Posted on 11/25/2022 5:15:34 AM PST by MtnClimber
The biggest deception China has successfully perpetuated in the West is that it would rise peacefully, gradually liberalize and present enormous business opportunities.
The biggest deception China has successfully perpetuated in the West is that it would rise peacefully, gradually liberalize and present enormous business opportunities. Behind that veneer of reform, Beijing has played a masterful influence game, ensnaring governments, academia, think tanks, cultural groups, and businesses in the West to further its goal of global preeminence.
Analyst Alex Joske’s revealing book, Spies and Lies: How China’s Greatest Covert Operations Fooled the World, explains how China’s intelligence apparatus, the Ministry of State Security (MSS), revamped espionage from cloak-and-dagger ops alone to a sophisticated collection of innocent-seeming front groups. He shows how these groups, speaking the language of transparency, globalism, and cultural, academic, and business exchanges, influenced key persons in every sphere of endeavor in the West, masking China’s quest for world dominance, its military build-up, its stealing of technology, its human rights violations, and its territorial expansionism. Appearing eager for cultural and business reciprocity, China presented intelligence operatives as journalists, scholars, and trade and tourism representatives. The U.S. – and other western governments – engaged with China, mistaking it for a useful partner, and often acting under pressure from businesses that sought lucrative deals with Beijing.
According to the book, billionaire George Soros, who is still in quixotic and dangerous pursuit of his flawed notion of an ‘open society,’ was one of China’s earliest dupes. Chinese intelligence and its numerous fronts used Soros and his funds as an entrée to the West, creating what has grown into a omnipresent cloud of influence, ubiquitous yet impossible to pinpoint and hence combat or dislodge. But more on Soros later.
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China is pretty far down its path to take over the world through its Belt and Road initiative.
Well, it isn't all that hard to look masterful when your influence-buying budget is virtually unlimited.
“stealing of technology”
The Chinese insist on coercive transfer of technology in general.
This is possible because the US believes in fixed length trade treaties. No foreign country will not sign on unless the treaty favors the foreign country instead of US workers.
A very fine article and observation. China remains a one party state, and uses TWO currencies to play the international community, while we or the Euro-zone EU play with one each. The renminbi and yuan are part of a shell game, rather modeled on the fiat currency games which have been played out for decades here by our Fed and the ECB, which is a newcomer erected out of thin air.
The US' China policy has been short sighted, given than Ross Perot's imagery of a "giant sucking sound" applies to so many industries no longer on America soil. We been suckered by the Chinese and -- AND -- by ourselves, by which I mean especially Democrats and RINOs.
One can easily examine Chinese industrial might via alibaba.
There are plenty of great books on China (I've read a bunch of them). Most of them make it quite clear that China views the world as its enemy.
China should not get the blame for US leadership stupidity.
The US needs to favor investment in machine tools instead of common stock.
Profits from machine tool investment should be tax exempt.
Stocks should have the same tax treatment as lottery tickets.
And as a side note, Russia is still Communist, and still a threat. Don’t let their little side show in Ukraine or their faux traditionalism fool you, they are still the Soviet Union, and Putin is a Communist. And should Putin die someone much worse will take over for him.
The US favors investment in soft stuff - education, health care, common stock, etc.
The Chinese favor investment in production machinery.
China is run by tough, realistic men.
US domestic policy is set by crazy women.
The CCP made a terrific error in judgement. The CCP allowed capitalism to flourish in China. That is, the CCP allowed unregulated businesses to be born, grow and prosper along side the CCP controlled businesses and economy.
That capability got totally out of control as entrepreneural individuals and families built prosperity beyond the conception of the CCP.
US policy is set by a Deep State that kowtows to its ChiCom masters.
And I’ll bet you that there’s not a single woman high up in it.
> The biggest deception China has successfully perpetuated in the West is that it would rise peacefully... <
I wonder if “deception” is the right word there. Many average Americans know what a threat communist China is. Our leaders in government and business know it, too. China isn’t fooling anyone.
But it’s so much easier to look the other way and keep on importing Chinese goods, the profits from which make China stronger. But hey, this keeps the cost of an Apple iPhone down. So why kick up a fuss?
Trump was unique in DC in that he wanted to change all this. So of course he had to go.
Presently, the CCP is in the process of eliminating the businesses that grew up and produced much of the prosperity. Xi was given total control. He is now on a path to return the conceptual Maoism purity.
He suffers from youth who have opted out and are lying flat. he suffers from an aging population that requires assistance and a lack of young providers.
China that was an economic miracle is beginning to fail in what will be historically and unparoled reversion to national poverty that is the desired communist economic condition
And I’ll bet you that there’s not a single woman high up in it.
Hard to know, as it depends on a fluid definition.
It is clear that US policy is designed to weaken the United States by *appealing to women*.
Not to mention PLA/PAP drones flying over DC ...
Around June 1989, a CN delegation, coordinated by the feral givernment took a “tour” of one of my multinational company’s research facilities where I worked. The tour took place on a Saturday when there was no activity. Eventually my company opene facilties in CN, but had to be 50:50 “ownership” subject to CN laws.
This made me aware of the EU-US-intelligentia foreign policy wisdom of the day in the wake of the “no-nukes-anti-Reagan-80s”. If the west helps build the commies countries’ infrastructure and industries, and trade with them here are the benefits for the west: (1) commies will not feel threatened by us, will end up liking us; (2) they become more like us, “freedom loving”; (3) western companies will make big money selling to a market with a billion consumers!
To this day, none of this has come to fruition. And never will. Dual CN currencies, among other many other things, made it too obvious that the smart people, the western “leaders” wanted to believe in something that could never be realized with the commies. So here we are.
No, it is not communist, nor is Putin. Nor is it still the USSR. A liberal democracy? Nope. Authoritarian regime? Yes. Oligarchy? Yes, but not quite so bad as Ukraine.
You are right that Putin could well be replaced by someone worse.
And when the West continues to fund it.
Hah
I remember the billion customers bs
It was in one of the last Movietone reels in like 1980
Puzzled me at the time - where would a bunch of poor communists get the money to buy crap from us?
Simple! We just give them our industries!
Funny how no one mentioned that at the time
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