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China's People Liberation Army demanded a tough response to U.S. plans to send an aircraft carrier to naval exercises near its coast, saying that "respect" was at stake.
A commentary in the Liberation Army Daily on Thursday laid bare rancour over Washington's naval exercises with ally South Korea, and over its criticism of Chinese territorial claims to swathes of the South China Sea, where Taiwan and several Southeast Asian states also have claims.
"A country needs respect, and a military also needs respect. 'If someone doesn't hurt me, I won't hurt him; but if someone hurts me, I must hurt him," wrote Major General Luo Yuan in the paper.
"For the Chinese people and the Chinese military, those are by no means idle words."
A Pentagon spokesman, Geoff Morrell, last week said a U.S. aircraft carrier, the nuclear-powered George Washington, which joined in the earlier exercise, would participate in a follow-up drill in the Yellow Sea, between the Korean peninsula and China.
Beijing said the military exercises in nearby seas threatened its security. The United States and South Korea said they were aimed at deterring North Korea, which they blame for torpedoing a South Korean navy ship in March.
The PLA Daily commentary indicated that friction over any fresh U.S. military activities in seas near China would continue to dog relations between the two big economic powers.
The United States is "pushing its security boundary to the doorstep of others -- the Yellow Sea, South China Sea and so on," wrote Luo. "In their eyes, the security of other states and peoples is secondary, even meaningless."
Chinese newspapers have carried several harsh commentaries since maritime tensions flared between Beijing and Washington, rekindling friction that unsettled ties earlier this year.
But Luo's strong words in the Chinese military's top newspaper suggest the PLA sees its prestige at stake.
"We don't want make enemies of any country," wrote Luo.
"But whoever ignores our solemn stance and core interests, persisting in doing as he pleases and bullying us too far, we will never fear."
At the end of commentary, Luo suggested that America should learn to respect and listen to other countries' will, trying to settle disputes down by wisdom, instead of warship.
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Major General Luo Yuan is absolutely right that he who disregards others will be "disregarded." For non-Asians especially, the idea of "face" [which is actually dignity] is to be preserved over and above ones' life. The West calls this honor and duels over it with pistols. We will call it nothing except our RIGHT TO SELF-DEFENSE. Even a policeman, when faced with a drunken sailor brandishing a sword will have to shoot him if he gets too close. Enough said.
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A senior Chinese military strategist called planned U.S. naval exercises in the region a provocation and accused the Obama administration of seeking to encircle China and pursuing a "chaotic" approach towards Beijing.
The commentary in the top paper of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) was China's latest verbal broadside against Washington, which Beijing has accused of stirring tension in the region with a series of military drills near its borders.
"On the one hand, it wants China to play a role in regional security issues. On the other hand, it is engaging in an increasingly tight encirclement of China and constantly challenging China's core interests," Rear Admiral Yang Yi wrote in the Liberation Army Daily.
The Pentagon plans new joint naval exercises with ally South Korea that will send a U.S. aircraft carrier into the Yellow Sea, between China and the Korean peninsula.
Those exercises are intended to provoke "enmity and confrontation in the Asia-Pacific region," Yang wrote.
Yang, who works at China's National Defence University, warned that friction over the planned U.S.-South Korea naval exercise reflected broader instability in relations with Beijing, and he placed the blame at Washington's doorstep.
"Rarely has there been such wavering and chaos in U.S. policy towards China," wrote Yang.
Yang's commentary came out a day after a similarly angry warning in the paper, suggesting expectations from the PLA for a firm response from Beijing.
"Washington will inevitably pay a costly price for its muddled decision," Yang wrote in a separate commentary on Friday in the China Daily, the country's main English-language paper.
"The risks of a collision occurring between the two countries' navies in seas off China's coast are escalating," Wang Jisi, a prominent expert on China-U.S. relations at Peking University, wrote in a recent analysis.
MILITARY TIES STALL
China appears unlikely to risk directly challenging any new U.S.-South Korea drills by sending its ships to the same waters, a step that would risk a dangerous escalation in tensions.
However, its anger with the Obama administration could hold off any upgrading of military relations, which Beijing has curtailed since friction earlier this year over U.S. weapons sales to Taiwan, the self-ruled island claimed by China.
The planned exercises leave scant chance that U.S. Defence Secretary Robert Gates will be invited to visit China any time soon, said Xu Guangyu, a former PLA officer and now a researcher at the China Arms Control and Disarmament Association.
"It's natural for the PLA to speak out first on these issues," Xu told Reuters. "It's the PLA's sacred duty to defend China's territory and interests."
The U.S. and South Korea last month held a joint naval drill in the Sea of Japan off the Korean peninsula, which brought condemnation from China. It then answered with its own heavily publicised military exercises.
The Pentagon last week said a U.S. aircraft carrier, the George Washington, which joined in the earlier exercise, would participate in a follow-up drill in the Yellow Sea.
The United States and South Korea have said their exercises are aimed at warning North Korea, which they blame for torpedoing a South Korean navy ship in March.
"Anyone clear-sighted can see that this carries something of a warning to China," wrote Yang.
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If China does not take out the aircraft carrier, it will regret this. There appears to be a rich class of bureaucrats who are out of touch with the common person in China, especially the 30% who live still in pre-development poverty, and the migrating homeless working populations in the cities from the countryside. Do not forget that the PLA rank and file's family are these poor people and do not underestimate the social instability already existing in China, and so I say to the Chinese rulers, you either take a risk now (that is justified morally) or you take a risk of internal revolt. In either case, nuclear war is possible, but in the latter case, it is more likely. I know this sounds illogically but your decision not to do anything is cowardice and highly illogical as well. China is a paper tiger.
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A senior Chinese military strategist called planned U.S. naval exercises in the region a provocation and accused the Obama administration of seeking to encircle China and pursuing a "chaotic" approach towards Beijing.
The commentary in the top paper of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) was China's latest verbal broadside against Washington, which Beijing has accused of stirring tension in the region with a series of military drills near its borders.
"On the one hand, it wants China to play a role in regional security issues. On the other hand, it is engaging in an increasingly tight encirclement of China and constantly challenging China's core interests," Rear Admiral Yang Yi wrote in the Liberation Army Daily.
The Pentagon plans new joint naval exercises with ally South Korea that will send a U.S. aircraft carrier into the Yellow Sea, between China and the Korean peninsula.
Those exercises are intended to provoke "enmity and confrontation in the Asia-Pacific region," Yang wrote.
Yang, who works at China's National Defence University, warned that friction over the planned U.S.-South Korea naval exercise reflected broader instability in relations with Beijing, and he placed the blame at Washington's doorstep.
"Rarely has there been such wavering and chaos in U.S. policy towards China," wrote Yang.
Yang's commentary came out a day after a similarly angry warning in the paper, suggesting expectations from the PLA for a firm response from Beijing.
"Washington will inevitably pay a costly price for its muddled decision," Yang wrote in a separate commentary on Friday in the China Daily, the country's main English-language paper.
"The risks of a collision occurring between the two countries' navies in seas off China's coast are escalating," Wang Jisi, a prominent expert on China-U.S. relations at Peking University, wrote in a recent analysis.
MILITARY TIES STALL
China appears unlikely to risk directly challenging any new U.S.-South Korea drills by sending its ships to the same waters, a step that would risk a dangerous escalation in tensions.
However, its anger with the Obama administration could hold off any upgrading of military relations, which Beijing has curtailed since friction earlier this year over U.S. weapons sales to Taiwan, the self-ruled island claimed by China.
The planned exercises leave scant chance that U.S. Defence Secretary Robert Gates will be invited to visit China any time soon, said Xu Guangyu, a former PLA officer and now a researcher at the China Arms Control and Disarmament Association.
"It's natural for the PLA to speak out first on these issues," Xu told Reuters. "It's the PLA's sacred duty to defend China's territory and interests."
The U.S. and South Korea last month held a joint naval drill in the Sea of Japan off the Korean peninsula, which brought condemnation from China. It then answered with its own heavily publicised military exercises.
The Pentagon last week said a U.S. aircraft carrier, the George Washington, which joined in the earlier exercise, would participate in a follow-up drill in the Yellow Sea.
The United States and South Korea have said their exercises are aimed at warning North Korea, which they blame for torpedoing a South Korean navy ship in March.
"Anyone clear-sighted can see that this carries something of a warning to China," wrote Yang.
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If China does not take out the aircraft carrier, it will regret this. There appears to be a rich class of bureaucrats who are out of touch with the common person in China, especially the 30% who live still in pre-development poverty, and the migrating homeless working populations in the cities from the countryside. Do not forget that the PLA rank and file's family are these poor people and do not underestimate the social instability already existing in China, and so I say to the Chinese rulers, you either take a risk now (that is justified morally) or you take a risk of internal revolt. In either case, nuclear war is possible, but in the latter case, it is more likely. I know this sounds illogically but your decision not to do anything is cowardice and highly illogical as well. China is a paper tiger.
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USS George Washington aircraft carrier
Pentagon spokesman Geoff Morrell said on Thursday local time that the US will send the USS George Washington supercarrier, which participated in last month's joint drills between the US and the ROK in the Sea of Japan, to the Yellow Sea for their upcoming exercise.
He did not give specific dates for the exercise in the Yellow Sea and the Sea of Japan, but the Associated Press said he was referring to the joint annual exercise named "Ulchi Freedom Guardian" scheduled for Aug 16 to 26.
"China will definitely react harshly to the move. It's hard to predict its specific reaction, but that will for sure cast a shadow over Sino-US military relations," said Rear Admiral Yang Yi, former head of strategic studies at the People's Liberation Army's National Defense University.
Anti-ship missiles a big threat for carriers
China's DF-21C missiles
According to Associated Press Aug 5, China is developing Dong Feng 21-D anti-ship ballistic missiles (ASBM), which is capable of destroying the most advanced defense system of aircraft carriers from nearly 2,000 miles away. It's reported that China's DF-21D is a game changing weapon in the Asia-Pacific.
Meanwhile, US intelligence agencies point out besides DF-21D, US aircraft carriers also face threats from land-based fighters and conventional warship equipped with anti-ship missiles.
China's J-10 fighter
China's Xiandai-class Destroyer
According to US Defense News, the number of China's anti-ship missiles could be regarded as a big threat to any anti-missile system. It's reported that PLA's Su-30, J-10 and "Flying leopard" fighters are all able to be equipped with long-rang anti-ship missiles with a rang of up to 100 kilometers.
US Diplomat magazine says the operational radius of China's advanced fighters reach 900 nautical miles, of which attack can cover "the first island chain". Their combat range can be also extended through air refuelling.
Besides, PLA Navy's warships are also reported to be equipped with kinds of medium and long-range anti-ship missiles. Thee SS-N-22 'Sunburn' super sonic anti-ship missile, which equips China Xiandai-class Destroyer, is a typical example.
Special torpedoes worry US military
China's Shang class submarine
In recent years, US media have been playing up the threat from China's submarines to US military. Meanwhile, US is also worrying about advanced weapons in China's submarines.
US media say China's submarines are equipped with advanced wake homing torpedoes, which are a key technology to reduce endurance loss and increase hit probability.
Taiwan's media also reveal that China's submarines are equipped with Russia's "Blizzard" Supercavitating torpedoes, of which the speed is four times as that of normal torpedoes. It's reported that no other weapons could contain this kind of torpedo.
System countermeasures
USS Enterprise aircraft carrier
Facts prove that it's easier to deprive an aircraft carrier of its combat capability by destroying its deck and commanding communication system. If an aircraft carrier loses combat capability, other war ships in the fleet cannot play a role. Attack on a carrier could result in huge casualty, which could cause strategy-level influence.
The Pentagon says US carriers are only a highly valuable target under the attack of long-range accurate weapons. It's unimaginable to risk dispatching carriers with over 5000 troops to war zones.
According to Chinese military experts, it's easy to be under attack when a carrier fleet alone moves to the enemy's coastline , because the fleet will combat beyond the support of the whole system of weapons, surveillance and intelligence to some extent. In the real battle, US carriers usually gain support from naval and air force nearby and keep close communication with the whole system of command and control through satellites.
Meanwhile, US military thinks DF-21D could hit targets with the support of satellites and early warning aircraft. Therefore, to counteract the attack of DF-21D on carriers, support from other armed services are highly needed, such as stealth fighters and anti-satellite missiles which are capable of destroying the intelligence support for DF-21D.
What is the Ace in the hole to smash carriers?
Poll Options ( multiple choice: choose no more than 5 options ) Number of participants 25
1. DF-21D ASBM 13 (24.53%)
2. Land-based fighters with anti-ship missiles 7 (13.21%)
3. Warships with anti-ship missiles 6 (11.32%)
4. Submarines with special torpedoes. 10 (18.87%)
5. Anti-satellite weapons. 6 (11.32%)
6. All the above 4 (7.55%)
7. Others 3 (5.66%)
8. Unclear 4 (7.55%)
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koonwoon 2010-8-11 17:33 1# Edit Quote How to Smash Carrier
A comprehensive attack should be launched. This include DF-21 missiles, anti-satellite missiles, submarines and special torpedos, land-based missiles, attack aircrafts, and missile speedboats and even nuclear tipped missiles if everything else fail. Forgive me of being alarmist, this is the way the US plays throughout its history of world conquest. We must clip its ability to make war once and for all for the good of the world. Philosophical freedom depends on a very unpleasant chore that we must perform here. Historically, look at the last time the US occupied Peking. Do you want that to happen again? The choice is clear. Do or die!zedereza 2010-8-12 05:18 2# Quote reply to koonwoon
First off it was not the US who hoisted flags in peking it was the british and french. Secondly I am an American i know of noone who wants war with China it would be terrible for both of us. Both countries need each other. Most of our products come from China and it makes you alot of money let alone jobs. I will say that the exercise over there was a rediculous show to north korea that served little to no point. But the same can be said about bragging about ways to take a carrier down(there's hundreds). The main point is both countries should find ways to better relations rather than find ways to put up walls.koonwoon 2010-8-12 16:46 3# Edit Quote how to smash carrier - reply to reply
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First off it was not the US who hoisted flags in peking it was the british and french. Secondly I am an American i know of noone who wants war with China it would be terrible for both of us. Both coun ... Let me say sir, that the U.S. falsifies history or is mum about it. I was in China as a boy when tactical nuclear strikes were constant a threat from the US. I been to the US for 50 years and I never feel accepted as good as a White American. Thirdly, given the rest of the containment moves by the US, the carrier is definitely a strategic threat to China. Basically, sir, the U.S. is prepared to kill the lender (China) rather than to pay back its debts. The hypocrisy of the United States is easy to see outside of the United States, the Common Market, and its puppet governements. And lastly, sir, if you are peace-loving, why do you spend 1/2 of the world's total military budget, to the point that your civilian population are homeless? [ I have been homeless in the United States and I have been illegally evicted out of public housing for advocating the rights of Chinese immigrants]. You may need us but we don't need you, sir. We only need you if we want a wasteful standard and genocide behavior as a way of life. I have studied you from the inside belly of the beast. You cannot lie to me.
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Authorstar Start time2010-8-11 11:57 How to smash Carrier?
USS George Washington aircraft carrier
Pentagon spokesman Geoff Morrell said on Thursday local time that the US will send the USS George Washington supercarrier, which participated in last month's joint drills between the US and the ROK in the Sea of Japan, to the Yellow Sea for their upcoming exercise.
He did not give specific dates for the exercise in the Yellow Sea and the Sea of Japan, but the Associated Press said he was referring to the joint annual exercise named "Ulchi Freedom Guardian" scheduled for Aug 16 to 26.
"China will definitely react harshly to the move. It's hard to predict its specific reaction, but that will for sure cast a shadow over Sino-US military relations," said Rear Admiral Yang Yi, former head of strategic studies at the People's Liberation Army's National Defense University.
Anti-ship missiles a big threat for carriers
China's DF-21C missiles
According to Associated Press Aug 5, China is developing Dong Feng 21-D anti-ship ballistic missiles (ASBM), which is capable of destroying the most advanced defense system of aircraft carriers from nearly 2,000 miles away. It's reported that China's DF-21D is a game changing weapon in the Asia-Pacific.
Meanwhile, US intelligence agencies point out besides DF-21D, US aircraft carriers also face threats from land-based fighters and conventional warship equipped with anti-ship missiles.
China's J-10 fighter
China's Xiandai-class Destroyer
According to US Defense News, the number of China's anti-ship missiles could be regarded as a big threat to any anti-missile system. It's reported that PLA's Su-30, J-10 and "Flying leopard" fighters are all able to be equipped with long-rang anti-ship missiles with a rang of up to 100 kilometers.
US Diplomat magazine says the operational radius of China's advanced fighters reach 900 nautical miles, of which attack can cover "the first island chain". Their combat range can be also extended through air refuelling.
Besides, PLA Navy's warships are also reported to be equipped with kinds of medium and long-range anti-ship missiles. Thee SS-N-22 'Sunburn' super sonic anti-ship missile, which equips China Xiandai-class Destroyer, is a typical example.
Special torpedoes worry US military
China's Shang class submarine
In recent years, US media have been playing up the threat from China's submarines to US military. Meanwhile, US is also worrying about advanced weapons in China's submarines.
US media say China's submarines are equipped with advanced wake homing torpedoes, which are a key technology to reduce endurance loss and increase hit probability.
Taiwan's media also reveal that China's submarines are equipped with Russia's "Blizzard" Supercavitating torpedoes, of which the speed is four times as that of normal torpedoes. It's reported that no other weapons could contain this kind of torpedo.
System countermeasures
USS Enterprise aircraft carrier
Facts prove that it's easier to deprive an aircraft carrier of its combat capability by destroying its deck and commanding communication system. If an aircraft carrier loses combat capability, other war ships in the fleet cannot play a role. Attack on a carrier could result in huge casualty, which could cause strategy-level influence.
The Pentagon says US carriers are only a highly valuable target under the attack of long-range accurate weapons. It's unimaginable to risk dispatching carriers with over 5000 troops to war zones.
According to Chinese military experts, it's easy to be under attack when a carrier fleet alone moves to the enemy's coastline , because the fleet will combat beyond the support of the whole system of weapons, surveillance and intelligence to some extent. In the real battle, US carriers usually gain support from naval and air force nearby and keep close communication with the whole system of command and control through satellites.
Meanwhile, US military thinks DF-21D could hit targets with the support of satellites and early warning aircraft. Therefore, to counteract the attack of DF-21D on carriers, support from other armed services are highly needed, such as stealth fighters and anti-satellite missiles which are capable of destroying the intelligence support for DF-21D.
What is the Ace in the hole to smash carriers?
Poll Options ( multiple choice: choose no more than 5 options ) Number of participants 25
1. DF-21D ASBM 13 (24.53%)
2. Land-based fighters with anti-ship missiles 7 (13.21%)
3. Warships with anti-ship missiles 6 (11.32%)
4. Submarines with special torpedoes. 10 (18.87%)
5. Anti-satellite weapons. 6 (11.32%)
6. All the above 4 (7.55%)
7. Others 3 (5.66%)
8. Unclear 4 (7.55%)
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koonwoon 2010-8-11 17:33 1# Edit Quote How to Smash Carrier
A comprehensive attack should be launched. This include DF-21 missiles, anti-satellite missiles, submarines and special torpedos, land-based missiles, attack aircrafts, and missile speedboats and even nuclear tipped missiles if everything else fail. Forgive me of being alarmist, this is the way the US plays throughout its history of world conquest. We must clip its ability to make war once and for all for the good of the world. Philosophical freedom depends on a very unpleasant chore that we must perform here. Historically, look at the last time the US occupied Peking. Do you want that to happen again? The choice is clear. Do or die!zedereza 2010-8-12 05:18 2# Quote reply to koonwoon
First off it was not the US who hoisted flags in peking it was the british and french. Secondly I am an American i know of noone who wants war with China it would be terrible for both of us. Both countries need each other. Most of our products come from China and it makes you alot of money let alone jobs. I will say that the exercise over there was a rediculous show to north korea that served little to no point. But the same can be said about bragging about ways to take a carrier down(there's hundreds). The main point is both countries should find ways to better relations rather than find ways to put up walls.koonwoon 2010-8-12 16:46 3# Edit Quote how to smash carrier - reply to reply
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Original posted by zedereza at 2010-8-12 05:18
First off it was not the US who hoisted flags in peking it was the british and french. Secondly I am an American i know of noone who wants war with China it would be terrible for both of us. Both coun ... Let me say sir, that the U.S. falsifies history or is mum about it. I was in China as a boy when tactical nuclear strikes were constant a threat from the US. I been to the US for 50 years and I never feel accepted as good as a White American. Thirdly, given the rest of the containment moves by the US, the carrier is definitely a strategic threat to China. Basically, sir, the U.S. is prepared to kill the lender (China) rather than to pay back its debts. The hypocrisy of the United States is easy to see outside of the United States, the Common Market, and its puppet governements. And lastly, sir, if you are peace-loving, why do you spend 1/2 of the world's total military budget, to the point that your civilian population are homeless? [ I have been homeless in the United States and I have been illegally evicted out of public housing for advocating the rights of Chinese immigrants]. You may need us but we don't need you, sir. We only need you if we want a wasteful standard and genocide behavior as a way of life. I have studied you from the inside belly of the beast. You cannot lie to me.
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From the Academic Advisor:
Hello Koon,
I am so sorry that I wasn’t able to email you back before now. I was out of the office yesterday. I checked your records and I see that you are registered for SOA 405 and PHI 472 for the Fall. You were accepted into the LNT program for the Spring of 2010.
Did you have any questions about the program or about your Fall schedule?? Just let me know and thanks!
Amanda Winters
History, English, LNT and
Philosophy Academic Program Coordinator
217-206-6421
UHB 3050
awint01s@uis.edu
I am so sorry that I wasn’t able to email you back before now. I was out of the office yesterday. I checked your records and I see that you are registered for SOA 405 and PHI 472 for the Fall. You were accepted into the LNT program for the Spring of 2010.
Did you have any questions about the program or about your Fall schedule?? Just let me know and thanks!
Amanda Winters
History, English, LNT and
Philosophy Academic Program Coordinator
217-206-6421
UHB 3050
awint01s@uis.edu
Who Should I Believe?
Who Should I Believe?
I have the following two emails from the University of Illinois at Springfield; they seem to say different and perhaps contradictory things. One says my student status is OK and by implication I should be able to enroll and receive financial aid. The other email from the financial aid office says that not only am I not eligible I have been ineligible for some time and they just happen to think of it and tell me now after the fact.
I rather believe in Amanda. Amada Winters sounds like Nuclear Winter.
I shall post the other email from the financial aid office as well, but you wouldn't really be interested. It is just blah, blah, blah, and all that bureaucratic bungling...
I have the following two emails from the University of Illinois at Springfield; they seem to say different and perhaps contradictory things. One says my student status is OK and by implication I should be able to enroll and receive financial aid. The other email from the financial aid office says that not only am I not eligible I have been ineligible for some time and they just happen to think of it and tell me now after the fact.
I rather believe in Amanda. Amada Winters sounds like Nuclear Winter.
I shall post the other email from the financial aid office as well, but you wouldn't really be interested. It is just blah, blah, blah, and all that bureaucratic bungling...
Bomba, Boma, a New Type of Warrior...
Bruce Thomas, retired Special Forces analyst of the Naval Intelligence College, who spent most of his duties in the Far Eastern Asian Theater, has written the definitive book on Barack Obama's special qualifications for his coveted job as the World's Greatest Military Commander. In this latest book by Thomas, who has also written How to Run a Successful Circus, Bombay on a Biscuit a Day, and Japan without Japs, and Chinks for Gooks Only, and his seminal book on naval encounters, You Are Sunk When the Petty Officer Finds You Onboard Stinking Drunk, chronicles here in IMMORTAL COMBAT Obama's secret CIA training in Indonesia as a foreign student from Hawaii. Obama was trained in Yubiwaza (the deadly Japanese art of alley fighting), poker from the secret tricks of Richard Nixon as a Naval officer, and black coffee drinking for all-night bridge sessions. And of course, a telephone was within reach at all times to make bets to the bookie on the outcome of the English Army Wars. With these kinds of training done in top secret, plus a Harvard Law School education, no wonder Barack Obama is shoulders above even the tallest pro basketball player. And so Hu Jintao (Who is that?), Watch out! O Bambi Obama's got your number! He will give you a call and invite you to a cross-dressing party one of these days! And if you politely refuse, he won't take No for an answer, he will send the USS Aircraft Carrier George Washington to Beijing to fetch you to the Ugly Bug Ball....
Tuesday, August 10, 2010
War to End the World?
Chinese People's Liberation Army held live-fire drill in the South China Sea
By John Lee
Four years before World War I, British author and politician Norman Angell published "The Great Illusion," arguing that military conquests had become obsolete between modern economies. Many policy makers use the same logic today to predict that China and the United States can avoid war. Like their forebears, they may be wrong.
That's the implicit argument of University of Chicago political scientist John Mearsheimer, who delivered the annual Michael Hintze Lecture at Sydney University this week. Politics, rather than economics, will decisively shape the future of Asia just as it did Europe in the previous century, he believes. China's ascent is likely to spark an intense security competition with the U.S., leading to the strong possibility of war between the world's two biggest economies.
This argument runs counter to today's conventional wisdom, which sees a benign future for U.S.-China relations. This view, still popular in Washington, is based on the idea that the U.S. can manage China by offering Beijing incentives to rise as a "responsible stakeholder" within the current U.S.-led global order. Like the educated and well-heeled elites in Europe whom Angell chronicled and who a century ago exhibited extreme reluctance to imagine the outbreak of major war, today's policy makers can't fathom war in the Pacific.
Yet history suggests that Mr. Mearsheimer's warnings should be heeded. Prior to World War I, Angell's logic—that the disruption to the international credit and trading system would mean that everyone loses in the event of war—was irrefutable. Prior to 1914, annual trade volumes of Britain, Germany and France was 52%, 38% and 54% of GDP respectively, with much of the trade being between these great powers. By 1913, Britain had become the leading market for German exports, with both countries largely benefitting from the economic relationship. In the decade leading to the Great War, trade and capital flows between these great powers increased by an estimated 65% and 84%, respectively. Yet, economic interdependence was not enough to prevent the tragic escalation of events that followed the assassination of Austria's Archduke Franz Ferdinand.
Today, China's self-proclaimed and widely accepted "peaceful development" similarly appears to be based on solid economic ground. China has re-emerged as a great trading nation but remains a poor country in terms of GDP per capita. China's export sector is responsible for the creation of hundreds of millions of jobs, and the country still remains deeply dependent on outside technology and know-how. To continue the country's rapid economic development, the Chinese Communist Party needs a peaceful and stable environment in Asia. On the U.S. side, no one in Washington wants to see a conflict with China erupt, especially at a time when America is fighting two wars and worries about Iran's intentions.
Yet Angell's optimism was ultimately wrong because it was based on an incomplete account of driving forces behind relations between the great powers. While the economic relationship created powerful incentives for peace, Angell did not take seriously the intense strategic competition—particularly the growing naval rivalry—between status quo powers like Britain and a rapidly rising and revisionist power like Germany. Nor did Angell's account allow for the human factor of strategic missteps and miscalculations—particularly by Germany's Kaiser Wilhelm II—that eventually plunged Europe into war.
What are the lessons for Asia? While economic interdependence and American attempts to "manage" China's rise has so far succeeded in preventing war, the recent diplomatic conflagration over the Chinese reiteration that its claims in the South China Sea are part of Beijing's "core interests" validates what scholars such as Aaron Friedberg have been saying for a decade: East Asia today has the potential to recreate the European situation at the turn of the previous century. When it comes to strategic goals, China is re-entering into a regional order not of its making after decades of self-imposed isolation. By virtue of Beijing's fundamental dissatisfaction with several of its land and maritime borders, it is a revisionist power. As it rises, the desperation to secure its "core interests" will deepen.
Chinese grand strategy since the days of former leader Deng Xiaoping has been to avoid conflict with a much more formidable competitor (i.e., America) while China builds its "comprehensive national power." In favor of "winning Asia without fighting," as Chinese General Ma Xiaotian once put it, are many of the older generation of leaders who see caution as prudence, even if they relentlessly seek "windows of opportunity" to extend Beijing's power at the expense of America's. They still remember the suffering and humiliation of the Mao Zedong years, when an isolated China tried to achieve too much too quickly.
Yet, as history reaffirms, a peace built on continued political skill, dexterity and restraint rather than a harmony of strategic interest is inherently precarious. Without personal experience of China's recent traumatic history, future generations of leaders will be more confident and assertive. Even now, emerging Communist Party and People's Liberation Army leaders argue that China is moving too slowly on securing its foreign-policy goals. The danger is that, just as Germany did in Europe a century ago, China's overestimation of its own capabilities, and underestimation of American strengths and resolve—combined with strategic dissatisfaction and impatience—is the fast way toward disastrous miscalculation and error.
Several years before the outbreak of the Great War, Kaiser Wilhelm II publicly declared that he considered the prospect of war with Britain "a most unimaginable thing." Despite deep economic interdependence, Europe could not avert a disaster. Leaders in Washington and throughout Asia should not commit the same failure of imagination.
Mr. Lee is a foreign-policy fellow at the Centre for Independent Studies in Sydney, a visiting scholar at the Hudson Institute in Washington
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My response:
I do not think so, Mr. John Lee. The USS George Washington will be sunk, either by DF-21D missiles or by nuclear weapons. There is no turning back for China.
"Where does an 800-pound gorilla sit when he goes to a restaurant? Anywhere he wants to!"
But that is a joke of the past, next time that happens we have new items on the menu ---
Grilled Gorilla Meat or Gorilla Chop Suey
Koon Woon, Seattle
By John Lee
Four years before World War I, British author and politician Norman Angell published "The Great Illusion," arguing that military conquests had become obsolete between modern economies. Many policy makers use the same logic today to predict that China and the United States can avoid war. Like their forebears, they may be wrong.
That's the implicit argument of University of Chicago political scientist John Mearsheimer, who delivered the annual Michael Hintze Lecture at Sydney University this week. Politics, rather than economics, will decisively shape the future of Asia just as it did Europe in the previous century, he believes. China's ascent is likely to spark an intense security competition with the U.S., leading to the strong possibility of war between the world's two biggest economies.
This argument runs counter to today's conventional wisdom, which sees a benign future for U.S.-China relations. This view, still popular in Washington, is based on the idea that the U.S. can manage China by offering Beijing incentives to rise as a "responsible stakeholder" within the current U.S.-led global order. Like the educated and well-heeled elites in Europe whom Angell chronicled and who a century ago exhibited extreme reluctance to imagine the outbreak of major war, today's policy makers can't fathom war in the Pacific.
Yet history suggests that Mr. Mearsheimer's warnings should be heeded. Prior to World War I, Angell's logic—that the disruption to the international credit and trading system would mean that everyone loses in the event of war—was irrefutable. Prior to 1914, annual trade volumes of Britain, Germany and France was 52%, 38% and 54% of GDP respectively, with much of the trade being between these great powers. By 1913, Britain had become the leading market for German exports, with both countries largely benefitting from the economic relationship. In the decade leading to the Great War, trade and capital flows between these great powers increased by an estimated 65% and 84%, respectively. Yet, economic interdependence was not enough to prevent the tragic escalation of events that followed the assassination of Austria's Archduke Franz Ferdinand.
Today, China's self-proclaimed and widely accepted "peaceful development" similarly appears to be based on solid economic ground. China has re-emerged as a great trading nation but remains a poor country in terms of GDP per capita. China's export sector is responsible for the creation of hundreds of millions of jobs, and the country still remains deeply dependent on outside technology and know-how. To continue the country's rapid economic development, the Chinese Communist Party needs a peaceful and stable environment in Asia. On the U.S. side, no one in Washington wants to see a conflict with China erupt, especially at a time when America is fighting two wars and worries about Iran's intentions.
Yet Angell's optimism was ultimately wrong because it was based on an incomplete account of driving forces behind relations between the great powers. While the economic relationship created powerful incentives for peace, Angell did not take seriously the intense strategic competition—particularly the growing naval rivalry—between status quo powers like Britain and a rapidly rising and revisionist power like Germany. Nor did Angell's account allow for the human factor of strategic missteps and miscalculations—particularly by Germany's Kaiser Wilhelm II—that eventually plunged Europe into war.
What are the lessons for Asia? While economic interdependence and American attempts to "manage" China's rise has so far succeeded in preventing war, the recent diplomatic conflagration over the Chinese reiteration that its claims in the South China Sea are part of Beijing's "core interests" validates what scholars such as Aaron Friedberg have been saying for a decade: East Asia today has the potential to recreate the European situation at the turn of the previous century. When it comes to strategic goals, China is re-entering into a regional order not of its making after decades of self-imposed isolation. By virtue of Beijing's fundamental dissatisfaction with several of its land and maritime borders, it is a revisionist power. As it rises, the desperation to secure its "core interests" will deepen.
Chinese grand strategy since the days of former leader Deng Xiaoping has been to avoid conflict with a much more formidable competitor (i.e., America) while China builds its "comprehensive national power." In favor of "winning Asia without fighting," as Chinese General Ma Xiaotian once put it, are many of the older generation of leaders who see caution as prudence, even if they relentlessly seek "windows of opportunity" to extend Beijing's power at the expense of America's. They still remember the suffering and humiliation of the Mao Zedong years, when an isolated China tried to achieve too much too quickly.
Yet, as history reaffirms, a peace built on continued political skill, dexterity and restraint rather than a harmony of strategic interest is inherently precarious. Without personal experience of China's recent traumatic history, future generations of leaders will be more confident and assertive. Even now, emerging Communist Party and People's Liberation Army leaders argue that China is moving too slowly on securing its foreign-policy goals. The danger is that, just as Germany did in Europe a century ago, China's overestimation of its own capabilities, and underestimation of American strengths and resolve—combined with strategic dissatisfaction and impatience—is the fast way toward disastrous miscalculation and error.
Several years before the outbreak of the Great War, Kaiser Wilhelm II publicly declared that he considered the prospect of war with Britain "a most unimaginable thing." Despite deep economic interdependence, Europe could not avert a disaster. Leaders in Washington and throughout Asia should not commit the same failure of imagination.
Mr. Lee is a foreign-policy fellow at the Centre for Independent Studies in Sydney, a visiting scholar at the Hudson Institute in Washington
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
My response:
I do not think so, Mr. John Lee. The USS George Washington will be sunk, either by DF-21D missiles or by nuclear weapons. There is no turning back for China.
"Where does an 800-pound gorilla sit when he goes to a restaurant? Anywhere he wants to!"
But that is a joke of the past, next time that happens we have new items on the menu ---
Grilled Gorilla Meat or Gorilla Chop Suey
Koon Woon, Seattle
Monday, August 9, 2010
Betrayal?
And they threaten to put you into this unsanctioned nut house that is below the minimum standards of national health care in the mental system? What if also they throw away the key?
THEY YOU WOULD BE VERITABLY SCREWED!
here is help: The National Hotline Against Involuntary Commitment
Citizens Against Being Screwed by Psychiatric Workers
1 - 800 - un-screw ( 1 - 800 - 8672739 )
A "well-lit cafe" for readings, poetry workshops, and book discussion groups
Common Ground is the appropo name for my brother Lange Woon's coffeehouse (cupcake shop) in Renton, WA located at 900 South Third Street phone (425) 235 - 1717 and fax (425) 687 - 3152. It is a medium-size cozy place with Wi-Fi and plenty of coffee and cupcakes and non-alcholic drinks. A quiet place for studying, conversing, visiting and enjoying a family-gathering out for some mouth-watering cupcakes, smoothies, coffees or teas. Located in downtown Renton, near the bus terminal, with plenty of parking on the streets, it is highly accessible and accessible to foot traffic as well. Nearby restaurants provide substantial meals before relaxation for the evening here.
If any group would like to host a poetry or book reading here or even a light musical event, contact me at nooknoow@aol.com or (206) 329-5566 and ask for Koon Woon in regards to readings at the coffeeshop. Hope to see you there soon.
Saturday, August 7, 2010
The Literary Mafia
The Blue Blood: The Literary Mafia
Is there such a 'ting? Sure 'ting, Sam. There is such a 'ting.
But pretend I never told you.
There is no such a thing.
Except your thing. Do what you wanna.
Duh, I dumb no wat to do,
Dum dum, dum dum bullets, that's the 'ting.
Chinaman, chinaman, you dumb thing.
I will cut off your queue, you think that's cute. That ain't my thing.
You are a fink. Thingamatit, think a think tank. Think tank.
Do you want to write? What to try it? The Triad.
Don't try it. Just do it!
Do what?
Do what didididi dum. Dum dum.
Don't talk nonsense and don't blab to nobody.
The tongue that flaps in the wind ends up in the soup.
Get it? Say anything real or true and I will
WHACK YA!!! The Literary Mafia lives on this street.
Is there such a 'ting? Sure 'ting, Sam. There is such a 'ting.
But pretend I never told you.
There is no such a thing.
Except your thing. Do what you wanna.
Duh, I dumb no wat to do,
Dum dum, dum dum bullets, that's the 'ting.
Chinaman, chinaman, you dumb thing.
I will cut off your queue, you think that's cute. That ain't my thing.
You are a fink. Thingamatit, think a think tank. Think tank.
Do you want to write? What to try it? The Triad.
Don't try it. Just do it!
Do what?
Do what didididi dum. Dum dum.
Don't talk nonsense and don't blab to nobody.
The tongue that flaps in the wind ends up in the soup.
Get it? Say anything real or true and I will
Bureacracy
Philosophy is a hard nut to crack especially when you are carryin
Professor John Wisdom on your back.
August 4, 2010
Office of Financial Assistance
University of Illinois Springfiel
University Hall, Room 1015
One University Plaza
MS UHB 1015
Springfield, IL 62703 – 5407
Financial Aid Appeals Committee:
Dear Administrators and Committee Members:
My student number at UIS is 668956879 and I am in the LNT program. First of all, I am a disabled student with schizoaffective disorder registered with the Students with Disabilities Office (please contact Ms. Susie Woods for information). So, some of the university regulations’ complex nature are at times difficult for me to navigate.
I was told by Shane at the Student Financial Aid Office that I no longer qualified for financial at the University on a permanent basis because I withdrew from the summer semester of 2010 during the first week of classes. Because, he said, that my ratio of completed courses to attempted courses fell below the minimum standard. Now Renee at the Financial Aid Office tells me that I am in good academic standing. So, I need clarification here.
The reason I withdrew from the philosophy class I was taking was because of “personality conflicts” with the instructor. I am very happy to elaborate on this, if needed. One further complaint is that I found a very BIG mistake in the textbook we were using in FACTUAL content. I pointed this out to the professor and the students but the whole thing was shoved aside although all admitted it was indeed misstated. I shall simply repeated the exact quote from the book here: “Alexander the Great conquered the world…” I for whatever reason found that to be a false statement. I thought that a selection for a textbook of that sort of intellectual dogmatism is inappropriate for a graduate course in moral philosophy.
Philosophy and the philosophy of literature remain my main interests in life. I would very much apply myself at the University of Illinois at Springfield in these fields for the potential good of mankind.
Yours very sincerely,
[signed: Koon Woon]
Koon Woon
Friday, August 6, 2010
DAMAGED IN POSTAL HANDLING!!!
CAUTION!!! PLEASE LABLE "FRAGILE!" "HANDLE WITH CARE" when mailing printed matter such as manuscripts to Goldfish Press because it sound like Godfather Press.
Recived the following from Jeanpaul Ferro after a somewhat delay of indeterminable length:
Recived the following from Jeanpaul Ferro after a somewhat delay of indeterminable length:
I used to work for the Post Office myself and you need to have an FBI clearance. These days the postal machinery are falling apart due to privatization of the Post Office and consequently service is not as good and business falls off and is on the verge of bankruptcy.
We need Socialism back in the Post Office!!!
Sunday, August 1, 2010
Won't you join the Chrysanthemum Literary Society and get a customized T-shirt?
The Chrysanthemum Literary Society is a nonprofit charitable organization founded in the Evergreen State of Washington in 2003, dedicated to the advancement of literature, education, and world peace.
We have now handsome customized T-shirts in sizes small, medium, large, or extra large. Please consider making a donation to Chrysanthemum Literary Society whose mission is to promote world peace through literature and education.
We publish the print poetry magazine Chrysanthemum and literary titles through Goldfish Press.
A donation of whatever amount is welcome. Please send to
Chrysanthemum Literary Society
P.O. Box 14515
Seattle, WA 98114
Any donation over the amount of $25 will receive a handsome customized T-shirt
of the Chrysanthemum Literary Society logo.
Your support is very much appreciated. 
Friday, July 30, 2010
(dedicated to mental health professionals)
The fence stops me from the ravine
and its precipious drop
The dance stops my random thoughts
from whence they may crop
Having thus awakened
from 49 nights of slumber
My soul will go again to you
So I am yours you must remember
in rare appearance
Secret CIA prison where Ezra Pound was imprisoned
This is the infamous secret CIA prison where Ezra Pound was held incommunicado. Great men are often confined to small spaces. It is alleged that he knew Chinese secrets because he knew Chinese literature.
Thursday, July 29, 2010
Cat poem
Cheshire none the worser
there was a cat from Cheshire
who loved salmon with Worchestershire
sauce
and fought with his arbitrary owner
who claimed to be the boss
The cat was named FAT
and the human fellow was known as Splatz
who lost all his money at the stocks
when it fell all the way to nil
And so the fellow's wife, known as Lil
divorced the pot-bellied SOB
and left the scene with all the fleas
And so Splatz got on the ledge
and fought the battle full-fledge
he finished a bottle of gin
and fought the wind
took the dare and descended down the air
[This is about as far as I can go with this poem
for it seems to lack a purpose]
Meanwhile FAT finished the salmon
and was rolling on the ground
When Splatz exhausted the lively air
and hit the sidewalk with his dead weight
People stood and stare and gawk
and all agreed that "what goes up, must come down."
there was a cat from Cheshire
who loved salmon with Worchestershire
sauce
and fought with his arbitrary owner
who claimed to be the boss
The cat was named FAT
and the human fellow was known as Splatz
who lost all his money at the stocks
when it fell all the way to nil
And so the fellow's wife, known as Lil
divorced the pot-bellied SOB
and left the scene with all the fleas
And so Splatz got on the ledge
and fought the battle full-fledge
he finished a bottle of gin
and fought the wind
took the dare and descended down the air
[This is about as far as I can go with this poem
for it seems to lack a purpose]
Meanwhile FAT finished the salmon
and was rolling on the ground
When Splatz exhausted the lively air
and hit the sidewalk with his dead weight
People stood and stare and gawk
and all agreed that "what goes up, must come down."
The Chair of Philosophy
Sit here, sir, and daint to make a remark; it shall be remembered for all of eternity...
Wednesday, July 14, 2010
Wednesday, June 30, 2010
new, unfinished poem
20 Paces from the Bus Stop
i have lived in many rooms 20 paces from the bus stop
where two men stand back to back
walk 10 paces
then turn around and shoot
pigeons disperse
so much insane laughter
pigeons again flock together
in the instant after
in this one neighborhood of many
so many dwellings with its own story
i was a merry young boy
respectful of the law
and somewhat in awe of higher education
that lead men to destination
when the bus pulls up
i realize i left my lunch
( unfinished )
koon woon
June 30, 2010
i have lived in many rooms 20 paces from the bus stop
where two men stand back to back
walk 10 paces
then turn around and shoot
pigeons disperse
so much insane laughter
pigeons again flock together
in the instant after
in this one neighborhood of many
so many dwellings with its own story
i was a merry young boy
respectful of the law
and somewhat in awe of higher education
that lead men to destination
when the bus pulls up
i realize i left my lunch
( unfinished )
koon woon
June 30, 2010
Saturday, June 26, 2010
"The Snow Man" --- Koon Woon
“The Snow Man”
One must have a bottle of Gallo in this cold alley
And to shake the cops and other winos
And be on the look-out for some sucker to roll
It has been a long while since my abode
Was taken from me not because of ice or lice
But because of the drive for condos
That in this high rise reaching town
Where all the Californ Dreaming has lost ground
To the sound of broken bottles
Which is the brittle psyche of fife
Which leads the rats from places bare
To places that don’t any longer sustain life
For the dweller of the alley, who is on dope,
And nothing, I mean nothing, beats a quick fix,
Nothing that is pure nor is impure.
Koon Woon
One must have a bottle of Gallo in this cold alley
And to shake the cops and other winos
And be on the look-out for some sucker to roll
It has been a long while since my abode
Was taken from me not because of ice or lice
But because of the drive for condos
That in this high rise reaching town
Where all the Californ Dreaming has lost ground
To the sound of broken bottles
Which is the brittle psyche of fife
Which leads the rats from places bare
To places that don’t any longer sustain life
For the dweller of the alley, who is on dope,
And nothing, I mean nothing, beats a quick fix,
Nothing that is pure nor is impure.
Koon Woon
The Snow Man --- by Wallace Stevens
The Snow Man
One must have a mind of winter
To regard the frost and the boughs
Of the pine-trees crusted with snow;
And have been cold a long time
To behold the junipers shagged with ice,
The spruces rough in the distant glitter
Of the January sun; and not to think
Of any misery in the sound of the wind,
In the sound of a few leaves,
Which is the sound of the land
Full of the same wind
That is blowing in the same bare place
For the listener, who listens in the snow,
And, nothing himself, beholds
Nothing that is not there and nothing that is.
Wallace Stevens
One must have a mind of winter
To regard the frost and the boughs
Of the pine-trees crusted with snow;
And have been cold a long time
To behold the junipers shagged with ice,
The spruces rough in the distant glitter
Of the January sun; and not to think
Of any misery in the sound of the wind,
In the sound of a few leaves,
Which is the sound of the land
Full of the same wind
That is blowing in the same bare place
For the listener, who listens in the snow,
And, nothing himself, beholds
Nothing that is not there and nothing that is.
Wallace Stevens
Sunday, June 20, 2010
Wednesday, May 26, 2010
Day to day labor away
Each day I labor away
sometimes, however, I am filled with angst
can the Republic really be saved?
The man said that stars twinkle
his son goes on to the telescope
with a group of scientists, they mingle
Soon lasers and phasers beam to Mars
it was all due to day-to-day labor
in attempts to escape this farce
That human built and machines rule
it is precariously holding
onto the logic of George Boole
sometimes, however, I am filled with angst
can the Republic really be saved?
The man said that stars twinkle
his son goes on to the telescope
with a group of scientists, they mingle
Soon lasers and phasers beam to Mars
it was all due to day-to-day labor
in attempts to escape this farce
That human built and machines rule
it is precariously holding
onto the logic of George Boole
Water Chasing Water --- my second from Kaya
Please see DAP's announcement for my second book from Kaya due this Fall by the following link:
http://www.artbook.com/9781885030498.html
http://www.artbook.com/9781885030498.html
Sunday, May 16, 2010
Saturday, May 15, 2010
Successful completion of graduate colloquiam in Liberal and Integrative Studies at UIS
Thanks to the guidance of Professor William E. Kline, I successfully completed the
Graduate Colloquiam for my MA in LNT degree at UIS. Now I have a fairly clear plan to pursue Philosophy and the Philosophy of Literature specializing in the identity issues of Multicultural writers in the USA, notably the Asian-American writers.
I will have on my faculty committee William Kline, Lan Dong, and Shoon Lio and peer advisor Marcellus Leonard.
My main investigations will focus on the identity issues of Asian-American writers - who they are, who they purport to represent, how do they create identities for themselves and others, and what are the interactions between them and the macrocosm of USA contemporary literature.
Sunday, April 4, 2010
petition to faculty for degree committee
Chrysanthemum Literary Society
2012 18th Avenue South
Seattle, WA 98144-4324
Nooknoow@aol.com
(206) 329 - 5566
April 4, 2010
Professor Marcellus J. Leonard
English Department, UIS
Dear Professor Leonard:
I am Koon Woon, a first year student in the LNT program at UIS, UIN 668956879. What I am writing to you about, sir, is to ask you whether you can spare the time to be on my MA degree committee.
I find, sir, that your expertise and experiences are exactly what I would like to emulate in terms of creative writing, teaching, and publishing.
I am a China-born, Chinese American 62 years in age. I am a published (international) poet. My full-length book is The Truth in Rented Rooms, from Kaya, NY, NY, 1998, which won the Pen Oakland Award and was a finalist in the Norma Farber First Book Award from the Poetry Society of America. My book of poems has been used as a text to teach poetry at several universities and colleges, including Sarah Lawrence, UC, Santa Cruz, Bard College, and Pacific Lutheran University. You can find some of my work and reviews of my work online simply by Googling “Koon Woon” poetry.
I have founded Goldfish Press in Seattle, which has published a poetry magazine Chrysanthemum, and several chapbooks and two full-length books and an anthology since 1990.
I have a blog created for my LNT 501 class with Dr. William Kline online at http://clsseattle.blogspot.com/
I think, sir, that your instructions and encouragements are exactly what I need to obtain an MA degree of my own design that focuses on writing as well as publishing that is multicultural and philosophical in the sense of understanding and creating our identities.
I would appreciate very much, Professor Leonard, if you can drop me an email as to your availability. I have been published in dozens of magazines in the US as well as abroad. I have been an ardent advocate
of literature in Seattle since the 1980’s. I believe that you will be able to help me do more literature for the sake of literature and world peace. To this end, I have formed an S-corporation and a Charitable Nonprofit Organization in the State of Washington that can do any kind of legal business. I am eager to learn from you, Dr. Leonard. Should you wish to have any of the publications I referred to above, I will send them promptly to you for inspection and criticism. I hope we can cooperate for mutual benefits as well as to benefit posterity.
Here is my contact information:
Kwoon2@uis.edu
Nooknoow@aol.com
(206) 329 – 5566 (home phone)
(206) 445 – 2071 (cell phone)
2012 18th Ave. South
Seattle, WA 98144-4324
Thank you kindly,
(signed) Koon Woon
*************************************************************************************
Chrysanthemum Literary Society
2012 18th Avenue South
Seattle, WA 98144-4324
Nooknoow@aol.com
(206) 329 - 5566
April 4, 2010
Professor Lan Dong
English Department, UIS
Dear Professor Dong:
I am Koon Woon, a first year student in the LNT program at UIS, UIN 668956879. What I am writing to you about, Professor Dong, is to ask you whether you can spare the time to be on my MA degree committee.
I find, Professor Dong, that your expertise and experiences are exactly what I would like to emulate in terms of creative writing, teaching, and publishing of the Asian American experience.
I am a China-born, Chinese American 62 years in age. I am a published (international) poet. My full-length book is The Truth in Rented Rooms, from Kaya, NY, NY, 1998, which won the Pen Oakland Award and was a finalist in the Norma Farber First Book Award from the Poetry Society of America. My book of poems has been used as a text to teach poetry at several universities and colleges, including Sarah Lawrence, UC, Santa Cruz, Bard College, and Pacific Lutheran University. You can find some of my work and reviews of my work online simply by Googling “Koon Woon” poetry.
I have founded Goldfish Press in Seattle, which has published a poetry magazine Chrysanthemum, and several chapbooks and two full-length books and an anthology since 1990.
I have a blog created for my LNT 501 class with Dr. William Kline online at http://clsseattle.blogspot.com/
I think, Professor Dong, that your instructions and encouragements are exactly what I need to obtain an MA degree of my own design that focuses on writing as well as publishing that is multicultural and philosophical in the sense of understanding and creating our identities. I, in particular, have lived in Seattle Chinatown for almost 3 decades and I have lived in SF Chinatown as well, and I still speak the Cantonese and the Toishanese dialects. My forebears have been in America since the mid 1800s. It is their and my heritage that I am proud of and wish to explore within the realm of the total American experience.
I would appreciate very much, Professor Dong, if you can drop me an email as to your availability. I have been published in dozens of magazines in the US as well as abroad. I have been an ardent advocate
of literature in Seattle since the 1980’s. I believe that you will be able to help me do more literature for the sake of literature and world peace. To this end, I have formed an S-corporation and a Charitable Nonprofit Organization in the State of Washington that can do any kind of legal business. I am eager to learn from you, Dr. Dong. Should you wish to have any of the publications I referred to above, I will send them promptly to you for inspection and criticism. I hope we can cooperate for mutual benefits as well as to benefit posterity.
Here is my contact information:
Kwoon2@uis.edu
Nooknoow@aol.com
(206) 329 – 5566 (home phone)
(206) 445 – 2071 (cell phone)
2012 18th Ave. South
Seattle, WA 98144-4324
Thank you kindly,
(signed) Koon Woon
Wednesday, March 31, 2010
exploring a philosophy of education 2
Exploring a philosophy of education should be like a slow boat to China. The waters are immense, the boat is slow, and there is not likely to be a traffic jam.
In this long journey, one can play cards onboard or one can compose an epic poem. Or, one can contemplate one's life events and get a rough estimate how long it is ging to get to where one's going and what will one find there.
There is a story of a man who left his own city to live in another. When he came to the gatekeeper of the new city, he asked, "How is living in this city? What are the inhabitants like?"
The gatekeeper said in response, "What were the inhabitants of your city like?"
"They are all crooks, scoundrels, and opportunists!"
"Well, unfortunately, that's what you will find in this city. Thiefs, pimps and murderers."
The traveler continue to walk on.
Another traveler came upon the new city and asked the gatekeeper the same question: "What are the inhabitants of this city like?"
To this, the gatekeeper answered as before with the previous traveler, "What were the inhabitants in your city like?"
"Oh, they are wonderful! Kind, generous, forgiving, and beautiful!"
"Then, by golly, you will find the exact thing here!"
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The moral here is that one who judges may judge himself how he judges others. It is like asking the question: What does it mean a rolling stone gathers no moss?
The answer may be: One who lives in glass house shouldn't throw stones. One answers one parable with another parable. We carry with us what we are everywhere we go.
The Tao Te Ching says, "He who travels lighter travels farther."
The point is not to take excessive baggage when traveling.
How does all this relate to my educational philosophy? Don't expect that education is just a place to learn a new skill or another theory. Expect, at least a liberal arts degree, education to change you. Hopefully to be one who is reflective, independent, honest, and tenacious. The truth is never easy to recognize.
Tuesday, March 30, 2010
exploring a philosophy of education
What is my philosophy of education in a nutshell?
I would put wisdom ahead of knowledge. This I would follow the Tao Te Ching. The Tao Te Ching is a book written in China around 500 B.C. and it is the second most translated book in the world. It begins with the words attributed to Lao Tzu, "The Tao that can be told is not the Tao; and the name that can be named is not the name.
The Tao is dark upon dark, mystery within mystery..."
I do not mean to be obscure or to be ambiguous in this saying that the unknowable is indeed the unknowable. Ludwig Wittgenstein the Western philsopher said nearly the same thing, some 2,500 years later, when he said, at the end of his philosophical treatise,The Philosophical Tractatus, "Whereof one can speak, thereof one must speak clearly, and whereof one cannot speak, thereof must one remain silent."
This to me means knowledge has a limitation - witness what Dr. Faustaus sold his soul to the Devil for knowledge in Goethe's original work. Knowledge per se does not solve anything. We must acknowledge that we are finite beings. I am a finite being.
Values must be the foremost goal to any kind of knowledge. What we yearn to learn must in some way benefit the human race as a whole. For example, having so much investment in Science and Technology seem to me a waste and ultimately mechanictizes life. The disapprortionate investments in the military and the space program seems like to cut off all of one's own limbs except for the right arm. We likewise should not clone a human being until we are pretty damn sure we aren't creating monsters.
These are notes for now. But they are the most fundamental beliefs I have about education. I need a little more time and space to reflect, because as Socrates said, "The unexamined life is not worth living." For that, he gave up his life. The least I can do is to give myself a day or two to examine my own life. I am no angel. I don't really think I can ever be one. Think about that for a minute. It is not a threat. It is an attempt at rescue.
Friday, March 26, 2010
24th anniversary
The Californ gold dust lured my great-grandfather's village mates to America in the 1800's. He himself came when it was too late. The gold was gone but lumber was good in Hoquiam, WA. He came and operated a restaurant and had shares in a laundry. He was a man of great strength and so he was nicknamed "Locke Li," meaning that his surname was "Locke" and "Li" meant strength. He came to the US circa 1860, almost exactly 100 years before I did.
The Mayor of Hoquiam went with my great-grandfather to his Toishan villages to conscript 500 men from his Locke clan to come to the US to work in the railroad construction for logging. If you were to hike into the woods in Humptulips near Hoquiam you can still find abandoned railroad tracks. And maybe you would luck out and find an empty opium bottle. Opium was a pain killer that gave very laid back dreams. It was the stuff that the British East India Company sold in China, enforced by the English Navy.
It depends on whom you talk to, but according to my mother, and my mother's prevaricating tongue, we were the original Chinese in WA State - the Locke Family. Regardless, we know that we came from Toishan (Toishan means "to carry the mountain") and the Toishanese were the first Chinese in WA State.
In time, the Lockes spread like brush fire in the State of Washington, branching into the small towns of Hoquiam, Aberdeen, Elma, Olympia, and Shelton, Seattle, Everett, and so on, and branched into California, Arizona, and so on eventually into Chicago, Detroit,and NYC. They worked hard, were thrifty, and banded together for mutual support, and so in time, they "grew" the first Chinese Governor in the US,the former Governor of WA State, Gary Locke, who is currently the U.S. Secretary of Commerce with the Obama Administration.
I am the first poet of the Locke Family, for whatever that is worth, to gain national attention in the US.
Today, however, is the exact 24th anniversary of my father's death. I don't know how to think of it yet, but I will think. He is buried in Lakeview Cemetery, where Bruce Lee is also buried. I was a young man of 37 when he died. Today I am 61, not an old man yet, but definitely not a young man anymore.
It is time to look beyond the tip of my nose and to see a farther vision. And not just for myself or my spouse and relatives and close friends, et al, but to see a longer and bigger vision. Let me ask you, what would you like to see in the world? If it is good, I would like to help.
Sunday, March 21, 2010
Friday, March 19, 2010
Monday, March 15, 2010
temple in China
I am getting behind in my courses again. It seems that the only way to go is to live in subjective time. By subjective time I mean to consider the inner lives of objects. They are actually philosophical zombies.
Sunday, March 7, 2010
Goal Statement for LNT 501
Goals Statement
Koon Woon
LNT Spring 2010, UIS
Professor William Kline
This year I have reached the age of 61. Therefore, to speak about my intermediate and long-range goals must show some kind of realism and modesty, because of the short time I have left to realize those goals. Being at this older chronological age, I must also take into account of my health and the things that I will be able to do with the amount of energy I can expend on these life’s projects.
Ever since my maternal Uncles told me stories when I was a young boy in China, I wanted to understand things literary to gain insight into life. The most important step was/is to read books of literature – novels, short fiction, plays, and poetry.
I grew up in the era what was known as the “Sputnik Scare,” when the Soviet Union orbited around the Earth the world’s first man-made satellite back in the 1950’s. The names of all the cities in the world that the Sputnik flew over were announced. This was to say that a nuclear bomb could have been dropped over those cities. This spurted the “Space Race” and the emphasis on science and engineering in our schools and industry.
It filtered down to our relatively small town Aberdeen, Washington high school. I was an exceedingly good student in science and math, and so the school counselors and my teachers urged me to study for an occupation in engineering or in physics or math.
Suddenly the war in Vietnam broke out and the “Flower Power Movement” of the “Hippie Scene” and Counterculture, the Student Movement, the Peace Movement, the Black Panthers, the Freedom Marches of Martin Luther King Jr. and the introduction of East Asian philosophy and culture all sprung up to take the imagination of the youths. I was caught in that maelstrom. This led me to study Marxism and finding little converts or sympathetic ears I “dropped out” of things conventional – school, employment, middle-class goals, etc. in order to seek personal fulfillment.
Unfortunately, I was hit with a genetic time-bomb; schizoaffective disorder (mental illness) in my twenties which was totally disabling and it is still ongoing, though much sanity has been recovered due to medications and psychiatric intervention. I did manage to publish a book of poetry, finish a degree in Liberal Studies at Antioch University Seattle, and gotten engaged to a kind-hearted woman.
So, at this point, at age 61, I want to finish a Master’s degree in liberal studies with emphasis on literature and philosophy. Since life is short and art is long, I want to work with younger writers and continue with editing and publishing a small literary magazine and press that I founded and operated. I have founded an S- corporation as a subsidiary to a nonprofit corporation for the purposes of promoting literature and world peace.
I hope to augment my disability income with profits from these publishing entities. I do have some success so far; I have published several titles of poetry and short fiction with my Goldfish Press. In fact, a couple of books are now on the shelves at Antioch University Seattle and in a city library in Wisconsin and are on sale at Amazon.com.
I want to become a senior editor of poetry and managing editor of the press. My fiancée has agreed to help me. I have attracted several capable young people who also want to be part of the publishing company.
I fully realize, however, that my time and energy will be limited in making this worthy project grow, and so much of it will depend on motivating others to carry on. To be realistic about my own financial future, my best bet is to work with the Social Security Administration who awards my disability payments and can possibly allowed me to established a Passport to Self-Support plan, where I can operate a company with assets up to $5 million and a salary of $30,000 a year. Since my main requirement is medicine and medical treatments, I must operate within the rules of the Social Security Administration and state regulations to work within these limits. So, this is actually a problem in maximization within constraints. However, whatever guise all these rules and exceptions can take, my main objective is to keep on receiving medical attention and function within the limits set by laws and regulation and at the same time, maximizes the good I can do as a nonprofit agency administrator.
My basic qualification is that I have operated a restaurant in the past and have taken some MBA courses in management from Western Governors University. Also, I have been, as mentioned above, acted as editor and publisher of my own literary press, and I have even been a judge of poetry contests and organizer of literary events. In any case, literature and world peace is what my heart is into. We all do what we can. I will give it my best shot.
Koon Woon
LNT Spring 2010, UIS
Professor William Kline
This year I have reached the age of 61. Therefore, to speak about my intermediate and long-range goals must show some kind of realism and modesty, because of the short time I have left to realize those goals. Being at this older chronological age, I must also take into account of my health and the things that I will be able to do with the amount of energy I can expend on these life’s projects.
Ever since my maternal Uncles told me stories when I was a young boy in China, I wanted to understand things literary to gain insight into life. The most important step was/is to read books of literature – novels, short fiction, plays, and poetry.
I grew up in the era what was known as the “Sputnik Scare,” when the Soviet Union orbited around the Earth the world’s first man-made satellite back in the 1950’s. The names of all the cities in the world that the Sputnik flew over were announced. This was to say that a nuclear bomb could have been dropped over those cities. This spurted the “Space Race” and the emphasis on science and engineering in our schools and industry.
It filtered down to our relatively small town Aberdeen, Washington high school. I was an exceedingly good student in science and math, and so the school counselors and my teachers urged me to study for an occupation in engineering or in physics or math.
Suddenly the war in Vietnam broke out and the “Flower Power Movement” of the “Hippie Scene” and Counterculture, the Student Movement, the Peace Movement, the Black Panthers, the Freedom Marches of Martin Luther King Jr. and the introduction of East Asian philosophy and culture all sprung up to take the imagination of the youths. I was caught in that maelstrom. This led me to study Marxism and finding little converts or sympathetic ears I “dropped out” of things conventional – school, employment, middle-class goals, etc. in order to seek personal fulfillment.
Unfortunately, I was hit with a genetic time-bomb; schizoaffective disorder (mental illness) in my twenties which was totally disabling and it is still ongoing, though much sanity has been recovered due to medications and psychiatric intervention. I did manage to publish a book of poetry, finish a degree in Liberal Studies at Antioch University Seattle, and gotten engaged to a kind-hearted woman.
So, at this point, at age 61, I want to finish a Master’s degree in liberal studies with emphasis on literature and philosophy. Since life is short and art is long, I want to work with younger writers and continue with editing and publishing a small literary magazine and press that I founded and operated. I have founded an S- corporation as a subsidiary to a nonprofit corporation for the purposes of promoting literature and world peace.
I hope to augment my disability income with profits from these publishing entities. I do have some success so far; I have published several titles of poetry and short fiction with my Goldfish Press. In fact, a couple of books are now on the shelves at Antioch University Seattle and in a city library in Wisconsin and are on sale at Amazon.com.
I want to become a senior editor of poetry and managing editor of the press. My fiancée has agreed to help me. I have attracted several capable young people who also want to be part of the publishing company.
I fully realize, however, that my time and energy will be limited in making this worthy project grow, and so much of it will depend on motivating others to carry on. To be realistic about my own financial future, my best bet is to work with the Social Security Administration who awards my disability payments and can possibly allowed me to established a Passport to Self-Support plan, where I can operate a company with assets up to $5 million and a salary of $30,000 a year. Since my main requirement is medicine and medical treatments, I must operate within the rules of the Social Security Administration and state regulations to work within these limits. So, this is actually a problem in maximization within constraints. However, whatever guise all these rules and exceptions can take, my main objective is to keep on receiving medical attention and function within the limits set by laws and regulation and at the same time, maximizes the good I can do as a nonprofit agency administrator.
My basic qualification is that I have operated a restaurant in the past and have taken some MBA courses in management from Western Governors University. Also, I have been, as mentioned above, acted as editor and publisher of my own literary press, and I have even been a judge of poetry contests and organizer of literary events. In any case, literature and world peace is what my heart is into. We all do what we can. I will give it my best shot.
Thursday, March 4, 2010
poem
Like watercress, needing only
muddy stream and running water
Anywhere in the world we are casted
we survive and spread our propagation
But we sometimes end up
as ornaments on top of thin congee
Congee without much meat or seasoning
we of the Chinese Diaspora
Thin out and thin out more
like water itself, never to return...
Tuesday, March 2, 2010
Will Michael Yuan make it through?
Changming (Michael) Yuan tells me that he might have trouble at the border crossing from Canada tomorrow to get down here for the reading at Hugo House. If he can't show up, what should I do? I could handle it all by myself. I could have the audience (the open mic people) read from the Chinese poetry books (in English translation) that I have.
What should a prince do when his nation is overrun by brigands? The Tao Te Ching tells him to meditate on plum blossoms. Here is a way to relieve stress. Here is a way to calm down one's mind. When the world is more than one mind, out of the ordinary things happen and we do not know reality as readily as before.
"At the edge of precision," said one ancient Chinese philosopher, "the universe quavers."
I see this as one step in my goal as a literary theorist. I am after all a part of the Chinese Diaspora. I am an existential instantiation of the said Chinese poetic diaspora.
I hope they at the US side of the Canadian border let Michael through.
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