Posted on 05/31/2021 9:26:56 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
.... In the 1800s, China was opening to Western trade. It had, for a long time, happily exported silk and ceramic-ware synonymous with the country, but it considered reciprocal trade beneath it. How could trade with socially inferior pirates ("invaders") possibly benefit a culture that had invented the compass, the printing press, and gunpowder?
This mentality fed arrogance and repeated failure to understand their adversary. Britain's and France's "opium wars" started because Chinese officials would sign trade treaties and then disregard them. (There were other issues, such as attacks on British civilians and capture and torture of diplomats.) The wars ultimately ended with a British and French force of about 17,000, with extended supply lines and little rear echelon support, humiliating a force of over 100,000 cannon- and musket-armed imperial troops at their emperor's front door.
The Chinese, though changing their "imperial" flags for "communist" flags, have never forgotten that humiliation, a deep and abiding shame in Chinese culture. They harbor deep resentment against those whom they still regard as their inferiors. But they've also learned to study their enemy and play a long game. And they understand corruption.
My grandfather was repeatedly forced to pay bribes to Chinese officials as a condition of doing business there. The Chinese know how to "export" such tactics. Now we find ourselves in a situation where our politicians have taken their thirty pieces of Chinese silver and are falling over themselves to force us into dependency on "green" technology in the name of "global warming," a technology almost exclusively made in...drum roll...China!
Maybe our susceptible politicians think that they can feed the crocodile so it will eat them last and then be just as treacherous and double-cross China in the end, but that is naïve. China has gained control over many vital resources.
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CHINA PLAYS THE LONG GAME....
Think about it: if we do away with most of our domestic oil production and refining capacity in the name of “green,” relying completely on imports, and our fuel suppliers start getting queasy about whether they might offend the ever more powerful Chinese, how do we fly fighter jets? We might have nuclear-powered aircraft carriers, but have you ever seen the size of the support fleet that accompanies a carrier? They’re all conventionally powered. With no fuel, a carrier is naked, and a naked carrier never sails.
Global warming and the green movement are the Trojan horses that will ultimately disarm us. Moreover, the social weapon of “racism,” a concept rife in our Chinese-influenced universities, is something the Chinese understand intimately. It will tear us apart before we ever get to arms. We need to disengage and understand the nature of this attack.
Our military planners and politicians are more concerned about supporting wokeness than fueling fighter jets and battle groups. I seriously doubt we will be challenging any major power any time soon. We have other more pressing social priorities in our armed forces. /sarc
Yes,
The whole Green movement was designed in Soviet Union sometimes in 60-70 ties. Along the “peace movement” and the Civil rights movement.
Basically to destroy capitalism from inside (cancer analogy is good).
It took life on its own, but it is still supported by the Chinese communists. Can you imagine anything better to destroy America?
Biden's Chinese Collusion -- it's the real thing.
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