While reading a space engineering history book related to rockets, I came to know Qian Xuesen, a 钱学森 who is called the “father of Chinese rockets.” Watching this person’s story, it was a surprising time of discovery for me to learn again how the importance of research, which must proceed freely without repression, bold recruitment of talents, and damage caused by thoughts affect future history. This is why I have to read a book.

To briefly introduce him, he studied mechanical and railroad engineering at the Shanghai Transportation University (then Zhao Tung University), and then went to MIT to study aeronautical engineering in 1935. Soon he moved to Caltech to study aerodynamics and rockets under the famous Theodore von Karman, and received a doctorate in 1939, a founding member of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) and a key member of the theory and design of the U.S. rocket program. During World War II, he participated in Germany’s V-1, V-2 rocket analysis, U.S. military long-range rocket program design, and private A development, serving as a U.S. Army advisor and officer.

However, he was eventually deprived of his passport after a long pension and investigation due to McCarthyism and Red Fuzzy’s alleged involvement in communism in the 1950s, and returned to China in 1955 after being exchanged for 10 U.S. pilots who were captured during the Korean War as part of the U.S.-China negotiations. In 1956, he was appointed as the director of the 5th Institute of Defense, and designed and directed the system of Chinese missiles and space projectiles, including the Dongfeng ballistic missile, the Silkworm anti-ship missile, and the Long March 1 rocket. He is considered one of the leading scientists of the “Yangtan Il Sung (two bombs, one satellite)”, participating as the core designer and general manager in China’s first short-range surface-to-surface missile (Dongfeng No. 1, 1960), nuclear test (a bomb 1964 and a hydrogen bomb 1967), and the first satellite (launched 1970).

It is surprising that he made huge contributions to China’s development of missiles, satellites and nuclear bombs, but the most important incident was that he successfully developed and launched the ICBM Dongfeng 1 in 1971 and deployed it in 1981. Ironically, 1971 is the year when Pingfong diplomacy, which opened the door for diplomatic relations between the U.S. and China, began.

Ping-Pong diplomacy is known to have led American table tennis player Glenn Cowen to accidentally board a bus carrying a Chinese team at the 1971 World Table Tennis Championships held in Nagoya, Japan, and the Chinese players responded favorably to him. Upon hearing the news, Chinese Prime Minister Zhou Enlai invited a U.S. delegation to China. This led to a historic visit to China by the American table tennis team in April 1971, which became the starting point of cultural exchange between the two countries, followed by President Nixon’s visit to China in 1972, and official diplomatic relations under President Carter on Jan. 1, 1979.

It seems like an Obi-rak, but as soon as China succeeded in launching an ICBM missile by Chen Xue-sun in 1971, the U.S. created a story called “ping-pong diplomacy” to approach China. When China, which had ignored her as a poor country on the outskirts of Asia, succeeded in ICBM, China abandoned Taiwan out of fear of attack on the U.S. mainland and established diplomatic relations with China for its own benefit.

The U.S. expelled great scientists by Meccaism, China accidentally gained great scientists, and then China laid the foundation for technological advancement equivalent to the U.S. in missiles, nuclear, and rockets. Chen Xue-sun was the one who made it possible. All the great scientists were in Germany during World War II in the past. However, we all know that great scientists including Einstein came to the U.S. due to the war and the massacre of Jews, and that they made contributions to the end of World War II by building nuclear bombs.

Currently, the U.S. is trying to oust and expel foreign scientists, especially Chinese scientists. I think it is the second part of the Chen Xue Sun incident. Rome and the U.S. flourished because of inclusivism. The reason for its failure was depravity and I think Trump may be following the process. Korea is also making various noises due to progressives and conservatives, especially the ultra-right wing represented by the Korean national flag. There should be no nationalism or ideology that precedes the national interest. It was a time to reflect on our country’s problems through a character named Chen Xue Sun. This is why we should read books. Let’s read books, books. Before that, let’s eat… Let’s dig in.