"It may be time to concede that China’s leader-in-waiting, Xi Jinping, is not the moderate that many have assumed. Indeed, evidence from his past suggests that Xi is going to steer China in a more aggressive direction, both domestically and internationally. As his time in office nears, Xi is evincing signs of being a narrow nationalist on foreign policy and of having a penchant for police actions in dealing with domestic frictions. Hence, his rise could signify that the long struggle between Maoists and reformers that characterized China’s “reform era” is now ending. That era’s replacement could be something more like the struggle that characterized the early years of the People’s Republic, when social progressives who believed in Marxist theories of social emancipation struggled against anti-Japanese (and anti-American) nationalists who were more taken with Lenin’s theories of political control. Xi is clearly in the latter camp, siding with order and power over social progress, and he may lead China in a very unpleasant direction."
Maybe if we act real nice they will like us?
H/T- War News Updates
3 comments:
Maybe if we act real nice they will like us?
Like us for dinner! like a crispy duck. Very crispy....
What a stupid comment.
Looks like I was just too obscure.
Being nice to China will not produce good results as "nice" = "weak".
Very crispy - impies Cooked, as in "Goose is cooked", as in stuffed, busted, broken, defeated, burned.
Conclusion is that to play nice will end in defeat.
Suggest instead that we play, fair, tough, assertive w/o being aggresive, but we must assume a defendable political and economic position and actively defend it.
China is the biggest potential threa that we face in the 21st century and if it devolves into a rampant aggessive, nationalist, racist, expansionist empire (aka Imperial Japan) we could see a replay of the 20th century pacific theater.
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