It’s always fun to discover politicians pandering for votes from a particular segment of the voting population. We reported on an earlier candidate’s forum in Irvine at the Chinese Cultural Center where every person in the room was aware that Mayor Steven Choi had called China “a terrorist nation,” and that his Chinese-American planning commissioner Anthony Kuo gave indications to the Chinese immigrant community in Irvine that the Veteran’s Cemetery and Memorial would somehow get quashed in the planning process.
Here’s a YouTube video that Choi cut shortly thereafter to appeal to the Chinese American voters in Irvine. Don’t get too excited about the 59 views (three of the views are me) so it likely didn’t have much of an impact on the final vote. But Choi expresses his openness on Friendship City proposals.
We encourage the city’s Chinese American community, Pakastani Community and Vietnamese Community call the Mayor on his pledge and see how far they can get. If Choi rejects any proposal, then this video is simply another lie we can add Choi’s name to.
The president strikes an historic accord with China to cut greenhouse emissions and this guy calls our new partner “a terrorist nation.” Nice to see Irvine way out in front on progressivism. Oh wait. That’s not what they do. They sell over-priced homes to Asian immigrants. My bad.
Sherree, I have to ask you if you were born yesterday, or is it you are merely one of the clones who still dance along behind the Pied Piper of Chicago? I would be suspicious of anything Barack Obama does, because chances are it is to the detriment of the country. We already know he thinks you are too stupid to figure it out.
China is certainly not the friend of the United States any more than is the Soviet Union, North Korea and Iran. That is not to say that we couldn’t have a Sister City in China and have explored that possibility twice in the past. That is assuming of course, the Chinese government didn’t do as they did in the past demanding we eliminate our relationship with Taiwan.
Steven Choi and Cristina Shea always defended and supported the Sister City Program. Just for the record, it was Larry Agran and Beth Krom who tried to cut the under the table deal with the Chinese and the Sister City Board refused to go along with it. As a result, a seventeen year very successful cultural exchance progam was eliminated by the Agranistas.
Moral of this story is to put the blame where the blame goes and it is not with Steven Choi, who supports bringing back the Sister City Program in full.
Hey LTPAR, try making your point without diminishing mine. I bet you can’t. President Obama strives to build long-term strategic economic and environmental relations with China, expected to be the largest global economy by 2020. Smart Americans and Europeans know this. That’s why they’ve set up shop in Hong Kong and Shanghai to take advantage of tax credits, not offered in their own countries. That more opportunities abound in a communist country than the good ‘ol U.S. of A, speaks volumes about the short-sightedness of predicating economic futures on quarterly returns—a point lost on you. Calling China “a terrorist nation” speaks to a provincial mindset. More importantly, it’s bad PR for a community that hopes to attract these wealthy home buyers.