Posted on 02/22/2023 7:38:02 AM PST by Rummyfan
During its North American aerial odyssey, The Big Chinese Balloon passed within intel-gathering distance of ICBM silo fields, strategic bomber bases, key global logistics hubs (Charleston for example) and major Army and USAF headquarters.
The balloon wasn't just blowing in the wind. Its calculated military itinerary tells reasonable Americans and Canadians -- reasonable being a qualifier that excludes media influencers and politicians bribed or blackmailed by communist China -- that the balloon was spying on critical North American defense installations.
Which means it had a War Mission. Note I did not write "pre-War"; I wrote "War."
I'll explain why in a moment, but first due praise for The Wall Street Journal's February 20 article titled: "China's Newest Weapon to Nab Western Technology -- Its Courts."
According to the report, U.S. and EU officials "accuse China of using its courts and patent panels to undermine foreign intellectual-property rights and help Chinese businesses. They say China is focusing such efforts on industries it deems important, including technology, pharmaceuticals and rare-earth minerals."
Beijing has weaponized its legal system to steal technology.
Beijing's lawfare is calculated and synchronized. According to the Journal the EU is suing China for attempting to bar European companies from protecting their patents in courts outside China. One company official lamented: "It is puzzling that so many cases went wrong at the same time."
(Excerpt) Read more at strategypage.com ...
China does attack us in many ways.
Why?
What is their desired outcome?
Do the Chinese leaders really want communism?
Do they yearn to pull turnips at Turnip Commune #34?
Nope.
We just see human nature on display.
Greed
Bossiness
Jealousy
I know Chinese people fairly well, after all my wife and ex wife are Chinese. Many friends are Chinese, both here in the US and in China.
Nearly all of them worship money. Females begin investing at very young ages, and become wealthy in their mid 20s, but forget any social skills or goals. By 30, they are called “leftover” women in China if they are not married yet, but their essential requirements for finding a mate are stupendous in their extremes.
The young men also invest in an attempt to gather the right assets to find a wife - one or more nice homes, fancy cars, huge bank accounts. Their greed is legendary. The young men who are conscripts in the PLA have a much bleaker future, and are mostly from the countryside - these young men are prized by their families and are the family’s only child. When their families start losing these young men in combat by the thousands, the PLA will have issues.
Right now, it is just training, and the extreme propaganda of the CCP keeps everyone in line, for now.
It took me many years to find my non-crazy wife, and she is very atypical in modern China. Spend some time on TikTok, and chat with some of the beautiful young ladies there - you’ll find what I say to be true. If you chat with the young men, they will spout the CCP anti western talking points and belittle you. (Almost like the anti western FReepers.)
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