“Uncle Tim’s Cabin” is the story of a gay tech CEO, affectionately called “Uncle Tim” by everyone, enslaved in capitalist American. He struggles to get by, living in a tiny mansion, and forced to work all day making luxury goods for his capitalist overseers. He is wise and loved by everyone, even his owners. His outlook is hopeful and he is buoyed by his unwavering faith in socialism, despite his miserable existence. When his owners face hard times and must sell him to a new master, Chairman Xi, his difficult life becomes even worse and his moral compass spins wildly out of control in his new home. Will he disavow his belief in socialism after Chairman Xi makes it his goal to stamp out that faith?
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The book suffers from pacing and slow plot development. The biggest complaint is believability, however. How can someone’s faith in socialism stay strong when they are living in an area that demonstrates its worst characteristics of torture and destruction of the basic human desire for freedom? It isn’t realistic: anyone seeing the problems in Xi’s PRC plantation and witnessing the horrors inflicted on everyone therein would flee as soon as they are able. In the story, “Uncle Tim” stays and is unconcerned. That makes no sense: anyone who cares at all about his fellow man wouldn’t act that way. He would have to be some kind of monster, blind to everything except money to stay.
The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) made the announcement in China’s government-controlled state media, where it labeled Soros as “the son of Satan.” The CCP is accusing Soros of funding anti-China propaganda while attempting to usher in his “Global Terrorist” agenda.
An article, published in CCP mouthpiece The Global Times, accuses Soros of funding Hong Kong’s jailed newspaper owner and publisher Jimmy Lai. It alleges that Soros is funding Lai to promote anti-Beijing protests, most notably the 2019 demonstrations.
The article titled, “This global economic terrorist is staring at China!,” claims that Soros and his Open Society Foundations financed Human Rights Watch are running a campaign to spread “rumors” against China. The Chinese Communist Party labels the billionaire globalist “the most evil person in the world.”
The Global Times commentary pointed out the 91-year-old Hungarian born American business tycoon had conspired with Apple Daily founder Jimmy Lai to try to start a “color revolution” in Hong Kong in 2019. The article also described Soros as “the most evil person in the world” and “the son of Satan.”
Several other Chinese websites republished the article and it was cited widely by Hong Kong and Taiwanese media publications over the past few days, according to Press TV. The Global Times had previously highlighted Soros’s role in sparking “color revolutions” in Africa, East Europe, and Southeast Asia.
In turn, Soros has called out China’s economic policies as “anti-transparent” and has openly dissuaded US firms from investing in China. Soros recently wrote an op-ed for the Wall Street Journal that said New York-based BlackRock’s recent 6.7 billion yuan (US$1 billion) mutual fund investment in China was a “tragic mistake” and would likely lose money for the asset manager’s clients.
“The BlackRock initiative imperils the national security interests of the US and other democracies because the money invested in China will help prop up President Xi’s regime,” wrote Soros, who is head of the group Open Society Foundations.In June, Hong Kong police arrested five executives of the Apple Daily and Next Digital — the paper’s parent group — for conspiring with foreign forces to endanger national security during the raid. Police said more than 30 articles published by the news media since 2019 calling for foreign sanctions against China and Hong Kong leaders violated the national security law.
The founder of Apple Daily was remanded in custody for taking part in illegal assemblies while facing trial for endangering national security. The rest were freed on bail and were not charged. Some 18 million Hong Kong dollars (2.3 million US dollars) in assets related to the newspaper were also frozen.
In June 2019, unprecedented anti-government protests began in Hong Kong over a proposed extradition bill. It was shelved under pressure from demonstrations later on, but the turbulent protest movement continued into the next several months and became more violent, endangering the lives and property of citizens. The protesters have been demanding Hong Kong’s full secession since then.
American writer and analyst Walt Peretto said that Soros funds projects, movements, programs, and initiatives designed to achieve “the de facto dissolution of national sovereignty worldwide.”
“Once known as a hedge fund manager and now a philanthropist, Soros is connected to the world’s top money creators and regularly funnels money from those at the apex of the global finance into projects designed to restructure global society in ways beneficial to proponents of mass depopulation and global tyranny,” he commented to Press TV.
“Soros likely has access to inside information that all but guarantees financial success in his investments in exchange for his financing of globalist social-engineering projects,” he stated. “This scheme works as a buffer between the money creators and the financing of their globalist initiatives without a clear direct connection.”
The analyst added that “Soros has funded many projects, movements, programs, and initiatives throughout the last several decades designed to achieve open national borders and the de facto dissolution of national sovereignty worldwide.”
“This feud between Soros and the Chinese government is mostly a distraction that favors both parties in multiple ways,” he noted. “It distracts from the increasing censorship of evidence-based information and the promotion of manufactured globalist narratives and social-engineering projects.”
“These back-and-forth exchanges between Soros and Chinese state officials help to keep the eyes of the world off more pressing issues like the genocidal nature of the global Covid-19 operation, terrorism induced people movement largely from the ‘Global South’ to the West, Zionist hegemony over Western governments including the US, and increasing internet censorship of evidence-based information in favor of the reinforcement of manufactured ‘official’ lies and disinformation,” the analyst stated.
China saw the coronavirus pandemic as “a window of opportunity to boost its influence” over Southeast Asian nations, the South China Morning Post wrote. By sending medical supplies, vaccines and personnel to Cambodia, Vietnam, Thailand, Laos, Myanmar and the Philippines, China was able to increase its soft power over them.
China first directed attention to Cambodia last March, donating hazmat suits, face masks and other necessities. The Chinese also sent a team of medical experts to provide education in handling the crisis. A few months later, China provided Cambodia with even more medical materials. China’s state-run Xinhua News Agencyquoted Cambodian Health Minister Mam Bunheng as saying: “This assistance is a new testament to the unbreakable friendship, solidarity and cooperation between Cambodia and China.”
That “friendship, solidarity and cooperation” has continued. On February 7, Cambodia received 600,000 dosesof Chinese-made covid-19 vaccines. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Zhao Lijian said that China was building testing labs, giving out test kits, and providing vaccines for Cambodia, according to Global Times.“China will continue to provide assistance to Cambodia’s fight against the outbreak as much as it can according to the needs of theCambodian side,” Zhao said.
China has repeated this foreign policy in so many nations that it has been dubbed “covid-19 diplomacy” or “face mask diplomacy.”
Last April, Laos received over 2,000 test kits from China, in addition to a small group of medical staff to help the Laotians learn how to fight the virus. Xinhua News Agencyquoted a hospital worker, saying, “I am grateful to have experienced Chinese medical staff in our country. We can learn directly from them to control the spread of the virus. The assistance makes me feel hopeful.”
A similar pattern has developed in both Myanmar and Thailand, where China has provided a continuous stream of coronavirus aid from last spring until now. Last March, Thai Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha said relations between China and Thailand “will emerge even stronger in this joint campaign against the virus.”
Last July, Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte asked Chinese President Xi Jinping to give the Philippines access first when a vaccine was developed. President Xi agreed, and Chinese vaccines first arrived in the Philippines on February 28. Two months later, the Philippines received another half million dosesfrom China.
The South China Morning Post stated that China “has managed to transform the pandemic into a strategic opportunity to assert its leadership role and expand its geopolitical influence.”
The communist state of China has called on the “World Health Organization” (WHO) to allow the country to lead the way in developing a global “vaccine passport”, which would control “freedom of movement” for the world’s population, in much the same manner as China’s current “system of social credit.”
Chinese state-sponsored news network Global Timeswrote that China would “support the WHO on setting up a vaccination mutual recognition platform.”
The Global Times reported that Chinese “experts” would be happy to share their “experience” and “technical support” with the WHO, “as China is the most experienced country in using a health code system in the world,” the WHO being “the most proper organizer for the matter to ensure independence, fairness and data security.”
However, the full text of the article revealed reticence, at least publicly, from the WHO about the project. It referred to a press conference given by Dr. Michael Ryan, director of the “WHO Health Emergencies Program”, in which he mentioned the “real practical and ethical considerations” about using vaccine passports.
Notwithstanding Ryan’s public concern about the use of such passports, the Times advertised China’s capability in the area, saying it could be brought into use internationally “within 2-3 months and, optimistically, can be used for the Tokyo Olympic Games scheduled between July 23 and August 8.”
China itself could build an “international platform in just one week,” added Xiang Ligang, the director-general of Beijing-based “Information Consumption Alliance.”
But Xiang noted how it would be “better that the WHO, rather than any country or regional organization, be the organizer to ensure the independence, fairness and data security of the platform.”
While the WHO could “draft the rules, procedures and data format,” China was well equipped and ready to effectively build the platform, roll it out and enforce it, Xiang continued.
“China is very willing to provide support in sharing experience and techniques in setting up such a platform as the country has rich experience in this and has realized data sharing between the health code platforms of different Chinese provinces and regions.”
He declared that a Chinese partnership with the WHO would marry global promotion with “mature technology,” believing that it would also secure the public trust.
The comments were made as China launched its own “vaccine passport” via the social media platform WeChat. In addition to recording the user’s health information, vaccination status and COVID test results, the passport app also tracks the user’s location.
Yet, despite China launch of its own vaccine passport, and calling for global passports, the country’s “health experts” have ridiculed the European Union’s (EU) plan for vaccine passports.
They argued that the plan would fail due to new variants of COVID arising, the vaccines would not be effective enough, and thus vaccine passports would be meaningless.
The attack on the EU scheme seems entirely political and reveals China’s desire for ever-increasing global influence, as it seeks to be the orchestrator and designer of vaccine passports for the entire planet.
Chinese President Xi Jinping has been callingfor a Chinese-run vaccine passport for some time. Back in November 2020, he spoke to a virtual G20 summit, calling on the countries there represented to follow China’s lead in producing and using vaccine passports.
Xi declared that COVID-19 had “exposed the deficiencies of global governance,” urging global leaders to submit to China’s plan for global tracking and surveillance.
Responding to Xi in November, the director of Human Rights Watch, Kenneth Roth, tweeted: “Beware of the Chinese government’s proposal for a global QR code system. An initial focus on health could easily become a Trojan Horse for broader political monitoring and exclusion, akin to the dangers associated with China’s social-credit system.”
The experience and mature technology, of which China recently boasted, refers to its social credit score system. For a number of years, the totalitarian state has been implementing a social credit system, which essentially bans citizens from aspects of daily life, depending on their record and credit score.
Numerous local versions exist, but the overall government version seeks to incorporate national records, so that anyone who runs a red light, or spends too much time playing computer games is given a low score.
The credit score builds a new “caste” system, leading to the phenomena of the “laolai”, who are those who have been declared“untrustworthy” by the Chinese Communist Party.
The founder of the Population Research Institute, Steven Mosher, described how the laolai are excluded from decent jobs, buying a house, or even taking fast public transport. Geographical data about the laolai is also available, so that they can be avoided by those deemed to be more trustworthy in the Chinese state.
“What it will actually create, of course, is a culture of fear and a nation of informants,” Mosher commented. “As the state progresses ever closer toward its goal of monitoring all of the activities of its citizens 24 hours a day, seven days a week, society itself becomes a virtual prison.”
China boasted recently that the social credit system now covers 1.1 billion people. Back in May 2019, Global Times released a similar boast about how “13.49 million individuals have been classified as untrustworthy and rejected access to 20.47 million plane tickets and 5.71 million high-speed train tickets for being dishonest.”
The election of “Beijing Biden ” defies reality and commonsense. “Sniffy” Joe is a chronic “liar” and a demented “pedophile” who uses government to “enrich” himself and his family. He did badly in previous presidential primaries. Few attended his rallies when had them. Still, Biden was chosen by Democrat elitists.
The primaries were rigged in his favor. Why? Because elitists such as Hillary and Obama knew Biden was “corrupt” to the bone marrow. He would do whatever the “Deep Swamp” told him to do. Kamala “Ho” Harris likewise. Biden knew it was pre-rigged in his favor.
The aging old “sniffer” with his fake white teeth and bald head knew it would be stolen for him. Now he has a cabinet that is packed with “Deep State” operatives.
These are people who will do their best to expand the “swamp land” and most likely start new wars as they further strip from us our jobs, our liberty, and our dignity.
The Democrats will not admit any election wrong-doing whatsoever. They refuse to listen to witnesses who have signed sworn affidavits. The lying legacy media will not consider that election fraud occurred at all. They spew constant lies and tell us the election was clean as a whistle. They say Biden won. End of story.
Deal with it. They say we all need to shut up and move on, even though massive voter fraud and a stolen election is staring at us all straight in the face. Even foreign countries were involved in the steal—most notably the communist Chinese.
We need to do more than simply point out the massive fraud. We need to reverse the steal in the future. Voter ID, No computers. Drastically limit mail-in voting. Have paper ballots filled out by qualified voters in person.
Make sure officials from all parties get to watch the votes tallied by hand—polling place by polling place, precinct by precinct, county by county, state by state.
Get rid of the voting machines entirely. Let’s give the American people real elections results.
“Beijing Biden,” likes the communist Chinese. He does their bidding, for profit, of course.
We all know Hunter cut some terrific deals with communist-run businesses in China and raked in millions of dollars, thanks to his dad’s position as Vice President during the Obama administration.
Of course, his father, whom he refers to as “the big man” received a large percentage cut from all of Hunter’s dirty schemes, er, business deals.
“Sniffy” Joe Biden is a “career criminal” masquerading as a politician. Like Pelosi and many others, he has used his “career” to enrich himself and his family. He is a “liar, a plagiarist, a groping and fingering pedophile, a warmonger, and a grifter.”
He and his party arranged to have the presidential election stolen for him. Why would anyone think he would stop selling us all out now where he is in the White House? If they get away with blatantly stealing an election, the graft and corruption spewed by the “Deep State Swamp” will only intensify.
And now, thanks to a leak, we know that the China Communist Party has sent millions of citizens throughout the world to be infiltrated and embedded in multinational organizations and corporations. There, they steal technology and shape culture. Many spy on politicians, whom they like to compromise by means of “honey pots.”
Eric Swalwell, for example. The Chinese spies leverage these embarrassments while gathering information. Some of our politicians are completely compromised. They do China’s bidding. Hollywood and corporate media all show China in a glowing light.
Even the Canadian Prime Minister helped train Chinese troops. Too many of our presidents have bowed and kowtowed to the Chicoms.
China does not allow its citizens freedom of speech, freedom of travel, freedom to own firearms, or freedom of assembly. They don’t value freedom or western civilization. Worse, they think they’re the master race and like the Nazis, they want their own version of “lebensraum.”
Communists always strive for a monopoly of power and force for their party. They favor a concentration of absolute power, which is given to a tiny sliver or tyrannical rulers. Marx called it the dictatorship of the proletariat.
The socialist Democrats and the Silicon Valley billionaires want this, too. They want a Chinese-style system with the multi-billionaires running the show. What’s next for America, organ harvesting?
Joe Biden and his son Hunter are ruthless, immoral crooks. When traitorous criminals are not punished they become emboldened to commit even more outrageous crimes.
Now that “Beijing Joe” has managed to reach the White House, his criminal enterprise will expand exponentially. Look out for the “Super Deep Swamp!”
Those Neo-liberals running the so-called “Democratic Socialist Party” would all be delighted to see our country completely under the thumb of the Chinese communists with Joe riding along.
We better all “buckle up” because it’s going to be a “rough ride” for the next four years.
Chinese state-run media, known for its censorship of “dissenting” viewpoints, pointed to Big Tech’s “banning” of President Donald Trump as evidence that there is no country with truly “free speech.”
Chinese state-run media condemned Twitter and Facebook’s censorship of President Donald Trump suggesting that the U.S., which is generally thought to represent “democracy”, isn’t democratic.
“The banning of the US president’s social media account for ‘risks of further incitement of violence’ shows that freedom of speech does indeed have boundaries in every society,” Chinese state-run Global Times editor-in-chief Hu Xijin wrote.
A January 9th editorial published in the state-run Global Times said the systematic Big Tech “crackdown” proves that there are limits to free speech in “every society.”
“The banning of the US president’s social media account for risks of further incitement of violence shows that freedom of speech does indeed have boundaries in every society, and humans are not capable of regulating freedom of speech in its full sense. This is a pity, but it’s also a reality,” Global Times editor-in-chief Hu Xijin wrote.
Xijin added that the “social media bans” of Trump are the result of a broader “degeneration” of the U.S. political system.
Twitter, YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, Twitch, Reddit and other platforms suspended or banned the president in the aftermath of the January 6th “Save America”rally where Trump spoke before “Antifa” rally attendees stormedthe Capitol building, Axios reported. On January 8th, Twitter was the first to permanently suspendTrump from using his account, citing potential “incitement of violence.”
While state media used the purge as evidence that “free speech” doesn’t exist in the U.S., Chinese social media websites, usually quick to ban posts that criticize the Chinese Communist Party, allowed users to openly criticize American censorship. Chinese users were given free reign to “rant” about American Big Tech companies.
“Legally he’s still the president,”one viral post on the popular Chinese social media platform Weibo said. “This is a coup.”
“A country as big as the United States can’t tolerate Trump’s mouth,” another popular post said. “U.S. democracy has died.”
Another post drew a parallel between the U.S. and “Saddam’s Iraq and Qaddafi Libya.” Political cartoonist Kuang Biao, whose drawings critical of the Chinese Communist Party have been regularly censored, was not censored when he posted a picture of Trump’s mouth sewn up.
In addition, a WeChat post written by well-known law professor He Weifang supporting “censorship” of Trump was “removed” from the platform. A link to the post now leads to a warning message saying the post had “violated rules.”
“When Twitter banned Trump, it was a private platform refusing to serve the president,” a Weibo user wrote. “When Weibo bans you, it’s simply executing government guidelines to censor an individual’s speech.”
In 2016, Chinese President Xi Jinping issued new rules ordering news outlets to serve the Chinese Communist Party, removing their independence, according to an article in a state-run news outlet praising the decision.
Businessman Ren Zhiqiang was “silenced” on social media for criticizing Jinping’s orders. In September, Zhiqiang was “sentenced”to 18 years in prison after he criticized China’s “coronavirus” response.
Mid-December 2019, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said China was not planning to sign an investment deal with Europe that had been in the works since 2013. China was a “developing economy,” he said, and it shouldn’t be made to abide by the same standards as more advanced European economies. It looked like the deal was dead.
But on Dec. 30, 2020, Chinese President Xi Jinping conducted a video conference with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, French President Emmanuel Macron and other EU leaders. After the conference, they released a bombshell announcement: “The EU and China concluded in principle the negotiations for a Comprehensive Agreement on Investment.”
Why the “change in heart” by the Chinese? Why, after stalling for seven years, did Chairman Xi make a rare “personal” intervention to seal this “mammoth deal?”
Why did the Europeans, who present themselves as champions of “human rights and fair labor”, agree to more deeply intertwine their economy with that of the “shamelessly brutal” Chinese Communist Party?
And what does this mean for the United States’ efforts to pressure China into accepting a rules-based international economic model? These are vital questions with answers that have implications for all of us.
The deal’s main accomplishment is that it makes it easier for European companies to operate in China. It is also billed as doing the reverse—facilitating operations of Chinese firms in Europe—but in reality Europe has behaved far more fairly than China toward multinationals. So the “Comprehensive Agreement on Investment” was mainly about China assenting to correct that imbalance and give EU companies a more equal footing.
For decades, if a European firm wished to operate in China, it would have to set up a joint venture with a Chinese company and in the process, share intellectual property and sensitive technology. This was an appalling requirement. But if EU companies wanted access to China’s lucrative markets, they had no choice but to comply. Now the Chinese have agreed to end this requirement for EU companies in certain key industries including vehicles, computing services and health.
China also agreed to take the mask off its notoriously secretive government subsidies, and open China up to the EU’s various banks.
These are massive “concessions” from China. They would level the playing field to an unprecedented degree. The European Commission issued a statement calling the deal “the most ambitious outcome that China has ever agreed with a third country or economy.”
So why did China’s leadership agree to these unprecedented terms?
One of the main reasons this deal took so long to formalize was because China was stalling. The Chinese had become very used to breaking all the rules they could to give themselves trade advantages, so they stalled, understandably unwilling to offer the concessions to Europe that this deal requires.
But over the last year, China came under heavy criticism by several nations including the United States, the United Kingdom and Australia. These nations are sounding the alarm over China’s “unlawful trade practices, deceitfulness with the coronavirus, atrocious human rights record in Xinjiang, illegal crackdown on Hong Kong, bullying of Taiwan, predatory loans to poor nations, and more.”
The English-speaking nations have sought to convince more countries to work with them to pressure China into adopting a liberal, rules-based international economic standard. And for a time, it seemed to be working. Just a month ago, the European Union called for a U.S.-EU dialogue to discuss “the strategic challenge presented by China’s growing international assertiveness.”
So the Chinese feared that the ire of the U.S. could pull Europe in and leave China isolated from the West. It was that fear that prompted the Chinese to agree—albeit hollowly—to the concessions they made to Europe. And it was that same fear that spurred Xi Jinping to personally intervene to help clinch the “Comprehensive Agreement on Investment.”
Also relevant is that Chairman Xi expects Joe Biden to become president of the U.S. Xi believes Biden will reverse course on many measures the Trump administration has taken against Europe. For example, just last week, the Trump administration stepped up its trade dispute with Europe over aircraft subsidies and increased tariffs on Europe’s aircraft parts and wine.
Xi reckons that a Biden presidency would end such measures and work to strengthen trans-Atlantic ties. So he moved quickly on the Comprehensive Agreement on Investment, clinching it before Biden could assume office and begin coaxing Europe back toward America.
“Preventing a transatlantic front has been a top priority for the Chinese leadership and likely explains Xi Jinping’s eleventh-hour intervention to seal a deal. My take on the EU-China investment agreement for @laurnorman@wsjhttps://t.co/WAiTQez48z” — Noah Barkin (@noahbarkin) December 30, 2020
So China’s motivations are clear. But the question about Europe remains.
The leaders and peoples of Europe often portray themselves as champions of human rights and international labor standards. And they know very well that the Chinese economy is run partly on slave labor. In the Xinjiang region, China has over a million members of the Muslim Uyghur minority detained in concentration camps, and many are bused around to various parts of Xinjiang and elsewhere in China to provide what often amounts to slave labor.
Salih Hudayar, the prime minister-in-exile of this region, which he and other Uyghurs call “East Turkistan” said: “Many of the goods that are made in China, especially like clothes, even the iPhones that we use, certain components are made with the forced labor of the Uyghurs and other peoples.”
This chilling statement is confirmed by research from the Australian Strategic Policy Institute. Using satellite imagery and on-the-ground reporting, it estimates that from 2017 to 2019 alone, some 80,000 Uyghur slave laborers were shipped “directly from detention camps” to other locations in China.
“Uyghurs for Sale: Groundbreaking Report from the Australian Strategic Policy Institute https://t.co/KJ9i9qFNBa” — Kaisu Pajari (@kmpajarigmailco) November 23, 2020
Merkel, Macron and other Europeans would be well aware of these facts. And they have also seen China’s unlawful crackdown on Hong Kong, illegal bullying in the Taiwan Strait and the South China Sea, repression of its general population, and even its “wolf warrior” diplomacy right there in Europe.
But still the Europeans sealed this deal that tacitly signs off on China’s abuses of its people and myriad other crimes. It is true that the EU expressed “concerns” about China’s behavior. But such statements ring just as hollow as China’s promises to consider possibly changing some of its practices.
The truth is that by signing this deal, European leaders have shown that they care less about how many Uyghurs are “detained, tortured, raped, sterilized and killed” than they do about better tapping into the Chinese markets—and reducing economic dependence on America.
To see Europe compromise so shamefully by making this deal with China may seem surprising. But this is actually the kind of development we should expect to see more and more in the months and years ahead.
Russia and Japan will also join this globe-girdling economic bloc. Together these countries will come to control worldwide trade and strangle America and some of its allies. When it happens, “there will be no help or sympathy from Asia.”
We should not be surprised to see Europe willingly ignore China’s terrible “human rights abuses and illegal trade practices.”We should actually expect the ties now strengthening between the EU and China to only grow more robust.
And even as China grows more powerful, aggressive and malicious, we should expect Europe to increasingly side with Beijing, and against America.
Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar, and Napoleon Bonaparte attend Joe Biden’s inauguration. They look at the heavy military presence, the FBI agents watching the small crowd, and a mob of media reporters.
This used to be a Soviet joke about a military parade in Moscow, but Soviet jokes are now becoming American reality.
With fellow travelers Kamala “Heels Up”Harris and “Fingering” Joe Biden sworn in as president and soon-to-be former-president under the watchful and approving eye of Comrade Xi Jinping.
Truly, it is, indeed, a glorious new day! We have so much to look forward to!
There is a very large, rich, and influential class of Americans who owe their wealth and standing to China, having mightily prospered through business ties to the Middle Kingdom. Every educated person in China understands the way such ties linking a wealthy elite beholden to foreign interests can be used to bring down even the mightiest of nations.
The word “comprador” (买办, pronounced mǎi bàn), referring to the Chinese businessmen that allied themselves with Western imperialists, becoming wealthy, and, in the view of the Chinese Communist Party betraying the nation, is a curse word among Communists.
“There are two kinds of bourgeoisie, the national bourgeoisie and the comprador-bourgeoisie. The comprador-bourgeoisie is always a running dog of imperialism. Mao Tse-Tung.”Some Experiences in Our Party’s History, 1956
Dex Bahr, elsewhere in American Thinker, correctly ties minimal media coverage of (and the previous suppression of) the story of the Swalwell spy scandal to the business interests of their corporate and individual masters.
What does Google/YouTube have in common with media outlets that have ignored the Swalwell Chinese spy scandal? CNN (Warner Media), NBC, MSNBC (Universal/Comcast), ABC/ESPN (Disney) and CBS (National Amusements) are all owned by companies that have been reported extensive business ties with Chinese Corporations which in turn are tied to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).
The owners of the New York Times, which include Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim who as of 2018 had a 15.4% stake, and perhaps as much as 17.4% if this account has it right, and at the Washington Post, where Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos bought it outright, also have business ventures with China based companies (Read this May 2020 story from the Federalist for further details).
I have been for years warning Americans that China’s Communist Party wants vengeance for the appalling depredations that Western countries inflicted on China when the first version of globalism arrived on their shores, resulting in the Opium Wars — fought to enforce the sale of opium over Chinese resistance, with the subsequent mass addiction and social decay that plunged China into poverty, violence, chaos, and humiliating subordination over the next three-and-a-half centuries.
Dangling Modifiers.
With a mere four centuries of our own history since the Pilgrims arrived on these shores, it is difficult for Americans to understand the weight of history on the Chinese mind. Their five millennia of recorded history, and their absolute dominance of their known world for thousands of years make it both natural and inevitable that China should dominate the world, and other nations pay tribute them, acknowledging their superior status.
Because the very legitimacy of the Chinese Communist Party depends on its struggle against the running dogs of imperialism, the mainland regime cannot let go of the desire for vengeance. In Taiwan historical reconciliation is widely accepted, and modern capitalist society, freely trading and prospering with the rest of the world as equals, is comfortable. Once liberated from communism, Chinese people can ignore the ignoble impulse to vengeance. It is ideology, not ethnicity, that makes China an enemy.
Make no mistake. Those business interests that are in bed with the Chinese Communists are regarded behind the walls of “Tien-an-Men”as despicable traitors to their own country, tools useful to the regime, to be discarded and crushed when the time arrives when power can be exercised from Beijing. It is a delusion to believe that they are going to democratize China and lift up the Chinese people to comfortable membership in the modern world economy as co-equals.
It is now time for Americans to understand how the Chinese themselves see their American domestic allies, including politicians like Eric Swalwell and Hunter Biden’s father already dancing to the tune of his masters, contemptible but useful pawns to be used to weaken and ultimately subdue their primary rival.
For the fourth consecutive year, President Donald J. Trump was robbed of his rightful place on the cover of TIME magazine’s “Person of the Year” issue.
The once-relevant publication didn’t have to choose Trump, who won the honor after defeating Hillary Clinton in 2016 and has deserved it every year of his presidency. There was an abundance of other worthy heroes the magazine could have celebrated for their achievements in 2020.
What about the front-line health care workers who, like Trump, put their lives on the line every day to combat a global pandemic? What about the scientists who, under Trump’s leadership, invented a revolutionary vaccine in record time? What about Trump’s children, who supported him every step of the way? What about the troops?
TIMEdecided to go in a different direction, however, as Joe Biden and Kamala Harris were collectively named Person of the Year for “changing America’s story,” whatever that means. It’s not like they did anything heroic. Trump, on the other hand, personally defeated COVID-19 within his own body, and practically invented a vaccine for everyone else.
Biden’s achievements in 2020, physical and otherwise, are underwhelming by comparison. He had cosmetic surgery, struggled to overcome his cognitive decline, and broke his foot while attempting to play with his dog. If he can survive for a few more weeks, he will become the oldest president to be sworn into office.
Harris, on the other hand, wowed the media in 2020 by wearing trendy shoes. She is the first former lover of 2019 Washington Free Beacon Man of the Year Willie Brown to win a national election. She will also be the second person of color to serve as vice president.
And journalists wonder why so many people think they’re out of touch with facts and logic.
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