Threat of China

By Douglas V.  Gibbs
Author, Speaker, Instructor, Radio Host

While the mainstream media has always tried to convince us that the Chinese are the good communists, the reality is, there is no good communism.  China has been reminding us of that, and is rising to become an enemy that it is getting harder and harder for the their allies among the liberal left progressives to hide.

A friend of mine, a woman who left Communist China twenty years ago, says that the greatest danger in the world is China.  Another tells me that the communists are becoming desperate because a desire for Western culture is slowly moving through the Chinese population.  The leadership is concerned.  Opposition to communism may be on the horizon.

Therefore, China is taking no chances.

They have switched on their Social Credit System, something that uses a sprawling, technological mass surveillance network that is designed to the likes of which the world has never seen. The plan is to have it in full swing by 2020.  The surveillance system is designed to control and coerce the the citizenry.  It is a gigantic social engineering experiment that some have called the “gamification of trust”.

How much Science Fiction did you read when you were younger?  I read a lot of it, and my favorite books are the ones about a dystopian future where the last remnants of liberty must find a way to overcome a massive tyranny.  The Chinese project comes right out of those books, except the nightmare is more massive and intricate than anything any sci-fi writer could create in my hall of books.

China’s Catholic Church has reaffirmed its loyalty to the country’s ruling Communist Party, while also welcoming a landmark deal struck with the Vatican on appointing new bishops.

The Vatican signed an agreement giving it a long-desired and decisive say in the appointment of bishops in China, which originally had been out of the Vatican’s hands.  China’s around 12 million Catholics have been split between an underground Church swearing loyalty to the Vatican and the state-supervised Catholic Patriotic Association.

The Catholic Church in China said it would “persevere to walk a path suited to a socialist society, under the leadership of the Chinese Communist Party.”

What the agreement did was open the opportunity for the underground Catholics to reveal who they are, just as the communists have planned.