This is a direct diplomatic poke in the eye. Sports is politics and the communists in china KNOW that they are going to be the alpha dog in Asia. They wanted everybody , including their people to see how they fought the Americans and made them leave losing face.
Think about the culture there. A guest is usually treated with respect because it reflects honor on you. A “dog” is treated like they treated our team. Hahahahahahaha. Do you think the government didn’t authorize this? If this wasn’t condoned by the Chinese government, the coaches and players would be enroute to reeducation camps. The police at the scene would have cracked some skulls of the crowd for the water bottles and chair throwing.
I look at the horizon and I see war. They have too many males, rural populations by the MILLIONS poring into cities built on an economic bubble. Once we are unable to buy chinese goods, inflate our money so they are left holding worthless paper, and their economy collapses watch out Taiwan and Korea. What are we going to do with armies of limp wristed lovers and pregnant undeployable women?
Thoughtful analysis.
It all reminds me of how we introduced Japan to the industrial revolution, and how we got Pearl Harbor as a thank-you.
The hate America crowd over here that engineered it in hopes that this action would win their approval, will be wailing, pleading, and begging as they are used for bayonette practice.
Here’s some stats from the article.
When play stopped, the score was 64-64, even though 23 fouls had been called on the US team, compared to 11 for the Chinese team.
The Chinese are HORRIBLE losers, and there was no way they were going to lose to a US team.
You get 23 fouls called against you, most days you lose.
The team was apparently pulled from the PLA and trained for this game. We didn’t send the Mavericks, we sent the Hoyas.
Chinese knew without more thumbs on the scale they were going to be embarrassed.
As far as war with the Chinese, they have a lot of flaps yet to button down if they wish to project power on the basis of being militarily competitive with the US. In the future? Maybe, but it depends on whether they are going to allow their brightest people to break the bank.
Here in the US, they are. Unfortunately, for the moment, our best and brightest are still going into investment banking, not engineering. Not sure I blame them at this point, what with 9400 former Shuttle Program people on the street.
The Chinese players basically assaulted the Georgetown players. They were right to exit the court. And as they were exiting stuff was being thrown at them.
That is true. China is cruising for a bruising.