Comments on: Why are there no biographies of Xi Jinping?

By: Jim

Jim — Sun, 11 Apr 2021 02:59:42 +0000

America and China are run, ultimately, by the same people. America puts up some resistance because there is a relatively powerful and anomalously competent dissenting contingent in certain top-secret corners. Nevertheless, they have few and weak direct levers over the greater part of the till of the civilization. China is being boosted as the Soviet Union was boosted, with the intent to dissolve America as the Soviet Union was dissolved: cascading bankruptcy. Then China will be gradually let down as the post-humanist AI/mRNA technologies erupt into the world-society.

By: VXXC

VXXC — Sun, 04 Apr 2021 02:26:12 +0000

“The only difference is that the Chinese version of fascism currently works to improve the lives of the majority of Chinese citizens.”

That’s because the Chinese government doesn’t hate the Han. The American government does hate the Americans, wants to ‘erase’ them in fact.

By: Gavin Longmuir

Gavin Longmuir — Sat, 03 Apr 2021 21:20:20 +0000

VXXC: “Doesn’t want democracy; at present and in the end neither did we Americans, so….”

Good point. As far as anyone can tell, up & comers in the Chinese Communist Party are chosen by a tiny subset of the Chinese people in the Party. They don’t chose tomorrow’s high-flyers by cage matches or any other such system. We could call what the CCP does as “democracy with an extremely restricted suffrage”.

Compare & contrast that with “democracy” in the US, where the soon-to-be president is a woman who could not even win a primary election among the very small group of active Democrat Party members. She was chosen in some smoke-filled room in a process which was entirely non-transparent. That she was then “elected” by fraud is merely icing on the cake.

Democracy in the West, as in China, does not mean what the dictionary says. Instead, we both have fascism. The only difference is that the Chinese version of fascism currently works to improve the lives of the majority of Chinese citizens. That is very painful to admit, but we have to start with reality.

By: VXXC

VXXC — Sat, 03 Apr 2021 17:24:50 +0000

Xi is a politician who understands politics is power, not money or prosperity, and will brook no challenge to the state or anyone bigger than the Party, or Xi — as Jack Ma discovered.

CCP aristocrat: makes sense. Loves order, hates Chaos. He’s seen chaos; of course he dislikes chaos. Loves order; this makes him Chinese fer shure.

Doesn’t want democracy; at present and in the end neither did we Americans, so…? What’s your point here?

By: Gavin Longmuir

Gavin Longmuir — Sat, 03 Apr 2021 15:26:46 +0000

We should be careful about putting too much weight on the “great man” school of history. President Xi is setting a particular direction, but he has lots of loyal followers in China’s bureaucracy faithfully putting his plans into action. Contrast that with President Trump, whose plans were thwarted at nearly every turn by a disloyal Deep State bureaucracy. Leaders need folllowers!

There is also the issue of whether President Xi just happens to be the lucky inheritor of past successes — successes which his own plans may end up undermining. A very interesting perspective on this can be seen in a recent article by Naughton:

https://dusselpeters.com/CECHIMEX/Naughton2021_Industrial_Policy_in_China_CECHIMEX.pdf

“Between 1978 and about 2005, China’s government steadily retreated from its initially all-encompassing control of the economy, growth accelerated, and comprehensive upgrading took place.

New policies began to be initiated in 2006, starting slow and then accelerating. From 2009 through 2020, the government has strongly re-engaged in direct economic intervention, all while the economy has been steadily slowing …”

By: Bob Sykes

Bob Sykes — Sat, 03 Apr 2021 12:32:26 +0000

Wokeness, SJW, cancellations, speech suppression, lockdowns…If there is any convergence going on, the West is converging on China’s communist dictatorship.