2013年2月3日星期日

A Letter to Americans

As a Chinese,  I am full of respect and feelings of longing to the United States, the United States has long been a lighthouse of freedom and hope all over the world.

We are clear, freedom relies on our own struggles, but the modern dictatorial system is extremely sophisticated, human rights are compromised intentionally or unintentionally when foreign policies is made, especially under the globalize economics backgrounds.

The American people will not forget the lessons of aspeasement policy, history will remember the splendor of the Marshall Plan.

Looking back at history, the Chinese people should be grateful to the government and people of the United States, we fought side by side to defeat fascism Japan in World War II, to create peace in East Asia, and the American people must believe that a free and prosperous China that best meet the vital interests of the United States.

Unfortunately, the Chinese people then living under the bamboo curtain[1], to become one of the socialist camp in the Cold War. This is the the military outcome rather than the will of the Chinese people.

To catch up with the pace of the world, China's reform and opening up since 1979. But the 1989 Tiananmen incident led this process of modernization astray, and economic success spoiling the Chinese authorities and left nothing to fear, the Chinese people continue to yearn for freedom behind the bars of GFW[2] in the era of Internet.

Americans invented the Internet, but also the Americans, help the Chinese government to build the GFW, this is certainly not the results Americans want. Chinese people yearn freedom the same as Americans do, while an autocratic reckless Chinese government will pose a great threat to the national interests of the United States, Americans are already out of the isolationist, thanks to the visionary Marshall Plan, Europe enjoys a long-term peace and prosperity.

We do not want to see the situation of China-US confrontation, as an ordinary citizen, I am confident that we are naturally friendly to each other. A free China like United States, most of the conflicts of interest between the two countries will be able to avoid.

However, there are frustrates when we fight for the freedom, the ordinary Chinese people, including anti-Japanese and anti-American civilians, are the product of asymmetric information after the Chinese Communist Party propaganda machine at it's full capacity. GFW is built by the Chinese government to shield the real information from ordinary Chinese people, it is not only the wall between two countries, but also the greatest obstacle when Chinese people in their road of quest for the freedom.

Now, we implore Americans to help to urge the U.S. government sanctions GFW technicians, please take a little time to sign a petition activities of the U.S. government website[3], I am convinced that this is not contrary to the spirit of freedom, but the punishment to the technology behaviors of trampling on freedom, since those technicians are informed of the purpose and the hazard of GFW.

Please support our efforts to fight for freedom!
Thank you!

[1]The Bamboo Curtain is a Cold War euphemism for the political demarcation between the Communist and non-communist states of East Asia, particularly the People's Republic of China. It is used less often than the eponymic "Iron Curtain" because the former shifted frequently.
[2]GFW,http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship_in_the_People%27s_Republic_of_China#Technical_implementation
[3]https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/people-who-help-internet-censorship-builders-great-firewall-china-example-should-be-denied-entry-us/5bzJkjCL

【edited & translated by Er Win】

致美国人民的一封信

作为一个中国人,我对美国充满敬意和向往之情,美国早已成为世人眼中自由与希望的灯塔。
我们清楚,自由要靠自己争取。但现代化的专制机器极其精密复杂,而在全球化的今天,经贸合作的复杂利益使得外交政策有意无意地忽略了人权。
美国人民不会忘记绥靖政策的历史教训,历史也会铭记马歇尔计划的辉煌。
回顾历史,中国人民应该感谢美国政府和人民,二战中两国人民并肩战斗打败法西斯日本,缔造了东亚的和平,美国人民一定深信一个自由和繁荣的中国最符合美国的切身利益。
然而不幸地,中国人随后生活在竹幕之下,成为冷战中社会主义阵营的一员。这是军事结果而非人民意愿。
中国改革开放以来,重新开始追赶世界潮流,但1989天安门事件使这个现代化进程误入歧途,经济上的成功也让当局有恃无恐,因此渴望自由的中国人继续在互联网大潮下与自由世界隔墙相望。
美国人发明了互联网,也是美国人的技术,帮助中国政府打造了阻碍信息交流的GFW(参见附录一)。这肯定不是美国人希望的结果,中国人和美国人一样渴望自由,而一个专制蛮干的中国政府,必将给美国的国家利益造成巨大威胁,美国人早已走出孤立主义,欧洲能够长葆和平与繁荣就得益于美国人高瞻远瞩的马歇尔计划。
我们不希望看到中美两国对立的局面,作为一个普通公民我深信中美人民天然地彼此友善,如果中国人民拥有与美国人民一样的自由,两国间大多数的利益冲突就能得以避免。
但是,我们在争取自由的路上,还有很多坎坷,普通中国人,包括那些反日反美的平民,都是中共宣传机器开足马力之后信息不对称的产物。
而GFW就是中国政府屏蔽真实信息、阻碍中美人民友好的长城,也是中国人民追求自由之路的最大障碍。
现在,我们恳请美国人,帮助我们敦促美国政府制裁GFW的技术人员,请花费一点时间在美国政府网站的一个请愿活动下签名,我深信这是不违背自由精神的,而是对践踏自由的技术活动的制裁,我也认为那些人对GFW的目的和危害性质知情。
请支持我们争取自由的努力!
谢谢!