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Anna Chen

First off, I'm an Englishwoman. I was born here, as was my mother. My father came here in the 1930s. I happen to be half Chinese  and I look totally Chinese. But I'm still an Englishwoman. Describing oneself as "an Englishman" tells me little about you except your geographical location.

Secondly, Soho around Gerrard Street was occupied chiefly by Indians, not Jews, in the 1940s. My father ran an early Hsinhua office from either Gerrard Street or Macclesfield Street, I'm not sure which. After that, the Chinese started moving in.

My mother took part in the anti-Mosley demonstrations in the 1950s and my best friend's Jewish aunt managed to spit right in the Blackshirt leader's face.

I haven't read Jackson Tan's piece, but I was active in the Campaign to Defend Asylum Seekers (CDAS) in response to the anti asylum seeker hysteria at the end of 1999.

I would like to say that I place the responsibility for the death of the 58 dead Chinese absolutely at the feet of British xenophobia, but a xenophobia whipped up by Tory (or Tory-minded New Labour politicians, eg Barbara Roche and Jack Straw) politicians, effectively distracting us from whose interests are being protected, and "Fortress Europe", manifested in this country's racist legislation.

Migration is a major aspect of human history, otherwise we'd all still be in Africa and it would be getting pretty crowded by now. How dare our masters tell us we can't move around the globe? It's OK for capital to chase cheap labour, or to import it when it suits them, but when we wish to explore our planet we are vilified, humiliated, legislated against and, at worst, killed for our racial differences.

This is about a mass notion of limited resources. The enemy isn't others according to their race, it's to do with who owns these resources. And it sure isn't the poor whites, poor, blacks, poor asians and poor Chinese, and certainly not 58 dead Chinese trying for a better life.

The British economy is the fourth largest in the world and yet poverty is rapidly on the increase here.

Net emigration exceeds immigration. The population is falling. Both public and private sectors are crying out for skilled labour that isn't here, partly due to bad education policies by the Tories.

There is enough to go around. But who has it?

 
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Xuan Di - Reply to Anna Chen Posted 19:05 on 7 December 2009
"How dare our masters tell us we can't move around the globe? It's OK for capital to chase cheap labour, or to import it when it suits them, but when we wish to explore our planet we are vilified, humiliated, legislated against and, at worst, killed for our racial differences. The British economy is the fourth largest in the world and yet poverty is rapidly on the increase here."

I think it's completely misguided for you to refer to the British as our "masters" given that we are now in the 21st century, whereby, Great Britain is no longer the Pre-eminent Great Power in global politics. I do not in anyway dismiss that Western hegemony is a de facto state of affairs under the present global leadership of the US. As indeed, Martin Jacques PhD, a fellow at LSE has commented in his recent book, "When China rules the world: The Rise of the Middle Kingdom and the End of the Western World(ISBN-10: 0713992549)" that "American supremacy ultimately entails the subjugation and subordination of all other races(non-White)." In other words, US hegemony is the basis of Western domination of global power politics in the wake of World War Two, through to this first decade of the 21st century. The White race would be NOTHING without US hegemony. The military supremacy of NATO is largely on account of America's membership of this organisation. Europe, by itself, does not have the required hegemonic military nor economic reach to dominate Asian countries, least of all China which is already recognised as an economic superpower.

Need I remind you that Japan is the second largest economic power in the world, which is according to the IMF, World Bank, World Trade Organisation, FTSE Group, and US Central Intelligence? In May 2008, China replaced Germany as the world's third largest economic power - which is contrary to your suggestion that Britain is the world's fourth largest economy. China is projected to replace Japan as the world's second largest economic power in 2012. Recently, US Intelligence has reported that BRIC countries will begin to challenge Western democracy by 2025 at the latest. Goldman Sachs has predicted that China will overtake the US as the world's dominant economic power by 2027. By 2050, China's GDP will be virtually twice that of the US.

The latest figures in June 2009 shows that China's military budget and military capability is second only to the United States: http://www.globalfirepower.com. Towards the end of the century, China's military capability will be several times that of the US. If White people have ruled this earth for the last 500 years, Chinese will rule the world for the next 1,000 years: http://tribes.tribe.net/2012the-end-times/thread/adde3add-9312-4f4f-8c8f-b02a5007dc55

Western hegemony is very much the status quo in the present international climate; but it's preposterous to suggest that Chinese people generally recognise the British as our "masters". Are you not aware, that China's military and economic capability is far superior to the United Kingdom?

I have no doubt that Britain is much stronger than China, Korea, and Japan in more ways than one; if only because America is the dominant global superpower. But left to their own device, the British are no match for the superior military and economic might of China and its allies. Why, we could easily kick their arse!
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