Το Νήμα της Σινοφοβίας

[Dwarven Blacksmith]

Μαθαίνω ότι οι Σέρβοι αδελφοί μας έμαθαν να γιορτάζουν την Κινεζική πρωτοχρονιά!

[Δημοκρατικός]

Μαθαίνω ότι οι Σέρβοι αδελφοί μας έμαθαν να γιορτάζουν την Κινεζική πρωτοχρονιά!

Προτεκτοράτο κανονικό η Σερβία.

[Dwarven Blacksmith]

Μαθαίνω ότι οι Σέρβοι αδελφοί μας έμαθαν να γιορτάζουν την Κινεζική πρωτοχρονιά!

Προτεκτοράτο κανονικό η Σερβία.

Τους ξεβλάχεψε καλά ο Slobodan Trkulja.

Τι κάνει ο Μπακογιάννης; Που πάνε οι φόροι μου;

[Rayndeer13]

Στη Κίνα υπάρχει το μεγαλύτερο και αρχαιότερο κύκλωμα μαφίας. Οι τριάδες. Με μυστηριώδη πανίσχυρα μέλη που κινούνται στις σκιές και έχουν καίριες θέσεις στη κυβέρνηση.

[Rayndeer13]

Παθετικ.

Meanwhile, τώρα μαθαίνετε και άλλον ένα από τους σκοπούς της Σινοφοβίας

America’s best hope of hanging together is China


Janan Ganesh

February 16, 2021

One of the first battles in the American civil war took place near a Missouri town that it amused fate to name Carthage. Two millennia before, the Romans sacked the original, only to turn against themselves in the ensuing peace. Metus hostilis, fear of the enemy, had kept the republic together, wrote the historian Sallust, a favourite of the US founders. Without it, discord and corruption had licence to breed.

If the US is always recruiting for a Carthage (Gore Vidal referred to its “enemy of the month club”) it is not because of an innate militarism. It is just that peace can be a psychic ordeal. Without an ethnic basis, a nation can need something outside to define itself against. The civil war happened after the US trounced the closest thing it had to a local threat in Mexico. Urban strife grew between the world wars: it was armed mobilisation, not just the New Deal, that bound ethnic Italians, Poles and Irish into a civic whole. As for the cold war, note the surge in partisanship after its end. Unanimous confirmations of Supreme Court nominees are one proxy-measure of a co-operative Washington. There has not been one since 1988.

An unchallenged US is a divided US. It follows that America’s best hope of retaining some cohesion in the coming decades is a mighty China. What is disastrous for its relative power in the world might turn out to be a godsend for its internal cohesion. Decline has its uses.

None of the other answers to the nation’s disunity is even faintly adequate. Better-regulated social media, more competitive congressional districts: these reforms are sensible on their own terms. But the mismatch between the depth of the problem and the fiddliness of the solutions is the definition of bathos.

“Bring back weekly bipartisan Senate meetings” and “Bring back patriotic art” are other ideas that do the trivial rounds. Because they give up so much to acquire power, politicians tend to overrate how much policy can ever achieve against structural and historical forces. The US did not enter an age of discord because of some technical faults in its political system. It will not escape the mire by fixing them.

Only an external foe can do that. But not just any will do. The US requires two things of an enemy: vast scale (to induce fear) and a different model of government (for a sense of otherness). The absence of the first is why al-Qaeda turned out to be such a fleeting adhesive on US society after the September 11 2001 atrocities. As lethal as it is, terror — even the word is an abstract noun — is too diffuse and de-territorialised a thing. As to the second condition, boom-era Japan, a fellow democracy, lacked it and so never crossed from daunting commercial rival to nation-binding enemy.

China scores extravagantly well on both counts. Even Americans who do not mind the loss of world primacy can object to the usurper’s political model.

It is tempting to invert the causality here. Perhaps it is not a common enemy that unifies the nation. Rather, only a unified nation can agree on a common enemy.

But recent events suggest otherwise. In his first month as president, Joe Biden has undone almost every eye-catching tenet of Donald Trump’s foreign policy. The US is rejoining the UN Human Rights Council. It is open to a revival of the Iran nuclear pact, with conditions. Relations with Saudi Arabia are colder. In a virtual G7 summit on Friday, Biden will continue his rapprochement with familiar allies.

The one line of rough continuity is China. Beijing threatens to “eat our lunch”, says Biden. The US faces “extreme competition”. It is with China in mind that his administration is taking a protectionist line on federal procurement and mulling over a coalition of democracies. One of the few subjects of weight on which America has cross-party agreement is China. And this is after just a few years of great-power showdown (2021 is approximately 1948 in cold war terms). If and when the US is overtaken in economic size, the sense of unity in adversity is likelier to deepen than fade.

“We are going to do a terrible thing to you,” Georgi Arbatov, the Soviet adviser, is said to have told an American audience in the 1980s. “We are going to deprive you of an enemy.” What a neat but desperate line it must have seemed at the time. How chillingly prescient it now reads. If the deprivation is ending, the US stands to gain in togetherness what it loses in clout. It should not need saying which is more precious.

https://www.ft.com/content/de6a5d8d-374 ... 0d59380f9e

Θέλεις να γίνεις διάσημος;

[dna replication]

[Eθνικοκοινωνιστης]

Κίνα: Εκτελέστηκε για διαφθορά ο επικεφαλής του επενδυτικού ταμείου, Λάι Σιαομίν

https://www.protothema.gr/world/article ... i-siaomin/


στην γιολαντα θα τον αναβαθμιζαν σε υπουργο

[Dwarven Blacksmith]

Κίνα: Εκτελέστηκε για διαφθορά ο επικεφαλής του επενδυτικού ταμείου, Λάι Σιαομίν

https://www.protothema.gr/world/article ... i-siaomin/


στην γιολαντα θα τον αναβαθμιζαν σε υπουργο

Το είχαμε βάλει ότι ήταν επίκαιρο. Αλλά καλή πάσα για να ξαναθυμηθούμε:

Σι, ο Αδιάφθορος.


https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/09BEIJING3128_a.html

Xi also
does not care at all about money and is not corrupt, the
professor stated. Xi can afford to be incorruptible, the
professor wryly noted, given that he was born with a silver
spoon in his mouth. It is likely that Xi could, however, be
"corrupted by power."

Xi knows how very corrupt China is and is repulsed by
the all-encompassing commercialization of Chinese society,
with its attendant nouveau riche, official corruption, loss
of values, dignity, and self-respect, and such "moral evils"
as drugs and prostitution, the professor stated. The
professor speculated that if Xi were to become the Party
General Secretary, he would likely aggressively attempt to
address these evils, perhaps at the expense of the new
moneyed class.

Χιντ, αν δεν βαριέστε να κλικάρετε, θα βρείτε και αρνητικές παραγράφες τις οποίες μπορείτε να αντιγράψετε to own me.

[Dwarven Blacksmith]

Οι Κινέζοι ζούμερς ψάχνουν τι να κάνουν με τα λεφτά τους.

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/02/17/china-c ... rands.html

[talaipwros]

Ξέρομε ποσοι πρόσφυγες πανε στον κινεζικό παράδεισο για να φτιάξουν τη ζωη τους;

[Dwarven Blacksmith]

Ξέρομε ποσοι πρόσφυγες πανε στον κινεζικό παράδεισο για να φτιάξουν τη ζωη τους;

Δεν πάνε, διαβάζουν Δυτικό τύπο και σώζονται.

[talaipwros]

Ξέρομε ποσοι πρόσφυγες πανε στον κινεζικό παράδεισο για να φτιάξουν τη ζωη τους;

Δεν πάνε, διαβάζουν Δυτικό τύπο και σώζονται.

Ξερομε γιατι δεν πανε στον κινεζικό παράδεισο οι πρόσφυγες;

[Dwarven Blacksmith]

Ξέρομε ποσοι πρόσφυγες πανε στον κινεζικό παράδεισο για να φτιάξουν τη ζωη τους;

Δεν πάνε, διαβάζουν Δυτικό τύπο και σώζονται.

Ξερομε γιατι δεν πανε στον κινεζικό παράδεισο οι πρόσφυγες;

Μα το είπα, δεν θέλουν να γενοκτονηθούν πρώτον και κατά δεύτερον ξέρουν καλά ότι ο μισθός στην Κίνα είναι 1-2 πιάτα ρύζι (2 είναι στα παράλια).

[talaipwros]

Δεν πάνε, διαβάζουν Δυτικό τύπο και σώζονται.

Ξερομε γιατι δεν πανε στον κινεζικό παράδεισο οι πρόσφυγες;

Μα το είπα, δεν θέλουν να γενοκτονηθούν πρώτον και κατά δεύτερον ξέρουν καλά ότι ο μισθός στην Κίνα είναι 1-2 πιάτα ρύζι (2 είναι στα παράλια).

Επιτέλους μια ρεαλιστική απάντηση απο τον νανο

Την κρατώ ως δεδομένη θέση σου για τα της Κίνας

[Δημοκρατικός]

Ξέρομε ποσοι πρόσφυγες πανε στον κινεζικό παράδεισο για να φτιάξουν τη ζωη τους;

Δεν πάνε, διαβάζουν Δυτικό τύπο και σώζονται.

Ξερομε γιατι δεν πανε στον κινεζικό παράδεισο οι πρόσφυγες;

Mετά κλαίγονται για ρατσισμό στις ΗΠΑ