China's Flag Rises Without a Flap

LAtimes ^ | April 25, 2005 | Jia-Rui Chong

[phoenix_004]

A crowd of people loyal to the People's Republic of China raised split-finger victory signs as their one red-and-gold flag found a home on a small lane. "I feel real proud," said David Lee, 85 When Lee and others tried to raise the mainland Chinese flag in the same location about 20 years ago, an angry group of anti-communists tore it down and burned it.

More than 100 people gathered to watch the flag rise to the strains of "The March of the Volunteers," the Chinese national anthem.

Many had come from a demonstration in front of the Japanese Embassy, where demonstrators asked the Japanese government to apologize for brutality in China during World War II and to reject new history books that gloss over those actions.

Peter Lau, who heads the group that organized the flag-raising, the China Unity Assn. of Greater Los Angeles, and who also marched in the anti-Japan rally, said it was a sign of growing Chinese nationalism.

Raising the flag, in particular, "shows Chinese people overseas are getting stronger," Lau said . "More people are thinking about the changing of China." "People who live here want to keep the tradition they've had for 80 years," he said. "It's not easy to change that in one day."

"Certain elements in Taiwan want their own flag, a green flag," Loo said. "If there's no green flag, there's no conflict."

But Li Jin, 24, said it troubles her to see so many blue-and-red flags flying prominently in Chinatown. The Beijing nativeread with emphasis the words on the red banners flying high above the new flag: "United China" and "Against the secession of Taiwan."

"When I see the KMT [Kuomintang] flag, I feel very sad," she said. "They are not a country."

[Paul_Denton]

I assume that is a rhetorical question. If open conflict does come to pass, which seems reasonably likely in my opinion, I suspect we will see a lot of internal sabotage.

A lot of people from the PRC here are brainwashed by the CCP and belive that Taiwan is a part of China. When president Chen stops by Seattle on his trips to Central America there is always protests and counter-protests between the pro-China and pro-Taiwan groups.

In other words I think you are right.

[Paul_Denton]

China and they are also very well positioned to carry out internal sabatoge in the U.S. because their advanced degrees have enabled them to gain sensitive positions in banking, telecommunications, high-tech, research, finance, and so on.

Not only that there is the distinct possiblity of deep cover agents tasked specifically to do such acts (/tinfoil)

[Bald Eagle777]

We're on the same page RE: China.

Any intel/news in the public realm RE ChiComs and pro-China traitors/security threats in the U.S., pls ping me.

Tks!