The anti-China machine is in full gear. Western nations are cranking out new reasons to hate China every day. Some is true, some is not, all is justified because China chose to respond in control, concealment, and censorship. Much how George W Bush build a case against Iraq, which many believed to be fake from the get go, people will support action against China because of other indisputable things China has done.
The better road would have been to empower China with values rather than enabling China with money. Some foolishly thought, or at least claimed to think, that giving China Western money would teach China Western values. That’s as silly an idea as thinking that giving a child a birthday cake every day will teach the child to appreciate hard work. Instead of virtue, the West raised China be like Marie Antoinette who answered poverty by saying, “Let them eat cake.”
China’s solution to Western growth is to defeat the West with technology copied from the West. That’s not a nation that learned our values, but underappreciated our hard work to a point that they would go to war with great weakness: lack of ingenuity. Like a butcher prepares a cow, the West fattened China for the slaughter and China was all to happy to get fat and angry.
Great Pacific
Taiwan refutes Philippine claim that China has say in OFW’s fate // Taiwan News
China
Intelligence report says China lied about origin of coronavirus // NY Post
Chinese military lashes out at American warship’s ‘intrusion’ in South China Sea // SCMP
China Standards 2035: Behind Beijing’s plan to shape future technology // CNBC
Hong Kong
China’s new ‘rule of law’ in Hong Kong sets stage for new protests // Yahoo News
Hong Kong police break up pro-democracy singing protest at mall // Yahoo News
Korean Peninsula
Kim Jong Un surfaces on state media with mark on wrist // NY Post
Kim Jong Un’s uncle emerges as possible successor in North Korea // NY Post