China went from a “developing country” (meaning they had been ignoring the military and economic advancements of the West) to an aggressive challenger for global domination - using anything that works.
There is really no end to the Malthusuan problem, a previously mysterious , underdeveloped, problem that since exploded into the exterior, that can not be ignored , since it challenges world peace.
The humongous problem with explosive Chinese population control was previously solved by a simple but useful method:
Little boy babies were spared and prayed for , cause of their work-ability, whereas tiny little girls were drawned in the river.
How about that for a means not to concern with abortive measures well debated in the West?
Didn’t you freaks hear?
The US will last forever…it is the Last Empire, full of Last Men.
After comes Armageddon. I read it as a prophesy - a self-fulfillnig prediction. It’s all in a book, by the book, for the book.
All I have are book smarts.
No street smarts, like Pedro, the blossoming cRap star.
He disappeared when Brian informed him he wasn’t going to be a famous cRap fArtist.
It hurt bad, after so many years of being told, by the guru, that he was gifted and would make it big.
Failed dreams become hobbies, and then embarrassing anecdotes we share with friends and loved ones before we die.
Naïve dreams…are swept under the carpet, never to be spoken of, never to be recalled.
Whoever speaks of a Malthusian problem always presupposes that it exists.
Malthus has not only miscalculated, but he has also - out of fear of the proletariat (today: precariat) - relied on his likewise wrong conclusions.
And once, the “nice guy” Mao went to the “nice guy” Stalin and asked him to take military action together with him against the “capitalist world”, i.e. to start a world war, because he could calmly sacrifice half a billion Chinese.
Ukraine War Shows West’s Dominance Is Ending as China Rises, Blair Says
By Reuters Wire Service Content • July 17, 2022, at 4:19 a.m.
By Guy Faulconbridge
LONDON (Reuters) - The Ukraine war shows that the West’s dominance is coming to an end as China rises to superpower status in partnership with Russia at one of the most significant inflection points in centuries, former British Prime Minister Tony Blair said.
The world, Blair said, was at a turning point in history comparable with the end of World War Two or the collapse of the Soviet Union: but this time the West is clearly not in the ascendant.
“We are coming to the end of Western political and economic dominance,” Blair said in a lecture entitled “After Ukraine, What Lessons Now for Western Leadership?” according to a text of the speech to a forum supporting the alliance between the United States and Europe at Ditchley Park west of London.
“The world is going to be at least bi-polar and possibly multi-polar,” Blair said. “The biggest geo-political change of this century will come from China not Russia.”
China has been using extortion to take over countries all over the world – their “belt and road initiative”.
They have built up a navy larger than the USA - largest in the world.
They forbid other nations from speaking against them else they economically attack.
They steal technology more than any country except possibly Israel.
They have warned the USA to stay away from the effort to take over Taiwan “or risk all out war”.
They have been kicked out of places in the USA for espionage.
They have tried to take land from India - but India fought back.
They have made military pacts with Canada
They are buying up massive amounts of farm land in the USA (and near military bases).
They have publicly stated that they are going to be the only sovereign nation in the world and replace the USA as the dominate power.
… And more…
Not to mention their COVID attack and guess who is currently working on Monkey Pox? - None other than that same Wuhan lab in China (why not - the West isn’t going to do anything to stop them).
So you’re saying we should consider the American business owners that sold out to China as “traitors” and hang them in the streets?
American business owners sold the United States to China for personal gain. The US has what, GM and Ford left, of which most of that is made in Mexico?
Anything to save a buck, right? Ruin your country in the name of personal gain. I think they call that treason, punishable by DEATH!
China was going to outcompete the USA anyway, the only question was whether the businesses running Chinese manufacturing would be Chinese or US American owned.
Blame your politicians for making it prohibitively expensive to operate in the US. Made in USA is still globally recognized as a seal of quality. Bunch of ultra skilled workers sitting on their asses.
As a party - they are famous for it throughout Europe you snowflake - and right now are very obviously in lockstep with the globalists (Sen Schumer - a very serious liar - as merely one example from the unified group).
US public corporations are required by law to be dollar chasing robots. They are obligated to make the most money for their shareholders - regardless of personal profit – so that crock don’t bite.
Guess who made those laws? Not the CEO’s - not the shareholders – politicians - getting personal gains by doing so - a great many of whom are compromised by China and the surveillance state.
And corporations making money in China wasn’t the issue - it is how they are making that money.
So now you are a prophet? You know when to jump into the future? You knew COVID would come and be squashed so quickly? Zookers!
The CCP thought the US would lose over 1/3 of its population over at least 5 years to COVID (that is what Dr Fauci promised them) – they didn’t expect - or appreciate - Mr Trump and Warp Speed.
Actually I did. Not because I am a prophet, but because it didn’t take a genius. A manufactured crisis will have a duration to coincide with the issue it is used to address.
Why are you putting my name on things I didn’t write?
I otherwise agree with your retort.
As a party?
What a dumb motherfucker you are. Like Ilhan Omar you are, exactly.
I don’t think so. It seems that they gain serious profits from extortion deals and then use that money to build ships (and steal more information and bribe more politicians and silence more dissenters and —).
One of the primary concerns that I had with James’ posts was his statements concerning “obfuscation and extortion” - because that is EXACTLY what the CCP has been doing to the world for almost a century.
Create confusion and conflict (“obfuscation”)
Wait for or secretly create a catastrophe (wait for or create the right moment)
Offer to remedy the problem upon compliance with CCP wishes (extortion)
“Give me what I want - and I will go away” (but only until next time).
