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Ronald Reagan, a great man of the 20th century

On February 2nd 1911, President Ronald Reagan was born. In his first term in 1981, he was shot by a violent psychopath, Hinckley. However, the event made him wiser and stronger. He wrote in his diary after a bullet was removed from his lung: I owe my life to God and will try to serve him in every way I can. And he fulfilled his promise. He created record-low inflation and deficit during his second term by deregulating and cutting tax and government spending. He signed a treaty with Gorbachev to reduce nuclear weapon stocks and called the USSR to end the Cold War: "Mr Gorbachev, tear down this wall!" It led to the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989 and ended the Cold War.
Thank you, President Reagan.

Is Australia's clean energy policy practical?

The Australian government has legislated carbon emission reduction targets of 43% by 2023 and net zero by 2050. The Victorian government has pioneered the federal policy by phasing out the gas that, from Jan 1 2024, prohibits new gas connections for new houses. It reminds me of Communist China's Great Leap Forward, in which people threw their steel fry-pans into the furnace to create a record high of steel production regardless of how poor the steel quality was. However, later, people felt the pain of life being inconvenient and costly. Has the Australian government's energy strategy well researched upon considering the following reasons:

1. Will drastically phasing out gas and coal energy increase the power cost and affect people's lives? Since 2008, the government has actively promoted solar power, but the power prices have risen 117%, four times more than the average price increase. Why? It means the government's energy policy has failed to improve people's lives but increased stress. And now the Labour government is to review and implement the policy before taking a GREAT LEAP FORWARD.

2. With solar power, we still have gas hot water service as a backup for rainy days. Has the policymaker thought about the people's lives affected when we change to the electrical hot water service and stove? Can the current power supply sufficiently cover rainy days without sun and wind? Or is it inhumane to cut off the gas supply before establishing an adequate green energy supply network?

3. What is the carbon emission to produce and recycle solar panels? Is it environmental?

4. What is the environmental impact of wind & solar power?

Thomas Jefferson said, "The care of human life and happiness, not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government." Is the Australian government's energy policy serving its people in the best form?

Nuclear Power for Australia or not?

Australia has one of the largest uranium reserves in the world, but Australia also has vast, best-quality, low-cost coal and natural gas reserves. They all seem very competitive as energy resources for us. So, we need a research team to compare the cost, reward and risk involved. It's not a simple compression of 1 kg of coal to 1 kilogram of U235; It should be from the mining to energy output.

*1 kg of coal costs far less to mine and produce power, and the power plant lifespan is up to 45 years, but it has a high carbon emission, causing air pollution, although the power plant
has no life danger after retirement.

* 1 kg of U235 costs much more than coal to mine, refine into yellow cake, and turn them into fuel rods as fuel. The lifespan of nuclear power plants is similar to that of coal power, up to 40 years, and having less carbon emission. However, we must deal with radioactive waste from refining, used fuel rods and retired nuclear power plants, particularly the environmental damage caused by radiated water and air pollution if an accident happens. It will be a massive cost for years after accidents for people's health and de-contaminate the surrounding environment.

Therefore, let's conduct thorough feasibility research to compare our primary energy resources before deciding if Australia needs nuclear power.

A new Oslo Accords / a new peace deal

2013, our whole family attended a Christmas Eve mass in Bethlehem. That night, Palestinian President Abbas delivered a very moving message that Jesus was a role model for the Palestinians. It was a starry night; we sat in the square outside the church, watching the mass on a big screen, feeling peaceful and happy to see Israelis and Palestinians harmoniously enjoying a quiet night on this special day.

In 1993, the signing of the Oslo Accords between Israel and Palestine brought the two neighbours a period of peace. However, today, the situation is far more complicated than in 1993 because Hamas has grown and become a powerful opposition to the Palestine Liberation Org. Israel is negotiating with two authorities coexisting in Palestine. It's a pity to see the peace deal has been broken repeatedly, and many Palestinians are displaced.

The two weeks of travelling in Israel and Palestine were exciting and inspiring. People on both sides were kind and friendly. So, with the UN and international community's help, Israel and Palestinians will reach a new peace deal. However, it can only be achieved after the Palestinian government has reformed and established a clear structure, one government, one authority, and both Israel and Palestine must let go of the past and reach a peace deal for future generations' safety and peace.

Let's work together for a new Oslo Accords.

Doctor Zhivago's Tragedy (2)

Doctor Zhivago was a typical idealist longing for a free and just society. Finally, when he accepted Communism as his utopian ideal, he only found that under the Communist regime's suppressive rule, it was worse. With no financial stability and freedom but bloody conflict, he must bear hardship and dissatisfaction silently.

Similarly, the generation of Chinese who shouted for a democratic China in 1989 only found their fate was decided long before by the CCP when the bullets and tanks crushed the student movement. Since then, Communist China has replaced the USSR and led the new Cold War against the free world.

Choosing to leave China has allowed me to see the truth of the Chinese Communist Party, Communism and the ideology bringing negative consequences to the world. This awakening prompted me to write the political thriller Nuclear Power Nuclear Game, exposing one of the darkest secrets of Communist China on nuclear proliferation and helping the international world have a better understanding of the CCP's evil nature.

Doctor Zhivago's Tragedy (1)

To date, Doctor Zhivago is still regarded as an epic historical romance film amid the Russian Revolution before WW2. One of the critical successes is that the movie touches our hearts by accurately portraying human nature: under political and social pressure, how we fight our inner demons when probing the universal questions of love, immortality and reconciliation with God.

The film faithfully reflects the original novel, which is the author Boris Pasternak's love life to a great extent. Boris was traditional and romantic but also craven, feeling hopeless when the KGB arrested his lover and mistress, poet and writer Olga. Under authority pressure, he rejected the Nobel Prize and suppressed his ideals and anger, and in the end, the author died of lung cancer while Olga was in Gulag. It's just like in the movie when Dr Zhivago died of a heart attack as he watched Lara's back gradually fade away.

Doctor Zhivago's poignant storyline and desperate ending are due to the limitations of the era the author lived in, who couldn't foresee the USSR collapsing, which happened thirty years after his death.

A reply to Amy

Amy: ...As a reader, I've also gone through a journey with Zoe & John's half-century forbidden love filled with trials and tribulations... I would love a more romantic, emotional and happy ending.

Helen: I wrote the ending ten years ago, more from a thriller angle. Initially, the whole fiction would be published in one book titled Nuclear Power Nuclear Game in March 2021. But I changed my mind after considering the novel too long for one book.

Like you, Zoe and John's life has also emotionally accompanied me for the last nineteen years. At one stage, I even let Zoe kill herself to let her (and me) have a rebirth, a stronger Zoe. I cried many times when writing about their heartbroken life experience and separation caused by the Iron Curtain.

I agree with you they deserve a cheerful, lasting, romantic and happy ending. Therefore, I will add a short Epilogue.

Thank you. Amy.

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19 years journey to complete a book series

People often ask me what made me spend 19 years to finish writing the political thriller series Nuclear Power Nuclear Game & Nuclear Shadow Nuclear Dawn. I always reply that I want to do something for China and the world.

I'm an idealist, believing everyone should have the right to live in a fair society of love and justice, which my parents educated me with their integrity, authenticity, kindness, forgiveness and peaceful deeds towards people. During the Cultural Revolution, my family suffered when my father was branded as a black element. Subsequently, in my young heart, I knew that China isn't a fair society. It was not until I arrived in Australia, having experienced the civilisation of a democratic country, that it gave me confidence; it liberated my creativity deep inside to write this series.

The writing series has been a long, painful and lonely journey while I was busy raising my four daughters and running my domestic building business. But I'm glad I've finally finished the series and fulfilled my responsibility and obligation to help people worldwide understand the CCP's evil nature through China's nuclear weapon path in the late half of the 20th century. As we have entered into Cold War II, I firmly believe that by unveiling Communist China's deceptive agenda globally, the free world can win the Cold War against the communist totalitarian system.

Synopsis of Nuclear Shadow Nuclear Dawn

Since May, I posted about my political thriller Nuclear Shadow Nuclear Dawn, the sequel to Nuclear Power Nuclear Game; readers and friends have often asked when they can get the new book. I will gradually post simplified content as a gratitude to all of you. (All writer's ideas, literary works and images published and unpublished are all protected under Copyright law)

Synopsis of Nuclear Shadow Nuclear Dawn

August 1989, a plane carrying John Thompson from Beijing arrives in Los Angeles under two Chinese State Security officers' escort. The CIA blames John Thompson for failing his undercover mission in China while posting as a cultural attaché at the US Shanghai Consulate. However, despite the CIA warning, he gives evidence at a US Congressional Hearing to convince the government to hold a hard line and continue sanctioning China. Then, he continues pursuing his belief in nuclear for peace, taking a significant role as the UN nuclear regulator in Vienna. He helps the CIA compile a critical report to pressure China to sign the NPT before China is accepted as a WTO member. However, during the operation of Hunting Gulf to intercept Chinese cargo, Long March stealthily transporting nuclear materials to Iran, John is almost murdered.

Meanwhile, Zoe, a nuclear scientist who designed China's first nuclear bomb and now a pioneer designer of China's nuclear power plant, recovers from the pain caused by John's sudden disappearance. The return visit to Iranian and Pakistani nuclear institutes gives her an insight into China's attitude toward nuclear proliferation. In addition, she is aware of her role in Pakistan becoming a nuclear-armed country. However, this time, she says NO to the Iranian nuclear project, although she tries to be very diplomatic.

Now Zoe's daughter, Little Red, a nuclear safety researcher, is chosen to join a Chinese nuclear delegation for a package of nuclear deals with Iran, a secret mission under China's culture exchange with the U.S. A short reunion with her newlywed husband Luke, a PhD student studying microbiology at Columbia University, opens a window for her to see China's increasing influence in the U.S.

When George, an investigative journalist for the New York Times, approaches Little Red about the mysterious death of a Russian nuclear scientist Kuczinski in a hotel near the JFK airport, she is very cautious and unwilling to give information, including the connection between her mother with Kuczinski. However, George's persistence and dedication to his profession touches her heart, and she wants to help George's investigation. Unexpectedly, when George's sensational report about Kuczinski alerts Little Red's superior, she is closely monitored and is forced to return to China earlier. Little Red's life comes to a crossroads, repeating her mother's tragic life, living unhappily under the CCP's dictatorship or risking her life, choosing freedom and remaining in America.

With George's help, Little Red miraculously runs away from the Chinese nuclear delegation at the LAX airport. To avoid damage to China's image and delay in joining the WTO and protect the Chinese spy network in America, an order from Beijing arrives at the New York Chinese Councillor's desk: Little Red must be eliminated. Little Red's journey from Los Angeles to New York to escape from the Chinese assassin leads to an unexpected meeting with John when George takes Little Red to seek shelter at John's home in Connecticut. But before settling into a peaceful life, the Chinese assassins arrive at John's home. And a bloody fight to the death unavoidably ensues.

They hardly have time to celebrate George gunning down an assassin when Luke appears with a pistol pointing at them. Little Red never thinks of her husband as a Chinese spy coming to get her. She calms down from a momentary shock and decides to use her freedom in exchange for George's life, willingly returning to China. However, Luke also wants to kill her, a traitor in his eyes, to clear his name and maintain his family's political power. Luckily, John comes back, kills Luke and saves her and George. By now, they all know there is no way to end this cat-and-mouse game with the Chinese government unless Little Red gives herself to the CIA under witness protection.

Little Red's defection causes the CCP's ruthless retaliation. Zoe is locked in a forced labour camp in China indefinitely. Only the belief of reuniting with John and Little Red one day holds Zoe together mentally and physically despite her deteriorated heart issue caused by the harsh living and working conditions.

Years later, Little Red uses her master's degree thesis to ease the tensions with the Chinese government. And then, with the US government's help, the Chinese government releases Zoe to America for the humanitarian reason of her heart medical treatment. A three-generation reunion finally happens at JFK Airport. Little Red accepts George's marriage proposal in front of Zoe. And John gives Zoe a bunch of roses freshly picked in his backyard. They hold each other tightly, knowing nothing can ever pull them apart.