America Has Infiltrated China
By Thorsten J. Pattberg for the Saker blog
In this naturally calm and composed piece of art, I will expose the global blueprint for the defeat of China and how the Americans have already subverted Chinese top universities. This many-eyewitnesses report could knock you off your guard and make you question your—now utterly pointless—Masters in China degree, so maybe you want to find a quiet place for the next 45 minutes or so of unremitting verity and veritas.
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So, this story begins in Beijing in the autumn of 2004. I was attending a dorm meeting of just eight international students in Shaoyuan, the on-campus Foreigners Building at Peking University (PKU). The host was Sergei, a 20-years healthy, strong, and charismatic Russian. Sergei means protector or guardian, and a protector of others he was.
IMAGE 1 Sergei the Russian and Shaoyuan of Peking University
Sergei announced to his guests that he was about to self-sabotage his compulsory Chinese language year or Dui Wai Hanyu—literally: Chinese for Outsiders—which meant he would henceforth NOT be eligible to enter Peking University and study International Relations.
Tens of thousands of foreign students like Sergei are expected to pass the HSK Chinese Proficiency Test at Level 6—the highest level and comparable to near-native speaker fluency—to advance to a real Chinese undergraduate degree. Peking University limits full-time preparatory language work to 2 years, in rare cases 3 years. Sergei had done one full year and passed HSK Level 4. The school extended a year on his behalf, normal procedure, but Sergei was determined to quit language school and drop out of university. He thought the compulsory language school part wasn’t academic at all, but some form of bureaucratic torture and chicanery.
It certainly was infantilizing. Grownups were put back in school classes like they were 12-year-olds. The textbooks were childish. You could just buy them in bookshops everywhere. And imbalanced. Japanese and Koreans already know Hanzi (Chinese characters), the Europeans and South Asians don‘t. Some Africans registered for visa purposes, then disappeared into the Wu Daokou underworld. There were mothers, business people, and illiterate overseas Chinese mixed in with South Asian teenagers. The teachers came from the crowds. Certainly not Peking University liao—material. If this was Higher Education in China, Sergei called it a waste of time and a scam—zaijian, goodbye!
Part I. Know Thy Place [And Your Port Of Entry]
Sergei came from a well-to-do family of Moscow state officials. His father had two other sons, one of who had also studied in China and became a scientist at Moscow State University. Sergei was the only son of his father’s second wife. We knew because his mother visited him this summer in Shaoyuan. She was astonishingly young and beautiful. She came to check on his progression, and, immediately, she found herself appalled by the sanitary situation in the student dorm. The toilets were just holes in the ground and no doors.
IMAGE 2 Squat Toilets vs Trench Toilets
Sergei was extremely well-educated, handsome, and funny. He made friends easily because everyone could see he had great charisma and leadership potential. He spoke English like Sergey Lavrov and German like Vladimir Putin. Sergei knew the canon of European literature, could talk about any topic except fashion, and seemed mature beyond his age. So, he travelled around China with his mother during the summer break, flew back to Russia, returned in time, and had made up his mind about his future career path. And that evening at his farewell party in autumn, surrounded by other foreign students, he said this to me which I could not forget. He said: “I quit, who gives a shit about Russians here. You are German, so maybe you Germans have it better. If I was American, I would be famous in China!”
Sergei. That was not his real name. I have to disguise the identities of my heroes to protect them. I met him again, six years later. He was visiting the PKU lake site, a popular day trip for tourists, pushing a baby boy in a stroller with his newlywed beautiful Caucasian wife in tow. He seemed happy. To my surprise, he had not left China or Beijing, except for family visits and on holidays of course. Instead, he moved to the other part of town and became a self-employed entrepreneur. A trader—not the international scholar he had once aspired to be. “Well, I am an international businessman now!” We exchanged a few lines about student dorms. The toilets with no toilet paper. The showers with No-pissing signs. He matured faster than anyone I knew, I thought. Now he was a family man, too. His wife, like his mother… gorgeous! “Don’t get too jealous,” he smirked. “They are hard work!” Sergei had dropped out of academia, or better: He had pulled out his head just before they could pull him in. We had nothing more in common.
Sergei proved his case. He had been realistic enough to see that Shaoyuan was an elaborate educational racket. The two years compulsory language program for future undergraduate hopefuls was indeed beyond chicanery. It was an insult. Personally, I crashed into Shaoyuan twice but did not live there. I lived in rented apartments off-campus. My Chinese degree was real.
Scholarship is serious. It leads to a cold mountain top and solitary life. You don’t work. You study. You go where no one has gone before with your brains. You know you were made for this since childhood. It is a calling.
Had they put me into a funny class with teenage Eastern Europeans, Koreans, and Japanese, and taught me school-Chinese by some job-center dudes, I would have despaired too. A university is the highest place of learning, never a school! School time is over, and you can do whatever you want in a university.
But those Shaoyuan foreigners don’t seem to know this. And how could they? This was the second intelligence test of Peking University… and they failed it! [The first intelligence test was of course that there was no application process in Russian, Korean, Italian, or Swahili language. If you had to apply in the American language in China, maybe your life is heading toward… a burger degree?]
Sergei was correct: Had he been an American, or shall we say a certain type of American, he would have been treated very differently. I am telling you now a hidden truth, a truth so brutal, unfair and seemingly evil, that you might want to pause reading now, switch the website, read Chekov’s Ward No 6, perhaps, or The Menticide Manual,… but do not read further. Especially not if you have carelessly sent your own teenage kids off to college in a foreign land.
Sergei was sent to China, a foreign country, by his calculating father, a government official, to fetch the name of Peking University; real or just imagined prestige, who cares: This was very clever.
However, it was also desperate. And for desperate people, there is a special hell reserved in a university.
If you are a Russian, or a Chinese, or a lesser European, or—Heaven forbids—some lower tier human from the Congo or Venezuela or Iraq, you are terrestrially speaking a mind slave. You probably don’t even know what you want to study until you are told and placed.
Only a solid connection to the ruling elites in the United States of America can save you from mandatory global exam plantation. If you are not connected to extremely influential Americans, or at least the European upper crust, all the higher tiers in the Human Hierarchy are going to bully you, abuse you, and torture you. They’ll tell you what to study, how long, where and how. That, my friends, is plantation work. You are not even close to any mountain!
The rulers of this planet invented all kinds of silly exams, prep courses, waiting periods, ridiculous programs, and stupefying requirements for the hoi-polloi [the too-many]. Why are Third World parents sending their teenagers abroad to foreign language plantations? Especially their daughters! The Chinese shepherds figure out in two minutes if you are a fellow shepherd person or a sheeple. And if Peking University really was your dream school, why start learning Mandarin after the event?
During the four summers that I hadn’t seen Sergei, Shaoyuan had wasted a combined 3,600 years of human life. If Sergei had been the son of a US Democrat with an American BA in Table-tennis, he would have been accommodated like a respectable human being, and Peking University 2022 would have placed him in a 1-year fast track Yenching Academy English program Master of Public Administration, next station Oxford or Brussels or the United Nations in New York. And to top it off… and this is a fact: No man who knows himself would lower himself and study years of Chinese like this. It is just a language, Heaven! You learn it on the loo! On the side! While doing astrophysics or running a business school!
The Americans would have put an “American Sergei” on CNN Cable News Network, mentioned him in the New York Times and the New Yorker, and, BAMM!… he would have become a global public intellectual, cited and referred to by millions.
Or maybe, just maybe, you are “the leading families” in some irrelevant, insignificant country, and you are desperately hoping for affirmative action or the figurative 10% Western attention span quota. There was a Thai princess at Shaoyuan once. Thailand in Asia has a population of 69 million. In comparison, England in the West has barely 53 million people. But the world is not equal, and nobody at the top of the Human Hierarchy gives a bottom burp about Thai nobility. Can we even begin to imagine man-made climate change and the sixth intellectual revolution in the US-UK planetary race if Meghan Markle and Prince Harry had attended a trench toilet at Peking University?
Of course, PKU administration immediately handed Princess Sirindhorn a Peking University Honorary Doctorate Degree [means she didn‘t have to enroll in a 5 years program like the rest of you sheeple!] and even gave her her own PKU Sirindhorn Research Center. So if Peking University can arrange all this for such irrelevant third-tier Asian-nation leaders, imagine what it can do and will arrange for the truly planetary, globalist Western master-blaster class…
Part II. The Arrival of The Meta People
I stated in another piece that Americans do not mingle with Europeans in Asia. We are not friends and not partners, not even close. We live in a masters-emissaries arrangement. The intellectual Europeans who serve the American Empire are called Transatlantiker or Trans-Atlanticists. That is an ugly word monster, so they refer to themselves as just “Westerners.” Those pro-American EU opportunists unfortunately get all the Empire’s goodies, promotions, and praise.
The minority Europeans who want to eject America from Europe are dangerous terrorists. That’s a huge problem for the entire world. See, Asians can always convert to the West. They are always given the benefit of doubt. But not so Europeans. They can only betray the Western cause and go criminally insane. Therefore, the traitors in the West are always kicked down to the bottomless pit of the global hierarchy, far below the Orientals, the fish, and the infectious diseases.
That is why the transatlantic Europeans in China insist on being equally idolized like Americans, and unitedly canonized with them as xifangren— “the people of the West.” Under no circumstance do the Polish, the Austrians, the Czech, the Finnish, the East Germans, and so on want to be separate from America as mere ouzhouren—”Europeans,” or, God help us, as dong’ouren—“the people of Eastern Europe.” Can you imagine how average the Chinese would treat them? By disguising their true identity, all those bogus Westerners hope they will be venerated just like Americans are, and treated way better and above the Asians and Orientals. And they are damn right they will, as “the united West” signal-religiously inspires fear and awe throughout the world.
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The Western control over China is blatantly obvious. And because it is so blatant and obvious, you would be considered a baichi—an idiot—to speak about it. A baichi is a person who is oblivious to social conventions. Which makes him a tragic hero, to some. But more generally speaking, an idiot does more damage than good to a harmonious society. If the baichi does not die from immediate consequences, he transforms into a huairen or bad person. In the West we would call him a villain. All the idiot heroes who point out the obvious situation that Chinese education is already westernized will be considered terrorists as well.
Example. One baichi German guy at Beijing Foreign Language University pointed out that the 50,000 holders of the Chinese Government Scholarships (CSC) are NOT looked after by the Chinese side, and that the applications were pre-sorted and forwarded by Western governments. Two months later, the guy died in an accident.
Most nationals do not realize this, but the West controls education globally. Not just all the standards. Not just the Anglo-Satan BA, MA, MBA, PhD degrees, publications, and university structures, but also international exchange, scholarship, and permissions. Chinese degrees, Benke, Shuoshi, Boshi, etc., on the other hand, are invalid.
An Englishman who carelessly studied in China on his own, with no UK governmental backing, is holding a worthless degree. UK universities, including Cambridge and Imperial College, prohibit their students from studying in mainland China unless they are part of their many state-supervised exchange programs. The entire West has huge barriers to its citizens learning in China unsupervised. This is also the reason why most British students miraculously end up in exchange years in pro-Western Hong Kong or Taiwan. British scholars are not free, and they are definitely not autarch. They are children of the Empire,… and suck their owners’ titinob.
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Much of the progress in the humanities in the last 100 years still lies hidden. We see spacecraft and satellites and computers everywhere, which is the progress of engineering and the sciences, but we do not at first recognize the advancements of our cognizance.
To caricature it in the most simplistic way possible, humanity has fallen into two separate types of people, the selected meta and the rejected infra. I use these terminologies for better illustration as we go along. But think of them as a new breed of magicians or creators or enlightened beings. The meta (Greek for hidden) are the manipulators who switch everything and do what they want. The infra (Greek for subpar) is everyone else. The infra people lead banal lives and produce all the stuff for the advancement of meta. In the past, throughout human evolution, a tiny minority of elites had always been able to accumulate all the labor, resources, and technologies to cement their rule. But this time, around the turn of the third millennium, the first human beings who had experimented with it have literally spaced out into a new, Fifth Dimension—the Dimension of Differences only they can see naturally.
For everyone else in the Human Hierarchy, for the left behind humans, the infra people, the Fifth Dimension is still hidden, permanently so until they die. The old humans can be as intelligent or educated as they like, they cannot see the hidden world, only strange behaviors and unstoppable quakes to our lives. So that’s why I call it the hidden verse, here’s a sketch:
IMAGE 3 Meta and Infra
The meta elites can freely converse about their plans for us since they are the only ones who see the world of differences, distances, and all relations. They are not per se evil in the traditional, biblical sense. Rather, they need no morals and, as a matter of their trade, treat their subpar fellow beings very similar to how the old humans treated their pet dogs, mended their forests, or bred their farm animals.
I met my first one in Münster, Germany, while working in the German judiciary. He led me to two others. So, it was altogether three meta persons who I watched for years. That was all of them I knew back then. That was 27 years ago. They said that there are more, many more, that they are everywhere, but that there are national and international chapters, and they prefer to gather where there are high concentrations of their source of power: portals to the Fifth Dimension.
They seemed strangely languid and alien to me, so I called them “Meister der Rede“ —literally: the Masters of Speech. They completely messed up their environment and controlled everybody with their fancy words and superior minds. So at least it seemed to me. These three specimens alone affect the entire judiciary of North-Rhine Westphalia, Germany. And their world, the world only they could see, I called a Law, “die Lehre vom Unterschied“—literally: the Law of Difference. I was just so overwhelmed by their secret that I wanted to throw my life away and kill myself.
But I couldn’t do it. I just had to find those portals. I showed myself. The meta have unlimited access to all the world’s top universities, so they sent me to Oxford University. That is now 21 years ago. Since then, I have been tracing them down, one portal after the other, all over the world. First Oxford. Next was Paris. I followed a Chinese meta called Ji Xianlin to Beijing in China. He knew. They know. They kept him in a psychiatric ward, the meta at Peking University, and he passed away just before I got to meet him. Next was Boston. Shanghai. Teheran. Tokyo. There are several points of contact now in the world, and I have discovered their portal to the Fifth Dimension here at IAHS at Peking University, the Institute for Advanced Humanistic Studies.
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Peking University is part of a global set of elected top universities, controlled by the great manipulators. It is NOT controlled by the Chinese government. PKU or “Beida” (for Beijing Daxue) is the mother lode of Chinese education because… who said so? Not the Chinese. Why would Shanghai people or Nanjing people or Xi’An people say, “Oh the best university is not here but 1000 miles away”? Beijing people don’t even speak their language [Beijing speaks Putonghua, a dialect]! It is insane, and humiliating to a billion people here, to say their bestest best are over there—so who is piling and pushing this monstrous global shite? It is of course the authors of the Global University Ranking racket in the West, Rothschild in the City of London, the Meta Covenant. Peking University and Tsinghua University were partly founded by missionaries. They are the heaviest infiltrated. There is a portal here. Western meta people come and go… as if this was their own house!
For the sake of argument, let us go along with their grand scheme. Idealized as the best school for the humanities in China, PKU should be able now to pick and choose the best talent from a population of 1.4 billion. That, however, amounts to statistical phantasmagoria. In real life, see, one either gets 100% accepted or 0% admission. If it were an evenly distributed statistical probability, nobody with a brain would ever plan for PKU or any other top university, because your chances to win a lottery go against 0. So, it can’t be a lottery, do you understand this?
Certain people just walk straight right in, 100% of the time. Others are rejected on the spot. The vast majority of the Chinese have absolutely no statistical chance to enter this place, ever, so a cruel game was concocted: exam farming. If the slaves underwent the most horrible path of self-mutilation and torture, they, too, could pass a nebulous, enigmatic National University Entrance Exam, then win a prize ticket for entering Peking University.
The results are horrific. Most of exam plantation’s churned-out “winners” look like freaks or abominations, with terrible eyesight, whimsical body frame, and severe mental illnesses like autism and depression. They sacrificed their childhood, never played with toys, were emotionally abused by their parents and teachers, and never experienced—I claim—happiness, love, and Self.
IMAGE 4 The Chinese Practice A LOT but who tells them to
Peking University indeed allotted quite a few places to these mutants with their tiny hands and oversized heads and absolutely no social skills. However, you will be shocked to know that for most Chinese leaders it is a walk in the park to get into Peking University. No torture camp is required. And we need to know why.
The owners and caretakers of the system do not sit their own tests. There are several other ways for them to get the positions they want. Democratic ways, even. For example, all presidents, directors, professors, researchers, and so on, are handpicked, selected, nominated by… guess by whom… their mentors and peers. Next, the entire spectrum of graduate education and research runs on nepotism, recommendation letters, and vague, flexible ideas about excellence. Excellence is deliberately kept vague, and the plantation owners change the definition at any time.
One year excellence could be enrolling more minorities, the other year it could be enrolling athletes. Money and guanxi—connections—are always excellent, see. During the last twenty years of globalism, excellence was enrolling the kids of parents who had overseas qualifications. That is also the reason why Chinese elites send their kids to Western universities where there are no entrance examinations. When they return to China, all entry barriers here have also disappeared—excellent! Western education means global. It also means: local rules do not apply.
This leaves us only with undergraduate education in China that requires the rites of mass examination, which is also mass deception. It is a silly demonstration of power, no more, but also no less. Think. You have the elites who have all the time and resources in China. They rule supreme. But the crowds got angry: Where is your legitimacy! The first Emperors set up a cruel annual slaughter-the-sheep wolf festival: The Imperial Exam System, today morphed into the Gaokao—”Important Test.”
IMAGE 5 Sheep or Sheeple No Difference Really
It is totally unnecessary. That is why in the West we don’t have it so cruel. Sure, America has SAT scores, Britain has A-Levels, Germany has the Abitur, France has the Baccalaureate, and so on. But these are just rituals of graduation for the elite class. The West has practiced social class segregation since the beginning of time. The lower half of the population doesn’t even know universities exist. They can’t see them. For the elites, however, if they have set their minds on a top university, they just go. There is no competition. And if junior doesn’t get the ubiquitous first grades he allegedly needed, no problem. In Germany, we have exactly 52 other ways to get into a university. It is just common sense. Therefore, any standardized College Entrance Exams in the West or China is superfluous.
China for some reason was historically a very autocratic and collective place. EVERYONE, even the average and low-intelligence sheeple populations, were herded to take part in mass exercises. Think. This will elevate the High Mandarins even higher. If everyone says, Oh that one at Peking U was selected from millions and millions of test-takers, he will eventually come to believe it himself. It is therefore in the interest of the Peking-U people, the Harvard-U people, the Oxford-U people, and all the U-people in the world, to have as many non-starter people as possible taking part in exam plantation rackets and, by design, collectively fail by the hundreds of millions. Because the higher the rejection rate, the bigger the egos of the [unelected] few.
Our so-called Western China Experts bought into the examination legend—hook, line and sinker. They, too, act as if they were the winners of a planetary fair competition with all the Chinese, so they stroke their Western egos. In reality, there never was such a competition for them.
They know they didn’t win any competition; they know their own students didn’t take part in such elaborated nonsense, but maybe—so the delusion—the Chinese peasants, millions upon millions, really had to be herded through the ultimate Bloodsport Kumite or something, who knows. In reality, (almost) nobody here at PKU took it. Of my hundreds of Chinese classmates during undergraduate education at Fudan University in Shanghai and Peking University in Beijing, none took the annual University Entrance Examination, or rather: Most participated but did not get the highest marks. Instead, they received school recommendation letters… schools, of course, where their parents—mayors, doctors, foremen, party officials—bore considerable influence.
Only the science majors are hard to cheat, but that is everywhere in the world the same, isn’t it? So, scientists do not rule a society. Society is ruled by humanists—politicians, lawyers, bankers, culture makers, artists, businessmen, writers, and historians. And to top it off, the ruling caste in China are intermarried and have their elite preparation schools anyway, so they don’t cross paths with the general population.
Next are the foreigners. If you are American, you just apply and walk into PKU. You have read this correctly. You just walk and bypass the 1.4 billion Chinese, pay maybe a symbolic $4000 study fee, and, voila, you are now a Peking University affiliate. This is what I mean by meta knowledge, or the hidden world.
Has Albert Einstein taken an English exam to get into Princeton University? No! Did the daughter of Xi Jinping pass an entrance exam to get into Harvard University? No! Are there even any entrance examinations at American Universities? Only for unwanted people, yes. Not for the ruling class though. Did Bill Gates need a degree for any of the things he did: Run a trillion dollars metaverse, run a trillion dollars real estate empire, run global pharmacy? Did Elon Musk pass a HSK Chinese exam to do anything he wants in China? No! “Oh, these are exceptions to the rule!” No, they are not, and You, sir, are a complete moron!
They think I am a Martian. It is hopeless. Listen, I had a friend in Aberdeen in Scotland from the oil business whose entire family went to Oxford University. His brother went, too. The professor told my friend he can’t take him on this year, because there’s a new India quota. So he was relined to Edinburgh University and told to later come back to Oxford as a postgraduate, no big deal. If you know what you want, and if there are no major catastrophes that could prevent you, then you simply go to Oxford University. Oh no, the Chinese say to me, you have to pass the Cambridge First Certificate English preparation class or the British Council IELTS mandatory language requirements. “Nonsense,” I cried. “An English person just walks in. A EU person just walks in. An American person just walks in.”
But the homework! Oh my god, the Asians have to do an insane amount of homework! I never did any homework in German school in my entire life. But the grades and marks! What about it? There is an American guy in International Relations at Peking University who doesn’t know a sentence in Chinese and doesn’t need to, because his father is a diplomat. I know plenty of visiting professors here at Peking University who do not speak Chinese fluently. The British held Hong Kong for 100 years and still, nobody bothered to speak Cantonese.
About 660,000 candidates take the HSK Chinese language exam each year, according to the Chinese government. A friend of mine from the States, an American-Chinese, does not give a sweat. He has hidden knowledge. He bypassed the entire system by simply calling up a Harvard Professor, donated $50k for a good cause, and became a Doctoral Candidate at Peking University, then went to Harvard also. What, you didn’t know this? There is a straight tunnel beneath those universities. Like the tunnels beneath Disneyland. I went to Harvard, too.
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Comes along the University of Tübingen, the China Center, a second-class Normal University in Germany. Its students are of no significance and absolutely not selected at all. China Studies is something everybody can study in Germany, and it’s better than unemployment or the welfare check. Peking University is world-class and would never collaborate with Tübingen University, right? Wrong! First, Tübingen has clean and seated toilets. Second, a multi-million euro German industrialist sold his billion euro companies to China under the condition that Peking University accepts his million euro donations so that some German kids can study here.
IMAGE 6 What is Tübingen or How Do We All Get Into PKU
So now we have these off-the-mill German students hanging around in the EU Center at Peking University which really is the Tübingen deal. They are morons, and none of them will ever become a top scholar in the world. They attend special classes, away from real PKU students, as in: They are attending classes for special students. Retards, in other words. They get retard classes. Can you imagine this? But it is true.
The director is a meta guy, alright. Very bright, just not American but German. Anyway, he tries to find maybe one or two outstanding German characters who will see through this bullshit, break loose, and find their own ways. He did not discover a single German meta in ten years. In fact, his students are so retarded, he probably wasted his teacher life but we shall see.
There are also funny moments to take away from this, of course. The Europeans want to mimic the Americans, fair enough. They tell their piss-poor [I work for free!] graduates that, in order to hang around and work some more unpaid years at a top university, they must publish two papers and their doctoral dissertation in some prestigious American journals. If those morons had put any attention to their director and trusted supervisor, they would have noticed that he did not fulfill his own requirements—at all! Directors are made by knowing the right people, and this is how meta persons operate in this world. Then they turn around to the infra and tell them: There is the requirement circus around the corner, go queue!
It is hopeless. People don’t see it. The current German Minister of Education is Anja Maria-Antonia Karliczek. She earned an online degree from a correspondence course from the Online University of Hagen. That‘s it. She became the MINISTER FOR ALL EDUCATION IN GERMANY, and you, Great Scholars of Moo, have been lied to all your farm lives!
You won‘t believe this next one, but it is real,… it is, it is… it really is. So those Tübingen University students are not at all qualified to study at Peking University, alright? Well, now they are here. What do they do? They are doing activism, of course! Below is a recruitment advertisement for China Studies from Tübingen University. Hold your chest, this is the stuff of ridicule. The Department for China Studies is looking for… wait for it… females, morons, and the mentally ill!
IMAGE 7 Tubingen U hires females morons and the mentally ill for Taiwan Studies
It is real. Who wrote this abomination? They are preying on mentally disabled people! It gets better. If you read the area description, it is a job for “Taiwan Studies.” Wait, what? Tübingen U separates Taiwan from China? That means that Peking U is in a partnership with Tübingen U that actively hires Taiwan activists and promotes secession from Beijing. At this stage of cancer, could we please all agree that we can’t blame the Germans. The German metastasis just grows and grows… but it is the Chinese deans and dons who are the corrupt push-overs.
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Most meta, certainly the most powerful ones, operate out of the UK and America—not Europe. Europe has bled too many of them, I think. That’s why today Europe is losing its grip on the hidden dimension. For example, since the “normal” professors in Europe are state employees—much like teachers, nurses, and mailmen—they have internalized all those infra rules and regulations intended for the slave classes.
For example, European professors seem to believe in salaried work and state pensions. It means they expect a fixed salary and retirement at age 65. What, are you coal miners and bus drivers? A human being, if he or she has meta knowledge, has no fixed salary and no retirement age. Who washed your brains?
Elite universities are life-extension facilities for the meta. I bumped into professor Hans Küng, the alternative pope, age 82, at Peking U. And with Noam Chomsky, age 82, at MIT. Most directors I met in China were in their 70s and 80s. They were sages. Henry Kissinger got another honorary professorship from PKU, age 90. He visited us again, age 95. My active director, Tu Weiming, was age 80. When all his buddies came together, they were older than Time. Ji Xianlin, the Sage of Beida, refused to rest until age 98. The great practitioners of Dao enhance their lives to 150 years.
We have thousands of European professors forced into arbitrary retirement in France and Germany who are desperate to apply for meta posts… in America or Asia. “I can work Saturdays and Sundays in China, and phone my business partners after 6 p.m.—it’s awesome!” a Swedish philanthropist, age 81, told me. “Oh, and they respect Old Age.” Europe could become the most depraved place within a century.
One Chinese teacher took me aside: “We have a saying in China: Bao ren bu zhi eren ji.” I knew that one, it literally says “The satiated don’t know the starvers’ agony.” It is never used on food. Satiated in our language is derived from Latin satia and means “enough.” “The have-enoughs look down on the having-nothing-at-alls” would be a living transliteration, I suppose. The Chinese are starved-out people, exhausted. They do not know how the hidden world works. They think they can beat the West by working twice as hard for half the wage. They repeat what their ancestors did for the last 3,000 years, even if that what total shite, got their last Dynasty collapsed, got their people enslaved by Western powers [and the Japanese, harrumph], and got their space-galactical Summer Palace burned down to the naked stone.
“But what can we do,” said one Chinese Law student. Well, it helps to disgrace your ancestors. Maybe drop the name your parents gave you and pick a neat Western one? Justin Yifu Lin? Vincent Tao? Or how about adding the suffix “-berg,” as in Zuckerberg, Goldberg, Spielberg, or Pattberg?
Warped in Mark Zuckerberg to Tsinghua University, in 2015. Tsinghua is just across the street, cross-opposite PKU. The meta CEO lectured the hungry Chinese about global success. But Mr. Zuckerberg embodied everything the Chinese students are not: He is a Berg, he attended Harvard, he dropped out, and he is American. His audiences didn’t read the situation. If they had been successful, they wouldn’t be here. And so Mr. Zuckerberg mocked them even more, with talks about meta and the metaverse. Mr. Zuckerberg laid out his and his companies’ plans for world domination, and nobody in the grand auditorium here in Tsinghua seemed to notice. [Six years later, in 2021, he officially changed the Facebook empire into Meta Group.] The audiences were ecstatic. Mr. Zuckerberg could have plainly said: “Listen, we Americans control Higher Education in China. In fact, we own Peking U with our Stanford and Harvard portals, own Tsinghua U with Schwarzman, the banks and big tech; we are building a New Humanity, but all is hidden plainly in sight under your noses, so I am telling you everything is hidden, and you think us Bergs are some magicians.”
Part III. Famebation and Chinahilation
More meta techniques. One Austrian guy from Tsinghua never studied there. Instead, he flashed his brand-new business cards with the Tsinghua U logo on them. Not fiddling about the legal edges, he set up a [fake] Tsinghua U affiliated Consulting Group, an International English school, and a Tsinghua U Technology Review. One American guy claimed he was the International Director for Baidu, the Chinese search engine.
One lady, American also, of course Harvard, used the Tsinghua brand to become the top China feminism scholar. If you are a Chinese person and you do something similar with Western names, they will delete you. But for Western people, it is a quick and easy conquest. Soon four, five, six Western papers will mention you. If the Chinese complain, hundreds of Western papers will side with the Westerners, so that in the end the Chinese names, brands, and trademarks are now Western properties, controlled by Western persons.
Strike together, not divided. There is no way the Chinese can defend this. It is a global gang-up and loot and appropriation of everything Chinese. One Italian meta guy came out of nowhere and to Peking University. He was exceptionally wealthy, ruthless, and lying like a politician. He quickly joined the meta list and they said to him “Write a book on Chairman Mao.” That book, and not the 100,000 other texts written by infra Chinese nobodies, will be made THE book on Chairman Mao. There was a sarcastic frenzy among Western China Experts. In case you don’t know this, the first Western imperialists who messed up China in the 17th century were Italian Jesuits. It was an Italian priest, Matteo Ricci, dispatched by Rome, who became the real Pope of China, the God of Chinese Science, the Founder of the Catholic Church in China, the First Translator, the First Cartographer. If you study China Studies, you will be studying Italian Ricci as the closest thing to the Founding of China. Chinese Religion basically is Matteo Ricci, and not just him, but all those Roman Jesuits. They had their part in founding Peking University, too. Sending in a new Italian meta mafioso, 400 years later, is just so brutal and genius. It is a great metaphor for the Western powers cutting up China and dividing the meat plate.
American imperialists are by far the most reckless. They don’t see the harm they inflict and they cannot be repelled. Within 6 years I stayed in Beijing (2006-2012), the Americans fabricated global experts on Chinese politics, Chinese food, Chinese family planning, and Chinese spacecraft. In my book The Xin-Civilization, I explained how a single detachment from the Harvard battalion here in Beijing—composed of journalists, scholars, and informants—was working systematically on attaching American Harvardians to Chinese intellectual property. The Americans are making sure that everything of importance that ever happens at Peking University will end up being attributed and referenced to some Harvard person.
IMAGE 8 Harvard People Attach Themselves To China Stories In The New York Times
While everything of relevancy and immediacy is picked up by US command and control centers (CC&Cs) in North America and Western Europe, the scribblers of the Empire of Lies [and Sanctions] are pumping toxic hate and nefarious falsehoods about China into the global media. About this, I have also written a protocol, Press Soldiers – How Western Journalists Subvert and Destabilize China. [GET YOUR COPY!]
The press soldiers boost the [bogus] China experts who in reality are agents of the West. Here’s on outline:
IMAGE 9 Press Soldiers Fabricate The Leaders For China
Next the press soldiers promote Chinese dissidents to real heroes, saints, and martyrs. Here’s an overview:
IMAGE 10 Press Soldiers Fabricate The Heroes For China
Let’s not give them even more attention. Instead, let’s use the worn-out image of Albert Einstein again—pars pro toto, one case stands for all cases: Everybody in the world knows this person for a reason. He looks the part of a mad scientist. He was chosen as the front-facing public persona to represent physics, even though physics back in 1905 was a 1,000,000-people-strong science.
The celebrity propaganda is so strong that Americans today believe scientist Albert Einstein to have invented time, time travel, the universe, and atom bombs, and that he is the No. 1 American Scientist of all time. Even though he was a German with a Swiss passport who wrote in a language no real American can read. He also belonged to a certain ethnic tribe, but this aside.
Now, since you probably cannot remember I’ll help you out: You actually know everything about Albert Einstein—except his papers! Because the papers, as I said, are in German, and physics is a 1,000,000-people-strong research team, and those researchers know the research anyway, regardless of Mr. Einstein. They could tell you physics was a vegetable sitting in a wheelchair, and you would believe that as well. In China, it is exactly the same. The Chinese learn, like the rest of the world, Albert Einstein the American scientist, Albert Einstein the global brand, and Albert Einstein the public intellectual. For what? Who put this celebrity pornography into our brains?
No Chinese, and none of us humans in general, has chosen this person to represent physics or time travel or the universe or America. It was all well-crafted but a certain syndicate, and we must all learn its ways. Now look at all global public figures and you will see the pattern. It is in plain sight, even if it is hidden: The West is the inventor of ALL historical figures in the world.
Part IV. The Digital Invasion of China
Around 2006, America launched the digital invasion of China. The Internet was always American. The World Wide Web… American. But not all websites. The global take-over was quick. Europe had fallen, online. There are no European Internet firms today. China still has them but was quickly outclassed. Beijing’s lawmakers fought back against the righteous US Empire’s tech firms, but that, as I hope we can all agree on now, amounts to human rights abuse.
IMAGE 11 Search results for Xi Jinping are all US or UK owned
At Stanford University, Yale, Durham, Princeton, the (British) University of Hong Kong, Berkeley, and hundreds of Western universities and their subsidiaries in China and everywhere in Asia (you didn’t know they run overseas operations?), groups had formed who transferred China knowledge to themselves. All Western universities built laborious websites with research topics, researchers, and biographies intended to draw Internet traffic away from China toward the West.
They called it meta coding. It means you manipulate the Internet in such a way that you become the expert on all the topics. The Internet search engines, encyclopedias, and social networks—all US global tech monopolies—would give preference to US scholars, US schools, and US sources of all knowledge available on the planet. So, nation states like China were pretty much over.
IMAGE 12 Search results for Confucius are all US or UK owned
At Peking University in 2004, we barely had a university website or Internet representation online. The Americans owned Peking University from the very first day of the Internet since all searches pointed away from China towards the United States.
You will see in the two screenshots above that, even now in 2022, all search results on the Internet for “Confucius” or the Chinese President “Xi Jinping” will send you to US-UK platforms. It is the same FOR EVERYTHING that ever existed or exists or will exist in China. China in the digital realm is completely taken hostage by a foreign force. That is a fact, and the Chinese didn’t see it coming. They thought the British would come again with opium and gunboats.
Western universities that were the beneficiaries of 400 years Western colonialism, now put up their China collections online. It was the final humiliation, I think. Before the Internet, the Chinese had to travel to the West to study China. Now, they just click away and land in the West.
You can confirm this yourself. Just use Google and search for “Chinese Classics.” The top ten results are Western authorities: Wikipedia, Routledge [the publisher], Goodreads, Chinese Text Project [Harvard], Amazon [the bookseller], a library in Toronto [how did this get in?], a cultural center in Sydney [probably Australia is up on Googling], Google Books [Google’ own ads, yeah!], Springer [the academic monopolist], and Princeton University. Your results will differ slightly, but please do try.
By 2012, almost every Western academic had been given a Wikipedia profile. US Wikipedia is the global Internet Encyclopedia, the first destination for research using the Internet. Suddenly, all China experts were listed in global encyclopedias, while the object of their studies, the Chinese scholars, were not. No Chinese professor had an internet persona, so they might as well have not existed at all.
The Harvard and Stanford teams at Beida worked weeks and months on profiling American-Chinese professors who had a proven US track record and US degrees, and ignored all the rest of the Chinese-Chinese talent. [Now you might say, if you know all this, why is PKU not inserting the missing Chinese professors into the global database themselves? That is impossible, but PKU and others tried, yes. Short story: Everybody who is not known in the West is immediately marked for deletion. China set up its own Internet Encyclopedia, Baike. Needless to say, having just a Chinese profile is an even greater reason for deletion in the West.]
IMAGE 13 Which Chinese Professors Do Get Mentioned and Which Do Not
Western tech firms and Western content creators elevated their own universities and research groups and favorite Western celebrities to total world domination, not just .edu landing pages, but Research databases, newssites, publishers, think tanks like the Asia Society or Foreign Policy. At the same time, they blew out the lights on unwelcome Chinese contemporaries, forever. Above is a snapshot of the Academic Committee of my former Research Institute at Peking University. These are all geniuses. This is 2022. Only the three professors who studied at Harvard got a global Internet profile from the Harvard wiki team. The other six professors, even though we sent two of them as Visiting Scholars to Harvard, were blocked or deleted as irrelevant. Their research and achievements in literature, history, and philology are then attributed to Western rivals with similar interests.
One American student googled a superb English translation of the Book of Tao by a Peking University professor canceled in the West. The American simply used it as if the words were his, set up a US Youtube channel, got boosted by US Google, and attracted tens of millions of views to Chinese Taoism. Tens of millions! [I laughed so hard. Peking University is kind of superfluous now. Kids can do it!]
Whoever said that “the test of merit was survival” had a point, but probably meant it in an organic, natural way. But nothing today is organic or natural, it is synthetic and fabricated. US tech command & control do suppress pro-China voices. [Good luck finding the opinions of Josef Gregory Mahoney or Larry Romanoff organically.] Those who side with China are not going to survive in history.
Google, Youtube, Facebook, Wikipedia… are now all blocked in China. The Americans withdrew from China in rage and with bloody revenge fantasies, I can tell you this much. “Withdrawal” is too strong a word anyway, because Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Yahoo, Wikipedia, and all monopolies are still here, or shall we say especially here, at Peking and Tsinghua University, and in Zhongguancun, the Silicon Valley of China. They just cannot operate in the open as they wished, not with fancy billboards and tv commercials and ad campaigns. What they still do in China, however, is data mining, surveillance, and subverting the Chinese internet.
In fact, all American cartels are operating in China. I recall 2011 when US Apple opened its Apple Showcase Room inside Peking University Library. Or when US Subway Fast Food Chain opened its Sandwich store close to the Democracy Triangle. All three locations were unreal and proved to be clever US marketing. Provoke controversy and brand awareness.
IMAGE 14 Inside Peking University Apple Showcase Room and American Subway Fastfood Chain
Between 2004 and 2020, there were more US cyber-attacks on Chinese data than there were US bio-attacks on Chinese food supply chains and livestock. It was never reported. Beijing warned the United Nations that America was up to no good in the Asia Pacific. By 2016, it was too late. Way too late. China outside America is wholly embargoed. It ceases to exist. Instead, on any topic, you will be redirected to some Chinese dissidents, Western journalists, and Western books. And the Internet is all more or less anti-Chinese.
When we wanted to meet a [fake] scholar at Stanford University, Francis Fukuyama, he demanded $20k fees. Our institute booked $50k flights and accommodation for the directors, and non-professors had to self-pay. It added nothing of substance to scholarship, if you still live in the four-dimensional world. But if you see the five-dimensional world, it means EVERYTHING.
What can be done against Western world supremacy? Nothing. The meta people are going to unleash five-dimensional war and destruction. Peking and Tsinghua University are subverted. China has no counter attack. It can’t even see it. It is finished. Finis Sinarum.
The author is a German Writer and Cultural Critic. BUY HIS BOOKS!
IMAGE 15 The Portal
“They are not per se evil in the traditional, biblical sense. ”
Utterly and incontrovertibly disagree (no caps and no attacking language). They are satanically evil to their core, it is that evil that binds them so tightly together despite any other differences.
It is apparent that the lack of standards and Chinese language competency is that the “west” is trying to send messages only to the western audience about China. China will obviously lose a media/propaganda war with the west, as well Russia and Eurasia in general.
But this is the only war “they” can win.
It is amazing the mental gymnastics needed to justify declining living standards, life expectancy, scientific decline, and military defeats.
The circumstances are building up for a great cognitive dissonance.
There is a Chinese saying that goes like this: “百无一用是书生“. It can be roughly translated as “Scholars are the most useless people.” This article proved that saying. Removed. No attacking the author. Mod.
I started doing business in China in 1989. Built my chemical manufacturing plant in 1998. After twenty some years, I sold it to my Chinese partner and stayed on to help the buyer for some time. I have witnessed all kind of Chinese along the way, all kinds.
The author is absolutely correct in pointing out some Chinese academy and university deficiencies. But that sector is only a small facet of a large and diverse society.
Chinese can be naive in dealing with the West, especially in the self-important universities. Even in the Western academic circle, educational institutions have been branded as “Ivory Towers”, for a reason.
Chinese society is multi-faceted. The really capable and down-to-earth people gravitated to the high-tech, the defense, and the basic sciences fields. Here, US/UK/EU/Japan could not penetrate and could not compete either. Chinese financial geeks can live or die with the latest combined West finance fads, but that is only about money. Real industrial strength is more than money. I am confident that the Chinese are very good at the real industrial strength, in spite of their useless scholars.
It took Russia 30 years to understand the true colors of the combined West. In 2022, no more sweet talks from the combined West can fool Russia anymore. China is smart enough to learn from the Ukraine fiasco the true nature of the combined West.
Knowing China, knowing the Chinese people, I believe Thorsten J. Pattberg is too reflective and too confined in his field of samples. Let the US play, even CIA’s Burns complained that CIA had been unsuccessful in recruiting Chinese assets. May be Thorsten J. Pattberg can point the way for US/EU/UK/Japan agencies before his China expiration date is up.
We shall witness in the near future that China is larger than this article’s shallow, and narrow observations.
I am glad to hear you kitaysup’
There is something about « scholars » that I am starting to realize. No matter how educated, smart, good at playing chess or how marxists or not they are, I find them ( o judgmental me) too caught up in their righteousness, ending up narrow minded. No matter how exact, correct and precise they are.
I get turned off somehow. There is not much hope for a fruitful exchange.
And it seems that on topics like Zionist « lobbying », Jewish financiers creating/sponsoring both capitalism and communism, or about the « kabbale » and its agenda, there is a bit of political correctness in the conditioning. Anti-Semitic conspiracy theory propaganda of the « plebeians », i means the not so well educated people.
Not to say that the author is like that. Plus, i don’t intend to create more division among us than there is already.
Anyway, it seems that talking about « religious « agenda behind materialism and evil is considered off limit. Maybe it is off topic too. ;-)
Back on track (I hope): Yes U.S is bad, consumerism is consuming us, and Chinese are part of us, and «Gaffam» and whatnot is pervasive.
Many good reasons to be negative and spread bad news. We get easily caught up in negativity.
In fact we can easily feed on negativity and spread it.
I have also my own conditioning and biases and it is important to get in touch with it so it doesn’t drive me unconsciously.
About China, I have high regards and hope as well as fear.
That fear is not clear.
I think it is part of the conditioning instilled, kind of like in the « time machine » of H-G Wells, where/when, at some point in the future, there is a sheeplike people living the good carefree life and the underground people working to supply those people under the sun, until it is « harvest time ».
Weird analogy. But fear in the unconscious is not rational.
Anyway, I deal with anxiety almost every morning waking up and I accept the fact that it might be that until I die. Nonetheless, that acceptance brings relaxation and I can proceed with my day appreciating what life brings.
Have a good one everybody and « Long live China! » ;-)
Chinese roots are deep, like Indian roots or African roots. Any people/country really that is honoring their traditions. As they say, those in touch with their past have a future.
@KitaySupporter
I agree with you 100%. I thought this article was at least 50% too long & concentrated far too much on Universities. That is hardly why China “Cannot Win This” which I thought before I even even read the article!
In Australia Chinese & Indian students are given diplomas even though a great many don’t speak enough English to understand the subject. They put them in groups to study with some poor local Australian student expected to write up the “groups” output! It’s a scam here & I’m sure acoss the Western World. So picking on education to say China will loose is BS to me.
Let’s understand that a significant part of universities in the West( yes Australia to for want of a better grouping label) are a scam. Billions are earned through foreign student fees which are often 3 times the local fee and an equivalent amount is spent by them I local area for housing and other living expenses.
In many universities foreign students Constitute 30-40 % student population ie they collect as much from the foreign students as from the local students even though their numbers are only a third of the local students.
In many universities not in top tier people from middle classes of third world countries come often these are from the richer among the small town people. They often pay their way through school to get certificates and often through similar on the take private colleges designed to cater to releive the money from these small town wanna be elites.
It is these who often with fake university degrees etc do not know english.
In India people who speak, study and converse daily in English from childhood are many many times the total population of Australia. So if you are getting students who can’t understand English you should understand where you are in the global pecking order of most sought after destinations for education for indians.
Removed. Mod. Reality is the exact opposite of what Pattberg claims. The U.S. with hordes of undereducated masses and a mere tens of thousands of fluent Mandarin speakers is no match for China with its highly educated citizenry and tens of millions of fluent English speakers. In almost every technological area China has caught up or surpassed the U.S., using transfer, theft, and home-grown innovation. The Eurasian axis led by China and Russia and now including India has all the resources and technology it needs and can wave bye-bye to the West. All the West will soon have is a useless psyops industry and a sullied reputation.
The Chinese government will be watching everything that goes on, will receive their cut of the profits and will be laughing when they run circles around fast-tracked silver spoons who have a masters from Peking or Yale in International Bollocks.
If you’re at the cutting edge of engineering or science, then that’s another story. Will those degrees in International Political Bullshit get you onto Russia-China-India or Iran’s Space-Missile programs?
We’ve all witnessed how Americans do diplomacy, they don’t, that’s about to change though in the new reality.
All Change!
There is a Chinese saying that goes like this: “百无一用是书生“. It can be roughly translated as “Scholars are the most useless people”.
I had to laugh at this. It was the Englishman, George Orwell, who wrote “Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them.””
After dealing with intellectuals at an Aus university for 20 yrs, I confirm the truth of this from personal observation. :-)
While I agree with Kitay that China is huge with many layers that run deep, Thorston P has totally nailed it. I can give examples from my own experience having lived in China as a Director of a German multinational company, and my back and forth to that country since 1989.
Or, I can give examples of my children who made it to Harvard and Stanford, and my total and utter disgust at those institutions I was once so proud my kids went to.
Or, I can give examples from my having worked with the board of private education (the ‘private’ as in private equity owned), who charge rip off fees of $ 75,000 per year expect students to take loans and governments to guarantee these loans, or parents to mortgage houses so there is no risk to their investments.
Or, I can give specific examples from the arts, such as music or literature where the biggest mistake is to think perfecting some kind of talent is required. “ Torture” is the precise word here.
Thank you, Thorsten. I am still thinking of your article a day after I read it. No human being can define the entire truth, but you have shed light on many dark falsehoods. The truth does set one free. The shackles are mental ones which are invisible to us unless we start questioning. Knowing the game is rigged, one can then decide not to play it and instead to live with dignity, peace of mind, and a sense of humour at how ridiculous it all is.
Thank you, again!
P.S. I will buy your book.
“‘What can be done against Western world supremacy? Nothing. The meta people are going to unleash five-dimensional war and destruction. Peking and Tsinghua University are subverted. China has no counter attack. It can’t even see it. It is finished. “‘
I am extremely unlikely to buy the books of someone with such a limited view, and such a defeated, defeatist, negative one, at that.
It seem to me – I may be wrong of course – from what I read of your piece – it was too long and rambling never getting to a point for my taste – that you may have spent time in China but I suspect failed to understand the Chinese mind. It’s hard to impossible for a Western person – especially a German – to do. They are more than poles apar, they are light years apart, from different parts of the Universe.
I disagree with you, that just because a handful of academics have had their brains twisted by Western perversions of thought, as, in fact, they have in many Russian Universities, this means the entire people with their 3000 yr history of developed culture and thought are gone, doomed and unable to fight back.
There is something you can never see – it’s been the same with my own people. Because we dont make noise about rejecting your culture, you think we have succumbed. No. we just go our way, quietly taking absolutely no notice at all. And eventually you fall, and we are still there.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkBQAvAFjus
Spot on Pamela !
Hi Pamela. Thank you for standing your ground and getting promptly to the meat.
One objection I have though, is about your affirmation that Germans can’t get close at understanding Chinese(s).
I do appreciate the translation of the I Ching by Robert Wilhelm.
What got me dumbfounded was an article this morning about the German soccer team all pausing for the camera with their hand on their mouth because the Qatar officials didn’t allow westerners to wear their LGBT arm-band One Love…
The Qatar authority responded to that by: « as long as they respect our request, they can put their hand wherever they want ».
What a grotesque act. Dumb.
That hand on the mouth reflects much on the stance about NS1and NS2.
Who? Why? Sshhhush.
Decadence at its best.
I agree – for want of a better argument she dropped to insults of race –
Hi Eric, Thank you for your comment.
My comment about ” It’s hard to impossible for a Western person – especially a German – to do.”‘ was, of course, from observational data.
It’s certainly not “‘racist” as one person has claimed. Few of us can observe the world over many years and not be aware that there are national characteristics which are expressed many ways. Among this are different ways of thinking, of seeing the world. You get especially tuned to this if, like myself, you are of one genetic tribe, having to live your life among a different one.
It’s long been observed that German people tend to be very conscientious, hard working, and fairly concret bound. My own Nain [Grandmother] held they were the best of employers, treating their workers with respect and fairness.
However, that more linear, concret mindset is not the best for understanding a very subtle, complex mindset which has given rise to a very different type of culture and world outlook. Who in their right mind is going to claim that Germany and China are identical, when I read many international commentator stating that Russia and China are in no way alike :-)
It’s so part of modern ersatz liberalism I’m afraid, to label as ”racist” a simple factual observation.
I also enjoyed Jungs translation of the I Ching, which he discussed extensively with Robert Wilhelm. There are those of any race who can learn from any other peoples, and appreciate them and their culture,.
But that doesnt mean they can have a deep understanding of how their mind works, and empathise with any aspect of it :-)
A foreigner who is lucky enough to live in China would be well instructed to keep their eyes open and mouth shut: what they think they know doesn’t apply in such a vastly different culture.. A German, Brit, or US American will be greatly disappointed to find no fat people in China; where health and happiness prevail..
Thanks Pamela. I do agree with you. Same with the Indian cast system. It is too complex , almost alive, as it is evolving in time. Although not perfect, it allows distinct « races » cultures and natures to coexist for the best of the group and the individuals. It is a system « by default », as we, humans, have lost touch Individually with our natures to fit the larger organism. “Kali yuga” time.
Indian or Chinese civilizations are old! They lasted through time and trials.
The freedom from any boundary, as the main driving desire of the west, is leading its civilization to vanish.
Hexagram 60 « limitation” of the I Ching speaks well about it.
As a westerner, I won’t perceive as a Chinese does. Yet, if I cultivate my own tradition and find my nature and limits that define me, then I find my place in the whole, in resonance with other traditions, though different.
Here in the west, Christ seems to be the rallying figure, and yet, on one side, so many interpretations according to the Protestant fancy, or, on another side, one more than questionable authority figure in the jésuite pope Francis, carrying the banner of Gaia/LGBT/Pfizer, following the dictates from “God’s people”, the chosen people…
Remains the Orthodox Church(es), that brings us to the border of western world.
We are quite divided and yet if we go deep enough we get in touch with unity.
I resonate with Jesus, with Shiva and Shakti, with the Tao, yin and Yang and harmony.
Time to go, sun is still shining out there. In northern wisconsin, we ‘d better not miss the opportunity. Have a good one.
Well, perhaps you should read the article Pamela.
Thorsten Pattberg seems to have hit a raw nerve with many readers. I also disagree with the view that China is irretrievably captive, but find great relevance and value in what he writes. Centuries of imperial domination do not evaporate overnight, but leave mental slaves behind.
Pessimism and optimism are only relevant when measured against our own hopes and fears. These words are meaningless in objective external reality.
On the other hand, courtesy and kindness are never misplaced, though distinctly absent in your post.
My external thanks to the Saker site for hosting so many interesting views. This article and the recent one about Scholz visiting China are gems.
Perhaps the American War On China will benefit China, just as 2014 sanctions ended up benefiting Russia.
Saker/admin, I highly recommend you remove this article. Whether it is satire or not, it is utter nonsense and rubbish. The writer clearly has no idea what he’s talking about and rambles on far too long. In fact, by putting this crap up on your page, you’re just perpetuating all the lies the West makes up about China (whether true or false!).
You have no idea how China is aiding Russia in the SMO, only in the future history books may we later find out and without China’s financial and political support, Russia couldn’t do this.
Completely agree with allperils, indeed all Pattberg’s ramblings are heavily laced with personal prejudice that offer nothing of value to the reader and devalue the worth of this otherwise useful blog
Fully agree – you went further than I did in an earlier comment – – It is usless & should be removed.
What is the point to have this article removed? Like Twitter and Co?
It is here in the open and so be it.
Those who read the whole thing might be frustrated, but, again, it is all grist for the mill.
That might be an opportunity for the author to get those feedbacks in, process them, and feel whatever is there.
Get to know oneself a little better. Get to know one another. So lonely these days.
I appreciate that the author brings articles on the blog, even if I often give up before the end, because there are the comments following!
Even if I dislike, it is part of a process worth it and needed I believe.
My critic is: if the style (the sauce) or the “meat” are so-so or missing, then it is preferable to be concise.
Like I said, whether it is meant as satire or not, it’s bad taste for the Saker’s site. The likes of Twit and Co can post what they wish, I don’t load their sites.
The author, if he reads my comment, he only knows China and the Chinese people superficially, I can tell. The Westerners in general (including the author), often portray Chinese as some faceless group of people. This is wrong on so many levels. Do they watch Chinese movies, listen to Chinese songs, follow famous Chinese celebs, etc etc? No, they don’t…I do, and I can tell you, you won’t “learn about China” with that kinda mindset.
I won’t waste any more time trying to convince the Saker admin to pull the article, as it’s their site. But I will say this, I’ve been a huge supporter of Saker for years. If you keep this up, I’ll treat the site as an extension of CNN or BBC.
@Eric
Why remove all of Pattberg’s incoherent ramblings? There is no place for a flat earther in a geography textbook, unless the publishers of that textbook are happy to be regarded as a laughing stock.
To include such crapulent stuff would also be an argument to include articles from Fox News, CNN, the Atlantic and all MSM sewer outlets as well, for the sake of “balance”
Thorsten Pattersonberf 3rd is one of Saker’s favorite authors.
I’d like to know how a lie becomes true.
Can people lie when they tell the truth?
And who determines and defends this universal truth.
wow – Thorsen Patterberg the third is completely lost in the meta world – university is only for narrowminded idiots
Over 50 years ago, my English public school – one of the best known – offered me a “reserved” place at Cambridge. I guess I was being groomed for the meta. I turned them down as I wanted to go to Imperial College like my father. They were quite shocked. On the other hand, it meant that they could offer this place to another kid who was keen to get on the escalator.
I have always tried to live outside the metaverse. I have no regrets. These guys are behind the scamdemic and the demicide.
I will tell you how “China will win this”…China has suffered a “century of humiliation”, and for the past 30+ years, behind closed doors, the Chinese leadership and their military industrial complex has not stopped arming themselves up to the teeth. They spent just as much effort hiding this as well. It is a matter of when, not if, when China’s gloves come off. And when that happens, I assure you, you will be astonished at what happens. It will be an exact opposite of how the Russians made their big move (SMO). The Chinese will strike with extreme coordination, precision, and will likely change the way wars are fought forever …. JUST like they did in the 2008 Olympic opening ceremonies in Beijing.
Some of my friends who lived in China said that the Chinese are rational and calculating. I do not think the Chinese do not want to see the Westerners as they are, just the opposite they don’t want the gwailous to experience the real China. I suspect that all these university gateways to China are more like shop-windows or rather mirrors for the Westerners. They do not allow to learn their language at the most proficient level to have a deep insight into their culture. Meta or infra Westerners are the same in this matter. But they do want to learn the most about foreign cultures. I was in Hungary at around 1989 when the Soviet Union collapsed and the Western so-called democracy came into power with several arbitrary parties and profiled politicians. Almost immediately after the regime change tens of thousands of Chinese immigrants arrived in the country. The got small loans from their own community and opened up small businesses (shops, market stalls, restaurants) in several cities. They have children, speak the language, and may know everything about local culture and business. It seems to happen all over. I just cannot imagine it was spontaneous. Also, the “useless Chinese Scholar” is a facade in my opinion. The Chinese know more about the outside world than the outside world knows about them. Their plans, ambitions and capabilities.
China broke the back of the CIA network on the mainland after they organized a series of terrorist attacks in Xinjiang & killed hundreds of innocent civilians.
The CIA then decamped to the US Consulate in HongKong & began plotting their attacks culminating in the riots of 2014 and 2019.
Historian Fernand Braudel suggests that Chinese civilization itself makes it hard for the West to understand China:
Imagine the impact on European civilization of a series of Imperial dynasties maintaining the self-same style and significance from Caesar Augustus until WWI.
Now imagine such a civilization existing on the other side of the planet – unaware of Greek philosophy, the alphabet, Roman governance, Christianity, feudalism, the Renaissance, the Enlightenment or democracy – but with its own, unique cultural and institutional correlates that exceeded all of them in intellectual subtlety and material success. A History of Civilizations. Fernand Braudel.
Let’s break that down:
Most Westerners struggle to imagine living in a society whose priorities and values are different. My best friend, who loved French literature, won a scholarship to the Sorbonne and moved to Paris. Six months later returned to Australia. He hated France! He had no idea that French culture, values and attitudes are so different from our own.
Most Westerners cannot imagine a society more advanced than theirs. Centuries of Western military domination made them richer, which convinced them they are smarter. Now we know the truth, but they still struggle with the illusion of Western wealth and superiority.
The first Westerners encountered China at its worst. 250 years ago, Chinese government officials ignored the rapid development of Western arms during Europe’s endless wars. China was close to perfect, they said, and could learn nothing from barbarians. So Western soldiers invaded and devastated Chinese society, then Western civilians came and saw poor people living in hovels. Western media still present China as a a failure and, when it doesn’t fail, predict that it soon will. They want China to become the ‘China’ they first encountered and exploited.
Western society’s Roman, Christian roots explain its rapacity, violence and intolerance. After Rome fell, Western states robbed and burned each other for thousands of years. Then they learned how to sail, then robbed and burned foreign countries for centuries. They still do (peace-loving Germany had the most troops in Afghanistan after the US). The fact that China is rich and has the most powerful military in the West Pacific makes Westerners envious, angry and frustrated. Envious, angry, frustrated people don’t want to understand anything!
China looks better and the West looks worse every year. There are more prisoners, hungry children, drug addicts, poor, suicides, executions, illiterate, homeless people in America than in China. The Chinese live longer, healthier lives than Americans and their kids graduate high school 3 years ahead of Western kids. What will happen when the whole world learns that? And when wages catch up?
Ref: https://herecomeschina.substack.com/p/why-cant-the-west-understand-china
The writer is too fixated on Chinese academia as super important in Chinese govt policies and subverting these policies to the advantage of the west
He couldn’t be more wrong.
The Chinese people and their communist CPC govt know exactly what these academics are. China’s version of Atlanticists. People who only works for western imperialism.
Most people outside of China do not understand that China and their communist govt is very open to differing voices. Even their Politburo works on common consensus. The majority has to agree. It’s not “Emperor Xi” in any way. Xi gets his way because of his visions and ideas, proven to work, in his decades as a political leaders in various layers of society, starting as a village party secretary.
These academics are tolerated, just as the capitalist sellouts in Didi, Alibaba, because they have no real clout in the govt. These “白左” can screech all they want about the coming collapse of China. The common people ignores them. Only the pro west minority of Chinese people cream over the rantings of their false gods worshipping the false western gods.
Me? A foreigner living in China for coming 10 years in a tier 4 city.
Pattberg is not to be taken completely literally. But good, even if a little exaggerated. However, one interesting angle is, China elites seem to want this deep interconnectedness and integration with West, which shows in pretty tepid support of Russian SMO.
Good morning. One important aspect of China’s resistance to that “virtual opium war” is the regulation of video games use for kids under 18. They succeeded in limiting their use to one hour/evening on Friday, Saturday, Sunday. Of course kids go on tik tok and social media, but, still, it is a positive step to wean addiction and not fall in the decadent western mode.
Hugely provoking – from a different view to be sure!
1) More-ons are those that took too many Less-ons
2)China is the, paradoxical, leader in Infra-structure world-wide
Humanities scholars are totally disconnected from physical economics, never mind physics.
The Meta do in fact reject the Infra – they have ruined the agro-industrial economies of the West. China fully understands this, hence Infra-structure, the basis for development world-wide.
Meanwhile back at Zuckerberg’s 5th dimensional Ranch :
Meta Reportedly Readying To Fire 1000s This Week
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/meta-reportedly-readying-fire-1000s-week
Just to emphasize, the RF is turning off Ukraine’s infra-structure, (also standard USMC policy).
MSM cannot even fathom what that means – they are in the Meta-verse.
Even Ukrainians likely up to now had no physical grasp of what this means.
Satellite images, (also covered @Saker) also do not show the physical economic meaning :
https://www.zerohedge.com/s3/files/inline-images/UkraineLights1.jpeg?itok=31oVNXkJ
That ZH article does actually point to the catastrophic physical economic effects….
“More-ons are those that took too many Less-ons”
I like your style!
Thanks
I would add that “More-ons” give too many “Less-ons” too.
I need to stay attentive not to fall in that easy trap.
Humbling though, eventually.
Also, eventually we learn.
Well well – I have always claimed synchronicity does exist :-)
I’ve never seen this channel before, but it just popped up on my YouTube Index page.
I found it interesting – and worth the 11 minutes;, a young Chinese man doing a little street questioning of other Chinese people regarding how they regard other nations. I was interested in those they disliked, but also, so impressed by the lack of vehement prejudice they had.
His comments at the end were especially impressive – perhaps the writer of this article would like to take a listen.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_m1G2AavGA
The Author has been to the Mountaintop (curiously I cannot find Mount Patt in Google Earth).
Another who came down from that Mountaintop, Martin Luther King, wanted to carve a stone of Hope out of a Mountain of Despair.
MLK wrote that he wished to live in the second half of the 20th Century, we know totally messed up, because only in Darkness can one see the Stars.
Kiev right now can see the stars in the dark sky with no city lights blazing. Maybe Ukrainians will now see what their government wrought. Maybe EU denizens will soon see what their governments and Britain wrought – these fear that darkness!
Just because some Chinese Universities “appear” (and I mean just that, appear) in the author’s eyes to be compromised doesn’t mean that all of China is compromised.
This author’s field of vision (i.e., Universities [aka land of useless degrees]) is very narrow and could scarcely prove that China is bound to lose against the US, which by the way is no longer the hegemon it once was. China is now on a better footing than the US in many aspects, especially their industrial economy.
In short, this article, though it means well, has failed to prove its premise.
I enjoyed learning about the academic situation in China, and can verify that the US has a class system for certain universities.
Regarding the “meta” class, I don’t agree much with the use of the word, which at closest to your usage means “inside” rather than “hidden” in Greek. It also means “change”, or “after”, and other meanings.
In any case, the class does exist and are even more open about it lately. The reason for this openness seems to be that they are already convinced they have won the global takeover.
Many people looking at the world situation overlook or minimize the importance of these “clubbers”. But a simple look at the coordinated world power grab of late should make this clear. Votes don’t count, but voting machines and treasonous world leaders do, for example.
But my guess is that the alliance of evil is falling victim to infighting and reality checks for the various players as they realize that being a subject promised privileges is still just being a high-class peon.
There are some great comments here, as usual. I’m not sure I can agree with the main claim of the article either. I would imagine Pepe Escobar and other authors featured on this site take issue with some of the claims Pattberg makes as well. But it is interesting to read, warts and all.
I would be curious to see what prof Michael Hudson thinks about this. He is on faculty at Peking U. and also has personal, as well as academic experience on this topic.
this article has an occult perspective to it, …portals and gateways are very real, he is revealing how the “elite” operate, its more than just about china, russia, amerika, the master manipulators do not care about borders or races,creeds…to them planet earth is all about resource mining and exploitation via religion,education,politics, money, drugs, sex….case in point all so called “empires” were social experiments the earliest known is atlantis, then cush, then nubia, then kemet (egypt), then persian, then greek, then roman, british, then the current one amerika….one constant though is the money merchants….nothing is ever a coincidence. The world is a stage and we are the willing actors, the manipulators have us arguing about politics, wars, money ,cultures ….meanwhile we never stop to ponder and ask one simple question ! where did it all originate from ? since even the manipulators have masters ;)
‘calm and composed piece of art’? ‘unremitting verity and veritas.’? A piece of something, alright..and certainly unremitting.. but veritas?
Some truth, in some places.. not least as a reflection of the almost impossible task of a Westerner seeking to understand the huge complexity of the Chinese and their long civilisation’s history.
And sure, there all kinds of traps and scams and corruptions in the Chinese education system – for all Chinese, but especially for foreigners… this was true in the Qing dynasty,. And it is true now.
But as for (my words not Thomas’ – stolen from Kenneth Clarke the art historian) the Triumph of The West? Nonsense. Of course the Chinese respect certain aspects of Western civilisation. But they always absorb and change such influences to make them ‘with Chinese characteristics’, to use a current phrase..
Why, they even respect the United Kingdom for being a tiny island that once ‘ruled the world’. And the game of cricket is considered chess on grass.. for they appreciate ‘the long game’ in all its tactical and psychological complexity. But do you think they for one moment will forget what happened to the Summer Palace?
I would like to hear a 3 way debate between Pepe Escobar and Pattberg and a well educated spokesperson for ecological sanity and deep ecological resilience as key to human survival. Like most of Patttberg’s writing there is more than a modest whiff of übermensch in his worldview. Are we really to believe that all the scholars who get into Peking U have big heads and small hands or are somewhere between socially inept and seriously deformed? When people talk this way, no matter what the setting there is an accompanying self importance that I regard as a warning. There is always a claim of secret insider knowledge, (the meta-beings with access to the 5th dimension, whatever the hell that is). I work at a prep school where there are a good percentage of Chinese students and I see none of this.
Is there some truth to all of this? Is the world being run by the Rothschilds and anglo elites trained in Harvard, Oxford and Peking University? Is China nothing more than a franchise of the big bankers, Blackrock etc. or is it all more complex? a poker game in which there are many master players and many cards are hidden and many chips still on the table. If there is evil, is there also good, or is there only winning or losing in a game that always ends in death?
What bothers me most about both Escobar and Pattberg is the seemingly complete disinterest in the massive ecological dangers that are a major part of the international power struggles and economic wars they describe. The receding glaciers, drying rivers, damage to sea life, massive fires, global warming from fossil fuel technology and growing toxic zones magically disappear when they write. They claim to represent a new world view, or more informed world-view but the models they work from sound like they came from a century ago.