Yao Ming and Chinese influence in the U.S.

Tony Ares
Published: August 8, 2008

We can see an allegorical example of China’s influence on our country through the National Basketball Association.

Ron Artest was recently traded to the same team as Yao Ming, a Chinese national playing in America. Yao Ming expressed concern over Artest joining the team, considering his checkered past.  Artest
had to explain himself to Yao. It’s too bad that Artest is not smart enough to understand that Yao needs to explain himself to America. 

Yao is the front man to a country that, oftentimes, denies its own citizens fundamental, self-evident rights. Ron Artest participated in the Malace at the Palace. 

Yao Ming is in league with a government that conducts real life massacres on a regular basis.  I know what some will say: “You can’t hold him accountable for what his country does.”

I understand that.We also need to understand that he is a spokesman with an agenda. We know that he is very endearing but isn’t that the point of all frontmen? Maybe the gentle giant shouldn’t get such
a free ride. 

Maybe someone should pause and think about it before we so casually allow a foreign communist into our country to make millions of dollars and then chastise our own home-grown problem children.

TONY ARES

Woodbridge