I think Wang’s success in US didn’t help too much, remember Wang is a Taiwanese not Chinese, however, Chinese think Taiwan is part of China, when Taiwanese don’t think that..

All of the below is nothing about baseball….

Taiwan and China have a very complicated relationship.

With history, Taiwan is rule by some countries before, the Dutch, Spainish, Chinese (Ching Dynasty) and Japanese(1850s to World War II) which Ching Dynasty gave Taiwan to Japan, so there the problem began, some people say that Taiwan was return by the Janpanese to Republic of China (ROC), some say no, Taiwan’s status is undefined even some said Janpanese return Taiwan back is ridiculous, because who would you gave back to, afterall they didn’t want this land at first….
(PS: UK gave HK back to China because that was a 99 years lease in Ching Dynasty,expired in 1997, so they return HK to China, and the government is PRC)

When the KMT Govenment (ROC), was defeated by the Communist, they move to Taiwan, still use the same country name(ROC). At the same time, Miao called his new country as People’s Republic of China (PRC)..

I remember when I was studying in US at 8th grade, my social science teach want us to write of the country name of China, and I wrote “Republic of China” which at that time I think is the correct answer, but she said no, should add “People’s” in front, and that is the first time I realized that ROC is not a country that international world recognize..

To distinguish the two countries, I would like to call myself a “Taiwanese” and Taiwan is an independent country, and Chinese or PRC(China)is another independent country..

When the Chinese government say that Taiwan is one of their provinces, I feel not comfortable, especially when they say they will try all means, not to rule out the probabilities that by war to take Taiwan back as part of China….

And so when the Chinese Newspaper say that they think Wang is a hero of China, it make me feel that: uha, what are you talking about?? He’s not a Chinese at all, please don’t say that….

Again, Taiwan never rule by the PRC
Why can’t we have our country???
And have to be part of china????

“Everyone bashed the Red Sox for spending all that money for the posting fee for Matsuzaka….Why doesn’t anyone realize that the red Sox are trying to get their foot in that door like the yankees have done already….When will people see that the sox also made a good investment with that money”
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My Initial Response to Him

“Recognizing that it is a good investment is one thing. Listening to the Red Sox organization and their fans whine about how the Evil Empire does this and that and How we poor wittle Wed Sox can’t afford to pway with the mean Yankees gets old and it is annoying.

The Yankees and Red Sox pay their players a lot of money to win games — when the Yankees do it they are ruining baseball and buying championships when the Red Sox do it it is competing with the Yankees and ok.

Try existing in and of yourself as the Boston Red Sox and not as the Anti-Yankees. The Sox made a good investment — it is like when they won the World Series and the whole organization acted like it was beer league softball. Act like you have been their before, be excited, celebrate, but be professional. The White Sox and Cardinals won the Series and Marlins and Angels and they did not act like it was Beverly Hillbillies meets Major League Baseball.

The Red Sox team has many great players and great fans that enjoy the competion and the rivalry, but the organization in general is classless —- If the Yankees are the Evil Galactic Empire from Star Wars, then the Red Sox are more like SpaceBalls (no offense to SpaceBalls intended)”

Baseball for china is still very weak now among Japan,Korea and Taiwan which three storngest baseball teams in whole Asian countries.If they want to find a talent,it still take time waiting for that,But I believe they can find one one day,not now.

I am a Taiwanese.We have long history background between China and Taiwan.Basically, you can treat us as two different countries,but we have the same history background for a long time.Anyone in china treat taiwanese are their people and Taiwan is part of their country,even though Taiwanese don’t think so.

Back to Baseball,If you ask anyone in China,they all know Chien-Ming Wang.They treat him as their hero as well.That’s why I suggest Peter can try to sell their book about Wang in China as well.During Christmas,I saw a news From China news channel about Jeter’s Turn 2 Foundation.The reporter ask Jeter to say Happy Chritmas to Wang.