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About Me

Location:
United States, Morrisville, NC
Current organization:
Galileo Group
Current role:
Biomedical Engineer
Gender:
Male
Areas of expertise:
Medical Imaging, Medical Device
Languages:
English, Chinese
Universities:
Harbin Institute of Technology, University of Tennesse Medical School, Memphis
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  • A reply on Talk: Martin Jacques: Understanding the rise of China

    May 20 2011: I grow up in communist China but I know very little or hear about communism till I came to US. Still to this date, I don't really know what communism is.

  • A reply on Talk: Martin Jacques: Understanding the rise of China

    May 20 2011: I think Americans are smart enough to realize the danger of Japan and judging from Japanese reaction to the earthquake, US did a good job disabling Japan.

    Steven, there are certain things we can't say in the public.

  • A reply on Talk: Martin Jacques: Understanding the rise of China

    May 20 2011: Let me try to address the mention of Han Chinese and their disrespect/disregard of the minorities, because I think I am more qualified than vast majority of Chinese here. Like most of Chinese , I am Han but unlike most of Chinese, I grow up as minority in China with Muslims and Tibetans in a small town in the far west of China. There are some prejudgments toward Muslims by some Han Chinese. They generally think that Muslims are more violent, less educated and many Han don't like the fact that our mayor has to be Muslim since we are Autonomous Prefecture. There is tension, but it is not bad at least not as bad as the tension between the black and white in US.

    One interesting thing is that many Han Chinese are changing their ethnicity on the paper to Muslims and Tibetans to take advantage of all the Affirmative Actions, like fast track promotion in the government and much easier access to top universities. One anecdote is that my parents are both doctors and well connected, when I was 14 they wanted to change my ethnicity to Tibetan so that I can get in a good school. Being young and naive, I refused. :-)

  • A comment on Talk: Martin Jacques: Understanding the rise of China

    May 20 2011: Very interesting talk!
    He has a fairly good understanding of China, which is very difficult considering he is bombarded by the western anti-China propaganda everyday.

  • A comment on Conversation: Advertising.......is it still worth the money ?

    Apr 7 2011: Of course, not only is it worth it, but is essential for the survival of our current system. We need to constantly stimulate and manipulated people into buying and consuming more and we are getting better at it. We use latest technology like fMRI to study our deepest instinct to find how to trigger the "buy" button. Of course, we assume that the resources are limitless...

  • A comment on Talk: Chade-Meng Tan: Everyday compassion at Google

    Apr 7 2011: Almost sounds like communism, too good to be true.

  • A comment on Talk: Brené Brown: The power of vulnerability

    Mar 26 2011: I am not sure I understood, I have to watch it again...

  • A comment on Talk: Jessica Jackley: Poverty, money -- and love

    Mar 23 2011: Thanks for the inspiring talk. I just signed up with wokai.org to do my part.

  • A comment on Conversation: What are the short, medium and long term implications of taking action in Lybia?

    Mar 23 2011: At least in the short term, it demonstrated that US can fight three Muslim nations at the same time.
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    A reply on Talk: Wael Ghonim: Inside the Egyptian revolution

    Mar 23 2011: To raise and overthrow one dictator is easy but to build a functional and prosperous country where common people can improve their lives is difficult. I am not sure if Egyptians will be better off after this revolution and we will see.

    I am no fan of Chinese government, but I don't see any good alternative right now. Any radical change will only bring chaos and suffering to the people. In the past 3 decades, it is fair to say that they did a pretty good job and you and I experienced it and have greatly benefited from it.

    Democracy is an inevitable consequence of economic development and should only happen slowly over the time. It is a luxury not many countries can afford right now. For example, in US, the two sides are much more interested in fighting each other than getting anything done. While US, as the most wealthy country, can afford to have their unemployed paid for not working for 2 years, China certainly can not.

    So, do not expect anything overnight, but do push whenever you can.
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