Editorial Staff
Fri, January 22, 2021, 10:30 AM
“America may not have won World War II and landed on the moon later if not for the contributions of a brilliant Chinese scientist named Qian Xuesen.”
I really think that yahoo…via Nextshark – who? – are working propagandists for the Chinese Communist regime. I mean really? Look, I’m sure that this brilliant scientist made contributions that helped both the US and China, but I’d say that the reason we won WWII had a lot more to do with scientists who developed the bomb – (don’t think this fellow was on the Manhattan project) – and the good fortune of having two oceans to protect the US – an amazing industrial base that produced bombs and tanks – essentially our mass industrial economy won the war. As far as the space program is concerned, after winning the war, it was probably the difference maker having Werner Von Braun defect to the US and not to Russia or China. To sum up: That’s why we won WWII – That’s why the US and not Russia or China put the first man on the moon. As I recall, don’t think any Russian or Chinese has actually even stepped on the moon some 50 years after we did. But, hey, the Chinese do have willing propagandists in the American media and who knows, in a decade or two – maybe sooner, American media and corrupt schools will be teaching that the Chinese defeated the Nazis and Japanese single handedly and landed the first man on the moon. And although many Americans having watched too many American movies about D-Day may think the US defeated the Nazis single handedly, I suspect relatives of the over a million Russians who died in the siege of St. Petersburg and the 27 million or so Russians who died during WWII might think otherwise. Well, that’s what the victors get to do – write or in some cases – rewrite history. Orwell predicted as much and given the trajectory of today’s propaganda, it will no doubt come true comrade if the Chinese Communists get their way. By the way, my understanding is that much of the Chinese space program came from US companies that were easily bought off – some might call them traitors. They were just Crony Socialists who were able to get Bill Clinton to turn his head – after all, he was getting funded from the Chinese communists too…
NY Times May 11, 1999 – The Clinton Administration notified Congress today that it had approved the export of technology to China to permit the launching of a communications satellite aboard a Chinese rocket next month.
President Clinton said in a letter to Congress that the transfer would not harm national security or significantly improve China’s military capability in space. The President was required under a 1998 law to certify that all such technology exports are in the national interest.
The rest of the YAHOOO Nextshark propaganda piece:
“…Fearing communist presence after the war, the U.S., however, deported Qian to China, clueless that he would eventually spearhead programs that would target American troops and eventually propel China into space. Born to well-educated parents in 1911, it was evident from an early age that Qian had superior intellect. He graduated at the top of his class at Shanghai Jiao Tong University and won a scholarship at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Qian arrived in Boston in 1935. He eventually moved to the California Institute of Technology (CalTech) to study under Hungarian aeronautical engineer Theodore von Karman, one of the field’s most influential at the time. It was in CalTech when Qian became a member of a group of innovators called Suicide Squad, which aimed to build a rocket on campus. They earned their nickname, however, due to botched experiments involving volatile chemicals. Just before World War II, the U.S. military, which had been paying for research into jet propulsion systems, caught wind of the Suicide Squad. In 1943, the Jet Propulsion Lab was established under von Karman — and Qian was at its core. Qian, a national of the Republic of China (ROC; now Taiwan) — then a U.S. ally — was given security clearance to work on classified weapons research. At the end of the war, he was among the world’s leading experts in jet propulsion, even flying to Germany as a lieutenant colonel to gather intelligence from Nazi engineers. Unfortunately, Qian’s American career faltered when Mao Zedong established the communist People’s Republic of China (PRC) in 1949. Chinese nationals were then seen as a threat to the U.S. The FBI accused Qian of being a communist based on a 1938 document, which showed that he had attended a social gathering of the Pasadena Communist Party. He denied being a member, but research proved that he joined the group with JPL co-founder Frank Malina, who was also part of the Suicide Squad. Qian’s membership was more inspired by anti-racism than Marxism, however. For instance, they campaigned against the segregation of the local Pasadena swimming pool. Despite the absence of evidence that he actually spied for the PRC, Qian was put on house arrest for five years. In 1955, President Eisenhower deported him to China. Qian left America by boat with his wife and two U.S.-born children. He vowed never to return again. The scientist arrived as a promising talent in China. However, he was not immediately welcomed into the CCP, since his wife was the daughter of a ROC leader. Qian was admitted to the CCP in 1958, later serving on its Central Committee. In the following years, he oversaw the launch of the first Chinese satellite into space — and a multitude of other projects that laid the foundations of China’s Lunar Exploration Program. In a slap of irony, a missile program Qian helped develop produced weapons that were fired back at the U.S. These were silkworm missiles fired at Americans in the Gulf War of 1991, as well as the USS Mason by Huti rebels in Yemen in 2016. “So there’s this odd circularity. The US expelled this expertise, and it has come back to bite them,” said Fraser Macdonald, author of “Escape from Earth: A Secret History of the Space Rocket,” according to BBC News. Despite the turnaround of his life, Qian reportedly remained fond of the American people. In 2002, Frank Marble, a CalTech colleague, stated that Qian had “lost faith in the American government” but “always had very warm feelings for the American people,” according to The New York Times. Qian died as an accomplished scientist at the age of 98 in Beijing. He has since been revered as a hero in China.”