Xu said, “in the nuclear game, there are no quick wins. You need to have strategic stamina, focusing on doing just one thing for 20, 30 years.”
I love the term"strategic stamina." Applicable to so many fields with great potential for good things happening. If only the West could set some worthy priorities with the stamina to pursue them. China's achievements should be an inspiration to the rest of the world.
this is why long term thinking and persistence is so important in tackling big issues. One of the most important advantages of the Chinese one-party system is the stability and continuity of policy framework to pursue critical large projects like these. There are things that cannot be left to private enterprise to undertake for reasons around cost, risk and planning horizons. Whole of nation efforts can happen much more easily in a stable political system not suject to election cycles and whims of individual politicians.
I believe China is on to something with their one-party system. However, I think it is more than simply one-party providing consistency and stability: it is also the political structure within which that party operates. For example, Hua Bin's explanation of how foreign service officers are trained and selected. This seems to apply across the board in China - not only government but media, academia, the sciences, technology, etc. - all highly competitive, merit-based and devoted to long-term vision and planning.
China has gone through great cataclysmic changes over the years to reach this level of human governance. Such change and the resulting stability is not easily attained nor quickly without great sacrifice. I do not believe the West has the potential any longer to arrive at this end on their own, as not only has the system been thoroughly corrupted but it has resulted in a population that has lost the ability think long-term, plan and gain the strength and patience to endure.
This is why I believe China has the responsibility to take the lead in guiding the world towards the structure necessary to provide the foundation for a stable and prosperous future for mankind.
I agree. Of course, there are many things to be improved in China but the country is a work in progress and moving in the right direction. The west feels static at this point (end of history?) and is regressing, in many ways. Alan Bloom, the American sociologist, wrote the "Closing of the American Mind" back in the 80s and the malaise started back then already. Things simply got worse in the last 4 decades - same for Europe. In the pursuit of political correctness and cultural wars, the west has lost touch with the reality and pursuit of truth. Decadence has set in. Absent a true revolution, the trajectory is not good.
The USA is cursed by two populations who are both strong arguments against universal suffrage:
1. The fundamentalist 'Christians', most of them megamoneychurch Antichristians, Jewannabees, who ignore the Gospels and perform Jesus voodoo while praying to the Jewish demon for money and power;
2. The 'Democratic®' Party base of criminal and welfare Blacks, mentally-ill sexually-depraved 'elites', and the Jews who own and operate them.
Each is probably about a third of the American electorate: two-thirds of the electorate should be barred from all participation in public life. In China, they probably would be.
This is an excellent point. While, as a Western Caucasian, with our greater weighting of individualist freedom over conformist cohesion than is typically Asian, I do not like the notion of a one-party surveillance state, we in the West are de facto uniparty Israeli-surveillance states, and the Chinese one-party system does seem to have obvious efficiencies and advantages over our uniparty globalist-capitalist de fact corporate governments.
Singapore is I gather rather totalitarian, but I'd be happy to live there and avoid criticising their government in exchange for no crime or criminal immigrants, cleanliness, order and so forth.
If I was a Chinese citizen living in China, I would probably feel obligated to criticise corruption and so forth, and get into trouble.
there is nothing to value individual freedom over collective cohesion - that's a cultural choice and the world will be a boring place if there is no diversity. The whole point about sovereignty is for the choice to be made by the people based on their history and culture. That's why the universalist "values" preached by western politicians are so offputting for the world majority. Any universalist preachings is nothing but racial superiority under a cloak - as Rudyard Kipling's "whitemen's burden".
Singapore and China have very similar governance structures - I live in both countries and now in Singapore - both are basically meritocracy-based systems that inherit the 2000-year Chinese confusian philosophy. Both are top down societies but I wouldn't call either totalitarian, since the term has a specific definition which doesn't fit the reality. I would call the forms of governance here "authoritarian" since it is in fact different from the bottom-up "democratic" structure from Socrates and Plato's Greece. the current western governance system has only the appearance but not the substance of the ancient Greek philosophy. western governments today are judeo-nized capitalist corporate oligarchy.
as for criticism about corruption in China, it's a common perception that it's not allowed. In reality, it is actually not something that will get you in trouble. Xi has realized corruption is the biggest risk in China's governance model since he took over the rein. His clampdown on corruption has lasted to this day and quite ruthless. Over 800,000 officials were investigated and hundreds of thousands removed or jailed just last year.
The red line in Chinese politics is not criticizing individual officials. The red line is to criticize or propose to overthrow the system. In the final analysis, the west is not really different - you can criticize the political parties but you cannot overthrow the system. The difference in China is that the party is the system as a one-party state.
there are of course many downsides to one party rule but also many upsides from efficiency to accountability (cannot blame the other parties when things go wrong). most importantly, the one party rule is a continuation of 2000-year political culture where the will of the emperor and the court is the law of the land. It's not to say it is the best but to say it is the historical tradition. You'll find similar traditions in most east Asian countries.
Concur. I am very familiar with the I Ching, and thus the Confucian ethos, which seems to broadly reflect an East Asian ethos. Western, Caucasian societies have a somewhat different ethos, reaching back deep into history and probably evolutionary pre-history. My sense is that neither is superior, and that if our peoples cooperate in the peaceful harmonious Chinese fashion, our different strengths can complement and we can achieve more together than apart. The present sad state of the Judaized West makes this difficult, but if catastrophic war can be avoided while the West sorts iself out, future generations may do this.
When I say 'totalitarian', I am not attempting to use a precise definition, but rather referring to authoritarian government with modern surveillance, censorship and enforcement tools. The West is currently seeing a clearly-coordinated drive to radically enhance all three, using Israeli tools and companies to prohibit conduct, speech and if possible thought which expose the Jewish capitalist corporate oligarchs and their genocides and such. While China is explicitly one-party, authoritarian and with the most advanced and pervasive surveillance etc, the West is rapidly converging.
I regret I can't visit China. Perhaps if I have a next life, I will merit having it there or nearby.
no human system is perfect. what's good for one time may not be good for another so evolution will always be with us. the "end of history" espoused by jewish-inspired neoliberal propagandists is a hoax. Confusius' core teaching is harmony and co-existence, something very relevant for today's world. If the west discards the judeo influence and rediscovers its true philosophical roots as embodied by Socrates and Plato, the world will be a better place.
One of the earliest and most critical machinations of Judaization was in encapsulating itself within Christianity, a sugar-coated poison pill sold initially Roman slaves but spreading thruout the West as an addictive poison, with Judaism and the Old Testament AKA Torah, with our true Greco-Roman heritage replaced with the fake history of the Jews, an alien inimical people with an alien inimical culture.
The ‘Chosen People’ of Christianity wasn’t Christians; it was Jews. Christianity was hijacked, back-doored, infiltrated and infected from its inception.
While there is great value in the Confucian ethos, there does appear to be a weakness: it can result in a perfectly-ordered, but lifelessly static, society, as imaged in After Completion:
“This hexagram represents the next stage of T'ai Peace (11). The shift from confusion to order is complete, with everything in its proper place, even the small details. This is a very positive situation, but we must still be thoughtful. When perfect balance is achieved, any movement can disrupt that order. The one strong line that has moved to the top, creating complete order, is followed by the other lines, each moving according to its own nature. This sudden change brings us to the hexagram P'i, Standstill (12).
I am also greatly fond of another Chinese worldview, Taoism, which as you know is quite different from Confuciusanism.
The Western anarchical individualism and freedom lends itself to a more dynamic culture, which has different risks. As Limitation says, He who has no limits will have cause to lament, and explains that life without limitation dissolves in the boundless, as we can see for example in transhumanist transsexuals.
Perhaps the Tao hints at how a culture can ‘know the sons, but not lose touch with the mother’, somehow integrate the flexibity and dynamism of the Western way with the ordered, peaceful harmonious way of the East. Perhaps, if humanity truly reaches space, this will happen. Indeed, the constraints of early space life will require Chinese-style order, and yet will also require Western-style flexibility and initiative. Perhaps China is already moving in that direction: it is clearly a very dynamic society achieving great things in science, medicine and engineering.
Link Not Found, but I see I need to do some reading of your posts.
You are clearly not a Chinese dissident; should I assume you are speaking in any official or semi-official capacity? Being even an offical does not affect the validity of your thoughts; it is just an item of interest.
for some reason, the link seems compromised. The article is in my Substack and written late last year. If interested, you can search it up in my column. My main argument was corruption exists both in China and the US, just in different forms and how the two systems deal with corruption differently - in China, it's illegal and prosecuted but in the US, it's legalized through legislations like Citizen United.
I am neither a dissident nor affiliated with the government. What I write is purely from a personal capacity. I want to base opinions on facts rather than ideology. Of course, I have a built-in Chinese perspective but it seems such a perspective is lacking in English language media - hence my motivation to raise a small voice.
When I was younger, I bought in western liberal propaganda and was more critical about the Chinese governance system. But as I grow older, I have learned much more about the real history of the west, especially the US (almost diagonally opposite to the official narrative) and have seen how the Chinese system reforms and gains momentum. That led to a paradigm shift in my views. The hope is when we get older, at least we get wiser:)
One of the things I admire about China is capital punishment for capital fraud. "Kill the ring-leaders, pardon the followers". A murderer kills at most a few people; a 'White Collar' criminal can cause the death, sickness or poverty of millions. In the USA such criminals become politicians or just buy them; in China, some of them get shot, their families disgraced: probably an effective deterrent.
In Japan, they save the State the trouble and kill themselves: this is perhaps the ideal solution.
This is a very interesting point as lack of continuity of government in the West is a big issue as political parties are so adversarial, reactionary and in constant competition to be the alpha dog blocking real progress. Western cultures are blocked as long as our governments are dominated by the greedy vested interests they serve.
I am very interested in Chinese international diplomacy as diplomats appear very experienced and skilled. How do they come to be in their positions? How are they chosen? How much of their skill set is cultural.
As a Westerner it is a constant embarrassment where we reject real diplomacy and it is left to ignorant hack politicians totally unqualified to be in these positions.
I take it Confucian principles influence international relations?
I would greatly appreciate your thoughts on these issues.
this is a great question. The west has been smearing Chinese diplomats as wolf warriors but if they listen to what they say and how they say it, it's the complete opposite of such characterization. In most cases, I find them to be too subtle for my taste (which is quite direct, I confess).
Across China, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs runs a dozen or so universities that specialize in diplomacy, foreign languages, development economics, etc. Then top graduates are selected into the diplomatic corp, usually starting from hardship posts in farflung countries in south Pacific or sub-Sahara Africa. Diplomats are required to speak the language of the country they are posted to. For example in Croatia, most diplomats are expected to speak Croatian (something locals wonder since most diplomats from other countries don't speak local tongue).
The promotion process is long and arduous, often taking decades. There is no such thing as patronage appointments like the US. Diplomatic posts are rewarded primarily on performance and track record.
Wang Yi, the Foreign Minister, was a graduate of my own alma mater - the Beijing Foreign Studies Institute. He studies Japanese and was posted to Japan, eventually reaching ambassadorship there. Then he was appointed to manage cross strait affairs with Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macaus before being appointed Foreign Minister. He has been a professional diplomat for 45 years. This is very similar to Sergei Lavrov, who is a consumate prof as well. The Chinese and Russians take politics and diplomacy seriously.
Reminds me of the Manhattan project, during WW2, American scientist worked in the deserts of New Mexico to develop the first atomic bomb. Here Chinese physicists work in the Gobi desert to develop the world’s first thorium reactor!
Thank you so much for sharing this good news and bringing a ray of hope at such a dark time when we see nothing but misfortune everywhere.
Let's hope the waste is really inert, because due to the misuse of uranium waste our planet and the atmospheric layer that surrounds it have already been highly contaminated since the first U.S. nuclear test followed by their use as weapons of immense destruction in Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
one key advantage of thorium reactor is it cannot be weaponized so there is much less control and regulation to worry about, potentially spreading the benefits to a much broader slice of global population.
I've been waiting for this for a long time, ever since I first started studying nuclear power some 20 years ago. The implication here are nothing short of staggering.
What you're seeing here is the power source for a high-speed rail network covering all of Central Asia - a major component of the New Silk Road (It's actually called Belt and Road, but I think New Silk Road sounds more romantic). Also the power source for the new industrial centers that will be built along the way, as well as power for remote areas where transmission lines aren't practical.
That's just the beginning though. Inherently safe modular reactors will be game changers. In the same way cell phones eliminated copper line technology, these reactors will obsolesce the electric transmission grid. Instead of huge inherently dangerous reactors with long transmission lines, you'll have small local reactors with much smaller transmission loops. This means large scale blackouts will be a thing of the past, plus it frees up space in dense urban areas because you no longer need the right-of-ways for transmission lines. This will probably mark the end of electricity exports as well, since it will be cheaper to just install more capacity locally on an as needed basis.
China has huge coal reserves which they burn to make electricity, but coal is also a source of thorium. Obviously I haven't run a cost analysis, but I would guess existing coal mines will provide enough thorium to meet their requirements, so no need to open any new mines. Also, since you're no longer burning coal you can make motor fuel from it using the Fischer-Tropsch process powered by an on-site thorium reactor.
This is definitely something to watch. We're still years away of course, but as they say, time flies when you're having fun!
I think there is a grand strategy very much like what you are describing. China is fully behind electrification and wants to bring it across the Euroasia continent. In fact, China has developed the most extensive ultra high voltage transmission system that transport electricity from western China to the eastern coast. It could be done in an even bigger scale. Also as you hypothesize, a more distributed footprint closer to end user could be done as well. Thorium reactors are inherently safer than uranium so hopefully the safety threshold can be lowered for all.
Does nuclear fusion create radioactive waste like depleted uranium? If a country has vast empty spaces like Russia it has a better chance of "hiding" away the devastating effects of depleted uranium. Thorium has much promise and if my memory is correct Russia was involved in research in the same line and there were some translated Russian blogs saying that they had achieved some success with the technology. As a common man and entrepreneur i am waiting for a different thing - the CIA-free HarmonyOS Next, its ecosystem of productivity apps and Huawei globalising that RDBMS which it created ground up to replace US made databases. If China can do the full stack from chips to hardware to software in the next 5-7 years and outdo the western rentier products - the effect on humanity will be more dramatic than anything else. It will actually usher a new age as opposed to the Alice Bailey-Blavatsky new age that is almost upon and around us.
both the Russians and Americans pursued thorium reactors in the 70s and 80s but gave up as the science was indeed too hard. Tech has progressed today to the point Chinese scientists can build upon what their precessesors in other countries have done and take it to the next level. China is developing the full tech stack as we speak. I suspect it will reach parity sooner than 5 to 7 years. In many areas, China is taking new innovative approaches to leapfrog existing tech - e.g. RISC-V chips, photonic chips, etc. Tech breakthrough is a function of investment and talent. China is committed and has abundance of both. In addition, it has a stable political and policy environment to enable long term planning and execution. I am quite confident we'll see an explosion of innovations in the coming decade.
Fusion is not fission. It produces a lot less radioactive by-products. Although there is a substantial number of folks in the west that don't believe in the existence of either, or that the earth is flat, who think these are all CIA/mossad psyop which is kind of ironic as they're the very same normative sheeps who have succumbed to their propaganda inadvertently. Cognitively infiltrated, so to speak.
it's actually funny how many anti-science people there are in the US despite being a leading tech powerhouse. Speaks volumes about the basic education system there. Also the cognitive infiltration - I call it a dumbing down of the population for better social control by the elite. Sheeple who don't know they are sheeple or what the word even means:)
The horrible Anglo education system can be understood by working with them - they deeply lack true technical skills and the production castes perennially run from sensation to sensation and spectacle to spectacle - these people are so non-serious that along with the lack of skills the fun oriented work ethic means you can get nothing done. So employers in Anglo countries routinely use visa vulnerable indentured labor all over the place. In fact if you see the syllabus of German technical schools and the actual real world nature of the courses in German technical universities - especially the public universities - they still offer actual skills that matter and are truly world class (private schools in Germany are again diploma mills to fool gullible foreigners). As a media entrepreneur i have employed youngsters from top media schools in UK like Bournemouth and found to my utter dismay that these kids have no critical thinking skills or even basic sentence construction to work in the media. This is why I believe what you said of "diplomas are a courteous bestowing not indicators of accomplishment" as true for the entire Anglo world.
one key obstacle in any serious reindustralization of the US is the lack of skilled labor from a dysfunctional education system. coffee baristas and burger flippers don't automatically make ship mechanic or battery engineers. the education deficits are generational. China, also Russia, graduate order of magnitude STEM students from their education systems. the west seems no longer serious about producing technical talents. if they also don't graduate good liberal arts students who can write and reason better than chatgpt, then it's hard to envision their future.
thanks for sending the link. I have been reading Nicola Tesla's biographies and one thing that struck me is how far capitalists (like J P Morgan) went to stop innovations that could hurt their commercial interests but benefit the human race as a whole.
We see this again and again - oil companies supressing development of free and clean energy (including by discrediting cold fusion), big pharma supressing cancer cures, etc. etc. I think it is a great thing many researchers and scientists in China can puruse truly ground breaking innovations in state institutions like China Academy of Sciences that can benefit all. My hope is more scientists globally can operate in non profit driven environment in pursuit of researches beneficial to the planet, not just a select few.
I'm trying to get a clear picture of China. Depending on who one reads, it's a totalitarian hellscape with a fake bubble economy based on cooked books (as the USA is), or the country the USA could have been if we hadn't been usurped by Israelites and morally and fiscally bankrupted in service to Eretz Israel.
China is unquestionably building, doing, making, which really ended some decades ago in the USA. Other than SpaceX, it's hard to find a noteworthy accomplishment here.
the easiest thing to find out more about China is a trip to see it for yourself:) lots of countries can travel to China visa-free so it's quite easy, even with a short transit trip.
I always find it meaningless to debate the labeling of China by western media - they are very believable in reports about real or imgined adversaries and about their own altruistic and righteous intentions - if you were born yesterday:)
at the end of the day, what's the point of empty talks when you can use the time to get things done. China is focused on building and doing. Western jewish-inspired propaganda has toxicated the minds of the populace and completely distracted them from what's real and important. similarly jewish economic theories like those espoused by milton friedman have corrupted the economic vitality and social equity of the west. the western mind today is hijacked by a fringe group that doesn't have good designs for them.
I would much like to travel to China, but I'm too old, poor and medicalized.
I of course assume that what I read about China is mostly pro- or anti-China propaganda. The days of actual unbiased journalism are long past.
One of China's best ambassadors is probably Liu Cixin, appropriately honored by the naming of the Three Body station. Reading his work, I felt like I got some slight sense of what China is these days. Of course it's such a big country with such a vast history, the Han being so many and so cohesive that they are really more of a race than a mere ethnicity, that China can be both a corrupt state-commu-capitalist totalitarianism and the country which is the real maker, mover and shaker in the world: Rome's greatest buildout happened when it was a corrupt Empire, after the fall of the Republic. So China's way of government is an internal affair and is by no means the whole China story.
What brought down Rome, and along with concomitant Judaization has brought down the West, is excessive concentration of wealth and the destruction of the middle and small-farmer classes. I sincerely hope China can reverse/avoid this: I hope to see humanity really become spacefarers, and see only China as likely to accomplish this. The USA could have, but expended itself fighting for Eretz Israel instead.
Being a Caucasian, I would like to see my people in space: perhaps China will take some of us with them.
But better just Han in space than nobody in space.
indeed the Three Body sci-fi transcends culture and borders. Literature and art at its best has universal appeals. Same with space explorations and other scientific endeavors to improve life on the planet from medicine to climate. There are more to unite us than to separate us. But there are also interests that want to make sure the world is divided as they profit from such divisions. This is one of the most vicious aspects of judaism - as both the self-labeled "chosen" and the numerical minority, the jews have conspired to divide and conquer the rest of the world for 2 millinium as a way to survive and dominate. whether the protocals of the elders of zion is real or a forgery, the divide-and-rule domination plan is the same. Unfortunately, the jews have won in the west. They did a lot of damage to China in the 19th and 20th centuries, including playing an outsized role in the opium import into China (the Sasoons for example), but they are rooted out for good.
on a separate note, there are thousands of YouTube videos from foreign travelers in China. Many are first time visitors and they are completely overwhelmed how reality differs from the propaganda at home. You can check out a few and look through the lens of those.
I have long said that the natural immunity of Asians to the Ashkenazi 'Fellow White People' shtick gives Asia an inherent competitive advantage over the West. The Jews would have to breed up a bunch of JewAsians for 'Fellow Asian People' to work.
The West lies supine under them, raped at their will and pleasure, as is their way. This will have to play out.
I believe their inbuilt goal may be the nuclear destruction of humanity rather than mere domination: they are trying hard to provoke Russia into a nuclear war, and may set their sights on China also. Hopefully Russia and China can resist, contain, outlast them: the future of humanity depends on this.
I have no doubt the ashkenazi jews, who are imposters and not the bibilical jews who have any claim to the holy land, have no good design for the world. But I also feel they don't want to die - they love money too much and have no god in their heart of hearts. you probably know, there is no concept of heaven in the talmud and there is no hell either which explains why they do what they do. their love is not for god, but for gold. they need this world to enjoy their stolen pot of gold.
But consider the possibility that their Yahweh demon, which is plainly what is known by Christians as Satan and by Moslems as al Shaitan, and known by both as the Enemy of humanity, is real. Or that aliens wanted humanity ethnically-cleansed if it reached spacefaring stage, so engineered Jews as a kill-switch, designed to create nuclear weapons and see they are used if humanity reached that stage. There are probably other schemas which would explain Jews seemingly motivated only by rapacious lust greed and malice, but collectively conspiring, wittingly or not, in mankind's demise, not mankind's rape, looting and subjugation.
wherever there is blood money to be found, you'll find the jews. the Chinese call the jews the "gold lover" since there was first contact a thousand years ago.
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Xu said, “in the nuclear game, there are no quick wins. You need to have strategic stamina, focusing on doing just one thing for 20, 30 years.”
I love the term"strategic stamina." Applicable to so many fields with great potential for good things happening. If only the West could set some worthy priorities with the stamina to pursue them. China's achievements should be an inspiration to the rest of the world.
this is why long term thinking and persistence is so important in tackling big issues. One of the most important advantages of the Chinese one-party system is the stability and continuity of policy framework to pursue critical large projects like these. There are things that cannot be left to private enterprise to undertake for reasons around cost, risk and planning horizons. Whole of nation efforts can happen much more easily in a stable political system not suject to election cycles and whims of individual politicians.
I believe China is on to something with their one-party system. However, I think it is more than simply one-party providing consistency and stability: it is also the political structure within which that party operates. For example, Hua Bin's explanation of how foreign service officers are trained and selected. This seems to apply across the board in China - not only government but media, academia, the sciences, technology, etc. - all highly competitive, merit-based and devoted to long-term vision and planning.
China has gone through great cataclysmic changes over the years to reach this level of human governance. Such change and the resulting stability is not easily attained nor quickly without great sacrifice. I do not believe the West has the potential any longer to arrive at this end on their own, as not only has the system been thoroughly corrupted but it has resulted in a population that has lost the ability think long-term, plan and gain the strength and patience to endure.
This is why I believe China has the responsibility to take the lead in guiding the world towards the structure necessary to provide the foundation for a stable and prosperous future for mankind.
I agree. Of course, there are many things to be improved in China but the country is a work in progress and moving in the right direction. The west feels static at this point (end of history?) and is regressing, in many ways. Alan Bloom, the American sociologist, wrote the "Closing of the American Mind" back in the 80s and the malaise started back then already. Things simply got worse in the last 4 decades - same for Europe. In the pursuit of political correctness and cultural wars, the west has lost touch with the reality and pursuit of truth. Decadence has set in. Absent a true revolution, the trajectory is not good.
The USA is cursed by two populations who are both strong arguments against universal suffrage:
1. The fundamentalist 'Christians', most of them megamoneychurch Antichristians, Jewannabees, who ignore the Gospels and perform Jesus voodoo while praying to the Jewish demon for money and power;
2. The 'Democratic®' Party base of criminal and welfare Blacks, mentally-ill sexually-depraved 'elites', and the Jews who own and operate them.
Each is probably about a third of the American electorate: two-thirds of the electorate should be barred from all participation in public life. In China, they probably would be.
This is an excellent point. While, as a Western Caucasian, with our greater weighting of individualist freedom over conformist cohesion than is typically Asian, I do not like the notion of a one-party surveillance state, we in the West are de facto uniparty Israeli-surveillance states, and the Chinese one-party system does seem to have obvious efficiencies and advantages over our uniparty globalist-capitalist de fact corporate governments.
Singapore is I gather rather totalitarian, but I'd be happy to live there and avoid criticising their government in exchange for no crime or criminal immigrants, cleanliness, order and so forth.
If I was a Chinese citizen living in China, I would probably feel obligated to criticise corruption and so forth, and get into trouble.
there is nothing to value individual freedom over collective cohesion - that's a cultural choice and the world will be a boring place if there is no diversity. The whole point about sovereignty is for the choice to be made by the people based on their history and culture. That's why the universalist "values" preached by western politicians are so offputting for the world majority. Any universalist preachings is nothing but racial superiority under a cloak - as Rudyard Kipling's "whitemen's burden".
Singapore and China have very similar governance structures - I live in both countries and now in Singapore - both are basically meritocracy-based systems that inherit the 2000-year Chinese confusian philosophy. Both are top down societies but I wouldn't call either totalitarian, since the term has a specific definition which doesn't fit the reality. I would call the forms of governance here "authoritarian" since it is in fact different from the bottom-up "democratic" structure from Socrates and Plato's Greece. the current western governance system has only the appearance but not the substance of the ancient Greek philosophy. western governments today are judeo-nized capitalist corporate oligarchy.
as for criticism about corruption in China, it's a common perception that it's not allowed. In reality, it is actually not something that will get you in trouble. Xi has realized corruption is the biggest risk in China's governance model since he took over the rein. His clampdown on corruption has lasted to this day and quite ruthless. Over 800,000 officials were investigated and hundreds of thousands removed or jailed just last year.
The red line in Chinese politics is not criticizing individual officials. The red line is to criticize or propose to overthrow the system. In the final analysis, the west is not really different - you can criticize the political parties but you cannot overthrow the system. The difference in China is that the party is the system as a one-party state.
there are of course many downsides to one party rule but also many upsides from efficiency to accountability (cannot blame the other parties when things go wrong). most importantly, the one party rule is a continuation of 2000-year political culture where the will of the emperor and the court is the law of the land. It's not to say it is the best but to say it is the historical tradition. You'll find similar traditions in most east Asian countries.
Concur. I am very familiar with the I Ching, and thus the Confucian ethos, which seems to broadly reflect an East Asian ethos. Western, Caucasian societies have a somewhat different ethos, reaching back deep into history and probably evolutionary pre-history. My sense is that neither is superior, and that if our peoples cooperate in the peaceful harmonious Chinese fashion, our different strengths can complement and we can achieve more together than apart. The present sad state of the Judaized West makes this difficult, but if catastrophic war can be avoided while the West sorts iself out, future generations may do this.
When I say 'totalitarian', I am not attempting to use a precise definition, but rather referring to authoritarian government with modern surveillance, censorship and enforcement tools. The West is currently seeing a clearly-coordinated drive to radically enhance all three, using Israeli tools and companies to prohibit conduct, speech and if possible thought which expose the Jewish capitalist corporate oligarchs and their genocides and such. While China is explicitly one-party, authoritarian and with the most advanced and pervasive surveillance etc, the West is rapidly converging.
I regret I can't visit China. Perhaps if I have a next life, I will merit having it there or nearby.
no human system is perfect. what's good for one time may not be good for another so evolution will always be with us. the "end of history" espoused by jewish-inspired neoliberal propagandists is a hoax. Confusius' core teaching is harmony and co-existence, something very relevant for today's world. If the west discards the judeo influence and rediscovers its true philosophical roots as embodied by Socrates and Plato, the world will be a better place.
One of the earliest and most critical machinations of Judaization was in encapsulating itself within Christianity, a sugar-coated poison pill sold initially Roman slaves but spreading thruout the West as an addictive poison, with Judaism and the Old Testament AKA Torah, with our true Greco-Roman heritage replaced with the fake history of the Jews, an alien inimical people with an alien inimical culture.
The ‘Chosen People’ of Christianity wasn’t Christians; it was Jews. Christianity was hijacked, back-doored, infiltrated and infected from its inception.
While there is great value in the Confucian ethos, there does appear to be a weakness: it can result in a perfectly-ordered, but lifelessly static, society, as imaged in After Completion:
“This hexagram represents the next stage of T'ai Peace (11). The shift from confusion to order is complete, with everything in its proper place, even the small details. This is a very positive situation, but we must still be thoughtful. When perfect balance is achieved, any movement can disrupt that order. The one strong line that has moved to the top, creating complete order, is followed by the other lines, each moving according to its own nature. This sudden change brings us to the hexagram P'i, Standstill (12).
I am also greatly fond of another Chinese worldview, Taoism, which as you know is quite different from Confuciusanism.
The Western anarchical individualism and freedom lends itself to a more dynamic culture, which has different risks. As Limitation says, He who has no limits will have cause to lament, and explains that life without limitation dissolves in the boundless, as we can see for example in transhumanist transsexuals.
Perhaps the Tao hints at how a culture can ‘know the sons, but not lose touch with the mother’, somehow integrate the flexibity and dynamism of the Western way with the ordered, peaceful harmonious way of the East. Perhaps, if humanity truly reaches space, this will happen. Indeed, the constraints of early space life will require Chinese-style order, and yet will also require Western-style flexibility and initiative. Perhaps China is already moving in that direction: it is clearly a very dynamic society achieving great things in science, medicine and engineering.
i wrote a piece on corruption some time ago, comparing China and the US. you may find it interesting
https://huabinoliver.substack.com/p/corruption-in-the-us-and-china-aC
Link Not Found, but I see I need to do some reading of your posts.
You are clearly not a Chinese dissident; should I assume you are speaking in any official or semi-official capacity? Being even an offical does not affect the validity of your thoughts; it is just an item of interest.
for some reason, the link seems compromised. The article is in my Substack and written late last year. If interested, you can search it up in my column. My main argument was corruption exists both in China and the US, just in different forms and how the two systems deal with corruption differently - in China, it's illegal and prosecuted but in the US, it's legalized through legislations like Citizen United.
I am neither a dissident nor affiliated with the government. What I write is purely from a personal capacity. I want to base opinions on facts rather than ideology. Of course, I have a built-in Chinese perspective but it seems such a perspective is lacking in English language media - hence my motivation to raise a small voice.
When I was younger, I bought in western liberal propaganda and was more critical about the Chinese governance system. But as I grow older, I have learned much more about the real history of the west, especially the US (almost diagonally opposite to the official narrative) and have seen how the Chinese system reforms and gains momentum. That led to a paradigm shift in my views. The hope is when we get older, at least we get wiser:)
One of the things I admire about China is capital punishment for capital fraud. "Kill the ring-leaders, pardon the followers". A murderer kills at most a few people; a 'White Collar' criminal can cause the death, sickness or poverty of millions. In the USA such criminals become politicians or just buy them; in China, some of them get shot, their families disgraced: probably an effective deterrent.
In Japan, they save the State the trouble and kill themselves: this is perhaps the ideal solution.
This is a very interesting point as lack of continuity of government in the West is a big issue as political parties are so adversarial, reactionary and in constant competition to be the alpha dog blocking real progress. Western cultures are blocked as long as our governments are dominated by the greedy vested interests they serve.
I am very interested in Chinese international diplomacy as diplomats appear very experienced and skilled. How do they come to be in their positions? How are they chosen? How much of their skill set is cultural.
As a Westerner it is a constant embarrassment where we reject real diplomacy and it is left to ignorant hack politicians totally unqualified to be in these positions.
I take it Confucian principles influence international relations?
I would greatly appreciate your thoughts on these issues.
this is a great question. The west has been smearing Chinese diplomats as wolf warriors but if they listen to what they say and how they say it, it's the complete opposite of such characterization. In most cases, I find them to be too subtle for my taste (which is quite direct, I confess).
Across China, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs runs a dozen or so universities that specialize in diplomacy, foreign languages, development economics, etc. Then top graduates are selected into the diplomatic corp, usually starting from hardship posts in farflung countries in south Pacific or sub-Sahara Africa. Diplomats are required to speak the language of the country they are posted to. For example in Croatia, most diplomats are expected to speak Croatian (something locals wonder since most diplomats from other countries don't speak local tongue).
The promotion process is long and arduous, often taking decades. There is no such thing as patronage appointments like the US. Diplomatic posts are rewarded primarily on performance and track record.
Wang Yi, the Foreign Minister, was a graduate of my own alma mater - the Beijing Foreign Studies Institute. He studies Japanese and was posted to Japan, eventually reaching ambassadorship there. Then he was appointed to manage cross strait affairs with Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macaus before being appointed Foreign Minister. He has been a professional diplomat for 45 years. This is very similar to Sergei Lavrov, who is a consumate prof as well. The Chinese and Russians take politics and diplomacy seriously.
Reminds me of the Manhattan project, during WW2, American scientist worked in the deserts of New Mexico to develop the first atomic bomb. Here Chinese physicists work in the Gobi desert to develop the world’s first thorium reactor!
Thank you so much for sharing this good news and bringing a ray of hope at such a dark time when we see nothing but misfortune everywhere.
Let's hope the waste is really inert, because due to the misuse of uranium waste our planet and the atmospheric layer that surrounds it have already been highly contaminated since the first U.S. nuclear test followed by their use as weapons of immense destruction in Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
one key advantage of thorium reactor is it cannot be weaponized so there is much less control and regulation to worry about, potentially spreading the benefits to a much broader slice of global population.
I've been waiting for this for a long time, ever since I first started studying nuclear power some 20 years ago. The implication here are nothing short of staggering.
What you're seeing here is the power source for a high-speed rail network covering all of Central Asia - a major component of the New Silk Road (It's actually called Belt and Road, but I think New Silk Road sounds more romantic). Also the power source for the new industrial centers that will be built along the way, as well as power for remote areas where transmission lines aren't practical.
That's just the beginning though. Inherently safe modular reactors will be game changers. In the same way cell phones eliminated copper line technology, these reactors will obsolesce the electric transmission grid. Instead of huge inherently dangerous reactors with long transmission lines, you'll have small local reactors with much smaller transmission loops. This means large scale blackouts will be a thing of the past, plus it frees up space in dense urban areas because you no longer need the right-of-ways for transmission lines. This will probably mark the end of electricity exports as well, since it will be cheaper to just install more capacity locally on an as needed basis.
China has huge coal reserves which they burn to make electricity, but coal is also a source of thorium. Obviously I haven't run a cost analysis, but I would guess existing coal mines will provide enough thorium to meet their requirements, so no need to open any new mines. Also, since you're no longer burning coal you can make motor fuel from it using the Fischer-Tropsch process powered by an on-site thorium reactor.
This is definitely something to watch. We're still years away of course, but as they say, time flies when you're having fun!
I think there is a grand strategy very much like what you are describing. China is fully behind electrification and wants to bring it across the Euroasia continent. In fact, China has developed the most extensive ultra high voltage transmission system that transport electricity from western China to the eastern coast. It could be done in an even bigger scale. Also as you hypothesize, a more distributed footprint closer to end user could be done as well. Thorium reactors are inherently safer than uranium so hopefully the safety threshold can be lowered for all.
I forgot to mention, this is probably the future of marine transportation as well.
Chinese shipping companies are already exploring thorium-powered marine transportation for their next gen mega ships.
Does nuclear fusion create radioactive waste like depleted uranium? If a country has vast empty spaces like Russia it has a better chance of "hiding" away the devastating effects of depleted uranium. Thorium has much promise and if my memory is correct Russia was involved in research in the same line and there were some translated Russian blogs saying that they had achieved some success with the technology. As a common man and entrepreneur i am waiting for a different thing - the CIA-free HarmonyOS Next, its ecosystem of productivity apps and Huawei globalising that RDBMS which it created ground up to replace US made databases. If China can do the full stack from chips to hardware to software in the next 5-7 years and outdo the western rentier products - the effect on humanity will be more dramatic than anything else. It will actually usher a new age as opposed to the Alice Bailey-Blavatsky new age that is almost upon and around us.
both the Russians and Americans pursued thorium reactors in the 70s and 80s but gave up as the science was indeed too hard. Tech has progressed today to the point Chinese scientists can build upon what their precessesors in other countries have done and take it to the next level. China is developing the full tech stack as we speak. I suspect it will reach parity sooner than 5 to 7 years. In many areas, China is taking new innovative approaches to leapfrog existing tech - e.g. RISC-V chips, photonic chips, etc. Tech breakthrough is a function of investment and talent. China is committed and has abundance of both. In addition, it has a stable political and policy environment to enable long term planning and execution. I am quite confident we'll see an explosion of innovations in the coming decade.
Sooner than 5-7 years…one hopes this is true. Wonderfully informative article — thanks.
Fusion is not fission. It produces a lot less radioactive by-products. Although there is a substantial number of folks in the west that don't believe in the existence of either, or that the earth is flat, who think these are all CIA/mossad psyop which is kind of ironic as they're the very same normative sheeps who have succumbed to their propaganda inadvertently. Cognitively infiltrated, so to speak.
it's actually funny how many anti-science people there are in the US despite being a leading tech powerhouse. Speaks volumes about the basic education system there. Also the cognitive infiltration - I call it a dumbing down of the population for better social control by the elite. Sheeple who don't know they are sheeple or what the word even means:)
In the US education system — there are no coercive techniques. Diplomas are a matter of courteous bestowing, not indicators of accomplishment.
The only control exercised by the US state is the most critical — media.
Actually government and media is symbiotic — perhaps identical. After all, the same small sliver of people control both.
The horrible Anglo education system can be understood by working with them - they deeply lack true technical skills and the production castes perennially run from sensation to sensation and spectacle to spectacle - these people are so non-serious that along with the lack of skills the fun oriented work ethic means you can get nothing done. So employers in Anglo countries routinely use visa vulnerable indentured labor all over the place. In fact if you see the syllabus of German technical schools and the actual real world nature of the courses in German technical universities - especially the public universities - they still offer actual skills that matter and are truly world class (private schools in Germany are again diploma mills to fool gullible foreigners). As a media entrepreneur i have employed youngsters from top media schools in UK like Bournemouth and found to my utter dismay that these kids have no critical thinking skills or even basic sentence construction to work in the media. This is why I believe what you said of "diplomas are a courteous bestowing not indicators of accomplishment" as true for the entire Anglo world.
one key obstacle in any serious reindustralization of the US is the lack of skilled labor from a dysfunctional education system. coffee baristas and burger flippers don't automatically make ship mechanic or battery engineers. the education deficits are generational. China, also Russia, graduate order of magnitude STEM students from their education systems. the west seems no longer serious about producing technical talents. if they also don't graduate good liberal arts students who can write and reason better than chatgpt, then it's hard to envision their future.
The potential for Thorium has been an underground legend for over half a century.
Ayn Rand met with Robert Oppenheimer to discuss and her novel hero John GALT was a hidden message about the G.A.L.T. thorium energy system.
For some history see https://aim4truth.org/2018/11/21/galt-the-best-kept-secret-in-the-world-that-could-free-humanity-with-unlimited-free-energy/
thanks for sending the link. I have been reading Nicola Tesla's biographies and one thing that struck me is how far capitalists (like J P Morgan) went to stop innovations that could hurt their commercial interests but benefit the human race as a whole.
We see this again and again - oil companies supressing development of free and clean energy (including by discrediting cold fusion), big pharma supressing cancer cures, etc. etc. I think it is a great thing many researchers and scientists in China can puruse truly ground breaking innovations in state institutions like China Academy of Sciences that can benefit all. My hope is more scientists globally can operate in non profit driven environment in pursuit of researches beneficial to the planet, not just a select few.
This might be the most important topic of the 21 century.
I'm trying to get a clear picture of China. Depending on who one reads, it's a totalitarian hellscape with a fake bubble economy based on cooked books (as the USA is), or the country the USA could have been if we hadn't been usurped by Israelites and morally and fiscally bankrupted in service to Eretz Israel.
China is unquestionably building, doing, making, which really ended some decades ago in the USA. Other than SpaceX, it's hard to find a noteworthy accomplishment here.
the easiest thing to find out more about China is a trip to see it for yourself:) lots of countries can travel to China visa-free so it's quite easy, even with a short transit trip.
I always find it meaningless to debate the labeling of China by western media - they are very believable in reports about real or imgined adversaries and about their own altruistic and righteous intentions - if you were born yesterday:)
at the end of the day, what's the point of empty talks when you can use the time to get things done. China is focused on building and doing. Western jewish-inspired propaganda has toxicated the minds of the populace and completely distracted them from what's real and important. similarly jewish economic theories like those espoused by milton friedman have corrupted the economic vitality and social equity of the west. the western mind today is hijacked by a fringe group that doesn't have good designs for them.
I would much like to travel to China, but I'm too old, poor and medicalized.
I of course assume that what I read about China is mostly pro- or anti-China propaganda. The days of actual unbiased journalism are long past.
One of China's best ambassadors is probably Liu Cixin, appropriately honored by the naming of the Three Body station. Reading his work, I felt like I got some slight sense of what China is these days. Of course it's such a big country with such a vast history, the Han being so many and so cohesive that they are really more of a race than a mere ethnicity, that China can be both a corrupt state-commu-capitalist totalitarianism and the country which is the real maker, mover and shaker in the world: Rome's greatest buildout happened when it was a corrupt Empire, after the fall of the Republic. So China's way of government is an internal affair and is by no means the whole China story.
What brought down Rome, and along with concomitant Judaization has brought down the West, is excessive concentration of wealth and the destruction of the middle and small-farmer classes. I sincerely hope China can reverse/avoid this: I hope to see humanity really become spacefarers, and see only China as likely to accomplish this. The USA could have, but expended itself fighting for Eretz Israel instead.
Being a Caucasian, I would like to see my people in space: perhaps China will take some of us with them.
But better just Han in space than nobody in space.
indeed the Three Body sci-fi transcends culture and borders. Literature and art at its best has universal appeals. Same with space explorations and other scientific endeavors to improve life on the planet from medicine to climate. There are more to unite us than to separate us. But there are also interests that want to make sure the world is divided as they profit from such divisions. This is one of the most vicious aspects of judaism - as both the self-labeled "chosen" and the numerical minority, the jews have conspired to divide and conquer the rest of the world for 2 millinium as a way to survive and dominate. whether the protocals of the elders of zion is real or a forgery, the divide-and-rule domination plan is the same. Unfortunately, the jews have won in the west. They did a lot of damage to China in the 19th and 20th centuries, including playing an outsized role in the opium import into China (the Sasoons for example), but they are rooted out for good.
on a separate note, there are thousands of YouTube videos from foreign travelers in China. Many are first time visitors and they are completely overwhelmed how reality differs from the propaganda at home. You can check out a few and look through the lens of those.
I have long said that the natural immunity of Asians to the Ashkenazi 'Fellow White People' shtick gives Asia an inherent competitive advantage over the West. The Jews would have to breed up a bunch of JewAsians for 'Fellow Asian People' to work.
The West lies supine under them, raped at their will and pleasure, as is their way. This will have to play out.
I believe their inbuilt goal may be the nuclear destruction of humanity rather than mere domination: they are trying hard to provoke Russia into a nuclear war, and may set their sights on China also. Hopefully Russia and China can resist, contain, outlast them: the future of humanity depends on this.
I have no doubt the ashkenazi jews, who are imposters and not the bibilical jews who have any claim to the holy land, have no good design for the world. But I also feel they don't want to die - they love money too much and have no god in their heart of hearts. you probably know, there is no concept of heaven in the talmud and there is no hell either which explains why they do what they do. their love is not for god, but for gold. they need this world to enjoy their stolen pot of gold.
But consider the possibility that their Yahweh demon, which is plainly what is known by Christians as Satan and by Moslems as al Shaitan, and known by both as the Enemy of humanity, is real. Or that aliens wanted humanity ethnically-cleansed if it reached spacefaring stage, so engineered Jews as a kill-switch, designed to create nuclear weapons and see they are used if humanity reached that stage. There are probably other schemas which would explain Jews seemingly motivated only by rapacious lust greed and malice, but collectively conspiring, wittingly or not, in mankind's demise, not mankind's rape, looting and subjugation.
I did not know the Jews had sunk their blood-funnels into China. Interesting.
wherever there is blood money to be found, you'll find the jews. the Chinese call the jews the "gold lover" since there was first contact a thousand years ago.
Your remarks on Trump in the start made me no want to read your article. It found something about it elsewhere. Bue ...
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