11-17-2019, 11:52 AM
** 17-Nov-2019 World View: The Mandate from Heaven
I can't overstate how completely I agree with this. I'm constantly
astounded by the abject stupidity of the CCP and the decisions they
make.
In my book, "War between China and Japan - Why America must prepare,"
I detailed China's "century of humiliation." And while the
West did things to humiliate China, what came through over and
over again was that the Chinese were humiliated because of their
own stupidity.
Since WW II, the biggest example was Mao's Great Leap Forward,
which was the most disastrous agricultural policy of any nation
in world history. Then you can point to the mass slaughter
of Christians, the Tiananmen Square massacre, and so forth.
So the question is: Why does China make so many stupid mistakes, one
after another? I've thought about this, and I've come up with two
reasons.
First, they're a dictatorship. Dictators are no smarter than leaders
of democracies, and they may be even stupider, since their major
skills are torturing and killing people. But the big difference is
that when a leader of a democracy pursues a policy leading to
disaster, then the political opposition stops him -- through the
bureaucracy, through the courts, or through the legislature. But when
a dictator adopts a stupid policy, then there's nobody to stop him.
The second reason applies specifically to China: The CCP is a
religious cult. For millennia, the Chinese people have said that
their leaders can govern only if they've received a "Mandate from
Heaven," and Confucius and Sun Tzu set down rules for how a leader can
keep his Mandate from Heaven, once he's received it.
But then the religious cult goes deeper. Everyone refers to China as
"the Middle Kingdom," but that's a highly racist characterization.
Since ancient times, the highly racist Chinese have viewed the
universe in three layers -- The highest layer is the Kingdom of
Heaven. The second layer is China, the Master Race, the Middle
Kingdom -- yellow race, black hair, brown eyes, yellow skin. And the
bottom layer is you and me -- the barbarians.
So if you're Xi Jinping, and your policies are guided by the
view that you're head of the Master Race, that you're dealing
with barbarians, and that you have to follow the policies of
Confucius and Sun Tzu to deal with these barbarians, then there's
no choice: You really are a total idiot. And if you're a dictator,
then you can adopt the stupidest and most idiotic policies
possible, and no one will stop you.
So that explains why the Chinese make one unbelievably stupid mistake
after another.
With regard to Hong Kong, that's why I say that I don't know what the
CCP is going to do, but there's only one thing you can be sure of:
That whatever the CCP does will only make things worse.
Guest Wrote:> The Chinese communists aren't the brightest bunch. They seem to
> make the wrong choice every time. Why should this time be any
> different? I expect war to break out any day now. Most likely by
> accident.
I can't overstate how completely I agree with this. I'm constantly
astounded by the abject stupidity of the CCP and the decisions they
make.
In my book, "War between China and Japan - Why America must prepare,"
I detailed China's "century of humiliation." And while the
West did things to humiliate China, what came through over and
over again was that the Chinese were humiliated because of their
own stupidity.
Since WW II, the biggest example was Mao's Great Leap Forward,
which was the most disastrous agricultural policy of any nation
in world history. Then you can point to the mass slaughter
of Christians, the Tiananmen Square massacre, and so forth.
So the question is: Why does China make so many stupid mistakes, one
after another? I've thought about this, and I've come up with two
reasons.
First, they're a dictatorship. Dictators are no smarter than leaders
of democracies, and they may be even stupider, since their major
skills are torturing and killing people. But the big difference is
that when a leader of a democracy pursues a policy leading to
disaster, then the political opposition stops him -- through the
bureaucracy, through the courts, or through the legislature. But when
a dictator adopts a stupid policy, then there's nobody to stop him.
The second reason applies specifically to China: The CCP is a
religious cult. For millennia, the Chinese people have said that
their leaders can govern only if they've received a "Mandate from
Heaven," and Confucius and Sun Tzu set down rules for how a leader can
keep his Mandate from Heaven, once he's received it.
But then the religious cult goes deeper. Everyone refers to China as
"the Middle Kingdom," but that's a highly racist characterization.
Since ancient times, the highly racist Chinese have viewed the
universe in three layers -- The highest layer is the Kingdom of
Heaven. The second layer is China, the Master Race, the Middle
Kingdom -- yellow race, black hair, brown eyes, yellow skin. And the
bottom layer is you and me -- the barbarians.
So if you're Xi Jinping, and your policies are guided by the
view that you're head of the Master Race, that you're dealing
with barbarians, and that you have to follow the policies of
Confucius and Sun Tzu to deal with these barbarians, then there's
no choice: You really are a total idiot. And if you're a dictator,
then you can adopt the stupidest and most idiotic policies
possible, and no one will stop you.
So that explains why the Chinese make one unbelievably stupid mistake
after another.
With regard to Hong Kong, that's why I say that I don't know what the
CCP is going to do, but there's only one thing you can be sure of:
That whatever the CCP does will only make things worse.
