Posted on 08/02/2009 4:15:11 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
Will China Implode?
by Isabel Hilton
Obama and Chinese officials met this week for high-level policy talks, and avoided exchanges on human rights. But China expert Isabel Hilton says minority revolts in China recently show it is an empire in crisis.
There is a story that the Chinese government likes to tell: that China is the world’s oldest continuous, unchanging civilization (the dates vary, according to the exuberance of the moment, from 2,000 to a mythical 5,000 years). This unique history, the story continues, will determine China’s future. In this narrative of Chinese exceptionalism, the leadership remains immune to demands for democracy or any resemblance to other developed countries. The government hopes that this story will prove persuasive enough for the Communist Party to keep the Mandate of Heaven and avoid challenges to its exclusive right to rule for the foreseeable future.
The revolt of the minorities is only a symptom of a wider political malaise.
It’s a curious story for a Communist Party and very different to the earlier myths of origin. Where once it promoted class struggle and revolution, today’s party invokes history and tradition in support of its right to rule. In its latest identification with the imperial orders of the past, the regime is even restoring Confucianism as the core state narrative.
It’s a long way from the Communist Party’s own origins in the revolt in the early 20th century against the suffocating orthodoxies of Confucianism, blamed by the modernizers of the day for China’s slide into stagnation. As recently as the 1970s, Confucius was still thought sufficiently poisonous as an inheritance to merit a virulent campaign of criticism, along with such imported bad hats as the Italian filmmaker Michelangelo Antonioni, the late Ludwig Van Beethoven and the children’s book Jonathan Livingston Seagull.
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Ping!
So does our current Federal Government.
... and if it does, will China go on a rampage with it’s increased military might?
The whole world is going to implode because of the failure of the USA to really lead
Dark Ages II coming and it will be much worse
Globalists in U.S. instead created Chimerica and declared it as a crowning achievement. Now it will break up in twin implosions, one in U.S., and the other in China.
Is Johnathan Livingston Seagull a children’s book?
It is short but does that make it for kids?
Frequently, literary works with serious subjects are regarded as children's story because of the way they are written.
Obama and Chinese officials met this week for high-level policy talks to let them know our plan is working they love me by the end of the year we will own the fools.
marktwain posted:
Sometimes, because the left so completely controlled the publishing business, it was the only way they could be published.
Thanks for the ping and its a very nice article. I am somehow less sure that we will see any change in the trajectory of China emerging top of the heap in our lifetimes. Unless its desire to physically rule the world and have all other countries kow-tow (the irony that the word has Chinese origins) to its leadership will result in it treading the same path as Nazi Germany, I doubt that it will ever be challenged. Pax Americana is on the wane.
Ha! In a word? NO. They are steadfastly modernizing their military weapons to state-of-the-art, increasing defense budgets, controlling their people, and patiently waiting for this country to devolve into a condition that renders it incapable of going toe-to-toe with them. When they feel the time is right, they will force a confrontation over Taiwan - and we will back down.
if they keep printing yuan to keep the USD from falling, then they’re in big doodoo. Hyperinflation in China will force their hand
Endtimes are coming and it will be much, much worse!
China today may be arrogant, but it is nothing compared to China of 1968.
Globalists in U.S. instead created Chimerica and declared it as a crowning achievement. Now it will break up in twin implosions, one in U.S., and the other in China.
Yes a big mistake by the Globalists....as they free traded and wealth-redistributed American wealth to the ChiComs. As the ChiComs crumble, the effects will really be felt here.
The biggest fear I have is that food prices escalate...since our Globalists decided it was “better” to use ChiCom agri products instead of American.
Now would be a good time to return to American Economics...the ones who whine “isolationism” and “protectionism” need to be pushed aside so to rebuild the American...and then...the world economy
I dont know why Reagan did not put a stop to Free Trade w Communist China....even more puzzling is how the Bushes and Clinton continued such economic stupidity...and without political reform in China.
Our Free Trade Globalist policy will end....whether we decide to put an end to it now...or we let it destroy everything
Disagree completely
We saved China from themselves
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