The Big Mistake of American

It has been over forty years that I started my Time Magazine subscription.

Reading every issue immediately had been my practice for almost thirty years. I have pointed out before about the change of Time Magazine. Ever since they employed correspondents in Asia, most articles about China were not up to the minimum standard of Time. That is why now I have some issues of Time remained unopened.

There are different edition of Time magazines and that would be for business’s sake so that they can have advertisement from different region. I have not compared among these editions and I believe most content will be similar. Of course, my subscription is for Time Asia.

The cover story of Jun. 2, 2008 issue is China Stands Up. After going through, I am astonished that it is so naïve that I supposed that I was reading local propaganda English reporting. After checking the list of editor etc., I understand why. From producer to editorial, almost all are Asian, perhaps Chinese. Sorry, I may make mistake. Their names look like Chinese and they may not be Chinese.

It is so easy to see that the whole story is taking some parts of what have been reported in other media and added with some propaganda statements, like corruption etc.

If Time Asia needs to be part of American political action, not only readers will depart from it, it will not have advertisement at all. Of course, if that would be true, they do not need advertising income any more.

What happened this year is believed to be a plan to harm China. A few friends in mainland told me that they understood that America will take this chance, the Olympic year, to do something, like harvesting their investment for Dalai Lama etc.

Just see the composed news photo or taking movie scene or taking what happened in Nepal to blame China that is a full co-operation of a number of foreign countries. However, God is on the side of China. The earthquake happened just in time.

I am deeply sorrow for those who died and suffered. In fact, from May 14 till now I watched CCTV through the Internet and my eyes were full of tears most of the time.

Every one of us will die soon or later. If one's death contributes to the country, he/she is a hero. I am happy to know that a memorial set up will be arranged for all who died during this earthquake. That means they will have glory in history forever.

I am sure that American failed to understand Chinese people and I can write a book about this. Of course, I shall not.

China will stand up. The success will hardly be understood by American mind. No problem, who care?

我訂閱時代週刊已超過四十年了。

約有三十年期間，立即閱讀每一期已是我的習慣。我曾經指出有關時代週刊的轉變問題。在他們開始聘請亞洲通訊員後，幾乎所有關於中國的文章報導都達不到他們的最低標準。這正是最近的十年間，我有不少期刊仍未打開的原因。

時代週刊現在有不同的版本，主要是業務上的目的作為收納各地區的廣告。我未有機會把不同的版本比較，相信大部份內容是相同的。我訂閱的當然是亞洲版。

2008年6月2日的頭條專題是China Stands Up（中國站起來了）。閱讀這個專題後，我對無知的程度感到非常驚訝，有如本地政治式英文宣傳報導。在查看有關編輯名單後，我明白了。因為由出版負責人至編輯人員絕大部份都是亞洲人更可能是中國人。對不起，我可能弄錯了。他們的名字似乎是中國式，但他們可能不是中國人。

很明顯這個專題的內容是選一些其他新聞機構已報導的部份，再加入一些政治式宣言例如貪污等。

如果時代週刊亞洲版需要成為美國政治工具之一，不單止讀者會離棄，廣告也會消失。當然如果這是真的話，他們絕不需要廣告收入了。

這年間發生的事相信是針對中國的計劃。有些在大陸的朋友告訴我他們明白美國會利用奧運的機會來製造不少事件，向多年來投資在例如達賴喇嘛等實行回報。

只須看看經裁剪的新聞照片或從電影片斷來冒充或把在尼泊爾發生的事件當作在中國發生，這完全是幾個國家的聯合行動。上帝這次站在中國方面。地震出現在最適當的時間。

我對已死亡感到悲傷及同情受傷害的人。由5月14日至今，每日我都通過互聯網收看中央電視台，大部份時間我的眼淚都不停流下來。

我們所有人遲早都難免一死。如果一個人的死亡對國家有貢獻，他說是英雄。所以聽到將會建立一個紀念式建築物來懷念因地震而死亡的人我非常興奮，這樣他們將會在歷史中永遠享有這份光榮。

我可以確定美國人是不明白中國人。我可以用這個題目寫一本書。我當然不會。

中國一定會站起來。美國人是不明白中國成功的原因。那有問題。誰管他呢？