Video: Professor Ling-chi Wang of UC Berkeley: “The Last G-7,” by ‘Bantonglaoatang,” a Chinese artist in Mainland China. It is very clever, insightful, timely, powerful, and satirical painting/commentary, rich in political symbolism. 驚世諷刺政治畫作！最詳細破解《最後的G7》畫中隱藏的線索！最後的晚餐
It shows the G-7 badly divided, even with the two compliant countries, India and Australia, and a clown,Taiwan, represented by a “green frog” (DPP) at the bottom of the table, desperately begging for recognition and acceptance by G-7. https://vimeo.com/565948215 https://youtu.be/9lEnAZ6QAPg https://www.facebook.com/100036400039778/posts/515284393028224/?d=n The title of the painting is “The Last G-7.” Even before the meeting of the G-7 in England, several commentators had already declared the “irrelevance” of G-7, because they no longer represent the most powerful and influential economies of the world. None of the BRIC nations are represented. In spite of Biden’s valiant effort to round up G-7 against China, he came out of the summit long on same-old-tired rhetorics and short on substance and actionable policies. As the painting correctly depicted, each of G-7 had its own interests and agenda. They are down but not out.
It will be interesting to see if the Mainstream Media in the West will publish the painting without biased commentaries.
In the mean time, I came across the following article on the painting in the Month Review Online a well-establish leftist journal. Not bad. But, it is not as good as the Cantonese analysis and commentary on YouTube.
The Last G7’: Satirical cartoon mocking bloc’s attempt to suppress China goes viral
Posted Jun 21, 2021 by Eds. Political Economy Angola Newswire the Group of Seven (G7) members Originally published: Global Times (June 13, 2021) | A Chinese cartoonist’s political satire, which mocked the Group of Seven (G7) members that attempt to suppress China, went viral on Chinese social media on Sunday, when the G7 summit was underway in Cornwall, the UK.
Titled The Last G7, the illustration, published by its author “Bantonglaoatang” on Sina Weibo on Saturday, was painted based on the renowned religious mural The Last Supper. This G7 summit is widely seen as an attempt by the U.S. to rally allies against China.
Similar to the final meal Jesus shared with his apostles before his crucifixion that The Last Supper depicted, Bantonglaoatang painted a vivid picture of nine animals–respectively representing the U.S., the UK, Italy, Canada, Japan, Germany, France, Australia and India–sitting around a table with a Chinese-map-shaped cake on it. On top of the painting is the words in quote:
Through this we can still rule the world.
These animals have different facial expressions and gestures, implying that each side of the G7 actually has its own axe to grind on the common conspiracies of suppressing China and upholding the Western hegemony, analyzed some observers and Chinese netizens.
Wearing a bowler hat with an American flag on it, a bald eagle sits in the middle like Jesus in The Last Supper, obviously the convenor of the meal. In front of the bald eagle there is a small banknote printing machine and a bill on the table. The machine is printing toilet paper into dollars, and the number on the bill gets bigger and bigger–from $2 trillion to $8 trillion.
There is also an iron hook under its feet, and two pieces of cotton with blood near its hands on the table, suggesting “the U.S.’ capital accumulation was built on racial oppression,” a vlogger nicknamed “sharp-tongued pumpkin” said in his latest video analyzing the illustration, which has gained over 700,000 views on video streaming platform Bilibili within a day after he uploaded it on Saturday afternoon.
The bald eagle image shows today’s aggressive yet feeble U.S. is trapped in its growing debt crisis and racial conflicts, but still points fingers at China, “sharp-tongued pumpkin” pointed out.
Sitting on the left of the bald eagle is a grey wolf, wearing a cap with an Italian flag on it. The wolf waves its hands as the apostle Andrew in The Last Supper, as if saying “No” to the U.S.’ suggestions of jointly cracking down on China. The grey wolf image shows Italy, the first European country that joined China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), is reluctant to collaborate with the U.S. in suppressing China, commented “sharp-tongued pumpkin.”
Next to the wolf is an Akita dog that represents Japan. Without a seat, it is busy serving the others a “drink”–pouring green radioactive water into the glasses of the other animals. On Weibo some users said the green water is the contaminated water that Japan plans to release to the Pacific from the destroyed Fukushima nuclear plant.
Sitting next to the dog is a kangaroo, which is stretching its left hand to the banknotes that the U.S. is printing, while grasping a bag in its right hand. The kangaroo symbolizes the double-faced Australia which actively cooperates with the U.S. in containing China, but is also eager to earn money from China, its largest trading partner, according to “sharp-tongued pumpkin.”
On the left corner stands a black hawk, which obviously represents Germany as its pose is almost the same as that of the German Chancellor Angela Merkel in a widespread photo in the G7 summit in 2018. Germany, similar to the rooster (representing France) sitting in silence on the right side, seems more interested in its own European issues and shows less enthusiasm on the US’ propaganda, netizens found.
On the right side of the table also sits a lion and a nutria, respectively representing the UK and Canada, both the US’ close Five Eyes allies. The nutria, wearing a red coat with images of marijuana on it, holds a doll in its hand. Many netizens believe the doll represents Huawei’s chief financial officer Meng Wanzhou, who is still unreasonably detained in Canada.
On the right corner of the table sits an elephant (representing India) that is on a drip like a patient.
Under the table there is a frog holding banknotes in its hands, trying to jump as high as possible to reach the table and give the money to the U.S. The little frog symbolizes the separatist authority from the island of Taiwan, which is always subservient to the U.S., some netizens pointed out.
The illustration caused a stir on Weibo on Sunday, with numerous users praising the author for vividly and straightforwardly revealing the evil intentions of the West that tries to lay a siege to China. “But this is perhaps their ‘last supper,’’’ one user mocked.
With different positions, for various interests of their own, these countries and regions can’t form a real league against China.
No need to make a fuss on Xinjiang’s population data by Zhang Nan Jun 21 2021
Children play in a lavender farm in Huocheng County, northwest China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, June 13, 2021.
Why is Xinjiang population data a focus of attention?
Recently, Northwest China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region released data on its population based on the seventh national population census. This data, however, has drawn the attention of some Western media and so-called “scholars,” and the reason is very simple – they want to get “evidence” from this data to back up the allegations of “genocide” they have been making against China.
In fact, the statistics released by the Xinjiang region showed that the population of the Uygur ethnic group has increased by 1.623 million in the past decade, a rate of increase of 16.2 percent.
It fully demonstrated there is no “genocide” in the region. However, despite these facts, a group of people are attempting to misinterpret the data, trying to piece up “evidence” that may support the “genocide” allegation. They have now come up with a new concept of “slow genocide.”
This move has made genocide – a very serious crime – sound entertaining. Genocide that can be proved to be genocide should still be called genocide, but “genocide” that can never be proven has now been called “slow genocide.” It sounds more like a typical set-up of public opinion with the purpose of forcibly imposing the crime of “genocide” on China.
Those who invented the phrase “slow genocide” do not care about whether this crime can be “proven” or when on earth it could be “slowly proven.” They only care about how to play word games to legitimize the groundless allegation and to bind China’s Xinjiang tightly with the word “genocide” in rolling coverage by Western media. During this process, their occasional moves of creating more words that have no basis on logic or laws are only seen as “necessary” technical fixing.
Why on earth can’t Han people move to Xinjiang?
Apart from the “genocide” allegation that a certain group of people want to cram into people’s minds, the data on Xinjiang’s population has attracted their attention for a deeper reason. After the malicious theory of a decrease in the Uygur population was proven wrong, another accusation that the Han population has increased in Xinjiang has surfaced.
This theory has been made under a narrative framework that says Uygur and Han people are on opposite sides and the Xinjiang region is not China’s Xinjiang but Uygurs’ Xinjiang. Only under this binary opposition narrative pattern can they distort the concept of natural population mobility into a negative one of “occupation.” As a region of China, Xinjiang has attracted people from other parts of the country now that terrorism in the region has been stamped out. What is wrong with this natural population mobility within China?
Meanwhile, people may ask another question – is it “legitimate” for Uygurs to move to other parts of China from the Xinjiang region? People who subscribe to the binary opposition narrative pattern have already prepared their answer – they call this China’s evil strategy of trying to “assimilate” Uygurs.
The above-mentioned people do not care that population mobility has brought development opportunities to Xinjiang, nor will they accept Uygur people’s willingness to move to other places for better development, since none of these fit their logic. According to their narrative, Xinjiang can only be a place where “no one should come or go.”
Why is it wrong to compare population data in a simplistic way?
Statistics, as a science, involves complicated methodology and formulas. The statistical results that the public has access to are mainly compiled from general and sampling surveys. General surveys need to be carried out to acquire every individual’s information to the greatest extent possible. A sampling survey is more like a calculation – it can be made based on having part of the information.
Carrying out the two kinds of surveys requires different numbers of people and resources to be mobilized and requires different lengths of time, and therefore the accuracy of the results cannot be compared. For statistical purposes, data acquired from the general survey and sampling survey are necessarily different. This is simple and clear common sense.
After Xinjiang released its population data, some Western media and so-called experts seemed “encouraged,” and put the ridiculous “genocide” allegation into the data to get proof. In order to reach the predetermined conclusion, they even randomly selected different statistical data obtained from different methodologies to make comparisons – a move that is like firing the arrow and then drawing the target.
A sentence used by Chinese netizens can be used to describe such behavior – they are either foolish or malicious.
Zhang Nan is a research fellow from China Society for Human Rights Studies.
Do you think it is because of the Communist Party that the United States hated and demonize China?
Do you think the United States likes it because the DPP is cute? wrong!
The United States hates the Communist Party because it loves and guards China against domestic and foreign enemies!
The United States likes the Democratic Progressive Party DDP because it is the “prodigal son” of the Chinese nation!
The KMT made Taiwan’s economy rich 27 years ago! The economic momentum is strong, and the cross-strait situation has begun to ease. Therefore, the United States is infringed on the interests of the United States and the United States is not happy!
Offering “Article 301” sanctions [China Steel]! The bill charge is called [anti-dumping duty]! At the same time, the poison [foot-and-mouth disease poison] was used to harm Taiwan’s rural economy and pressure Chiang Ching-kuo to reuse the Kuomintang’s Lee Teng-hui independent Taiwan activist.
If the DPP is invincible and does not oppose China, do you see whether the United States likes it? The more incisively and vividly you play the role of Chinese traitors, the more the United States will like you!
Believe it or not, if you want your neighbors to like you, you should try to dig up the scandals in your own home to show it to others, convey the benefits of the family to others, do the prodigal thing thoroughly, and the bad guys (US) will like you very much!
Video: Baidu: How China became the World Champion in AI 百度：中國如何成為人工智能世界冠軍, 百度在人工智能方面進行了大量投資，研發投入超過 150 億美元
China is making tremendous investments in AI and in today’s video I’m going to introduce you to Baidu, one of China’s leading internet companies. Baidu has made a significant investment in AI, spending over $15 Billion USD in R&D. In the next 5 years, Baidu will train 5 million AI industry professionals. Full disclosure, today’s video has been made in partnership with Baidu. https://vimeo.com/565838190 https://youtu.be/wL3ybtoIp4k https://www.facebook.com/100036400039778/posts/515127236377273/?d=n
Video: US media company interviewed Pakistan President tried to set him up on the fake news on Xinjiang, but failed. 美媒採訪刻意就新疆事務提問 “巴鐵”總理反將一軍. 有網友表示，“伊姆蘭·汗說得好，世紀笑話：西方關心中國的穆斯林”。 https://vimeo.com/565746825 https://youtu.be/5JtDHnmaKWg https://www.facebook.com/100036400039778/posts/515043329718997/?d=n Recently, the US media “AXIOS” asked Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan about Xinjiang affairs, but Imran Khan was turned against him. It seems that because the questions did not get the answers they wanted, AXIOS in the United States added a lot of smearing remarks and lies against China in its reports. It is reported that Pakistan is increasingly dependent on China financially. However, many netizens did not buy into the US media’s deliberate smearing of China. Some netizens said, “Imran Khan said it well, a joke of the century: The West cares about China’s Muslims.” 近日，美國媒體“AXIOS”就新疆事務提問巴基斯坦總理伊姆蘭·汗，卻被伊姆蘭·汗反將了一軍。似乎因為提問并未得到想要的答案，美國AXIOS在報道中增加了許多針對中國的抹黑言論與謊言。報道稱巴基斯坦在財政上越來越依賴中國。不過，不少網友對美媒的這番刻意對華抹黑并不買賬。有網友表示，“伊姆蘭·汗說得好，世紀笑話：西方關心中國的穆斯林”。
Video: Will The CNN Reporter Be Fired for telling the truth about China? Right wings media is now attacking CNN. CNN記者會因講述有關中國的事實而被解僱嗎？ 右翼媒體現在正在攻擊CNN posted June 21 2021 https://vimeo.com/565663922 https://youtu.be/C0O1ATjjyk0 https://www.facebook.com/100036400039778/posts/514961549727175/?d=n Fox News accused CNN of “propaganda” for China after it “cited official Chinese figures to tout China’s new coronavirus vaccination rate, claiming that CNN did not provide any “data on the effectiveness of China’s domestic vaccine. Fox then quoted many right-wing US “commentators” in the story, accusing CNN of being “pro-China.”
China’s central bank warns state-owned lenders, Alipay off bitcoin linked transactions in meeting.
Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, Agricultural Bank of China, China Construction Bank and the Postal Savings Bank of China among financial firms that attended a discussion organised by People’s Bank of China
Virtual currency transactions and speculative activity have disrupted the normal order of the economy and financial system, central bank says
China’s central bank recently ordered banks, including four state-owned commercial banks, and leading mobile payments provider Alipay to cut off all transactions linked to bitcoin, stepping up its clamp down on cryptocurrencies in the country.
The Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC), Agricultural Bank of China, China Construction Bank and the Postal Savings Bank of China were among financial companies that attended a regulatory discussion organised by the People’s Bank of China (PBOC) recently. Other participants included the Fujian-based Industrial Bank, and Alipay (China), a subsidiary of Ant Group, which along with Tencent Holdings’ WeChat Pay controls more than 90 per cent of China’s mobile payments market.
ASML sells to China to survive long term, if they don’t when China develop her own within 5 years, ASML will be finished. Do you think US will come to rescue ASML? Hell no! ASML is like Taiwan, being used to fight US private war shall be used and discarded when done. ASML 賣給中國是為了長期生存，如果中國在 5 年內開發自己的產品，ASML 就玩完了。 你認為美國會來拯救ASML嗎？ 一定不會! ASML就像台灣，被用來打美國的私人戰爭，用完就扔掉.
Reuters : ASML extends sales deal with Chinese chipmaker SMIC to end of 2021 by Stephen Nellis March 3, 2021
A logo of Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (SMIC) is seen at China International Semiconductor Expo (IC China 2020) following the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Shanghai
(Reuters) – ASML Holding NV has extended a deal to sell chip manufacturing equipment to Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp, China’s largest chipmaker, until the end of this year, the Dutch company said in a statement on Wednesday.
ASML made the statement after SMIC on Wednesday disclosed a volume purchase agreement under which it has already spent $1.2 billion with the toolmaker. In a clarifying statement issued several hours later, ASML said the agreement began in 2018 and was slated to expire at the end of 2020, but the two companies agreed in February to extend the deal to the end of this year.
In December, SMIC was one of dozens of firms put on a U.S. blacklist that required American semiconductor manufacturing equipment firms such as Applied Materials Inc and Lam Research Corp to obtain a license before exporting products to the chipmaker.
The U.S. Commerce Department said the action against SMIC stemmed from China’s efforts to harness civilian technologies for military purposes and evidence of activities between SMIC and Chinese military industrial companies of concern. The rules would still allow the shipment of tools for making less advanced chips.
ASML, which is based in the Netherlands and is the world’s largest supplier of lithography equipment for making chips, produces a critical tool required to manufacture advanced chips: an extreme ultraviolet lithography, or EUV, machine.
In 2019, the Trump administration pressed Dutch officials to cancel a sale of an EUV machine to SMIC. At that time, Dutch officials declined to renew a license needed to ship the tool. Dutch officials had not approved a license to ship an EUV tool to China as of late February, according to government records.
In its statement on Wednesday, ASML said the volume purchase deal with SMIC related to an older technology called deep ultraviolet lithography, or DUV.
In January, ASML Chief Executive Peter Wennik said the company could see “significant upside” selling older chipmaking technology to China if allowed by government officials to do so. China accounted for 17% of ASML’s 14 billion euros in 2020 sales.
On Monday, the U.S. National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence, or NSCAI, recommended that the United States coordinate with the Netherlands and Japan to deny export licenses to China for key chipmaking equipment.
“This (sale) is a slap in the face to the NSCAI recommendations and shows how big the gap with allies is on these issue,” a U.S. semiconductor executive said on condition of anonymity.
A source close to President Joe Biden’s administration, however, said the administration was more focused on the next wave of technological competition with China.
“This is akin to trying to prevent them from getting a flip-phone. We’re much more interested in the technologies of tomorrow,” the person said.
(Reporting by Stephen Nellis in San Francisco, Toby Sterling in Amsterdam and Michael Martina in Washington; Editing by Paul Simao, Jonathan Oatis and Cynthia Osterman)
What do you think about China? by Ismail Bashmori June 20 2021
Alright, listen up. I’m going to give you a summary of my entire impression of China as an Egyptian observer. I’ve been studying the country intensely for the past year — its government, society, history, and transformation — and over the past 3 months I’ve spoken to hundreds of Chinese and China-haters on this site and heard everything they had to say. By now I’ve learned roughly as much about China as anyone can learn without knowing the language or living in the country, and I’ve reached my conclusion. You might think I’m crazy. That’s OK with me. I’ve seen the facts and my opinion of the truth has become rock-solid. And China attracts a lot of haters, know-nothings and armchair experts.
The truth is that China is the greatest country on the face of the earth. It makes all other countries look insignificant and contemptible. It is the most brilliant, most industrious, most ambitious, most educated, meritocratic and technocratic, most modern, sophisticated, and civilized, and best-governed country in the world of our time, by far. It is the first nonwhite, non-Western country to reach this status since the 1600s. The determination of this country is indescribable. Supernatural. There is no force that can stop it from accomplishing anything it wants to do. It can set a goal that seems completely outlandish, drug-induced, hallucinatory — and it can make it happen. That’s precisely what it’s been doing. Forty years ago a flush toilet in China was a luxury. Today it has its own indigenously built Chinese Space Station. Believe me when I tell you that that is a tiny example of China’s capabilities.
I am a patriotic Egyptian and Middle Easterner. Yet I freely admit that compared to the Chinese, we are simply monkeys. A race of dumb animals. It doesn’t matter who we are. Egyptians, Syrians, Pakistanis, Indians, Africans, even Americans. Next to the Chinese, we are pathetic. We can’t do what they do. We would have a mountain, an Everest of changes to make, and we would whine and bicker and fail at every one of them. China’s story since the 1980s has been one of an almost divine metamorphosis. Next to China the entire Western world from Alaska to New Zealand has stagnated. Next to China the entire developing world from Brazil to Madagascar has progressed only at a crawl. China, my friends, is the mother of all gargantuan bullet trains. Every day it manages to create something new and astonishing. And unlike the United States, unlike the British Empire, unlike the French, Dutch, Germans, Spanish, Portuguese or any other Western nation that had its turn at being a superpower in the past four centuries, China doesn’t need to run anybody over or take something from somebody else, to rise majestically.
China is also standing up to the Western world all by herself. The West hates and fears that China is shooting up to the top. They can’t believe their four-hundred-year-old global supremacy is being challenged. They hoped that the more China developed, the more it would submit to their influence, interests, and leadership. That didn’t happen. So now they will do anything possible, short of a nuclear war, to make China end. Their goal is to destroy this country. That’s why, although the United States has killed several million people and turned several regions of the earth into hellscapes since I was born in 1988, your TV, newspapers, Google newsfeed, and social media are all cursing, condemning and pandering panic and hatred of China 24 / 7. China is the worst fear of our planet’s Western masters. They want you to despise and dread a country that’s done nothing to you, that hasn’t invaded anyone, bombed or sanctioned anyone, that hasn’t overthrown any foreign government, or used its military on anything since 1979. You’ll hate China and pray for its collapse, so that the West can continue to do what it’s done since the age of Hernán Cortés and Francisco Pizarro — rape and pillage the earth from Latin America to Southeast Asia, and disguise its blood-spattered imperialism in the soft power and propaganda of “Western civilization” and world leadership.
China is the only major country in the nonwhite developing world, to stand up to the West. To look it in the eye when challenged or threatened, and say, No, I’m not afraid of you. Do your worst. I’m just as big as you are. All other countries in the Global South are simply Western puppets who submitted long ago. Even the most powerful ones. Saudi Arabia, Brazil, India — their leaders are busy listening to the United States, pen and paper in hand, writing down all its demands and going, Yes sir, Mr. Yankee sir. Let me get on that right away for you.
The 1500s—1000s BC were Egypt’s time. Antiquity belonged to the Greeks and Romans. The 1700s belonged to France, and the 1800s to Britain. From 1945 to the present, the world has been under American overlordship. And they call it the Pax Americana but believe me, there isn’t much Pax in it. There’s plenty of Pax if you’re in Europe or Australia. But the Middle East? Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria, Iran and Yemen in the past 20 years. Latin America? They’ve destroyed that part of the world beyond any hope of recovery. Africa? It’s only been spared because of disinterest. The US sees Africa as nothing. The whole West does.
But in the twenty-first century, we are witnessing the rise of China. We are decades away from China becoming the greatest power on earth. This will be China’s time, and there’s nothing anyone can do about it. Attack China all you want, curse her and monger rumours and hysteria — but the truth is that none of your accusations are backed up by evidence, because you are a stooge of the Western press which is under the thumb of Western governments that want to stay on top of the world for all eternity. And the truth is that China is not affected by the noise and maneuvers of her enemies. What’s going on now, this stupid new Cold War, is nothing. For her first thirty years, from 1949 to 1979, China was basically blockaded and isolated economically and politically by the West. It didn’t even have a seat in the UN General Assembly. And it was dirt-poor in those days, barely a speck of the global economy, a tiny fraction of Japan’s or Germany’s GDP — not even able to prevent famine. And it still didn’t submit to pressure or take any orders. Why on earth would it do that now?
China will be the next global power. There’s nothing that can be done about that. The first stage is that its economy only needs to grow at 4.7 percent per year to become the world’s largest by 2035. That means the usual, historical bare-minimum of 6 percent is already overkill. The US can build as many bases as it wants, slap as many sanctions as it wants, recognize whatever bogus genocides it wants. That’s what it’s been doing all along. Has any of it made a difference? China can adapt to any situation. It took China a mere ten years to go from being barred by the US Congress from participating in the “International” Space Station, to building its own Space Station from the zero. See, the US has an $800-billion war budget, 800 military bases, 13,000 aircraft, 500 warships, 6,000 nukes — but it doesn’t have what China has: invincible national resolve. It takes the US about 5 years to renovate a bridge, and it takes China 43 hours. There’s simply no competing with that. China doesn’t need to be a military superpower or empire. That was never part of the plan. US troops, God bless their souls, will continue sitting in their bases, scratching their balls, costing their government $800 billion a year to do nothing. Meanwhile, China will continue to actually develop. That’s the part of the equation that America totally missed, because it has barely developed since Reagan’s day. China is a better place to live today than at any time in its previous 5,000 years; Americans saw their highest standard of living in the 1960s and those days will never come back.
So yes, China will be the next global power, and the Chinese are vastly superior to us in every way. This is a fact that everyone can attack but that nobody can change, like the theory of evolution. The difference between me and other people is that I ask, Why is this a problem? Why is this something to be afraid of? Why doesn’t it mean — that the world will finally get better?
Look at you silly buggers, talking about China like it’s going to be the next Nazi Germany. Even many Middle Easterners I know fit in this foolish category. Did you notice when the US invaded or overthrew the governments of 20 countries in the past 32 years (my lifetime)? Did you even know? You think just because you’re ready to forget all that because of Beyoncé and Game of Thrones and Snapchat and other US cultural exports, it didn’t happen and isn’t still happening? But but, I’m scared! China’s big and bad! Because the US is feeding me terror-bytes about Hong Kong, Taiwan, Tibet, Tiananmen Square, Great Leap Forward! I don’t see any dead bodies, I can’t show you one invasion or one example of Chinese regime change, I can’t even find Hong Kong on a map or tell you one factual detail about Tiananmen Square, but the US State Department and all its media are telling me CHINA BAD! Wa, wa!
Even my father, brother, brother’s in-laws have no real knowledge of any kind about the Western terror-bytes that have given them such an apprehensive feeling about China. And they’re Egyptian and Syrian, so imagine how blank the typical Westerner is. Blankness doesn’t stop prejudice and gullibility. That’s what most China-haters are. As gullible as children getting told about the boogeyman to procure their obedience.
Aren’t you at least curious to see what a world with a nonwhite, non-Western leader might look like, after 400 years? Because God knows that leader won’t be us. It won’t be Brazil or Africa, or the Middle East or India or Indonesia or Nigeria or Pakistan. We’re a mess. China was a mess too. But we remain a mess many decades after we achieved independence, and the Chinese went their own way, disentangled their mess and created their destiny. We’re not made of what the Chinese are made of. We might be one day, if we stop taking orders and cozying up to Western puppet-masters. I’m not holding my breath for that to happen.
Where’s your concept of innocent until proven guilty? You turn a blind eye to the country that gave you dozens of destroyed nations and millions of corpses to see as proof of its brutality, because it also gave you some amazing sitcoms! While a country you don’t have the slightest objective knowledge of, is already Nazi Germany to you because its adversaries, who are also your historical and present-day oppressors, tell you so?
Come on. Let’s wait to see one dead body, one invasion, one regime-change operation from the Chinese, before we fly into rage and hysterics about them! Is that so crazy? We’ve seen centuries of horror from the US and we’re still giving ‘Murica the benefit of the doubt, even when the brutal truth is crystal-clear.
For myself, I see China as hope. Hope that a colonized, brutalized, primitive and humiliated country, can rise above its past — refuse to be weak any longer — rebuild itself from nothing, with iron resolve, and become too strong to be overrun by the West again! Hope that a nonwhite, non-Western country can look deep within itself and find its own solutions to its problems — proving that (foolishly) trusting the West to guide us isn’t necessary! Proof that if we can do what the Chinese did, there will be no limits for us. Imagine a world where the US, France, Britain, Australia, are no more important than Uzbekistan or Paraguay. A world where the World Court might be headquartered in Kuala Lumpur, the World Bank in New Delhi, the United Nations in Jakarta, the IMF in Cairo. A world liberated from the US banking system and the dollar as its reserve currency, so that Washington can no longer tell 200 other countries who they can and can’t trade with. A world where an American can be tried for war crimes at the Hague, not just an Iraqi or Liberian or Serb. A world where we don’t hear about a non-Western-made vaccine and grunt to ourselves, Oh, it must be poison. A world where we don’t have to immigrate to the same countries that turned ours into hellholes, to work as sales clerks or taxi drivers, or even if we’re brilliantly employed — to drain our brains from our homelands in the best of cases, and use them to reinforce Western riches and supremacy in exchange for a fat paycheck, instead of using them to make our own countries semi-habitable. When I hear that China has built its own Space Station, landed a rover on Mars, ended extreme poverty, built the Earth’s biggest city, dam, telescope, 5G network, highway, air purifier, or whatever the heck it is that will come tomorrow — I feel the same pride as if I were Chinese. It’s not happening for all of us, but it’s happening for one of us and that’s a start. There’s got to be such a thing as developing-country nationalism — a common nationalism for all the countries that were colonized and plundered, and remain economically and politically captured by their ex-rulers. A nationalism for the Global South. We are too divided, too brainwashed, too fooled and weak — most of us still worship the countries that destroyed us, are non-Western on the outside and Western on the inside, are hating and fearing and buying all the lies about the only one of us that’s made it, and are leaving our countries in droves to let them burn while we “make a better life for ourselves” in the West. Do you want to live on a Western-dominated Earth for another 400 years? If you do, keep doing what you’re doing. But I don’t!
You know what’ll happen for all of us if America’s sick wishes come true and its global thuggery does make China collapse? Nothing. Eternal repetition of the status quo. More enslavement, hijacking of our resources and weak corrupt governments, neo-colonialism, invasion, regime change, sanctions, MISERY. Haven’t we already seen this? Libya, Cuba, Venezuela, Yugoslavia, Belarus, Iraq, Iran, Vietnam, the Soviet Union. Rest in peace. Even FRANCE and JAPAN for God’s sake. What does the United States do when any other country says NO, or simply becomes too powerful, too good at honest competition? IT CRUSHES IT LIKE A BUG. Japan was a Western-style democracy crawling with US troops, with a US-authored pacifist constitution and almost no military and an extremely pro-US government and populace, and it STILL got crushed when it looked like it would become the #1 economy in the 80s. Do Indians really believe that if China goes down, India will be allowed to become a great power? Do they not see that a strong or wealthy India would immediately fall victim to the same despicable US tactics? Don’t make me laugh. I remember 10–15 years ago when China was still relatively poor and impotent, and Bush and Obama would talk about China as sweetly as swans. Obama happily had dinner with Xi Jinping in late 2015, called China a crucial partner of the United States, and said the US welcomed China’s rise; it was all horseshit. Today Biden, who was there with Obama in late 2015 as Vice-President, angrily rebukes a reporter who merely said that Biden and Xi were old friends. America has taken off its mask. China made it, it wasn’t supposed to make it, so now it must die. What a difference 5 years can make. China went from “crucial partner” to “number one threat.”
We should be helping and supporting China to keep climbing to the top, and giving her some serious solidarity as she withstands the new Cold War of Western imperialism. It’s been a long 400 years. China is the first non-Western country to even come close to reaching a status of ultimate global importance. She is akin to the the first member of an impoverished family to go to university. That is our family of nations. And when China gets to the top, believe me, it won’t be a repeat of the French, British, or American Empire. Not a single developing country will be worse-off because of China becoming #1. There will be something good in this for all of us, so let’s wake up and let’s go! https://www.quora.com/What-do-you-think-about-China-4/answer/Ismail-Bashmori
Johnson Choi Biz 