Less than a week after World Economic Forum leader Klaus Schwab was brazen and immoral enough to declare China a “role model for many nations” despite its authoritarian rule and human rights abuses (in words that were similar to those of Canada’s Justin Trudeau, who once expressed his admiration for China’s “basic dictatorship”), China has now exploded in unexpected protests over imposed COVID lockdowns. According to the Express:
Protests against strict lockdown orders are growing in China, amid signs that the Chinese Communist Party is losing its grip over the Chinese people. Protesters demanded Xi Jinping step down in a country where any direct criticism of its leaders is rare and often results in harsh punishment.
The protests are already having an adverse effect upon the Chinese economy. According to Bloomberg, “optimism had re-emerged in Chinese markets after Beijing cut quarantine periods and dialed back testing, triggering a rally that’s added almost $370 billion to the MSCI China Index.” Now those gains are suddenly “unraveling due to the protests.”
Caution is setting in despite a growing chorus of bullish China calls on Wall Street that cite cheap valuations and friendlier policies. On Monday, the Hang Seng China Enterprises Index slumped more than 4%.
This rapid hit to China’s economy obviously does not bode well for the country’s larger ambition, as it will play an as yet undetermined role in its future plans and quest for global hegemony and prestige.
What is unfolding in China demonstrates the basic and intrinsic human need for freedom, as well as the lust to enslave humans that is prevalent among the darkest elements of society. The word “revolution” is already being used to describe what has just began in China, more precisely, a white paper revolution. Keep in mind that over in Iran, the people’s revolution is expanding as well.
It is too early to tell whether the sudden explosion of protest in China is a revolution or hiccup, but there are significant factors to consider:
What is different today from past revolutions in China and Iran is their relative positions in a world that has rapidly globalized and is now undergoing frenetic change amid the notable void left by a weak America under Joe Biden. China has been expanding its influence at breakneck speed, and Biden’s handlers are still hoping to enrich Iran by means of a lucrative new nuke deal. Aspirations for world domination and global economic hegemony are now added to old fixations about domestic control of citizens. The world is watching. Should China decide to execute its protesters in a Tiananmen Square-style massacre, there will be consequences for its economy. Given China’s rapid expansion into global markets and its encroachment upon significant political arenas worldwide, it is clear that optics are important to the Beijing regime. Whatever happens next, Klaus Schwab already has egg on his face for touting China as a “global model.”
Meanwhile, it is significant that Canada’s Justin Trudeau, who has boosted China for the past decade, is suddenly distancing himself from the country. Trudeau’s move is a perfect example of how loyalties can change in an instant in the global quest for power and control. On November 1, the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) was reported by Global News to be “increasingly concerned” about China’s interference in Canada. Then three days later, the Globe and Mail reported that a CSIS official told a House of Commons committee investigation into foreign interference in elections that “China is the ‘foremost aggressor’ when it comes to foreign interference in Western countries and ‘works within’ their political systems ‘to corrupt’ them.”
Then Trudeau endured a public dressing down by China’s Xi Jinping for an “inappropriate leak” to the papers. To demonstrate just how determined and calculated Trudeau’s plan was to lock in a Canada-China pact, it is important to go back a decade, to three years before Trudeau became prime minister of Canada. At that time, Trudeau joined the Liberal leadership race to succeed Michael Ignatieff and was shockingly open about his grand idea to invest in China. His grand plan and forecast were helped along by McKinsey & Company, a global consulting firm whose managing director, Dominic Barton, would go on to become Canada’s ambassador to China in 2019. Trudeau and Barton together “shaped the Liberal government’s global outlook and economic policies,” which heavily involved China. Throughout his powerful and influential career, Barton became well known for “serving kleptocrats and oligarchs from Moscow to Riyadh and from Beijing to Johannesburg.” Barton identified Chinese markets and money as the “keys to Canada’s prosperity.”
Now, with the protests unfolding in China, Justin Trudeau’s distancing himself from China will appear more convincing to his base of support, as he hides his past abhorrent deeds of boosting China and “stealing” Canada’s freedoms.
In authoritarian societies such as China (and Iran), there is a stark contrast between oppressed populations and the authoritarian regimes that oppress them. Given the right conditions, the people may revolt, despite risk to their own lives. The events now unfolding in China should serve as a lesson to the West as the West continues to undergo foundational shifts: cancel culture has already succeeded in repressing the freedom of expression, followed by COVID lockdown overreach and the punishment of those who refused to comply with the demands of our globalist overlords. Demonizing and dehumanizing opponents is now commonplace, along with ruthlessly promoting propaganda against them. These tactics are established historically among fascists; the tactics of the Third Reich bear that out. Notice today how strong proponents of freedom are deemed “conspiracy theorists,” “extremists,” and “racists,” while the Left continues to sow divisions that could destroy Western societies.
The critical need for Western citizens to hold their governments accountable is more urgent than ever, especially during the tenure of an American president who openly scorns the phrase “Make America Great Again.” In the current climate, the traditional foes of America are all competing for a bigger piece of the global pie, with traitors in Western nations subvert their own countries. The Chinese protests are already destabilizing China’s economy while Western friends of China such as Justin Trudeau is distancing himself from the regime. Other friends of the Communist regime such as Klaus Schwab may soon do the same, depending upon how China controls its population. If it cracks down too harshly, the consequences could be devastating to the People’s Republic, but if the Communists do not crack down hard enough, this could well mark the end of the era of Xi Jinping. Xi may also go AWOL, as Trudeau did when the Freedom Convoy arrived in Ottawa.
Conformity and obedience are so deeply ingrained in the Chinese mind, the Chinese soul, the Chinese personality, in Chinese culture, that I can’t imagine an American Revolution in China — EVER.
Of course. You are an Objectivist with the mind of a child.
Is my post being “moderated”?
How does that actually work?
Intrepid has been harassing THX for, literally years.
His attacks stand, but my awareness of this perpetual enmity are erased?
I doubt you volunteered for this task. But i fail to see how censoring me is a remedy.
Please leave this up. Intrepid has gone after me too. His behavior is an issue.
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I have no enmity towards Intrepid. After more than five years of his harassment and across several websites, he simply bores me. I don’t take his attacks personally, because as you have observed, he attacks and harrases any one who doesn’t agree with him. It’s a character defect of his.
He really does obsess with you.
Always there. Always an insult.
It will have to be a revolution of and for the Chinese people. Their culture is utterly different from ours and if they succeed in overthrowing the communists who have dogged them since the Second World War (look up Mao, who instead of fighting the Japanese as the hagiographies claim, was supported by the Japanese in his war against Chaing Kai-Shek), it will have to be consistent with their own way. Let them flourish in their search for freedom, and let a billion more free men join the human race when they finish!
“Everything excellent is as difficult as it is rare.” ― Baruch Spinoza
It took 2,500 years of slow and tortuous intellectual and civilizational development to reach the date of July 4, 1776. And it did not have to happen. America was born right in the nick of time. The Age of Enlightenment was running out of philosophical certainty and confidence. Just a few years later in 1781 Immanuel kant published his attack on reason opening the door to the unreason of Hegel. Eventually leading to Marxism and Nazism. To socialism, communism, fascism, and all forms of the tyranny of the unreason of collectivism.
In 1781 Kant’s Age of the Counter Renaissance and the Counter Enlightenment had begun, it’s the age we are living in.
The irrational elements of Western civilization, i.e. communism and fascism, were easily transplanted to China because Chinese civilization was ripe for them. The Chinese have been tribalist and collectivist for thousands of years.
Can the rational elements of Western civilization, i.e., individualism, freedom, liberty, and capitalism, be transplanted to the Chinese mind and culture even as those rational Western elements are collapsing in the West? That is highly unlikely. If America collapses so will the world.
America is the world’s first and last hope.
I hope these brave souls protesting in China aren’t banking on any support from the weak, idiot in the Oval Office.
He’ll show even more indifference than Jug-eared Barry did during the protest eruptions in Iran back in 2009. (B. Hussein made clear that he “doesn’t meddle”,)
The weak, fool is bought & owned by Xi. Ten % goes far these days.
(If Sleazy Joe voices an opinion, it’ll only be after Hunter staggers in with a memo from Beijing.)
I would ask why only a very small percentage of western populations protested against the lockdown hysteria?
The answer is fear, the Chinese are traditionally afraid to breath the air, to the extent that when they go to o there countries they still wear masks outdoors in case they catch a cold. (not that it ever stops them).
Fear is what controls populations, it’s why the media is full of fear mongering.
Logic and reasoning goes out the window of fear. Why, if the convid virus was so bad, did it. take governments months to stop flights from China and even then for only a week or two? Why aren’t the Chinese dictators stopping flights?
I don’t hold out much hope for the Chinese, they are too scared of catching a cold.
The Communist heads funded the creation of a specific strain of the coronavirus, in the city of Wuhan that plagued all the nations of the world.
Now that Red regime of China is taking out its of folly of manufacturing COVID -19 out on the Chinese people who had nothing to do that that making of that virus.
Since the subject of Communist China has been brought up, this is thus an appropriate time and likewise important to define the concept of Communism .Otherwise known as Marxism. There the pipe-dream of a pure Marxist society in the philosophical political economic fantasy that no one is ever really in need and everyone “Works according to his abilities and receives according to his needs”
In contrast, there is the reality of Communism which is that Marxism is a philosophy that no intelligent person can actually, truthfully accept is not only unrealistic and unnatural but a joke and a brutal excuse to set up and prop-up tyranny. For evil is always looking for an excuse. Marxism is just the excuse need to set up brutal regimes. Such as that tyrannical and oppressive state of Red China.
Likewise, that just quoted statement that “Evil is always looking for an excuse” also applies the Red China’s new massive COVID lockdowns which further increases its tyranny over the people.
The ancient Greek Philosopher, Plato, did have a good valid point when he had written, “The measure of a man is what he does with power.”
When applying that wise statement to Joe Biden, his “measure” is more than lacking, it’s outright terrible.
For Biden is the obedient “lap dog” of the Communist President of China, Xi Jinping. Likewise, Biden is also the faithful supporting servant the close ally of Red China. Which is that anti-America “mullah regime” of Iran. That hates the United States that it sets up billboards in Tehran that read “Death to America” and calls the US “The great Satan.”
Surely, the “measure” of Joe Biden is so very horrendously evil that he is an affront to the Office of the Presidency of the United States and a disgrace to the US Constitution as well as a calamity for America and a disaster for the American people.
Biden seeks revenue flows. Elected office is a tool, like a lock pick. Or a holdout device hidden inside the sleeve.
Not fame. Not glory. Not anything noble. Not anything but lucre.
Big lucre. like an interest in a Chinese hedge fund managing assets of 4-1/2 billion.
Let the chumps scramble for their debased coinage.
Joe’s swinging with the winners. And you aren’t.
It is axiomatic that shrouds have no pockets. How much will his millions or billions buy him in hell?
Under the Joe Biden regime is nation is gradually becoming a tyranny.. So much for “freedom of speech” Likewise with Biden and his Marxist comrades Americans may be guilty a “thought crime” meaning having a politically incorrect thought or idea.
It’s like the novel by George Orwell entitled “1984’ is now becoming a reality in America.
So, it’s no wonder the Joe Biden likes and admires the Communist President of China So much that not only does Biden have international policies favoring the Red tyranny by Biden must also find the China’s
actions of having political prisoners as a model for him to emulate.
Joe Biden has such a strong admiration for Red China that he even has his Beijing type political prison in Washington DC which must obviously be modeled on how Communist China mistreats and abuses its own political prisoners who were falsely arrested on January 6, 2021 at Washington D.C
For in the Biden gulag the American patriots falsely arrested in that leftist set up gets worse, those the patriots are kept 23 hours alone in single dark moldy cells to not working plumbing, and this means not even a working toilet. They are also given little food and the little they do receive is of very poor quality. In other words, the food is terrible, they are also denied proper medical care, no matter how much anyone on them might desperately need it
This is like the political prison in Communist China. So, it’s no wonder that Joe Biden likes Red China and have many of his polices favoring that Red tyranny.
Lets see them burn a few Communists flags or a effegee om f Mao
Xi will crack down hard on these in the next few days or weeks. He will not let this continue and the western world will tuck their tails and stay silent.
I own not a singleton Apple™ product.
And I never will.
“The critical need for Western citizens to hold their governments accountable is more urgent than ever …”
That’s pretty hard to do when the citizens can no longer vote those who govern tham out of office because elections are rigged.
They’ll be sending in the Tanks like t hey did in Tenimin Square