The Editor’s Desk

Whatever ???Bush got right??? in the twilight of his second term, it is the background color of your cover that evokes the true legacy of this President: the tragic bloodshed in Iraq, a runaway budget deficit at home, and the angry, divisive politics of raw power. When many Americans think of Bush, they just see red.

If Mr. Orville Schell is a friend of China, then China needs not have more contemporary enemies.
The true Olympic sports events??? spirits mean to bring harmony amongst all nations. I was deeply saddened and outraged to read the cover story declaring China???s driving force was based on ???inferiority complex???. The article added more uncalled for, biased, slandering insults to China. Britain???s infamous smuggling of opium into china to reap high profits in trading started in the early 1800???s.Opium had weakened the entire Chinese military and her people when China fought back. China lost the Opium War to Britain in 1842, that was 155 years ago. Under the unfair ???Treaty of Nanking???, Hong Kong was ceded and a large amount of indemnities was paid. Since then, total of eight Western powers including the United States got into China and sliced up major cities and ports into colonized districts. Mr Schell , I do not think you would imply that all current world class Chinese Atheletes/ Scientists/ Nobel prize winners all needed the so-called ???inferiority complex??? as a crutch to climb to their pinnacles of success. To use the Olympic slogan "Agony of Defeat" for China before the games started was truly indecent. China???s 2007 national economic growth rate reached 10.9%. And its merchandise exports have raised to $1.2 trillion, currently ranked the world???s 2nd largest exporter, surpassing the U.S. and only next to Germany. The sleeping giant is awake now. The least Newsweek can do is to pay this nation an ounce of respect.

Irene Leung

The true Olympic sports events??? spirits mean to bring harmony amongst all nations. I was deeply saddened and outraged to read the cover story declaring China???s driving force was based on ???inferiority complex???. The article added more uncalled for, biased, slandering insults to China. Britain???s infamous smuggling of opium into china to reap high profits in trading started in the early 1800???s.Opium had weakened the entire Chinese military and her people when China fought back. China lost the Opium War to Britain in 1842, that was 155 years ago. Under the unfair ???Treaty of Nanking???, Hong Kong was ceded and a large amount of indemnities was paid. Since then, total of eight Western powers including the United States got into China and sliced up major cities and ports into colonized districts. Mr Schell , I do not think you would imply that all current world class Chinese Atheletes/ Scientists/ Nobel prize winners all needed the so-called ???inferiority complex??? as a crutch to climb to their pinnacles of success. To use the Olympic slogan "Agony of Defeat" for China before the games started was truly indecent. China???s 2007 national economic growth rate reached 10.9%. And its merchandise exports have raised to $1.2 trillion, currently ranked the world???s 2nd largest exporter, surpassing the U.S. and only next to Germany. The sleeping giant is awake now. The least Newsweek can do is to pay this nation an ounce of respect.

Irene Leung

Sarasota, FL USA

The true Olympic sports events??? spirits mean to bring harmony amongst all nations. I was deeply saddened and outraged to read the cover story declaring China???s driving force was based on ???inferiority complex???. The article added more uncalled for, biased, slandering insults to China. Britain???s infamous smuggling of opium into china to reap high profits in trading started in the early 1800???s.Opium had weakened the entire Chinese military and her people when China fought back. China lost the Opium War to Britain in 1842, that was 155 years ago. Under the unfair ???Treaty of Nanking???, Hong Kong was ceded and a large amount of indemnities was paid. Since then, total of eight Western powers including the United States got into China and sliced up major cities and ports into colonized districts. Mr Schell , I do not think you would imply that all current world class Chinese Atheletes/ Scientists/ Nobel prize winners all needed the so-called ???inferiority complex??? as a crutch to climb to their pinnacles of success. To use the Olympic slogan "Agony of Defeat" for China before the games started was truly indecent. China???s 2007 national economic growth rate reached 10.9%. And its merchandise exports have raised to $1.2 trillion, currently ranked the world???s 2nd largest exporter, surpassing the U.S. and only next to Germany. The sleeping giant is awake now. The least Newsweek can do is to pay this nation an ounce of respect.

Irene Leung

Sarasota, FL USA