Re: The China "Problem"
- From: <nospam@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2008 14:53:38 GMT
so what pray-tell, should the
intelligencia in the West be doing about this unavoidable problem that
is
looming ever closer around the corner?
Interesting times indeed. I am not sure who you mean by the
"intelligentsia" in the West.
Hehe - obviously not me! I can't even spell it! Well, I guess I meant "our
wise and prudent leaders"! As you said - fat chance of that
happening...especially as they have designed our society to try and keep us
ignorant and stupid (it seems) and to keep them in power (like all good
regimes!)...
Answering your last question first, Tibet will not show us the way. I am
not even sure what way they are showing us except what all minorities do
which is periodically protest against their majority oppressor, usually
with little effect as witness in modern times Hungary and Czechoslovakia.
Tibet has periodically protested since 1959 and not much good it has done
them. I cannot see Brown and Bush going to war to save them, can you?
Nope. Ditto.
One
thing that might save them is to tell the Chinese we will embargo all
their imports until they get out of Tibet. No way that will happen.
It wouldn't work anyway, they sell far too much everywhere else as well...
Th ultimate aim of China? To be powerful and never to be pushed around by
the West and Japanese again. From their perspective I do not blame them.
Hmm, I really am wondering what their aim is - as you have said it could be
a status / power thing, but once you've reached that peak, then what?
Enlarge territory? That's what they are doing with Tibet. Heck they even
call it Chinese now - which is such a travesty. I for one won't recognise it
as Chinese. It is and will always be, Tibet. A country of its own. But after
Tibet, glancing over the map, who's next and in what order? Nepal? Mongolia?
Kazakhstan? I just don't get what (or why) the point of such expansionism
does for the people in power other than a gaining a massive erection at all
the power they've accumulated. Can't they get another hobby they enjoy like
fishing or something? And why don't their women sort them out and tell them
to stop being silly? Perhaps the free and easy availability of sex
(prostitution) in China is to blame for their unstoppable egos. I'm sure
they wouldn't get so far if they didn't get any...
We cannot stop political evolution, empires come and go and always will.
The Western empire is falling quicker than most due to laziness,
complacency and corruption, not too dissimilar to the last years of the
Roman Empire.
And no doubt if and when it'll be the Chinese's time to fall, it'll be
corruption that does it. Power corrupts, etc...
You can blame western governments for accelerating our inevitable decline,
we had a capitalist system that worked but they did not understand why it
worked. When you have a totalitarian government such as China it can
artificially keep wages down, in the short term, and can therefore compete
unfairly with countries where a non-monopolistic competitive wage
environment exists. If we choose to buy all our goods from such countries
because they are "cheap" then sooner or later those countries will also
acquire the brains. We have a government now, and previous government
since the 60s were not any better, who think their purpose in life is to
worry about multi-culturalism, political correctness, introducing
"culture" to schools, and all the other peripheral hot-air subjects that
most people do not care less about. They are simply a distraction. What
they should be doing in my opinion is to concentrate on ensuring young
people get the best education that money can buy in science, engineering,
maths and financial mechanics and stuff the other subjects except perhaps
history. We should be pouring tens of billions into research and
development. It is no use our bleating on about how we need the best NHS
if we do not make any money to pay for it.
Shush man, this Labour'll use this as a new excuse to tax us even more -
it'll be dubbed by the Daily Mail as the "China tax".
The only way to keep our head above water in the turbulent times coming is
to know more, work more, and make more money than other countries. To do
that we need vision, leadership and competence and there is fat chance of
us getting any of that at the moment.
Hmm. This is the only time that we need to have a French mentality -
Revolution and Strike until something changes for the better!
.
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