TREASURE UNCOVERED HAPPY ANNIVERSARY SEASON OF THE CRAB 600-year-old Chinese book Lang Lang helps the UN mark It’s that time of year for the discovered in California > p2 its 69th with some Tchaikovsky delicacy that chefs excel in > ACROSS AMERICA, PAGE 2 > LIFE, PAGE 9 CHINADAILY MONDAY, October 27, 2014 chinadailyusa.com $1 HK residents say Flying Tiger veterans saluted no to blockades, By LIAN ZI In San Francisco [email protected] further disorder e legacy of the American Flying Tigers is still strong By KAHON CHAN in Hong mony of Hong Kong society, some 70 years a= er their bat- Kong which has been divided by the tles % ghting with China against [email protected] stando: . Japan during World War II. e economy is also in jeop- The Chinese consulate in As the impasse on Hong ardy, but Finance Secretary San Francisco held a reception Kong streets entered its fifth John Tsang Chun-wah feared on Oct 24 to salute the squad- week, the majority in the city the unlawful protests will cause rons that ? ew with the Chinese spoke up as thousands have more long-lasting damage to Air Force against the Japanese signed a petition to support public governance, thereby in the 1940s. e Flying Tigers, police action against the pro- setting the city on track for an whose planes bore distinctive tests. irrecoverable recession. shark’s faces, are credited with Nearly a week after a dia- The anxiety resonated in destroying almost 300 enemy logue between the government the community. On Sunday, aircra= . and student leaders, the stu- scores of people continued to “As an important part of the dents have remained ambig- add their names to the expand- world war against fascism, the uous toward government ing list of distressed residents. American Volunteer Group attempts to sustain a dialogue A housewife surnamed (AVG) fought shoulder to on the special administrative Chan from the western sub- shoulder with the Chinese region’s political structure. urbs of Hong Kong Island said military and made a bril- Without new dialogue, a that footage of the protests is liant achievement,” said Yuan campaign by an opponent of emotionally disturbing to her. Nansheng, Chinese consul the “Occupy Central” cam- Calling the protesters “annoy- general. Yuan said the story paign, the Alliance for Peace ing” and “sel% sh”, she said they of the squadrons “forms an and Democracy, took off on took the wrong path to pursue important and brilliant chap- Saturday with a turnout of over freedom. ter in the history of Sino-US 350,000. A couple surnamed Cheng, relations”. Chief Secretary for Admin- whose home is just a stone’s 2014 marks the 35th anni- istration Carrie Lam Cheng throw from the protest hotspot versary of the establishment of Yuet-ngor reasoned that a at Mong Kok, headed straight diplomatic relations between strong rule of law is pivotal to to a signing booth set up near China and the US, said Yuan, democracy. the rail station. The young who believes that the two Lian Zi / China Daily Lam and her team agreed woman said that although her countries can carry on the Fly- James T. Whitehead, Jr (right), chairman of the Flying Tiger Historical Organization, discusses handout materials about the last Tuesday to report recent work commute has been unin- ing Tigers’ legacy, which can Flying Tigers with Florence Fang (left), chairwoman of the Florence Fang Family Foundation and curator of the WWII Pacifi c events to the Hong Kong and terrupted, the chanting has serve as a model of a major- War Memorial Hall in California, and Congressman Mike Honda at a reception honoring the Flying Tigers and World War II Macao Affairs Office of the been a nuisance. veterans at the Chinese consulate in San Francisco on Oct 24. power relationship. State Council, as well as to set Four weeks into the occupa- “History could be a guide for up a cross-partisan platform to tion, she has gone from feeling the future,” said Yuan, adding to honor the legacy of the true is diI cult for the eight Flying hold a dialogue on the design sympathy for the students to that many organizations, such American heroes of the Fly- Tigers veterans to get together. of democracy in Hong Kong % nding them “barbaric”, as the as the Flying Tiger Historical ing Tigers who played a critical All of them are over age 90. beyond 2017. crowd has become less coher- Organization in Groveland, role in fostering collaboration Tracy Thompson shared Lam pledged full sincerity to ent and more radical. “Talks do California, are collecting relics between the US and China,” the story of her father David carry on the talks and plead- not necessarily lead to a con- about the air crews to strength- As an important said Christopher Nixon Cox, Thompson, a Flying Tigers ed for the same from student clusion. e students are being en Sino-US friendships. part of the world war grandson of former US Presi- veteran, during the reception. leaders, as hopes are high on unreasonable,” she said. Florence Fang, curator of dent Richard M. Nixon. As a “After America officially further talks. She also prom- Her husband, 32, blasted the the WWII Paci% c War Memo- against fascism, the teenager, he would talk to his entered the war, my father was ised more e: orts to break the occupiers for not addressing ‘American‘ Volunteer rial Hall in California, donat- grandfather, who helped open based in Xi’an, China, and was lingering deadlock. their opponents’ views. “ ey ed $175,000 to the Ameri- Group (AVG) fought the dialogue between the two shot down in July 1945,” she The government’s bottom need everyone to listen to their can Flying Tiger historical LIAN ZI / CHINA DAILY shoulder to shoulder countries with his historic visit said. “Then he was rescued line is that the “one country, views, which are not realistic at organization to purchase an Christopher Nixon Cox, to China in 1972. by Chinese people who took two systems” principle and the all,” he said. “ ey don’t have a aircraft that once flew the grandson of former US with the Chinese Cox said he was impressed care of him until the end of Basic Law must be upheld. e clue about what they are doing. Hump Route so it can be per- president Richard Nixon, military and made a when Nixon talked about the the war.” government will also work to ey seem to me as messing up manently displayed in Guilin with Yuan Nansheng, brilliant achievement.” collaboration between the Chi- e experience le= him with uphold the stability and har- Hong Kong.” Flying Tiger Heritage Park at Chinese consul general in nese Air Force and the Flying strong feelings of friendship Yangtang airport in China, San Francisco at a reception YUAN NANSHENG Tigers and how it produced and gratitude toward the Chi- CHINESE CONSUL GENERAL IN SAN which will open to the public honoring the Flying Tigers heroes on both sides. nese people, she said. on Oct 24. FRANCISCO in March 2015. e park will “We should educate the California Congressman also feature a museum and world about the special friend- Mike Honda of the 17th Dis- will be situated on more than Association, Fang said. ship that the Flying Tigers trict and Flying Tigers veter- 120 acres. Fang, who was born in Chi- of the first overseas WWII started during the war,” James ans including Captain Moon Fang said one of her older na, said she “really cherished” Paci% c War Memorial Hall in T. Whitehead Jr., chairman Fun Chin, Roy Dillion, Frank brothers was a pilot who was good relations between the two the San Francisco Bay Area of the Flying Tiger Histori- Gurney, Hank DeGraaf, Wes trained in the US and served countries. and has already invited White- cal Organization, said. “That Arment, Max Kernaghan, Bill in the Chinese Air Force dur- As a Chinese overseas com- head to be honorary director of could be the basis for today’s Behrns, George Franke and ing WWII. 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