Today is Saturday, April 17.
Today’s focus: Serling’s tweet reveals Doolittle raid, heroic act by U.S. and Chinese soldiers and civilians, U.S. North and South finally recognize Chinese Communist Party, U.S. President’s climate envoy’s visit to China was slowed down.
Dr. Selin tweets about the Chinese rescue of the Doolittle Raiders 79 years ago, recalling the courage of the U.S. and Chinese military and civilians. 80 years after the U.S.-China-Japan relationship flipped, what is the problem? Dr. Selin’s tweet has the answer. The man in white in the photo is accounted for. Chinese Communist Party diplomacy is no small matter. Several reasons why Biden’s visit to China’s first high-ranking climate representative was deliberately snubbed.
Nearly 80 Years of Grudges in U.S.-China Relations Finally Settled
On April 15, Dr. Lawrence Sellin sent out four tweets in Chinese that drew the attention of many netizens, many of whom expressed their gratitude for his concern for China and its people. His tweets introduced himself as an expert in COVID-19, international IT and medicine, medical research, retired U.S. Army Reserve Colonel, and Iraq and Afghanistan veteran.
His first tweet read, “I support the Chinese people. In 1942, the brave Chinese saved the Doolittle Raiders. Together we can defeat the Chinese Communists”.
These two tweets reflect a nearly 80-year feud in U.S.-China relations that is now finally being cleared up by Americans.
It is not clear why Dr. Serling is bringing up the Doolittle Raiders attack now. But the timing is right, Doolittle Raid was 79 years ago on April 18, which is tomorrow, and mainland China is today.
The second half of the 2001 movie Pearl Harbor recreates this history
(a) Bombing. After Pearl Harbor, the United States needed to boost morale and decided to bomb Tokyo, but the Naval Air Force’s naval aircraft had a small radius of activity and a small bomb load, and later found that the Army Air Corps B25 bombers could take off from the newly commissioned Hornet, decided to use the B25 to take off from the carrier, and the task was given to Doolittle, who spent a month to complete the training.
By the way, Chinese carriers have not yet caught up to the operational capability of US carriers 80 years ago at this point. The plan was for the carrier group to quietly approach Japan, take off for bombing and then turn to the East China Sea to land in China to join Chennault’s Flying Tigers.
Due to the unanticipated encounter with Japanese patrol boats, 200 nautical miles ahead of takeoff, resulting in the subsequent lack of fuel to China, coupled with the lack of navigation signals at the landing site, could only abandon the aircraft midway and jump.
(ii) Rescue. 16 bombers flew to China, except one landed in Vladivostok and was captured by the Soviets, 15 landed in Jiangxi and Zhejiang respectively, a few were captured or killed by the Japanese, most were rescued by Chinese villagers, and most eventually rolled back to China.
The point is that although the ROC army and government did a lot of work later, the earliest villagers who participated in the rescue did not receive any notice and were almost without exception, completely spontaneous. Among them were 10 villagers from Xiangshan, Zhejiang Province and the 3 U.S. Army personnel they were escorting who were captured, 10 villagers were killed on the spot, 2 of the 3 U.S. Army personnel were later executed by the Japanese, and one died in captivity.
According to later statistics, as many as 250,000 Chinese soldiers and civilians were killed in the massive Japanese reprisal operation afterwards. In his memoirs, Chennault said, “The Japanese made it clear in their retaliatory sweep after the Doolittle bombing of Tokyo in early 1942 that anyone who assisted the American pilots would not only be executed themselves, but also their families and bogeys. Yet during the war there was not a single conclusive example of a Chinese behind enemy lines refusing to help the Americans.”
This is rare in the world. This battle was the beginning of a turnaround for the U.S. Army. And the incident from air raid to rescue shook the American dynasty so much that the next year the U.S. Congress repealed the Chinese Exclusion Act, although no direct connection was seen.
(c) Who was the Chinese man in white? This man was Liu Dongsheng, a native of Jiangxi province, who participated in the rescue of the U.S. Air Force personnel (Lt. Travis Hoover), immigrated to the United States at the end of the war, and died in Los Angeles in 2009 at the age of 91.
He was 16 years old when he was one of only two (or four) people to receive the Doolittle Medal of Honor for rescuing a group of U.S. military personnel to safety. Many of the Chinese who participated in the rescue, like him, did not survive.
(d) For 80 years, the U.S.-China-Japan relationship feud, the U.S.-China alliance in the war of resistance against Japan, and now the U.S. and Japan working together against the Chinese Communist Party, the matter is related to the changing world landscape at the end of World War II, when Japan went democratic and the Chinese Communist Party viewed the U.S. as its greatest enemy from a communist ideology.
Many people are confused and use the wrong expression to repay the Chinese for their outstanding performance during WWII to the CCP, such as the Jews thanking the CCP for being saved in Shanghai. The relationship is indeed difficult to clarify.
Returning to Dr. Serling’s first tweet, the Chinese Communist Party is not the same as China. Over the past four years of President Trump’s tenure, and especially with Pompeo as Secretary of State, the U.S. government has clarified the difference between the Chinese Communist Party and China, and only then did U.S.-China relations begin to normalize.
Chinese Communist Party humiliates Biden administration’s first senior official to visit China
Just this past week, two U.S. delegations visited both the mainland and Taiwan, with Biden’s close friend visiting Taiwan and Biden’s official climate representative, Kerry, visiting China. But this time it seems that the Chinese side has once again offered up humiliating diplomacy.
The president’s representative, who actually did not have an official car, was directly transported in a hotel van. This is not the first time, in 2016 Obama to Hangzhou for the G20 summit was humiliated once. At the time this incident was of course explained by both sides afterwards. But the Chinese Communist Party’s diplomacy is no small matter, attention to detail to the point of obsession, there is little chance of impromptu mistakes.
This time, too, although it is only a visit to Shanghai, but after all, it is the first senior official of the Biden administration to visit China. Here is an analysis.
A few signals.
The CCP has no interest in the climate topic, other than to benefit its own propaganda.
The CCP wants to be a global leader on climate issues, highlighting the climate video conference of Chinese, French and German leaders attended by Xi Jinping to pre-empt Biden’s climate summit in order to belittle it.
Han Zheng spoke with Kerry Video, who is visiting China, on the 16th, and Han stressed that China is an important leader in building a global ecological civilization.
I think that any future government that is interested in the climate topic will be constrained by the CCP. The climate issue will be weaponized by the CCP.
There are also some smaller ones.
Such as expressing dissatisfaction with the (U.S.) sending a representative to Taiwan at the same time.
Dissatisfaction with recent U.S. Navy exercises and activities in the East China Sea and South China Sea.
Publicly expressing a lack of buy-in to the Biden administration.
So attempts to work with the CCP on any topic are doomed to failure.
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