Adcycn,
With all that I said before, I want you to understand something. I met many people when I stayed in Chengdu. Most were very nice people, but many were nothing more than nice spies. They wanted anything and everything they could get from me and my team.
I feel very bad and sorry for China and the dead and dying, those trapped and the families of those affected. There is little I can do from here, but I will say that, although 99.9% of your country does NOT follow religion or believe in God, I do and will continue to pray for your people there.
Since you’re on the internet, I take it you were not affected directly, and your power and communications connections are still online.
Perhaps YOU should be out there helping your fellow people in China, instead of sitting here accusing Americans of hatred when that isn’t the case.
Good luck with your country’s plight and I’m SURE the US will, against all odds come forward with literally BILLIONS of dollars in aid monies to your country, even against MY wishes. I think our money would be better spent helping those trapped in Burma, and the Taiwanese people instead. But that’s just me.
we have MANY issues with China, serious, strategic, religious, social, political, commercial, environmental, industrial, competitive, cooperative issues - but to discuss these issues with a starting point of “little or nothing has changed since the 1980’s” is simply nonsensical. The changes have been enormous - one can interpret these changes as for better or worse, but to say there have been no change shows a fundamental lack of knowledge.
maybe you should consider spending another month in Chengdu now and update your perspective.