by Ihsanullah Omarkhail for the Saker blog
China’s development has attracted worldwide attention in recent years. The growing economy and advances in military buildup are heatedly debated around the world and particularly in China since it opened up its door to reforms in 1978. Moreover, China has attracted billions of dollars in investment from abroad and trillions of dollars in domestic private investment. A dozen years ago, China barely had mobile communication service;.it now claims more than 300 million mobile phone subscribers, more than any other nation. China’s global stature has risen over the past 30 years and will continue to rise over the next 20 years.
Three models can reflect the peaceful rise of China: first, a warlike model of “meeting the expectation of realists approach, where precipitating of great power war could happen” in future; second, a cold war or negative model “where the expectations meet at no great power war but environment of threat and suspicion” exists; and third, and most importantly, a warm or positive model of peaceful rise, “ a friendly environment where threat is low and can be called win-win situation mainly the liberalist point of view”. However, the peaceful rise of China could also involve two simultaneous processes in which the rising power must accommodate itself to the rules and structure of International society, while at the same time other great powers accommodate some changes in those rules and structure by way of adopting a sharing of power and status. [1]
The peaceful rise of China as a world power could also be as straightforward as the United States of America replacing former hegemon Britain[2] without going to war during the power transition. During its own rise America was, and remains still, a highly interventionist power in relationship to Central and Latin America and in 2003 intervened militarily in Iraq. What about the case of China? China began its own peaceful rise after having adopted economic reform at home while opening its doors to western countries in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Moreover, as Zhang argues[3], China put its own economic development as the top priority and therefore recognized the need for stability in its International relations, both regionally and internationally.
The United state has significantly facilitated the rise of China and created a benign environment because it made China both less threatening and more attractive economically to its neighbors and to the west. But China also benefited more generally from the benign international and regional security and economic environment following the end of cold war. Put simply, China could be called the Bank of America because during the 2008 financial crisis China helped the U.S. economically. China now follows the principle of harmony based loosely on Confucian prescriptions about ‘all under one heaven’ (Tianxia)[4] as exemplified by the “One Belt, One Road” (OBOR) project China has initiated which is entirely for peaceful purposes.
Terrorism as threat to peaceful rise
Terrorism and extremism are a burden on China’s government. Afghanistan’s location on China’s border makes it necessary for China to pay close attention to terrorist activities inside Afghanistan. The role of China in confronting terrorism is vital as both Afghanistan and China have suffered hugely from terrorism and extremism. Currently, Afghan security forces (ANSF) are fighting international terrorist forces and at the same time are on the front line against ETIM (East Turkish Islamic Movement) and other regional terror groups. Chinese help and security assistance in this regard is highly appreciated.[5]
However, the OBOR project cannot be completed without a safe and secure Afghanistan; as long as terrorism is a regional threat, none of the peaceful projects can be easily implemented. Sunni Uyghur militant groups near the Afghan-Pak border have claimed responsibility for a small number of attacks in China, the most predominant among them the East Turkistan Islamic Movement which is based in the porous region of the Afghanistan and Pakistan border and which claimed responsibility for a destructive bombing in 2008. However, the authorities denied terrorist involvement in this attack as well as a later attack in Kashgar in July 2011 that killed three dozen people.[6]
A number of terrorists have expressed a willingness to ideologically support the East Turkistan Islamic movement. In July 2014, Islamic state leader Abu Baker Al-Baghdadi said in a speech to rally the global causes of Muslims that “the Muslims rights are forcibly seized in China, India, and Palestine”. Also in 2013, Al-Qaeda leader Ayman Al Zawahiri endorsed[7] the right of militants to fight the Chinese in Xinjiang. With such developments, militancy is on the rise in every part of the region and particularly in Afghanistan. A new ISIS video released on March 1[8] threatens the Chinese government with the active presence of ISIS in Afghanistan, an alarming situation for China and the whole region.
Conclusion
Given the ongoing insurgency in this complex region of Asia, the rise of China appears to be very difficult as it neighbors are in dire need of security cooperation with Beijing, particularly Afghanistan, a country which is hard hit by terrorism which could possibly spill over into China’s Xinjiang province. However, it is very much in China’s interest to act on security cooperation with its neighbors, and thus to extend its military and economic aid to its neighborhood, assuming Beijing is willing to take the lead in Asia to root out terrorism and extremism movements in the region.
In the last three years, Beijing has been gradually showing interest in security relations with Afghanistan, but for Kabul to acquire gunship helicopter and other heavy weaponry from Beijing with which to fight terrorism still seems problematic for western countries, and especially the U.S.
Bio: Ihsanullah Omarkhail, Ex-Consultant, Studies MA International Relations at Zhejiang University, China
He can be reached at ihsan.asif@gmail.com, he tweets on @ihsan_asif
- Barry Buzan and Michael Cox, The Chinese Journal of International Politics, Vol. 6, 2013, P 112 ↑
- Feng Yongping, ‘The Peaceful Transition of Power from the UK to the US’, Chinese Journal of International Politics, Vol. 1, No. 1 (2006), pp. 83–108. ↑
- Barry Buzan and Michael Cox, The Chinese Journal of International Politics, Vol. 6, 2013, P 114 ↑
- Tingyang Zhao, ‘Rethinking Empire from a Chinese Concept ‘‘All-Under-Heaven’’ (Tian-xia)’, Social Identities, Vol. 12, No. 1 (2006), pp. 29–41. ↑
- Ahmad Bilal Khalil,’ The Rise of China-Afghanistan Security Relations, June 23, 2016 http://thediplomat.com/2016/06/the-rise-of-China-afghanistan-security-relations/ , ↑
- Tania Branigan,” China plays down terror link as bus explodes”, July 28, 2008, https://www.theguardian.com/world/2008/jul/28/China1 ↑
- South China morning post,” Al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri sets out his first jihad guidelines”, September 18, 2013, http://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1311795/al-qaeda-leader-ayman-al-zawahiri-sets-out-his-first-jihad-guidelines ↑
- Aljazeera,’ ISIL video threatens China with ‘rivers of bloodshed’, March 1,2017, http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2017/03/isil-video-threatens-China-rivers-bloodshed-170301103927503.html ↑
I read China is building a base for Afghanistan at the border, but rejected by Beigin:
https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/01/12/china-rejects-report-of-funding-construction-of-anti-terror-base-in-afghanistan/
I have to say I was shocked at the possibility.
No, I do not think there is any possibility for China to send any heavy weapon to current Afghanistan government so they can kill their Pushtun Brothers. A puppet propped up by US invasion and A irrational puppet of India, they have US and India for that. China will have to deal the impossible of unstable Afghanistan with economical assistant.
OBOR’s demise has been predicted by many, including Indians. IMHO, It comes with nature of the project. Nothing more, Nothing less.
The Indian elite suffer greatly from terminal envy of China’s rise. Thanks to the caste system, high caste Indians see themselves as some sort of elite, hence the ease of their toadying to Israel and US Jewish elites. And the hundreds of years of English rule, as well as de-developing a fantastically rich country and killing tens of millions in a series of Great Famines, created a local compradore class that identifies closely with Western elites, and sees itself as leading India into the Western camp, as a species of ‘honorary Whites'(northern Indians are Aryans after all). The Hindutva fascist Modi regime has decided to exist as subaltern underlings of the USA, and join the encirclement of China, and ignore the huge possibilities of co-operation with China. It is a mistake that India, whose elites insanely believe that they will somehow surpass China in the future, will come to regret.
@Mulga: “… high caste Indians see themselves as some sort of elite, hence the ease of their toadying to … US Jewish elites.”
I would expand that: toadying to the Anglo-Zio-Capitalist-Colonialist elite generally. Like the little English boy in a Japanese POW camp, who identified with the “Empire of the Sun” because they were so strong. In “A Suitable Boy” Vikram Seth described this mentality in the Indian character named “Billy”. As for the Capitalist affinity it is endemic: loan slavery from generation to generation was an Indian institution long before it became dominant in the West as “quantitative easing” and “too big to fail”.
A prophetic book from the 1960s on the evil mass psychology of Anglo-Colonial-Elitism not only on the sub-continent India but also across almost the entire continent of Africa, is “L’Afrique Noire est Mal Place’e” (rough translation, If You Want to Get Anywhere Do Not Start from Black Africa). The author compares Post War Africa with Post War China. Africa hardly saw WW2 whereas China saw so much that people ate mud just to fill their bellies. Africa was one huge Colony of France, UK, USA and Zio Capitalism. The African elite modeled themselves on the FUKZUSA elite: Bash, Grab and Holdfast, force others to do the work. Maoist China was communist: distribute fairly, no elite. As a South African I regret to say that book from the 60s has proved true about the continent I grew up in. Perhaps an Indian could tell us what that book says about the present state of the subcontinent.
Good briefing about Afghanistan and China relations and needs.
The problem is the US owns Afghanistan. It is there to stay for all of Trump’s time, seven more years.
The great containment strategy now labeled Indo-Pacific, is more than the QUAD maritime containment of China. The basing of US military is permanent in the South Asia zone and is going nowhere soon.
So, terrorism, extremism, separatism (the Three Evils, as China calls them) are tools for the Hegemon to use against the nations of the region.
China will have to change its Harmony process and buck the wrath of the US, working along with the upstart Russia who already challenged the US that it will arm the Taliban (as well as continue talking to the Taliban for a diplomatic solution). China has recently urged its soldiers to accept the notion that they will suffer wounds, pain and death, and they must be ready now to fight to the death for China’s interests.
OBOR is not an option; it is a must do. China must have the BRI to be economically viable in the coming decades.
There seems to be no way around China fighting with all its might against the proxies of ISIS, AQ and Taliban and the US military and NATO trying to block and kill China’s economic plans for Eurasian Development.
China has plenty of partners for the fight. SCO exists for this reason. Russia is facing the same threats. Iran now is in the mix, as is the jilted Pakistan, thrown to the curb by Trump. Afghanistan seems to want to deal with Russia and China. It needs to be freed from the harness of US CENTCOM and CIA machinations.
It’s President Xi Jinping’s move. He told his troops to “nut up”. He needs the same for himself. Grow a pair or perish under the US hegemony.
Larchmonter445,
A very interesting analysis, as always.
On BRI/OBOR being a must, not an option, you might like to read (if you haven’t already) this talk by Maj.-Gen. Qiao Liang – “The U.S. Uses Its Dollar to Dominate the World” (http://chinascope.org/archives/6458/76):
This senior officer and strategist, gave a talk based on a book he co-authored – “Unrestricted War” – to a study forum of the CCP Central Committee in 2015. The book title clearly indicates that China is now in a fighting mood, albeit in her own, oriental way. And as you say, China designed the OBOR as a weapons, no doubt about this.
Obviously, the OBOR is a means to economic viability, but more importantly, a path to China’s geopolitical viability as an aspirant super power. Gen. Qiao:
– Throughout history, whenever a great power rises, there is a corresponding globalization movement. … The OBOR strategy is the beginning of China’s own globalization as a rising super power. It is a necessary globalization process that a super-power must have during the phase of its rise. [my paraphrase]
With regard to your comment on China’s need to change its Harmony process and buck the wrath of the US, Xi’s speech to the army was of course significant in that direction, but see how Gen. Qiao views this struggle with the US:
– The American style is straightforward: strike a direct blow with full strength in the hope of a knockout. The Chinese use softness to conquer strength: not a knockout, but a defusing of the opponent’s attacks.
The OBOR strategy reflects this philosophy: the US pressures China from the east, China moves west. [my paraphrase]
[This evasive feint aims at causing the US to lose strength gradually and eventually fall on its face under its own momentum – with just a slight pull at the correct moment…]
Well stated, I totally agree. Most of the ICH contributor/speculators such as Pepe and Finian (Phil Gerardi excepted) dance around this point and many others. The world will not know peace until the U.S. Military is forced from its oversees bases as it will never leave on its own and the “host” countries are too intimidated by the occupation (and rightly so) to demand the removal of the foreign troops. Same goes for israel from Palestine absent an official/legal and public announcement that all Palestinians will enjoy equal rights in a single state and are paid reparations for the damage done over the last 70 years. A doable alliance is shaping up for this task and includes Russia, China, Iran, Pakistan, North Korea and Hezbollah. From the civilian side, once things start moving in that direction, I’m guessing that the citizens of almost every country the U.S. Military is in will rise up in support of their removal. Empires are a thing of the past and I for one would love to see my country finally grow up and become a legitimate partner in the community of nations. We’re young, we’ve made so many mistakes – huge ones at that, but there is hope and there is redemption. I hope we find our way!
How the zionist plan to gain power
(parasite) in China.
They are etnically diferent and can be identify as non chinese, not acting on chinese interestes.
Israel will be an intractable enemy to China. Having gained power unparalleled in history by taking over the West, particularly the Anglosphere, through straight bribery and control of the fakestream media, the financial apparatus and the heights of the Internet economy, Israel will never accept a non-Western, non-Judeochristian civilization, one where there will never be a controlling ‘Confucian Zionist’ Fifth Column, rising to global hegemony. The Chinese, in contrast, are quite prepared to co-operate with Israel and the rest of humanity, but must recognise that they are likely to be rebuffed by the ‘Gods Upon the Earth’ as Menachem Begin called his people, faithfully following Talmudic delusions of universal supremacy.
I’m betting on a billion Chinese not having any problems at all with a small state like Israel.
Israel’s “power” such as it is, is based on a) long-term infiltration of European and western societies. And b) the strange relationships with the nutty, fanatical, evangelical Christians who are begging for Armaggedon and believe that first the Temple in Jerusalem has to be rebuilt as a sign that apparently their God is happy enough to waste the entire world and kill billions of people.
Neither applies to China.
Dear Anonymous. The Temple in Jerusalem i.e. Solomon’s temple, if it is rebuilt is a crucial sign of Jesus Christ’s return. The Christians who love Jesus Christ is watching for this to happen as implied in the Bible’s Book of Revelations – the last book in the Bible.
But this event is by God Almighty. How God do it is none of our (Christians’) business. Solomon’s temple to be rebuilt is not God’s real Temple, God who does not live in buildings built by human hands.
So the Christian do not have and do not desire to have a stake in Solomon’s temple being rebuilt in Jerusalem.
What the Christians are commanded to do is to build God’s real temple – the Body of Jesus Christ. And the method by which the Christian is commanded to do this is also specifically and clearly written in Jesus Christ’s marching orders: To bear witness to Jesus Christ ….to the ends of the Earth (Acts 1:8). It is to this task that the Christian is concentrated with the help of the Holy Spirit.
Who says the rebuilt Temple in Jerusalem is rebuilt is a crucial sign of Jesus Christ’s return?
In my book, the third temple is the one seen in the vision of Ezekiel – in the Heavenly Jerusalem. A symbol, not a building.
The Zionists are merely using this to recruit foolish Christians to their evil cause, but this will all disappear when the US is no longer able to sustain its claim to sole superpower status, and the world becomes multi-polar.
RMM, if you don’t know, I a’int telling. But read carefully the Book of Revelations. And I am far from being recruited by the Zionists. As I have posted, I have no stake and have zilt desire for any stake in rebuilding the Solomon’s temple in Jerusalem.
But I am watching for God to allow it to be built in His own time. When it is rebuilt, it will set the stage for events to rapidly follow through with the return of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ – with all the momentous implications that this entail.
Kim, the Jews and Chinese are more similar than normally realised. For a start, apart from their similar financial and business acumen, both are Semites i.e. descendants of Shem, one of the three son of Noah.
BTW ‘s’ is me, Simon Chow.
Sine you mentioned you from Singapore, many of your comments make sense. I read some people in South East Asia been called or seems even think they are Jew of East. But Claiming Chinese are Semites is some thing I learned right here, right now.
There must be people also call themselves Chinese from anywhere other than Eastern Asia. Good for them.
The Chinese I know are decedents of Yellow Empire, who toiled on the yellow earth of Yellow Earth Plateau, along the Yellow River. Chinese has not even slightest doubts on who we are, and where we come from.
While Jew maybe good at business, but through out history, Arabs are the business people Chinese do majority business on silk road. From their writing, they were equally as advanced as China. Maybe less so, but Indians are the other ones who are good at business. Jew was not a factor.
By the way, almost every time when some thing flares up in Middle East, the comments on Weibo are more less like “people said Jew are smart, but I fall to see why…” It pretty much summarize what Chinese see.
Sorry, Chinese do not identify them selves with Jew to the slightest. We have totally different culture, and for one, we have no appetite to use made up gods to justify mistreating a people, and use their children for target practice. We much prefer pave our road to success with sweat and hard work than with other people’s blood and white skeleton.
J, look at the evidence. Chinese religion before Qin Shi Huang Ti was monotheistic – a characteristic of Semites. They sacrificed to the God of Heaven – Siang Ti – the Emperor God – the God the Almighty Creator of the Bible.
Also the story of creation and the fall of Adam and Eve in the Book of Genesis of the Bible (the first book in the Bible), especially the first 3 chapters had been captured in Chinese pictorial script – the traditional script not Mao’s script. There are other evidence including physical characteristics. And if you don’t think the Jews are intelligent, just look at the list of their Nobel Laureates. In fact, they are unusually intelligent, although as seen from their history, not so wise. And wisdom is everything to a Christian.
And who is the Yellow Emperor? Since you are an atheist and therefore believe in evolution, I hope you don’t insult our ancestor by associating him with an ape.
The identity of the Yellow Emperor and China’s advanced civilisation including her science and technology from the very beginning, can be explained by alluding to the Bible’s Book of Genesis. Noah, his wife, his three sons and their wives were the only survivors of the catastrophic world-wide flood of Genesis chapter 6. Genesis indicated that the pre-flood world was very advanced scientifically, besides being totally depraved.
Noah and his son Shem lived very long lives. When Noah and his descendants were scattered over the whole earth due to the Tower of Babel incident, the Semites (descendants of Shem) migrated in an easterly direction. Not all Semites stuck with Noah or Shem. Noah and Shem were still alive and in their prime and it is likely that one of them, more likely Shem, founded Chinese civilisation. Because Chinese civilisation began at a very high level of sophistication, it is likely that both Noah or/and Shem managed to maintain social cohesion with those who migrated to the far east with them and in that context of social stability, managed to transfer and implement some of the advanced technology of the pre-flood civilisation to begin Chinese civilsation.
If I am allowed to speculate, I would make a calculated guess that Shem was the Yellow Emperor.
Amazing. I guess Indians are not the only victims of the odd combination inferior complex and exceptional superiority.
India’s sense of superiority miffs neighbors
http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1084905.shtml
There is a old south Korean on Chinese sites boldly claim Korean are white… Then there are Mongolians who can not even read their own text and think they superior than Inner Mongolians, while white Russians can trash them any way they want…
In contrast, I am much more impressed with Pakistanis, may be some day with Afghans as well when we gets to know them better.
J, isn’t thinking that one has no inferiority complex is a superiority complex itself? I put it to you that it’s when we realise that we also have many if not all the inferiority complexes of others that we learn to cope with our own and empathise with others.
Once the “One Belt, One Road” project is fully developed, perhaps China can get serious about improving product quality and customer service:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JX4YtAvYwDU
How does Russia compare?
Does those Chinese steel German is using on Rhine River has customer service or quality issues? You should have asked them to watch this video first. It fits their German ego…
@Lumpenkoenig. Quality and customer service seem to be truly important components of “soft power”. I have seen the post-War decline of UK & USA and the rise of Japan and China on just these issues. After the War I knew a Jewish holocaust survivor who set up business in a British colony and wanted to import from Britain – but the British suppliers were so “off handed” in their service, the Jewish firm was forced to import from Germany — or go out of business. Similarly with the UKUSA motor industry when Japan began to produce first bikes and then cars which were not only cheaper but more reliable. Nowadays FUKZUSA is forced to rely on “hard power” because their industries have been so outsourced and so decimated by competition from the East that weapons are the only thing made in FUKZUSA – and even those are mainly expensive crap, as Russia has recently shown in Syria.
A good deal of the hurt on the american automotive industry was from competition from Japan & VW. GM was done in (allegedly) by GMAC financial. But many US companies outsourced to China by building their own factories, and keeping the product branding. Although labor cost differential was used as the excuse for this manufacturing re-location, pollution is a very big part of the equation.
My wife contracts the manufacture of chemicals from China and Europe, including active pharmaceutical ingredients. She finds the Chinese manufacturers very cooperative and eager to deliver. In the US, it seems, the only things that people will take pride in making are beer and wine; and increasingly cannabis cultivation. These are all small enterprises, which indicates the economic direction we’re heading.
@Dr N.G. Maroudas, @larry, dfh: Learning a language of either Britain or the USA should not be conflated with a love for its people. The British need to realize that English is simply a “traffic language” for international trade. How has Britain been able to survive as a country since 1945? The British are not known for their manufacturing. I heard a lot about London bankers. Can an entire country live off of finance and BBC entertainment?
Did the Anglo-American elites seriously believe that through outsourcing manufacturing, China would become like Mexico: A weak, compliant country that will act as a humble supplier of finished goods made with slave labor? We often read that “China is rising” but never Mexico. There is no way for the West to “contain” China, as the Chinese have copied all of Western technology for Chinese companies.
It would be ideal if the Chinese would start to be concerned about product quality and about the environment. Wouldn’t the Chinese elites like to breathe clean air? They seem not to mind. Now that Chinese wages are rising, I have read that many US companies are quietly moving production facilities out of China to places like Vietnam and Indonesia…… How will China respond?
As an afterthought, the American work ethic has been slowly disappearing. People working low wage jobs do not care. It is also getting harder to find businesses that are not trying to screw you by taking shortcuts at your expense. How does this situation compare to what is happening in Russia and in other Eurasian countries along the Silk Road?
Once upon a time, French was the international language to learn. These days, its English that is largely used for international business and diplomacy. This has nothing to do with any great love for either the imperial racists in England or America.
The American elites have a very short time frame in mind. They are all about grabbing power and wealth today. Beyond that most of their ‘strategy’ concerns how to fight and who to kill in order to keep it.
I spoke to a local wine-maker some months ago, who said that Chinese customers were honest and trustworthy, and a handshake often sufficed. Americans, in contrast, often double-crossed you and entered protracted legal proceedings at the drop of a hat.
Very true. I’ve done many business deals with Chinese Computer Hardware suppliers and their word of mouth is as solid as a contract, if not more. Even when they accidentally under price items they refused my offer to rectify and kept to the deal on a few occasions.
I believe that . Americans are jealous of their children, best friends, brothers and sisters – I have never seen anything like that. I have experienced it on my own skin.
The amount of constant irrational competition against everyone is unbelievable – like a bunch of stupid slaves. And their masters love it – a bunch of disorganized slaves turned against each other
Lumpenkönig. Chinese goods and services are improving in quality by leaps and bounds. Otherwise, how can they be in such huge and increasing demand globally? China sold i.e exported USD 2.4 Trillion (note trillion and not billion) worth of goods (not including services) in 2017. This is more than the output of India. If China’s goods lack quality and services, how can they be in such great demand world-wide? And in demand by the trillions USD.
Due to the stupidity and short-term thinking of its greedy elites, Americans are slowly forgetting how to be self-sufficient. My best guess is that the countries that import Chinese goods do not know how to make these things for themselves – and those are a lot of countries. If the Chinese lose the American market, they hope to replace it with markets developed along Silk Road 2.0.
If Chinese weren’t such a difficult language for foreigners to read and write, Chinese would replace English as the international language of commerce and diplomacy.
Lumpenkönig, as I pointed out earlier, knowing how to make the goods now made by China is only one fifth of the problem. Knowing how to produce those goods competitively at the required volume, at the required speed, at the required quality, at the required competitive price and delivered at the required speed or time are the rest of the problem. As I also pointed out, Chinese productivity is something often overlooked by China’s competitors like India and Vietnam which hoped to attract FDI away from China.
But FDI into China in 2017 was USD 135 billion – an all time high. The Chinese economy is not only growing at more than 6.5% per year, but also upgrading all the time. This plus a rapidly growing internal retail market (slated to overtake the US this year) targeted to be USD 5.8 trillion in 2018, often presents an insurmountable argument for where anyone should put his investment funds this year. And also far into the future since China still has a long way to grow.
actually for the Afghani people it is a blessing that China has to monitor closely terrorist activity on the border – this will develop in a positive way in 2018 and on – I hope
I know the OBOR is exciting for all – except the wildlife – and its impulse – even if the project is slowed by terrorism – the impulse is positive in that the Chinese ARE watching carefully. I hope they can do more than watch – the terrorists are like the poachers in Africa – until its so unpleasant getting caught – the $$$ will keep them coming –
And in fact I’m sure that the poachers in Africa ARE the terrorists – Boko Haram
You are totally right. Zion has fallen so low that breaking the legs of the non-Zion world has become its last, desperate mean to achieve its infantile dream of world domination.
Hundreds of new leg-breaker & bridge-burner militias with hollywoodesqe names will spring up over the coming months and years – accompanied by a steady stream of Netflix movies, CNN talk shows and the usual nonsense.
Sisyphus never managed to roll the boulder uphill and neither will Zion’s terror troops – though they will inflict incredible damage, of course. What idiots!
What we are seeing is the decline and retreat of the waning US hegemon being ably managed by China. Unlike the decline of the Ottoman empire and the British empire resulting in WW1 and WW2 respectively, there is a very good chance that China can ease the US away and out of Asia eacefully so that it nurse itself and try to make itself great again in its own homeland. This is because the US will need China’s help to rebuild its infrastructure otherwise there is little chance for the US economy to revive. Besides, the US will also need the enormous and rapidly growing Chinese market, soon to more than double the US in PPP terms, to make itself ‘great again’.
Assuming the empire of slaves will somehow rebound to being ‘great’ is a bit unrealistic I think (as someone who’s lived there for about 12 years).
Most of their socially constructed and pretty much fake ‘greatness’ has always been just a myth.
The whole country has long ago entered a kind of Dark Age (well described in Jane Jacobs’ book The Dark Age Ahead as well as the more prophetic than comic movie IDIOCRACY – both written about 12 years ago).
More problematically, due to being heavily brainwashed to always and forever compete irrationally against everyone (an irrational trait marketed as the essence of capitalism/ being American etc) – 99,9% of Americans are unable to even imagine meaningful collaboration / aggregation – let alone actually come together meaningfully to create any kind of improvement for their country.
I have never seen any real patriotism (or balls, real friendship etc) in all the 12 years I have spent there. Lots of mania (a caricature of happiness) and cheer-leading for their psychopaths in charge (in a Stockholm Syndrome kind of way). I don’t know any American who genuinely loves (and is proud of) his country. I hear lots of BS and fake pride – but that’s it – these are normally the people first to welcome invaders as liberators.
Without a working social contract (something most Americans are as ignorant about as they are about the Petrodollar etc) I don’t think any bright future is possible.
Due to predatory religious brainwashing (nicely described in Matt Taibbi’s book The Great Derangement) – they have been conditioned to be basically like a bunch of lost , fearful, obedient and self-destructive slaves: ‘God is EVERYTHING – you are NOTHING) – that’s what they had to repeat too many times.
To cut the long story short – I don’t see any improvements in the USSA – and almost everyone I know rich or poor would currently like to get out of the US as fast as possible (and I know a good sample of Americans from all backgrounds and demographics). I myself have left about 2 months ago and am still very happy about it
Once you enter a Dark Age (and you lose even the memory of useful biological instincts which took millions of years to evolve) you cannot just re-invent it . It’s very likely gone forever.
Some societies (heavily abused, exploited and destroyed by psychopaths like the ones we have in the US for far too long) are far gone beyond the ability to self-repair. Some (like Argentina where they have a lot of connecting social rituals) can and do self-repair.
it’s all about social capital – there is none in the US. It’s too predatory and everyone knows it and feels no loyalty
tomo wrote: “I have never seen any real patriotism (or balls, real friendship etc) in all the 12 years I have spent there.”
An Alsacian friend who had lived in Canada and had spent some time in the USA once told me this about Americans and Canadians: “Die Freundschaft endet an der Tur.” Another observation: “Wir leben neben einander and nicht miteinander.
In other words, friendship in the USA ends at the door to your house. We live next to other in houses that form small towns, but that does not make us a “community.” I agree it is very hard to make good friends. People can be nice to each other in public, but they treasure their privacy with immediate family at home. There is no such thing as friends randomly stopping by your house for a social visit. People would get mad at you if you did that. Unplanned social visits to other people’s homes used to be common 60+ years ago.
tomo wrote: “99,9% of Americans are unable to even imagine meaningful collaboration / aggregation – let alone actually come together meaningfully to create any kind of improvement for their country.”
Correct. The USA is a “multicultural” country. Each subculture pursues its own interests.
tomo wrote: “Some (like Argentina where they have a lot of connecting social rituals) can and do self-repair.
it’s all about social capital – there is none in the US. It’s too predatory and everyone knows it and feels no loyalty”
Argentina is not a “multicultural” country. However, how much has it recovered. Have you ever read the book “Confessions of an Economic Hit Man.” The new president wants to privatize all public assets and buy them for pennies on the dollar on behalf of the Anglo-American-Zionist elites:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/oct/24/argentina-president-macri-reforms-election
tomo wrote: “…and almost everyone I know rich or poor would currently like to get out of the US as fast as possible….”
The American elites want to turn the USA into another Brazil.
I recall Gerald Celente revealing that he looked all over the world for another country in which to relocate. He stated he could not find one better than the USA. (Note: Stay away from minority neighborhoods in the USA, and you will be safe). Canada is too cold and is even more “politically correct” than the USA, so it is out of the question. Unfortunately, other countries in Central and in South America are much more dangerous than the USA. If you choose to move to another country in the Western Hemisphere, you would have to live in a gated community and pay the guards well.
If wishing to leave the USA, where would you go? Western Europe is overrun with rapeugees. Is there opportunity in the Eastern European countries, or are young people still fleeing for the West? Do you think the host country would be amused if you wanted to immigrate and take a white collar job? The rulers would be more agreeable if you were interested in getting a job washing dishes or cleaning toilets. It would be great to leave the USA for another country if you knew where to go. Ahhh to be a 20 year old college student again……..
“(Note: Stay away from minority neighborhoods in the USA, and you will be safe)”
Safe from what? Contact with minorities? Whom I assume you mean to be people other than Caucasian Christian-Judaics.
I am always very happy when I go back to Serbia, as happy or more in Japan. Also Argentina and Australia. I agree about Canada (I am in Toronto at the moment) – what you say is true but peopel are much more relaxed and friendlier. and you can feel they are not constantly competing against everyone – they actually want to help others. That’s very refreshing after having lived in the US.
I lived in the UK also for 13 years – what you say about friendship (‘they cherish privacy’) – is probably more to do with fear of others – not so much anything to do with cherishing anything. After being ruled by psychopathic Anglo – Zionists and their dirty propagandistic tricks (i.e. psychopaths always like to turn your own instincts and biology against you so to exploit you) – there is so much fear, distrust and inability to create a coherent strategy for normal socially connected life – they just revert to fake shallow ” Have a great day! ” or “I love your hair!”). And they try to cover up their depression and sadness with MANIA (caricature of happiness) – Hollywood encourages them to copy the Manic role models (like that character from ‘the Nanny’ – produced by a friend of mine). There is a lot of sadness there and fear – these are the main drivers of American behavior.
I’ve lived in the U.S. all my life but have travelled quite a bit and I can say for certain that your comment is 1/2 right and 1/2 wrong. In other words, there’s a certain ingenuity in this country that allowed for many firsts in all aspects of life. In music we brought forth Jimi Hendrix, Steely Dan and my 14-year-old son who is surely the best musician on Earth in his age group when considering his talents and innovations on various instruments. In aeronautics we have the “rocket boys” that founded JPL, in electronic engineering we have my dad who developed the delay switches for the triggers that ignite nuclear bombs, in social science we have Martin Luther King, Malcolm X and Cesar Chavez, in politics we have JFK, his brother, in medicine we have countless pioneers who brought forth life saving techniques or cures for common ailments, sports – where do I start? In my travels, I’ve discovered that there is no one best country, but here in the U.S., something keeps pushing us to innovate, to improvise, to improve, correct and refine until something is just right. I don’t know about these millennials, but the bets are still out on the generation behind them and I’m rooting for them!!
I agree there is no best country – but there is a lot of propaganda out there (Hollywood etc) trying hard to persuade people to believe there is – and it’s the US.
It’s a predatory dirty trick – if I convince you I am much better than you are – you become like my slave in a way – always looking up to me , believing my hidden agendas, giving me far too many benefits of the doubt….
it’s an old psychopathic trick – also used in marketing (creating panoramic fear of everything so you become more impulsive and spend more – also dissatisfaction – especially with self).
So you end up with far better countries, better , wiser people looking up to a cesspool of Anglozionist dirty tricks and lies . That’s how I was in LA and London (when I moved there from Serbia as a 23 year old) – it took me 15 or so years to understand Americans and Brits are not better than us Eastern European in anything at all. All they have is propaganda, marketing and other inhibitors of truth – being good psychopaths.
That’s why I like to share my insights from Uncle Satan’s US – so other foreigners don’t waste time and energy having unrealistic expectations and moving to wrong places (If I knew what I know now – there is no way I would have ever moved to the US or UK)
“but here in the U.S., something keeps pushing us to innovate, to improvise, to improve, correct and refine until something is just right.”
That is why “you” still drive fords and get most of your information from television. In fact, most pindos organise their lives around television.
The usa is as backward as it was in 1950, and there is zero serious effort get beyond that fascist, feudal state of affairs other than make zionazi.
I agree with you – I lived there for 12 or so years – and met all kinds of demographics.
Interestingly English people watch far more TV then pindos do. I lived there for 13 years – that’s all they do and the next day that’s all they talk about to their friends and colleagues.
Every country has its heroes. What they do not have is global power and an imperialistic wish to imagine and present themselves as the endpoint of history as the U.S. does. Might does not make right, regardless of how that adolescent wish was thrust upon the rest of the world. Every country has its dreams; every people have their hopes; and history has its evolution, which does not end with a monolithic, neoliberal deathtrap. The push to insist on homogeneity across the world is the antithesis of the tolerance for new ideas and solutions that is the only hope for ways out of our current economic, climatic, and pollution catastrophes – the control by the very forces sucking all of the profits and wealth out of the world system that is condemning it to eventual death.
OBOR are far from cake walk. Pakistan media are usually publishing(amplifying) negative news, Indian troll army shows up determine to mis-inform, or out right lie in comment section:
China-driven Silk Road project hits political, financial hurdles from the Dawn)
https://www.dawn.com/news/1382334/china-driven-silk-road-project-hits-political-financial-hurdles
CPEC could develop into Pakistan’s debt trap
https://tribune.com.pk/story/1580950/2-cpec-develop-pakistans-debt-trap/
Here is what Chinese had to say today:
Reform needed to boost construction of China-Pakistan Economic Corridor
http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1084727.shtml
The positive side of my search, express tribute’s CPEC page is full of information:
https://tribune.com.pk/cpec/
Regarding debt trap in Sri Lanka, here is what m k bhadrakumar
http://blogs.rediff.com/mkbhadrakumar/2017/12/25/india-must-partake-of-obor/
“As for the Sri Lankan “debt trap”, the less said the better. The facts are as follows: In terms of donor-wise debt calcification, in the bilateral category, Japan ranks as the country to which Sri Lanka is indebted most – SL Rs. 486.8 billion; next comes India (SL Rs. 142.3 billion); and, China comes third (SL. Rs. 131.6 billion.) In fact, Japan and multilateral agencies (ADB, IDA and others) alone account for more than half of Sri Lanka’s total external debt. China’s share comes to less than 5 percent of the total external threat. Our pundits don’t even seem to be aware that Sri Lanka’s internal debt by far outstrips the country’s total foreign debt.”
Chinese usually thinking of letting the work speak for itself may not work out this time…
Brother Ihsanullah (what a beautifully programmatic name!)
Thank you for your rich thoughts.
A word on two of these thoughts:
– “a friendly environment where threat is low and can be called win-win situation mainly – the liberalist point of view”:
Perhaps this is more of what China would like the world to be, while the the world to continue as a zero-sum game where the winner takes all. (One would have to define “liberals” before discussing what their point of view might be].
The question remains therefore to see whether China’s soft power will suffice to usher in this new win-win world, or whether hard v power will be needed. See my comment to Larchmonter445’s post.
– “However, the peaceful rise of China could also involve two simultaneous processes in which the rising power must accommodate itself to the rules and structure of International society, while at the same time other great powers accommodate some changes in those rules and structure by way of adopting a sharing of power and status.”
You are here describing the spirit of the multipolar world as Putin has frequently described it, assuring us that it will inevitably come to pass, that the mood of humanity is firmly geared towards shared and distributed power, and decidedly against “one-power-at-the-centre-of-it-all” scheme.
Putin is categorical” the time for this kind of scheme is past and gone. He’s been saying this since his 2007 Munich speech. And here, the Chinese view meets the Russian view: it is in essence the same geopolitical outlook.
And today, both countries are working together to defeat the neocon backward outlook and facilitate the birthing of the new world. I expect you’ve read Larchmonter445’s quasi-prophetic paper, “Vineyard of the Saker White Paper: The China-Russia Double Helix” (December 22, 2014 – /vineyard-of-the-saker-white-paper-the-china-russia-double-helix/) which explains this beneficent world-changing association very cogently.
How both will fare in this task will depend in part on their wisdom and political skillfulness, and on how many “converts” they will succeed in making among the countries of the world – and also how fast, given that the neocons and allied barbarians are at the very gate, threatening to destroy the world.
It is not clear that that the Afghan people want substantial Chinese involvement in their country. Many here have commented that U.S. aid and investment come with strings attached. The same is true of Chinese aid and investment, except instead of strings it is more like ropes.
Also, it will be tricky for China to have good relations with Afghanistan while it is busy trying to make Xinjiang more like Han China.
From 2015:
“Waves of mass migration from China’s heartland have raised Xinjiang’s Han population from six per cent in 1949 to 38 per cent … (In 2011) ”
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The Chinese central government stays clear of terms like “ethnic cleansing”, however the end result is visible in the demographics.
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** http://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/1789160/chinas-drive-settle-new-wave-migrants-restive-xinjiang
Brovo, Brovo. You found a opening ad you slide right in!
I will tell you why Afghanistan people want Chinese help, because there was no animosity between two people. From eternity, Chinese has not trying to meddle in Afghanistan, unlike British, Soviet, and US. It is natural they want the good neighbor from east to help.
American’s loans have stings attached to bombs.
Give me example that Chinese loan has rope attached.
Chinese moving to XinJiang is no different with American lived in east coast, mid west, and south moving to California for what ever reason. And Afghanistan is not in China. Right now there is about 15000 NATO troops in Afghanistan drop bombs daily on the locals, including MOB, and you dare to talk about Chinese move peacefully within their country’s borders, seeking for better life and opportunity?!
Your Zio narrative is an epic failure.
J
Along with the propaganda vomit in the zio-gay media, they, the zionazis/nazis, ratcheted up their webspamming as well. These freakshows are organised to support ongoing or planned zionazi war crimes. The zionazis/nazis are in the process of renewing their Afghan based war against Central Asia and China. Major bump up of Israeli quisling troop numbers there, which is only the surface of what is probably a massive covert war prep.
No Kidding. Today, distort, then divide and conquer are at play.
I am also worry about central Asian countries whom Trump put on his spacial human rights watch list recently. Notice the master zio and the puppet who kills natives almost everyday are not on the list…
Pakistan actually is asking the question:
Kashmir bloodshed: Why India not on ‘watch list’, Pakistan asks US
https://nation.com.pk/09-Jan-2018/why-india-not-on-watch-list-pakistan-asks-us
The problem is still is we have no animosity with Afghanistan people. We may take some hit, but it is not good idea to take sides in a foreign power inspired civil war, and that power is from 1000s miles away and barely hanging in there.
Of course, China is still hurting from Sikkim annexation. But that was a very different nature. 1975 was a very different time too. The older guards was falling off one after another, Mao was barely able to hang on with his life (he was dead in 1976). China would be damned if she let Nepal and Bhutan fall into same fate now. I can guess Sri Lanka fall into same category. Notice how India instigate civil war, then saddled Sar Lanka into heavy debt.
The article needs a few additional points. Both China and Russia are on the rise. China cannot function without Russian oil and gas, nor without Russian high tech. The technology used by the Chinese and Japanese is basically Western and Russian technology, which both use and later on improve. Neither are too good at creating something original, always relying on others for technological initiatives.
Yes, the US contributed to China’s rise, even though that was not the intent. When Kissinger made that famous trip to China, her did so to open the doors of China and bring it into the Western sphere, politically, culturally, financially and economically. Divide and conquer. The intent was to create a Chinese middle class, which would be pro-Western and which would produce a Western political stooge to run the country, like in Ukraine for example. It did not happen. The Chinese took everything that was offered to them, but put China first, first as a country, not first for some treasonous oligarchs who would end up plundering the country both for themselves and for foreign interests. Worse for the US, the Chinese did not turn against Russia. Yes, back in 1968 we had that military clash between the Soviet Union (Russia) and China over a frontier dispute. It went badly for the Chinese. The Soviets (Russians) used sophisticated helicopter tactics against the Chinese, who then realized the importance of high tech. The US, on the other hand, was hoping for a repeat performance, no doubt presenting Siberia to the Chinese as a prize. It did not happen. The Chinese had no intention of falling for the divide and conquer tactic, but reaped benefits from both Russia and the US.
As for Siberia, the US State Department some years back tried, foolishly, to create some sort of Siberian Democratic Front, which would create an “independent” Siberia. to be separated from Russia, Nothing came of this silly venture. The US State Department should have read some history first. Neither Russians nor Siberians can forget the Mongol invasions. Russia never conquered Siberia militarily, offering it to join Russia. The Siberians gladly accepted, seeing a safety factor in Russia. The last thing Siberians want is independence, and in the process placing themselves as an easy target for potential Chinese expansionism. As far as I can see, the Russian-Chinese political and economic alliance is here to stay. The only thing left for the US is to accept it.
B.F. wrote: “The technology used by the Chinese and Japanese is basically Western and Russian technology, which both use and later on improve. Neither are too good at creating something original, always relying on others for technological initiatives.”
What is it about the Asian countries (including India) being unable to create something original. Their schools are based on relentless rote memorization, but there must be more to it than that. At some point, merely copying Western (and Russian) technology means these countries will always depend on the West. Is that what the Asian elites want? They will never win true economic independence with that mindset.
What is it about “western” right wingers thinking Asians, and everyone else outside of europe and pindoland, being unable to create original tech, science, etc.?
It’s Orientalism plus straight racism and civilizational arrogance. The Chinese were responsible for much of the planet’s technological advances for millennia, and in recent years have surpassed all other countries in patent applications. And whenever you see a technological advance in the USA, on many, many, occasions, people of Chinese, and Indian, ancestry are thoroughly involved. Are Chinese brains only innovative in the West?
Why waste resources to develop new tech that your opponents are developing? Simply steal and improve.
It’s not as industrial spies are everywhere.
@T1: “Simply steal and improve.”The great 18th century Evolutionary Biologist, Wolfgang von Goethe, recommends that as a mode of life; only he did not call it stealing, he called it inheritance.
As for the urban myth about Chinese lack of inventiveness, pre-War British chemist Joseph Needham filled several thick volumes with a list of Chinese inventions. Empires rise and fall — and sometimes, as in the case of China, rebuild themselves from the inside and rise again.
They (at least Japanese) create many original solutions for many things – and they are naturally focused and very proud of what they do (the opposite of Americans). when they make noodles or houses or textiles – they really try hard to make the best thing possible. Have you ever seen their obis or kimonos – the quality of the fabric and the way it has been constructed died etc – is unbelievable – HERMES silks look like nothing in comparison.
I see the same attitude in architecture also – they naturally understand what Le Corbusier wrote about and all western Architectural schools teach (but I am yet to see a western architect to actually understand or apply these lessons – how to build great, functional beautiful things with as little resources as possible. Westerners architects usually want to spend as much as possible and are proud of it.
Their cars are great (I love the small ones most Japanese drive – I don’t see them anywhere else). Japanese eggs for instance are the best eggs I have ever seen – and they are $2 a box – cream puffs, sushi anything – it’s just a completely different class of quality I never see in the US etc.
They naturally try to do the best they can and they love the process. Tokyo looks very futuristic for instance and the electronics, tools, materials, design etc – is unlike anything I see anywhere else. They are original and they are connected to their culture, identity , their past.
Their trains… you can’t even compare to what we have in the US. Also the airport in Beijing…DC Reagan looks like a shithole in comparison
their whole mentality is original and more in tune with the world than the western greedy psycho-worshiping
Lumpenkönig. I have debated China’s lack of originality in Moveable Feast Cafe on 5/1/2017. It is basically the influence of Confucianism i.e. Confucian conformity/order by the Han Dynasty. The one time since the Han Dynasty and before Deng that China loosen up was during the Song Dynasty. That was when China leapt 500 years ahead of the world in terms of originality. Gunpowder including gunpowder weaponry, the magnetic compass, printing with moveable type, the weaving loom, even the beginning of the steam engine, paper money, interlockable compartments for ships etc, was originated.
We have already seen what China did in the last 40 years after Deng’s opening up. At present, China’s innovation can stand her in good stead until her capacity for originality is regained and enhanced. For this to happen, President Xi need not loosen up politically. He only need to loosen up intellectually the Chinese mind. But of course for the Chinese mind to reach its full brilliance, something else needs to be done. This something else is most certainly not ‘democracy’ ala the USA.
60 Minutes: US Soldiers in Afghanistan Can’t Drive 2 Miles on Kabul Road
https://2paragraphs.com/2018/01/60-minutes-us-soldiers-in-afghanistan-cant-drive-2-miles-on-kabul-road/
Here is CBS version of it, more detail:
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/kabul-afghanistan-capital-under-siege-while-americas-longest-war-rages-on/
Think about what a losing war looks like from inside a propaganda bubble.
The one thing they won’t tell you is that they are losing the war.
Instead, you’ll hear about towns and bases being lost. Often not directly, but if one can remember a side taking a town and proclaiming victory, notice later that this town is now in enemy territory. One will see more about attacks deeper and deeper into a country, and into the capital of the country. One will notice that these attacks are more frequent, or more serious than in the past. One will often see the leaders of the country come in with ‘secret visits’, but they won’t tell you that the situation is so bad in the country that the only way the great leaders can visit is to sneak in during the middle of the night in secrecy.
They won’t tell you that the war is being lost. Much of the news that would tell you that will be ‘under-reported’ inside the propaganda bubble. But then one day, they’ll have to tell you about the helicopters evacuating the last of the empires servants from the embassy rooftop.
@Anon re US occupation news from Afghanistan. Sounds like you have been there, or in a similar situation. Reminds me of a young girl’s account of the newspapers in Nazi occupied Poland. News of one tactical regroupment after another. By checking a map she could work out what was really happening: the Nazis were retreating before the Polish Communist partisans and the Red Army.
Here’s wishing the people of Afghanistan a speedy return to the freedom they enjoyed in the decades between their ousting of the British Anglo-Capitalist army and the arrival of the US Anglo-Capitalist army.
China’s most important links are with Russia.
The west is erecting a new Iron Curtain. Under Trump, we see the US using ‘sanctions’ as an economic warfare weapon. Mostly now used against companies or projects that compete against American firms. Overall, it now seems like an almost weekly occurance when the Us announces yet more sanctions against Iran, Russia and China. The new Iron Curtain is being erected, and faster than Trumps anti-Mexican wall.
Afghanistan and Pakistan are important for routes that then go via ship up the Red Sea and to southern Europe. Except, the question becomes whether or not the EU follows the US lead on sanctions and the new Iron Curtain. If the leaders of Europe suceed in getting a result of following the US lead, then the Iron Curtain also drops on China and these routes don’t matter so much. But, if the Eu breaks free of the US and opens up ties to Russia and refuses to follow US sanctions against China, then simply connecting to Russia and then on to Europe does what China needs.
I’m not saying these routes are not useful. But the ones that China and Russia really need in the coming years are the links allowing trade between their countries.