Posted on 08/12/2021 9:57:51 AM PDT by elpadre
China’s record may look appalling when seen through the lens of most Western media, and thus many foreigners expect a country in tatters on the brink of collapse.
Millions imprisoned in Xinjiang; Tibet in a state of siege; Hong Kong falling from its former glory with the best and brightest flying away for their freedom; and over a billion people under constant surveillance by an almighty and omniscient state monitoring every voice and facial expression through billions of spy devices of all shapes and forms.
To top it all, some kind of Red Catechism of President Xi Jinping’s thoughts is being pushed through all schools from elementary to universities more systematically than Mao’s Red Book during the Cultural Revolution, to preemptively cleanse the mind of any dangerous ideas.
These are all acts of force. It is George Orwell’s 1984 on mega-steroids and very scary, but it does not answer a basic question: Why has China not buckled under this impossible weight, and in fact, not even apparently budged because of it? If this list is taken at face value and if Chinese persecution of any dissent is as effective as some tend to believe, no system would survive in these conditions.
Xi’s neo-socialistic success
On the contrary, the picture inside China is quite different, and it’s not just “propaganda.” Xi is actively pursuing a “neo-socialistic” society and is having a lot of success for it.
He has announced that extreme poverty was ultimately defeated. He has promised pensions and a free health care system covering everybody in 15 years. Both are unprecedented feats in Chinese history. One can poke holes in these claims, but the overall improvement of life for all Chinese is evident. (continues on link)
(Excerpt) Read more at asiatimes.com ...
“China bought an idea of the EU that doesn’t exist. The EU lives largely as a US invention. On both sides of the Atlantic, there may be constant bickering but there is no real fight.”
“Moreover, China has little to no free press to really convince its own and other people. As such, despite its possible successes at home, even if one were to take at face value all Beijing claims, China is still cornered. It has too many enemies and no voice to argue.”
“On the other hand, the US may need more than just tough confrontation with China to get over this trying moment”
Extreme Poverty has been defeated in China?
Because Winnie the Pooh said so?
Uhh huh, I have been to China, multiple times for work, and that statement is a load of crap.
Once you get past the Glass and Steel skin of most of the cities there, you would be shocked at the way most of the people live there.
Go check out the side streets of Beijing, Ningbo, Chengdu and Taijin and then get back to me on how China has “defeated” poverty.
Well, I suppose it is equitable when you aren’t one of those on an ECMO machine kept alive as your organs are removed one by one.
Whether you are a Ugyhur, Falun Gong, simple criminal, Enemy of The State, or eventually, someone with a low social score, I am sure it is quite equitable.
I read this writer regularly. His constant theme is that the US is dying “neo-liberal” (whatever that means) empire, which will be replaced by the efficient technocrats of the new Chinese communist dynasty.
He watches China closely, so he makes good points which can’t be ignored, but otherwise, his fawning of China strongly colors his views.
Call it neo-socialism but it’s true name is fascism. That’s what china actually is as a matter of fact, not just throwing around an word for shock value. And like they did in the 20s and 30s, the left loves fascist states and wants that for us.
the article shows how some in Europe look at China, not the poster. The writer seems to be Italian and interestingly, Italy suffered from covid the most of the Europeans because of their large Chinese population, mostly from Wuhan. They had daily flights to Wuhan, which I read, never stopped throughout the pandemic. - not too bright!!!
Any one remember the "Red Violin" ... that shows the cruelty that is China.
Because confucianism is designed around subjugating a people who forever eat shit and marvel at its supreme flavor.
"He has announced that extreme poverty was ultimately defeated."
How did China get to 1 billion people in 1982, when extreme poverty was still widespread and Shanghai was still a shithole?
"He has promised pensions and a free health care system covering everybody in 15 years."
What good is a pension when you have to live with the one incel son so he can barely make the rent? What good is a health care system that features thousands of mobile crematoriums?
"From this perspective, Xi also doesn’t want religion in Xinjiang or Tibet to stand in the way of real practical welfare for the people while a few priests fatten themselves on people’s donations."
Eh, Francesco, basta! You shoe-sniffing dog. Xi would just as soon disappear your ass from your Beijing rental, so when you get that midnight knock, call a priest, and tell him to apologize to your family when they get Xi's bill for the bullet.
Is this guy an idiot or a liar?
Francesco Sisci joins the chorus of paid influencers and the Asia times joins the Global Times as a propaganda house organ for the CCP.
Everything reported the Xi did is a lie. Why? Because the CCP can never be wrong, must always come out on top, whatever the CCP cannot control is the enemy, whatever it claims must be true. All lies meant to fool naive westerners into believing that the CCP is the greatest form of government ever invented. Just a fragile, paranoid, dictatorial regime run by Mao’s Revolutionaries and their younger proteges, like Xi.
FASCISM: A political philosophy, movement, or regime that exalts nation and often race above the individual and that stands for a centralized autocratic government headed by a dictatorial leader, severe economic and social regimentation, and forcible suppression of opposition
I can almost hear the Leftists screaming that "Fascists and Communists are mortal enemies!", when in reality, it was well known as early as the 1920's by both the Fascists and the Communists that their opposing side was fertile soil for conversion and recruitment to their own side.
Two sides to the same nasty coin.
That's how it was in Germany 1939, how it is in China now, and how it's headed in the USA.
Yes, good point.
In one of the most striking books I have read in the past ten years “Stealth War” by Gen. Robert Spalding (Ret.) he talks about being on active duty in the Air Force and being sent to Communist China.
He had been one of the top pilots in the Air Force, flying the B-2, when they sent him to school to study Mandarin and get immersed in it for a year at the Military Language School in San Franscisco, then he was told to go to Communist China, enroll in a college there to get his MBA, all while on active duty with full pay, but...no strings. He had to find a Chinese college, enroll himself, make travel arrangements, find a house, buy a car, etc.
It was all done above board. He said the Chinese he spoke to were all puzzled by his presence, and assumed he was retired until he told them “No, I am active duty and was sent here to learn about China”.
Outstanding book. In it, he says that in China, they practice perhaps the most dog-eat-dog form of Capitalism that exists in the world. If you want to start your own Hot Dog stand, the government doesn’t care how you do it, as long as they get their cut and you don’t get cross-wise with The Party. You can break laws, rob or steal from your competition, and nobody from the government will come looking for you. He even thought about going over there after he retired and starting a business.
However, after what has gone on for the last 10-15 years, he said he wouldn’t go back. He thinks they would find a way to keep him from returning home...and I agree with him.
There are at least 3 issues with this article
1. has poverty really been ended for 1.5 Billion people?
communist regimes almost always make such claims. But beyond the very most basic necessities (and even this is questionable), communist regimes actually have always had a great deal of poverty
2. the imposition of communism (either its normal form or the “silk gloves communism” that is being crammed down our throats, inch by inch, in USA) always involves taking economic opportunities away from people (usually by utterly destroying them). After all, economic opportunities are inherently associated with individual liberty, something anathema to the left.
3. communist regimes (like their kissing cousin Nazi regimes) have a strong propensity of mass murdering people.
just saying that even if (for the sake of discussion) the Beijing dictatorship has reduced poverty, it has patently come at a tremendous price. I, for one, do not believe that price is worth paying. Not by a long shot.
Meanwhile, the US Government is asking social media and telecom companies to monitor and censor people's private communications ... or else.
Just F’ing no. Go’s gave us capitalism as the freest form of economic system. Don’t need no stinking commie input
The administration flat out said they were going to leverage the information gathering capability of private industry...no doubt, because they feel they can get around constitutional restrictions on spying on citizens.
Scum.
bump
“Is this guy an idiot or a liar?”
The writer has been fed a bill of goods. He has bought into much of their propaganda.
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