“So What, Precisely, Is 2+2?”
By Mitch Berg
If you’ve got half an hour, watch this – a fascinating Australian broadcast with a Chinese government official (it’s in English – well, Australian – so don’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’t mean the weak-tea narrative fluffers that infest most “elite” American newsrooms. The Ozzies actually make the Chinese government rep break a sweat.
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 – the canary in the socialist coal mine.
It’s going to be an interesting couple years in Asia.
March 4th, 2020 at 1:40 pm
Pretty gruesome. But China makes a great trading partner, doncha know. Just ask the #nevertrumpers.
March 4th, 2020 at 5:52 pm
The commie really knows how to filibuster, doesn’t he? It would be very nice at times for the entire audience to stand up and start chanting “bu**s**t!” at the guy.
March 4th, 2020 at 6:19 pm
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March 5th, 2020 at 9:12 am
Thinking back on this, one thing that strikes me as somewhat sad is that the Aussies don’t point out that free markets, including free speech, do a heck of a lot better job at dealing with things like epidemics than do centralized authority structures.