By Erick San Juan
 
This is a follow up of the last article I wrote on the visit of the Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama to Taiwan that caused so much fuss both in Taiwan and in Beijing. A lot has been said that the visit was for religious and humanitarian reasons, actually based on some recent analysis it was more of a political move that resulted to the temporary suspension of cross-strait exchanges by Beijing after the visit.
The August 26 visit of Dalai Lama brought a lot of negative reactions …

by Patricia Evangelista
from Philippine Daily Inquirer
 
MANILA, Philippines – On March 27, 2009, former BBC broadcaster and Chinese columnist Chip Tsao wrote a column titled “The war at home” for a Hong Kong magazine. Tsao called it a satire, and said that the Filipinos had no chance of claiming a stake on the Spratly Islands for as long as the Chinese people – himself included – could hold hostage the thousands of Filipina domestic workers working overseas. “There are more than 130,000 Filipina maids working at $3,580-a-month cheap labor in Hong …

by Herman Tiu Laurel
from The Daily Tribune
 
When the Philippines imported “amahs” for its elite families and the US indentured Chinese coolies by the tens of thousands to work on its railroad system in the 18th Century, the term “nation of servants” could have been hung on the necks of the Chinese people.  But then a revolution transpired in China after a few hundred years, and today, no one can describe the Chinese as a “nation of servants” anymore.
 
The Chinese know that Filipinos are a nation of servants because they see them …

by Perry Diaz 
Chip Tsao, a Hong Kong-based author and columnist, stirred a hornet’s nest in his recent article, “The War at Home.” Tsao said, “Manila has just claimed sovereignty over the scattered rocks in the South China Sea called the Spratly Islands, complete with a blatant threat from its congress to send gunboats to the South China Sea to defend the islands from China if necessary. This is beyond reproach. The reason: there are more than 130,000 Filipina maids working as $3,580-a-month cheap labor in Hong Kong. As a nation …

by LITO BANAYO
from MALAYA
My good friend Dennis Garcia sent me last Sunday the following article written in Hong Kong. He said it was guaranteed to make my blood boil on a fine Sunday morning. Felicitously, I opened my mail only after a sumptuous lunch of Chinese food. The menu prepared by my daughter included her signature tofu soup, light and refreshing, followed by a quiche chinoise of dried scallops, Yunnan ham, pork, water chestnuts and black mushrooms, and then roast goose with plum sauce, along with fried rice of …

Chip Tsao apologizes for ‘maid-country’ remark
by S. DEDACE and J. SISANTE
from GMANews.TV

Excerpt of Chip Tsao’s ‘The War At Home’ column

Manila has just claimed sovereignty over the scattered rocks in the South China Sea called the Spratly Islands, complete with a blatant threat from its congress to send gunboats to the South China Sea to defend the islands from China if necessary. This is beyond reproach. The reason: There are more than 130,000 Filipina maids working as US$3,580-a-month cheap labor in Hong Kong. As a nation of servants, you don’t flex …

by George M. Hizon

Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte once said “China is a sleeping giant. Let her sleep, for when she wakes, she will shake the world.” Later, it became a cue for European and Japanese colonizers to take advantage of that huge but weak nation. Great Britain was the first aggressor when it tried to smuggle opium into China in 1804. The Chinese vehemently objected to this and the end result was their defeat in the First Opium War of 1839-42. Later, China was forced to tolerate the entry of opium …

Read the comments from readers at the end of the article.  Interesting comments. — Perry Diaz
 
Source: http://hk-magazine.com/feature/war-home
by Chip Tsao
The Russians sank a Hong Kong freighter last month, killing the seven Chinese seamen on board. We can live with that—Lenin and Stalin were once the ideological mentors of all Chinese people. The Japanese planted a flag on Diàoyú Island. That’s no big problem—we Hong Kong Chinese love Japanese cartoons, Hello Kitty, and shopping in Shinjuku, let alone our round-the-clock obsession with karaoke.
But hold on—even the Filipinos? Manila has just claimed sovereignty …

by Alex P. Vidal
CHICAGO, Illinois — When war was still raging in Vietnam and the Cold War was entering its 26th year in April 1971 or thirty seven years ago, a Pan Am 707 lands in Detroit, Michigan, carrying the People’s Republic of China’s world champion table tennis team for a series of matches and tours in 10 cities around the United States.
Smithsonian’ s David A. DeVoss recalled that the era of Ping-Pong diplomacy had begun 12 months earlier when the American team—in Nagoya, Japan, for the World Table Tennis …

PerryScope
by Perry Diaz
Is History Repeating Itself in China?
In 1402, when Zhu Di became the third emperor of the Ming Dynasty, China embarked on an ambitious mission to extend its empire around the world. Zhu Di, who became to be known as Emperor Yong Le (or Yung Lo) — “Perpetually Jubilant” — built an armada of more than 3,500 ships including 250 humongous nine-masted “treasure ships,” each measuring 400 feet long and 150 feet wide. By comparison, Columbus’ Santa Maria only measured 90 feet long and 30 feet wide.
Yong Le …