By Matthew Ehret for the Saker Blog
Since many good people have found themselves susceptible to the narrative that China is the global supervillain conspiring to overthrow western Christian values by any means necessary, I believe some lessons should be brought to bear.
- Anti-Nation state fanatic George Soros stated at the 2020 Davos Summit that China has become the greatest threat to his vision for Open Society (right behind Trump’s USA). This was echoed by Lord Malloch Brown’s 2020 Global Government Speeches.
- China’s deep alliance with Russia and the increased integration of the Eurasian Economic Union with the 135 nation strong Belt and Road Initiative form the basis of an alternative multipolar paradigm has kept imperialists up at night for the past several years.
- The prospect of a US-China-Russia alliance has been one of the greatest threats to empire which peeked in the weeks before COVID-19 arose onto the scene as the US-China Trade Pact successfully entered its first phase (and has since fallen into shambles) as well as Trump’s repeated calls for “good relations with Russia.”
Amidst the surge of anti-China media psy ops published across Five Eyes nations, countless patriots of a conservative bent have found themselves absorbed into a red-scare manic hysteria while forgetting that the actual causal hand of British Intelligence has been caught blatantly running the overthrow of nation states for decades (including the 2016-2020 to run regime change within the USA itself).
Understanding the nature of the current psy ops, and new red scare deflection underway, it is necessary to review some seriously underappreciated facts of recent history, and since former secretary of State Sir Henry Kissinger (a genuine Knight of the British Empire), figures prominently in this story, it is wise to start with his relationship with China.
Although he is celebrated for being an “enlightened” liberal politician who helped China open up to the west after the dark days of Mao’s Cultural Revolution by extending western markets to China, the truth is very different.
A devout proponent of world government and population control, Kissinger had been the tool selected during a particularly important period of human history to advance a new ordering of world affairs.
The Division of the World Into Producers and Consumers
Since the world was taken off the gold reserve system way back in 1971, a new age of “post-industrialism” was unleashed onto a globalized world. Humanity was given a new type of system which presumed that both our nature and the cause of value itself were located in the act of consuming. The old idea that our nature was creative, and that our wealth was tied to producing, was assumed to be an obsolete thing of the past… a relic of a dirty old industrial age.
Under the new post-1971 operating system, we were told that the world would now be divided among producers and consumers.
The “have-not producers” would provide the cheap labor which first world consumers would increasingly rely on for the creation of goods they used to make for themselves. “First world” nations were told that according to the new post-industrial rules of de-regulation and market economics, that they should export their heavy industry, machine tools and other productive sectors abroad as they transitioned into “white collar” post-industrial consumer societies. The longer this outsourcing of industries went on, the less western nations found themselves capable of sustaining their own citizenries, building their own infrastructure or determining their own economic destinies.
In place of full spectrum economies that once saw over 40% of North America’s labor force employed in manufacturing, a new addiction to “buying cheap stuff” began, and a “service economies” took over like a cancer.
To make matters worse, the many newly independent nations struggling to liberate themselves from colonialism were told that they would have to abandon their dreams of development since those goals would render the formula of a producer-consumer stratified society impossible to create. Those leaders resisting this edict would face assassination or CIA overthrow. Those leaders who adapted to the new rules would become peons of the new age of “Economic Hitmen”.
China and the West: The Real Story
By the time Deng Xiaoping announced the “opening up” of China in 1978, Kissinger had already managed the economic paradigm shift of 1971, the artificial “oil shock therapy” of 1973 and authored his 1974 NSSM 200 Report which transformed U.S. Foreign Policy from a pro-development orientation towards a new policy of depopulation targeting the poor nations of the global south under the logic that the resources under their soil were the lawful possession of the USA.
The NSSM 200 (titled “Implications of Worldwide Population Growth for US Security and Overseas Interests”) outlined its objective “Assistance for population moderation should give emphasis to the largest and fastest growing developing countries where there is a special US and strategic interest”.
Kissinger, and the hives of Trilateral Commission/CFR operatives to which he was beholden never looked on China as a true ally, but merely as a zone of abundant cheap labor which would feed cheap goods to the now post-industrial west under their new dystopic producer-consumer world order. It was in that same year that Kissinger’s fellow Trilateral Commission cohort Paul Volcker announced a “controlled disintegration of western society” which was begun in full with the Federal Reserve’s interest rate hikes to 20% that ensured a vast destruction of small and medium businesses across the board.
Believing China (then still largely an impoverished third world country) to be desperate enough to accept money and short-term salvation after years of trauma induced by the Cultural Revolution. Under Kissinger’s logic, China would receive just enough money to sustain a static existence but would never be able to stand on its own two feet.
Unbeknownst to Kissinger, China’s leaders under the direction of Zhou Enlai, and his disciple Deng Xiaoping had a much longer-term strategic perspective than their western partners imagined.
While receiving much needed revenue from foreign exports, China began to slowly create the foundations for a genuine renaissance which would be made possible by slowly learning the skills, leapfrogging technologies and acquiring means of production which the west had once pioneered. Zhou Enlai had first enunciated this visionary program as early as 1963 under his Four Modernizations mandate (Industrial, agricultural, national defense and science and technology) and then restated this program in January 1976 weeks before his death.
This program manifested itself in the July 6, 1978 State Council Forum on the “Principles to Guide the Four Modernizations” informed by the findings of international exploratory missions conducted by economist Gu Mu’s delegations around various advanced world economies (Japan, Hong Kong, Western Europe). The findings of Gu Mu’s reports laid out the concrete pathways for full spectrum economic sovereignty with a focus on cultivating the cognitive creative powers of a new generation of scientists that would drive the non linear breakthroughs needed for China to ultimately break free of the rules of closed-system economics which technocrats like Kissinger wished the world adhere to.
Deng Xiaoping broke from the radical Marxism prevalent among the intelligentsia by redefining “labor” from purely material constraints and elevating the concept rightfully to the higher domain of mind saying:
“We should select several thousand of our most qualified personnel within the scientific and technological establishment and create conditions that will allow them to devote their undivided attention to research. Those who have financial difficulties should be given allowances and subsidies… we must create within the party an atmosphere of respect for knowledge and respect for trained personnel. The erroneous attitude of not respecting intellectuals must be opposed. All work. Be it mental or manual, is labor.”
Over the course of the coming decades, China learned, and like any student, copied, reverse engineered and reconstructed western techniques as it slowly generated capacities that ultimately allowed them press on the limits of human knowledge outpacing all western models.
Scientific and technological progress became the driving force of its entire economy and by 1986, the “863 Project for Research and Development” was announced which focused on areas of space, lasers, energy, biotechnology, new materials, automation and information technology. This project became the driver for creative innovation guided by the National Science Foundation and was upgraded to the 973 Basic Research Program in 2009 to: “1) support multidisciplinary and fundamental research of relevance to national development; 2) Promote frontline basic research; 3) Support the cultivation of scientific talent capable of original research; and 4) Build high-quality interdisciplinary research centers.”
The fruits of these long term programs was beginning to be felt and by 1996, discussion for a New Silk Road reviving the ancient trade routes connecting China to Europe and Africa through the Middle East and Caucasus was beginning with conferences hosted by Beijing under President Jiang Zemin.
One of the few western participants at these Chinese events was the Schiller Institute, whose founders delivered a full day seminar in 1997 describing the program that would finally come back to life in 2013 when Xi Jinping made it the focus of China’s foreign policy outlook under the Belt and Road Initiative.
Why did this program wait until 2013 to blossom onto the world stage when obvious momentum was already in motion in 1997?
George Soros and the Attack on the Asian Markets
From May 1997, George Soros’ targeting of the Southeast Asian “Tigers economies” of Myanmar, Thailand, Indonesia, Philippines, Laos, and Malaysia with speculative short sales of their local currencies resulted months of vast anarchy across all of Asia and the world more broadly. Currencies collapsed from 10-80% over the next 8 months and took many years to begin to recover.
Malaysia’s Mahathir Mohammed was brave enough to call out Soros’ economic warfare and did much to help his nation weather the storm by imposing capital controls to maintain some semblance of stability calling out the speculator saying: “as much as people who produce and distribute drugs are criminals, because they destroy nations, the people who undermine the economies of poor nations are too.” Chinese President Jiang Zemin followed suit calling Soros “a financial sniper” and stated he would not let the speculator enter Chinese markets.
As analyst Michael Billington astutely wrote in his August 1997 EIR report:
“The ultimate target is China. The British are particularly worried about the increasingly close collaboration between China and the ASEAN nations, which are being integrated into the massive regional and continental development projects initiated by China under the umbrella of the Eurasian Continental Land-Bridge program. Such real development policies offer the alternative to the cheap-labor, colonial-style export industries of the “globalization” model- the model that has led to the financial bubbles now bursting worldwide.”
The Tumultuous Years of 1997-2013
With the advent of the collapse of Long-Term Capital Management (whose meltdown nearly took down the world economy in 1999 if not bailed out by central banks), followed by the Y2K/tech bubble explosion of 2000, the world markets nearly collapsed on several occasions. 9-11 unleashed a new era of warfare which deflected attention from the rot of the financial system while derivatives were deregulated, and ‘Too Big To Fail’ banking formed in short order growing far beyond the powers of any nation state to rein in.
Under this period of destabilization, wars, terrorism and easy money speculation, China and its Eurasian allies moved slower to rebuild the physical basis of their existence with the creation of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, long term planning, and a slow but steady focus on real (vs speculative) economic activity. The fact that China was among the only nations of the world to keep national controls over their central bank and maintain Glass-Steagall bank separation were not lost on the enemies of humanity yearning for a bankers’ dictatorship.
This process continued until it became evident that the western unipolar agenda would stop at nothing including nuclear war in order to assure the total subservience of all nation states, with Obama unveiling his Asia Pivot (air-sea battle) plans against China along with the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) economic attack on China. The veil was now lifted to the true ugly face behind the liberal fascist smiles and it became clear that the full spectrum dominance military encirclement of Russia’s perimeter was being fully extended to China’s perimeter as well.
The Revival of the New Silk Road
It was in the face of this existential threat that Xi Jinping emerged as the new leader of China and a historic crackdown of party corruption on all levels Federal, Provincial and Municipal was begun in force while Xi’s 2013 announcement of the Belt and Road Initiative in Kazakhstan revived the New Silk Road/Eurasian land bridge policy of 15 years earlier.
Although China is often accused of intellectual theft, the reality is that it has begun to clearly outpace western nations becoming a pioneer on every level of science and technology. China now registers more patents than the USA, has become the cutting edge leader of high speed rail engineering with over 30 000 km, bridge building, tunneling, as well as water management, quantum computing, AI, 5G telecommunications, and even space science becoming the first nation to ever land on the far side of the moon with an intent to mine Helium 3 and develop permanent bases on the Moon in the coming decade.
All of these cutting edge fields of science and engineering are being organized by the ever-growing Belt and Road Initiative which has taken on global proportions and integrated itself into a deep alliance with Russia, Iran and over 135 nations who have signed onto the BRI Framework stretching from Latin America, Africa, the Middle East, Central Asia, Asia, and Europe.
This is the system which the USA and other western nations could have joined on multiple occasions, but which has instead been targeted as a global threat to western hegemony. According to the logic of those western utopians who refuse to let go of their old outdated 1971 script for a new world order, China’s New Silk Road must be subverted at all costs since it is very well understood that it would become the basis for a new world system as the old globalized paradigm comes crashing down faster than the Hindenburg.
The Real Perpetrators Laugh as a New Cold War Hysteria is Orchestrated
It is perhaps an irony that those figures who have been caught time and again attempting to destroy the foundations of both the USA, China and Russia have deflected attention from their own actions by promoting the idea that China is the USA’s natural enemy.
The reality is China is currently not only reviving the ancient silk road paradigm that focused on a harmony of interests and mutual self interest through economic and cultural exchange but they have also revived the spirit of President Sun Yat-sen’s International Development of China program in full. In this 1920 document China’s first President outlined the superiority of the American system of political economy which he studied deeply beginning in his early student days in the USA, and upon which he explicitly modelled his new republican China and his three Principles of the People (premised on Lincoln’s principle of a nation for, by and of the people). Sun Yat-sen (a Christian Confucian revolutionary) is not only the beloved founding father of the republic of China celebrated to this day, but stated his views pro-American views in the following terms
“The world has been greatly benefited by the development of America as an industrial and a commercial Nation. So a developed China with her four hundred millions of population, will be another New World in the economic sense. The nations which will take part in this development will reap immense advantages. Furthermore, international cooperation of this kind cannot but help to strengthen the Brotherhood of Man.”
Both mainstream and alternative media outlets that tend to be sympathetic to conservative values have bit the bait and are now blind to the fact that those oligarchical social engineers managing the World Economic Forum and drooling over a new era of World Government, population reduction and technocratic feudalism are laughing at all of those fish in their nets whose ignorance to history and other cultures are leading them to their own self-destruction.
Matthew Ehret is the Editor-in-Chief of the Canadian Patriot Review , Senior Fellow at the American University in Moscow, BRI Expert on Tactical talk, and has authored 3 volumes of ‘Untold History of Canada’ book series. In 2019 he co-founded the Montreal-based Rising Tide Foundation. He can be reached at matt.ehret@tutamail.com
The West simply hates or fears (sometimes both) what it does not control.
I see it as a type of parasitic greed with no compassion or compunction. It is a lust for power without any boundaries.
The people at the very apex have no honour, not even for each other.
This is all the more reason that ‘they’ should be exposed by any means necessary … before they destroy everything which is sacred. The difficult part is that ‘they’ watch and control everything and in all probability, this very website.
Neither China nor Russia are enemies of the West.
But western imperialism need enemies and cannot exist as it is without enemies. If they do not have them they invent them.
And this is the main reason that western imperialism will collapse sooner or later.
They are doomed and that’s why they are so nervous and behave like lunatics.
China is a nation of aspiring business owners. Additionally, with the one child policies and their aftermaths, families cannot spare excess members for use as cannon fodder. When we look at the human wave attacks of the Korean campaign, historians have a way of neglecting the realities of these expendable troops. Namely, they were the politically unreliable soldiers abandoned by Chiang Kai-Shek. The Reds were better equipped and ready to liquidate any shock troops that decided that discretion being the better part of valor. Similar to the USSR’s use of penal battalions. Communists are very skilled at eliminating rivals, by any means necessary.
But again, the modern Chinese empire has much better things to do than squander massive resources in a major war. Reading Sun Tzu tells us all we need to know.
Chinese have deep cultural aversion to militarism. There is a saying that “good iron is not used to make nails”. The traditional attitude was that only “useless” sons become soldiers. The highest aspiration for any son was that he became a scholar/official.
I contrast this to the attitude I saw whenever I visit the USA. Soldiers in uniform are revered and given priorities in queues etc. Any revelation that one is a soldier is followed by an obligatory “thank you for your service” token of appreciation.
In reflection, it is not surprising. How else can a country keep its population willing to spend 235 out of 243 years of existence in near continual (93%) war? No other country comes close.
I live in Southeast Asia, and it is totally ironic to hear the Americans accuse China of military bullying in the South China Sea. As one former Prime Minister of Malaysia said, and I paraphrase:” We have been trading with China for 2000 years and they have never invaded us. But within 50 years of contact with the West, they had started colonising us”.
The modern Chinese alphabetical spelling of “Sun Zi” is “Sūnzǐ”. This is because the “zǐ” part is not a name, but a honorific suffix.
“Mao Tze-Tung” (Which was the official English-language spelling in the Wade-Giles transscription system) has after the nineteen seventies been supersceded by “Máo Zédōng” in the mainland Chinese Hànyǚ Pīnyīn translitteration for any publication where the Roman alphabet is used in the main text, no matter what language.
Otherwise a very interesting take on the expendability of troops during the hot phases of the war on the Korean peninsula!
Matthew Ehret,
I don’t always agree with what you write, but in this essay I think that you are spot on.
The ‘new post-1971 operating system’ does not strike me as being so new, but rather a reinvention of the British colonial system of the 18th and 19th centuries, brought to you by the descendants of the same people that ran the empire then.
The new wrinkle is that they no longer believe that they need a host nation-state, but can rule the world through global institutions, with all nations being their colonies.
Removing borders means destroying nation states, and thus destroying the ability of populations to organize opposition to their rule at the nation-state level.
You are absolutely right that China and Russia are the biggest obstacles (and thus mortal enemies) to their ‘New World Order’ plans on the international level. While nationalist/populist politicians (such as Trump, Brexiteers, Gilets-Jaunes) are their mortal enemies inside the nations where the ‘Globalists’ currently are in control.
Over the past decade the ‘Globalists’ have been steadily loosing ground, both due to the rise of China and the re-emergence of Russia, but also due to the economic deterioration of their hosts, Europe and the U.S., that has given rise to the ‘nationalist/populist’ opposition movements.
The November 3 election coup against Trump was a victory for the ‘Globalists’ but it remains to be seen whether it will be anything more than the type of Pyrrhic victory that they achieved with the Maidan coup in Ukraine. And it also remains to be seen whether, having disposed of Trump, they will be able to now turn their full attention to countering Russia and China.
The ‘Globalist’ ‘New World Order’ is fascism at its worst, and defeating it will be Humanity’s defining struggle for the 21st Century.
“The ‘Globalist’ ‘New World Order’ is fascism at its worst, and defeating it will be Humanity’s defining struggle for the 21st Century.”
I am afraid you are spot on.
“…as the old globalized paradigm comes crashing down faster than the Hindenburg.”
:))) Oh, I like the meaning of this metaphorical image.
Thanks Matthew for this profound analysis. I subscribe to the flowing into Late-Modernity that you describe but I think that the analysis has to be adapted at two critical junctions :
— its initiation phase resulted as you write in a division of the world between producers and consumers (North versus South). But this was merely the form resulting from a strategic re-adjustment conceived by Western big capital holders in order to put them, once and for all, in full control of the whole world
— China’s entry in the picture occurred in full knowledge of the implementation of this strategy by Western big capital holders. For the Chinese leadership the end, of the Mao area’s madness, was seen as a last chance to save the Chinese nation from extinction at the hands of Western imperial aggressors
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1. The initiation of Late-Modernity
The paradox of our situation is to have to recognize that the societal madness of Western Late-Modernity resulted from the union, that we all failed to observe, between on the one hand Neo-Liberalism and on the other hand Post-Modernism. Their authors, themselves, were at a hundred leagues from imagining that their intellectual creations, some in the economic field and others in the field of culture, were going to contribute to the realization of the same project of destruction of all founding societal narratives… (religious, philosophic, political and other).
This project aimed to ensure the ultimate and unchallenged hegemony of ‘the reason that is at work within capital’ over any other societal narrative and this would have given Western big capital holders total control over the whole world.
The reason, which operates within capital, had been observed by ‘the long distance merchants’ who in the wake of the crusades flooded the castles and villas of the aristocrats and the ‘nouveau-riche’ of the whole of Europe with luxury products available in the Arab markets. The minds of these merchants were converted to this reason and this resulted in the rise of a first phase of ‘market capitalism’. Some 600 years later this reason had generated its philosophical version under the title of ‘materialist rationalism’ which itself gave birth to modern science and the industrial revolution.
The ultimate and unchallenged project to ensure once and for all the hegemony of the ‘reason that operates within capital’ has its origin in the cultural protestation at the tail-end of the 1960ths. These protests awakened the holders of Western big capital to the possibility of losing their privileges. And they therefore financed a multitude of research projects with a view to drafting an action plan whose execution would enable them to guarantee their complete societal hegemony over the following centuries. Yeah, I know, it might sound like a conspiracy. But the facts are inescapable:
— culturally, the CIA and some US academic institutions participated in the 1970ths in a campaign to recruit a group of French researchers and professors, former Marxists or Marxists who had become critics, who were navigating the waters of an intellectual movement founded in criticism and deconstruction of Western society. Their publications received the full support of the US establishment and they were consecrated as intellectual giants in the market for ideas… Thus was born Post-Modernism and the banalization of the commodification of art and then of all culture… The results from this state of affairs today form the societal reality of the West that, personally, I qualify as being in ‘societal atomization’ where anyone can freely establish her-himself as the holder of the truth in all areas. In the end, this resulted in a cacophony in the midst of which any authority in matters of knowledge is literally disqualified by the individual particles. The handling of Covid-19 by Western authorities is a case study of what societal atomization does to the working of societies…
— economically this gave neoliberalism : — the liquidation of any institution of state protection — the unhindered movement of capital over the borders and the globalization of productions — levels of social inequality which surpass the reality of the Middle Ages — the paralysis of national institutions by transferring more and more of their skills to multinational companies — the leap outside the field of competence of national institutions by the holders of big capital and their servants (intellectuals, bureaucrats, managers, etc.). In fact neoliberalism fostered a class of people who escape national laws and taxes but who nevertheless exercise the public decision-making over the working of national states and the life of their citizens…
This naturally resulted in protests against inequalities and social misery which then lead to — the designation of scapegoats (Russia, China,…) — the control of individual speech by large companies on the web (the FANGS) — the militarization of national police forces — and so on …
2. How does China enter in this picture
By the end of the cultural revolution the CPC had succeeded to build-up the country’s rural infrastructure which would ensure the success of the coming agricultural reforms. But the country was nowhere industrially. The CPC leadership was well aware of the strategy that Western big capital holders were pushing on the world at large and they feared that their country would be broken up along the following decades and thus putting its parts up for grab to satisfy the appetite of Western imperial interests.
This would have signified the end of the Chinese nation.
But the CCP is a modern iteration of a Chinese dynasty whose core mission is to ensure the continuation of — the Chinese nation — the Traditional Chinese Culture — China’s axioms of civilization. This is something that Westerners have never really grasped and so they are left to invent stories about China that are simply surreal. All this would be laughable if the consequences of these stories in Western minds had not the potential to destroy all life on earth…
Having thus set the stage, of the context of China’s entry into the picture of the strategy of world domination by Western big capital holders, I think that Westerners have urgently to come back to their senses. The stories told by Western media about China are completely fictional and this is not helpful for humanity.
The fact is that societies are assemblies of extremely complex systems interacting non-stop with one another. And the fact is that Western societies and China’s society are operating along the lines of different paradigms :
— their cultural fields have nothing in common
— their economic fields operate according to different textbooks
— their social field is directly impacted by the place reserved to their capital holders in the public decision making process. Seen the radical difference in the nature of the capital ownership on both sides their social realities on the ground are diverging radically. The handling of Covid-19 is a case in point. The Chinese citizens are reading this as the complete failure of the West and consequently their rates of appreciation for the actions of their government are increasing to unheard of levels of satisfaction… (95% presently).
— their relations with the rest of the world are grounded in opposite perceptions of “the other” and so their approaches toward the rest of the world have nothing in common.
In light of the rather fundamentally different approaches of these societies it is imperative to understand that the categories, defining the working of one, are not applicable in defining the working of the other. In other words using Western categories to understand China is ludicrous.
In my view we have entered in a very volatile historical period that will not stabilize before — or one of them collapses under her own contradictions — or China’s economy grows so overwhelmingly bigger than Western economies that the fact is simply registered by all and life continues under a new paradigm.
From where I sit here in Beijing I think that the Chinese leadership is strategizing the latter. And consequently its outside interventions are bound to a momentary slow down… The belt and Road until now was in a phase of testing and it was decided at the time of its launch that the strategy relating to the project would be finalized during the year 2021 ! This is indeed a whole century project and so testing is surely a must ! In China’s calculus the first priority with the outside today is the unification of East-Asia and so the rest of the world should await a pause in the increase of imports and investments from China in the coming years and the connection of East-Asia with the Eurasian land-mass.
China’s priority for the next 5 to 10 years is an internal strengthening of the nation economically, technologically, culturally, and in daily life that will project the country’s economic might well over the West combined.
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Those who would be interested in delving deeper into the kind of reasoning summarized here can consult my latest book titled ”First societal blow in Late-Modernity ‘.
Sorry for the length of this comment but the depth of Matthews article surely warrants serious consideration.
Really great comment, adds a lot to one of the best articles yet to appear on this site.
This site is really becoming one of the most interesting and thoughtful discussion areas anywhere.
Ditto what Urdaneta said about this site. Outstanding articles and additional great insight from the comments move this site to the top of the page of what I read daily.
First I want to thank Mr Matthew Ehret for his article and Mr(?) laodan for his comment.
And now I want to thank The Saker and the Saker community, because even though I am not always appealled by some of the ideas that are shared here, I could not agree more with Mr(?) Urdaneta. When, in my opinion, conspiracy theories are left aside, this site has become the most interesting and thoughtful discussion area I have found on the web.
Very excellent laodan and well stated. I agree with your premise here:
In my view, we have entered in a very volatile historical period that will not stabilize before — or one of them collapses under her own contradictions — or China’s economy grows so overwhelmingly bigger than Western economies that the fact is simply registered by all and life continues under a new paradigm.
From where I sit here in Beijing I think that the Chinese leadership is strategizing the latter.”
This seems to be clear if one looks closely. So the China Evil rhetoric from western sources becomes almost ludicrously empty.
But time seems to be not on their side, given that rhetoric and much water must flow under the bridge here. My sense is that we may see some black swan events unfolding under this relentless pressure. CAF said somewhere in the comments here, that if the Dollar is fully dethroned as reserve currency, there is no ability for the warfare state to continue. As they say, something has to give and slowly the Dollar is being dethroned as it must be.
On the article itself, it is of course a clear sign of the LaRouchies to start with the ‘British’ psychological warfare and mentions the Schiller Institute. The ‘British’ angle is almost ego-driven and the philosophy does not stand up for me. In my view, this is simply an ‘out’ for the rest of the west and of course makes a big excuse for the actions of the inheritors of that old British colonialism and indeed psychological warfare vision, which today must be seen as core in the US. This ‘British’ ideology is strong in these organizations and shapes all of the work.
I enjoy Matthew’s work and respect the research, which truly is not easy, but the La Rouchie ideological base of it always niggles.
We see that one part of the Chinese leadership is very good with the colonial West, a faithful servant in the enslavement of its own people. The question s… why do countries like Russia and China allow the spokespersons of certain mafia organizations to determine conditions and time of their development. How is this possible in addition to the services and armies they have? Why don’t they vac them all to one when they show up? Like the west do. When they order murder, they do not call it terrorism but the fight for the democratic values of the world. Are they afraid? Or they only fool the people with some kind of sovereignty.
I agree that China is not the enemy of the West but there are trade, monetary and investment issues that are causing problems in the West to do with China particularly in US, UK.
All countries just want to maintains adequate levels of prosperity.
China and its history are amazing. But things needed to be sorted out.
Perhaps Putin should broker a sort-out issues deal with China and the West (particularly US) , and Trump broker a deal between EU and Russia ?
Governments in west wish to manipulate levels of prosperity ie including poverty …for their own political means sustenance and objectives….China has a different ethos I believe.
JJ Yes there’s that oo.
A country’s prosperity is what it produces. It is the west, particularly the U.S. and the U.K., who decided to transfer their production of goods to China, thus impoverishing their own populations (while enriching their Globalist Elites who still own the factories in China). China simply took advantage of the West’s (i.e. Global Elite’s) greed and stupidity.
‘Sorting things out’ means only one thing; re-industrializing the West (particularly the U.S. and U.K.). And this can only be done after first removing these Global Elite’s from power.
But they won’t go peacefully.
The global elites fail to understand the people in the US UK etc mkts eventually wont have the wealth to pay for stuff made in China etc…. because they wont have incomes or jobs, so the strategy is self defeating and only a short-to-medium term one for a few decades (maybe 70yrs tops) and we are past 50yrs now.
Its vortex and vicious cycle – a liquidity trap sending jobs externally. There are some short term benefits then the negative effects take ever. Its like a black hole in space. Those negative effects are not just monetary but social political and technological decay. Wars ensue as a result.
Its like Rome around 45 AD when the rich employed all slaves to do work and the free Roman citizens had nothing and no incomes. Julius Caesar had to pass laws to change that.
But the law of everything is that for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.
The problem is these global elites think they and they alone can manage the world economy best but they cannot and were not elected to do so and are using it to maximize their own position. This is why they must be smashed and EVERY country should focus on that objective.
China is the biggest beneficiary of Globalization. Globalization has 2 aspects, the social aspect and the economic one.
The social aspect concerns human resources just crossing borders, as in Europe going Sharia Law and North America becoming Latino. The economic aspect concerns all manufacturing and production going to China, leaving people without work in the West and elsewhere.
So, if you are concerned about Europe and North America getting overrun by immigrants and people in Europe and North America loosing their jobs and the middle class disappearing, then you have to be against Globalization and against China.
If on the other hand you support Globalization and the NWO, with production and human resources just crossing borders whenever they want to because sovereign nations don’t exist anymore, then by all means support China. You are supporting your own extinction.
Couldn’t have said it better myself.
In a sense though, the premise of this article is right, because the prevailing attitudes in the West are supportive of globalization and the novus ordo.
One might argue that China is merely a tool in this game, and they may be right. But that’s largely irrelevant: whatever role it has played, it has done so with great efficacy.
Modern China is merely a creation of the West, the West transferred nearly all industry and production to China, making China into the rich and powerful country China has become. China is the cornerstone of Globalization and is the biggest beneficiary of Globalization, and now some actually want us to believe that the solution to the West is that country “created” by the West.
Trust in Russia and don’t buy anything made in China.
Mathew Ehret writes very succincntly and with integrity and I appreciate his articles on thesaker.
China may not be the enemy of the people of the west, but the power greedy, people impoverishing elite of the democratic west sure see China as their enemy.
Why China is NOT the Enemy of the West (Why British Psychological Warfare Must Now be Examined).
a) Many thanks again Matthew for a well written and illuminating article.
b) ‘Why China is NOT the Enemy of the West’ – apparently, from the 1730s the East India Company started exportation of Opium to China culminating in the euphemistically/sweetened-diluted ‘Anglo’ termed ‘Opium Wars’ from 1830s. So for 100 years the Middle Kingdom was tolerating this aggressive colonial crap from a snot-nosed, resource poor little island called ‘England’ ruled by the Talmudic Venetian bankers and co., based in the few square kilometres of ‘City of London’ with their independent status guaranteeing non-intervention.(Historical inaccuracy!! – not sure when status became fully functional!!.).
China had been no .1. in technological, medical, urban planning, boat building, cultural and economic terms up to 1800. This was and still is absolutely intolerable for ‘The City’ and their upper class goyim stooges.
The infamous pedophile and diamond/gold millionaire Cecil Rhodes made this abhorrent foreign policy abundantly clear in 1890s **It is England’s duty to rule and civilise the world…with support from our American cousins…** .
Then Germany by the early 1900s was the new intolerable technological and economic ‘ENEMY’…in order words SUCCEEDING is intolerable for us Anglo-Zionists.
b) ‘British Psychological Warfare…’ sorry not to insult the colonised Scots, Irish or Welsh, I would prefer ‘English-Talmudic’ psycho-warfare. How else could this snot-nosed little island which had just been recently colonised and ‘civilised’ by the Romans and then the Normans, thus suffering from a huge inferiority complex be expected to compete against much larger geographic rivals.
‘Lebensraum’ was the only solution backed by a never-ending, well implemented policy of ‘divide and rule’. Mathematically, with the next 10 years sea-level rise, massive Atlantic storms, recurring and frequently unbearable flooding and heat-waves will make life in the ‘City of London’, London and low lying areas most unpleasant to unbearable.
NO PROBLEM – the Bankers will scurry off to Switzerland and play bridge in a large building called ‘The Bank of International Settlement’. Perhaps a few thousand ‘goyim’ butlers and decorative stooges will be included. For transport, I would not recommend using that crippled ‘non-aircraft carrier’ HMS Queen Elisabeth, as yet again the engine rooms are flooding. Perhaps Ryan Air with their second-hand reprogrammed software and refurbished ‘kamikazee’ Boeing 737s would be a better option!!
c) A slight typo Matthew, it is ‘Sir – Lord – OBE etc., Henry von Kissinger’. Soon to be followed ‘Sir George Soros’ before he kicks the Talmudic bucket..(dies!!)..
Bon Weekend!! but be careful of those large snow storms..
He shoots, he scores, nice one……………..so many people still can’t see the trees, even with toothpicks holding their eyelids open………….and some just refuse to believe how many hands the ZioBrits, after 400 years, have up so many compromised shity assed bottoms, from London, New York, Washington all the way to, lets never forget, Tel Aviv……….and of course can’t leave out the ‘diddlers’ Rupertsland, Austrailia and New Zealand. Perverted bunch of fu@ks!
Cheers, M
“the dark days of Mao’s Cultural Revolution”?
Dark? The emancipation of 400,000,000–at almost zero cost of life–who had been second-class citizens for 3000 years was one of humanity’s greatest achievements, and anything but dark.
“For the Chinese leadership the end, of the Mao area’s madness, was seen as a last chance to save the Chinese nation from extinction at the hands of Western imperial aggressors.”
This means that an era of opportunity had arisen when the gang of four was finally imprisoned after Mao’s passing.
This first quote was complemented further down the text by the following :
“By the end of the cultural revolution the CPC had succeeded to build-up the country’s rural infrastructure which would ensure the success of the coming agricultural reforms. But the country was nowhere industrially.”
During my early years in Bĕijing 1974-76 at Peking University (BĕiDà) i often visited the American professor Robert Winter (Dōng Wéndé’/冬文德/Tung Wên-Teh) in his small hut. He relegated me with juicy stuff first-hand rumors about what was happening and with his thoughts after having lived & taught English languige and literature in China and observed China and its intellectual elites since 1924.
He was full of scorn for many in the leadership during the “Gang of Four” phase of “The great Proletarian Cultural Revolution”. But one night he suddenly paused and said:
“You know, Tollef, folks here at BĕiDà and party members talked about 1949 as “The Liberation”. But the minds of the people were not that changed. When I went around on my bicycle or swam in the local lakes, if I talked to ordinary peasants, they would only answer “Shì, shì, shì!” (Yes-yes-yes), because they were afraid to disagree with people of authorities!
Only after the Cultural Revolution broke out ten years ago have I been able to speak with peasants an farmers and house-maids around here on equal terms and without seeing fear in their eyes! The great mass of the People now for the first time feel truly liberated and “have now stood up”.
(For more about Winter’s phantastic life — he was a friend of such poets as Ezra Pound Ài Qíng and Wén Yì’duō/聞一多/Wên Yih-tuo — Read the biography called “Winter in China” published by Wabash College in Indiana, where he stemmed from.)
Thanks Matthew, I have a new perspective.
It looks like you know who has met his match in all respects, from cleverness to sincerity to honesty to potential.
What a beautiful read.
Removed. Mod.
Mr Ehret presents the World Land-Bridge network map of how the flow of commerce and technological, innovative communication would flow across all the major countries of the planet. Although it’s the world’s largest island, the Denmark colony of Greenland didn’t make the cut. I guess their role is TBD (To be Determined).
I believe Ehret is a “soft” globalist who touts the greater good of cooperation with China to make a better world:
See: https://canadianpatriot.org/2015/10/18/3444-2/ .
He wrote here, ” If we love mankind, and can love the benefit given to the other nation, what are doing that’s good for them? If we can think in those terms, then we will get away from the dog-eat-dog tendency which we’ve seen again, lately, and get back to the idea that we are not animals; we do not breed progeny. We develop human beings, and we hope that the next generation will have a life better than ours, because we’ve made that improvement possible.”
Of course we all want a better and fairer world for everyone; no more wars, no more colonialism, no more poverty, no more bad things. The problem is that China’s plan is a roll out of world domination of their view under their control through manipulation, coercion and murder if necessary. That is what the Bolsheviks did during the 1917 overthrow of Tsar Nicolas II and it will happen again in about 20 or 30 years; I have no doubt.
Ehret is an intelligent young man who is willing to sacrifice Canadian democracy for the globalist agenda. He is definitely “all-in” and is consumed by what he sees as economic utopia for Canada and Planet Earth.
He presents an alternate argument against globalism here (see: https://dissidentvoice.org/2020/08/the-birth-of-a-global-nation-what-makes-a-modern-rhodes-scholar/ ).
Yet Ehret believes that China only offers win-win cooperation through economic development via the “Multipolar Alliance”.
In the above article he wrote, “We have been introduced to the false resolution of the One and the Many adhered to by imperialists and technocrats. Let us now look at a more healthy resolution to the paradox which has been adopted by leaders of the Multipolar Alliance which took on a powerful character with Xi Jinping’s 2013 announcement of the New Silk Road, and Putin’s entry into Syria in 2015.”
I would agree with Ehret’s assessment if it was Russia leading the way instead of China. Why? Because Russia is a Christian country and President Putin spent money building Orthodox churches throughout the country so the people could freely express their love for God in worship to receive his blessed mercy. General Secretary Xi Jinping vilifies any religious doctrine that holds the God of Abraham above the government.
That is a big problem for me for I would rather live in material poverty that abandon Christ, ever.
I wonder if Ehret is blinded to the fact that China will exert as much pressure and influence as possible to capture more countries under its ideological umbrella. They are very patient and realize the political hurdles faced but they are determined to accomplish their goal because they have the economic and fiscal resources to do it.
Remember, it is a long-term policy as stated in the BRI website
Let us not lose sight of the glaring fact that China is a communist country. The CCP/CPC party is the only political party that has complete control of internal national affairs and sets all polices spanning every aspect of a Chinese citizen’s life including faith-based religious practice. The people are heavily scrutinized in speech and watched for any signs of political dissent that results in immediate suppression. The other eight non-communist political parties play small roles in the Chinese government, chairing committees at best. But they are all for show and will never have any real power.
The Chinese communists were smart to open up their country to the economic riches that only capitalism can provide. They carefully measure what foreign countries are allowed to do beyond building factories that employee Chinese workers. The government itself is wealthy and exploits its monetary power by indirectly investing in the internal affairs of other countries to win favors for China.
This is a proven technique for worldwide expansion based upon the historical learning of the pre-21st century British and Americans expansion through the policy of BBB (Bribing, Bullying and Bombing) lesser nations into submission. However the Chinese know that military threats do not endear themselves to other countries. They use the massive power of economic trade to entice governments to enjoy the financial benefits reaped from international commerce. Who needs bullets when money accomplishes the same thing?
The BRI is the first step in the communist takeover of the world. Once other countries become indebted to Chinese financial institutions, their governments will be offered leniency in repayment terms if they willingly succumb to ideological changes in how they serve their people. It will expand across all avenues of society: political administration, education, entertainment, social media and religious practice.
By the way, we are to understand the acronym “BRI” stands for Belt and Road Initiative. In my opinion BRI really means, Beijing’s Revolutionary Indoctrination.
America is easily vulnerable to communistic propaganda hidden in progressive liberalism. Thankfully President Putin will take careful steps to ensure Russia does not fall into the same debt trap as other nations will.
It is Borg assimilation and the free people of the world will be technologically linked together as one hive-mind. From a Christian perspective, it is the completion of Satan’s plan for the world under his control. We must be very careful not to allow this to happen for our very souls are at risk of damnation.
I highly recommend one and all watch this video to learn the truth about the Chinese being some of the most exploited people in the world. You will have all the proof in the world that China is indeed NOT a danger to the world but to their own!!
https://youtu.be/qZM6TJ4Cvb0
And guess where they are in fact headed? Eventually to the Western way of demise. Human nature doesn’t change no matter the language or culture!
apologies it is part 2
https://youtu.be/KjQ01J1SQBI
Matthew Ehret follows the widely held assumption that it was Deng who unleashed the creative economy of China, and it’s hard to dispute this in the sense that it is meant.
But Ramin Mazaheri in this very site has very persuasively demonstrated that it was Mao, in the Cultural Revolution, who formed the bedrock for this rise, by forcing power to move from the city to the countryside, and from the privileged to the unprivileged. Education moved accordingly, as thousands upon thousands of new schools were built in rural China, which was a huge proportion of the land.
See:
How the socioeconomic gains of China’s Cultural Revolution fueled their 1980s boom (6/8), and here for the full index to the eight-part serial.
In China, because of Mao, the entire peasantry became educated as well as self-governing at the village level. And this, despite the over-reaching that occurred for a brief time during the process, was perhaps the single greatest and most enlightened political act in all human history.
When Deng opened the economy, an entire generation of well educated Chinese was ready to step into the process. Mao was brilliant in his perception, and in his choices of policy. What we see in China today exemplifies the legacy of Mao as greatly as any other legacy – and some would say more than any other.
I only came to know this because of Mazaheri’s work published here at the Saker. My gratitude to both Mazaheri and Ehret for all their works – but credit to Mao where credit is due.
Thank you Matthew Ehret — a top-notch submission.
I have made the claim that one of the biggest beneficiaries of China’s global ascendancy is Africa; the southern part in particular. It is a very conspicuous fact already and, given the West’s ”leadership” in its state of all-out degeneracy, this is bound to call for ”consequences”.
Now, whenever there is an honest account of China’s (and Russia’s) accomplishments there are also greetings of ”funny vitriol” making you wonder who is most upset by the West’s rot and freely chosen path of self-destruction (neoliberalism): the very Western criminals in charge or some of their more unhappy Western subjects who were convinced that Western imperialism cared about their well-being.
I think China should step up to the challenge: Provide cheap, very potent opium in abundance to soothe all the hurt pride.
“I think China should step up to the challenge: Provide cheap, very potent opium in abundance to soothe all the hurt pride.”
In an unrelated coincidence!!!
We have had an opioid problem in canada for at least a decade now.
That being said, those opiates hurt mostly innocent people that have ZERO connections to foreign policy issues.
Two wrongs have never made a right, i was reminded that not too long ago.
I have seen de industrialization first hand, it creates ghost towns! Where the “service” industry grew. Industry offers higher living standards for.more of the population than service industry ever will.
Yes, Westerners are — as always — innocent. It’s the ”Party Line” which applies also to the people working at the very hubs of Western Imperial Power on 911 as they found themselves at the receiving end of imperialist punishment for a change.
Bottom line: China and Russia make a difference. Self-pitying Pindos and Euro-trash do not.
Well, these judgments of Soros are based upon the quite different lessons which he was taught.
China’s competent, battle-hardened leadership knows Soros’ provocations inside out and defeats them every single time which has made the country ”Soros-proof” — a ’considerable threat’ indeed in the eyes of the Great Philanthropist.
As regards the Pindos and what passes for their ”leadership”, the US is his home country. With the Orange Buffoon as Pindo President and given the moronic character of the wider US population, Soros understood that what failed in Russia and China might actually work at home. Needless to say, it was hardly lost upon him that his Jewishness conferred instant sainthood upon him, especially under Trump’s watch.
Right. When they unleashed their stunt at Tienanmen in early June 1989, they were as close to total victory as they got. The USSR was dying and was set up for unfettered fascist Western corporatocracy. Had the stunt in China succeeded, pitch-black reaction would have prevailed everywhere. The ”idea” was to rob Russia and China blind. They had free rein in Russia for 10 years, but without subjugating China this proved too little and — crucially — too late.
Rule of thumb: Whenever any Western imperialist country, the US in particular, is supposed to form part of an alliance between countries in search of national progress, that alliance is stillborn. I would say that imperialist participation is one of the strategies available to imperialism to neuter the threats. Trump’s calls for ”good relations with Russia” mean nothing whatsoever.
‘Deng Xiaoping broke from the radical Marxism prevalent among the intelligentsia…’.
Marx advocated the abolition of the wages system: in China, in contrast, wage labour was extended to a much larger proportion of the population.
Mao stated in 1949 ‘China must utilize all the factors of urban and rural capitalism that are beneficial and not harmful to the national economy and the people’s livelihood, and we must unite with the national bourgeoisie in common struggle. Our present policy is to regulate capitalism, not to destroy it.’
‘China is now an integral and irreplaceable part of global capitalism’ (consortiumnews, 28 July 2020).
I really wish that Matthew Ehret would stop stating, without supplying any evidence, that it is UK Intelligence Services that are the root of all evil. (If I didn’t know better, I would surmise that he is in bed with other intelligence agencies who see MI5/6 as a threat).
I am no defender of our Security Services in the UK, but I am absolutely clear that Mr Ehret’s smearing, and that is what it is, suggests deeper mischief is afoot……
I find it odd that the fools who run our governments think that they can decide for us who our enemies are.
It’s even odder that so many people believe them when they are told that X country is their enemy.