贝尔和平奖的评委们鬼精得多，绣花拳头忽悠不了这些江湖老手，奥巴马不拿出些干货出来，要想通过北京的“面试”恐怕有点难，搞不好逼着美国还债，那就没得命了。 因此，主动做好“家庭作业”是求得对方好感的关键。 其先是邀请中共军委副主席徐才厚访美，宣布放松对中国出口敏感技术的管制，把出口导弹和空间技术产品的审批权，从白宫下放到商务部。 其次，通过《2010年国防授权法案》，删除美国向台湾出售F-16战机的战略依据。 甚至不顾惯例，让到访的达赖喇嘛坐了回冷板凳。

奥巴马个人预热得差不多了，北京的常规动作也开始运作了，虽然老套，但对于政治对手一般都有用。当年台湾的连战被一声声催人泪下的“连爷爷回来了”感动得浑身酥松，到今天还没缓过神来。不过，中西状况不同，奥巴马对于中国人的人情世故并不一定领情，但中共宣传机构却依旧卖力鼓噪渲染。中新社发出文章，有鼻子有眼大赞奥巴马的中国情缘，妹夫是华裔，弟弟住深圳，能读中文版《红楼梦》，会用毛笔写中国字，还娶了个河南老婆。幸亏奥巴马老爸不在世，不然就凭中国和肯尼亚之间的关系，保不准能挖出不少老奥巴马爱读《毛主席语录》之类的政治八卦。其实，这位叫马克的奥巴马同父异母弟弟和奥巴马并不熟，两人此次在北京充其量也就见了五分钟面，我估摸着八成还是深圳市政府或者河南省政府出的差旅费呢。

秃子最怕别人说他头上没毛，即便你奥巴马兜里有再好的生发水，但是千万别当着秃子的面兜售。过去美国总统来中国都是一根筋、认死理，不给秃子面子，总是搞得秃子很生气。眼下奥巴马乖了，既不当面搞生发水的推销，也不痛陈秃子头上荒芜的害处：在上海和那些假冒学生对话的时候，明知有诈尚能全神贯注娓娓道来，虽然话题不疼不痒，但中共要的就是这个效果。在余下的节目里，无论是和胡锦涛的见面还是和温家宝座谈，话题不离金融、贸易、气候、新能源、太空利用，人权、西藏、台湾、宗教几乎全部蒸发，连蜻蜓点水都谈不上，只是到临走的时候在联合声明中干咳了两声。最让中南海振奋的是，奥巴马的三个随从还去拜祭了毛尸，主动接受“革命传统教育”，照此下去，奥巴马若二次来华，那位据说痴迷毛泽东的白宫通讯联络办公室主任邓恩索性唤随从直接去井冈山或者西柏坡算了，另外，把奥巴马的演讲安排在中央党校更有爆发力。

成龙说“中国人是需要管的”，李光耀对《时代》杂志说“中国人对民主体制不感兴趣”，如今奥巴马又开始在专权者面前卖乖，这些假洋鬼子和真洋鬼子都是为了几个臭钱，把中国人不当东西，那些至今还奢望中国的苦难需要别人来拯救的人，此刻真的应该心死了。@*

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