Confucius’ Descendant Condemns Aggression

Pravda ^ | 19:43 2003-03-20 | Andrey Krushinsky

[Maedhros]

Confucius’ Descendant Condemns Aggression
“China strongly calls for immediate stop of military actions against Iraq, return to track of political solution to Iraq issue,” Foreign Ministry spokesman Kong Quan said at the press conference Thursday.

The name of Quan is infrequent in China; people with the name are considered descendants of great K'ung-fu-tzu (Confucius). This is very serious as it is confirmed with the following fact: people with the name Quan, males and females are not allowed to mary each other no matter in what part of China they were born (this is a prohibition imposed in order to avoid incest).

Indeed, today’s speech of the diplomat was permeated with wisdom of great K'ung-fu-tzu who, two thousand years before Columbus discovered America, condemned violence and willfulness, predatory ambitions of strong countries, but glorified truly civilized relationship between nations and all people.

“The military actions against Iraq, carried out despite opposition from most governments and peoples across the world and bypassing the United Nations Security Council, violated the United Nations Charter and the basic norms of international law, China will continue to call for world peace and will take actions with other countries to make the countries concerned stop their military actions in Iraq.”

[Maedhros]

[camle]

“China strongly calls for immediate stop of military actions against TIBET, return to track of political solution to TIBET issue,”

that would be a much more worthy statement.

[Willie Green]

Fundamentally, we believe that the U.S. government needs to devote more resources and put in place new programs to build wider expertise about China and to protect our industrial base from eroding as a result of our economic relations with China.

-- C. Richard D’Amato, chairman
U.S.-China Security Review Commission
(How to improve U.S.-China relations )

[dead]

Well I'm a descendent of King Tut and I call for the descendent of Confucious to bite me.

[Shenandoah]

I wonder how many descendents of Richard the Lionheart or William the Conquerer are now rolling through Iraq?

[homeagain balkansvet]

Well, hey, as a direct descendant of Adam and Eve, I tell my cousin Quan to go p!$$ up a rope.

[Hermann the Cherusker]

Some descendants of William the Conqueror's minions are watching enviously.

[inquest]

Wouldn't Quan be his given name? I thought family names came first in China.

[YOMO]

Confucius say: Don't mess with the EAGLE's NEST and you won't get CLAWED. The sharp eyed Eagle will find those WMDs.

[Maedhros]

They do. I don't know if the author switched things around or is just ignorant.

[x]

The mathematical study of genealogy indicates that everyone in the world is descended from Nefertiti and Confucius, and everyone of European ancestry is descended from Muhammad and Charlemagne.

I don't quite buy that most Patagonians are decendants of Confucius or Charlemagne, but it's an interesting hypothesis.

[PBRSTREETGANG]

Tell him to put it in a fortune cookie. We'll get back to him.

[JohnnyZ]

For some reason I thought this was another John Kerry ancestry surprise.

-Zhan Jihao

[Shenandoah]

Really?! You're a descendant of Adam and Eve, too?! What a small world! So am I! Maybe we ought to start a club.

[BSunday]

My question is - why the heck would anybody care what Confucious or any of his descendants say? He was just a man, and is now dead and with the devil.

[Free Vulcan]

Wow, there's probably what, 5-10 million or more people that could trace their lineage back to Confucius? And that's some seriously strong DNA that can pass his traits across 3,000 years.

[homeagain balkansvet]

I'd never join a club that would have me as a member. Except FR. :-)

[Snickersnee]

My daughters (one coming in from Turkey & another from Kuwait) are descendants of William Wallace. Poor, poor Sadaam.

[Jhoffa_]

This was delivered in a fortune cookie, I suppose..