individual,

Please explain.

Please explain.
Mr Opinion,
Are you so young that you need to ask ?

Foxy and FOULmouth are always criticising people who bring into question the loyalty of Chinese-Australians and are telling us that we can always trust Chinese migrants because they pledge loyalty to Australia.

Well here's a news item posted on the web an hour ago about a Chinese-American CIA agent caught spying for the Chinese:

http://www.msn.com/en-au/news/world/former-cia-agent-charged-with-years-of-spying-for-china/ar-BB184sXv?ocid=msedgntp

I wouldn't trust the Chinese as far I could throw them. Generally, their only interest in life is money and all things Chinese and their ultimate loyalty will always be to their ancestral homeland irrespective of where they are positioned spatially and temporally in the Chinese diaspora.

If you don't agree than I suggest you hold hands with Foxy and FOULmouth and join them in an eternal chorus of Kumbaya.

Misop,

Poor half-wit child. Your infantile claim that Foxy and I keep " ..... telling us that we can always trust Chinese migrants because they pledge loyalty to Australia..... " simply because we suggest that you can't tar everybody with the same brush, falls into the opposite trap of doing exactly that.

Of course, there are Chinese spies in Australia. I don't trust the Confucius Institutes, for example: they would be ideal centres for organising spy networks. I don't trust Chinese electronics companies not to track everybody.

But I do assume that, like other people, most Chinese here are simply going about the business of making a living or studying, or enjoying a rest after a lifetime of hard work.

I don't think any group of people, ever, have been 100 % (or close to it) on the side of some evil ideology. I don't think that's how humans work. I'm always reminded that during the War, there wasn't a single case of espionage by any Japanese-Americans, even those interned who had lost all their property; and that one of the most highly-decorated US battalions during the War was made up entirely of Japanese-Americans.

Yes, there were cases of local German-Americans spying for the Nazis and carrying out sabotage for them. But even Germans are people too :)

You may learn all that as you mature.

Joe

FOULmouth,

I think it's pretty clear whose side you're on - you little Maoist pie-maker.

You're probably even the president of the Andrew Forrest Fan Club.

MO,

Please get a life; get off the treadmill and breathe-in the magical mystery of the heart beating in your chest, the blood pulsing your being forward for another microsecond, another moment, a glimpse, and forward to a veritable kaleidoscope of living, seeing, enjoying, and beholding of an infinity of prospect beyond the next millisecond and the next sunrise.

The horizon beckons our gaze to what may lie beyond the next turning of the way, and imagination illuminates our appreciation of all we are yet privileged to grasp or to comprehend.

We live in thought, but thought is to enable us to appreciate as well as to contemplate.

Take care and be well.