06-25-2021, 03:43 PM
** 25-Jun-2021 World View: Chinese defector Dong Jingwei
There's a story today in the Taipei Times which says that Xi Jinping
is essentially in a state of shock brought on by the defection of Dong
Jingwei. He's a paragon of paranoia anyway, and he "has thrown the
CCP into a period of unprecedented instability not seen since the
Cultural Revolution. This spells trouble for Taiwan."
https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/editori...2003759760
According to the article, the basis of Xi's fears are “rotten
elements” in the CCP, most likely referring to the political faction
of former Chinese president Jiang Zemin, also known as the Shanghai
clique.
It's well to remember that there are (at least) two Chinas -- the
Mandarin speaking north, and the Cantonese speaking south, which
includes Hong Kong. Shanghai serves as a power center at
the eastern end of the Yangtze River, which separates the north
from the south.
China's last two generational crisis wars were extremely bloody civil
wars between the north and the south -- the Taiping Rebellion
(1850-64) and the Communist Revolution (1934-49). And with the Hong
Kong issue becoming especially prominent right now, and with China
about to celebrate (next week) the 100th anniversary of the birth of
the Communist Party, it's not surprising that Xi Jinping's paranoia is
really catching up with him.
The referenced article says that "This spells trouble for Taiwan."
This means that the CCP, which has no coherent strategy but is
increasingly desperate and is striking out in all directions, may
decide to take some action against Taiwan to deflect criticism from
Xi.
And this would be an illustration, Navigator, of your statement that
"the overriding characteristic of governmental bureaucracies is not
Conspiracy, but rather Incompetence."
And so "thinker," when you wrote that "the chinese defector story is
huge," you may have been absolutely correct.
thinker Wrote:> I think that the chinese defector story is huge, @john and
> @nvigator do you guys think that this will speed up the march
> towards war or do you think it might slow it down a bit. I am also
> interested in the opinions of other forum members. Also John
> Mcafee supposedly killed himself in prison. Mcafee stated multiple
> times that he had information on government officials and that if
> he ever committed suicide, that it would mean that he was actually
> murdered. Among the things that he talked about was the " deep
> state" and how Epstein didn't kill himself. I would also like to
> read the opinions of forum members on Mcafee.
Navigator Wrote:> I mentioned in a previous post that the bad guys in history are
> impatient and impulsive. The Chinese defector may make the
> Chinese feel that they need to act sooner, before their networks
> can be rooted out. Right now I think that the current
> administration is probably in disbelief about what they are being
> told about the extent of the infiltration, so their reactions will
> be slow. So, I think the defection will accelerate the Chinese
> timetable (as does increasing blame for the pandemic, and as will
> an economic crisis).
> I have mentioned many times that the overriding characteristic of
> governmental bureaucracies is not Conspiracy, but rather
> Incompetence. McAfee, as others have pointed out, went off the
> deep end years ago. If he was going to expose anything, he would
> have done so long ago. Epstein may or may not have killed
> himself, but here it could have been a small handful of people
> (not the government as an entirety) that could have paid for doing
> him in to prevent him from spilling the goods on others (Clinton,
> Duke of York, Bill Gates).
There's a story today in the Taipei Times which says that Xi Jinping
is essentially in a state of shock brought on by the defection of Dong
Jingwei. He's a paragon of paranoia anyway, and he "has thrown the
CCP into a period of unprecedented instability not seen since the
Cultural Revolution. This spells trouble for Taiwan."
https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/editori...2003759760
According to the article, the basis of Xi's fears are “rotten
elements” in the CCP, most likely referring to the political faction
of former Chinese president Jiang Zemin, also known as the Shanghai
clique.
It's well to remember that there are (at least) two Chinas -- the
Mandarin speaking north, and the Cantonese speaking south, which
includes Hong Kong. Shanghai serves as a power center at
the eastern end of the Yangtze River, which separates the north
from the south.
China's last two generational crisis wars were extremely bloody civil
wars between the north and the south -- the Taiping Rebellion
(1850-64) and the Communist Revolution (1934-49). And with the Hong
Kong issue becoming especially prominent right now, and with China
about to celebrate (next week) the 100th anniversary of the birth of
the Communist Party, it's not surprising that Xi Jinping's paranoia is
really catching up with him.
The referenced article says that "This spells trouble for Taiwan."
This means that the CCP, which has no coherent strategy but is
increasingly desperate and is striking out in all directions, may
decide to take some action against Taiwan to deflect criticism from
Xi.
And this would be an illustration, Navigator, of your statement that
"the overriding characteristic of governmental bureaucracies is not
Conspiracy, but rather Incompetence."
And so "thinker," when you wrote that "the chinese defector story is
huge," you may have been absolutely correct.
