CHINESE PUZZLE AT STATE DEPARTMENT -- Just A Minute Radio for Monday 120507

Here we are on a Monday again. Awfully dry here in SC. But we reckon the Lord knows how much moisture we really need. (J)

This Chinese Puzzle that has occupied the news calendar for last week and I’m sure you’ve heard about it over the weekend too. Well… we have a little Chinese background and it’s a bit of a bother when we see other ‘causes’ (like maintaining Chinese aloofness on the mainland) scrabbling at the edges of politeness and in general just mucking things up. Now they’ve decided to mess up the election process or gripe about it a lot.

I really am not a Chinese expert and it’s the government with whom I’m bone picking – and not even all of that.

Here in South Carolina we graduated some 35 or 40 students from a nursing preparation school on the upper (ie. 4 year college level) and I’m not seeking to stir up trouble. BUT we have very good relations with some educators in one of the major cities on the mainland (maybe more than one for all I know) but the exchange of nursing instructors and medical staff I suppose, has gone a long way toward improving things on both sides of the Pacific.

I say a long way because there was hardly any progress in that direction up to say ten years ago. Now there are Chinese students being trained by Americans in China and Chinese students being trained by Americans in America – and we don’t need nobody messing around with the mix (especially from the Mainland) to muddy up the waters.

Now come people who are attempting to inject politics into the picture. Bug out! Your ‘help’ (make that read interference) is neither wanted or needed. People are getting improvement in training and in medicine and in getting along with one another between major nations. And no help needed either from the Chinese Govt. or the U.S. Govt. other than just to stay out of the way. This is a win – win situation in which both sides profit from governments on sides just removing interference from the scene. The doctors and nurses themselves are the authorities on what is good and effective medicine and injecting more government into the process merely clouds it up and slows it down.

So… read it as good news folks. I’m not identifying anyone anyplace because everything is going smoothly – and government only clouds things.

I say just pray for the effort because good is happening – not political good just *good* -- so leave it alone and let the training benefit both sides – there’s no downside to it.

Well… ‘nuff said through my small megaphone. It will go unnoticed anyway, except for those who wish to do it harm. Just pray for the Lord’s will to be realized and for the long arm of government to just be ignored.

Cordially, IN HIM

Jack

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CHINESE PUZZLE AT STATE DEPARTMENT

Just a Minute: THE HILL newspaper correspondent, Meghashyam Mali, cites Obama strategist, David Axelrod, for hammering Mitt Romney trying to help protect Chinese dissident, Chen Guangcheng, from government intimidation. He attempted to reunite his family last week to protect his wife and children. Axelrod criticized Romney for interfering and seeking help for the blind activist in getting his family untangled from Chinese oppression.

Chen, a blind human rights activist who is essentially under house arrest now in hospital, first sought refuge in the U.S. embassy; but a deal to allow Chen to live with his family and receive regular contact with U.S. diplomats unraveled last week when Chen’s family was threatened by Chinese officials. He’d now rather leave the country.

This fosters a delicate dance for the diplomats on both sides. The U.S. doesn’t want to dampen growing commercial interests between the U.S. and China; and Chinese officials want to wave off natives who won’t toe government regulations and so give others ideas about freedom differences between China and America.

Main-stream media want to drop this hot potato. --- We’ll have more to say about it tomorrow.

<> I’m Jack Buttram. (END)

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