Misunderstanding Hong Kong’s protests
I am pretty sure an organization
(financed by the U.S. government) finances or even trains the Hong Kong rioters
and so are many other riots around the world.
Double standards on human rights
U.S. has used different human
rights standards to fit their political views. Are many countries in the Middle
East violating human rights far more than China? Allowing our citizens shooting
each other is a violation to me. Check out how many citizens are killed by the
police every year and compare it to the numbers in other developed countries.
What is the evidence of Huawei’s spying others using the phones and compare it to
ours? The list is endless.
More on human rights
The western standard applies to
the west and Chinese standard applies to China.
Human rights come in priority: Food,
Clothes, Housing, Freedom, Education… from my yardstick (everyone’s is
different). Without food, how can you think of freedom; many could argue with
me on this as they have never been starving. When you are freezing to death
without clothes and housing, all the freedom in the world would do you no good.
China had lifted more than 500
millions from poverty and starving to death. I close my case.
China is still not a rich country
and it cannot afford to protect all human rights with her limited resources. For
example, she cannot afford to spend millions in trials such as O.J.’s case.
The social score could be an easy
way to control her citizens. It does not seem workable in our society but it is
effective in China. While we complain our privacy, China has developed the
facial recognition and have been successful in catching criminals.
Tibet and minorities in Western China
Some argue genocide on Chinese
minorities in these regions. These are all fade news (real fake new). The media
print what you want to hear without checking out the facts. The reality is Chinese
minorities did not have to follow “one-child policy” as the Hans (the majority)
had. How can it be genocide?
So far they have got more than
they give out. Before the ‘liberation’, only Tibetan Monks could get an education
and now all have compulsory basic education. The train to Tibet increases the
living standard of all Tibetans. The generous financial aids to the earthquake
in Tibet is another example.
The high-speed train to Western China
will never be paid back. It is also used to suppress the riots (good or bad
depending on your viewpoint) that destroy the peace of the society. The minorities
in Western China are the chief beneficiaries of the “One Belt, One Road” Initiative.
China’s foreign policy
The big difference between the U.S.’s
is a non-interference policy. They just want to trade with you and do not care
about your government policy and/or human rights practice.
If you do not want to trade, it
is fine too. When the Brits found they had nothing to trade with China, they
pushed opium obtained from India as a nation and killed millions of Chinese. The
trade was enforced by battleships and big guns. Later on the eight nations
including U.S. and Japan semi colonized China and changed China history for the
worst.
Is Chinese government or the U.S. government better?
No government is perfect.
China’s government. It is authoritative.
It is not communist as they do not let you set up shops. For the last 40 years,
it has lifted millions away from poverty. In Mao’s time, millions starved to
death. You cannot conclude which government is good or bad as it all depends on
how the leader governs the country. China does not want to unfriend any foreign
country if you do not follow their ideas. Many developing countries want to
adopt China’s ideas as the results are good.
China’s policy is making both China
and your country both prosperous by investing China’s excess trade deficits
with you such as the “One Belt, One Road” Initiative.
U.S.’s government. One major problem
is we have been wasting time in arguing with each other.
“One man, one vote” is ideal. However,
if the citizens are not educated enough, it would not make the best decisions. The
politicians have to buy votes such as the welfare recipients to satisfy both
objectives. Our politicians look for 4 years, so many big infrastructure
projects will have no payback even our bridges and roads are deteriorating.
If you believe that U.S.
government is democratic and fair, you believe in fairy tales. Anyone can write
a good-size book on this topic.
Teenagers,
If you’re using China’s TikTok
for fun in creating your funny videos, you may be harmful to our national
security. Give me a break please.
Too much control?
We have to relax on privacy, so
we do not be left behind in artificial intelligence / facial recognition from
China. So is stem cell research.
Is Syria’s oil ours?
If not, why should we send
soldiers to protect the oil?
The recession is coming
The last one was rescued by China
buying our debts. Not this time I bet.
Land of opportunities
It is about 50 years after the
fall of Vietnam. First I have to thank the veterans who sacrificed for us even
it is the wrong war at least to some. Have we been threatened by Vietnam today?
Why we protected a corrupt government?
Initially the Vietnamese refugees
were the burden of the society; some were accused of welfare cheaters and some
were too tough (not surprising from what they went through).
The first generation changes the
bad image COMPLETAELY. Most are working as respected citizens. Many are
professionals and they rank very high as a racial group in social status in our
society.
S.E. Asia
If you have been to any S.E. Asia
country, you will find the infrastructure and construction projects built or
being built by Chinese. It has improved the living standard over there.
However, they also have to depend on the debt burden from China. U.S. has
neglected this market. It is too late now to do anything. Even if they redirect
the factories from China to this area, China still benefits a lot in years to
come and China eventually have to suffer from their own success with higher
wages and stricter environment control. The “Blue Dot project” is designed to
rescue their financial influence in S.E. Asia. It is too little and too late.
It is designed by folks who have not been to this area lately and/or this is
the silly response to what their boss asked.
Why Chinese grow so fast
From Ming’s period, China had
half of the world’s GDP. China declined due to her ignorance of the industrial
revolution and the advances from the west.
Now, they learn the lessons and
humiliation for the 100 years after the first Opium War. They had a sign in
front of a Chinese park saying “No Chinese and Dog”. What will you feel if a foreign country do
this to you? Nixon took out the embargo and Deng had great vision.
Today China’s per capital income
is about ¼ of the US and a little more if purchase power is considered. Chinese
living standard has been improved by better infrastructure to start. China’s
next steps should be clean water and clean air. China plows back a lot of income
in research and education. They learn and practice my theory of consumption vs.
investing).
Why China’s rail develops so fast
