By Chris Faure for The Saker Blog
If you thought that the demonization of Russia and incessant Russophobia over the past years from the West, with hardly a highly likely shred of evidence, was unconscionable and the absolute pinnacle of all demonization campaigns ever, get ready for the demonization of China. In true Hollywood Blockbuster style, the China Fear campaign promises to be bigger and better theater than the complete demonization of Russia. The campaign is focused, has a highly skilled leader, is sophisticated and has a clear set of objectives and operating objectives and plans. It even has its own very special movie, called “Claws of the Red Dragon”. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvIKUIbKc6w
And like all such campaigns, it seamlessly rolls Russia in and now, Russia/China just rolls off the tongues of the imperial Hegemon.
We have grown accustomed to the Russia Bad campaign and understand and recognize how and when it is waged. This article will focus on what I call ‘the China Fear’ campaign through the eyes of Steve Bannon.
Bannon himself is credited with Trump’s 2016 win specifically on social media in combination with Peter Thiel. He is further credited with Bolsonaro’s Presidential win in October 2018. He is an extremely intelligent man and I would not want him for an enemy. Skilled in mining raw data, drawing raw emotion from social media and expressing and crafting that bounty to adjust and spread believable narrative messages and tell the story as he wants the story to be told, he has all the skills to ‘sell, hammer and freeze hard into the social fabric the China Fear narrative’. Just like Elliot Abrams is the main man and still trying for Venezuela regime change, Bannon looks to be the main man for regime change in China, via Hong Kong or any other area where the social fabric is not cohesive or where it can be deliberately frayed with social control techniques, attempting to socially terraform whole nations.
After helping Trump win, and then Bolsonaro win, and then spending some quiet time in Europe setting up The Movement, trying to start a populist revolt which nobody wanted to start with him, (“All I’m trying to be is the infrastructure, globally, for the global populist movement,”) it looks like Bannon was called back to ‘deal with China’. About 4 to 5 months ago, we started seeing a series of interviews with Bannon on China, using the Hong Kong riots to re-freeze himself into this sphere and calling the rioters ‘the kids’ with a smile, to make them seem ‘oh so innocent’. They’re only kids, they are only trying their best to fight for their freedom and democracy, is the message.
So what is it really that Bannon is rolling out? Only a garden variety revolution with creative peaks to topple the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) and therefore China, or a scorched earth or total dominance policy. From the movie, we can see that Huawei is the proverbial Pokemon of the policy and in his own words: “Huawei is the greatest national security threat that America has ever faced … even greater than the threat of nuclear war.
Look at that statement for a moment – a technology company is a greater threat than nuclear war? Is this a reasonable statement to make? It is however par for the course for Bannon given his penchant for data and information technology type asymmetric warfare.
I’ve been surprised that alternative journalists, even good and experienced ones, are frequently confused by the Hong Kong riots. We see questions like: Is this a true revolution with young Hong Kong people fighting for their freedom? How can we distinguish between a color revolution or a true freedom movement? James Corbett asked: “What is America’s role in the current Hong Kong protest movement? Does Washington’s involvement in the protests delegitimize the movement itself? And where does that leave us, looking from the outside in at a situation like this?”
To answer the bolded question, is to take a look at the Gift from Bannon. Why do I call this a gift from Bannon? ‘Elementary, my dear Watson’. Because such a demonization campaign that jumped into high gear +- 4 or 5 months ago, is a double edged sword. Not only does it do its demonizing, it also without a doubt signals the plans of the imperial hegemon and this is the gift that we have from Bannon. He not only signals, he literally spells out the philosophy, objectives and operating plan for the China Fear campaign. We then can answer the question from Corbett: “Does Washington’s involvement in the protests delegitimize the movement itself? “ with a clear “Yes James, Washington’s involvement delegitimatizes the Hong Kong movement itself, because it is not a grassroots movement, but an orchestrated and paid for destabilization campaign that fits into a larger philosophy, policy and plan of creating fear toward China and uses US State Department officials, NGO’s and other influence peddlers to carry out the campaign.
‘The Kids’ are being orchestrated and their leaders in the so-called leaderless movement are trained actors and paid for their actions. And what is headlined as a leaderless movement, clearly has leaders. The leader of Hong Kong’s leaderless protest movement is a philosophy student behind bars.
Destabilization of Hong Kong is also not new and has been tried before. Refer to the Umbrella Movement and what was described as the Fishball Revolution of 2016 . Those failed, but now there is a whole new impetus and organization behind it.
There are three aspects to this new China Fear policy that stand out:
1. Bannon has learned from the Russia demonization program that it can be used to effectively divide a people as we have seen in the United States with the Russia Collusion efforts.
Bannon now wants to unite the US political classes and he says so clearly, talking about the Hong Kong riots:
“The one topic that unites everyone in the US, is the Hong Kong Protests …. Everybody in this country has come together, …… Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer, Marco Rubio – they are all united in telling the CCP and putting them on notice that this is not acceptable, particularly police brutality”
and
“Containing the CCP is beginning to be a bigger and bigger issue in the US – we’re managing to unite Democrats as well as Republicans around containment of the CCP.”
2. Then, he wants to unite the West and he says so clearly:
“Boris Johnson initially wanted to cut a deal with the CCP but now he is saying that the 1984 agreement must be completely in place. There has been a shifting of opinions (from the videos linked you will see that he is talking about creating a western coalition) and that has been because of the brutality of the police forces and the arrogance of the CCP – putting soldiers on the border, and this put it up to the height that the world came together, the CCP is backing off .. they don’t have a thought through plan they would clearly like to go in ans do a brutal putdown because they don’t want this contagion to spread – There are different factions, just like in Tianenmen … I think Xi is torn and leans more to the crackdown phase …”
(OK, since Bannon said this, Boris Johnson has had his seating area smartly kicked but that makes no nevermind to the focus of this China Fear campaign, to unite the west and again create a western coalition, this time against China).
3. Then, he wants to have Trump win in 2020 with a ‘Trump is tough on China’ message. To do this, to get Trump’s base to understand the message, Bannon has to scare the American population that has grown tired of Russia, Russia, Russia, with a new message: Fear China, Fear China, Fear China. This is how he is preparing his ground to present the 2020 message that Trump is Tough on China. With a simple sleigh of hand, China Fear has become the order of the day, China is the new main adversary and Trump is Tough on the main adversary. Bannon can now prepare the western population for action against China but of course, China itself must be set up as the perpetrator.
The rest is garden variety demonization and garden variety attempts at regime change with a garden variety ideology hidden behind virtue-signaling statements such as: It is only the Chinese that can change their system. It is never mentioned that the Chinese might not want to change their system, but the message is presented as a fait accompli. (It reminds me of the excuse given to the US self-defined Patriots. This message is: No, we most certainly do not want to regime-change Iran. We only want to help them to get rid of their bad Mullahs). True doublespeak.
What is a garden variety attempt at regime change? Or, How do you get your own people to cooperate and believe you?
- Identify what you need as the ‘public mood’ to get the public to support your initiative – eg. fear, or nationalistic pride or financial issues .. there may be a few of these that are usable, even collective memory, or previous conditioning and in the case of the US, the people have been conditioned to distrust anything ‘other’ than their own way of life.
- Create a demon as an opponent – eg. he wants to destroy our way of life or Huawei is more dangerous than a nuclear bomb and they are abusing their own people or Putin is a dictator : There are many messages that can be used here.
- Select and/or fabricate ‘evidence’ to demonstrate that the demon exists – eg. he’s rigging our elections, they have ‘bad behavior’ and we must counter their ‘bad behavior’ or We cannot stand idly by while authoritarian nations attempt to reshape the global security environment to their favor at the expense of others (See the complete Mark Esper quote in the next section).
- Present the narrative or story to the public and make it appear real, reasonable, scientific is a good word to use, or logical – For this part, Pompeo, Esper and Bannon with a side dish of Pence are rolling the theater screens, one after the other, Message, Rinse, Repeat, Message Rinse Repeat until the population believes it. “What was reported out of the media was that Secretary Pompeo took a very hard line – hey, this is about freedom and democracy.” Bannon says.
You will find point one through four depicted in the following list of Bannon quotes. Bannon, skilled as he is in social change methods, brings his own creativity to the China Fear campaign. Just as Trump during his campaign for president used many phrases beloved by the people (e.g., I like Wikileaks or Lock her up), Bannon uses this technique as well. To remain on the right side of Trump’s base, he pushes a button that is near and dear to the hearts of the ‘deplorables’. This is the hatred existent in the population for the Corporate Elites or Wall Street or the New World Order or the 1%’ers who, according to Bannon, close their eyes to all of the human rights abuses in China: (USA; USA; chants the base supporters!).
“They know all of it, and they don’t care.” Involvement with the Chinese regime “means more money. It means higher stock prices. It means lower slave labor [costs],” Bannon said.
“Wall Street’s the cheerleader. And corporate America has been the lobbyist.” (Playing a little too hard on the Occupy movement here don’t you think? This man is mustering all the troops!)
“They have no moral authority. They have totally bought into a system that’s completely corrupt, and they know all about it,” Bannon said. Yet, they “mock Donald Trump and say, oh, he’s the barbarian. He’s the wild man. He’s the disruptor to the system.”
And of course, no comment on China from Bannon is complete without a reference to Tiananmen Square (link at the end if you are not sure what happened here).
“I think that if they use the same force that they used in Tiananmen, it will be the end of the CCP. I think the CCP will ultimately collapse.”
Why do we know that Bannon’s China Fear campaign is real?
We only have to listen to Defense Secretary Dr. Mark T. Esper:
“ … the political and economic leverage wielded by the Chinese is already eroding the sovereignty of some nations”, as well as citing “China’s Economic Warfare”.
and
“This is not because we are naive about other threats or seek to rekindle another Cold War,” Esper said. “Rather, we are aligned in this focus because of the magnitude of the threats Russia and China pose to U.S. national security and prosperity today, and the potential for those threats to increase in the future.”
and
“[We] cannot stand idly by while authoritarian nations attempt to reshape the global security environment to their favor at the expense of others,” Esper said. “Doing so would invite continued aggression and diminish our ability to deter future conflicts. As such, America’s National Defense Strategy makes it clear that great power competition is once again the primary concern of U.S. national security.”
This is what Bannon says, taken from a series of videos and interviews and these are listed below in order not to overwhelm the reader with just too large a list of videos and links in the text. How does one even present this flurry of China Fear messages that is becoming such a large body of work, that to choose one or the other does not do justice to either the size of the campaign, or to the depth of demonization and fear mongering. I would suggest looking at the first video presented and noted as most representative and then at the article presented because it will literally take weeks to work through the massive amount of material gathered over a short four months in time.
Bannon hammers in the average western understanding of China and sets his scene
These words are repeated over and over again: Tiananmen Square, Red Communism, CCP, freedom and democracy, China’s police brutality, China is abusing their own people, the Uygers, Hong Kong, Taiwan, the Dalai Lama, Chinese Christians, Tibet and totalitarian surveillance state. He works hard to create the very necessary environmental conditions to create the joint enemy as listed in the 4 Points of preparing your own population for Regime Change somewhere else in the world.
I think that if they use the same force that they used in Tiananmen, it will be the end of the CCP (Chinese Communist Party). I think the CCP will ultimately collapse.
Containing the CCP is beginning to be a bigger and bigger issue in the US – we’re managing to unite Democrats as well as Republicans around containment of the CCP.
The rhetoric from the West is getting increasingly tougher … The one topic that unites everyone in the US, is the Hong Kong Protests …. Everybody in this country (USA) has come together Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer, Marco Rubio – they are all united in telling the CCP and putting them on notice that this is not acceptable, particularly police brutality.
China’s strategy is to become a world Hegemon
And of course Bannon supports Trump’s delusionary idea: China is just waiting for Trump to leave office and then they can deal with the democrats.
This point of course is devoid of any reason as China finds itself in a hybrid warlike situation where they are arming and having to fight an existential battle. Once the local western population are convinced that they have to fear China, of course the imperial hegemon can do anything it likes and it can count on the support of its people.
The first video is the most representative where most of the foregoing quotes can be found.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xDQs5M7lHw
This interview, mainly consisting of Bannon quotes is most representative of a complete demonization campaign directed at China – there is no end to it. I selected just a few and this is no cherry-picking: This is perhaps representative of 20% of the interview and one cannot choose which one is more representative of a full-out China Fear campaign. They are all finely crafted statements to convince a population of the new adversary.
Talking about Huawei:
“Huawei has a methodology, a high-tech methodology to basically have domination over the world”
Pressing the message that the corporate elite is responsible, as Bannon knows the Trump base will respond to this:
Wall Street and the corporate elites are “going to be held accountable by history for what went on in this time and place, what went on in China, and what they knew about and looked the other way.”
Here is the message that Trump is Tough on China:
“Donald Trump, the central reason he’s president is this: He said, we have to return America to her former greatness. We have to make America great again. And the way we’re going to do that [is] we’re going to confront the [CCP]. Wall Street has shipped those jobs over there, and I am going to bring them back,” Bannon said.
Aligning the ‘corporate elites’ with the Chinese Communist Party:
“The Chinese Communist Party is the Frankenstein monster created by the elites in the West—the capital provided by the elites in the West, the technology that’s provided by the elites in the West,” Bannon said.
Hammering in the China Fear message:
“When you see the tear gas, you see the beatings, you see the rubber bullets, you see exactly what they are. This is a gangster organization that doesn’t believe in any individual rights”
“What they’ve done to the Uyghurs, what they’ve done to the Dalai Lama, the Tibetan Buddhists, what they’ve done to the Evangelical Christians, what they’ve done to Falun Gong, what they’ve done to the underground Catholic Church is unacceptable,” Bannon said. “These are criminals that don’t abide by any rule of law.”
I said this man is intelligent. Here he focuses on what is near and dear to the US Patriots, telling them that the Hong Kong protests are akin to the American Revolutionary War.
“Those young men and women are exactly what the patriots of 1776 were in the United States. They have the grit, they have the determination, they have the indefatigability. They are not going to back down. They’ve been tear-gassed, they’ve been beaten, they’ve had rubber bullets shot at them, and time and time again, they show up.
“I think they’re heroes of the modern world. I think they deserve to be nominated for and win the Nobel Prize for peace.
Now Bannon promises the people that his China Fear campaign is just and honest and good, because of course, the Chinese people will themselves revolt, if given a little help from the west.
Eventually, Bannon believes, the Chinese people will stand up and say, “‘We’ve had enough of 100,000 people or 50,000 people ruling a country of 1.4 billion and stealing all our money, stealing all our wealth, taking it for themselves, making us live in a totalitarian surveillance state.”
“Only the Chinese people can free the Chinese people”
“The pursuit of truth and pursuit of your higher moral self comes at a great cost. It’s just like in Hong Kong. There is a huge cost they are paying. They’re being jailed. They’re being beaten. They are being [told] your careers are ruined, your careers are finished. This is a high cost in the modern society, and yet they refuse to back down,” he said
And then, he must end up on an emotional note and build up The Kids, who are in reality beating up old people in Hong Kong. Sounding like a proverbial preacher man, Bannon announces:
“They will rise up to their higher, highest self.”
Do you see why I say Bannon has given us a gift? There is no confusion or question now about what the next steps of the imperial hegemon is going to be, so, we can identify them and we can follow them, as they happen, or not. So, some tasks on their to-do list will be successful and others not. It is good to note that the base of Russia demonization is seamlessly rolled over to the China demonization. And for the skilled observer it is clear to see that what China is being accused of, is exactly what the imperial hegemon is doing itself.
Does this look to you as if the current imperial hegemon understands that it is losing power? Or does this look to you as if we have a new attempt at a full spectrum dominance battle on our hands?. Looking at the size of Bannon’s strategy, I cannot for one moment believe that these are only ‘winning the trade war’ strategies. It clearly is bigger than this.
Over near term history, we have seen the west operating without clear strategy or objectives. We’ve seen them flail and fail in most of their regime change operations. Is the west fixing this with Bannon setting the strategy for the new adversary? Is the imperial hegemon setting its sights on China; First decouple the economy and then aim the guns? Has the imperial hegemon decided all these other little countries (Iran, Venezuela, Syria, North Korea, Venezuela, even Afghanistan) are just too little to bother with and in their hubristic folly, they select the spectacular Hollywood finish and go directly for the Red Dragon using all modes of war, from hybrid methods to eventually guns blazing? I believe this and similar scenarios may be highly prioritized in the Pentagon’s war and scenario planning department. Looking at Bannon’s preparation of the US citizens for China Fear, we may be looking at a still outlying, but distinct scenario from the imperial hegemon to attempt to grab the Red Dragon by its throat, before the PetroDollar disappears completely as a reserve currency, and before China has completed a hard weapons defensive perimeter position, supported by fully trained defense forces.
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Additional information and reading;
View from Russia:
Further Bannon interviews are here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qH5QzuzD01A
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYraLI04WiU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dy4FZr6zPtk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=znXZ-XgM0KU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TqHLBBcUYeg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QuAZKNEcj2g
Further Reading
America Loses Asia-Pacific as Full Spectrum Dominance Continues to Fail
https://steemit.com/china/@corbettreport/clash-of-civilizations-2-0
The Chinese are not talking
http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1162942.shtml
https://steemit.com/news/@corbettreport/the-truth-about-tiananmen
The Chinese communist party – Godfree Roberts – http://www.unz.com/article/the-chinese-communist-party/
War is certain. The Great Red Dragon is a term being used to join China to the Apocalypse of St John…aka…the Book of Revelations…Evangelicals are his target audience. Evangelicals are the vector through which the blood lust comes.
Evangelicals, those Satanic ‘Christians’, AND their great allies (but NOT friends) the Zionazis. The Zionazis have not spent decades and billions taking over the USA completely, and much of the West, to have that prize, which their ‘God’ promised them, snatched away by a bunch of ‘mere Asiatics’ who dare to treat them just as fellow human beings, not ‘Gods Upon the Earth’, as they expect from their Sabbat Goy stooges.
Mulga Mumblebrain
This article is a gross exaggeration of the facts. The author has given Bannon too much credit. After all, what did Bannon do ? He just applied old tactics, which are well known. It all started in the 17th century, when the Zionist bankers in Holland used Oliver Cromwell to start a resurrection in England, headed by their agent Oliver Cromwell. This tactic was repeated in 1776 when the Rothschild’s used their mercenaries (free masons, headed by George Washington) to start a rebellion, called a “revolution”. According to conservative historians, Washington never mustered more than 7 % of “Americans” to fight by his side, while according to liberal historians, the figure was 25 %. However, these same historians admit that another 25 % joined the British side. And the remaining 50 % ? They remained neutral, failing to understand what was going on.
What is the basic tactic in all of this ? It’s quite simple. You use a minority to bully the majority, as a minority can be organized, something you cannot do with a majority. This old tactic is still in use, as can be attested by what Soros is doing with his NGO’s.
The point is that this tactic will never succeed in Russia and China, as the people in both countries cannot forget the past, when they experienced liberal capitalism. Can people in Russia forget the Yeltsin years and the poverty they brought ? Look at the result of this old tactic which Soros, Bannon and others implemented in Russia. The liberal organizers in Russia never mustered more than 49.000 “demonstrators”, a figure they themselves have given on two occasions, and one that is an exaggeration. This means they could not fill half a football stadium. Same thing in Hong Kong. The NGO’s and US diplomats (ie, CIA agents) organized a minority, which the Western press ludicrously presented as 1.7 million people, without bothering to explain how 1.7 million people could fit into a couple of narrow streets (and the Western media always films “demonstrators” in narrow streets, creating an optical illusion of a “mass demonstration”).
If Bannon tries his little trick with China, he will end up boring the US population, while at the same time he will make the population in Europe more sick, as this very same population is sick of America’s imperial policies.
“It all started in the 17th century, when the Zionist bankers in Holland used Oliver Cromwell to start a resurrection in England, headed by their agent Oliver Cromwell.”
Do you have any links for this? I’ve read about the New Model Army being funded by bankers in Antwerp, but nothing authoritative.
Two items on zerohedge-
1/ Baltimore weekend murders… city is a war zone. https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-09-05/baltimore-track-record-homicides-city-descends-chaos
2/ Hong Kong color rev agitators: Trump- save us!
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-09-08/hong-kong-riot-police-fire-tear-gas-after-thousands-beg-trump-help
Seems all he can do to “save”; Baltimore is tweet @ the Mayor.
Maybe the HK agitators should visit Ukraine before begging for US “protection”.
Take the compradore scum and ship them to ‘Freedom’ in Baltimore, then see if they keep waving that bloody banner, the Stars and Stripes, for long.
Meh, I have no love for China. I have seen their people flood into countries ( which they sometimes don’t even like) and buy up and takeover everything with their money and sheer numbers.
Also, I would not enjoy having a government that tries to monitor and control every aspect of my life. While China is not the only government that is guilty of this practice, they have taken this to a new level where I see a technological Stalinism emerging.
I’ve seen their people smash up Korean products and incurring losses for Korean companies because the poor S. Korean government was guilty of obeying their American masters by letting them install missiles in their country. And they’re pissed because of Trump’s sanctions? They don’t like the taste of their own medicine because they believe they’re the Middle Kingdom destined to dominate the world.
I won’t even get into their treatment of Muslim minorities or their ridiculous claim of the entire South China Sea.
While they aren’t as bad as the Anglo-Zionists, they are a quiet threat. The best scenario for the world would be for the US and China to both lose.
*I write this with the risk of being flagged by the Chinese government for eternity.
Don’t over estimate your importance.
I’ve learned not to let down my guard when it comes to the Chinese.
The American Paranoid Style.
if you ever feel unsafe,
maybe consider going to HK.
There is no extradition law there. (to date)
Be safe there…
It’s not okay for Chinese to be upset with Americans militarizing their borders and refuse Korean products, but it is okay for US to smash French wine when the French occasionally snoot the US? Hmmm… I love hypocrisy.
One of the best comments. Some people are of themselves.
Being still decades behind the state of art hybrid war strategies & tactics the Mafia mercilessly employs in up to several dozens hybrid war theaters all over the globe simultaneously, the Hong Kong protests will serve China’s leadership as a great teaching tool in how to deal with the chosen, genocidal Pirates.
So far, China’s response seems to have been hesitant, indecisive, lackluster, and as far as the information war front is concerned: non-existent.
The Pirates like to attack in waves, after waves, after waves, over years, and decades, and centuries. So there is still time for team Xi Jingping to psychoanalyze the ‘Western mindset’ more thoroughly and and come the shocking, but right conclusions. And act accordingly.
: )
You’re quite right:on information war front, China is no match for Western propaganda when concerted and coordinated throughout the 5Eyes-NATOland. No single country can match their diabolical viciousness.
You’ll find, however, that those US flags parading before the US embassy have done more than any media campaign that China might have mounted.
Western states, particularly the Five Eyes Echelon mob, are totalitarian, despite their ludicrous assertions otherwise. The public brainwashing apparatuses are totally controlled by the elites, and the Internet is now being tamed and purged of Badthink. 90% plus of the population here in Austfailia wouldn’t know that a tram was up them, until they rang the bell, as they used to say. Apparently, after last year’s record heat, and fierce bushfires in wet sub-tropical forests in the latter weeks of winter this year ie right now, the boofheads have woken to climate destabilisation, and are frightened. Too late, of course, and the political invertebrates, even those representing the areas being burned out right now, are still screeching the most vicious and moronic denialism imaginable. The Great Dissolution is very close at hand.
This is not hard propaganda to promote, China is a manufacturing power house, we are a manual labor service economy, that alone should scare people to death. What makes it worse is that this did not occur over night and damn sure wont be corrected any time soon, if ever. So if the powers to be want to fight that war, let them, if the citizens want to take things into their own hands,(be able to do most everything themselves) they are free to try.
What can not be changed is the aging infrustructure bringing contaminated water to most every place while China’s infrustructure is relatively new, the pension obligations vs none in China, the unhealthy eating habits and ridiculous vaping experiments on our citizens vs the healthy environment (aside from air pollution) over in China. Its literally an uphill battle w/a pea shooter against a cannon battalion ready to strike at a moments notice. If Stevie is bored enough to entertain himself w/that fight, who are we to stop him or anyone else for that matter. One picks their fights, and then wages their wars I say.
China has pension obligations that it will have a hard time meeting due to the one-child policy. This is the reason they abandoned that. I’m not an expert on China, but I have been there a few times. The environment is worse there than any other place I’ve ever been. For a while, the environment was considered a bourgoise concern. Now they are starting to pay it some attention, but with the Yangtze being the biggest source of oceanic microplastic pollution and drifting air pollution browning out the moon in western Japan, it’s pretty dismal.
Other than that, I agree with you: America is destroying itself, while the Chinese are enjoying a better life than before, and while I would never like their pressure cooker society, they are not candidates for regime change.
China is engaging in massive ecological remediation. Air quality is rapidly improving, and with EVs, renewable energy, more efficient coal-burning etc, will continue to do so. The air quality in India and Indonesia and other places is, unfortunately, even worse now than it was at the lowest ebb in China. Actually the Chinese have long understood the importance of the environment and have been working with increasing intensity on creating an ‘ecological civilization’ that will be sustainable in the long-term. They have been working with many overseas figures on these plans, so anything they achieve will quickly percolate across the globe.
The economy is a wholly owned subsidiary of the environment.
Bannon may have a victory in Brazil, but he has a loser in Hong Kong.
The idea of demonizing the police has little traction within Hong Kong itself. It is big lie number one in the West’s Media Fake News machine.
What the “leaderless” violence has produced is a severe local economic downturn. The small businesses, the big tourist service industry and the consumer-sensitive retailers are hurting now. They will not support much more disruption.
The local SAR government has billions of dollars to use to modulate the social rich versus poor inequality. They can adjust rents and tamp down real estate costs for home buyers.
The Great Bay Area project is welcoming young graduates in Shenzhen and Guangdong, but they will have to make the effort to move there to start their careers, get business started up or find partners-investors for their innovations and inventions. With the bridge and tunnel connection, it’s a simple drive to participate in the boom that will result from this capital investment from the Central Government. Linking Hong Kong, Macao, Guangdong and Shenzhen will accelerate any participants prospectus. The young adults of Hong Kong who see a dead end in their home town need only to look down the roadway to this enormous project. It’s underway and producing wealth already.
So the reality is daunting to Bannon, the CIA, the State Dept. and the Mi6 running the show in the streets of Hong Kong. The Central Government doesn’t have to call out the Garrison or People’s Armed Police/PLA anti-terror battalions. They know that the people of Hong Kong will diffuse the protests. The velvet glove the courts and police have used will be gone. The street thugs and extremists, separatists and terrorists attacking the police, burning and vandalizing public and private property will be taken into custody and dealt with strictly.
Whatever Bannon residue that may remain when the violence ends will marginalize those who hold that ideology. Their businesses will suffer and their lives in Hong Kong will become miserable. They will leave for Taiwan or Virginia depending where their paymaster is located.
The success of this color revolution will be in Taiwan, not Hong Kong. Hong Kong will return to normal. Taiwan will be emboldened to resist unification. Mrs. Tsai will win re-election. The DDP will dig in with US aid flowing there. She will have F-16s and some more naval vessels. But her island is getting older in demographics and the economy is no longer dynamic. Vassalage takes its toll. Ask Ukraine.
In the big picture of Mainland economics, neither Taiwan nor Hong Kong would matter much if both suffered severe economic recessions or depression. The Chinese create enormous cities and free trade zones that are far more crucial and valuable to China’s GDP than what these two zones represent.
Hong Kong will be valuable as a port forever. If the irredeemable diehards see no future and leave, this will ease the crowding and alleviate the pressure on the those that carryon. So the chaos that Bannon engineers is actually lubricant to loosen tens of thousands who will grow disillusioned when nothing changes their way.
Bannon and the protest movement are on the wrong side of history. Backward is not the future.
I believe you are correct. The hotheads in HK do not realize that they are protesting themselves into oblivion. (Taiwan, of course is a question.) What puzzles me, though, is that some level of the young ones’ frustration in HK is understandable. As someone pointed out, the area was built up while a colony – and the colonial-type economy remains (including oligarchs). Why has the Chinese government not tried to diffuse this (at least somewhat) in the last 20 years? The discontent was predictable – and its usurpation by the West, too (certainly after 2014). Could this not have been avoided?
The One Country Two Systems pledge makes it impossible for China to exert its own governing structure in HK. As such HK remains a place controlled by real estate tycoons, the super rich, along with “free press” that dont give a hoot about facts and truths. In fact many of the “press” filming the police are helping the rioters to escape. In one case a press member was filmed help beating a HK policeman while he was trying to arrest a female rioter. Other problems in HK include an education that do nothing to promote “One Country” but emphasizes “ Two systems”. The other colonial remnants is the fact that most of the HK top judges are actually foreigners! 14 out of 16 of their top judges are foreign! Its incredible.
The first HK Chief Executive Tung Chee Wah started to implement a plan to build cheap subsidized housing right after 1997, following similar plans like Singapore, the result – the “free press” obviously under influence of the tycoons started spreading news that building subsidized housing will cause every apartment value to drop, and voila, there was much protests and the plan shelved… Thus by now most HK people live in “ coffin Apartments “…
I really don’t see bannon as any genius or skilled professional. To me, he is just another fascistic catholic pos. One who’s fat backside belongs to israel. He gets a lot of press because he works for the zionazi-gays and repeats their mantras ad nauseum. They hype his bs. Just like with that peterson bugger and most other rightwing blowholes. That’s how it works in the zionazified west. Say what massa wants, do what massa wants, and don’t mess up, at least not too badly, and you become an influencer. You get “prestige”, more that “15 minutes” of soapbox time.
Bannon and Trump, like Trotsky and Hitler, simply represent the very NWO and corporate elites they pretend (and Trotsky and Hitler pretended) to oppose.
One can easily be fooled by such a deceptively treacherous controlled opposition system (theatre, big lies).
“National Zionists” (Nazis) and “liberal Trotskyites” (fake-left crypto-fascists) are two sides of the same NWO coin, who pretend to fight each other, in order to keep up the appearance of democracy (in reality it is simply Zio-fascist totalitarianism) in the West.
Half-baked Hitler Trump (Trump is the shadow government’s candidate) is 100% controlled opposition, and a desperate attempt of the losing (Anglo)Zionist Imperialist (N)WO to turn the tide. Forget about their “global warming” NWO project, that’s (thanks to a rising China, Iran, and Russia) no longer doable for them and history.
Very good article. Maybe Iran and China – the leaders of the free world, and therefore the ones targeted by Trump – could use some of Putin’s Russia’s game-changing weapons.
That Peterson bugger is a scientist, not a political commentator.
What he is expressing is state of the art in psychology.
And I’ve never heard such wisdom.
What do you object to?
I saw Jordan Peterson described as ‘The stupid person’s idea of a clever person’. Seems about right.
MM
I have to agree. :-D
You marxist know it alls are as insufferable as the people you write about.
Gad, LBD-I’d never call you ‘insufferable’. Quite sufferable, I promise.
I wonder just how perfect one must be to impress Mulga Mumblebrain, the Sakers’ resident genius.
I relate to how you feel Black Duck, even when I agree with Mulga, believe it or not. The Marxists do indeed have a problem. It goes like this. “The worst thing about Marxist revolutionaries is their self-righteousness” They get so trapped in it. I really should say we, rather than they! We do indeed have a problem. It comes from running intellectual discourse from our heads, much too exclusively, without sufficient heart to back it up, as far as I can see. They are driven to incessantly “win a battle of ideas” and it takes possession of their ability to relate. I should really say “our ability.” Because I count myself as a Marxist. This is our trap; How to avoid coming across as dismissively self righteous know it alls when we are actually correct. Our minds are angry and battle hardened because we are so emotionally conscious of being denied and oppressed, all the damn time.. Frankly, I hate having to do so much of my communicating via the medium of the internet because it is so excluding of all but mind energy. Heart and soul connectedness, which is the best the Marxists have to offer, has little room to express itself online. So we seem to be left with just head judgements unless we make an extraordinary effort to overcome that. So its back to sharing head trips all the time.
You’re so right about the Internet. In person I am MUCH more charismatic and convincing. And my forebearance, face to face, is legendary. As is my modesty and humility. As for Marxism, well I follow them all, Karl, Chico, Groucho, and, most of all, Harpo.
M.M. You are always so fun. I am delighted to constantly find you here.
Gadzooks, LBD-you impress me, gravely. I swear!
I agree with you 100% – I have never heard Bannon say anything interesting or bright – he always looks and talks like a drunk, confused, angry, obese alcoholic.
And I think you are exactly right about how the zionazi west works – it’s all about being an obedient salve -weather you are wealthy or poor
most wealthy people I have met in the US (some are billionaires) have inherited their money and their only skill (as is their parents’) is to kiss ass to their wealthy parents hoping to inherit their money (probably gotten through some kind of fraud)
they are all quite insecure – since to develop confidence you need to have experienced real life, collaborating with others, arguing, fighting, arguing etc. This is why an average Serbian/Argentinean etc granny has much more balls than anyone in the US
I believe China needs such a campaign. For example, likely still many well-meaning Chinese parents save a lot of money to send their children to study in the USA. The friends I have over there fit that pattern: verbally criticising the USA, but it’s for them a “no-brainer” (literally) that the USA is “THE LEADER”.
The “leaders” in Russia and China were fully ready to fit into the USA-world-scheme, if just they would have obtained a reasonable share. They got caught by complete surprise by the brutal onslaughts (they just believe “we are the same”). I believe that still, with a softer face for the USA-empire, going back to the good old way of permanent corruption they could achieve world-hegemoney (sic) easily. Mass murdering and stealing as always, just with a soft nice tone.
So people like Bannon are indeed geniuses — of world-liberation!
Quote from Wang Yiwei, a professor of international studies at Renmin University in Beijing, in a recent article “Putin Shrugs Off Potential Return to G7, Says Not Interested If It Doesn’t Include India and China” at CheckPointAsia:
“But China does not want to enter into a group confrontation with the United States similar to the cold war era and does not want to be part of a bloc led by another country.”
Concerning the USA, there is either confrontation or subservience. And still China chooses the latter, only complaining that it’s “too much”. So much more demonisations etc. are needed. There is no “peaceful coexistence”, no “multipolar world” with the USA.
China is just waiting for the inevitable US collapse. It is already too advanced scientifically, technologically and militarily to get the Iraq treatment, so the USA is left with subversion (Hong Kong, Xinjiang etc) sabotage (African Swine Fever, Huawei etc)and threats. Or thermo-nuclear war. They are mad and Evil enough, but there’s no win there, save for religious psychopaths like Pence and Pompeo. And the Chinese will be quite happy to co-operate with the US successor states, after the break-up.
“It is good to note that the base of Russia demonization is seamlessly rolled over to the China demonization. And for the skilled observer it is clear to see that what China is being accused of, is exactly what the imperial hegemon is doing itself.”
Psychological Projection is the defining attribute of the Anglo-American national character, as Americans instinctively will accuse their opponents of what they themselves are guilty of to a much greater degree.
By far, America (along with its Anglosphere Axis) is the leading predator nation on this planet–but one that disguises itself behind its civilizational deceptions about “freedom and democracy,” which are the founding lies of the United States as an entity.
It’s thus comical that the Americans like Steve Bannon are trying to masquerade as crusaders for freedom in China given the bloodthirsty nature of the Leader of the Free World™ and its Anglo crime partners like Britain, Australia, Canada, or New Zealand.
Let’s have a (somewhat) brief refresher, shall we?
This is an America that imprisons undocumented immigrants in glorified concentration camps and puts their children in cages.
This is an America that per capita imprisons more of its own US citizens in its Prison Industrial Complex than any other nation on the planet–these people just so happen to be poor or non-White minority groups like Blacks or Latinos.
This is an America that has sponsored and protected pedophile assets like Jeffrey Epstein.
This is an America that is guilty of “enhanced interrogation” torture from Gitmo Gulag to Abu Ghraib to CIA black sites around the planet.
This is an America that practices economic and financial terrorism through economic sanctions and the weaponization of the US Dollar against nations like Iran, Venezuela, Cuba, North Korea, Russia, China, etc.
This is an America that sucks the financial blood of the world through its Dollar Imperialist system, whereby the USA can extract imperial tribute in the form of US Treasury “debt” owed to other nations that it will *never* repay in full.
This is an America that attempts to impose its rapacious Capitalist system (aka the Washington Consensus) on the entire planet and employs “economic hitmen” against nations that attempt to resist it, as detailed by John Perkins’ book _Confessions of an Economic Hitman_.
This is an America that tries to regime change and balkanize other nations by bankrolling destabilization campaigns disguised as “pro-democracy protests.”
This is an America that, along with other Anglosphere Axis states, has imposed a surveillance regime on the entire planet in the form of its Echelon “Five Eyes” global spy system and the National Security Agency.
This is an America that funds jihadists terror groups from Libya to Syria to Yugoslavia to Russia (Chechnya) to China (Xinjiang)–all the while claiming to fight a War on Terrorism.
This is an America that wages wars of aggression based upon deceptions like Weapons of Mass Destruction, humanitarian intervention, and a bogus War on Terror–slaughtering millions of people in Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria, Serbia, and beyond.
This is an America that has a Pentagon military doctrine called Full Spectrum Dominance, which calls for American domination over the land, air, sea, cyberspace, and even outer space.
This is an America that ultimately seeks to dominate the world in general, as part of unipolar “Rules-Based International Order”—all the while it accuses other nations of this delusional ambition.
This is the same America that is based on a messianic national religion that proclaims America to be the Indispensable Nation, the Exceptional people, and a Shining City on Hill that was uniquely selected by God to act as a “beacon of liberty” for the world—and thus America has a Manifest Destiny to rule this world.
And this is the very same America that claims to be founded on freedom but in fact is an Anglo colonizer nation spawned by the British–one based on the enslavement of Black people and the ethnic cleansing of Native Indians, as well as the theft and colonial occupation of Mexican, Native, and Hawaiian lands to this very day.
This is the true nature of America, the fake Land of the Free.
Perhaps, it’s long overdue to have an American Fear campaign exposing the bloody claws of the American vulture. ;-)
Indeed, that is what the Anglo Americans truly fear: to be fully exposed for their own crimes which they project onto others—and to be faced with the reality that the Anglo-American “religion” that they worship is a false and likely demonic one.
America Is a Religion – An Aggressive One
http://russia-insider.com/en/politics/how-its-exceptionalism-makes-america-dumb-and-aggressive/ri12257
Oliver Stone’s American History: “We’re not under Threat. We are the Threat”
http://global-politics.eu/oliver-stones-american-history-were-threat-threat/
Uncle Sam was Born Lethal
https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/08/16/uncle-sam-was-born-lethal/
When America Was Great, Savage White Un-Settlers Raped a Continent and Assaulted a Planet
https://www.greanvillepost.com/2018/10/26/when-america-was-great-savage-white-un-settlers-raped-a-continent-and-assaulted-a-planet/
The traits shown by the US state via its foreign policies, etc, are fully compatible with that of a full-blown psychopath. Accusing others of the shit you yourself are guilty of is just one of these traits (among many others). The superficial charm (the US has spread a culture that seduces the most basic instincts), the manipulation of others for its own benefit, the ruthlessness and lack of remorse for all the harm done to others, the never questioning of one’s actions, the out-of-proportion hubris and ambition, etc, etc. Just look up what characterizes a psychopath and you won’t find any you can’t recognize in the behavior, discourse and actions of the US. It is so obvious and yet, the world is subdued to that sick bastard of a country, it boggles the mind …
Actually, I think you are spot on. Many of the psychopaths I am acquainted with are the funnest people I know, but utterly unreliable. You can count on them to let you down as you seek out the good times like when you first met them. They have a really nasty underside that they keep carefully hidden, and woe to anyone they suspect knows about it. They are the heroes who sent someone else in harm’s way and get celebrated for it. People gush about them being “the nicest guy/gal in the world!” (They truly make me want to vomit.)
The Bannon propaganda machine is up against a Behemoth.
China will bide its time and wait for the wheels to fall off.
Good article. Bannon is an uncanny character. Looking more like a homeless person than a Sorosian influencer, he is indeed largely responsible for the compelling narrative that is the impetus for a worldwide populist movement. His brash yet subdued argumentative style is just the ticket for selling the idea that China’s technological Trojan horses are evil, while the same embedded spyware in U.S. technology is somehow marginal or immaterial.
Is technological warfare actually more dangerous than nuclear?
Yes, because it is actually being deployed on a ubiquitous scale in the areas of monetary warfare (crypto and banking), widespread surveillance and espionage (info tech warfare) as well as in the areas of all technologically enhanced infrastructure development (which is pervasive) including power grid and even agriculture and mass population food and drug synthesis. Nuclear warfare on the other hand has not been deployed for decades, and is not likely to ever be deployed … whereas hidden technological warfare is omnipresent in modern daily life.
There are many layers of betrayal in the development of state sponsored technologies – these run so deep as to appear mind-bending at the surface. As one dives deeper, the horrors of technological betrayal will challenge the existence of humanity far beyond the reaches of any “Skynet” fantasy.
https://roacheforque.blogspot.com/search?q=technology
The thought of the corrupt and decadent sewer that is the USA demanding that the most vibrant economy and society on Earth, China, surrender to the White Boss is simply hilarious. And that a fifth-rate psychopath like Bannon can abuse and deride, and THREATEN a State that has created the greatest economic, cultural, social and scientific-technological leap in history, after 200 years of struggle against Western arrogance, lurches even further into dementia. The Chinese know this sort of Western racist psychopath far too well to be impressed, let alone startled. They need only keep on advancing and await the Fall of the House of Exceptionalism, which cannot long be delayed.
“. Everybody in this country has come together, …… Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer, Marco Rubio” These three people stand for all of USA.j
Fortunately it does not matter a whit what the West thinks of China. Even if every single Western citizen were grossly prejudiced against China – which is presumably the goal of campaign’s such as Bannon’s – that would not concern China very much.
For thousands of years, China had the world’s greatest and most advanced civilization. The only gaps in that distinguished record were due to violent barbarian invasions – the Mongols in the middle ages, and then the Westerners in the 19th century. Luckily, although their goals were even more savage and uncompromising than the Mongols’, the Westerners’ ability to execute was far less. They never penetrated beyond the coastal strip and its major cities, thinking that enough to dominate. Little did they understand China!
From about 1820 until 1930 or so, China was dominated and terrorized by Western governments and criminals (perhaps there is no need to make such a distinction, as it is mostly fictitious). From 1933 or so until 1945, China was invaded and terrorized by Japan. In the latter period Western governments did not lift a finger to help China, even though that would have been in their own interests.
From 1945, when Mao and his Communists took over control of China, Washington and its poodles treated China as an outcast and would have nothing to do with it. In 1945, with the war over, Mao sought to negotiate with Truman’s administration, reasoning that the USA and China were natural trading partners. Washington stonily ignored his pleas, so Mao turned to Moscow – even though he knew the USSR had been left in terrible shape by WW2, and could spare little help. Surprisingly, the USSR did help, and at that point the door closed forever on the possibility of a sincere alliance between China and the West.
Today, after 130 years of Western invasion, violation, theft and murder, and a further 15 years of Japanese invasion, violation, theft and murder which the West did absolutely nothing to prevent or stop, China has spent 70 years recreating itself. Its rulers have regretfully given up the principle learned from thousands of years of civilization – to live in peace and eschew war. They now understand that, to enjoy peace, they must be armed to the teeth and prepared to meet force with force.
Today China’s population of over 1.4 billion is more than four times that of the USA, and nearly twice the combined populations of the USA and the EU. It is ten times that of Russia. China’s GDP (PPP) is the highest in the world, slightly greater than those of the USA and the EU (separately).
China is reshaping the world through trade and finance, building its new Silk Roads on land and sea. With the combined markets and resources of Asia, and increasingly those of Africa and South America, its dependence on the West will steadily decrease until it reaches zero.
Through its close cooperative understanding with Russia, China is more or less immune to Western violence and subversion. The USA itself – and all other Western nations – are far easier targets for social disruption than China, whose citizens are well educated and have long memories. They know perfectly well who their enemies are, and how those enemies work.
Tom Welsh makes many good points regarding China ; but I think he overlooked the fact that it was the United States Government itself that put Mao in power. The USA did not want a flourishing New China { Under Chang } which would be prosperous enough to compete with the West. The USA with ” Vinegar Joe Stillwell “as one agent can thank itself for the China situation. Asians are smart people …..China is populous and needy . In time ; China will expand { either peacefully or aggressively } to feed itself. Caucasian Nations such as USA, Russia, India , Europe and others would be well advised to enter into a harmonious relationship with China. Unfortunately ; Psychopaths are drawn into positions of power in most Nations ……so today’s problems will never go away.
How does one say ‘Rubbish!’ politely?
How else should one describe your inane “the-end-is-nigh” writings on our ever-changing climate.
Dear Anonymous,
The word you are looking for is ‘Balderdash’ old chap; balderdash. Or. if you were with Gary O’Keefe in Mr Hill’s Maths class back in 64, then the word was ‘Cocky-feathers’, and that does describe much of the ‘Climate change’ drivel created by NASA, the brother of NATO,
Annoneemoose, I invite you to take a nice holiday at the lovely Binna Burra Lodge in the wet sub-tropical forests of south-east Queensland…oops. It burned down. Well, how about the Great Barrier Reef? Yikes-50% dead. I guess you’ll have to stay in Cloud Cuckoo Land.
You are an absolute wealth of disinformatiomn Mulga.
How about you do some learning so your teachings have some truth in them.
LBD, surely you are not denying that the Binna Burra Lodge just burned to the ground, and 50% of the Great Barrier Reef has more or less dies (the top third definitively)since the two bleachings a few years ago? Is there ANYTHING that you people DON’T deny?
checkmate to petrodollar
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-09-04/china-and-iran-flesh-out-strategic-partnership
this is because, I think, of the war propaganda against China spread. Dozens of crap articles of every type to demonize China and fuel US peoples hostility in the last week
Here in Austfailia it’s dozens of Sinophobic hate-spews EVERY DAY. And the stench of sheer race hatred is not even hidden anymore.
>Eventually, Bannon believes, the Chinese people will stand up and say, “‘We’ve had enough of 100,000 people or 50,000 people ruling a country of 1.4 billion and stealing all our money, stealing all our wealth, taking it for themselves, making us live in a totalitarian surveillance state.
This is an excellent article which also aggravated me. True statements like the one above are the reason for the aggravation. This does not describe Russia and China but our life under the surveillance state of the Anglo/Zionist empire. I see how this constant propaganda has influenced the minds of the dumbed down in the west. China bad. Russia bad. Cuba bad. Venezuela bad. Iran bad etc. ad nauseum. The west only has a specialty in destroying countries. They build nothing for the good. As a new Christian of the One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church from ancient times, I do not play this arrogant game of ‘exceptional and indispensable people’. All are one in Christ. A best-case scenario would see this empire lose their petrodollar status, which is slowly happening and simply run out of the financial means to continue their march for world domination. In a worst-case, this beast is so diseased with rabies of their mind that they will physically attack those they now demonize.
Bannon has such an advanced and fulminating case of pathopsychological projection, that it is almost a perverted work of art.
Steve Bannon has been quoted as, and I paraphrase: “history is moving in our direction”, when talking about the re-emerging rise of right wing nationalism in the West. The only direction history is moving is towards another world war, if events stay on this path. History humbles all.
https://www.ghostsofhistory.wordpress.com/
“History” is an abstract noun, and it does not – cannot – “move”. People who say things like Bannon’s quoted remark are trying to convince the foolish and uncritical by rhetoric.
Even historians admit that you cannot predict the future by studying the past. The best you can do is to get some (possibly) enlightening ideas.
“We learn from history that we do not learn from history”.
– Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
“That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach”.
– Aldous Huxley, “A Case of Voluntary Ignorance” in Collected Essays (1959).
“Men learn from their mistakes how to make new ones”.
– A.J.P. Taylor (The Struggle for Mastery in Europe, 1848-1918)
Actually, I think the best quote should be that “History is written by the victor”, i.e. don’t count on anything until it is over.
Bannon is just saying that, ‘Tomorrow belongs to me’, and he sings it quite gruffly, too.
The rioters and their backers ultimate goals are to provoke China to send in troops. However sending in PLA or Chinese military police should not be the CCP plan. Doing so will provide plenty of opportunities for CIA to do a “ maidan “ uprising as in Ukraine 2014, where some people are killed on purpose to be framed on the Chinese military. The rioters and their backers already have Chinese military uniforms that they can easily put on to be imposters to commit any necessary dirty acts. They might even purposely choose a couple of foreigners or foreign journalists as victims, just to “ internationalize “ any such killings. China should not fall for this
China won’t fall for it. I imagine that all the leaders of the ‘leaderless’ infestation of compradore vermin are being closely tracked by Beijing, so that, if they try some traditional Colour Revolution tactic, like ‘mysterious snipers’, that China will have their backsides in the slammer before you can say ‘Quisling’. Xi and his colleagues’ tactic of allowing these treacherous vermin to show their Quisling and anti-Chinese traitorous features for all of China and the non-brainwashed world to see, is the wisest tactic, as one might expect.
”What they’ve done to the Uyghurs, what they’ve done to the Dalai Lama, the Tibetan Buddhists, what they’ve done to the Evangelical Christians, what they’ve done to Falun Gong, what they’ve done to the underground Catholic Church is unacceptable”, Bannon said. “These are criminals that don’t abide by any rule of law.”
If I were in the Chinese government, I would answer Bannon:
”We’re so sorry — we didn’t know you were to be consulted. Please specify what exactly you found unacceptable in each listed case, and we will try sincerely to live up to your expectations next time around”.
Humour aside, I fail completely to see Bannon’s alleged ’cleverness’ and ’intelligence’ here. He spouts Zionazi drivel and, most likely, enjoys doing that. A typical reactionary imbecile, if you ask me.
Arent you forgetting that that is what politics is all about in the long run, “alleged cleverness and intelligence here”
Maybe in the West. Most certainly not in the case of the resistance countries.
A case could be made that to some degree all country’s except Russia fall into the political denial camp.
A ”second Tiananmen” at the hands of the Chinese state authorities would not just be a blessing by putting an end to the ongoing nonsense in HongKong — it would also end the nonsense about HongKong by finally making it another ordinary part of China.
The ”second Tiananmen” meme is such a canard. At least half the victims were Chinese
police and soldiers who were killed while following orders not to fire bullets at
the protesters in the streets. The continued promulgation of this meme is a singular triumph of
propaganda.
Honk Kong is a pimple on China’s rump. It will play out as a last gasp effort by
the rotten failing western hegemon to forestall the multipolar order of the 21st century. The dogs bark and
. . .
Steve Bannon belongs to the category identified by Nassim Nicholas Taleb as:
“Intellectual Yet Idiot (IYI)”: “the inner circle of no-skin-in-the-game policymaking “clerks” and journalists-insiders, that class of paternalistic semi-intellectual experts with some Ivy league, Oxford-Cambridge, or similar label-driven education who are telling the rest of us 1) what to do, 2) what to eat, 3) how to speak, 4) how to think… and 5) who to vote for…
The Intellectual Yet Idiot is a production of modernity hence has been accelerating since the mid twentieth century, to reach its local supremum today, along with the broad category of people without skin-in-the-game who have been invading many walks of life…
Beware the semi-erudite who thinks he is an erudite. He fails to naturally detect sophistry.
The IYI pathologizes others for doing things he doesn’t understand without ever realizing it is his understanding that may be limited…
The IYI has been wrong, historically, on Stalinism, Maoism, GMOs, Iraq, Libya, Syria, lobotomies, urban planning, low carbohydrate diets, gym machines, behaviorism, transfats, freudianism, portfolio theory, linear regression, Gaussianism, Salafism, dynamic stochastic equilibrium modeling, housing projects, selfish gene, election forecasting models, Bernie Madoff (pre-blowup) and p-values. But he is convinced that his current position is right…
IYIs fail to distinguish between the letter and the spirit of things. They are so blinded by verbalistic notions such as science, education, democracy, racism, equality, evidence, rationality and similar buzzwords that they can be easily taken for a ride. They can thus cause monstrous iatrogenics without even feeling a shade of a guilt, because they are convinced that they mean well and that they can be thus justified to ignore the deep effect on reality”.
“The Intellectual Yet Idiot”, by Nassim Nicholas Taleb@https://medium.com/incerto/the-intellectual-yet-idiot-13211e2d0577#.3v9bolkbw
Christ! Bannon an ‘intellectual’??!! The creature is a malignant and vicious buffoon. He deserves contempt and disdain, nothing else.
Steve Bannon is just one element of the people helping to drum up support among allies and the general population in the US and allied countries.
Have a look at this. This is an academic. He is clearly telling the Australians- either join us against China or we will destroy you.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YsFwKzYI5_4
Pompeo was in Australia recently and said much the same thing.
The US is gearing up for a confrontation with China.
Either it will be a Suez Moment or nuclear Armageddon.
The strange thing (not too strange …) is that, in the EU Europe, recently Bannon and Trump Administration seem to prefer, refer and use the same local political forces of “Democrat” type very faithful to previous Obama Administration.
Perhaps this is a contest between two competing global surveillance systems. Edward Snowden warned the world about the first. Huawei is the second. The first may be increasingly unable to effectively penetrate the second. The second is spreading globally and rapidly. Thus the first may be at risk of losing the ability to “know everything that is knowable.” And so, in losing the competition at the technological level, the owners and operators of the first are taking the fight elsewhere.
It is in that new arena where the first will be lead by the second to die.
“Huawei is the second. ”
You have no proof that Huawei is a global surveillance system. Repeating a lie 1000 time does not make it true.
There has not been a single validated case of Huawei enabling spying on its customers, just the usual assertions from known and recidivist liars. In contrast there have been scores of examples of US spying around the world, often in cahoots with Google, Facebook, Microsoft etc. Just another day in the Through the Looking Glass world of Western brainwashing.
The Chinese social credit system runs on what hardware?
@Anonymous says: “The Chinese social credit system runs on what hardware?”
What about IBM, HP, Microsoft Windows,…? What is your point?
Further, the “Chinese social credit system” is internal to China, not “global” as the original poster claims.
Yes, absolutely, I can present undeniable proof. Here is it: what you all call a “cell phone” is in fact a surveillance device. Cell phones are surveillance devices that make phone calls. It does not matter if the users are in denial of this fact.
Consider all the data and metadata collected and contained within. Is all that data protected with very, very strong end-to-end encryption which prevents anyone from accessing it other than the sender and the receiver?
State securities would be foolish to turn down access to all that available data.
You are safe to assume that all IP-enabled devices can serve many masters.
“Yes, absolutely, I can present undeniable proof….”
Then you should call Samsung the second, not Huawei. Also, your laptop the third, your GPS-enabled car the fourth, your credit card the fifth, your ATM card the sixth, your …. and even your wife, your kids and your dog.
Can’t get more silly than this.
Capable of doing something does not equal it is something. I am capable of murder does not mean I am a murderer.
If you had seen the “Target Market of One” evolve from the inside since the 1980s, you might have more appreciation for the combined technical accomplishments of Wall Street, Madison Avenue and Hollywood. Fox example, we could know when a women was pregnant before see knew it, based on well established deltas in purchasing behavioral patterns (i.e. switching to unscented soaps, lotions) and could sell that information to interested parties (suppliers of small plush animals and Vitaman-B folate).
Likewise you might possess greater concern for how the AngloZionists have perverted and corrupted theses implementations for their own purposes (i.e manufacturing consent for war, expansion, extraction, exploitation) as a global monopoly. What used to be respected as a valued customer is now regarded as ordinary livestock.
Now witness the miracle of China. Somehow, to the utter befuddlement of the AngloZionists, this “backwater” country figured out how to securely design and build their own microchips. And then their own OS. And so on. Therefore the cost of keeping the AngloZionist’s livestock on one farm has grown immeasurably. Now the entire world has the option to break free.
We might regard Chinese hardware and software, created free of AngloZionist infection, as an extension of the BRI, a vital infrastructure for commerce that offers low cost, convenience, security to those who want to participate. Will it work? Or will the AngloZionist choose global suicide to taking second place in a transformed world?
Watch carefully as people like Defense Secretary Dr. Mark T. Esper or Steve Bannon demonize China. Watch them speak as they adorn themselves with “Made In China” shirt, shoes, tie, jacket and slacks. Watch as they speak into a “Made In China” microphone and look into a “Made In China” camera.
Pay attention also to the wider audience that watches on “Made In China” TeeVees and listens on “Made In China” speakers and headphones.
If Americans really, truely want to hurt the Chinese then they would have to accomplish the impossible: cease and desist shopping for brandname merchandise at low, low prices.
But they cannot.
And so they will not.
And that is why China, in the end, will win.
LOL, so true. That is also the strategy I usually engage with Internet posters: “If you hate China so much, or if you think China is so dangerous, please unplug and throw away your made-in-China laptop and iphone, and stopping posting in Internet.”
Guess what, I have never been successful. They always come back.
Bolton fired by Trump at end of this afternoon.
Proof positive of Russian meddling / sarc off /
Brannon only works on dolts.
Bannon has never been and will never be in “high society” of War Party. He might be pseudo intellectual hero for MAGA trash folks and that’s not much at all. Of course Seldon Adelson and GOP inner circle think thank could use puppets like him but surele he will never be one of those big boys.
Bannon? No one listens to Bannon–Trump threw him out long ago. Bannon and Bolton are two sides of the same coin. And China would not hesitate to reclaim Hong Kong like Russia did Crimea if, and this is the big if, there were the vast popular support for this like there was in Crimea. There is not but they may do it anyway.
Sorry, CCP bad ( and they are not about to fall over this at all) . They run a monstruous surveillance state and Xi no way, no how would run a yearly 3 hour countrywide interview with the Chinese people like Putin does. In fact one year there was a particularly obnoxious opposition leader who asked Putin an obviously idiotic question about the need to rearm in the face of NATO bases along the border. Nor would Xi ever say, as Putin did, that anti government demonstrations can keep a leadership on its toes and at times are useful.
Final point, there is much waste and misuse of development funds in China with no form of popular or even bureaucratic correction. Not an effective system— China became rich because a sector of the ruling class of USA was “assimilated” into the use of cheap labor on the one hand and cheap markets on the other and they did so in order to destroy its own working class and ultimately to break its social contract with its masses. Perhaps China will be able to run its system by careful use of internal resources like how Russia has managed but….we shall see when the world economy drops just how well China manages. It has a system where it could put millions on a 1000 cal a day diet and monitor them without too much of a problem. Perhaps therein lies the future.
And finally, it is not a question of CCP bad/Transhumania good. What humanity faces in the coming years needs analysis and discussion that goes beyond the usual polarity parameters.
How is a man supposed to keep up with all the countries we are supposed to be afraid of? I need to keep a list.
“China produces many of our [pharmaceutical] drugs!” (and this is a security matter) = lead story tonight on the most-watched evening television news program in the USA.
This [Saker] website more or less keeps up with the big news…but only by about 4 days in this case. Let’s be a little more timely, contributors.
Our job here is more analytical Roman – so, we frequently wait for the dust to settle excepting with really massive happenings. I don’t think we’re an up to the minute news reporter here at the Saker Blog.
You will find most of the up to date news over in the Movable Feast Cafe. We’re kind quick there but chat about a lot of other stuff as well. We also have a news reporting function in the Cafe where contributors can report news items.