1955年10月8日：享誉麻省及加州两大理工学院、曾经参与曼
有此传闻：
For a fair and balanced book-length account of Qian Xuesen's contribution to China’s missile development, check out the late Iris Shun-ru Chang’s Thread of The Silkworm (1995).
Airframe (the structure of an aircraft): In case you enjoy thriller novels popular with the informed public, you might want to check out the late Michael Crichton's Airframe (1996), if you haven't yet.
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Is McCarthyism still haunting America?
Around 1950, Republican US senator Joseph R. McCarthy was facing a tough re-election in his home state of Wisconsin. This was also a tough time for Americans who were witnessing the CCP’s takeover of Mainland China while the Soviet Union was catching up as the second nuclear power.
Channeling national angst into a self-serving campaign, McCarthy managed to regain his political fortune by blanketing America with Red Scare. Richard Nixon, a Republican young turk, picked up McCarthyism and ran with it, thus advancing his political career spectacularly. Nixon was not alone.
McCarthy's witch hunt for Communist sympathizers led to the detention and deportation of US-trained Qian Xuesen (Tsien Hsue-shen), later known as the Father of Chinese Rocketry. Cases of witch-hunt victims kept piling up until McCarthyism peaked four years shy of McCarthy’s death in 1957.
For the record, it was Owen Lattimore, himself a witch-hunt victim, who coined McCarthyism in his book titled Ordeal by Slander, which I highly recommend for your reading pleasure, if pleasure is the right word here. (It is also worth mentioning that Lattimore was truly an American expert on pre-1949 Mongolia and Manchuria, as attested by his published works.)
Today the far left is using the far right's playbook, re-enacting McCarthyism through Woke and Cancel Culture. Extremists on both sides, though disagreeable to each other, are actually no different from one another when it comes to power grab. Only voters can put every last one of them in his or her place.
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Author: Lingyang Jiang
