This one was on my Google feed. I try not to click those links, but this caught my attention. Makes me wonder if the Chinese are intentionally letting things like this reach western news media to promote the idea that China really does do more for it's own people than the US government does for it's own people.
(I'm at a point where I don't know what to think of this stuff anymore.)
Seems there’s nobody significant in the West who has been following China or the CCP for a decent amount of time.
Back in the 80’s/90’s the CCP came up with its great plan for the ‘environment’ : its Green Wall.
It was going to re-forest the wilderness edges of China and do its bit to re-oxygenate the planet or at least China.
This is from the country that has Mao on its banknotes. Mao who believed in the theories of Lysenkoism.
The CCP, the party of Mao, produced probably the worst famine in human history between the late 50s and early 60s where at least 30 and up to 60 million people starved to death.
Famine by centralised executive fiat.
China is full of Centralised State diktats that sound lovely but make no sense in practical terms.
They don’t do anything (at their most benign) and then after its realised they’re not achieving anything they are quickly ignored and forgotten about.
Trump’s “keeping an eye on things” and Biden’s “resounding success in Afghanistan”, the meme-dog drinking tap water in a burning building, Jen Psaki, all of these have nothing on the CCP for denying the reality on the ground and then memory holing their failures later.
The successful novel by Jiang Roang “The Wolf Flag” appealed to its Chinese readership for many reasons but one was its implication that central CCP diktats were catastrophic for the people on the edges of China.
Everybody likes to talk about Mike Tyson and having plans, having a plan until one is punched in the mouth.
Domestically, the CCP has never been punched in the mouth.
So it goes along bluffing its way out of any policy failure and who can afford to differ?
What difference does all the wasted effort make?
To all intents and purposes. None.
Can I remind everybody of China’s (((Climate Change))) promise?
Carbon Neutral by 2060 ..
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/23/world/asia/china-climate-change.html
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/arti...carbon-neutral-goal-raises-questions-kg6d82y2
The question with their carbon-neutral claims is .. how? Just.. how?
Oh. Well you see they’re going to
increase their carbon emissions until 2030, but thereafter they will
definitely decrease them, fingers crossed.
Outside of bought and paid for CCP propaganda on the internet: How are they actually going to do that?
So far they’ve taken the cheapest form of development with the highest environmental cost. Pumping raw sewage and industrial poison into rivers such that often their rivers struggle to reach the sea.
Their real solution? China is sitting on the tap. China is the only country in Asia that is currently diverting waters from the Tibetan Plateau to its far away, thirsty, water-insecure cities.
Thats how the CCP really operates.
Talk idealistic baloney, rely on people internationally to re-tweet, share, enthuse over their spin and propaganda - then, when the opportunity arises, take the most brutal and short term approach to fixing their problems.
Tucker says, “Can they actually stop the youth from worshipping these online celebrities? ..Probably not.”
"But its a start!" I hear everyone cry.
"Isn’t it?" China Really Is setting the lead in world affairs …
These kids are using their parents phones and internet connections for internet use and gaming purposes. Even if China does go to the symbolic length of getting tough there’ll be an immediate work around.
Tell Chinese parents to take their own phones away from the gaze of their screen-addicted toddlers when its their go-to parenting solution in pretty much all situations? Won’t happen.
No government in the world is seriously concerned about screen addiction or the social media that gives it its control grid.
I’d argue that China is THE the most smart-phone addicted nation in the world which the CCP largely enables.
That much vaunted Green Wall?
Well the actuality was that back when Manchuria was actually Manchu and no Han were allowed to live there it was well forested.
Today there is no forest left. Inside 100 years.
Cue insincere “we’re going to build a green wall!”
Today? There are hundreds of thousands of stunted, dried up dead trees on the margins of China, the only remnant of CCP grandstanding.
Carbon neutral by 2060? Read crushing Taiwan well before 2060 and telling rest of the world to get lost. "What climate goals? Sorry, can't hear you.."
Somehow limiting it youth's internet use and making sure that its young aren’t screen addicted? Empty words.
They can’t/won’t do it and the CCP are happy with that screen time just as much as anyone else.