Chinese Flag Flying in DC?????

[Piggy]

Something just isn't right about this. I don't care who is President.

White House Debunks Reports It Will Fly China's Flag on South Lawn - Political News - FOXNews.com

The White House on Friday dismissed as inaccurate reports from China that the administration will mark the 60th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic by flying the Chinese flag on the South Lawn.

China Daily, citing other media reports, claimed the president of the Fujian Association of the United States had been granted permission to hoist the flag "in a ceremony in front of the President's residence."

A ceremony, indeed, will take place. But it won't happen on the White House grounds -- rather, on the Ellipse, on the other side of E Street from the presidential residence.

China Daily's report -- which said the flag would represent strong U.S.-Chinese relations and recognition of China's success in hosting the 2008 Summer Olympics -- set off howls of protest on the Internet and among conservative talk show hosts despite failing to receive confirmation from the White House.

Demonstrations by foreign groups on the Ellipse or in Lafayette Park, in front of the White House, are not uncommon. But foreign flags are only flown on the White House grounds or on Pennsylvania Avenue to mark "state" or "official" visits of the countries' leaders.

Under those guidelines, the Chinese flag has flown on White House grounds before, in April of 2006, when President Hu Jintao visited then President George W. Bush.

In fact the current controversy is reminiscent of that visit. The Chinese insisted it was a state visit, despite U.S. assurances it was only an official one. The "state visit" label would have implied a bigger honor to Hu and to China, but Bush only had a handful of state visits and Hu's wasn't one of them.

Still, Chinese media continued to report it was a state visit even after it was over. And they continue now to report that the Fujian Association rally will take place on the White House lawn, even though U.S. officials insist it will not.

[ChevySSP]

Honestly, I believe the Chinese more than I do Obamanation and his cronies at this point...

[Curt581]

Here's an idea... maybe they could also fly the Chinese flag to commemorate important events in Chinese history, like:

The Hundred Flowers Campaign, in which educated or intellectuals were solicited for ideas, then when identified as "rightists", an estimated 550,000 were imprisoned, fired from their jobs, sent to labor and re-education camps, tortured, or killed.

The Great Leap Forward, in which the government forced the country to go from an agricultural based economy to an industrial based economy in a short period of time. When combined with droughts and flooding from the 1959 flooding of the Yellow river, the policies resulted in an estimated two million deaths due to drowning or famine. There were even documented cases of cannibalism in severely affected areas.

The Cultural Revolution, which largely began as an internal power struggle within the Communist Party. Over the course of ten years, it resulted in the wholesale persecution of tens of millions, with an estimated three million deaths. It is believed that 100,000 people died in the city of Guangxi alone, with many dismembered and their internal organs eaten by their killers in 'human flesh banquets'.


Yes... I think the American people need to be reminded of the history of communism and what socialist policies can lead to.