I fully understand China's outrage over the 2001 spy plane incident just as I fully understand why Tang Jiaxuan, the Chinese foreign minister, said that his government and his people "shall never forget" the embassy blast in Belgrade in May 1999. Remembering a pilot downed by his own stupidity and the three countrymen killed by a foreign missile (through a mistake or otherwise), after all, allows the Chinese people to forget the tens of millions of countrymen who were killed by the Chinese government through the 1960s… In honor of the anniversary of the tragic crackdown on Tien An Men,
I am reprinting an article I wrote three months before 911…
"Wan quan bu iyang!" Read also Howard W French's Letter from Asia (Taiwan and China: Struggle over identity)…
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