Extracts from a biography on Answers.comWell, that's a lot -- please read the whole bio. What parallels to the star-crossed power twins of William Ayers and Barrack Obama!Sun Yat-sen was born on Nov. 12, 1866 [bvw -- his Hawaiian birth cert claims he was born Nov. 24, 1876! Obama's date is in question too, but not off by ten years.], into a peasant household Kwangtung [bvw --a province of China]. His early education, like his birthplace, established him as a man of two worlds, China and the West. After a rudimentary training in the Chinese classics in his village school, he was sent to Hawaii in 1879 [bvw -- how like Obama's early years in Indonesian learning Islam, a child of two worlds!], to join his émigré elder brother. There he enrolled at an Anglican college where he studied Western science and religion. Upon graduation in 1882, he returned to his native village, but he soon was banished for defacing the village idols.
Sun spent the formative years of his late teens and early 20s studying [medicine] in Hong Kong.
By the spring of 1893 [bvw-- age 26, corresponding to Obam's Colombia years], he had become more interested in politics than in medicine. Sun returned to Hawaii to organize the Hsing-chung hui (Revive China Society) [bvw -- "Community organizing" of a sort]. When the Sino-Japanese War appeared to present possibilities for the overthrow of the Manchus, Sun returned to Hong Kong and reorganized the Hsing-chung hui as a revolutionary secret society [bvw --the Weathermen of the day] . An uprising was planned in Canton in 1895 but was discovered, and several of Sun's comrades were executed. Having become a marked man, Sun fled and found refuge in Japan.
The pattern for Sun's career was established: hastily organized plots, failures, execution of co-conspirators, overseas wanderings in search of sanctuary and financial backing for further coups [bvw -- sort of like Obam'a pal and mentor William Ayers]. Sun grew a moustache, donned Western-style clothes, and, posing as a Japanese, set out once again, first to Hawaii, then to San Francisco, and finally to England to visit Cantlie. There he was kidnaped by the Chinese legation and held captive pending deportation back to China. Rescued at the last minute through the efforts of Cantlie, he emerged from captivity with an international reputation enhanced by his own account of the event, Kidnapped in London (1897) [bvw -- sort of like "Dreams of My Father"]. Before leaving England, he frequented the reading room of the British Museum [bvw- in Dreams Obama claims to have spent his Colombia years in the college library], where he became acquainted with the writings of Karl Marx [bvw -- Marx again!].
In July 1897 Sun returned to Japan, where he adopted the pseudonym Nakayama (Chinese, Chung-shan). He also attracted the support of prominent Japanese Sinophiles, liberals, and adventurers who hoped that Japan, by promoting political change in China, could build an Asian bloc against the West. [bvw -- Change! And an alliance with plotters like Soros et al.]
[...] By the time he arrived back in China on Christmas Day, rebellion had spread through the Yangtze Valley. A tumultuous welcome greeted Sun, and in Nanking, revolutionary delegates from 14 provinces elected him president of a provisional government. On Jan. 1, 1912, Sun Yat-sen proclaimed the establishment of the Republic of China.
[...civil war...] He undertook, moreover, to breathe new life into the faltering Kuomintang and to set in motion a thoroughgoing reorganization of the party. Of equal consequence was Sun's decision to accept support from the Soviet Union Part of the agreement provided for the admission of individual Chinese Communists into the Kuomintang. On Jan. 26, 1923, in a joint manifesto with Sun, Soviet envoy Adolph Joffe guaranteed Russian support for the reunification of China.
By the middle of February 1923 Sun was back again as head of a military government. On October 6 Michael Borodin arrived in Canton, having been sent by the Comintern in response to Sun's request for an adviser on party organization. In January 1924 the first National Congress of the Kuomintang approved a new constitution which remodeled the party along Soviet lines. At the top of a tightly disciplined pyramidal structure was to be a Central Executive Committee with bureaus in charge of propaganda, workers, peasants, youth, women, investigation, and military affairs. Sun's Three People's Principles were restated to emphasize anti-imperialism and the leading role of the party.
To the point of the thread note how Sun moved effortlessly from one nation to another, community organizing, power group organizing and playing-off one another, making and breaking alliances, establishing secret organizations. And deftly changing identities!
I understand it that Senators have looser rules of birth than one applying for POTUS
I understand it that Senators have looser rules of birth than one applying for POTUS
Keep putting lipstick on that old Hawaiian Pig why don’t they?