{"id":73476,"date":"2020-03-04T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-04T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=73476"},"modified":"2020-03-03T07:49:41","modified_gmt":"2020-03-03T13:49:41","slug":"225-wu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=73476","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;So What, Precisely, <i>Is<\/i> 2+2?&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>If you&#8217;ve got half an hour, watch this &#8211; a fascinating Australian broadcast with a Chinese government official (it&#8217;s in English &#8211; well, Australian &#8211; so don&#8217;t get put off by all the Chinese script on the Youtube vid), a couple dissidents, and a few journalists.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And when I say journalists, I don&#8217;t mean the weak-tea narrative fluffers that infest most &#8220;elite&#8221; American newsrooms.   The Ozzies actually make the Chinese government rep break a sweat. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Mb2_e0Dvz5U&#038;fbclid=IwAR2J3u77xZUozNNky5Z7V6zw8YrX1Ogt3HhJRHde_VgOh3NNZ2nzUIaJ6X4\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>As Chinese people get more access to the outside world, and become more aware of how their government really works, and they suffer the effects that the coverup and crony economy (in information as well as goods and services) has on them, the people of Hong Kong are reminding me more and more of the people of Poland 40 years ago &#8211; the canary in the socialist coal mine. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s going to be an interesting couple years in Asia.  <\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;ve got half an hour, watch this &#8211; a fascinating Australian broadcast with a Chinese government official (it&#8217;s in English &#8211; well, Australian &#8211; so don&#8217;t get put off by all the Chinese script on the Youtube vid), a couple dissidents, and a few journalists. And when I say journalists, I don&#8217;t mean the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=73476"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73478,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73476\/revisions\/73478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}