Ever wonder why Christianity failed to do to China and
India, what it did to the Native American Indians in North America, the
Pacific Islanders in the Pacific Islands, as well as in Africa and South
America? Of course, Christianity is not going to work against the Arabs
and Muslims if we look at the wars in the Middle Ages between the two
religions.
China and India have thousands of years of
civilization, history and experience with religious heritage that
blanketed what Christianity attempted to do to them. Christianity failed
to dislodge people more streetwise, a more civilized society and having
stoic beliefs in their own traditional faith.
Lee Kuan Yew put
it bluntly when he said that folk religions in China and India have
given the people the comfort, succor and relief to successive
generations. He said that the West may call those folk religions steep
in superstitious beliefs, but he asked who is to say that the Bible is
bereft of superstition.
Anonymous
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The Anglo-Saxons used religion and succeeded in North America, Australia, the Pacific Islands and Carribean Islands. They thought it will work as well in China and India. But it failed in China and India because these two were so much more streetwise, civilized and developed than the Native American Indians, the Australian Aborigines, the Pacific Islanders and Carribean Natives.
But they still tried afterwards to use opium to drug the Chinese, and it also failed after facing a long stretch of opposition. This was also complemented by the eight nations trying to split China up, like in Africa, with each of the eight nations given the audacity, as they like, to rule different parts of China. It was just like robbers splitting the loot among themselves. That did not work either.
Fast forward to today and we have trade wars, technology wars, sanctions against China in semiconductors and threats morphing into economic wars.
What have the USA won so far? Trade wars were easy to win, like taking candy from a kid, right? Tech wars by roping in allies is now backfiring. High end chips are still being available to China via third parties on the blind. Business in those chips are being done outside USA monitoring. When there is a will, there is a way. When there is money to be made, businessmen will find a way, just like the drug trade despite all the fake attempts to cut it off.
The USA and the West are kidding themselves that Russian energy is unsaleable due to their sanctions. Who is kidding who? Even the EU is still importing Russian oil, mixed and marketed as non-Russian oil and India, China and Saudi Arabia are laughing all the way to the bank.
Now, the USA and the West are trying to sanction Iran's oil exports by cutting off settlement avenues. What is to stop the Iranians doing barter trade, or using the Chinese Yuan instead? When energy is cheaper, customers will not stay away. They will find ways and means to get around those sanctions. Joining BRICS is a sure way to do that. And inside BRICS are two of the biggest oil importers, China and India. It is helping China and India to afford cheaper cost of production that outcompeted the USA and the West. Does this indicate self-inflicted foot shooting?
Self inflicted HEAD shooting is more apt.
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