Chinese pianist Lang Lang plays anti-American music at the state dinner concert in the White House on Jan. 19, 2011

Jan. 21, 2011

Dear friends,

This event even made me feel ashamed. So I have to tell you.

Right in the White House, during the concert at the end of the state dinner that President Obama offered to Hu Jintao, the Chinese pianist Lang Lang played a Chinese song. (Related web link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kroEprEpvtA start at 6:24.) After the performance, both President Obama and Hu Jintao thanked the artist, and took the opportunity to talk about "cooperation" and "bridges", etc. At the end of that dinner, Hu Jintao, who has the reputation of being a dull person, even specially embraced the artist with enthusiasm. (Related link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QnbtNtFjyFo near the end of the video.)

Which kind of music could make Hu so warm, which is so out of his character? I listened to that music with a big shock. It is from the main theme song of the best-known Communist propaganda movie about the Korean War when the Chinese army entered the Korean peninsula to fight with the Americans. The title of the movie is: "Battle of Triangle Hill" (see link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-aTpkd6-P8). This movie is widely known in China as a household name, as, for example, "Gone With the Wind" is in the US. The song is the leading anti-American propaganda by the Chinese Communist Party. It openly refers to the U.S. military as "wolves" and how the Chinese will use weapons to deal with them. Is that not an insult to the USA to play such kind of music at a state dinner hosted by the US President? No wonder it made Hu Jintao really happy.

As the dictator of the biggest autocratic regime, Hu Jintao likes this manner to humiliate the Americans. This is normal. What is abnormal is that it did not happen on a state dinner in China, but a state dinner in the US White House. So, it appears that the Americans were humiliating themselves. How could President Obama let this kind of humiliation happen in his White House, and even praise the artist, meanwhile expressing "extraordinary pride" and "looking for many years of cooperation" with a notarious dictator? Some excited "patriotic Chinese" have already written their comments such as: "the right place, right time, right song!" on Internet.

Your friend forever,

Wei Jingsheng
Chairman
Overseas Chinese Democracy Coalition

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