After factory director Sumonkov said that he wanted Deputy Director Liang to give them "substantial assistance," Li Ye finally realized that this man was absolutely not someone who could be bought off with a few trifling scraps.
I like the gifts you brought, and I have the technology and equipment you need. But if you want to take them away, you must first fill my stomach.
Many people said that after Soviet Russia collapsed, countless speculators traded a few truckloads of pork for astonishing things, as if everyone in Soviet Russia were a complete fool.
But how could a country that had stood against the entire West for nearly forty years be full of fools?
Every legitimate transaction was equal for both sides. If you felt it was unequal, then you had certainly failed to consider the matter from the precise point in time.
When Sumonkov spoke of "how we helped you forty years ago," his manner made it seem as though China owed him a debt. But was that really the case?
Many people regarded Soviet Russia's 156 aid projects for China as generous gifts. But between nations, there had never been "eternal friends, only eternal interests." How could there possibly be something like charity?
Many people in later generations fiercely debated this issue. No one could convince anyone else, but perhaps over in the Americans' camp, there was evidence closer to the truth.
In Washington, D.C., there was a memorial park for soldiers killed in the Korean War. Old Bush laid its cornerstone in June 1992, and it was completed more than two years later.
There was a monument commemorating the Korean War in the park. In front of it stood a pool, and black-gray granite stones lined the poolside, carved with one shocking number after another.
Dead: