09-27-2019, 11:15 PM
My degree is in economics... and on the assumption that people who believe in nothing other than themselves, their indulgence, their power, and sex -- the Chinese leadership believes in practically nothing... the big motivator is gain. The Chinese government will start cracking down as harshly on the theft of intellectual property when intellectual property becomes a significant part of the Chinese economy -- especially for exports. The Chinese leadership isn't pushing its ideology except on places that are somehow Chinese. Taiwan still claims to be the Republic of China.
OK, I would love to see democracy appear in China. The people certainly deserve it, and the economy is developed enough that people are able to do some of their own thinking. Democracy is far safer -- until demagogues appear. (I guess you can figure what I think of Donald Judas Iscariot Trump)... but how well people government depends largely upon their ability to operate above the level of bare literacy that well serves modern tyrants like Mussolini, Hitler, Stalin, Mao, Duvalier (either one), Assad (either one), Mugabe, and Satan Hussein.
It is arguable that a huge chunk of American export revenue comes from the sale or lease of intellectual property. I could make the case that the biggest exporters in America include such entities as Time-Warner, Disney, etc. As exports from China, it is arguable that most of the exports are to Overseas Chinese... contrast Japan and South Korea, both of which make huge incomes off intellectual property.
OK, I would love to see democracy appear in China. The people certainly deserve it, and the economy is developed enough that people are able to do some of their own thinking. Democracy is far safer -- until demagogues appear. (I guess you can figure what I think of Donald Judas Iscariot Trump)... but how well people government depends largely upon their ability to operate above the level of bare literacy that well serves modern tyrants like Mussolini, Hitler, Stalin, Mao, Duvalier (either one), Assad (either one), Mugabe, and Satan Hussein.
It is arguable that a huge chunk of American export revenue comes from the sale or lease of intellectual property. I could make the case that the biggest exporters in America include such entities as Time-Warner, Disney, etc. As exports from China, it is arguable that most of the exports are to Overseas Chinese... contrast Japan and South Korea, both of which make huge incomes off intellectual property.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.
