The USA and the West took their eyes off BRICS for a time, confidently brushing aside the importance of the rising clout of BRICS as overblown, and thought that nothing could overturn the US$ hegemony. Not with still such a wide usage of the US$ among global countries, which they confidently predicted and assumed, is another of their 'exceptionalism monument' that can never be taken down. Now the reality is dawning, but maybe too little too late to start countering. The whole global South is turning to BRICS.
That was also the situation they had before China's rise, bordering on arrogance and over confidence. China's rise was never taken with much fanfare and probably looked upon with disdain, and also brushed aside as overblown. No, China was never expected to rise to such a level as to compete with the USA, as China was then so backward, poor and underdeveloped. How could China ever compete with the USA, a first world country so developed, so advanced technologically, with democracy triumphantly flooring communism, and still the only superpower that controls the world? Didn't Gordon Chang kept hammering on the collapse of China for over a decade, lending credence to the belief that it will come true just by repeating? If 2022 it did not happen, maybe next year it will come true.
That is still the mentality of most USA citizens today with regard to China, who were fed with all the propaganda by their Government and MSM for decades. It was only with the advent of the internet and proliferation of Social Media, that US citizens and those around the world slowly became aware of the lies they were being fed.
Those who had the opportunity to go to China to do business, people like Cyrus Janssen, were able to see the rapid changes going on in China, and together with other like-minded business people from the USA, desiring to continue doing business in China and wanting to tell their own citizens the naked truth, embarked on a mission to counter the perception being ingrained in the minds of ordinary USA citizens and elsewhere. Together with Youtubers like Gweilo60, Jason (Living in China), Barrett and many others, it is slowly working and changing the way people look at China, as evidenced by the expansion of BRICS.
Now BRICS is showing its effectiveness in attempting to bring about de-dollarisation, in the mode of the impending rise of China as a competing global superpower. With important global players like Saudi Arabia, Brazil and Mexico, with their rich resources also joining BRICS, trying to play with the same overblown self comforting thought is not going to work anymore for the USA and the West.
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When they want to keep down the rise of anything, especially from China, when they failed to compete, is that they will hide the pros and hype up the cons or demonise the products completely. Remember they were talking about all the ill effects of those 5G towers erected by Huawei, how dangerous they were in affecting health and all that horseshit. Now they are erecting even more such towers, more closely for their 5G signals, using different wavelengths for their system, and these are even affecting communication of planes at airports nearby. Has that problem been solved yet? Oh, sorry they are already experimenting with 6G or 7G now. They are so advanced technologically that they can leapfrog a generation or two. Many however, thinks it is more like just still tinkering with 4.5G.
ReplyDeleteThe other modus operandi that they always use in their playbook is trotting out the National Security argument and targeting and banning anything made in China, blaming spying on China made mobile phones, electrical transformers, solar panels, bread toasters, washing machines, weather balloons, Huawei and now TikTok among others. The fact that they are now starting the narrative on AI and its inherent dangers tells us that they are targeting Chinese made EV. Soon, even shadows cast by any Chinese walking on the streets in USA will be suspected of spying.
This morning I woke up to a new discovery - Light pollution. Too many lights on at night is causing chronic and mental illness they claimed. Hyping up the dangers will see a coming clampdown on too many lights on buildings, streets and in the house at night. Will this result in less energy usage and was that the purpose of such a study? Hey, it will result in lowering inflation at least. Any study can be skewed to produce the result to support an agenda. Did the world learned any lesson from the COVID19 vaccine fiasco, with studies purported to prevent infections - touted day and night to be 96% effective. What was the infection result after vaccination and was it true?
Oh, by the way, Bill Gates is investing heavily in a new Covid oral spray, in 'anticipation' of a new pandemic originating in Brazil in 2025 which he predicted. He was reported to have already made US$500 million investing in vaccine manufacturing during the COVID19 outbreak in 2020/22. Wonder how much more he is going to make from Brazil in 2025. Such a futuristic mind and able to predict coming catastrophies to make money. Wonder how he did that? Silly asking about 'getting rich' secrets from one of the richest man in the world.