From: Gary S. Gevisser
Sent: Wednesday, August 30, 2006 10:39 PM PT
To: Devin Standard
Cc: rest; Professor Trevor Jones - Economics Dept - University of Natal, South Africa
Subject: I thought you might be interested in the email I just sent Mr. Steven R. Weisman of the New York Times who was carefully chosen to write the article,

U.S. Seeks Bigger China Role in I.M.F.

My 411 odd word email read as follows:

What if China doesn't go along with the "game playing" that has our Treasury Officials ultimately saying when China lets us know there is no benefit in increasing its presence at the IMF and run the inevitable risk as being tagged as an exploiter of the working class:

"China is showing their anger towards us because now they are so powerful and all we are trying to tell them is what to do to help with their poor image and when they fail to do what they should do they are aggressive towards us; China is the new Soviet-Evil Empire!

We don’t know about their armed strength but there are a lot of people in China.

They still think Chairman Mao was a great man; admired him, we can all agree, for his inner strength.

But that is the past, the future is what we are now concerned about and China needs to be stopped before a Bosnian style civil-ethnic cleansing-war erupts here in the U.S."

Mr. Weisman, where did you get your schooling?

The Chinese have done better and better.

Don't you think they will join together should our words of war result in an armed battle with the U.S.?

I, for one, who has just spent 24 days on a "fact finding mission" to China don’t think we are equipped to do battle with anyone, let alone the Chinese who could only lose by picking up our gauntlet to have these hard working people, so non-aggressive "increase their influence" in not only a morally corrupt IMF but one that is very much financially bankrupt.

We shouldn’t be telling anyone what to do.

Instead, we should be following what China did, be self-reliant.

In all the time I was there with my wife, neither of us saw a real unhappy Chinese out there.

The idea of, "Lets make the whole world feel China is the enemy now!" Give me a break!

That is the wrong attitude.

Mr. Weisman, I also didn’t get off a boat just yesterday.

Moreover, I was last in Beijing just weeks before the Tiananmen Square Massacre and the way you write is exactly what inspired good but very naive young Chinese to go to war with the wrong enemy.

Let me know if I can help any further in your reeducation although I think we both know those who butter your bread at this time are very pleased with you.

But that “tTOo” [sic] WILL change.