1. WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A bipartisan group of U.S. lawmakers asked the Pentagon on Thursday to name companies owned by the Chinese military operating in the United States, as they seek to curb what they called Beijing’s effort to “steal” technology for military purposes.... 2. Don't be mistaken that China and Russia are the only nations targeted by America so far. The US has proved to be the most warlike nation in history, waging wars with many countries in its comparatively short history of 243 years. The forgotten Native Americans were the earliest victims from whom the European settlers stole an entire country. The British Empire was the next target, followed by the French and Spanish Empires. Like Aesop's fable of "The Wolf and the Lamb", the US always enacts laws to illuminate or justify its evil deeds. For instance, the Indian Removal Act (1830), which has been referred to as a unitary act of systematic genocide, was passed to force Native Americans to leave their ancestral homelands in the eastern United States to lands west of the Mississippi River. 3. Instead of being grateful for the uninterrupted supply of rare earths, the US lawmakers are mulling hostile options against China. If the US dominates the global supply of rare earths critical to Chinese military operations, it should have banned the export of the minerals to China by now. The "Psycho" analogy can be used to show the contradictions between Trump's "gesture of goodwill" and the bipartisan extremists' attempt at curbing the alleged Chinese "economic espionage". 4. The analogy begins as follows: In contrast to the usual interrogation at the "negotiating table", the victim was served with a plate of fried noodle and a cup of coffee one morning. The Psycho said: "Your breakfast was made by the best chef in my household. At the age of 68, his culinary skills are as good as ever. Unlike those hotheads outside the doorway, the meek old chef of mine has never been rash with his mouth. I hope you will consider my interim deal of taking this delicious breakfast in exchange for your commitment to bail out my bankruptcy. Outside the torture chamber, a young psycho chided the meek old chef for making a delicious breakfast for the victim: "How treacherous you are to cook for our enemy! How I wish I could fry his liver and intestines!" The meek old chef laughed, "Fret not, I have taken care of it by adding a few drops of my saliva into the noodle as additional flavour."
