Dear MEMBERS/ READERS
Imaging how one person can do to help others like this one. I hope
more rich Chinese in China will follow his EXCELLENT example.
Please send this around to your local communities. Americans like
Rosevolt, Bill Gate, Warren Buffett etc are doing it in style
already. More philanthropist's money should be put into educating
Chinese in China and researches like in America and other
successful western countries to build the foundation of a civilsed
and fair society where all citizens have a chance to excel and
participate and share in the fruit of its achievement.
Dr Ka Sing CHUA
Newspaper Report: Billionaire
developer in Shenzhen donates all to charity, leaving offspring
nothing
“If my children are competent, they
don’t need my money. If they’re not, leaving them a lot of money is
only doing them harm.”
ENJOY WHILE YOU (STILL) CAN! - Confucius
551BC
Chinese philanthropist donates it all
Eccentric developer from humble roots shocks nation by leaving
offspring nothing
Shenzhen, China — From Saturday's Globe and Mail
Published on Friday, Jul. 23, 2010 8:46PM EDTLast updated
on Tuesday, Jul. 27, 2010 1:31AM EDT
Yu Pengnian’s journey from poor street hawker to Hong Kong
real-estate magnate was already a remarkable one. Then the
88-year-old did something even rarer that shocked many in
increasingly materialistic China: He gave it all away.
Saying he hoped to set an example for other wealthy Chinese, Mr.
Yu called a press conference in April to announce he was donating his
last 3.2 billion yuan (about $500-million) to a foundation he
established five years earlier to aid his pet causes – student
scholarships, reconstruction after the 2008 Sichuan earthquake, and
paying for operations for those like him who suffer from
cataracts.
“This will be my last donation,” he announced. “I have nothing
more to give away.”
With that endowment, Mr. Yu became the first Chinese national to
give more than $1-billion to charity, now having contributed almost
$1.3-billion in cash and real estate to the Yu Pengnian
Foundation.
In a stunned China, the question came quickly: Wouldn’t his
children be angry that he had given their inheritance away? “They
didn’t oppose this idea, at least not in public,” the eccentric Mr.
Yu says, laughing, when asked the question again during an
interview at his foundation’s office atop the 57-storey Penglin
Hotel in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen.
“If my children are competent, they don’t need my money,” Mr. Yu
explained. “If they’re not, leaving them a lot of money is only
doing them harm.”
To make sure that didn’t happen, he appointed HSBC as his
foundation’s trustee and stipulated that none of its holdings could
be inherited, sold or invested.
In a society where capitalism is just 30 years old, and
charitable giving an even younger concept, Mr. Yu says one of his
primary goals in making a show out of giving his money away was to
set an example to other rich Chinese. “Everybody has a different
view of money. Some do good things with it, some rich people do
nothing with it. …My goal is to be a leader, a pioneer who
encourages rich people, inside and outside of China, to do
something charitable.”
The charitable eccentric
It would be easy to characterize Mr. Yu as an oddball. His hair
is dyed jet black and held up in a bouffant. He regularly wears
white Mao suits and matching white shoes at which his
Western-educated grandchildren quietly cringe. His desk, which sits
in the middle of an office he shares with half a dozen of the
foundation’s staff, is covered with such oddities as a bowl of
plastic fruit, a money-counting machine, and a pair of duelling
model fighter planes, one Chinese, one American.
He displays little of his wealth – he lives in the Penglin Hotel
and eats most of his meals in the buffet restaurant – but sits
beneath a giant smiling portrait of himself. Another giant dinner
plate emblazoned with a picture of Mr. Yu sits propped up on his
desk, gazing directly at anyone who pulls up a chair across from
him.
As offbeat as he may be,
it’s hard to question his generosity. Mr. Yu, who is ranked the
432nd richest person in mainland China, has topped the Hurun Report
lists of the country’s top philanthropists four years running – and
will certainly do so again this year – leading by example as the
idea of large-scale giving has quietly taken hold among a growing
number of China’s superwealthy.
Rags to riches
Mr. Yu says his passion for charity is a result of his own
humble beginnings. Born in a small village in China’s southern
Hunan province, he travelled to Shanghai in his youth hoping to
find his fortune. Instead, he found himself pulling rickshaws and
hawking trinkets on the streets until he was arrested in 1954 – on
the false accusation that he came from a family of wealthy
landlords – and sentenced to three years in a “thought correction
centre.”
After his release, he finally caught a gust of good fortune when
he was granted rare permission to travel to Hong Kong. He found a
job as a cleaner at a large firm, and even though he spoke no
English or Cantonese, slowly impressed his way up into a junior
management position, saving everything he earned along the way.
In the 1960s, Mr. Yu and some friends pooled their money
together and bought their first property, the beginning of a new
career that would see him make millions through shrewd purchases
that he would sometimes later sell at 20 or more times the original
price. As his holdings grew, he became notorious in Hong Kong as
the “Love Hotel King” – a name he detests – because many of
the properties he owned were rented by operators of hotels catering
to hourly stays. He also won fame for buying the last home that
kung-fu star Bruce Lee lived in before his death, a property Mr. Yu
later donated back to the Hong Kong government as a museum.
Hard lessons in giving
But in rural China, particularly his native Hunan province, Mr.
Yu was developing a very different reputation. When he returned to
his hometown of Lou De each year for the Spring Festival holiday,
he handed out red envelopes stuffed with cash to the elderly and
poor.
Those trips taught him an early lesson about the perils of
charitable giving. One year, he enlisted the help of local
government officials to help him stuff each envelope with 400 yuan.
He found out later that much of the cash had been pocketed by the
corrupt bureaucrats, and to this day he insists that the money he
donates go directly to the recipients without going through any
other charities or government agencies. “In China, I do charity
only with my own eyes and hands. I don’t trust others,” he
says.
Mr. Yu’s initial foray into wider-scale philanthropy came after
he developed cataracts and had a successful operation to repair his
eyes in 2000. When he researched the disease afterwards, he found
that 400,000 Chinese developed cataracts every year, and many
sufferers couldn’t afford the required surgery.
He was deeply moved and decided to spend $10-million annually on
mobile cataract clinics that drive to the most remote parts of
China to perform surgeries paid for by Mr. Yu. His own oversized
photograph – his eyes clear of cataracts – is on the side of the
“Bright Eyes” vans, which have carried out more than 150,000
cataract operations around the country since 2003.
Mr. Yu says his latest passion is education. He says he wants
the bulk of the money from his most recent endowment, as well as
the profits from the hotels and other properties he has donated to
the Yu Pengnian Foundation, to go to scholarships. “Some for poor
students, others for talented students I want to encourage,
including foreign students who want to study in China,” he said.
“Education is very important for a country, very closely related to
its prosperity and standard of living.”
A legacy project
Mr. Yu is proud to hear his name mentioned alongside such famous
Western philanthropists as Bill Gates and George Soros – as well as
Hong Kong’s Li Kashing, Asia's most famous philanthropist who has
given away $1.4-billion of his estimated $21-billion – but likes to
point out that he’s gone a step further than they have by giving
away all his money. However, he admits he wasn’t ready to go back
to the hard life he lived as a young man.
“I’m not poor, not yet. I still have a credit card – an American
credit card – and I take a VIP room in this hotel. And I take
business-class flights. I allow myself this,” he says, smiling.
As Mr. Yu speaks, his grandson, Dennis Pang, watches with
obvious respect and affection. As someone who was in line to
inherit some of the fortune, Mr. Pang admits that he was initially
bewildered by his grandfather’s insistence on giving away what he
had earned. But then he took a job as his grandfather’s personal
assistant, and saw first-hand the good the Yu Pengnian Foundation
was doing.
“Before I came here, I was a little confused. But now when I see
the people that he helps, I understand that it’s special,” Mr. Pang
said. My. Yu’s two sons, both in their 60s, sit on the foundation’s
board of directors.
Mr. Yu is pleased to have his family’s support, but says he
would have gone ahead with his philanthropy with or without their
approval. “I don’t care what others think. It makes me happy to
give my money away. I used to be poor.”
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President’s Message
Elusive Peace and Shocking Wars
Human civilisation supposedly begins about 5000 years ago
across Greece, Egypt, Middle Asia, India and China etc. This
was followed by the birth of modern Christianity including
Judaism, encompassing all Europe and western countries, and
modern Islamic teaching encompassing Middle East and other part of
the world. Throughout the long history of civilization, human
beings invented all kinds of philosophical teachings such as
Buddhism, Hinduism, Confucism. Daoism, Communism, Socialism,
Capitalism and all kinds of religions etc etc to satisfy the
physical, psychological and mental need of our humankind.
Various cult teachings also flourished in societies. If we do not
stop those extreme cult following, as history showed it
can become a very destructive and dividing force hindering the
progress of our modern civilization.
What have we achieved so far in last 5000 years of civilization as
a race of homosapien /humankind?
We have achieved a lot in term of laying down the foundation of a
modern society and civilisation. It is however a gradual process
and progress. We have to learn from our mistakes and experiences
along the way.
We have seen immensely success stories coming from the
creativity and advancement of modern sciences by mankind. We
have seen enormous improvement in medical knowledge that can save
the lives and prolong our morbidity and mortality. We have
seen huge improvement in term of our communication in
transportation so much so that the distances of travel can be
reduced to a few hours from one distant part of the world to
another. We have seen incredible improvement in term of our
technology of computer sciences that we can send messages to one
another from far far away with a touch of a computer button. We
have seen amazing improvement of human civilisation in
certain part of the world that people of various backgrounds,
languages, cultures, religions, traditions can now live
happily and harmoniously together in a society and country
with proper rule of civilised laws without resorting to the rule of
violence and force and civil wars. Such is the ultimate
success of our human civilisation.
However we still have not been able to eliminate wars. We have wars
in Iraq, Afghanistan, Middle East , Israel, Palestine, Lebanon, and
quite a few African countries still at wars with one another. On
top of it we have significant violent civil unrest in many
countries. The idea of a long lasting peace is still quite elusive
to mankind in many regions around the mother earth. As recent as
Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos wars in 1970s, African Uganda,
Rwanda, Congo, Nigeria wars etc in 1980s, recent wars in
Serbia , Kosova and current wars in various part of the world
resulted in millions of lives lost with lot of casualties
and destruction of properties and souls of the affected
people. It has also created millions of refugees still
floating around the world to find a peaceful and secured home
to live in.
Why and why?
We have not been able to prevent the wars among our fellow citizens
of the world. Why is United Nations not able to intervene and
prevent it successfully?
My answer is simple. Blame all our politicians and rulers who
started the wars. It is their failure. It is their ego. It is their
power and privileges that they wish to preserve that stop them from
not ordering the wars. They have forgotten that they are there to
see that the rule of common civilized laws has to apply
to themselves as well as to all common citizens. They are
there to safeguard the common-good of all citizens including other
world citizens. Waging a war will not solve conflicts
among human beings.
We should abolish the current system of soldiers fighting the wars.
They should be the keeping peace force and uphold the rule of
civilised laws. Unworthy politicians should be stripped of their
evil power of commanding soldiers to fight a war. Soldiers should
be able to say no in fighting a war killing and maiming other
people and perceived "enemies" in order to protect their
politicians' power and privileges which many times in history,
happened to be conducted under the disguise of protecting their
"nation's interest and security". No soldiers given a choice
will fight a war as it is a cruel act of violence. It destroys
their good souls and others that he have killed and maimed. The
teaching of Christianity, Buddhism etc that "thou shall not kill"
has been conveniently forgotten.
I find celebrating the ‘war heroes‘ programs in any
form inappropriate as all soldiers who were alive will tell
you that given a choice they will not go to a war again. The
historical fact is that they were not fighting and protecting the
common people's freedom, interest and security. They were fighting
and protecting the 'Empires' interest and the power and privileges
of the "elite and evil" politicians and rulers. These politicians
and rulers were greedy and willing to sacrifice their young
soldiers to the wars. It takes two to tangle. Some were more evil
than other. There was always a good excuse for a so-called
“just war”. Looking back in the history, each side would tell their
soldiers that they were there to fight a “just war”. The other side
was always the evil side.
War defies the basis tenures of our human civilization. War
destroys the spirit of finding a peaceful solution through constant
negotiation and compromises for the security of common people and
upholding the common good. We must never give up a negotiated
solution no matter how long it takes, even if it is a temporary
one, before a lasting peace is achieved.
We know we can prevent war and we have the knowledge to do so. We
have established example among nations like America, Australia,
Canada, France, United Kingdom etc that civil wars have been
eliminated for good. United Nations should be able to help each and
every nation to achieve this. To achieve this we must give
incentives, deterrence and punishment to only few
evil politicians/rulers to get rid of their weapons and
weapons of mass destruction. We must help their 'poor soldiers' to
say no to these few evil politicians/rulers who are not fit to
govern. There is no such thing that “you are holier than thou and
allow to kill and maim other as human fraternity is concerned. That
is against our civilization and rule of law. Powerful support for
an independent international court for justice has to be supported
by good governance and strong governments around the world. We hope
then the good will prevail over the evil politicians who commit
their people to a war of any kind.
If people are not brainwashed, coerced, bullied, like all soldiers
and oppressed citizens, into fighting a war, who else will ever
dream of fighting a war but seek a cooperative negotiation for a
win-win sharing peace solution? Even your worst enemy can become
your friend given enough incentives as we all are human after
all. In our lifetime, we all want the same nice thing in life. We
all want to enjoy our life with our families and friends in
peace and security. Who wants to create enemy and fight a war? Only
evil, greedy or ignorant politicians / rulers who want to
protect their power and privileges will do so. There is no human
behaviour we cannot change through proper civic education and
social engineering according to the rules of modern
civilisation.
JUST imaging that the money we save from the building war machines
and weapons of mass destruction including nuclear weaponry etc if
there is no war to worry about. That money in term of trillions and
trillions of dollar of defence budget around the world, can be put
to eliminate the root causes of wars detailed at the website of The
HAGUE APPEAL for Peace www.haguepeace.org and United Nations www.un.org
I am pleased to see those political leaders/rulers at recent
Nuclear Security Summit meeting convened by President Obama and
hope that they all learn something good to prevent war and save
their people from the destruction and shocking consequences of
future wars. All the good governments should work with United
Nations and NGOs around the world to try to set up civilized rule
of law for all the world citizens. That is not impossible. Let us
hope a world justice system can be established eventually with the
rule of civilized rule of law and everyone in this world
will have a secured and peaceful place to go home with.
Hence our cover design is there to promote peace.
Dr Ka Sing Chua
President
World Huaren Federation
www.huaren.org
30 May 2010
會長的話
2010年5月30日
難以捉摸的和平和令人震驚的戰爭
據說人類文明始於大約
5000年前的希臘，埃及，中亞，印度和中國等。然後是現代基督教的誕生，包括猶太教，包容了所有歐洲和西方國家的文明,和現代伊斯蘭教義遍及中東及世界其他地方。在整個漫長的歷史文明，人類發明了各種哲學學說，如佛教，印度教，儒道﹐道教，共產主義，社會主義，資本主義和各種宗教﹐以滿足人類生理﹑心理及神智上的各種需要。但是各種邪教教義也在社會上盛行。如果我們不停止那些極端的邪教跟隨，鑒往知來，它可能成為一個極具破壞性和分裂勢力阻礙我們現代文明的進步。
人類文明 5000年﹐到目前為止﹐我們成就了些什麼﹖
就現代社會和文明而言﹐我們已經奠定了基礎。不過，這是一個漸進和進步的過程，我們必須從一路走來的道路汲取經驗，並從錯誤中汲取教訓。
我們已經看到了巨大的成功來自人類的創造力和現代科學的進步，我們也看到了醫療知識的長足進步可以挽救生命，減少發病和延長壽命。在運輸方面我們看到非凡的改進以至於旅行的距離，從世界的一個地方到另一個遙遠的
角落可減少到只須數個小時。在電腦科學技術方面我們已經看到令人難以置信的進步﹐從彼此離得遠遠的距離靠一個電腦觸摸按鈕就可以彼此發送訊息。在世界的某些地方﹐各種不同背景，語言，文化，宗教，傳統的人們可以
快樂和諧地生活在一起，這種社會和國家靠的是適當的文明的法律規則﹐不訴諸暴力和內戰的統治，這就是我們當代人類文明的最高成就。
不過，我們仍然未能消除戰爭，伊拉克的戰爭，阿富汗，中東，以色列，巴勒斯坦，黎巴嫩和不少非洲國家仍處於戰爭状况，此外在許多國家仍然
內亂頻繁。一個持久和平的理想在地球母親的許多地區仍然是相當難以掌握。 近如20世紀
70年代越南，柬埔寨和寮國的戰爭，80年代非洲的烏干達，勞達，剛果，尼日戰爭，最近在塞爾維亞的戰爭和目前世界各地的戰爭 ﹐
造成了千百萬人失去了生命﹐ 很多人員傷亡和財產破壞和靈魂受傷的人們。
為什麼，為 什麼？
我們沒有能 夠為我們的同胞防止戰爭，為什麼聯合國無法成功地干預和防止它？
我的答案很簡單：要責怪那些所有發動戰爭的政治家和統治者，這是他們的失敗，這是他們的高傲自滿，他們為了保持自己的權力和特權而不阻止戰爭發生，他們忘記了他們自己也該如同所有公民一樣受到法律制
裁，他們應該保障所有公民包括其他世界公民的權益，發動 一場戰爭並不能解決人與人之間的衝突和矛盾,
反而製造更多的衝突和矛盾.
我們應該取消現行的士兵戰鬥的戰爭制度 他們應該是維持和平和法治文明的部隊而且，
應該剝奪卑鄙的政治家指揮戰士們打仗的邪惡權力，士兵們應該可以對屠殺和殘害他人的戰爭說不.
找藉口去打仗，在歷史上經常是政客們為了保護自己的權力和特權﹐
偽裝在保護他們的“國家利益和安全“的假面具下，認知所謂的“敵人”.如果士兵有選擇的機會，沒有士兵會選擇去打一場戰爭，因為它是一個殘酷的暴
力行為。它破壞了他們的靈魂和他所殺害﹑ 致殘 的人的靈魂，基督教及佛教等的教義裡“你不得殺人“似乎有意無意間被遺忘了。
身為人類﹐ 到目前為止 我們成就了是什麼？
我覺得任何形式的慶祝戰爭英雄方案都是不當的，因為所有還活著的士兵都會告訴你，如果能選擇的話他們不會選擇去戰場。歷史事實是，他們不是為保護老百姓的自由﹑
利益和安全而戰，他們是為保護'帝國的利益﹐
和維護“精英和邪惡”的政客和統治者的權力和特權而戰。這些政治家和統治者是貪婪的，並且願意犧牲自己國家的年輕士兵。一個銅板拍不響﹐
有些人比别人更邪惡，所謂的[正義戰爭]利用的
好藉口來宣 戰，回溯歷史，每方都會告訴他們的士兵，他們是在打一場[正義戰爭]﹐ 對手總是邪惡的一方，非打不可﹐
最後總是倆敗俱傷! 最受苦的是無辜難民﹑婦女和小孩。
戰爭違抗人類的長期基礎文明，戰爭破壞了本來可以通過不斷的談判和妥協尋求一個為老百姓的安全，維護共同利益﹐和平解決辦法的精神，我們必不能放棄通過談判解決問題，即使它是持久和平實現前的一個暫時的方案。
我們知道人
類能夠避免戰爭，我們有知識這樣做的，例如在文明發達的國家，如美國，澳大利亞，加拿大，法國，英國等等，內戰已永久消失了。聯合國應能幫助每一個民族實現這一目標，為了實現這一點，我們必須對少數政客/統治者給予獎勵，威懾和懲治邪惡的方法，撤銷他們的武器和大規模殺傷性武器，我們必須幫助不想打仗的士兵對少數不適合執政的邪惡政客/統治者說不。天底下沒有這樣的事，[你總是比別人聖潔﹐
允許殺害和致殘別人]。世界各地良好又強大的政府必須強力支持建立一個獨
立的國際法庭，這樣我們才有希望用正義和法治來戰勝邪惡的領袖，避免那些可惡的政客把他們的人民送上戰場。
如果人們不被洗腦，強迫，欺侮，像所有的士兵和被壓迫的公民那樣被慫恿去打戰，誰
會夢想著去打戰而不是尋求談判合作的雙贏共享和平的解決方案？只要有足夠的激勵獎賞的措施即使是你最可怕的敵人都可能成為朋友。
我們畢竟都是有血有肉的人，在我們的有生之年都期待生活中同樣的美好事物﹕
我們都希望與家人和朋友在和平中享受生活與安全。誰希望製造敵人來打仗呢？只有邪惡，貪婪或無知政客/統治者想要维護他們的權力和特權才會這樣做。我相信根據現代文明規則,
通過適當的公民教育, 和社會工程來改變人性文化﹐ 沒有任何人的行為我們不能改變。
只要想想如 果沒有令人擔心的戰爭﹐ 從製造機器和武器節省的錢﹐
全球數以兆萬計的國防預算可以放在消除戰爭的根源上，讓普羅眾生都能過上安定和平的好日子!
詳情請上網瀏覽
海牙和平呼 籲www.haguepeace.org 和 聯合國 www.un.org。
我很高興看 到最近奧巴馬總統召集的核子安全高峰會議裡, 好多政治領導人
/統治者都參加了!，我希望他們都學到一些好知識，回去治理好他們的國家，以防止戰爭發生，並且挽救他們的人民免受戰爭破壞和蹂躪的苦果。希
望世界人民和政府互相協助﹐通過各方的非政府組織﹐並且和聯合國共商如何防止戰爭的暴發。
因此，這期 我們的封面設計的目的就是要促進和平。
蔡家聲醫生/ 會長
世界華人聯 合會 www.huaren.org
We have just completed another exciting
issue.
In this issue, we highlight two recent speeches of Minister for
Foreign Affairs of Peoples' Republic of China H.E Yang
Jiechi. He has basically laid down the fundamental direction where
China is heading in this century and her relationship with the
world to come. He stressed the importance for China and the world
to have a peaceful environment so that all citizens can share the
fruit of development in peace and security. She will help to share
the prosperity created and eliminate poverty . She will help to
improve the environment, health of the people etc. Mr Yang
stressed the need for China to play a constructive role in world
affairs and for the world to understand China. China in turn has to
learn to integrate through dialogue and participation.
Internally she needs to strengthen her governance through
further democratic institutional reforms and builds a
stable civic society.
It is timely for President Barack Obama of USA to lead the way and
convened a Nuclear Security Summit. He is hoping too to achieve a
peaceful world. America must set a good example and is not too late
to take a lead role in stopping the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan
etc. through dialogue and negotiation. There are better
ways to tackle so-called 'terrorists' issue than waging a war. We
are pleased that many leaders turned up to support the Summit. I
must congratulate China's stand in this issue as stated by her
Foreign Minister Mr Yang Jiechi's speech:
'China todayis committed to a
path of peaceful development. We pursue a defense
policy that is defensive in nature and a nuclear strategy solely
for self-defense. We adhere to the policy of no-first-use of
nuclear weapons at any time and under any circumstance, and we have
made the unequivocal commitment that we will unconditionally not
use or threaten to use nuclear weapons against non-nuclear-weapon
states and nuclear-weapon-free zones.'
If all nations can make that commitment, the world will be a
more peaceful place to live in. Human civilisation does not need
nuclear weaponry or for that matter any weapon of mass destruction
to solve any human problem. Of course, words must translate into
action and all rulers must practise what they preach. Many a
time they do not. That is the sad part of our human history. We
hope President Obama and all the participants will promote nuclear
knowledge/energy for peaceful purposes. We ask that all nations to
cut down their expenditure on nuclear weapon and weapon of
mass destruction and use it on the welfare of their citizens.
Imaging with the saving of trillion dollars in defence expenditure,
how much we can help those 'terrorists' including 'state initiated
terrorists' to become useful and non-violent citizens again. We
hope they will find a peaceful solution through dialogue and
incentives to stop all the wars which are still destroying many
innocent souls and creating millions of refugees floating
around the world to find a peaceful home.
We continue to highlight the importance of the effect of climate
change and our environment by publishing the idea of Hon. Senator
Wong, Minister for Climate Change and Water of Australia at her
National Press Club debate and Australia's action.
We are very pleased to see that Professor Da Hsuan Feng has been
busy promoting tertiary education and exchanges between Taiwan and
mainland China and other part of the world.
Dr Dave Wang produced another excellent article on Chinese
civilisation,'George Washington and the China Trade'. He has been
invited on a speaking tour to Asia e.g Japan and China etc with our
best wishes and congratulations.
This issue we has started a special Chinese language section for
our readers who may want to see some more Chinese articles. We
thank and welcome our new contributors and writers.
Our next issue is scheduled in September. Please send in your
articles direct to me as soon as you can.
Finally, another big thank you to my team who help to compile this
issue: Matthew Lee for the magnificent cover again, Dr Yit Seng
Yow for his tireless commitment in finalising the articles and
James Yin in helping with the website design etc.
Best regards
Dr. Ka Sing Chua
Editorial team.
编者的话
我们刚刚完成了令人兴奋的一期杂志。
在这一期里，我们要强调中华人民共合国的外交部长杨洁篪先生最近两次的发言。基本上他已经表明了中国在本世纪的基本方向和与世界未来的发展。他强调中国和世界共创一个和平的环境的重要性，让所有公民能共享在和平与安全中发展的成果,
她将与世界分享繁荣，消除贫困,
她将帮助改善人民生活的环境与卫生等，杨先生强调，在世界事务上中国需要发挥她的创造性角色，并让世界了解中国。中国则必须学习通过对话和参与，自我整合。内政上，她需要加强内部管理，通过她的民主制度改革，进一步建立一个稳定的公民社会。
美国总统奥巴马领导和召开核子安全高峰会议，来得正是时候。他也希望实现世界和平,
美国必须树立良好的榜样，负起带头作用仍不算太晚，通过对话和谈判制止伊拉克，阿富汗等的战争。有更好的方法比发动一场战争来解决所谓的'恐怖分子'的问题。我们高兴地看到许多领导人到场支持高峰会议。我必须祝贺中国的立场，在这个问题上正如她的外交部长杨洁篪先生的讲话：
'今日中国致力于和平发展的道路，我们奉行防御性的国防政策，核子战略上完全是为了自卫。我们坚持在任何时候和任何情况下不率先使用核子武器的政策，我们已做出明确承诺，我们将无条件地不对无核武器国家和无核武器地区，使用或威胁使用核子武器。
如果所有国家都可以做出这样的承诺，世界将是一个更加和平的居住所在，人类文明并不需要核子武器，或任何大规模杀伤性武器来解决任何人类的问题。当然，言语必须转化为行动，所有的统治者必须言行一致，很多时候，他们没有做到，这是我们人类历史上可悲的部分。我们希望奥巴马总统和所有与会者将促进核知识
/能源用于和平目的。我们要求所有国家削减其核武器和大规模杀伤性武器的开支，用来照顾它的公民的福利。试想看看，亿万美元的国防开支节省下来的钱，我们能帮助多少那些'恐怖分子'，包括'恐怖分子发起的国家'，成为有用的和非暴力的公民。我们希望他们能找到一个和平解决办法和激励机制，通过对话，停止一切战争，战争摧毁了许多无辜的灵魂，造成了数百万的难民流窜世界各地寻求一个和平的家。
我们仍要强调气候变化和环境变迁的重要性，因此刊登了澳大利亚气候变化与水资源部长黄参议员在国家新闻俱乐部的辩论和澳大利亚的行动。
我们非常高兴地看到，冯Da Hsuan Feng教授一直忙于推销高等教育及大陆和台湾之间的，还有世界其他地方的交流。
王小良博士Dr Dave Wang写了另一篇有关中华文明的优秀文章
'乔治华盛顿和中国贸易'，他已受邀到亚洲如日本和中国巡回演讲，我们祝愿和祝贺他。
在这一期里，我们希望能为看到更多的中文文章的读者们开始了一个特别的中文部分，感谢并欢迎新作家的加入。
下一期定于 9月出版。请把您的文章尽快直接传给我。
最后，非常感谢您们的帮助：李先生Matthew Lee设计的精美封面，饶博士Dr Yit Seng
Yow不辞辛劳为文章做最后确认和James Yin帮助网站设计等。
敬祝 安好
蔡家声医生
2010年5月31日
编辑团队
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are, by promoting the well-beings of all peoples, and by
cultivating in Huaren and non-Huaren the spirit of living together
as communities of equal citizens.
Objectives
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issues which concern them and address those concerns where
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sharing of resources/information and the elimination of poverty
through sustainable development.
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