By Fred Reed for the Saker Blog
In big-chunk terms, in the world today we see a contest between the Chinese economy and the American military, between Chinese dynamism and American coercion. Sure, China has a military and the US has an economy. Yet the emphasis, and spirit are as described.
The United States gives priority to the military over civilian economy, with military spending increasing at the expense of internal infrastructure and social needs. By contrast, China focuses on infrastructure within and trade without. I wonder whether Americans are aware of the extent of this. And its likely consequences.
To read the Asian-based press—Asia Times, Nikkei Asia, the South China Morning Post, the Global Times, and various tech sites—is to see a constant stream of infrastructure projects in China and advancing trade outside. As perhaps many know China promotes the Belt and Road Initiative, a massive program to connect all of Eurasia, as well as Africa and Latin America in a huge trade zone connected by rail, highways, fiber optics, maritime links, and commercial treaties. If completed it will dwarf the United States.
China, a rising technological center, leads the world in civil engineering, manufacturing, Five G, trade, and clearly intends to maintain the lead. All power ultimately rests on economic power. Below a few news stories more or less randomly chosen from around the web. Can you think of American equivalents?
“New international railway route from Southwest China’s Chongqing Municipality to Mandalay, southern Myanmar, has officially started operation, with the first freight train departing from Chongqing on Monday, which will arrive in Mandalay about 20 days earlier than what it takes on traditional routes.”
The port will also further connectivity under the Belt and Road Initiative and increase Chinese influence in Myanmar. Key word: Trade
America leads in phenomenally expensive aircraft carriers with serious developmental problems and no particular purpose. Google “Ford class carriers.”
“China’s high-speed rail network hit the 40,000-kilometer mark by the end of 2021, reaching out to 93 percent of domestic cities with a population of over 500,000, An Lusheng, deputy head of National Railway Administration, said on Friday. This comes as the country ramps up a push to build itself into a transportation power.”
Fast, pervasive transportation greatly facilitates almost everything. Beijing has said it will have 30,000 miles in a few years. key words: manufacturing, trade, connectivity.
“The first China-Russia highway bridge, which stretches from Heihe, a border city in Northeast China’s Heilongjiang Province, to the Russian city of Blagoveshchensk spanning the Heilongjiang River, opened to traffic on Friday, Chinese state broadcaster CCTV reported. It will open a new international highway that will boost the connectivity between cities in China and Russia.“ A few days ago. Here we have more of China’s program to tie all of Eurasia into one interconnected web. Note that it says the “first” bridge. Key words: Trade, connectivity.
China plans new high-volume space-launch facility
“The new Ningbo spaceport, the nation’s fifth such facility, will give a crucial lift to Beijing’s new space programs as its rivalry with the United States reaches space. The spaceport is said to be tailor-made for Chinese commercial aerospace manufacturers and service providers to one day wrest business and foreign orders from US rivals.”
Typical China. Planning five years in advance. If this follows the country’s pattern, construction will begin and continue without interruption until completed. Keyword: Commercial.
America leads the world in overpriced fighter aircraft with a history of unending engineering problems. Google “F-35.”
“Cargo carried via New Land-Sea Corridor in western China grows 38% in Jan-May”
“With the RCEP coming into effect, the corridor has played a bigger role in boosting trade between China and ASEAN. On April 8, four trains left Southwest China’s Sichuan Province, carrying aluminum products, agricultural equipment, industrial equipment, chemicals and food to Laos, Thailand, Vietnam and Indonesia
The RCEP, Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership, is a vast commercial agreement among whose members are all of ASEAN, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, and China.”
Key word: Trade.
Multi-functional modular seabed trencher developed by a Chinese firm has recently completed 100 kilometers of pipelines construction in “Bangladesh’s first marine pipeline project, setting two world records in directional drilling and deep trenching.”
My knowledge of pipeline trenching would be zero even after three cups of coffee and a hearty breakfast. I note, though that it is in Bangladesh: More connection of China and everywhere else. It also sounds like good engineering. Key words: Trade, connectivity.
“The CKU Railways will create significant trade opportunities for Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan while linking China directly to the Middle East via Rail, with spin off benefits throughout the region.”
China, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan will be tied more into the Central Asian ecosystem. Construction begins next year. Key words: Trade, connectivity.
America is unchallenged in funny-looking Batplane intercontinental nuclear bomber costing, says Aviation Week, $640 million a copy as America prepares to fill intense world demand for nuclear war. Google “B-21.”
The China-Laos Railway: Yunnan to Vientiane by Bullet Train
Written by Coco Yang Updated Feb. 11, 2022
On December 3rd 2021, the 1,035-km (643-mile) China-Laos Railway was fully opened making possible a bullet train journey of only 10 hours from Kunming to Vientiane, capital of Laos. Key word: Trade.
China-Europe freight train trips top 50,000, yearly growth of 55% from 2016 to 2021
“The value of goods transported by the cargo service skyrocketed to $74.9 billion in 2021, up from $8 billion dollars in 2016, and its share in total trade between China and Europe has increased from 1.5 to 8 percent, according to the release China State Railway Group sent to the Global Times.” America will probably try to block this traffic because it goes through Russia. Again, coercion over competition. Key word: Trade, connectivity.
Proposed US military budget: $857 billion. Keywords: Profits, stupidity.
China Hosts over Sixty Percent of World’s Five G Base Stations
“China had set up a total of nearly 1.43 million 5G base stations as of the end of 2021….”
And many more this year. As can be found by browsing tech sites, China leads in Five G patents, installed base, technology, and manufacturing capacity. Keywords: Trade, manufacturing.
Many millions of Americans can’t read, a hundred thousand a year die of opioid overdoses, the economy is a trainwreck, and despair grows, but the Pentagon has Space Command to give America “Total Spectrum Dominance,” which presumably will pay our mortgages.
China’s digital yuan extends usage into finance scenarios
“SHANGHAI, June 17 (Reuters) – China’s digital yuan can now be used to buy wealth management products, pay for insurance policies, and extend bank loans, as the central bank further expands e-CNY’s application beyond retail shopping, though still only in pilot schemes.”
China is the world’s leading major country in digital currency. Beijing is low-key about it but implications for global finance worry the US. Keywords: Money, connectivity.
US leads world in pricey, unnecessary but glamorous and profitable nuclear-missile submarines. Google “Columbia class submarines.”
China moves toward STEM leadership
Worth reading. “American” prowess in technology increasingly rests on East Asian and Indian scientists and engineers as the US destroys its schools to further inclusiveness. Keywords: Abject, stupidity.
“Value of China-Vietnam Cross-border Freight Trains More Than Triples in Q1”
US holds world lead in ratio of money given to the Ukraine to number of citizens living on sidewalks.
China leader in supercomputers: “As of June 2021, 188 of the world’s 500 most powerful supercomputers were located in China, a figure which is a third more than that of its nearest competitor, the United States, which accounted for an additional 122 supercomputers. Together, the two nations account for around 60 percent of the world’s most powerful supercomputers.”
This needs to be read with caution. How the two stack up in aggregate computing power, whatever that means, I don’t know. The US just announced the first exascale computer at Oak Ridge. The Sunway Oceanlight from China is on many websites said to be exascale, but isn’t quite. The important point is that it is entirely of Chinese design from architecture to chips, using silicon of Chinese design and manufacture. It is remarkable that China can manage this in the face of American attempts to strangle the country technologically.
China Launches World’s Largest container Ship
A gorgeous monster. Check photo. China also has seven of the world’s largest cargo ports. Keyword: Trade
Trade deficit with China. Boring but worth a glance.
“During 2021, the United States exported $151,065,200,000 in products to China, but then imported $506,366,900,000 in products from China, resulting in $657,432,100,000 in total trade between the two countries–and a $355,301,700,000 deficit for the United States.” Keyword: Can you guess?
We can also mention that China has its own sovereign monetary supply, while the US leases its monetary supply, from the private debt bankers. Every US dollar is a debt instrument, loaned into existence, and bearing compound interest.
Nations can fight external adversities, and yet no nation can fight the betrayal which arises, with money as debt, the money for slaves.
Google compound interest. The US has lost, before even the first footfall, in a ‘thousand mile’ journey! It lost with the setup of the privately-owned AD1913 US Federal Reserve!
Every smart investor in the world should see this article and consider their portfolio for it would be silly to cast this off.
“compound interest” is simple math.
– Every US dollar is a debt instrument,
Private bank dollar (majority) is money secured by collaterals. Then we have FED.
FDR Keynesianism, as I understand it, is about creating expansive public budgets (using more than income).
Then we got current time banking, where new debt = new money. It works better that Keynesianism, where little money is created because money creation was limited to government.
Example of how writers assume inflation is “bad”
– Take inflation for example. It’s so bad, it’s now called Bidenflation. When an economic trend is named after you, that’s either REALLY good or it’s REALLY BAD! In this case, we’ll go with the latter.
Whether inflation is good or bad depends upon personal debt burden. If debt is larger than running income inflation is good for you.
What is bad is having debt [like farmers] and then be told by the bank:
– I can inform you need to sell 50 ton [example number] of potatoes this year
– But last year it was only 10 ton
– Right. But now we have deflation, and your debt has increased by one year of your normal income
$500,000 as debt, 10% deflaltion -> debt burden increases by $50,000
Asian countries knew how to create rapid GDP growth by making sure there was inflation
The effect of inflation explained:
– Bidenflation is costing the average family a minimum of $7,500 this year.
– I have no idea what that calculation is based on, but I say it’s far more. Electric bills alone are said to be increasing by $2,500 this year. The rising gas and groceries are costing the average family another $5,000. And that doesn’t account for any other expenditures. But someone, somewhere decided $7,500 is the magic number. The struggle is real, folks!
– I think it’s fair to say that we’re officially living in a Hank Williams Jr. song. The preacher man says it’s the end of time, and the Mississippi River, she’s a-goin’ dry. The interest is up and the stock market’s down, and you only get mugged if you go downtown…
https://en-volve.com/2022/06/22/biden-left-in-shock-after-his-own-fed-chair-just-admitted-that-their-entire-inflation-narrative-is-a-complete-lie/
I.e. no one knows the effect of inflation. Here writer is using himself and what he learned in journalism to do some guesswork.
the effect of inflation = guesswork
#Savings are deteriorating rapidly with inflationary prices, we will be entering a #recession in a few months, perhaps with less savings than we had during the financial crisis.
— Dave. Sriracha Investor
https://www.investmentwatchblog.com/this-is-an-inflationary-recession-the-worst-in-100-years/
Here we are told (new debt = saving in banks) – i.e. junk economics, as new debt will create new money.
Then Dave. Sriracha Investor starts predicting what will happen applying his misconceptions.
investmentwatchblog is the same as Austrians (Jewish)?
RCB Elvira Nabiullina ?
Austrian or not?
Austrian
Most alternative Media in US are Austrians, like SGT Report
Austrian School of Economics = the Jewish School of Economics.
Interesting
What was Rothschild? A gold trader he too.
China builds wharves and shipping terminals in third world states “no strings attached” and then turns around and uses its influence to secure exclusive billion yuan fishing rights in exactly the same way the USA gives military protection and support to first world countries “no strings attached” and then turns around and uses its influence to secure exclusive billion dollar weapons sales. The author seems to think that anything is better than the US coin in his pocket without understanding that China is just the other side to the same coin.
What is unclear to me is whether the Chinese projects in other countries are funded by gifts or loans. Governments often wish to appear more generous then they are and will infer that a thing a gift when it is loan, no more a gift than a mortgage or credit card debt. Unless it is explicitly stated I would assume they are built with debt because that is the common thing. It gives the Chinese leverage over the local government. When it is done by us, it is one of the forms of “soft power”. It used to be called dollar diplomacy.
People who have rising incomes tend to be net savers, and the Chinese may by culture be given to saving money. Regardless of why, a lot of people in China save a lot of money. Unless that money is going to remain idle, it has to be spent and the Chinese government spends it. We could duplicate the behavior with higher taxes, thus furnishing the government with the funds to spend more on whatever else aside from the military, where we do spend a lot already.
So, want more taxes, more spending? Is that automatically a good thing?
Our current federal government can’t build something without wasting most of the money. Doubt it? Look into the loans made for “green” projects and how frequently they end up being bad debt because the company fails. Or for infrastructure, read up a little on the high speed rail project that is under way in California. And under way and underway because it never gets finished, and every few years costs twice as much.
Er, “fishing rights…”, “weapon sales…”
Notice the difference? Fish nourish and sustain people. Weapons kill them.
@Tom Welsh
“Er, “fishing rights…”, “weapon sales…”
Notice the difference? Fish nourish and sustain people. Weapons kill them.”
Having personally seen Tongan shops and beaches fill with worthless plastic rubbish while their plates empty of high quality fish as the same Chinese ships bringing the junk return to China full of fish, I can honestly say that you dont know what you are talking about. Those fishing rights are just a slow way to kill the locals instead of a fast way with weapons.
Hi Nobody, Let’s not talk about the negative things these two country do. Please give the list of all the good things the US is offering to its allies. Thanks
Third world?
See Vancouver
Washington or Canada?
That U.S. dollar coin in your pocket is only worth 3 cents in buying power and no, I don’t know what a Chinese dollar coin would buy in China, but I bet it’s a whole lot more.
China has raised millions upon millions out of poverty meanwhile in the U.S. it’s a race to see which city becomes all poverty, or perhaps they have already reached that point, Seattle comes to mind along with a few cities in Cali. where its not dog crap on the sidewalks you have to watch out for, but human waste, which is just about what the whole country has become. In China, China controls the business banking sector in the United States the business banking sector controls the government and the country and has ever since the election of 1980 which brought an old worn out B actor to the Oval Office. As for me, I would make no judgement until I had lived in China for a few years, for it seems they are walking the right path taking care of their people while we are walking off the edge of the cliff taking care of the 1% to hell with the people.
In communism the government owns industry. In capitalism industry own government.
Black Cloud: Yes you master the essential point. But what is needed to augment your point is the further understanding that in communism as well as the Government owning industry the people also own the Government. This vital understanding is essential to realizing the goal of socialist – communist democracy. There is an art to communism. And it is really a spiritual art. An art that the oligarchies desperately want people to not understand.
Socialism-communism works when people are actively engaged in cultural and political mass associations that further their humanist self actualization. In turn these people’s organizations participate and contribute to the furtherance of Govt policy. In practical effect peoples self organizations and Govt operate in respectful mutual harmony. Communism works when the people and Govt unite in creative self actualization. The people own the Government. Cuba and China understand this. It produces a unique concept of socialist democracy. Westerners in contrast are propagandized to feel massive alienation from Govt and set it up in their minds as a massive oppressive weight under which they feel oppressed.
When Westerners feel the Government to be their oppressive enemy there is no real possibility of either socialism or democracy. Nor any possibility of collective sanity. Hence the massive propaganda against the very idea of people’s Government. For this reason power seeking psychopaths strive desperately to control how we think about Government.
Consequently when you say “Government” to a Westerner that individual all too frequently feels immediate revulsion. This is a propaganda victory for the intended purpose of alienating people people from any capacity to think rationally about either socialism or democracy.
Famous quote, I don’t remember the source: “Under capitalism man exploits man, under communism it is the opposite”.
Markin: Yes a well known quote: Pithy and to the point when comparing the United States and the Soviet Union. I believe the quote originated from Soviet humor. So the trick is to acknowledge that no one really seriously believed the Soviet Union was actually “communist” in any meaningful way. Far too corrupt. So taken out of Soviet-US context is says nothing real about real communism at all. Just the under developed distortion of it most.
Constantly being subject to imperialist aggression gave the Soviet Union no peace. It was always a defensive war state, which distorted, exhausted and corrupted the original intention.
– That U.S. dollar coin in your pocket is only worth 3 cents in buying power and no,
It is the Austrian School being promoted. ANDY SCHECTMAN is an Austrian, or what I will count as a failed trader, because what happens is never what he expects to happen
https://www.bitchute.com/video/fEe5rH2QZHJU/
He can maybe pay his rent
There is a vast differeence between financial militarism and financial industrialism.
@Black Cloud
I never said they were the same. However, a cursory glance at England’s history will tell you how similar their purpose can be.
There is a very large difference, When was the last time the US built something in a country that was really needed to bring their country up, while also benefiting the us trade? Indonesia? Nah we set up a coup then carpet bombed, then set up a horrid genocide. But the american oil industry got what it wanted, Iran? Nope, we couped the government installed our pick put BP in charge. Iraq our boy Saddam was good till he wasn’t. Syria
We just out right steal their oil, Libya same as Syria. Yemen nothing more then target practice we have done nothing for any country is the Middle East but terrorize. Same with SE Asia, central and South America and Africa.
The last time the US rebuilt any country the demand for bases and control was explicit. Know your history before pretending there is any comparison.
So you judge ‘wharves and shipping terminals’ and ‘fishing rights’ to be equivalent to ‘military protection(!)’ and weapons sales’. No wonder the US is the ‘Empire of Lies’, and is going down the tubes. ‘Whooooosh’!
A better analogy for the US would be like the mafioso who ‘gives’ protection to the shop owner so that it doesn’t burn down. After that deal is done, it sells ‘protection’ to the workers so that nothing ‘bad’ happens to them on their way to work. The trip home after work is covered in a separate deal, and not included.
The Chinese gives loan and help to build the shop, and takes it over if the owner runs it into the ground. Workers still have a job to go to, although under new management. Worker security is left in the domain of to the local regime.
My own government (USA), has become foreign to me. It no more represents me than does the government of Zimbabwe (and there are some increasing similarities).
If I must be ruled by foreigners then I would rather have Beijing than the ‘clown show’ I have now.
I’d rather have Mr. Putin.
China still scares the ever-loving bejabbers out of me. 5G; total surveillance; social credit system; 26 million people imprisoned in Shanghai; a million Uighurs in concentration camps; vivisection of political prisoners to harvest their organs; and up until very recently, forced sterilization and forced abortions.
NO, THANKS!
And yes, I realize that the U.S. is rapidly moving towards all that stuff, too.
The only country I see that, flawed as it is, is at least moving in the right DIRECTION, is Holy Mother Russia.
The Uighur thing is Western propaganda, there’s no evidence for “genocide” or “concentration camps”. The Greyzone has excellent reporting on this.
The rest of that stuff, I don’t know. It does sound like a totalitarian, surveillance-empowered government. I’m not pro- or anti- China at this point, but I am pro-accuracy.
The American version of a “totalitarian, surveillance-empowered” system is the “soft power” of crony capitalist social media companies “canceling” the deplorables social media accounts.
Word! Oh man, what do they feed you there in the United States? You believe every word about China from those that told you about incubator babies and weapons of mass destruction and the Ukraine is winning this war, and Russia Bad and Cancel Russia.
5G – hundreds of thousands, and nobody has cabbages growing out of their heads. Its western alt-media junk, although some people are sensitive to electro magnetic signalling
Total Surveillance – where do you get this crap? Tell me more. The Chinese that I talk to, laugh at this!
Social Credit System – let me know what it is before you talk – cause you don’t know, you’re just mindlessly repeating
26 M people imprisoned in Shangai .. they are long opened up. The Chinese have a problem and that is not lock down. They say their local authorities did not act fast enough and call lockdown fast enough. There are some local authorities losing their positions. China has a zero Covid policy. When last did you compare deaths in the US with that of China .. Oh yes, they don’t count in the US any longer because the number is an embarrassment and they are hiding it.
Organ harvesting from political prisons .. pure CIA
Let me stop here but really, you believe all the China propaganda from those that are lying to you every day? Deep in the 90th percent the western propaganda on China is false.
Just know that 1.4 Billion Chinese people are laughing at you.
I look forward to my boss coming back. Given more time, I’ll re-start the Here Comes China writing where most of these things were already debunked.
“Maoism” – a guerilla strategy for making revolution – is an application of
– “All political power comes from the barrel of a gun. The communist party must command all the guns, that way, no guns can ever be used to command the party.”
—
Mao Zedong
CIA was also engaged in “making revolution” (now color revolution). What must come as a surprise is CIA too believe in Maoism.
I aks myself: Who were the Maoists? They tried to destroy Chinese culture by epic “Culture Revolution”
Correct, Kjell. And folks like Pepe Escobar have written extensively that China’s gains are in large part due to moving away from Maoism, Marxism, and similar subjectively moral systems which made the world elites believe it was safe to move their corporate industry there in the first place.
This, to put it mildly, is stretched.
And here’s a clue.
F-35 is indeed overpriced and was plagued with far too many troubles.
The “features” are even more telling than bugs: it’s un-specialized and has to call daddy to take off.
What does this tells us?
⁃ US military spending is mostly bogus. The inflated numbers mask decay, but in reality go into all sorts of graft and kickbacks, not utility.
⁃ US military does not have a clearly spelled doctrine.
⁃ US military is openly distrusted by its owners.
None of which should be any surprise to those who paid attention. “Pentagon pricing”, lawyer-saturated military and whiny hatred the theocratic elites spout in the general direction of their unterme… “rednecks” (increasingly reciprocated) stink to high heaven all over teh internetz.
So, not as much “military spending”, as “ridiculously corrupt corrupt state spending”. The whole bogus industry of windmills (and other absurd things run by the watermelons) falls under the same category.
As to the infrastructure, see this little article:
https://web.archive.org/web/20160602181938/https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/05/26/why-americans-dont-trust-government/
The bridge was built in 1912 in less than a year, it could not be fixed for 5 years.
The dude is a bishop… sorry, professor at Most Holy Harvard and was an advisor to Obama the Lightworker himself. All he could do about it was complaining in press after he lost patience. That was 6 years ago. Is there any signs that the situation improved?
The implications of this are even clearer.
Antonio Gramsci did a good job in the West inventing postmodernity and post-truth… Thank heavens that the best weapon of the Soviet Union (Gramsci) was not published within it but Russia would be a scum of the USA,… anyway Thanks to Gramsci and his postmodern poison, the West does not know how to define what is a woman or a man now.
China is a totalitarian dictatorship that locks up brave men like Cardinal Zen (92 years old) for defending the truth of the gospel without using adulterated Bibles tailored to the Chinese totalitarian regime.
The perfect dictatorship is the one that doesn’t look like it, that’s modern China…
That is kinda nonsense you know.
Cardinal Zen was arrested for his collusion with a fund that solicited money for Hong Kong demonstrators – demonstrators that were breaking law and rules and creating mayhem with NED money. If he wants to be in Hong Kong, he, even he, needs to obey the local laws. He was charged and let go on bail.
I don’t know if they ever brought a case against him.
His own church is not in agreement with him.
Added: The same people who lied to you about Iraq, about WMD, about Libya, about Syria, are lying to you again about China. And a disturbing number of you believe the lying liars all over again. What’s wrong with some people?
China has demonstrated an unparalleled economic, financial and societal change. The Central and South American countries say clearly that in business with China, there is no coercion. The African countries say the same. The Chinese people are content because they can change their administration with a few meetings of the people’s congresses themselves. The people are in the main content because they know their administration works for them, and they will keep it that way.
Amarynth, I’ve heard better infamies but I didn’t figure this one out in The Saker. Accusing a 90 year old like that is miserable, it reeks of montage.
To clarify this: Cardinal Zen was one of the trustees of the charity, which ceased operations in October last year. Authorities arrested him along with other promoters of the fund, including well-known lawyer Margaret Ng, university professor Hui Po-keung, and singer-songwriter Denise Ho.
Apparently, the police investigation focuses on the possible crime of collaboration between the 612 Fund and foreign forces, in violation of the draconian national security law imposed by Beijing in the summer of 2020.
Cardinal Zen has long been in the sights of the Chinese government. In January, the official press, the equivalent of Chinese CNN and WaPo, published four articles accusing him of inciting students to rebel (I burst out laughing, what little imagination) in 2019 against a series of measures adopted by the government, WITHOUT TESTS.
Beijing does not look favorably on the cardinal for his criticism of the Chinese Communist Party’s control over religious communities. Zen condemned the removal of crosses outside churches in China and over the years celebrated masses for the victims of Tiananmen in Beijing: the young people massacred by the authorities on June 4, 1989 for calling for freedom and democracy.
The cardinal is also against the agreement between the Vatican and China on the appointment of bishops and the globalist, pro-Soros Vatican suspiciously happy?
An advocate for civil rights in Hong Kong and mainland China, Cardinal Zen has attended the hearings that ended with the jail sentences of politicians and pro-democracy activists accused of violating the national security law. Cardinal Zen never hid.
He is known for his opposition to the agreement between the Holy See and China for the appointment of bishops. The worst thing is that his people have abandoned him for denouncing the secret China-Vatican agreements.
The Holy See has limited itself to saying, through the mouth of its spokesman, Matteo Bruni, that it is following the development of events with caution and extreme attention (translated scared to death). You cannot be falling lower than yours throw you to the lions, Mother of God what you have to see..
Cardinal Zen was released on bail within hours of being arrested. His passport has been withdrawn, so he cannot leave the country. This is how the Chinese dictatorship treats a frail old man.
The best dictatorship is the one that doesn’t look like it and that is the genius of China to have the birds in a gilt cage.
China’s business in Venezuela is as follows: China provides everything: 100% Chinese labor, 100% Chinese infrastructure, 100% Chinese machinery, 100% everything, etc., the land is 100% owned by China and the minerals extracted 100% Chinese, the rest is paid by Venezuela in a comfortable 50 years plus a percentage of profits. just like what the USA did with Venezuela… any difference?
Lo publicarás?
Oh dear, now we get the whole NED playbook.
But first, you wanted to present this Cardinal as an innocent person that is just not able to read his bible.
Not to worry, but go and choose every video here from Nathan Rich and specifically his comparison of the so-called “draconian national security law” imposed by Beijing in the summer of 2020. It is mild, compared to say the United States. Every country has such a law – it was only that Hong Kong, with its history, did not have one and had to create one, to stop people doing crime in other areas, to hide out in Hong Kong. There are hundreds of such cases.
Also, you can go and check out Natan’s frequent coverage during the time of the Hong Kong riots which was a western attempt at regime change in Hong Kong.
https://www.youtube.com/c/NathanRichHotpot/videos
If you don’t like Nathan, I can give you plenty more.
In fact, the Cardinal is fine. He can walk in the sunshine, he can preach to his congregants, he can eat what he wants … we should worry about Julian Assange who has been tortured under truly brutal National Security Laws – some of them made up on the spot! You know, when the extradition order came through, they took his clothes and put him naked under 24 hour lights, in order to ‘make sure he does not commit suicide’. Some other ‘national security states’ do not want to be deprived of their piece of flesh. And you want to plead for this Cardinal who is actually fine – he just broke the local laws and collected money for brutal and violent insurrection.
As far as Venezuela is concerned, it is just not true. I won’t even bother. I know what China’s trade policy is and what it looks like. We’ve followed in-depth Chinese development projects. In Venezuela, we get operational agreements that allow private firms to participate in for example the oil fields. And we get shared frameworks. Not to worry, you can read the history here.
https://www.redalc-china.org/monitor/images/pais/Venezuela/investigacion/293_VNL_2013_Giacalone.pdf
But please lose the NED playbook – those guys that do in public these days what the CIA has to do in secret.
Oscar de Caracas,
sorry to say it but you sound a whole lot like Juan Guaido speaking presidential to the masses about the benefits of American version democracy balderdash. I can’t say exactly about Venezuela but here in Iran those who make such statements almost always enjoy a material living based on the dollar system which runs parallel to the local economy of the masses that use the national currency (Rial), and the dollar connections provides them with their elitist status. They drive expensive Western 4×4 cars and own big homes in nice neighborhood ..etc., while ordinary people take the bus or just walk and pay over half their income just for rent, while most can’t even rent a small apt. I am sure nowadays every other country is the same. China knows very well how to deal with those American mickey mouse democracy promoters. They are of no use to the Chinese people.
I don’t see Chinese fleeing from China, not even to Taiwan…
What hurts them is what the Chinese Communist Party has done. He was very intelligent and patriotic, for the sake of the people. It beat the Anglo-USA empire on its own turf; he understood that the economy or economic system is only a tool, and not an end in itself, to solve the problems of his people.
He is criticized that he is totalitarian: compared to whom? They must confront the most genocidal and inhumane empire in history, the “perfidious Albion” and its heir USA, protecting their plans, tactics and strategies.
The so-called “democracy” is just a way to infiltrate the people and, among other things, brainwash them with corrupt advertising and propaganda…
Nothing about transgender, gay marriage, diversity, nor Mandarin guilt. What a shame.
The most “advanced” Chinese strategy is to bribe / buy foreign goverments and infiltrate their businesses and sosiety, including the USA. They are extremely effective at that. They do not care about locals.
Forget about fuzzy and soft Chinese. Not good for China – not happening. Russia too is going to pay dearly some time down the road, unfortunately.
I suppose that once one gets an idea in ones head, no matter how erroneous it is, or how often it is shown to nonsense, it is difficult to reject it, especially if it requires a 180° turn.
I think the author underestimates the real US power, because thanks to Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, today, US citizens enjoy a whole lot more gender awareness than those poor Chinese. According to RT the US military is training all of its military personnel about the correct rules of applying gender pronouns during conversations. So from now on one must be careful when talking with a transgender, gay, lesbian, bi…staff or otherwise could end up in jail.
You can tell who rules by those you can say nothing about.
A great article. It set’s out the differences between the US and China’s approach to the world in a easily understood form. And I think shows that China has the more sane approach.
The idea is that the guy with the musket can take a cut of the selling of every bowl of noodles. So if noodle guy sells a bowl of noodles to widget maker guy, then musket guy takes a little profit. And also takes a profit from every widget sold. He does this by printing the money that is used in the transaction. Both noodle guy and widget guy sends 1 son to serve as proxy soldiers for musket guys local militia, overturning governments that object to the arrangement.
“China — key words: manufacturing, trade, connectivity.”
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Let me briefly share with readers what the above reflexion around those KEY WORDS brings to my mind, i.e. the outstanding visionary work accomplished by Parag Khanna around tomorrow’s world.
I first refer readers to three of Khanna’s major books on those topics:
1. “Connectography: Mapping the Future of Global Civilization” (2016),
2. “The Future is Asian: Commerce, Conflict and Culture in the 21st Century” (2019),
3. “MOVE: The Forces Uprooting Us” (2021).
Readers may further consult advantageously Khanna’s own site at
https://www.paragkhanna.com/
as well as watch one or more of his numerous talks, interviews, etc. on YouTube…
This modest beginning will undoubtedly give readers a feel for how interconnected we already are in today’s world… and will be in tomorrow’s, as well as for what it does and may entail in our everyday life!
May these recommendations of mine be found stimulating and useful
Hey, Hey, don’t get carried away. US leads the world on compliant connections with murderous capabilities. When saving status quo, killing a few billion innocents is easy-peasy.
Our mercenaries don’t even flinch at depravity and our pharma partners have a misery ratio no one will ever challenge. Profit stolen over dead/maimed people.
We occasionally get confused over which is most important, broken hearts or broken promises. No sweat, double down, multi-tasking our way to infamy, we leave no sin uncommitted!
Yes of course all our Hollywood movies are true, what rock have I been living under?
United States aircraft carriers remind me of the floating sea fortresses from the book 1984 – designed to suck funds from the public to keep them poor.
I had some limited association with the late great Lyndon LaRouche organization. They tried to carefully explain the differences between Republicans and Democrats to me in the 1980s and the terrors of Donald Rumsfeld, whom I knew zero about, as a Canadian.
Lyndon LaRouche had developmental mega projects and mega plans, including Canada. I had some reservations about the environmental effects. Much later I found that they offered great venues for whistleblowers like the CIA veteran analyst Ray McGovern through the Schiller Institute and Helga Zepp LaRouche.
https://schillerinstitute.com/
So the Silk Road is not bad by their lights.
They also offer venues to people like Vietnam Vet Richard Black.
Video: Ukraine Has Lost the War: But Thermonuclear War Still Threatens
June 21, 2022
Senator Richard Black’s address to the June 18-19 Schiller Institute conference.
https://schillerinstitute.com/blog/2022/06/21/video-ukraine-has-lost-the-war-but-thermonuclear-war-still-threatens/
America still has such great resources of experience, wisdom and intelligence, including Fred Reed.
But I found out that they don’t seem to believe in AGW. (Anthropogenic Global Warming)
If anything requires mega projects, less war and international cooperation, it will be climate change.
I also don’t believe in anthropogenic global warming. I think it is very arrogant to believe that humans can significantly influence global geophysical cycles. Rather, I think it is a strategy of the failed empire, to prevent poor countries from developing using the resources they have, and from buying “green” technologies from them.
And not for that, I also want to live in an environment free from contamination of any kind, including ideological contamination.
Your counter-party is Tony Heller.
Carbon Di-oxide resides in every living thing.
You can’t have enough of it.
You can breathe 20,000 ppm in your motorcycle helmet and not die.
Please review Tony Heller who can provide truth.
Editorial comment: I know what you’re getting at with “world lead in ratio of money given to the Ukraine to number of citizens living on sidewalks,” but those are both big numbers, so the ratio is less impressive.
Maybe “the ratio of money given to the Ukraine to the money given to its citizens living on sidewalks.”
Another Russian/Soviet-Chinese connection:
Some Americans know about the Flying Tigers, the American Volunteers Group, helping China from April 1941 to July1942. But very few people know about the Soviet Volunteers Group, Operation Z, helping China from Oct 1937 (2 months after the 2nd Sino-Japanese War officially started) to June 1941. Stalin recalled the Soviet Volunteers after Hitler invaded Ukraine. And FDR recalled the American Volunteers after Japan attacked Pearl Harbor.
By comparison, the American help was miniscule because the Russian help was much more substantial and of such a larger scale. And so many more Russians gave their lives to help China. As Chinese never forget a friend, there are lots of monuments in China to remember the Soviet Volunteers.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_Volunteer_Group
Is the USA, NATO and the EU a clan?
The USA determines the actions of NATO and the EU and the USA is Israel’s best friend; the actions of the USA are determined by Israel’s wishes. From this starting point, the question is significant: What kind of ethics does Israel practise or, in other words, how can Jewish ethics be described? Jewish ethics is the ethics of a religiously based descent community. Does this descent community, or the state of Israel, represent ethics understanding 1) or 2)?
1) Evil is that which opposes the goals of one’s own grouping.
2) Evil is to pursue goals that are detrimental to others or that harm or hinder the development of others.
If it is ethics 1), the question arises: How influential in the world is Israeli or Jewish ethics? If we look at the influence of this ethic on the USA and at the same time become aware of how great the political, ideological and financial-economic influence of the USA is on the world, we get an idea of the importance of Jewish, or Israeli ethics for the world. The question remains: how can this enormous influence on the USA be explained?
– Netanyahu said this is an idea that Israelis agree with – regarding the United States as “mishpaha” – the Hebrew word for family.
U.S. support for the State of Israel has been constant since the nation formed in the midst of war in 1948.
https://www.defense.gov/News/News-Stories/Article/Article/2569486/netanyahu-austin-agree-us-israeli-relationship-like-a-family/
Here we learn US and Israel is “family”, and that US supported the Polish Communists when they made terror war on British rule … post-war
I doubt it
“Israel was admitted as a member of the UN by majority vote on 11 May 1949.”
Wikipedia entry does not answer what US position was on Israel 1948
Do you think it is possible that the USA is forced for financial reasons to carry out Israel’s or Zion’s wishes?
Thesis 1: A Jewish financial, relational and business power exists.
Thesis 2: The Jewish financial, relational and business power is connected to the political goals of Israel.
Brilliant, as always
I wonder how many shipping containers you could fit on the deck of a Ford Class aircraft carrier?
“China launches worlds largest container ship.”
Paradise Stolen – Episode 2 – The Myth of Efficiency
https://youtu.be/KjQ01J1SQBI
What? Suicide prevention nets?