Listen to a reading of this article: ❖ In a new article promoting the CIA's new mission center focused on China and the need to pour more resources into countering Beijing, Bloomberg also accidentally makes the case that many of the Chinese government's controversial domestic policies are entirely justified and completely necessary.
Am I not supposed to notice that the same folks who want me to jump up and down about China mistreating their Muslim minority are the ones who bankroll and defend Israel's genocide of the Palestinians, and have for decades?
As you asked in a previous post, how is the CIA still a thing? We live in miserable times, where even the bullshit is unworthy of us.
One of the greatest psyops in the Western world is the anti-China psyops. And it makes sense considering China actually outsmarted the Anglo-American establishment by not remaining a cheap labor economy. They used that system to leap frog, and have as a result raised 600 million people out of poverty.
Naturally, China has some problems, but would China have the kind of crackdown and surveillance systems they had if there wasn’t an Anglo-American oligarchy trying to subvert it throughout not only the 20th century, but the 19th century as well.
Mao was crazy, but the reason he still gets respect is because he ended what the Chinese call “the century of humiliation.” The British Empire had for a long time been enslaving China through their opium trade. When China tried to crack down and prevent opium from entering the country, the British sent hundreds boats and blew apart China’s navy. They were completely enslaved.
Not surprisingly though, the Anglo-Americans were gaga over Mao because he wanted to create a permanent serf system, with the idea of the “sacred peasant,” and the murder and destruction of anything smacking of Confucianism and intellectual culture ie anyone with reading glasses.
China and it’s cultural revolution was the model for the kind of feudal serf and slave master economy the financial oligarchy is now going full hog trying to impose under the guise of a “Great Reset.”
China has also been a historically closed off society, so the Belt and Road Initiative and nation building programs are really seen as an existential threat, because they’re actually building major infrastructure and helping other nations industrialize ie become self-sufficient economies.
The problem is people in the West seem to only know how to think in Hobbesian terms. Any nation that helps others develop must be looking to enslave and dominate them. However, the reality is that China woke up to the fact that if all the nations in its regions go to hell, then it’s screwed… It’s future depends on having viable allies and in-tact nations outside its borders. The imperial policy is to unleash all hell and have that tide of chaos swallow up China, and destroy opposition from any sovereign nation left.
All this seems to be lost on the people who just thing it’s all one big conspiracy, the new world order controls China, “it’s all part of the plan.”
In that respect, this kind of pure nwo conspiracy thinking is really destructive because it makes the Anglo-American financial oligarchy seem a lot more powerful and smarter than it actually is. It’s actually desperate, and the Great Reset is its last ditch effort to flip the chessboard and impose a global Malthusian depopulation policy. If all of Asia industrializes and has sovereign nations popping up everywhere, then the great game geopoliticians and the financial oligarchy have lost “the world Island”—at which point their done. There will be no possibility of maintaining their one world order. It would be game over.
Information I read a couple years ago indicated that the roll-up of the CIA's sources in China was due at least in part to sloppy procedures within the CIA. Ie, corruption breeds incompetence.
Regarding "a significant realignment of resources," what the US needs to do is re-allocate resources away from spying and the military, and spend more on infrastructure and education to make US industry and technology more competitive.
Regarding the difference between US aggression and Chinese defensiveness, "the censorship, propaganda, secrecy, surveillance and other authoritarian measures you see in the US and its lackey states," are not primarily directed against the Chinese, Russian, Iranian or Syrian people. They are directed against the citizens of the US itself and its lackey states. The lies are so blatant you only have to go back a year to see many of the contradictions, and now we even see a prosecutor indicting some of the sources of the propaganda.
Hmm. Whilst I agree that some of the Chinese government's actions are indeed a response to US aggression, it is worthwhile comparing how the two governments act domestically against their own citizens. The USA has a relatively free media, although of course it is mostly owned and controlled by and for capital. However, China currently incarcerates at least 47 journalists; the justified furore over the US & UK governments' persecution of Julian Assange et al can show in contrast how much more brutal the Chinese authorities behave. The USA does not, for example, execute anyone convicted of corruption (yes, it rarely even prosecutes them, I know).
"The heavy-handed domestic policies of US-targeted nations like China are not morally comparable to the censorship, propaganda, secrecy, surveillance and other authoritarian measures you see in the US" is simply untrue. The Chinese government is not "heavy-handed"; it is lethal, self-serving, state capitalist, massively intrusive on a scale not yet seen in the USA, brutal against the poor and certain ethnic minorities and religious adherents, repressive and completely anti-democratic. It is certainly not socialist. There are without doubt some awesome achievements by the Chinese people to be celebrated, such as their response to the pandemic; but let's not make the mistake of attributing all their government's dirty actions to the USA.
the same scumbags you are lampooning are the same scumbags behind the scamdemic...the one you never write about...did you get all your booster shots yet?...now ban me like you did on medium
Am I not supposed to notice that the same folks who want me to jump up and down about China mistreating their Muslim minority are the ones who bankroll and defend Israel's genocide of the Palestinians, and have for decades?
As you asked in a previous post, how is the CIA still a thing? We live in miserable times, where even the bullshit is unworthy of us.
One of the greatest psyops in the Western world is the anti-China psyops. And it makes sense considering China actually outsmarted the Anglo-American establishment by not remaining a cheap labor economy. They used that system to leap frog, and have as a result raised 600 million people out of poverty.
Naturally, China has some problems, but would China have the kind of crackdown and surveillance systems they had if there wasn’t an Anglo-American oligarchy trying to subvert it throughout not only the 20th century, but the 19th century as well.
Mao was crazy, but the reason he still gets respect is because he ended what the Chinese call “the century of humiliation.” The British Empire had for a long time been enslaving China through their opium trade. When China tried to crack down and prevent opium from entering the country, the British sent hundreds boats and blew apart China’s navy. They were completely enslaved.
Not surprisingly though, the Anglo-Americans were gaga over Mao because he wanted to create a permanent serf system, with the idea of the “sacred peasant,” and the murder and destruction of anything smacking of Confucianism and intellectual culture ie anyone with reading glasses.
China and it’s cultural revolution was the model for the kind of feudal serf and slave master economy the financial oligarchy is now going full hog trying to impose under the guise of a “Great Reset.”
China has also been a historically closed off society, so the Belt and Road Initiative and nation building programs are really seen as an existential threat, because they’re actually building major infrastructure and helping other nations industrialize ie become self-sufficient economies.
The problem is people in the West seem to only know how to think in Hobbesian terms. Any nation that helps others develop must be looking to enslave and dominate them. However, the reality is that China woke up to the fact that if all the nations in its regions go to hell, then it’s screwed… It’s future depends on having viable allies and in-tact nations outside its borders. The imperial policy is to unleash all hell and have that tide of chaos swallow up China, and destroy opposition from any sovereign nation left.
All this seems to be lost on the people who just thing it’s all one big conspiracy, the new world order controls China, “it’s all part of the plan.”
In that respect, this kind of pure nwo conspiracy thinking is really destructive because it makes the Anglo-American financial oligarchy seem a lot more powerful and smarter than it actually is. It’s actually desperate, and the Great Reset is its last ditch effort to flip the chessboard and impose a global Malthusian depopulation policy. If all of Asia industrializes and has sovereign nations popping up everywhere, then the great game geopoliticians and the financial oligarchy have lost “the world Island”—at which point their done. There will be no possibility of maintaining their one world order. It would be game over.
Information I read a couple years ago indicated that the roll-up of the CIA's sources in China was due at least in part to sloppy procedures within the CIA. Ie, corruption breeds incompetence.
Regarding "a significant realignment of resources," what the US needs to do is re-allocate resources away from spying and the military, and spend more on infrastructure and education to make US industry and technology more competitive.
Regarding the difference between US aggression and Chinese defensiveness, "the censorship, propaganda, secrecy, surveillance and other authoritarian measures you see in the US and its lackey states," are not primarily directed against the Chinese, Russian, Iranian or Syrian people. They are directed against the citizens of the US itself and its lackey states. The lies are so blatant you only have to go back a year to see many of the contradictions, and now we even see a prosecutor indicting some of the sources of the propaganda.
Hmm. Whilst I agree that some of the Chinese government's actions are indeed a response to US aggression, it is worthwhile comparing how the two governments act domestically against their own citizens. The USA has a relatively free media, although of course it is mostly owned and controlled by and for capital. However, China currently incarcerates at least 47 journalists; the justified furore over the US & UK governments' persecution of Julian Assange et al can show in contrast how much more brutal the Chinese authorities behave. The USA does not, for example, execute anyone convicted of corruption (yes, it rarely even prosecutes them, I know).
"The heavy-handed domestic policies of US-targeted nations like China are not morally comparable to the censorship, propaganda, secrecy, surveillance and other authoritarian measures you see in the US" is simply untrue. The Chinese government is not "heavy-handed"; it is lethal, self-serving, state capitalist, massively intrusive on a scale not yet seen in the USA, brutal against the poor and certain ethnic minorities and religious adherents, repressive and completely anti-democratic. It is certainly not socialist. There are without doubt some awesome achievements by the Chinese people to be celebrated, such as their response to the pandemic; but let's not make the mistake of attributing all their government's dirty actions to the USA.
It's the old Good cop, Bad cop game. Support your local ethnic oppressor, not the other one!
Interesting.
the same scumbags you are lampooning are the same scumbags behind the scamdemic...the one you never write about...did you get all your booster shots yet?...now ban me like you did on medium