China

China is an old civilization with traditions. Now it has adopted Western science, Western engineering. China is on the rise as the West falters. There will be consequences. Economic power will make things different.

Chinese Threat Level
The threat is a consequence of their industrial rise. Economic power means they can afford a bigger navy to protect their imports from Africa and the Middle East. It will look like aggressive intent. It might turn into that.

 

The Geopolitics of Sexual Frustration
The lost boys of Professor Albert Macovski are upon us. Twenty years ago, the ultrasound scanning machine came into widespread use in Asia. It meant that parents would know whether they had a boy or a girl on the way. In China they want boys so girls got aborted and they now have too many young men coming through. Young men with no wives are prone to other influences. Politicians on the make and war are just two. We will live in interesting times.

 

Chinese Weaknesses
Morgan Stanley, a financial heavy weight talks to serious investors in Kuwait and China. There are big tensions in China. A lot of money is going in so it is getting richer but the peasants are not seeing any of it. They aren't quite starving - yet but a bad harvest could change that.  It could all turn sour.

 

 Chinese Infiltration of Australia
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Chen’s apotheosis, and his account of the prosecution within Australia of a campaign against the “five poisons”—the Uighurs, Falun Gong, Tibetan Buddhists, Taiwanese splittists and democracy activists—threw into the spotlight the vitality and diversity of political, cultural and religious commitments in Chinese Australia, matching the Chinese world’s drive towards economic and diplomatic success. One of the reasons for the intensity of the debate inside the Chinese community here is that it cannot take place inside China itself. In Hong Kong and in Taiwan, yes, but in the People’s Republic, no.
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Much of this applies to England with a Chinese take away on every high street.

 

China Versus India
It begins with sabre rattling. This is good news for the merchants of death. Then men start getting hurt. It can blow up in their faces and ours. Nuclear fall out spreads far and wide.

 

Good Government - China Has It. Russia Ditto
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"Eighty-six percent of Chinese people surveyed said they were content with the country's direction, up from 48 percent in 2002. ... And 82 percent of Chinese were satisfied with their national economy, up from 52 percent," said the Times. [Economy Helps Make Chinese The Leaders In Optimism, Survey Finds, By Brian Knowlton, July 23, 2008]
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Good government is possible. England hasn't got it. Nor has America.