For a fair and balanced book-length account of Qian Xuesen's contribution to China’s missile development, check out the late Iris Shun-ru Chang’s Thread of The Silkworm (1995).
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Is McCarthyism still haunting America?
Around 1950, Republican US senator Joseph R. McCarthy was facing a tough re-election in his home state of Wisconsin. This was also a tough time for Americans who were witnessing the CCP’s takeover of Mainland China while the Soviet Union was catching up as the second nuclear power.
Channeling national angst into a self-serving campaign, McCarthy managed to regain his political fortune by blanketing America with Red Scare. Richard Nixon, a Republican young turk, picked up McCarthyism and ran with it, thus advancing his political career spectacularly. Nixon was not alone.
McCarthy's witch hunt for Communist sympathizers led to the detention and deportation of US-trained Qian Xuesen (Tsien Hsue-shen), later known as the Father of Chinese Rocketry. Cases of witch-hunt victims kept piling up until McCarthyism peaked four years shy of McCarthy’s death in 1957.
For the record, it was Owen Lattimore, himself a witch-hunt victim, who coined McCarthyism in his book titled "Ordeal by Slander," which I highly recommend for your reading pleasure, if pleasure is the right word here. (It is also worth mentioning that Lattimore was truly an American expert on pre-1949 Mongolia and Manchuria, as attested by his published works.)
Today the far left is using the far right's playbook, re-enacting McCarthyism through Woke and Cancel Culture. Extremists on both sides, though disagreeable to each other, are actually no different from one another when it comes to power grab. Only voters can put every last one of them in his or her place.
The spectrum of all practical human philosophies/thoughts forms, not a path from hell to heaven, but a circle wherein the extreme right and left meet in hell and the farthest from hell is where the left and right part ways.
1955年10月8日：享誉麻省及加州两大理工学院、曾经参与曼克顿计划的火箭专家钱学森从久居的美国抵达香港。面对记者围访，钱氏不迎不拒，长问短答。临别时、他只向满口英语、不谙国语的香港记者回赠了這一句：“华人总要说点国语吧。” 接着就携眷乘火车北上。甫入华界边城深圳，钱氏立即受到样板的英雄式欢迎。此后荣宠有加，不在话下。至于钱氏的弃美归华，与其说是因为周恩来的无量功德，毋宁说是因为麦卡锡的无限上纲。
有此传闻：艾森豪威尔政府暗以钱氏换回11名在韓战被俘的美国空军飞行员。不管该项传闻属实与否，钱氏确是决意举家返回中国。况且，這位专研改善airframe来增速、卓有成就的尖端科才，早已因麦卡锡而投闲置散了好几年。一旦北京招手，能不感激知遇？事实上，对于钱氏、北京果然不虚前席。
For a fair and balanced book-length account of Qian Xuesen's contribution to China’s missile development, check out the late Iris Shun-ru Chang’s Thread of The Silkworm (1995).
…
Is McCarthyism still haunting America?
Around 1950, Republican US senator Joseph R. McCarthy was facing a tough re-election in his home state of Wisconsin. This was also a tough time for Americans who were witnessing the CCP’s takeover of Mainland China while the Soviet Union was catching up as the second nuclear power.
Channeling national angst into a self-serving campaign, McCarthy managed to regain his political fortune by blanketing America with Red Scare. Richard Nixon, a Republican young turk, picked up McCarthyism and ran with it, thus advancing his political career spectacularly. Nixon was not alone.
McCarthy's witch hunt for Communist sympathizers led to the detention and deportation of US-trained Qian Xuesen (Tsien Hsue-shen), later known as the Father of Chinese Rocketry. Cases of witch-hunt victims kept piling up until McCarthyism peaked four years shy of McCarthy’s death in 1957.
For the record, it was Owen Lattimore, himself a witch-hunt victim, who coined McCarthyism in his book titled "Ordeal by Slander," which I highly recommend for your reading pleasure, if pleasure is the right word here. (It is also worth mentioning that Lattimore was truly an American expert on pre-1949 Mongolia and Manchuria, as attested by his published works.)
Today the far left is using the far right's playbook, re-enacting McCarthyism through Woke and Cancel Culture. Extremists on both sides, though disagreeable to each other, are actually no different from one another when it comes to power grab. Only voters can put every last one of them in his or her place.
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— by Lingyang Jiang
The spectrum of all practical human philosophies/thoughts forms, not a path from hell to heaven, but a circle wherein the extreme right and left meet in hell and the farthest from hell is where the left and right part ways.
My mind drifts with the clouds
To the far land where you stand.
People still have trust in the system back then,
But the mistrust in the judgement of political as well as military personnels,
and maybe worse,like conspiracy theories,
All contributed to the witch-hunt back then-:))..
Thank you ,
Dear old friend,
Thank you for the piece,,
It's difficult for me to say anything after reading your piece at first,
as it brought back memories of a past that my family and any others have tried to forget perhaps-^-&,you win,
History is meant to be remembered and shared,
To brought light to our state of th8ng now-:))-,,
Thank you once again,
Gd read,thank you-:)).
in the heat of trade war right before the pandemic,
Many actu ally detected the regin of ghost of the past,
the East used to see things through the river of history,
While industrialised Protestant states would think otherwise,
the Shadows of the War to end all wars Buffaled many,
at the signing of Armstice for the Korean War,
Guess you also must have heard the box office hit in China
at the moment,
A publicity stunt to restore national pride,
lesson for the day,
run when you see two gaint trainS running head - to - head~,
that's the 50's for all ~,
China vs U SA ~
Belligerence and brinkmanship are for domestic consumption. They know. We know. That being said, no one should rule out another Pearl Harbor.
千里投毒你第一，千人计划就抓你。出国的两头受气在今天也一样。不同的是，在美国有证明自己的机会，在中国基本没有。国军起义的，上海留下的，美国回去的，几十几百万各种人才。得好的万不足一。麦卡锡让你等三年，毛主席让你等下辈子。