I know a few people with contacts in the Chinese diasporic and dissident communities. They’ve been telling me for the past few years – even before the pandemic – to watch out for what’s going on in China.
To Americans inured to rioting in Minneapolis and Portland, the news of riots in Shanghai, not long after rioting in formerly-free Hong King, might elicit an ignorant shrug.
So it may not be immediately apparent how striking it is to see scenes like this in China: a man, yelling “Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death” (at 3:08), is dragged away by police and militia…
…and then dragged back by the passersby.
Chinese subjects, forcefully re-capturing someone arrested by the cops.
That’s a little like the famous Tienanmen Square guy putting down his groceries, pulling a Molotov Cocktail out of the bag, and setting the tank on fire.
Lest you feel too happy, it gets much worse.
Around 7:15, the story follows a fire call at a large apartment in Xinjiang. Firemen have a hard time reaching the building at all, due to Covid lockdown restrictions. Since the building is locked down, the fire escapes are locked shut – and the death toll was horrific (as the cell phone conversation captured around 7:30 shows).
Around 8:35: residents unblock a neighborhood that had been sealed off for over three months, and send the police running.
I know – don’t give Tim Walz any ideas, right?
But the people were not amused.
Various whispers from the dissident community – which you can credit or not, as the attribution is pretty much all underground – is that a whooole lot of Chinese students and emigres are the children of party members who are trying to get their families ensconced somewhere safe before things blow up. Whether that’s wishful thinking or prescience, time will tell.
On the one hand, totalitarian dictators are generally very good at seeing to their own survival (until they’re not).
On the other? In 1980, the record shows Ronald Reagan was just about the only person who could see the USSR collapsing. In historical scale, it all happened so quickly after that – almost too quickly for the left to claim they’d predicted it all along.
Is China the same?
More on this in the future.
One has to wonder if the people are waking up to what could happen to them if indeed China goes for Taiwan. “OK, my only child is in the Army, they’re thinking of sending him through a gantlet of antiship missiles and U.S. nuclear submarines….time to take a stand.”
Fascist gropey joe regime spokeswhore: Apple is a private company, they can make changes which will hinder China’s protesters
What about Twitter, it’s a private company?
That’s a different situation.
effing thieves whores and liars, all the dhimmicraps.
CNN then: Europe’s loud, rulebreaking unvaxed minority are falling out of society
CNN now: At the heart of china’s protests against zero covid, young people cry for freedom.
Inconsistent much?
Effing liars. Getting laid off too ha ha ha ha ha
kinlaw, Fascism can be either left or right; Mousilini was a Socialist before he founded the PNF.
But the bag of nitwits currently in control are neither Fascist, or Communist. They’re really not Anarchist either. I honestly don’t know if there’s a term for ruling via degeneracy, debauchery and insanity, with the goal of subjugating the population.
It’s never been seen in the wild, and Eric Blair didn’t give it a name in his seminal novel. I bet rAT could tell us, though.
kinlaw, Fascism can be either left or right; Mousilini was a Soci@list before he founded the PNF.
But the bag of nitwits currently in control are neither Fascist, or Communist. They’re really not Anarchist either. I honestly don’t know if there’s a term for ruling via degeneracy, debauchery and insanity, with the goal of subjugating the population.
It’s never been seen in the wild, and Eric Blair didn’t give it a name in his seminal novel. I bet rAT could tell us, though.
“How many fingers am I holding up, Winston?’
‘Four.’
‘And if the party says that it is not four but five—then how many?’
‘Four.”
‘Sometimes, Winston. Sometimes they are five. Sometimes they are three. Sometimes they are all of them at once. You must try harder. It is not easy to become sane.’
‘Sometimes, Winston. Sometimes they are male. Sometimes they are female. Sometimes they are male with a vagina. Sometimes they are female with a penis. Sometimes they are all of them at once. You must try harder. It is not easy to become sane.’
“How many fingers am I holding up, Winston?’
‘Four.’
‘And if the party says that it is not four but five—then how many?’
‘Four.”
‘Sometimes, Winston. Sometimes they are five. Sometimes they are three. Sometimes they are all of them at once. You must try harder. It is not easy to become sane.’
‘Sometimes, Winston. Sometimes they are male. Sometimes they are female. Sometimes they are male with a v@gina. Sometimes they are female with a pen1s. Sometimes they are all of them at once. You must try harder. It is not easy to become sane.’
Poorly read Patriots™ often believe that Blair was a right winger, or perhaps a “Conservative”.
The fact is, he was a dedicated Democratic Soci@list. The fact that he wrote both Animal Farm and 1984 as a critique of Communism (Stalinism in fact) while still holding on to the fantasy that Soci@lism in any form always leads to domination by the party elite is a classic case of cognitive dissonance, imo.
Pedo Pete’s regime is scared to death of the ChiComs. Even as they crack down on their own citizens, the regime issues a lukewarm rebuke. Same with supporting Brazilians and Venezuelans. Reagan was correct. If the U.S. falls, there is nowhere else left to go. The DemoCommies are doing their best to bring the country down to third world status.
Interesting situation in China. I have regular, weekly contact with my colleagues there and they are afraid to say ANYTHING. Not that I am asking much directly, I do not want them to get into trouble. Tiannamen was mostly students, now the whole country is up. CCP does not have a billion bullets on-hand to shoot everyone and at least a half of that billion is prepared to die since life means almost nothing in China. There will be blood, a lot more blood. I hope CCP collapses under its own weight but I cannot fathom what will replace it. Not a clue.
BN
“Fascism can be either left or right;”
correct!
fascism is an amoral methodology much like MBO(management by objectives) while soci@lism is an ideology
jpa;
Back in 2010, I worked for a global telecom transport company. I was involved in setting up the networks of three companies that were opening operations in China. All three were concerned about IP theft, so we advised them to buy a T1 line from China Telcom for b.s. internet traffic that the ChiComs could monitor, then set up their big pipes to run across their VPNs. My customers told me that the information that they gleaned through traffic by Chinese employees over those VPNs, was very interesting, tragic in some cases and in most cases, infuriating. Unfortunately, any company that wants to operate in China, is eagerly welcomed, because the government becomes their “partner”, paving the way for IP theft.
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Boss, I wrote about this year’s ago, i have a friend who supplies life-saving medical equipment to china. But, they only send them stuff 2 generations prior. It was uncanny how fast knockoffs appeared on the market, but civilized societies only wanted latest Gen, not a cheap old knockoff so my friend’s company is able to survive.
jpa;
Yea, about that same timeframe, Cisco had a huge problem with reverse engineered knockoffs of their stuff, coming from China. Allegedly, they learned about the fraudulent components when customers that inadvertently (or knowingly) bought the knockoffs, requested warranty support. They scrambled to implement a certification program to make sure neither they or their customers got burned.
I also have it on good authority that Menards Masterforce tools, which is their house brand, are reverse engineered Bosch clones.
BH, the “Cheap Chinese knockoff” problem was one that US manufacturers knew about when they chose to open factories in China. Fuck them.
Craftsman claims to be “US made”, but the truth is they are assembled in the US using Chinese components. Fuck them too.
I used to (rightly) blame US trade labor unions for driving jobs offshore, but today it’s driven by pure greed.
I used to try to buy only US made tools, mostly because they were better quality. I’ve given that up as lost. Now I buy cheap tools, cheaply at Harbor Freight and replace them when they fail.
At least I don’t feel like I’ve been lied to and ass raped.
In the 90’s I was a project manager for FSI in Chanhassen. They are now owned by Air Liquide.
We made and installed equipment to pump the chemicals throughout semiconductor wafer fabs.
In 1997, I got sent to China to manage a project in China for Motorola. I asked them why they would build a plant in China, knowing their processes and tech would be stolen. They said the plant was only going to produce crude, .008mm line chips for cell phones. They knew it would be stolen, but it was the price for entering the Chinese market.
Fuck them.