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Monday, July 26, 2021
What does Tokyo Olympics 2020 say about America?
July 24th, 2021 is the first day of Tokyo 2020 Olympics. Naturally I was enthused over the roll-out of the events and anxiously kept tabs on the medal count for the day. At the end of the day, I noticed that the US had failed to win even a single medal. I didn’t think much of it then, since it was the first day, until I saw the following headline in CNN: US fails to win medal on first day of Summer Olympics for the first time in nearly 50 Years.
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Excellent article. It is not a new found paranoia it goes back to at least 2005 with a meeting in the City of London - Masons worried about China growing too big too fast. Echoed (or under orders) by Donald Rumsfeld in 2005 also saying the military (then) had 2.5 million etc. See what the plan was in 2005 - the Anglo Saxon Mission. http://hu.allreadable.com/c7d16vfW/notes_1223772
ReplyDeleteExcellent narrative and assessment. Only point is nobody knows how the race will play out until the finish line….China could be disrupted by its own traitors like Jimmy Lai and many such goons. America could produce a genius who could turn around their decline. The US could make the 3rd world war to destroy China and those opposing them…. Or Armageddon can be fulfilled before the end of 21st Century!
ReplyDeleteGog Magog or Armegedon war is happening now by American, let's see who win the war.
DeleteIn the previous wars US had fought them in the territories of others. In the coming war, if they are foolhardy enough to start one, they will not be so fortunate. Cities on the mainland USA will be destroyed and it population decimated. Their disparate divisive people will not stand together long enough to really slug it out and trade blow for blow They will quickly have a Vietnam type resistance on their hands.
ReplyDeleteAsian minions dumb enough to believe that they can be the launch sites and remote outposts for US to mount their attacks on China will find themselves annihilated and their nation no more, scorched earthed, after being the surrogate battlegounds.. Hitler did not believe Russia could be able to send out 30,000 tanks against him. He and the German mighty military industrial complex strained to produce a few thousands.
Same will happen. US will be rudely surprised to fight a China and its military industrial complex meeting countless missiles, drones and men willing to die for their cause and nation.
Does the disparate US have such men willing to die for the rich?.
Chris Kanthan: "He also highlights China’s failure in its inability to do a good international PR job." But did he offer any explanation for the inability?
ReplyDeleteFrom my observation, there are 2 factors why China lacks a good PR job. Firstly, China is very new to this international PR arena where virtually most of the mainstream media and social media platforms are owned by western capitalists who will sing the tune that the American politicians want. All the more so, China has never encountered this media battling domestically with its draconian censorship at home.
Secondly, while the Chinese language serves the masses well and it is a barrier of entry for foreigners, it is also unwittingly a handicap for most Chinese going international. The lack of widespread English competency has made it a daunting task for the Chinese media or social media for the matter, to overcome the partiality and slanders they encounter on the international scene.
Fortunately, I also observe that overseas Chinese who have better command of English than their mainland counterparts, have been helping out to battle this western bias and China demonizing. Interestingly, several westerners who have lived and worked in China as well as honest academics have stepped forward to help in this regard.
Liu Xin is one of the gems.
DeleteNumbers count. Big numbers count!
ReplyDeleteThe Chinese population is 1.4B. The Americans 500m?
American politicians r owned by big money.
As long as the big money r only interested in dominating n maintaining a monopoly, the USA will continue to frame PRC as 'an entity to b contain n control or destroy'.
I hv benefitted fr American companies' willingness to teach, share n recognise local employees in the 80s n 90s.
Now, I m not so sure?
The Chinese's rise cannot b stopped.
Destroying China using Xinjiang, Hkg SAR, Tibet or Taiwan r 'legitimate' avenues for the liberals who think individual's rights overweight collective rights.
To each their own reasoning.
The Americans don't live in Afghanistan, Iraq, Palestine, Lebanon, etc. n they can NEVER appreciate what it is like to live in a harmonious, peaceful n stable environment where most ordinary people just get on with making a living.
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ReplyDeleteMore recently, Chris Kantha has done a complete 180°, and has become very, very anti-China, and at the same time, has become very, very pro-U.S.A..
ReplyDeleteIf it is true, I am also not surprised. As long as there is money on the table, many wordsmiths would change their stance.
ReplyDeleteWritten by another Asian who thinks he knows America just by observing the initial results of the Olympics and by a trip pre-Covid. The assumption is that the US never falls back on progress. I suggest you take a closer look at US history. Progress is never linear and there are times America has to deal with pressing issues that forces it to backtrack but that doesn't mean its not progressing. Its by far the largest economy in the world, the most powerful military with the most advanced weaponry and the largest cache of nuclear weapons. It has the political clout that no other country possesses and it has friends in Europe, Canada, South America, India, SE Asia, Taiwan, Australia, South Korea, Japan etc that has its back. It is the preeminent leader in tech. Everything you are using now is due to American technology. You try to downplay events in Xinjiang, Hong Kong etc. and make it appear that any Asian who supports democracy is a sycophant of America. Obviously you must come from a place that doesn't have a vibrant democracy or you do not appreciate how democracy works. You forget that Taiwan, South Korea, Japan are firmly on the US side, along with Philippines, Vietnam, Australia, New Zealand, Western Europe, India with regards to China's intrusion into the South China Seas. For someone to criticize Biden stating he is lying about Hong Kong....really? So you don't think they have any grounds to protest the steady erosion of freedom and democracy there? Are you aware that one can be arrested if they travel to HK/China for saying anything negative about China even if one says those things outside of China and HK? I guess you are fine with such policies. You are likely the beneficially of American presence and influence because if not for America, you would likely be a slave of the Japanese in Singapore or SE Asia today. Sure America has problems. But it will prevail in the end. Democracy is chaotic and volatile but it provides the best possible governance over long periods of time. You dwell on the issues facing America but fail to even mention any of the daunting problems facing China and incorrectly assume that a one party state with a firmly entrenched leader will do well in the long term and you so easily jump to the conclusion that America will inevitably decline and China will take the top spot. I am not even going to talk about the issues China faces but if you read as widely as you say you do, you should be aware of the problems. You criticize people like Ted Cruz stating that as a Hispanic, he readily pretends he is white. You don't even know your facts. Ted is an American, born to a white woman and a Cuban father. Sure I don't like his politics but to assume that just because he is Hispanic, that he can't have Republican conservative values and beliefs is silly. It would be like saying that Gary Locke, the former US Ambassador to China cannot represent America's interests because he is ethnic Chinese. You don't seem to understand that whatever ethnicity one is in America, they are first and foremost Americans and they will put America and its interests first. A Chinese in America is loyal to America, not China. If the latter, then they should deport themselves back to China. It is wrong to simply side with China just because one is ethnic Chinese. Where is the independence of thought? That is tantamount to racism at its worst.
ReplyDeleteDavid Grant you should open both your eyes and your mind to learn more about China. How can an apparently well educated person be so bias in your views with this nationn?
DeleteJust because America is powerful it does not mean you go around imposing values on others.
ReplyDeleteHong Kong is part of China and China can and should exercise sovereignty over Hong Kong. The West especially America use Hong Kong as a launching pad against China and democracy and freedom was used to justify to undermine China via the anti China Hong Kongers.
It is somewhat glaringly ironic that the Americans care so much about freedom of Muslims in Xinjiang when and while the Americans and Britain are taking great delight in destroying so many innocent Muslims in the Middle East. Why the double standards? The hidden motive is very obvious.
China is being surrounded by the West especially America with hundreds of military bases armed to the teeth with missiles ready to attack China. Why?
China have no choice but to control the South China Sea.
What if one day China were to have military bases in Cuba or Mexico?
Go and read about the legendary journalist John Pilger account of America's military bases surrounding China.
America's invasion of Iraq is an illegal one, when will the rest of the world hold America and Britain responsible and accountable for the wanton destruction?
America may be a democracy but the reality is it is a plutocracy of the WASPS for the WASPS by the WASPS. Worse still they are part of the military industrial complex whose end goal is just to make money at the expense of the rest of the world.
America only care about human rights when it suits her.
Just have a good study of your prisons.
How about your Native Americans? You can say they are living in the land of the free but living in Reservations is telling. This is after they have been reduced by the genocidal Whites who came over from Europe and moved West and annexed their land.
What about America annexing territories belonging to Mexico? When is America going to give up and hand over to Mexico?
Democracy is an ideology that serves America on paper only as it only serves only the elites but not the huge majority.
China has her own way of serving her people and it is not America's business to go around telling others how to live their lives.
It is China's turn to be bashed by America today and it could be Vietnam or India or Indonesia tomorrow. By the way Vietnam is a one party communist state, why isn't America pick issues with Vietnam being a Communist state?
The biggest problem is America's obsession being number one. There is a saying if you are a champion or number one; there is only one way to go and that is down.
America must understand and accept this and only then America will be able to get along and live with others.
No one wins the war, except cock roaches.
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