one of the surest ways to lose a game is to play against an opponent who can think more moves into the future than you can and who orchestrates a deep game on timescales that are in excess of your consideration. you’ll see small moves and fail to grasp their significance. you may even think you’re gaining advantage when, in fact, your one move look ahead is about to get you into serious trouble against someone who has already mapped out the next nine. […]
from ideas like the “hundred year marathon” to the deliberate penetration of universities, companies, and government to extract knowledge and intellectual property, the chinese government thinks in timeframes and order of magnitude past those of the west. they think of themselves as “the middle kingdom” below heaven but above the barbarous “rest of humanity.”
they too have a belief in a kind of “manifest destiny.”
and they too play nasty, subtle games.
so do other asiatic nations.
now imagine you wanted to play this same “alien long-game” with another superpower who you desire and feel duty bound to supplant as global hegemon.
how do you weaken them?
how do you lock them in pace and render them unable to progress or compete with you?
because it sure seems like “destroying the fidelity of their education and educational systems” would be a fine place to start. so too would be “destroying their faith in sound technologies and convincing them to chase absurd, malfunctioning ones.”
there is a fascinating confluence of “green” parties, especially anti-nuclear activism, and funding from various communist sources.
The Communists didn’t even take a breath in 1989. Everyone thinks they just disappeared.
The true believers doubled down.
At most they laid low for a while to see if their covers were blown, then looked to the closest ideological bidder to continue their destruction of the west.
No, after reading the Brundtland Report, they took over the Enviromental [sic] movement.
took over? no, the environmental “movement” was founded and funded by the KGB, and useless idiots continue to give
oooooh lordy tq Kate. l was married to a Cantonese lady, got a 30 year look at chinese culture and mindset, decades of interest in history and politics.
you. are. spot. on.
their entire experience proves it. miniscule and grand scale, short or long term same thing: the ultimate objective: dominance.
and in a way l dont blame them, their dynasties were pulled down and then the opium wars enslaved them, WW II invasion & atroCITIES (get it?), fresh in the nation’s memory.
l wrote a research paper in 2011, pointed out that China is poised to become a world power for the second time; and that, for the first time ever in all history.
One of my best friends is a champion chess player. At the end of a game, he can, from memory, go backward move by move, analyze and show you where you went wrong. Showoff.
There’s a saying that if you’re in a poker game and can’t figure out who the sucker is, it’s you.
Poker and Chess are two very different games; one is a game of complete information (it’s all in front of you) , the other is a game of incomplete information (you do not know what cards the other players have). One should be good at both.
Yes, this is all true, but I still think China is in a “death spiral” due to the major mistake of the one child policy. They have too many men, not enough women. All the babies born, starting in the late 1960’s, and accelerating through the 1970’s and 1980’s, were boys who are now men in their mid-30’s to early 50’s. In another 10 years, there will be many going into retirement.
And I realize that China has a huge population, but India is now the largest country (via population) in the world. Mind you, India has the same problem of too many men, not enough women. Without women, stable family units cannot be established. AS the old Chinese proverb says “May you live in interesting times!” We shall see what happens in the next 10-15 years.
All those single men want wives, and since their own countries don’t have them, they will get them somewhere else. Guess where.
Bingo Dan
Russian men mortality under age 60 women over age 75. A fit for the Chinese men.
BM
When you pontificate through blindness……………………
They are going through peak population now, as has the West; India will follow as it becomes wealthier and then Africa, but its population is still growing fast. The world’s population is expected, I believe, to peak at around 9 billion and then decrease to around … ? The Malthusians and misanthropists are full of Blarney Science and there are no limits to growth.
Nature will provide the limits.
The one child policy is just one part of the major mistake: communism. But the fact that communism will eventually fail on it’s own doesn’t mean communist China’s actions against us won’t ensure the West collapses first.
Because we are being run by truly stupid people … “educated by the eco-frauds” … we have adopted a “one calf” policy. We won’t have a problem with people finding partners … but the bulls may have to fight over the remaining cows.
This article came to mind when the concerted opposition to Alberta’s moratorium on wind and solar was announced. It’s also why the LPC / NDP are happy with Xi’s electoral and political assistance.
Much of this is probably true, but I don’t think they initiated the global warming cult. I think that East Anglia, Al Gore, the State of California, David Suzuki, maybe even Greta, are all true believers.
Some of the stated long-game planning is also on didplay by South Korea and they hate communism. They have no desire for subsequent generations to be two inches shorter. They do desire to be rich in spite of their limited natural resources. In the eighties everyone was afraid that Japan would rule the world soon. Today their debt to GDP ratio is 266%, second only to Venezuela!! The US is 12th at “only” 128%. Many of the problems facing the West are self inflicted and Asian countries are very happy to take advantage of that fact, including China.
Many of the progressive “intelligentsia” are essentially Luddites. Suzuki, for example is and his overarching thesis is essentially that all human activity above the level of low population, hunter-gatherer is destroying the planet, that humans are nothing better than ants and should be coerced into living accordingly. They are generally against everything that allows humans to live longer and easier and much of public funded academia justifies its “scientific” pursuits in reinforcement of that thesis. Where this was first obvious was when the anti-nuclear crowd was successful in stalling nuclear power growth in the west 50 years ago.
The CCP is not Luddite (they’ll use every advanced technology that they can steal) but they have harnessed the nihilist pathologies of the west in the west that lead to its weakness and destruction. Progressives are their 21st century useful idiots too and there is no better example of that than Canada’s PMs named Trudeau.
I agree, but there’s other dynamics at play such as the one child policy mentioned above.
Another fundamental factor is that while the west became decadent, lazy and complacent, the CCP, which makes up less than 10% of the population, are existentially motivated to provide for the remaining 90%. Leaders like Trudeau and Biden embody the late-stage dying republic decadence and corruption before an apathetic citizenry who have no civilizational pride or fight left in them. It’s made us vulnerable and almost powerless in the face of Chinese exploitation and subversion.
Greta is a baseline example of enshrining mediocrity.
The blatant and brutal villyfying of anything useful, is the prime example of punishing ability.
Exactly as Rand called it.
“Mediocrity”? Are you trying to be kind to Greta? I think such flattery doesn’t really do her any good.
The article is good, but this idea predates Putin.
“there is a fascinating confluence of “green” parties, especially anti-nuclear activism, and funding from various communist sources.”
This confluence was first set up by Yuri Andropov in the late 1960s. The Central Committee was becoming aware that the USSR was declining relative to the West in economic and military performance. The USSR produced nothing anyone else wanted except oil and gas. So Andropov created this confluence to ensure that the weakest NATO link, West Germany, would remain captive to the Russian oil and gas industry.
It worked, and that’s why Andropov was named Brezhnev’s successor in 1979 when Leonid died. Putin didn’t need to invent anything. The Soviets before him had already put it in place.
exactly. from his early vantage point, Putin the fast learner saw the path he should take
to put himself at the helm. he is in essence, merely a long term ‘caretaker’.
Agreed. There’s nothing original in Putin. He’s just another Tsar not terribly different from those before him. His invasion of Ukraine was intended by him to be just a special operation of a week or so. The intent was a rapid overthrow of the Ukraine government and takeover of the entire country just the way he absorbed and took over Crimea. Putin’s intentions were defeated the very first night when the Ukrainian defense forces shot down all his spetsnaz teams en route to their targets. Sloppy communications control by the Russians let everyone know what was coming.
So he’s not original at all. He was a KGB operative. Intelligence types think in terms of special operations lasting a day or two. A quick coup, and it’s all over. This is why intelligence types are so very bad at war planning. We saw this with George Bush Sr. in 1991 in Gulf War 1. He thought it would be a short, quick war. Instead it had to be redone a decade later.
The Chinese have two books written by Wang Hnu Nign (probably spelled wrong) called “Unrestricted Warfare” and “America against America” that basically explain the strategy they use now, both written in the 90s.
The only defense we had was an educated population.. That’s been flushed down the toilet and replaced with globalism.. As if other peoples money is worth fighting for?.. As if your opinion matters when Mr. Gun Butt introduces itself to the side of your head..
Flesh and bone.. Fun and games.. If you don’t celebrate who you are and what you stand for.. Your language will die along with the comprehension of what made your culture tick.. We are all in boarding school now..
Who knows maybe in 100 years some University can patch it all together from pictures and a few twice removed elders.. We can sell soapstone and hang out on the front lawn of the Parliament buildings?..
Clinton saw to it that china got “most favored nation” in the wto. They used their time wisely. As someone said earlier, they played a longer game than just next quarter.
But as someone else said, they’re not quite the fear we’ve been mongered, but several much worse.
If turd admires them, they must be awful.
I wonder, when the time comes for our future masters to express their sincere admiration towards a certain post-national country’s crop of useful idiots, if the proceedings will be televised.
Oh, and will there be popcorn ..?
I know it’s convenient to scapegoat the Chinese, but you’re wrong.
It isn’t the Chinese that want you weak, it’s your own government.
It’s your government that shipped your jobs overseas, it’s your government that dumbs down every thing. It’s your government that hates you. It’s your government (or the powers that be) that strip you of your rights, your property, your religious beliefs.
It’s very convenient to scapegoat the Chinese and their one and a half foreign military bases, after all, if we stop fighting each other and that country that makes half your stuff, we might decide to pull a Niger on the fockers that are the real oppressors.
Oh look! A balloon! Not just any balloon but a Chinese Spy Balloon!
Meanwhile tax the stupid peasants, Justin has another appointment with the money men, their profits aren’t big enough, and the peasants are getting too wealthy.
But sure.. the Chinese are the problem. Believe it if you wish, it’ll give you something to soothe your conscience. It’s always easier to blame someone else rather than stare truth in the eye. If you did that you might have to do something about it, whereas if you blame China, you don’t have to do a damn thing.
Quite right. The instrument of doing all this was the World Trade Agreement in 1995. It was “our” own bankers and industrial corporations which were willing creaters and partners of this.
The human species will do as it has done for thousands of years, wax and wane. Nature will decide, not man.