Mr. Lawrence, will you please help referee a battle I'm fighting with myself as I attempt to sort through what I've learned about China to conclude whether it's a legitimate Cold War 2 opponent as corporate media insists or, within a decade, it'll be too aged to compete?
If Xi avoids Party revolt to become President For Life and the trajectory set by Xi Jingping Thought continues (China's path remains consistent), will continued rolling blackouts due to energy shortages coupled with continuing lockdowns required by a Zero-Covid strategy super-charged by a potentially leakier vaccine than ours combined with demographic challenges and debt-burden driven economic uncertainties expedite China's withdrawal from global markets and the world stage?
Iran, Russia, and China will stick together in the face of a common enemy. Throw in Afghanistan and central Asian countries along with Myanmar. India and Pakistan will try to maintain their neutrality, I imagine, and will not want to join in sanctions. Germany will also be hurt by sanctions against Russia, and so will be conflicted at best. Meanwhile the Russians and Chinese can provide military support to countries in the western hemisphere that want to resist US hegemony. The far eastern littoral and S Korea will stay allied to the US, but do not want sanctions and will be tempted by the strength of Chinese manufacturing and consumers, and the prospect of natural gas from Russia.
English as the lingua franca for international relations will slow the process. I'll be interested to see if computer assisted language translation erodes that factor significantly.
Fascinating, I have been plugged into western propaganda my whole life and to get a perspective beyond the official narrative is fascinating. How does main stream media justify themselves? They are sycophants too power, yet they are also pretentious, self congratulatory and fancy themselves essential to democracy? Do they know? Are they aware?
Yes. They know exactly who they are and what they do... the publishers and editors and senior journalists. In the worst cases they activity propagandize for the government and national security bureaucracy. In the very worst they work directly for the CIA. They use the same rationale that is always used... they do it to protect national security. And for profit, career enhancement, power, influence, etc. It takes the kind of courage and integrity that too few have to refuse to play such a game.
You are the best source of information yet. Foreign Policy Magazine does not say Germany and France are against going to war over Ukraine.
I'll stand by my comments on CN. Has anybody noticed that the US called a diplomatic boycott and essentially no one came?
Mr. Lawrence, will you please help referee a battle I'm fighting with myself as I attempt to sort through what I've learned about China to conclude whether it's a legitimate Cold War 2 opponent as corporate media insists or, within a decade, it'll be too aged to compete?
If Xi avoids Party revolt to become President For Life and the trajectory set by Xi Jingping Thought continues (China's path remains consistent), will continued rolling blackouts due to energy shortages coupled with continuing lockdowns required by a Zero-Covid strategy super-charged by a potentially leakier vaccine than ours combined with demographic challenges and debt-burden driven economic uncertainties expedite China's withdrawal from global markets and the world stage?
Iran, Russia, and China will stick together in the face of a common enemy. Throw in Afghanistan and central Asian countries along with Myanmar. India and Pakistan will try to maintain their neutrality, I imagine, and will not want to join in sanctions. Germany will also be hurt by sanctions against Russia, and so will be conflicted at best. Meanwhile the Russians and Chinese can provide military support to countries in the western hemisphere that want to resist US hegemony. The far eastern littoral and S Korea will stay allied to the US, but do not want sanctions and will be tempted by the strength of Chinese manufacturing and consumers, and the prospect of natural gas from Russia.
English as the lingua franca for international relations will slow the process. I'll be interested to see if computer assisted language translation erodes that factor significantly.
Fascinating, I have been plugged into western propaganda my whole life and to get a perspective beyond the official narrative is fascinating. How does main stream media justify themselves? They are sycophants too power, yet they are also pretentious, self congratulatory and fancy themselves essential to democracy? Do they know? Are they aware?
Yes. They know exactly who they are and what they do... the publishers and editors and senior journalists. In the worst cases they activity propagandize for the government and national security bureaucracy. In the very worst they work directly for the CIA. They use the same rationale that is always used... they do it to protect national security. And for profit, career enhancement, power, influence, etc. It takes the kind of courage and integrity that too few have to refuse to play such a game.