Advice for America at the start of the Chinese New Year, the year of the Dog

This is the year of the Dog. According to the prediction, America should have 5 good years coming. For President Bush, by being born in the year of the dog, his own personal luck is less than the overall America as a country. He should reflect what America, this great nation, has accumulated through the years from different forces. He should reflect on the contributions of the Chinese, and the work that China has done to help America. America has tapped into Chinese resources, talents, and sacrificial blood to complete the success story so far, either domestically or abroad. We wish that he would come out of a lone Texas view and give a cosmopolitan look at the world on his radar screen. I don’t think Bush is like the Japanese Meiji emperor (1852 – 1912). The Meiji emperor’s will had three steps. Step 1. To conquer Taiwan. Step 2. To swallow Korea Step 3. To conquer Manchuria, and Mongolia. Afterwards, entire China. Then, Asia and the world. Japan’s PM wrote a blueprint for the invasion of China in details, to remind Japanese not to forget the Meiji emperor’s will, as the stepping stone, then to Asia, and the globe. As the PM predicted in his 1927 lengthy declaration to the Japanese emperor, “Japan sooner or later will have a decisive battle against the U.S.A.” This craze for invading the world and the Meiji ambition was not finished until 2 atom bombs were dropped. MacArthur is like a Chinese Confucian general with righteousness and kindness. He applied methods, and dictated just laws to rebuild Japan. The Chinese Nationalist government members like my grandfather had kind hearts, and were able to forgive Japan. It takes a saintly heart to do so. Zhu Jia Hua returned to Nanjing. My grandfather signed the waiver of the emperor’s neck. As he went to the schools, they felt so sad that the Japanese teachers had no classrooms, but taught students on the ground. They were the ones who still remembered humanity and reconstructed China. China was left with a collapsing economy after many years of war, bombing, and famine. Yet America showed no humanity to this highly humane group of people. For this, I start to believe there are two types of men. One is simply not capable to believe in love and grace. One, like my grandfather, is a loving figure with grace.