China Makes Crap - Buy American!

It's come to this? At the White House State dinner on Jan. 19, about six minutes into his set, Chinese pianist Lang Lang began tapping out a famous anti-American propaganda melody from the Korean War: the theme song to the movie “Battle on Shanganling Mountain.” The film depicts a group of “People’s Volunteer Army” soldiers who are first hemmed in at Shanganling (or Triangle Hill) and then, when reinforcements arrive, take up their rifles and counterattack the U.S. military “jackals.”   The movie and the tune are widely known among Chinese, and the song has been a leading piece of anti-American propaganda by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) for decades

Quite obviously Chairman Hu Jintao has to have recognized the song as did the Chinese watching on the Internet.  We've read that early morning TV viewers in China knew it would be played an hour or two beforehand.  Our question is this, was no one at the White House aware of the tune that was being played? Where were the experts on China and Chinese propaganda on this humiliating evening?

The name of the tune that Lang Lang played is called "The Motherland".  It is used in Chinese propaganda as an anti imperialist America song.  The message it brings is that the United States attacked North Korea as a means to invade China.  The defeat of the Americans at the battle of Triangle Hill is a victory against the imperialists Americans. 

The Chinese who are all about pride and "saving face," will see this as having perpetrated a magnificent insult against the United States, right here on their own soil, within the walls of the most important home in the country. As we continue to be indebted to the Chinese, take our business to China, and purchase merchandise that is made in China, we are not aware of the deep anti American sentiment that runs deeply through the country and its people.  The anti Americanism is fueled by the governments propaganda machine. 

Throughout China, days after the White House State dinner, the video clip of Lang Lang's great moment is being seen throughout China.  The song has been deemed, the “right place, right time, right song” and is a declaration of victory over the United States.  In China students are taught that the United States lost the Korean war, and the fact that this song was triumphantly played in the White House before the American President and other dignitaries, was great coup for Chinese propaganda signifying yet another defeat for the United States. The Chinese are notorious for using moments such as this or misinterpreting photographs and other events to tout their superiority over Americans and making the Chinese people believe it'
We first learned about this disgraceful event today  as we read an article which appeared in THE EPOCH TIMES.  It was sent to us via email.  As we read the article, the film "Casablanca" came to mind.  In that classic American film the inebriated Nazi officers drinking at "Rick's Café Américain" in French controlled Algiers, are raucous and noisy as they play on the piano the German song, "Die Wacht Am Rhein", which is a patriotic song dating to the 1840s. In the song the Germans vow to defend the Rhineland from a French invasion.  It is, of course, an insult to all the French patrons at Rick's.   With just a nod, the apolitical Rick, an American expatriate, gives  an order for  the orchestra to play "The Marseillaise". This turns out to be one of the most electrifying scenes in movie history as all the bar patrons stand and sing the French anthem in unison, drowning out the drunken Germans. 
 

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It was not so at the White House on Friday night.  The invited Americans sat placidly there as Chinese pianist Lang Lang, in a pre planned act, humiliated the United States of America, in the people's house, and not one American stood in protest. 
 
We're told that when the president gives the State of The Union address on Tuesday he will be remarking on the creation of jobs and employment.  He has said that we will be doing things the American way.  What that means to this president remains to be seen.  Hopefully it will mean that Americans and the government will think twice before moving our factories and manufacturing overseas especially to China.  Americans must understand that without the work we provide for the Chinese to produce at much lower wages than Americans will accept, the Chinese economy would collapse.
 
China, dear friends, does not like us.  They are not to be trusted.  This degradation perpetrated on Americans at the White House State dinner is a bold example of how far they are willing to go to belittle and demean us.  The fact that no one has expressed anger or offense against this deliberate act of provocation is astonishing.  Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has been accused of "putting his foot in his mouth" when he called Hu Jintao a "dictator".  To our knowledge, that is the only thing Harry Reid has ever said that is worth quoting.  We are pleased that neither Reid, Senator Mitch McConnell or House Speaker Boehmer attended the event.  That makes three less Americans that were present at the bold degradation of our country  It appears that the only ones with the courage to come face to face with China were the protestors outside the White House who stood there every day of Hu's visit.
 
Is the Obama administration aware of what went on that day?  We don't know about them, but once it was brought to our attention, We cannot  get over this insult easily.  Does one forget a stinging slap in the face?  As the Chinese go about repeating the phrase "right place, right time, right song", we are once again reminded of the movie Casablanca, and we feel a kinship with Rick when he says about Ilsa, "Of all the gin joints, in all the towns, in all the world, she walks into mine."
 
Paraphrasing him we say about Chairman Hu Jintao and his piano player Lang Lang, "Of all the Houses, in all the cities, in all the world, they walked into ours?"  The Chinese were not only rude, they were uncultured, lacking in delicacy and refinement.They were not worthy of a State Dinner in OUR White House.  It was a humiliating insulting  act we cannot soon forget, and although no one in that audience saw fit to do anything about it, we can.  We can by beginning to snub the Chinese in our own small way: always BUY AMERICAN.