Mythbusting China - The Truth

Mythbusting China – The Truth

I just spent the last 3 years working in China and now I have left. So for those of you who have never lived there and collect your information from the controlled media, your imagination or your friend who went backpacking there last year here is the reality.

1. “China is the new economic superpower” – You’ve got to be joking me. They don’t have the ambition, couldn’t manage it and the economy has three years left before it tanks. Labor costs are too high and the artificial boom based on internal construction will end. But the other big reason – that we fuelled their boom by using it as a manufacturing centre and selling the products to them means nothing in terms of global power. The winners are certain corporations.
2. “China will lead on the world political stage” - It’s a kindergarten idea to believe that the world will accept a communist state on the international stage or that communism will collapse in the next 20 years. It’s going to be 22 years to be precise. Control freak governments are required to spend all their time and energy maintaining 100% control of 1.6 billion people and that’s always a full time job. Secondly, a feudal peasant society where logical thinking doesn’t exist isn’t going anywhere any time in your grandchildren’s lifetime. Since you already know that they can’t make anything that doesn’t break in a month let me tell you what they are good at – one thing – maintaining totalitarianism. But since it’s a fundamentally flawed idea it doesn’t matter how good you are at it – eventually it will crash.
3. “China is communist, err, very capitalist, err, I don’t know what it is” – China is a fascist country – state controlled capitalism is called Fascism in any dictionary. It maintains the very thin superficial fake vestiges of Communism while being overtly capitalistic at the economic level. Administratively, it is communist but that’s regurgitated Fascism anyway. The main characteristics of terrorizing oppression, obsession with power and control, nationalism and propagation of one “superior” ethnic group (Han Chinese) constitutes Fascism. They don’t have expansive aspirations on a regional scale like Hitler though. They are content to oppress the quarter of the world’s population they do control and the logistics of world oppression are too scary for them. And yes, they do fear white people – just in case you were wondering. They would however, nuke the Japanese if they could get away with it. Not over some rocks in the ocean but the wonderful colonization they experienced under that particular Fascist state. Unlike Japan, China can at least potentially change.
4. “China is opening up” The important things aren’t changing. Freedom doesn’t spring from globalization, eating KFC, having some access to the Internet or being allowed to go on vacation. Since the whole world has been turned into a corporate totalitarian theme park by America Inc. it makes no difference. In fact it enhances the illusion of freedom needed to propagate the global control system.

The main thing is to neither get scared or excited about China. The government uses the corporations to pacify their people with consumerism and corporations use China for profit. Since that’s the same deal as where you’re from keep your eye on the bigger picture instead.