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Tell Beijing they can sell their cheap clothes and toys to the Taliban.

This is extremely grave news. It shows their fear of us is fading. Not only that, but they don't even care that we know it.

This kind of provocation is unlike the Chinese. As much as they oppose us, they have never in the recent past, to my knowledge, engaged in anything this outwardly inflamitory. They have almost always been, with the recent exception of the spy plane ordeal, rather concilitory in word and deed. Though, two faced and disgenuine, at least they, in the past, made an effort. The Chinese have clearly entered a new era and are gearing their propaganda for the future.

I have seen a few of Hitler's movies from before the war. They treated the Jews much like this. The Nazis used them to demonize and dehumanize the Jewish people in an effort instill hatred of the Jews in the German populace. Failing that, to, at least, condition the German people not to notice, resist or care about the upcoming atrocities. This is an extremely bad omen.

we should send this article to every member of Congress, I wish we had those mass mailers around

This bothered me for a moment. Then I remembered that these people still consider indoor plumbing a luxury, probably had to pay three months' salary for their DVD players, and eat their own dogs.

The Red Chinese regime wants to impress upon its people our degree of vulnerability.

In the meantime, we continue investing capital in China. Our China Policy was formulated by the same people who mismanged our anti-terrorist policy. (That should cheer us up.) We ignored the reality about the Islamic fundamentalist terrorists just as we are continuing to ignore the reality that Red China is our enemy.

How many times does our government have to demonstrate its short-sightedness to us before it's too late?

You really wonder what the h..l it is going to take before the US changes its insane "See No Evil" policy toward the PRC.

I am a Chinese living outside of China. The following is based on my personal experience and observation.

The China Government (with all her propaganda machines) has been nurturing the anti-American sentiment among her citizen after the Embassy bombing in Yogoslavia and the spy plane incident over South China Sea.

For decades, the Chinese Government has used nationalism to rally support from the mass public. As the Chinese saying goes: “Kill two birds with one stone”. The equation is simple -- The more they hate the America devil, the more they will support (and/or more tolerant to) their own government and the oppression. In this respect, they have achieved remarkable success in recent years.

If you can read Chinese and have monitored the Chinese open-discussion forums on the internet and the phone-in programs on the radio over the last 3 years, you won’t be surprised to find that public opinion is lopsided anti-American (up to an extreme ratio of 99 to 1). Any neutral opinion is automatically labeled as treasonous, not to mention pro-American. After the publication of the now notorious “Asymmetrical Warfare” by the PLA officials, the net was suddenly flooded with “1001 bizarre and grotesque ways to attack U.S.A.”.

I remember one Chinese geologist suggested smuggling and burying a nuclear device deep underground (right over the fault) in San Francisco to trigger an earth quake that kills millions of Americans. Among other equally grotesque schemes are spreading foot and mouth disease among U.S. livestock (poisoning milk, water, food, etc.); hacking the NYSE and Pentagon computers to deliver a heavy blow on U.S. both financially and militarily. The list goes on and on.

Their saber rattling was so intense and heated that for the first week after the Sept 11 attack, I have trouble clearing the suspicion in my mind that the attack was actually masterminded by the Chinese military (or at least a radical faction of the PLA). On Sept 12th and 13th, I was literally waiting for the Chinese to push the button and launch a nuclear attack on U.S. soil any moment. (Thanks to U.S. technology sold to China in the Clinton era, Beijing now have at least 24 long-range missiles capable of hitting most of U.S. cities, with warheads equivalent to 5 million tons TNT.) Of course, you can laugh at my paranoia now but during that horrible week, I was really frightened. Why?

If Jiang did push the button when the U.S. was at its weakest and most chaotic moment, I believe they might have a more than 50% chance to succeed. Until today, there are still many posters on Chinese internet forums that calls Jiang a wimp and criticize their government for missing an historical opportunity to finish the arrogant U.S. devil once and for all. Fortunately, President Bush’s resolve, poise and determination that prevented the country from plunging into further chaos had saved the day. Anyway, it was a close call.

Thanks to the Clinton administration, America’s military force is reduced to a state that it cannot handle two full scale conflicts on different fronts. Clinton’s best friend Jiang knows this too. His only concern is that a war with the U.S. at this stage is not to the best advantage of the Communist Party’s stability and China’s economy. In other words, Jiang also knows that their 24 nuclear missiles can only deliver a lethal blow to the U.S. but China lacks the financial power to fight it through victory. With the American commercial sectors like Boeing, Motorola, P&G, and other multi-national companies prostituting their national interests for business profits in China, this day will come very soon.

The Sept 11th attack on America is a God send to Jiang and his government. I must credit the old wolf for his sly and cunning maneuver --paying lip service to fight terrorism on one hand (thus avoiding direct conflict with U.S.) and trying his best to pin down the American military force in a prolonged Middle East conflict on the other.

The last thing that Jiang wants to see is a quick and effective American victory in Afghanistan. China was and still is a staunch supporter of the Taliban. They don’t want to have one more pro-American neighbor after the war, especially when the Pakistani Government has apparently shifted one foot to the U.S. camp.

China doesn’t want the Taliban to win either. The China’s best scenario is that the Afghan war becomes a hemorrhage on U.S. now weakened economy and military power for the next 10 years. If the U.S. is tied down in Afghanistan fighting a politically correct and limited war; and with the help of the peaceniks and pacifists within America, this would be Jiang’s dream come true.

With the imminent downturn of the US and the world economy, China is the only country in the world which can sustain a 7% to 8% GDP growth. I am not an economist, but how long does it take for China to rival the U.S. as a world leader and superpower?

Wake up and watch your back, America!

Come on now. These terrorist supporting bastards are our friends thanks to W. Let's hear it for the trade uber alles Republicans!!

The Communist government of China has killed thirty million of its own people during the last fifty years.

More scumbags that will eventually have to be dealt with.