Posted on 04/01/2022 3:08:44 PM PDT by Zhang Fei
Many of the misrepresentations of that 1972 trip linger till this day — of which the most important by far is the legend of China’s strategic statecraft, superior by virtue of its very long-range perspective, then personified by Zhou Enlai. Because Kissinger negotiated primarily with Zhou, he elevated that servile toady — who never once tried to save life-long colleagues from Mao’s murderous intrigues — into a statesman of transcendental wisdom, fully endowed in the long-view department.
This was exemplified by Zhou’s answer to Kissinger’s fawning request for his retrospective view of the French Revolution. Indeed, Kissinger never tired of relaying the Great Man’s answer: “Too early to tell”. You see, you see, Kissinger would add, China’s greatest minds look ahead 200 years. Today, authors and publishers still use “playing the long game” in the subtitles of books about China.
They should not. Chas W. Freeman, the interpreter, immediately told Kissinger that Zhou was referring to the 1968 student uprising that overthrew De Gaulle, whose final outcome was indeed still unclear in 1972. But Kissinger refused to give up his two centuries for a mere four years, and continued to repeat the story when gracing the dinner tables of the extremely rich in subsequent decades. It was one of the simpler Kissinger mystifications: by turning Zhou into a great statesman, he qualified himself as one — unnecessarily, it would later transpire, because he had so little competition until Reagan arrived to deflate the balloon of Soviet power.
Kissinger’s lie about Zhou was only the tail of a much bigger rat: the historical falsification that ignores China’s stupendous record of strategic incompetence down the ages, in order to attribute profound strategic wisdom to the Han — a wisdom also embodied in China’s classic strategic manuals, with Sun Tzu’s the most famous.
(Excerpt) Read more at unherd.com ...
Kissinger, an 五毛 who got paid a lot more.
David visited China, too!
https://www.nytimes.com/1973/08/10/archives/from-a-china-traveler.html
Get down to it with the Rockefeller Brothers Fund
Rocks love them long time
...In March 2004, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund decided to concentrate its Asian grantmaking in southern China, one of the fastest growing and most dynamic regions of the world. This focus builds on the Fund’s history of philanthropy in East and Southeast Asia and continues over a century of Rockefeller family philanthropy in China which includes the founding of the Peking Union Medical College in 1917...
Anyone who has spent time in China over the last decade can see the immensity of the house of cards it has become. I listen to people in here complain about the US and shake my head.
Yeah, Biden sucks dirty donkey balls, as does most of our corrupt political system. That said, the US is nearly devoid of corruption compared to the systemically endemic corruption of China (and Russia as well).
When an economic system is built upon reports of production authored by successive levels of government whose careers rest on publishing phony numbers in order to stay in power, you have the very definition of garbage in garbage out. Everyone in China takes their cut from the smallest business or bureaucrats all the way up. Real estate is nearly 30% of their GDP, and it’s not selling anymore.
State owned enterprises are defaulting on loans at a record pace.
Zero Covid delusions have resulted in no herd immunity, and their “vaccines” have removed their recipients ability to fight off spike protein based pathogens just like ours have. (Note the “fully vaccinated” folks who have had Covid multiple times…) We have a high percentage of herd immunity due to less extreme lockdowns and or desire to not listen to what our government tells us (thank God). Covid will not be over in China. Ever….
We need to decouple from their manufacturing as soon as possible.
XieXie Ni for the ping!
How come these articles never get beyond Kissenger or Nixon?
David visited China, too!
https://www.nytimes.com/1973/08/10/archives/from-a-china-traveler.html
Get down to it with the Rockefeller Brothers Fund
Rocks love them long time
...In March 2004, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund decided to concentrate its Asian grantmaking in southern China, one of the fastest growing and most dynamic regions of the world. This focus builds on the Fund’s history of philanthropy in East and Southeast Asia and continues over a century of Rockefeller family philanthropy in China which includes the founding of the Peking Union Medical College in 1917...
That's because current day Rockefellers have the survival instincts of Michael, not John.
Chinese view history as cyclic —a rise to greatness then fall into warring states and warlords—then unity and greatest again. It has happened many times in the past—and will again.
But the slit-eyed lady knocked my off of my feet.
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There Achilles heal is that they are unable to think asymmetrically.
They will ALWAYS follow orders passed down from superiors no matter how suicidal.
“ Absolutely right - the most notable thing about Zhou Enlai (or Chou En Lai, as it used to be spelled when I was a kid) is his cowardice. His relentless cringing-dog routine did nothing to save him from endless humiliations at Mao’s hands.”
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Kind of like Ed McMahann to a murderous Johnny Carson. Or Khrushchev the dancing bear trying to keep Stalin from executing him.
It's just bidness.
I’d like to hear what he’d have to say about the Belt and Road Initiative. I know I’m sounding like a broken record about it, but it scares the hell out of me. Xi Jinping has gone full bore fascist and he seems to think that the answer to all his problems is outside China.
Kissinger was a fool. Thanks to him sending an American nuclear aircraft carrier to threaten India in 1971, Kissinger drove India into Russian arms.
Neither God nor the Devil want to host Kissinger in their realms
Excellent article and it notes how China lost to northern barbarians right from the fall of the Tang dynasty.
I would also note the early Han losses to the Xianbei.
China’s greatest weapon was its culture. Barbarians through the millennia, Xianbei, Xiongnu, Dai, Jurchen, Mongols etc came and became Sinicized within a couple of generations, losing their culture and even language.
Today the Manchu language has fewer than 100 speakers and they are completely assimilated into the Han.
Even the “Han” are really multiple ethnic groups, with northern Chinese like Xi Jinping resembling Mongol, Koreans etc.
And southern Chinese more Thai, Viet, Austronesian etc.
The belt and road has floundered. Why? Because the chinese have been mercenary with cash.
They are distrusted in East Africa, south east Asia and central Asia.
Clinton-think Loral.
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Clinton-think Thermonuclear warheads
Chinese Homebuyers Shun Market Despite Government Revival Efforts - Top 100 developers saw sales value drop 52.7% in March
Beijing's close ties with Moscow may be rattling foreign investors. A study by the Institute of International Finance found that China has been experiencing “unprecedented” capital flight since Russia invaded Ukraine. The study found no similar outflows from other emerging markets, adding insult to injury.
https://www.reuters.com/breakingviews/foreign-cash-fleeing-china-adds-insult-injury-2022-03-28/
Chins will have serious problems in a few months. They need to make a deal with the US and EU.
My first trip to China was in 1989. We got there ten days after th TianAnMen Square Massacre. We had been scheduled to visit Beijing, but were told "You can't go to Beijing because...uh...uh...there's no food there. That's it, there's no food there."
The thing I noticed as we went visited various other cities was that there were no gas stations. If the tour bus needed gas, the driver had to go to an army base and hand in vouchers.
Fast forward to 2018, good roads, highways, bullet trains going hither and yon, gas stations all over the place and ...ghost cities. Entire big cities with no people AT ALL in them. Shops with no staff, no goods, no customers.
Things are not going all that well in the Middle Kingdom.
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