April 28: Never underestimate the power of greed.

 

It was ever thirty years ago the I last visited China. It was then a land of old and battered housing. There was wide poverty. Today it is a land of super high rise buildings,, including magnificent high rise apartments. And these apartments are available for all those who need them - with or without rent. The roads now can match some of the best of roads all over the world.

The railway and subway systems can match and exceed the best in the world.

The same is true   for the education system all the way through universities.

Forget the images of the old China. This was a China  blundered and plundered  by the British for over 150 years, with additional threats by the U.S. for over a hundred years. This is also the China that is still suffering from old enemies, with the U.S. more prominent now in happily threatening to allow pieces of China to be kept by the leaders of the old plundering world (Taiwan is an example) that stole it as a haven for their plundering days.

I'm not exaggerating. China today is a highly succesrul nation. It's industrial advance has been stunning for thirty years and more. Living conditions can now be favourably compared with the western world. In many respects, they are better. Unlike the US, China  does not have millions of its poor wandering (and living in) the filth and savagery of the streets.

In industrial conditions and advancement, China is likely to pass the U.S. within 15 years.

All of this is something the western press would prefer not to think of.

And so it is that the U.S. is rushing to the support of a small minority of Chinese who want to break away from China. (Well, not Chinese actually. Originally they were from what is now Turkey.  And those who want to break away are a minority within a minority. - but the American press doesn't like to waste ink by telling the truth. Ditto for the private news media in Canada.)

This of course would lead to a war of the U.S. against China,  with Canada at the side of the U.S. (From the Boer War to World War Two Canada fought British wars. Since then, it fights only American ones. Of course. Canada is the U.S. puppet now, I'm so thrilled we can kill other people to please our American friends.

But why would the U.S. want to fight such a war in the first place?

It needs this war because China is crippling American business.  Since 1945 the U.S. has been the dominent force in world trade. But in recent years, China has been advancing so rapidly in it's industry and trade that American dominance in these will, very soon, be history. We have ten years, maybe a little more, to think about that.

Meanwhile, the U.S. will be launching the biggest war in history with a very heavy reliance on  nuclear weapons. And millions, even billions may die. Do your part.

Give our soldiers little Canadian flags to wave.