Trump if re-elected has to put so much pressure on the Chinese communist party that it starts making mistakes in the eyes of the people and loses the mandate of heaven.
We really need a Radio Free America operation for the far east. Xi is reckless whereas other chicom leaders have been content to wait and buy time. I think Xi got drunk on power with the last Obama term and now wants to bully China’s way into total hegemony in the far east and it’s hurt him and China.
[Trump if re-elected has to put so much pressure on the Chinese communist party that it starts making mistakes in the eyes of the people and loses the mandate of heaven.]
The Mandate of Heaven occupies a space in Western shibboleths about China right next to the non-existent Chinese phrase “May you live in interesting times”. It’s used as politesse to lend an air of legitimacy to new regimes while obscuring the fact that this legitimacy rests mainly on feats of arms, a veritable stack of betrayals of principles and sacred oaths and was accompanied by great slaughter. As a reason a new regime came to power, “the ancien regime had lost the Mandate of Heaven” sounds nicer, intoned by a slanty-eyed James Earl Jones or Morgan Freeman, than “his sword arm proved better at cutting down his enemies than all other contenders”.