by Prof. Engr. Zamir Ahmed Awan for The Saker Blog
China has crossed that threshold, where anyone can destabilize, or harm China. It is clearly expressed by the Chinese President;
“Anyone attempting to split China in any part of the country will end in crushed body and shattered bones” Chinese President Xi Jinping was quoted as saying during his meeting with Nepali Prime Minister Khadga Prasad Sharma Oli, during his visit to Nepal on 13 October 2019.
It is a very serious statement by a powerful President of China, who hold political, executive and military powers, a rising superpower of the world. Those who know President Xi’s nature and personality can understand that he is a person of high character and usually avoid such a strong statement. Overall Chinese are more mature and rational in approach and are not in a habit of boosting or giving extreme statements. China a civilization of several thousand years of long history has been passed many rise and falls. Varied experiences have taught Chinese many bitter lessons too. Blessing and disguise have made Chinese nations even wiser and united. Generally speaking, the Chinese are more tolerant, flexible and accommodating.
China is following its policy of “Peace and Development” and has shown flexibility on many occasions like the 2017 Doklam incident when Chinese and Indian armies came face to face but China played diplomacy and averted a war, which has saved both nations from a big disaster. In the trade war between China and the US, China observed patience a lot and tried its best to avoid any tension, but finally, have left with no option except reciprocating accordingly.
China is not playing aggressive policy on all international issues, either it was the Iraq war, or Libya war or the Syrian crisis, or the Afghan issue. China is showing more tolerance and trying to resolve all differences through peaceful dialogue according to the UN charter.
China being an emerging geopolitical power, has an interest in a stable, and peaceful world. China is promoting diplomacy, understanding, cultural integration, free and fair trade, globalization and prosperity. China is keen on maintaining world order stable and safe.
But it has been noticed that some mischievous nations are trying to destabilize China and instigating separatist movements or agitation and unrest. There is evidence of foreign hands in the case of Hong Kong unrest and the Xinjiang issue. Supplying arms to Taiwan and supporting the Independence of Taiwan is also a challenge to the “One China” policy.
The British practiced the “Divide and Rule” policy for its colonization grip during the last two centuries. American followed a similar approach and penetrate into a country under the umbrella of friendship, diplomacy, democracy, freedom of expression, human rights, aid, and development, etc., but at the same time identify the disgruntled or destitute people in the society. They cultivate them and support them, even help then financially and once matured and trained, exploit them against their own state. The worse thing is they practice this exercise with their own friends. “When you have American Friends, you may not need Enemies” When they are your apparent-friends, simultaneously, they are harming you.
Media war, trade war, visa sanctions, blacklisting Chinese companies, etc., are all means of hybrid war launched against China. China is fully aware of all such threats and still not openly retaliating, is due to its century-old wisdom and deep strategy. China has set its goals of development and wanted to achieve its targets peacefully. China does not want any confrontation with any nation on any issue until it reaches the final destination pre-set by its “China Dream”.
On 24 October 2019, Vice President Mike Pence delivered remarks at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars about the future of the U.S. relationship with China as both countries work to resolve their outstanding differences over trade. While a deal is expected and some understanding is reached already. But such sentiments, expressed by Vice President seems inappropriate, especially at this critical moment, when negotiations are underway to improve US-China trade relations. While the world has high expectations from ongoing negotiations, negative remarks may harm talks.
China is a nation of several minorities with the majority of Han nationality. All minorities along with the majority Han, were living in harmony since ages and respect each other and respect each other’s culture, traditions, habits, religion, ideology, and lifestyle. Even before the liberation of China in 1949. Chinese constitution provides full protection of its minorities. Even during cultural revolutions, minorities were respected to a great extent.
The Chinese system of governance is very robust and comprehensive. It has its own merit of democracy, which might be very different from Western-Style democracy. Chinese public trusts its leadership and strengthens their hands, while Chinese leadership protects the public interest and worked hard for their welfare. Chinese people and government are on the same page, there is no deficiency of trust on either side. China can resolve its domestic issues. Although, China can opt for use of force to settle minor issues, always hesitate to use force and observe restraint and patience. On the issue of Hong Kong, China has shown maximum flexibility and it is hoped that the resident of Hong Kong will realize soon and will restore the normal routine life. Beijing has met its original and basic demand of extradition already.
China believes in basic principles set by the United Nations Charter and abide by them strictly. That is noninterference to other country’s domestic affairs. In the history of modern China since 1949, China never indulged in the domestic issue of any other nation. China maintains its relations with all nations on equality, mutual respect, mutual interests and non-interference to other domestic affairs. And expect, other nations will follow a similar policy of non-interference into Chinese affairs. China is a sovereign state and possesses the capacity to handle all its issues.
China has developed in all dimensions, including economy, S&T, Defense, etc., to a stage where no other country can challenge it. China has surpassed the threshold of foreign conspiracies. China can face any challenge posed to its sovereignty conveniently.
The latest statement by China is based on its preparedness to face any challenge. China is an important global power and is playing a role to maintain peace and stability in the region and worldwide. China’s role in the multipolar world is instrumental. China’s development is in all dimensions including economic development, technology development, and defense development. China has modernized its armed forces on similar lines of any advanced country in the world. Chinese Armed Forces are smart and equipped with the latest hi-tech weaponry systems. The use of high-tech and advanced technologies has made Chinese defense unique and unbeatable. China enjoys and maintains supremacy in many aspects of the defense sector too.
Although China does not have any aggressive motives but kept itself ready to face any threat, from any country, any moment and in any form. Those who think to compete in China, contain China, or curtail China, will not succeed. They are living in the “fool’s paradise”. The days have gone, when China accepts the supremacy of some other countries. But now China is an equal partner in maintaining the World Order and major stakeholders on all fronts.
China is the second-largest economy and growing at a fast pace. China’s development is in all dimensions and very much sustainable. Those who used to say the Chinese Economy as a “Bubble Economy” were mistaken and proved wrong. The world has witnessed Chinese sustainable developments. The Chinese economy is based on its abundance of natural resources and a huge workforce. Chinese mineral sector and Agriculture are the basis of Chinese Industrialization. The Chinese workforce is competitive and well trained. The efficient and qualified human resources, plus indigenous raw material has made China more competitive. No other country can compete in China in the manufacturing sector. Chinese achievements in education, Science, Technology, and Innovation, had made Chin enter hi-tech sector too.
I think the way forward is only to cooperate with China and join the rise of China and maybe the beneficiary of China’s rise. China believes in Peace and promotes peace. Those nations who accept China’s rise and become a partner in its course of development will be beneficiary too. Those who miss the train may repent later one.
Especially, BRI is a mega initiative of China for promoting Connectivity, Infrastructure, People to People Contact, Trade, Business, Culture and Understandings among various nations, and ultimately promoting World Peace, Stability and Prosperity. Those who understand China, are joining BRI and some of the countries are already enjoying the fruits of BRI. Pakistan is the biggest beneficiary of BRI initiatives and managing the Flagship project of “China-Pakistan Economic Corridor” (CPEC). Those who do not understand China, or jealous of China’s achievements and development and are trying to compete with China or trying to counter China, or curtail China, or contain China, are mistaken and will be proved wrong. China has already crossed that threshold and emerged a geopolitical power already. The world must realize Chinese potential and recognize the Chinese role in Global “Peace, Stability and Prosperity”. Chinese President’s remarks in Nepal to protect its territorial integrity should be taken serious. It is not a tweet message, which can be U-turned. It is a message from a serious, mature and strong leader.
Author: Prof. Engr. Zamir Ahmed Awan, Sinologist, ex-Diplomate, Academician, Researcher, Peace-activist, Geo-analyst, Non-Resident Fellow of CCG (Center for China and Globalization), Islamabad, Pakistan. E-mail: awanzamir@yahoo.com)
The author neglects one area of Chinese behavior that has been more of the tough line than the pragmatic or cooperative. The South China Sea, especially versus neighbors Vietnam and the Philippines, has been more Octagon than Tea Garden.
Though there are ASEAN-China negotiations and continuous bilateral talks with all the interested and stakeholder nations that have legitimate claims to parts of the vast SCS oil, gas and fisheries.
However, China has to find formulas to share the economic resources and opportunities of the Sea. No matter how powerful economically and militarily Beijing becomes, it simply cannot hog the fish, gas and oil riches from its neighbors. After all, they all are markets as well for Chinese goods and investments.
It is an interesting test of the words so nicely spoken about China’s role and responsibilities.
Great wisdom is needed.
I think you’re wrong. The happenings in the South China Sea are a mirage. One does not need to be a military analyst to understand occupying and/or blockading these islands is a fools task. It is completely impossible given the range of modern anti ship missiles and you don’t put your most expensive assets in harms way for essentially no economically justifiable reason.
Globo elites work together on fake Cold War scenarios. It’s a well established tradition going back to the stage managed Cuban Missile Crisis complete with Khrushchev’s banging of shoe upon United Nations table. Each side reports it’s own facts, towards the objective of controlling what their domestic populations believe.
It is the same with the protests in Hong Kong. The US and China are running an Occupy Operation together, to discredit protest in general and deliver domestic masses into the arms of ruling elites.
I deliberately did not mention the US version of “facts”.
I reject your comment totally.
China rams ships into Vietnam vessels, harasses the Viet gas and oil operations, bullies the Philippines in contested areas where fishing is very important for them.
You can have your facts or you can use the real facts.
I can document from a database of five thousand articles sourced from scores of publications and governments which include many hundreds that relate to these issues, not some skew of reality.
In fact, China is searching for ways and means to back from the hegemonic 9-dotted line ideology. It’s the natural resources that matter, not the artificial islands and PLAN patrols.
The US pushes the FON issue for its own reasons. No one in the region ise worried that the Chinese would ever interrupt Freedom of Navigation. 85% of the vessels navigating through the SCS are Chinese, so that argument is specious. It’s about sharing the oil, gas and fish.
@ Larchmonter445
Hmmmmm…. Indeed… As such..
I am guessing you, among the v.v.v.v.v.v few, understood the move of Russia also moving into Africa :)
and what’s that (likely) all about
Its way beyond the normal narrative of OBOR…
It appears Chi-Rus ++ has the new monetary system foundation cemented!
The 2 are seeding for the next thousand years…
These 2 men wants REAL Legacy! and for the next thousand years…
Now thats some REAL Leadership Quality!
p/s once the west is dead there maybe some probability that Taiwan may allowed to be de facto ‘country’ but never HK
@?
China will NEVER allow Taiwan nor HK to be independent. Culturally, Taiwan is as connected to China mainland as Long Island is to New York. The only reason it was not integrated after the civil war in 1949 was the geopolitical power of the US and its efforts to keep China poor and contained. It was easy to do. Formosa had become “home” to the losers of the war for China, and the US has manipulated the residents ever since.
It may take 50-100 more years, but one day, Taiwan will be unified with the Mainland. Economics and culture will accomplish the task.
@Larchmonter445
This is just for discussion and I come in peace :)
To say “It may take 50-100 more years” you are also and must assume that CCP will be around for the next 50-100 years. The next GEN of middle kingdom leaders may not be as that history-remembered. 50-100 years is about 3 generations and there is too much variables in there. As such within CCP there is already some ‘calculations’ of what the future might be, esp when and after ‘The West’ is no more the ‘enemy’. What else will they sell to the masses of few billions of ‘The PPL in the East’?
Also Mao and Deng could have finished off the job back then but on brotherly love, he didn’t pursue the ‘remnant’. And this remains in the heart of some long standing members in CCP, that we are ‘family’. If a family have to be split up, let do it without blood-shed anymore. So as long as Taiwan is not pro-west and behave herself, it could be left alone as a de facto ‘country’. One country two systems is really just that for label purpose because if the local residents resist, like HK, CCP China will have to spend resources to firewall that or even squash it. ATM china is rising thus she has lots to spend. What will happen when the next down fall cycle comes? This is also mandate from heaven.
Looking at all the ‘independent’ movement around the world, China may be pushed into the bad light if other regions succeeded ie Catalonia or even California. Who know what will happen to The West after The Default? Will not the current structure of everything be broken up? That could be the start of the new wave of ‘New World Order’ to come.
Having said that, I dont think, neither HK or Taiwan can ever return to their previous glory.
HK will be assimilated back to China because majority of the locals see the reality, that is HK island has literally nothing to offer. If its not the financial centre (exploited by the west), its really a backwater port and the locals, old generation understood that. While Taiwan has a bit more land and can survive with plantations and tech factories. Though in both cases, those who really want ‘independent’ and would fight for it, which is the dumb youth, and mostly young idealistic student class, are under 1% the most.
For me, as long as we are not the ‘Collateral Damage’ grade and we can have peace,
at the end of the day, we are all ‘THE PPL”.
Again this is just for pure discussion and my unfounded imagination :)
But you have all the valid points too and you are obviously very informed
Pls be well
@?
Thank you for the kind thoughts and conversation.
The CCP is a management layer that has an enormous social burden. It has to keep the immense population happy and secure. They have no one to blame if their decisions fail to perform.
Though they talk from a position of theory (Socialism with Chinese characteristics, and in President Xi’s words, Marxism, Maoism.), the reality is far less ideological. They are running a capitalist system of their own making. It has some classic market features, some specifically Chinese constructs, and some modern liberal influences, some chosen, some forced on them by the West trading and investment partners.
What follows, if the CCP fails? The management class and wealthy elites (a native oligarchy that preceded the CCP and rose to lead the Opening Up under Deng Xiaoping in 1976), millionaires and billionaires and technocrats would coalesce to create a new government. They are the true stakeholders in New China.
The great danger then would be corruption. Any system of governance has to control corruption. Ideology and strict party discipline doesn’t do an adequate job. Look at all systems historically. USSR, Cuba, Venezuela, Vietnam, and China itself. Socialism, communism, just like all the flavors of capitalism, suffered from corruption.
What is remarkable when we plumb the dynamics of the present era with the harsh clash of opposing camps, only the West is riding the horse of ideology internationally.
The multi-polar camp (Russia, China, India, Iran, and the organizational partners of the BRICS, SCO, ASEAN) urge for sovereignty of nations and cooperative endeavors, cross-investments and dialogue as the means to induce progress and settle differences.
It is the power of diplomacy that we see as the guiding light to settling the big issues in Syria. Russia is leading the way, setting the example, inspiring the world. It is what is possible.
The US and China are working together in Hong Kong???!!! Hilarious.
Global elites work together to further their interests. They have more in common with each other than they do with the people over whom they preside.
They parasite off the masses.
They are parasites exploiting a parasitical capitalist system.
Why do supposed marxists support parasitic Capitalism when it has so-called Chinese characteristics?
Because they are agenda driven.
Enough said.
Your right – if u have a small group who control the corporations which in turn control the government or a small elite in government who control the corporations – they eventually start to look the same – because essentially they are. The merging of corporate and government power is Mussolini’s definition of fascism. i’m not sure china is at that point yet, but its certainly close to it.
Well, in China the Government has ended poverty, raised the standard of living of the entire population, built great infrastructure, introduced a health insurance scheme for the populace, built massive cultural infrastructure and made Chinese proud to be Chinese. In the West, the political elites, stooges of the real rulers, the rich parasites, have driven tens of millions into poverty, increased wealth and inequality to unprecedented heights, presided over crumbling education and health provision and cultural degradation without compare. To equate the Chinese elites with those of the West is barking.
On this distinction of past performance of the recent decades, Mulga is correct.
The Western NWO elites sold out their populations and consigned them to slow death…but are experiencing a long delayed resistance which is not fully awakened…but is getting there.
Our **rd Cousin here offers nothing but capitulation to some eternally fixed swindle that the Little People Complainers can do nothing about…..regarding the Big People………and does not draw the appropriate distinctions in performance that Mulga does.
@Bro 93
Very true. What this **rd Cousin does is promoting putrid Western supremacy dogma, by insinuating that there is no reason to be impressed by or support the leadership of the countries and peoples fighting Western imperialism. What Cousin fails to acknowledge is the very plain fact that even though the West has an uninterrupted 500+ years’ track record of genocide, ecocide, and greed, it doesn’t mean that the East and South have got something to answer for.
Well let’s see the USA is broke. China is on the rise.
Vietnam is mostly Chinese people, so it would be logical that China go after those fish, that historically were in its water, remember its got billions to feed.
Since the time of Cortez the west had controlled the seas of asia, and se-asia, now its game-up, the west is bankrupt.
You all pretty much got to get used to it all, also in the case of PI, they can’t call uncle-sam, they have no choice but to embrace the new bully on the block, and that goes for every se-asian nation. I don’t see anybody cozying up to the a ‘loser’, its not in the asian mind set.
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All I know is what I see, whether it be China, or Japan, or Macau, or Singapore, or Vietnam, or PI. I see people who are busy, well fed and happy.
Then I walk the streets of Seattle, Washington I see drug addicts covered in shit laying on the sidewalks, I see guys walking around with the penis hang out the front of their pants, and the buns in the back. I see shit everywhere.
Then jump back to ASIA? I never see shit anywhere, I never see zombies drugged out people on an infinite assortment of meth, & cheap herion synthetics, … the USA is dead.
Lastly, lets just remember here that those who disagree with this author have never lived in ASIA, most likely they only know the CIA propaganda their paid to promote. This is the only thing the west has left, to pay its people in drugs, and let them live in feces.
Now tell me where is it better? In Asia or the West. I see a WALL being built to keep the white hoards out of ASIA in the coming years of depression and western holocaust.
Mortimor,
a couple of corrections.
1/ The Vietnamese are not Chinese peoples. Do ask them. My vietnamese friends are emphatic that they are not Chinese and the Chinese say the same. The Taiwanese are also Taiwanese peoples …. not Chinese so they tell me too. (Like the Welsh who correct me when I suggest they are English…)
2/ Have you visited Indonesia ? Philipines ? Do and view the poverty and visible causes and waste plus the absence of facilities for the populations.
Overall there are different form s of poverty – but poverty – than what you wittness in the US. Its there also in other “western nations” There are serious degrees of decay even in south east asia. I used to live there at one time.
The junkies covered in shit in Seattle …. also / perhaps …. have mental health issues combined with their addiction plus. It takes three health specialists to unravel the mess these folk are in. And that is a horrendously expensive path to pursue even for societies who have free public health facilities.
Horrendously expensive.
just a small pointer
cheers
ross
Vietnamese, Chinese, Koreans-they’re all non-Western ‘mere Asiatics’ to true believers in the White Man’s Burden. Remember that the West’s beloved compradore, Liu Xiaobo, stated that the Chinese must Westernise in order to become ‘fully human’. No wonder they gave him the Nobel Piss Prize.
Mulga
No offence please but you are making the broadest of sweeping comments …… by quoting Liu Xiaobo doesnt matter what he was awarded….
The broader asian world is as different within each nation as those who live in Oz UK France Germany ….. blah blah blah….
as I said try calling a welsh man a scots or english …. and in the english world …. |Try suggesting that a kiwi or an ozzy are the same ….. differences are there and they are significant …. Try suggesting that the all blacks play like the wallabies or like the Japanese or whatever !!!!
To throw all into the same basket is a huge mistake…. they and us we are all different because our collective culture s make it that way …..
Each culture or nationalitiy is made up of a summary of inputs…. or values …. pertaining to that geographical piece of dirt and the people who live there bound by a political border …
eg Language – dialect, religions , political system s shared history, myths surrounding whatever … sport teams ….. geography food …. minorities plus immigrants and many many more inputs…. which when placed in a melting pot produces quite a different collective culture and sub culture s within ….. compared to another group residing in the next nation country call it what you like……
Please dont not fall into the trap of viewing …. “them as the same” they are not. Neither are we or you and I the same ….. your collective cultural background is different to mine…. what ever that is which is irrelevant really
That is not a bad thing but it is the way this world of peoples have developed for 1000 s of years.
No society leads the global way (Although many have used militaries over the centuries to extract wealth blah blah blah ) and to dominate…..
But to understand the other is important to harmony globally…..
I disagree completely with …. your ref: Liu Xiaobo, stated that the Chinese must Westernise in order to become ‘fully human’
What is the definition of as ” fully human” or Western …..
(No need to answer Mulga as nobody can answer that lol !!!)
cheers
ross
Ross, I agree with you! I was deriding the attitudes of Western racists, not praising them. Am I becoming that incoherent?
sometimes cynicism is lost on me.
Actually moving around this planet as I have done ….. racisim is alive and thriving everywhere amongst most cultures I have mixed with….
Even once over heard a bunch of brown skin chaps called each other black bastards !!!
cheers
I’ve just been watching old episodes of Till Death Us Do Part. Johnny Speight, the writer was parodying bigotry, through the person of Alf Garnett, but today it could not be made. The sight of Spike Milligan as a guest, in black-face, playing Paki-Paddy the Irish Pakistani, and his bigotry that matched Alf’s was, I regret to admit, bloody funny.
Mulga, I loved that show too. So un PC
I’m not sure of where you are going with this, for other countries lack the means to combat the drugs homeless mental problems,but any country that can speed a trillion a year on its MIC (while another $3 trillion goes AWOL out of the pentagon) can certainly do a better job then what’s being done in the west,where they can’t even take care of their vets.!!!!
Bluedog,
What is needed to be asked is why do people become junkies or alcoholics in mostly western societies yet they do also in the broader asian societies too.
Western elites do not wish to spend money on societies “dropouts” as the elites view them. It is just not in their thinking…..
period ….
and the elites dont care about the cannon fodder either.. vets ….. theres no profit in spending money on them.
Listen closely to what so many of the elites say……
This is a huge subject you have touched on …. and you are right. the elites do spend billions on weaponry as its profitable for them ……
View closely the Chinese way of social life. It has a stronger social content than the western way which today is dominated by austerity programs which has a base line of removing public expenditure in areas of eg health welfare and education and others.
You want it you pay for it …..
The chinese way – culture – has a stronger community content in it. The extended family tend to care for the disadvantaged and elderly within their household.
Its not always perfect by any means but it is there which is largely absent in western societies.
“…it simply cannot hog the fish, gas and oil riches from its neighbors.”
Larchmonter445, is this the big issue you’re harping about? How about this?
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/russian-defense-minister-publishes-evidence-us-oil-smuggling-syria
Great wisdom is indeed needed as to what to do with all the stealing mentioned above.
@Pluto,
It is a huge issue for the claimant nations surrounding the SCS. It is their economic and national security (food) development. Fish, for one thing, is crucial for these nations. And oil and gas rights mean revenues for social development and infrastructure, ending poverty.
What the US does as a bandit nation is separate and apart from the issue of China sharing the wealth of the SCS.
China had to modulate its BRI protocols because nations did not want China to dominate. The same modulation will change in the SCS zone also. It is underway in negotiations, talks, though not set in policy yet.
We need to take exactly the same measures which China is taking for good governance and to curb corruption.
China really believes and respects peace in region and world. that’s China, she promotes cooperation, connectivity instead of following vision of confrontation. This vision benefits humanity but confrontation benefits only few ,those who always created wars, from WW1 to WW2 and current destruction around the,world. China serves humanity.
The statement from the Hon. Chinese President is very strongly worded, and I think every President will talk in the same words when challenged. Various comments pro and against also confirm that clapping needs two hands. While the USA travels to thousands of KMs to dictate its powers and usually “fails”, Chinese are much more wiser in achieving the same goals. What both Nations are doing is a “natural act” when considered a Super Power.
I agree and support the views of Mr. Zamir
China is a country that has transformed in 70 years from extreme poverty, hunger to economic growth, poverty reduction and from a poor country to the most powerful country and number 1 exporter in the world. All happened in 7 dacades. Unprecedented. I strongly hope China will also show the world in times to come a different character of global power that believes in shared prosperity and global development.
If only the USSR took China’s path too.
A broad brush what makes you believe its not,after all its The Russian Federation not the USSR and they will do what is best for their country and its people.!!!
A well written article. The world has to adjust to the reality of a powerful and self assured China. An embracing and inclusive posture would certainly be better choice for the existing powers.
I think this article is spot on.I’m pleased for China.
A very nice and balanced article. The Chinese wisdom and eager for peace and development is well summerised. I have observed Chinese as extremely hard working and stick to their job. It’s the peace policy of China that enabled them of the miraculous growth and development in the last few decades. Through Belt and Road initiative China has entered in the new horizons of progress. Keeping in view Chinese growth it’s obvious that a very bright future is awaiting China.
The western public is ripped off by its financial sector (5% of jobs and 25% of profits) and I wonder if this is the difference. I believe Chinese banks are state owned.
China has been the beneficiary of western based global corporations moving jobs to China which has enriched both China and those global corporations while forcing indebtedness and insecurity on to the west.
As Henry Kissinger was the icebreaker back at about the same time the dollar became a fiat currency, I would say there is a likely connection and I doubt that the motivation was good in nature.
Bloody dangerous more likely.
I note the yuan is also a fiat currency and the Chinese are using debt even more outrageously than the USA.
No one has a higher debt burden and unfunded liabilities than the U.S. And the big difference is that most of our burden, there is nothing to show for it, where as the Chinese debt burden has gone mostly to infrustructure so as to be a mechanism for future growth and trade.
Yes, no doubt. A billion chinese move from rural subsistence into the working class while half a billion westeners move from middle class into working class/poverty.
It must be the greatest transfer of wealth in history……on a deal between two communist war criminals whose victims may be counted in the tens if not hundreds of millions.
Sounds like a trustworthy partnership…….eh?
My instinct says that the zionist elites welcomed China’s elites into the game.
Kissinger is still there orchestrating………unbelievable!
Why am I not surprised that LBD believes the garbage about ‘two communist war criminals…victims in the tens if not hundreds of millions’. Go on LBD-let ‘er rip. Billions of victims, surely.
Our beliefs are more alike than not Mulga but there are some things you are certain about which I have rejected.
May I suggest you watch this 25min of Jordan Peterson in which he describes you as an “over compassionate intellectual” who is drawn to marxist philosophy for understandable reasons but with a very great warning. The basis of his arguments are scientific, not ideological. In fact he dismisses all ideologies as inadequate for a successful society.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=sSDClxjcR-4
Forgive me LBD, but Peterson, he of the ‘salt and meat diet’, (surely a joke)has been described as the ‘…..idea of a smart person’. If do not wish to be insulting, so I left out the descriptor. I’d do my best to wean myself off that poseur. I don’t really think that one can be ‘over compassionate’ either. ‘From each according to their abilities, to each according to their needs’.
People may say that but I’m suggesting you decide for yourself.
I can assure you they are wrong.
Here is another most impressive interview, describing humanity a la Desmond Morris of Naked Ape fame.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RORcAwI9-Jk
Here in Austfailia racist abuse of China is now absolutely de rigeur. The depth of the plainly racist and civilizational hatred is unprecedented, with the usual sickening hypocrisy about ‘human rights’. This coming from a country, that imprisons its Indigenous, men, women and children, at the world’s highest rate, in which poverty is booming as is inequality, where Rightwing regimes supported by a malevolent Rightwing press, actively foment and promote racism in pursuit of votes, and where we are ever eager to join in any Imperial bloodbath, like Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan and Iraq. And most of the abuse is based on outright lies, like the ‘imprisoned Uighurs’ garbage, with self-important little feminazis from Zionazi hate groups like the odious ‘Human Rights Watch’ leading the charge. These self-regarding, arrogant, hypocrites, doing the Empire’s dirty work while posing as moral exemplars, sicken me to the pit of my stomach. One such vicious little feminazi thugette is now on ABC arguing for sanctions on China. And being egged on by the ABC feminazi in charge of the one-sided abuse posing as a ‘conversation’. Now she wants China ‘isolated’, and she is attacking 54 countries that condemned the weaponisation of human rights, as all simply ‘the usual suspects’, all, naturally, inferior to Sabbat Goy thugs like her.
After the “re-education” of Muslim Uighur men, it is not surprising that a sinophile Muslim was difficult to find, but Pakistan is an English-speaking country, and any genuine academic would have written much better English than this.
I’ve worked with many Chinese graduate students, whose opinion of their country varies over the range you would expect if the opinions expressed are honest. Yes, China since the late 1970’s has come a very long way, and any discussion must acknowledge that a billion human beings have been removed from absolute poverty. I happened to watch Xi’s famous speech (with simultaneous translation into Chinglish, which my students had taught me to understand), and it was very impressive. However, the abandonment of any idea of democratisation as China got richer and calmer, and attempts were made to free the last 300 million from poverty, should have worried the West, because it reflects the failure of the capitalist New World Order as a model. Whether a broad based Communist Party, recruited on the basis of an electronically compiled civic virtue score, will be able to control corruption remains to be seen – these things are so easy to rig, and over the centuries China has seen elites become hereditary, however clean the mandarinate was at the start of the dynasty. Bombast against China’s neighbours (though Malaysia, whose islands have been stolen, is a thousand miles from China) is a very bad sign, as with the threats against Finland and the Baltic States by Putin
What threats by Putin against Finland and the Baltic States?
Sources and Quotes, Please.
China is democratic, in that the Government rules the country in the interests of the people. In the West ‘liberal democracy’ is a sordid lie. The public have NO power day to day but that which their ‘Market Power’, ie money can buy them. The political castes are TOTALLY corrupt, bought and paid for by the rich in ‘contributions’, ‘lobbying’ and post-career sinecures and publishing contracts. They govern only for the rich, and at election time they rely on the lies of the totally parasite-owned fakestream media, their own lies, bribes, threats, fear and hate-mongering and the stupidity of the public, and/or their disinterest and abstention. In the process Western publics have been divided against one another in hyper-partisan internecine hatred, a prelude to civil discord and war. As for Chinese Moslems they are well looked after, and the lies about ‘concentration camps’ are simply Western black hate-propaganda and visceral racism in action.