Start fortressing.
“Those of you who are students and who will be shaping the world should not think of the other country as adversaries.”
Yea, pass the bong dude. I get the warm fuzzies thinking about all those ICBM’s aimed at the US now.
Oh, yea...aren’t they going through the largest naval build-up in the history of this planet.
Maybe we can just convert all those ships into Love Boats.
Kewl
“Those of you who are students and who will be shaping the world should not think of the other country as adversaries.”
We could learn a lot from our friends, the Chinese, about how to keep the serfs in their place using torture and police brutality. China should not be allowed to become a power until they demonstrate the ability to be a civilized nation.
Real tricky substituting 'global' for 'world' there, Henry......
Dr. Strangelove speaks.
I believe an US-Asian nexus(be it India or Chinese) will be necessary to control the savages of europe.
Kissinger is and always has been an idiot.
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More globalist drivel from this old sputtering Rockefeller fool.
And they just happen to be one of the largest importers of Iranian petroleum products.
The man is wise and speaks words that should be heeded.
The communist rule in China is but a blip, an historical anomaly. The country is undergoing great change and the people are exhibiting their pent up ability.
China must be carefully treated to allow growth of the natural capitalistic ability of the people and dampen the communistic state control of everything.
Freepers tend to focus on the mainland super communists while ignoring the overseas Chineese who are every ehere and long to deql again with home. Their influence in the process can not be ignored.
History is a process, not an event.
China is an ancient, civilized nation. Unfortunately, Mao destroyed many of the old values, and the current government is still Communist, totalitarian, militaristic, expansion minded, and uncooperative.
Unless and until they get a new government, I don’t see much hope that we can deal with them as friends, especially when they take every opportunity to arm our enemies and undermine our economy—with the unfortunate help of the last two administrations.
I had hoped that perhaps we could work with Russia against China, at least until they straightened out, but that doesn’t seem to be in the cards, either.
It’s a dangerous world. It takes two to be friends, and the Chinese aren’t interested.
Wrong then, wrong now. Kissinger’s take on China’s ascendancy is based on similar premises, too, and ignores the same underlying dynamics. China has enormous potential—its people are hardworking and smart, its resources vast—yet that potential can never be realized while the country is led by a privileged cadre of communist autocrats holding fast to a Marxist delusion completely at odds with certain truths about human nature and economic value. Without free exchange of ideas or liberty of expression, such a state can go so far, and no farther. It’s what dictators never grasp—the personal is the political: freedom to think and say what one likes translates to independent decision-making and promotes the primacy of the individual over the collective. The free market is a market of ideas that drive the generation of goods and services, and these ideas don’t come from a top-down collective. Grafting a capitalist branch onto a communist tree won’t work, either, at least in the long term. At some point, the Chinese will need to make a choice. In the meantime, I wish discredited, self-styled oracles like Kissinger would shut up and play golf or something.
IIRC, Kissinger is heavily invested in China.
And eat their rice.
America has been trading with China for 1000 years, and Europe has been trading with China for 2700 years. Modern America is Europe’s way of trading with China by moving Europe one continent to the west since the Bedouins have pretty much cut off the overland trade routes to the east; it’s obvious that the problem is continuing and will continue forever, so trade from the American west coast has permanently taken the place of trade from the European west coast.
And why is not strange to hear Kissinger touting more “global order” BS - that totalitarian dictatorships and and a democratic Republic can lie down in the green grass of bliss with each other? ‘Cause a leopard never changes his spots.
The world will be much better off WITHOUT any system of a “global order” because it will be more honest in admitting our honest differences, instead of submerging them under some “order”, which is no more than an attempt to dismiss those differences as invalid.
If Kissinger had been honest, he could have just as easily have said: “screw your Constitution, your freedom, your rights - they are not really important”.
Gengis Khan
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