The new cold war with China

Garuda

Pelican
Protestant
There appears to have been a Chinese political assassination in New York.



https://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/lawyer-murder-03162022141614.html

Police have arrested Zhang Xiaoning, who faces charges of homicide and unlawful possession of a weapon, they said in a statement. Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz will lead the prosecution.

Zhao Yan, a current affairs commentator with knowledge of the case, said there are concerns in Chinese émigré and dissident circles in the U.S. that Zhang, a student who was very active in exile pro-democracy groups, wasn't everything she appeared.

While Zhang had arrived in the U.S. in August 2021 on an F-1 student visa, she hadn't enrolled at any school, instead spending most of her time in pro-democracy activities among exiled Chinese dissidents.

Zhao said the type of injuries Li sustained during the attack suggested his assailant had received "professional training."
 

Belgrano

Ostrich
Gold Member
Professional assassins working for nation states don't kill their targets by stabbing them with a knife, and then allow themselves to get arrested.

Wang said people had raised questions about Zhang Xiaoning's identity after noting "paranoid and capricious" behavior on her part.
He said Li's murder took place shortly after he had told Zhang to stop coming to his office, and threatened to drop her political asylum case.

More likely that she was mentally unstable and became obsessed with Chinese propaganda, perhaps Li threatening to drop her asylum case caused her to finally lose her marbles and triggered her into action.

Who knows, maybe the Chinese are experimenting with MK-Ultra techniques.
 

911

Peacock
Catholic
Gold Member
Sri Lanka owes china over $5BN, amounting to about 10% of the nation's total foreign debt. Sri Lanka is an example of how big-ticket Chinese investments can go awfully wrong for a country.

The narrative about Sri Lanka foreign debt is always centered on China and the nefarious theme of "debt trap", but it turns out China only makes up 10% of their foreign debt, the US, Australia and Japan all have bigger loans outstanding to Sri Lanka.

The difference is that China's debt is actually tied to a productive infrastructure working asset which they have delivered to their customer client country, whereas traditional western loans are lump sums that are just given to foreign governments, where a lot of the loan money ends up being misspent due to bureaucratic inefficiency and corruption.

As well China by investing in assets like ports, airports, roads etc has a real stake in that country's economic development, the same kind of relationship that an equity investor has in a company he invests in. This is very much different from the traditional lending practices of globalist or western organisms like the IMF, which are a lot closer to usury.
 

Cynllo

Ostrich
Orthodox Inquirer
Choose your greatest ally.

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donovan

Robin
Orthodox Inquirer
What do you guys think of the leaked recording from the Chinese military?

If it's true (and not done deliberately) then it would suggest we're looking at an imminent Taiwan invasion.

 

Yeagerist

Kingfisher
Orthodox Catechumen
China just banned (or at least censored and cut) the latest Disney/Pixar movie for its blatant depiction of Buzz Lightyear as a homosexual in an interracial relationship.

I could already tell which side will emerge victor in this new "cold war" on both economic and moral spheres.

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Yeagerist

Kingfisher
Orthodox Catechumen
China just opened a new freight rail route to Iran (by way of Central Asia, I suppose). One step closer to becoming independent of Western economic dominance, and Washington can't sanction this because they physically can't.

With the writing on the wall of Russia's victory in Ukraine and a transition to a multipolar world order China and Iran are making their moves towards better economic ties.



 

SpyofMoses

Robin
Protestant
https://www.barrons.com/articles/sell-hyliion-stock-analyst-says-51655824557

Curious as to your thoughts on this. I've seen Peter Zeihan brought up before, but I dont know much about his writing. As I go through this article, I think I see his point. I am not all that informed, though...

There was another article linked somewhere on the forum(maybe even in this thread, not sure where I saw it) called the 'Tragedy and Terror of Wan Huning' that made me think, "maybe China has the same problems in dealing with how modernity tears the social fabric just like us here in the West?"
 

911

Peacock
Catholic
Gold Member
https://www.barrons.com/articles/sell-hyliion-stock-analyst-says-51655824557

Curious as to your thoughts on this. I've seen Peter Zeihan brought up before, but I dont know much about his writing. As I go through this article, I think I see his point. I am not all that informed, though...

There was another article linked somewhere on the forum(maybe even in this thread, not sure where I saw it) called the 'Tragedy and Terror of Wan Huning' that made me think, "maybe China has the same problems in dealing with how modernity tears the social fabric just like us here in the West?"

I've brought up the character of Wang Huning, currently #5 in the CCP hierarchy, and his importance as the leading force in modern China in terms of defining its cultural philosophy and outlook, in this post.

The Chinese don't see a fundamental problem with modernity, to the contrary, they believe that not only is it compatible with their confucian values, but also necessary to the welfare and independence of their people. In his book "America vs America", Wang Huning, who lived and travelled in the US in the 1980s, analyses American society as a foreigner, a bit like de Tocqueville, highlighting the good parts (free enterprise, American farming, higher education, etc) along with the dysfunctional side, which since then has grown significantly (cultural decadence, social and racial strife, feminism etc).

The Chinese understand that western social problems are not related to modernity per se, but to liberalism, which is often paired with unbridled capitalism. So they've focused on taking the best parts of capitalism and clamping down hard on cultural marxism.
 

SpyofMoses

Robin
Protestant
The Chinese understand that western social problems are not related to modernity per se, but to liberalism, which is often paired with unbridled capitalism.
I have always thought our problems were more from modernity and liberalism just made it worse. Maybe there's more to it...

The Chinese seem to have a sense of duty where we have a sense of entitlement. So it's not hard to imagine them chipping away at our hegemony. That book's now on my reading list.
 

Yeagerist

Kingfisher
Orthodox Catechumen
The Chinese don't see a fundamental problem with modernity, to the contrary, they believe that not only is it compatible with their confucian values, but also necessary to the welfare and independence of their people. In his book "America vs America", Wang Huning, who lived and travelled in the US in the 1980s, analyses American society as a foreigner, a bit like de Tocqueville, highlighting the good parts (free enterprise, American farming, higher education, etc) along with the dysfunctional side, which since then has grown significantly (cultural decadence, social and racial strife, feminism etc).

The Chinese understand that western social problems are not related to modernity per se, but to liberalism, which is often paired with unbridled capitalism. So they've focused on taking the best parts of capitalism and clamping down hard on cultural marxism.
You basically summarized what is otherwise the modern paradox of East Asian societies (I'm gonna have to include the Koreans and the Japanese for the sake of discussion) still retaining their own traditional cultures despite modernity and globalized capitalism. I might add that East Asians never saw themselves as being victims of Western imperialism per se but rather considered their races and civilizations on an equal standing with Christian Europe, on a stark contrast with, let's say, Indians or Arabs or sub-Saharan Africans. Probably why East Asians are beginning to be treated as having "white privilege" too by some woke leftists.

Perhaps this is the elephant in the room that white trads need to see, and there's no harm taking a note or two from East Asians on recovering traditional values and morality from globohomo infestation. Maybe even adapt Confucianism to some degree to bring hierarchy and respect for the patriarchy. Anglo-Saxon and Germanic cultures have been historically individualist but that individualism was tempered by a collective identity offered by Christianity.

These are the five main relationships which Confucius considered as essential for a functional society, and there's nothing here that is inherently in conflict against Christianity:

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Historically the main conflict between neo-Confucian scholars (which enjoyed state support in Korea during the Joseon Dynasty) and Christian converts, both Western and ethnic/native Korean, was over ancestor worship and the offering of incense and rice sacrifice to patrilineal ancestors, which Protestant Koreans rejected as a violation of the 2nd Commandment. However, this was more due to the cosmology from local folk religions which the Confucians co-opted because it served their ideological agenda of enforcing filial piety. The Catholics otoh worked their way around this by treating it as offering prayers for one's ancestors, in a similar manner as praying for intercession from the saints.
 
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