CHINA VERSUS US
IS AMERICA JEALOUS OF CHINA?
By: George King
George King has lived in the United States of America
and China.
It is now very clear to
everyone in the world that USA has no intention to allow any country to surpass
her and she will use all tactics, evil or otherwise, to subjugate any one.
In the past, USA executed
soft power to expound her reasonableness, projects that she cared about, human
rights, freedom of the press; she wanted freedom and democracy for all and also
the right of underdeveloped and developing countries to progress. This facade,
held since WW II, was all brutally torn apart by Trump who had showed the
real and ugly face of USA by his attacks and economic sanctions on allies and
others.
Underneath this facade,
even when she purportedly helped Japan and Germany with the Marshal plan,
created the UN, World Bank, IMF, NATO, WTO etc, they were in fact instruments
and tools of US control, for USA governance and companies.
When it became untenable to
have gold as a standard to benchmark the value of her currency, she changed the
standard and benchmarked the dollar against a commodity such as oil (energy)
and thus made her currency “international”. An agreement was struck between
the USA and Saudi Arabia that all oil transactions be denominated in
dollars (the so-called petrodollars) and the dollar would then be re-circulated
in the USA through the purchase of weapons and other investment.
This way, the USA can keep
printing “paper” money without any kind of real asset such as “gold” to back up
her dollar. In effect, she can go into deficit, spend without care (as she is
in effect bankrolled by the world) but other countries cannot do so the
same. This was clearly shown in the Asian Financial Crisis in 1997 and in
Argentina.
Many countries tried to
break away from this system by "de-dollarization" or to achieve
advanced technology but all these countries were toppled by the CIA, direct
military intervention or crippled economically such as Chile, Iran, Iraq, Japan
etc.
When China rose
spectacularly, the USA was blindsided because her rise was too fast.
In a short 40 years, she
lifted more than half of her 1.4 billion people out of poverty without firing a
bullet. This is unprecedented in human history.
She also advanced in high
technology and was able to produce high speed trains, build huge infrastructures
such as roads, railway networks, bridges. Electric cars, power plants. She sent
men up to space and created internet giants like Alibaba, Tencent, Baidu
and Huawei. She is now the second biggest economy in the world,
encroaching to overtake USA as the biggest economy.
The USA is not jealous. She
is frightened and nervous that her hegemony over the world in terms of
politics, economic and governance will be toppled and therefore the USA is out
to derail and stop China in any way she can. If peaceful means cannot
stop China, I will not be surprised that the US will use military methods
such as instigating a war of some kind like between Taiwan and China or
dragging China into a North Korean War or a direct “limited” nuclear war.
Let's hope that better
heads prevail and the USA does not act out of desperation. The resources of the
world are bountiful enough to make all of us rich when properly utilized. There
is no such thing as a "limited" nuclear war. It take only 10 or
20 nuclear detonations to create a nuclear winter and this planet will be
doomed. Remember this is the only known planet that have “intelligent” life.
As I had lived in both
China and USA, I can say that the ordinary Chinese wants to dance, make money,
be with their family n have a stable life. In the same way as the ordinary
Americans want to watch football, baseball, basketball , drink beer and
watch TV.
However, the US ruling
elite is aggressive in historical terms. The question here is about “America”, not “Americans” being jealous.
To put this is in
perspective, below are some facts for you to ponder in which China is not a
victim but a nation moving from undeveloped country of 1970s to now. Also you
may want to read the US intelligentsia concept of "Project for the
New Century ”to know the mindset of the US neocon mentality that led to
the Iraq war.
Even without the USA
market, Huawei surpassed Apple in smart phone sales, earning $ US100 plus
billions last year. Even without the USA car market, China is now leading in
electric car manufacturing. In space, even without any help, China put the
rover on the far side of the moon and have their own space station.
Independently, China has created their own supercomputers and accelerated their
renewal energy industries.
Many US intellectuals
convinced themselves that China cannot innovate, based on the Harvard Business
School publication on March 2014, describing parallel control of CCP and the
university ’s or business ’administration stifling creativity. Similar to the
idiotic writing of Francis Fukuyama ’s“ End of History ”.
In fact, the USA cannot
compete and is technologically in decline although she is ahead now. She wants
to stop the rise of China by screaming that China is communist, authoritarian,
evil and corrupt and that the USA is promoting democracy, freedom and rule
of law.
So let ’s examine the USA
’s premise:
For any country ’s
development, the proof of the pudding is in the eating i.e. what are the
deliverables from China thus far?
a) Rule of law for who?
Look at what is happening: A US President who does not dare to show his taxes,
a Republican Party which discards the US constitution that they swore to uphold
by not answering congress; he openly lied to his people, withdrew from an
UN security council mandated agreement with Iran and then threatened and
stopped other countries who wanted to trade with Iran, withdrew from a Climate
Agreement that was signed by 120 nations and TPP (Trans Pacific Partnership)
signed by 12 nations and stopped the process of WTO by not appointing a
judge for arbitration.
The USA only adopted the
rule of law when it suited her interest and she will use economic sanctions on
others to obey her position on the rule of law they like.
b) Freedom for
whom? In the USA, real freedom is for the top 1 percent. The middle class and
students are sliding into debt that they cannot pay in their lifetime. Even
women n doctors there are slowly being criminalized and deprived of
freedom of choice over their own bodily health.
When other countries (like
Germany) who do not want to follow her lawlessness and want to trade with
emerging markets like China or Russia (via Nord Stream II gas pipeline and
against the Huawei ban) or Iran, they are threatened with sanctions because USA
does not want these freedoms for these countries and companies. What
right does the USA have to apply their laws on other countries and companies?
If the USA wants to punish, then she should punish her own companies, not the
companies and subsidiaries of other countries.
c) Democracy for
whom? In Iran, the USA toppled a democratic government in 1953 under Moseddaq
using CIA and now she want to provoke a war in order topple the Islamic
government and make the Iranian people suffer.
The USA also illegally
withheld Venezuela ’s wealth, such as repatriation of profit from her oil
company and stopped Citibank which is holding her funds to pay for insulin for
her people. It was rumoured that the USA also used cyber hacking to attack her
electrical grid.
To punish a whole nation
just because you do n’t like an Islamic government or any government is
inhuman. If this is not an example of the evil of the USA, what is?
All people have a right to
choose their own government, rightly or wrongly. No one demanded USA to change
their regime when they toppled other governments using CIA. No one demanded the
USA people to topple their government when they use “gun boat” and
economic sanctions diplomacy in Venezuela and Iran in this 21st century.
Democracy is supposed to
lift many out of poverty, give the people a voice for peaceful existence and
not to be used as a pretext to fight “democracy and freedom” wars or create
conflicts for your own political and economic interests.
The USA is very good at
this type of “democracy and freedom wars”. Not all nations are Christian and
they don't follow the Christian ethos which by the way, historically, is an
ethos and culture that subjugated people using slavery, physical and
cultural genocide of native people, divide and conquer tactics, racism and colonization.
China, India and Iran have
their own thousands of years of ethos and culture and combined with other non
Christian countries consist of more than 70% of the world population.
They do not believe the
history or culture that the world's and human progress revolved around the
bible or her unbelievable stories derived from Greek and Egyptian mythology.
These stories caused havoc in Middle East and other l ands that had suffered
greatly for hundreds of years under these pretext of colonial wars to
“civilize” the natives.
At the present time, we
know and have proof that a meritocratic communist country like China can also
practice Capitalist type of economic system and able to distribute wealth much
better than a so-called democratic country like the USA.
For example, China lifted
700 to 800 millions people out of poverty (more than twice the population of
USA) in the last 40 years without firing a bullet to enslave or subjugate
another nation. This is the essence of Socialism which is to benefit the
maximum number of ordinary citizens instead of just the 1% rich. It is an
epic achievement of historical proportion esp when you know that in 1970s
China's GDP was dwarfed by the USA (China's $ USD1 billion vs the USA's
hundreds of billions).
Am I saying what China
achieved is the “be all and end all”.? Certainly not! China still has a long
way to go to give her 1.4 billion people a decent livelihood (compared to USA
of 300+ million people). But she is going to do it in accordance to the
historical lessons she inherited and mould the governance to suit herself.
Till today, China does not
have and universal healthcare system but neither does the USA! Can you imagine
that !! Being in the same situation as China !! But China is targeting to
rectify that and USA is trying to deny that to her citizens by getting
rid of Obamacare.
Why can't the USA lift up
her people out of poverty and homelessness and create great infrastructures
such as roads, railways, airports, high speed trains, safe bridges, renewal
energy etc with the wealth they had from 1970s till now? Where has all
that USA wealth gone to? Why is it that China can do this from such a low GDP
in 1970s till now and the USA can't? Where is the US creativity?
Why are the American people
so docile and brainwashed that they are unable to see this great gap of
deliverables by their government? Is anyone calling for a people ’s revolution
in USA?
All the above mentioned
infrastructures were done in China in the last 40 years and these are the proof
of deliverables of China ’s governance.
No amount of fear mongering
and disinformation on China can negate this kind of achievement. People are not
stupid. They can see for themselves by just visiting China and that's why China
wants to open up to showcase their achievement n let others judge their
governance and compare .
India is envisaged to be
next in line to lift her people up from poverty so long as her leadership is
united. Hopefully, she will follow the direction of China (without necessarily
following China's governance) and focus on the development of her people and
not just stock markets or leaders' personal glorification. Also not to
open her economy to such an extent for rabid and unruly Western exploitation
like that was done to the USSR. We are eagerly watching if she can deliver and
cheer her on with the hope that she is strong enough to resist Western /
USA dictates against her when she wants to trade with Russia and China.
In short, we know evil n
corruption when see it.
Evil is when the USA sanctions n strangles a whole
nation and companies just because she lost the competition for technology and
governance.
Corruption is when you buy influence to those that
benefit you only.
Authoritarianism is when you put a gun at someone ’s head to
ensure that your economic sanctions are obeyed and when you blatantly rip off
international agreements and want to change them to your benefit like the WTO
and force others to follow your rule of law.
No one respects that kind
of rule of law.
The USA and the West always
complain that China enforced technology transfer. This is not really correct.
Remember that when China
joined the WTO in 2000, she was classified as a developing nation even till
now. Under that category and playing by the rules of WTO, China can protect
certain industries so that these industries can grow in her country.
The US said that Huawei
telecom equipment has backdoors to spy for China but they could not show any
proof. They are said to have stolen intellectual properties. However, we know
for a fact that the USA spied on everyone including Germany's Angela Merkel
(revealed by Edward Snowden) using Cisco equipment, Facebook, Google and
Apple. Perhaps the USA wants to ban Huawei because they cannot spy through
Huawei's products. On intellectual properties, Apple sued Samsung, Samsung sued
Apple; it is normal in the tech world, so for Huawei to be embroiled in
these are not uncommon.
By accident or by luck,
China protected her internet based industries and disallowed Google and other
internet based companies to enter their spheres. If she had opened to Google,
China will not have Alibaba, Tencent, Baidu, Huawei etc and all the present
subsequent emerging industries esp
AI and 5G. Also, had she
opened up to Google, she would thus have invited in a “Trojan Horse”. Now, with
Google banning her from using their OS, the Chinese internet industries would
have been severely crippled.
This is a lesson for the
whole world. Open your economy and industries to the USA technologies and risk
having your nation being ransomed (by a present or future USA administration
who is mad for personal, racial and seemingly fascist type of power and has no
respect for international law) when you disagree with her policies or
governance like buying gas or products from Russia or China or any country
which USA wants to strangle like Iran and especially when the payment
transaction are not in US dollars.
The USA / Trump at present
is using the rule that if you lie loud, strong n long enough, you can get the
US and other media to amplify your concern then the whole world will believe
you.
Huawei n China showed their
performance through facts and they followed the rule of law set up by the West
to show their achievements. They did their hard work and spent money for the
past 30 to 40 years on research on technology and development.
China deserves to succeed!
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