{"id":1058,"date":"2011-01-15T10:27:53","date_gmt":"2011-01-15T02:27:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.axqd.net\/?p=1058"},"modified":"2011-01-15T10:27:53","modified_gmt":"2011-01-15T02:27:53","slug":"poem-forwarded-by-duo-liang-lin-to-his-couple-of-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.axqd.net\/?p=1058","title":{"rendered":"Poem forwarded by Duo Liang Lin to his couple of friends"},"content":{"rendered":"

What do you really want from us?<\/strong>
\nBy Anonymous<\/p>\n

When we were the Sick Man of Asia, We were called The Yellow Peril.
\nWhen we are billed to be the next Superpower, we are called The Threat.
\nWhen we closed our doors, you smuggled drugs to open markets.
\nWhen we embrace Free Trade, You blame us for taking away your jobs.
\nWhen we were falling apart, You marched in your troops and wanted your fair share.
\nWhen we tried to put the broken pieces back together again, Free Tibet
\nyou screamed, It Was an Invasion!
\nWhen tried Communism, you hated us for being Communist.
\nWhen we embrace Capitalism, you hate us for being Capitalist.
\nWhen we have a billion people, you said we were destroying the planet.
\nWhen we tried limiting our numbers, you said we abused human rights.
\nWhen we were poor, you thought we were dogs.
\nWhen we loan you cash, you blame us for your national debts.
\nWhen we build our industries, you call us Polluters.
\nWhen we sell you goods, you blame us for global warming.
\nWhen we buy oil, you call it exploitation and genocide.
\nWhen you go to war for oil, you call it liberation.
\nWhen we were lost in chaos and rampage, you demanded rules of law.
\nWhen we uphold law and order against violence, you call it violating human rights.
\nWhen we were silent, you said you wanted us to have free speech.
\nWhen we are silent no more, you say we are brainwashed-xenophobics.
\nWhy do you hate us so much, we asked.
\nNo, you answered, we don’t hate you.
\nWe don’t hate you either, But, do you understand us?
\nOf course we do, you said,We have AFP, CNN and BBC’s…
\nWhat do you really want from us?
\nThink hard first, then answer… Because you only get so many chances.
\nEnough is Enough, Enough Hypocrisy for This One World.
\nWe want One World, One Dream, and Peace on Earth.
\nThis Big Blue Earth is Big Enough for all of Us.<\/p>\n

============= Interesting Response =============<\/p>\n

Echoing the Voice of the Voiceless<\/strong>
\nBy Ann Lau<\/p>\n

When Empress Dowager paid indemnity to the eight nations, the U.S. used it for the first Chinese students to study abroad.
\nWhen Sun Yat Sen came to the U.S. as a fugitive, the U.S. opened her arms.
\nWhen China was invaded by Imperial Japan, the U.S. sent in the Flying Tigers.
\nWhen China put up the bamboo curtain, the Chinese risked the shark infected sea to escape to Hong Kong and then to the west.
\nWhen the Dalai Lama called Mao as his Big Brother, it was not enough; religion is the opium of the people.
\nWith Communism, the Chinese suffered the greatest famine in the history of mankind.
\nAgain, the west welcomed those refugees.
\nWhen China was facing economic collapse, it was those Chinese who left China who first went back to establish commerce.
\nWhen China needed investments, the IMF came to its aid.
\nWith Capitalism, corruption went rampant and the Chinese floating migrants became second class citizens in their own cities.
\nWith a billion people, China has great potential; why is their government afraid of them?
\nTell me why blind legal expert Chen Guangcheng was sentenced to jail when he helped villagers to file class action against forced abortion and sterilization?
\nTell me why Wu Lihong, a farmer who became an environmentalist, was sentenced to jail when he tried to save Lake Tai?
\nTell me why farmer Jiang Jinzhu called on outside China to help when his land and mushroom farm was illegally torn down?
\nTell me why Hu Jia was sentenced to three and half years in jail when he wrote an article on the internet?
\nTell me why attorney Teng Biao was kidnapped when he tried to help Hu Jia?
\nTell me why Baixing’s editor-in-chief, Huang Liangtian was fired when he reported too many stories on corruption and official land grabs?
\nTell me why Zeng Jinyan is in house arrest with her baby when she only blogged on the environment and AIDS?
\nTell me why the petitioners in Beijing crowd around the western press and beg them to listen to their stories?
\nWith their own fellow citizens unjustly treated, where is the outrage?
\nTell me what top Chinese intellectuals said in their open letter on the Olympics and why they send their letter to the west?
\nTell me what top Chinese intellectuals said in their open letter on the Tibet issue and why they send their letter to the west?
\nWhy do Chinese in China call on the west to highlight their injustice?
\nWhy do Chinese in China want the western press to report on their grievances?
\nWhy do Chinese in China even went in front of the U.S. embassy to bring attention to their plights?
\nCould it be that their own government is not listening?
\nThe west can turn a blind eye and close their ears to those Chinese people who pleaded for their help just as their own government have done.
\nThere is little the west can do except to merely echo the voice of the voiceless.
\nIf we even refuse to do that, then what kind of people are we?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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