China assertive or American bullying more assertive

 

Tommy 'Koh said bilateral ties between both superpowers have evolved from one between "a rich, powerful country and a poor, weak country" to one between "two approximate equals".

And while they are not yet equal, both economically and militarily, China would "naturally be more assertive" and more reluctant to be subordinate to the U.S., the veteran diplomat added.

He continued to explain that the U.S. has a long list of complaints against China over several issues, including trade relations, accusations of technology theft, human rights in Xinjiang, Hong Kong, Taiwan and the South China Sea.

China, on the other hand, dismisses these criticisms as an attempt to deter their rise even further....' 

 

Above article quoting Tommy Koh appeared in themothership.com. Many Asian leaders kept parroting this American catchphrase that China is assertive or becoming more assertive while implying that the Americans are such nice guys, not assertive, not aggressive, so peace loving.

Why is China standing up and doing a tit for tat against the Americans? The Americans have been attacking China daily, interfering in China's domestic affairs and demonishing China, and how come no one would say the Americans were the assertive one, the aggressive one, the one that is bullying China and China is justified to hit back, a reaction rather than being assertive? Why is it acceptable for the Americans to attack China daily, started a trade war and still being passed off as a nice and peaceful country, not assertive, not aggressive when it is agitating and provoking for war, forming military gangs to threaten and to want to start a war with China? Why are there so many blind cronies around?

Why no one is saying the Americans are assertive, aggressive, the bully, the international gangsters, sending warships into the South China Sea to threaten and taunt China? These are not aggressive, not assertive, because it is the right thing to do, the right of the Americans to threaten and taunt China and other countries like N Korea and Iran or Venezuela?

The Americans are not assertive, not aggressive? Why is China to be blamed for standing up to the American bullying and this be called assertive? Why should these people be telling China not to hit back when slapped by the Americans, that it is better to turn the other cheek, then it would be very nice, China not hitting back, not assertive, be bullied like before for the last 200 years? It is for the good of China to remain docile, be the timid little boy to be pushed around by the big bully, and no one else would be hurt as long as the bully has someone to bully.

Should China listen to these silly people and be very nice to the Americans and apologise to the Americans for hitting back when attacked by the Americans? Who bombed the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade, killing 5 Chinese Embassy staff? Did anyone dare to condemn the Americans for this sneaky attack or say the Americans were aggressive rogues? China must not be angry and accept it quietly because the attackers were the very nice Americans and the attack was normal, to be expected? To react means becoming assertive? Psst, China, the best place to attack the Americans is the de facto American Embassy in Taipei. Then claim to have used an outdated old map, but be prepared to be called aggressive by all the silly Asian leaders. They kept quiet when the Americans did it, but would be the first to come out and condemn China if China do it. Only Americans are allowed to do such dastard and heinous things and would not be condemned.

Many silly Asean leaders simply repeat what the Americans said, China is assertive, even aggressive, without bothering to think a little and identify who is the real assertive, aggressive one and the big bully. Just because the Americans said so, they just repeat what their master said.

Look at what just concluded in Alaska, the Americans continued to bash China and meddled with China's domestic affairs as if it is the Imperial overlord. And many silly little countries also like to poke China in the eyes, parroting the narratives of the Americans.  Who are doing the attacks, who are doing all the sanctions? Not assertive, not aggressive, very friendly towards China? What do they expect China to do, bend its head and say nothing, or turn the other cheek to be slapped?

China is just reacting to the aggressive and abusive Americans and the West, and silly American cronies trying to smear and demonise China. It is right for China to kick asses and make them know that it is silly to try to be little mischievous rats or a big bully.  In Alaska, China had made it known to the world that it no longer tolerates meddling with its internal affairs and would hit back immediately.

Immediately after Alaska, many broke and bankrupt little countries in Europe also joined the sanction game against China.  China would be taking them to task, one at a time to make sure they never recover from their slide to bankruptcy and poverty. China would no longer lend a helping hand to ingrates and enemies of China.

A new chapter of Chinese history has just begun. The world would now see a new China and the meaning of assertive and aggressiveness. China will kick asses. You have been warned. Any more silly little American cronies still wanting to mess around with China under the instruction of their American master?

 

Beijing warns Five Eyes that an ‘irritated’ China would be ‘difficult to handle’ ‘You wouldn’t like me when I’m angry’

Beijing warns Five Eyes that an ‘irritated’ China would be ‘difficult to handle’ ‘You wouldn’t like me when I’m angry’

The Chinese foreign ministry has called on the nations of the Five Eyes alliance to enter the 21st century and stop viewing Beijing as the Qing Dynasty, after the allied countries successively accused China of human rights abuses.

Speaking at a regular news conference on Wednesday, foreign ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying warned the nations of the Five Eyes alliance (Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the UK, and the US) to stop interfering in China’s internal affairs.

Hua said the Five Eyes nations needed to move into the 21st century and realize the China of today is very different to the Qing Dynasty. She said the five-nation grouping is reminiscent of the Eight-Nations alliance (Germany, Japan, Russia, Britain, France, the United States, Italy and Austria-Hungary) which invaded and plundered northern China in 1900.

Questioning the legitimacy of these nations to call out China for alleged human rights abuses, the spokeswoman stated “the United Nations has more than 190 member states. Several allies such as the “Five Eyes Alliance” cannot represent the international community.” She added that there was “scant” support for their criticism of China.

On Tuesday, Australia and New Zealand, in a joint statement, welcomed the decision of the US, EU, Canada and Britain to impose sanctions on senior Chinese officials.

“Just look at the world map and you will know that China has friends all over the world," she said.

"The China now is not the China of 120 years ago. The era when a few cannons can open the door to China is gone! The Chinese people are not irritable, but if they are irritated, they will be difficult to handle,” she added 

 Anonymous

March 24, 2021 7:47 pm

 

Where does the US obtain the power to lecture China about what it should do over Xinjiang governance?

Where does the US obtain the power to lecture China about what it should do over Xinjiang governance?

The EU, US, UK and Canada on Monday banded together to announce sanctions on Chinese officials over alleged human rights violations in Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, a concerted move directed at China by the West. It is an attempt to force China to accept interference from outsiders. This was a crude assertion of their dominance in world affairs.

The US and its main allies are defining human rights and democracy in terms of a set of values that can be used as leverage to consolidate Western hegemony with the US as its center. They know that it will impact the governance of big developing countries like China and Russia and bring chaos to these countries, but they insisted in doing so as a way of playing strategic games.

This is unacceptable. The essence of this "struggle" for human rights is a struggle between hegemony and anti-hegemony. It is a struggle between pursuing the development of human rights and playing with human rights for geopolitical purposes, between respecting the sovereignty of all countries with no interference in each other's internal affairs or a few countries dominating the majority.

Double standards in recent times have been running rampant. Who is responsible for the development of human rights and democracy in each country? Should it be the country's sovereign government or external countries and forces? Under international law, all sovereign countries are equal regardless of size. This is the basis of the international law and the UN Charter. Should a few countries out of the 193 members of the UN have the right to make policies for the majority of countries?

The US strictly prohibits the infiltration of other countries into its own affairs, including its election, but the US and its allies have infringed upon the political affairs of quite a number of countries, destabilized these countries, and led to many tragedies. If all the countries believe they have the right to lecture others and rally support for such aggression, does the world still have order?

Should China raise a serious demand that guns should be banned throughout the US after the recent shootings in Atlanta and Colorado? If Washington thinks China has no right to do so, where does the US obtain the power to lecture China about what it should do over Xinjiang governance?

There is no basis for China, Russia and many other developing countries to discuss human rights issues with the West, because what the West really cares about is not human rights, but the right to define human rights one-sidedly. This is an expression of hegemony in which only the Western countries can set the rules for the world.

China and Russia will never allow the West to be this rude and insolent, nor will they succumb to the ambitions of the West.

Anonymous

March 24, 2021 10:51 am

Joseph Mendoza - Creative talent and Creative Confusion

 

SINGAPORE: An Indian composer who said he wrote the song We Can Achieve – which is nearly identical to national song Count on Me, Singapore – has withdrawn his claims and apologised for the “confusion caused”, the Ministry of Culture, Community and Youth (MCCY) said on Sunday (Mar 21).

Mr Joseph Mendoza earlier claimed that he composed We Can Achieve in 1983, three years before the creation of Count on Me, Singapore, after footage of a performance of the former went viral. CNA

Whatever the outcome, this Mendoza is a real creative talent. He can create things and make them disappear as he wishes. He can turn Singapore's national song, Count On Me Singapore, into We Can Achieve, even before the Singapore song was written, in 1983. This kind of creativity is rare among Singaporeans, just like fake degrees, but most valued in other countries.

Singaporeans are dead beat, dead pan, unable to twist and turn facts into fiction and fiction into fact. This is one of the key reasons why Singaporeans would not be around for long.  They cannot compete with street smart talents from the world, especially from India, like this Mendoza. 

In a way the flood of Indian talents into Singapore and for Singapore to embrace them whole heartedly with few question asked, is a good thing. Singaporeans have not been exposed to the real world of real talents and creative talents and fake talents.  Singaporeans have a lot to learn to survive in the real world. With so many of these creative talents and fake talents in Singapore, very likely some even in high places, the creative juice and culture are starting to rub into the straight jacket mindset of Singaporeans.

A good sign is the new mantra, no degrees never mind, can work good enough. Or no point getting a good degree, a fake degree or degree mill degree is just as good, and cheaper some more.  And the light touch on anyone caught with fake degrees is also another good sign of the shifting morality of what is right and wrong, for Singaporeans to learn and to survive in the midst of fakes and creative talents.

Mendoza should be brought in to Singapore to conduct courses on how to make things appear and disappear and get away with it with an apology. It is not about cheating, just a bit of confusion. No harm intended. Take a bow and move on.

Make this Mendoza course compulsory for all civil servants and politicians. Course fee can be subsidised by the govt. Singaporeans would have a lot to learn and benefit from this course and would be more able to face the world in a smarter and more creative way than just blindly and unthinkingly follow the rules.

The title of this course, From Disruptive Innovation to Creative Confusion.

It is good to lower the bar, to compromise and accept fakes to create economic growth. Come to think of it, Singapore has been practising Creative Confusion all along.

What do you think?

PS. When one lost the direction of what is good, right and proper,  fakes, cheats, crooks and con men make good company.

Made in China - A Chinese Miracle

 From a GDP of US$150 billion to US$15 trillion in 42 years. This is a phenomenal growth of 100 times, never seen in the history of human civilisation for a big country, or any country big or small. This is China in 2021, from a poverty stricken agrarian economy that had nothing but small machinery and village factories supporting agricultural produces to a modern industrial economy producing practically anything on earth that is needed by humankind, and the biggest consumer market in the world.

The economic achievement of China, with a population of 1.45b, did not come easy. After a century of humiliation and oppression and exploitation by the western powers, China was bankrupt as a country in every sense of the word. A country with 90 per cent of its people living in poverty, 90 per cent of its people uneducated, barely any schools and a handful of under equipped tertiary institutions, barely any industrial base to talk about, and facing isolation and sanctions by the western economic and military powers, China and Chinese could not expect to see daylight for eons to come like many under developed and ex colonies of the West. It was unimaginable then to think of what China is today, a global economy and a global power at par with the number one super power, the USA, and in the process of being number one, over taking the Americans in a matter of years, maybe less than 10 years.

1949, China broke free from all external forces of Imperialism and oppression to be once again an independent state, as a new nation, a republic, and to rebuild itself literary from ground zero. The task was intimidating and extremely difficult as it was not allowed to develop freely as a free nation. The West imposed a complete locked down on China, cutting it off from international trade, technology and economic assistance. It was a case of only the Chinese to help themselves with their bare hands and elementary tools. 

China was forced to experiment itself to leap out of the poverty trap to give its people a better life, but with limited resources and technology and with limited funds and talents, the task was daunting. Today, many still sneered at the failure of the Great Leap Forward, an economic plan for self sufficiency and to hasten the speed of economic development in the 1960s. Given the circumstances and the unsupportive nature that brought drought and flood to lay waste the great plains of China, the Chinese people took a big toll with famines, deaths and suffering all over the country. 

There was no help coming from the international community, definitely not from the hypocritical West that were hell bent on strangling China and the Chinese people to death. There was no foreign aid, no Red Cross, no humanitarian organisations to lighten the suffering of the Chinese people. The Chinese people tighten their belt and ploughed on, slogging day and night, many living in absolute poverty. No meat on the table. An egg was a luxury that few were able to afford or to have and often shared by a few persons.

All kinds of obstacles were thrown into the path of China and the Chinese people to keep them poor and undeveloped in all fields. China still chucked along furiously, in quiet fury, longing for a better day when they could have 3 decent meals a day and a decent roof over their heads. 

In the face of grave depravity and poverty and isolation, China still managed to produce the Atomic and Hydrogen bombs. 100,000 men and women disappeared into the wilderness to achieve this feat. They went into the deserts of Mongolia without their families knowing where they had gone and what they were doing. They exchanged their names for a number to protect themselves from assassination attempts, and their families from blackmailed. The cruel fate we saw today of many Iranian scientists, assassinated by the West for their roles in advancing their nation's goal of scientific development in nuclear technology. The 100,000 nameless Chinese were saved from this cruel fate and survived and built the bombs for China.

A detente with the West came in 1972 when Nixon visited China and reestablished diplomatic relations and allowed freer movement of people, exchanges of scientific knowledge and technology in exchange for China's support against the Russians. This was followed with the opening up of trade and lifting of sanctions and isolation in many fields. 

In 1978 China under Deng's leadership China opened its economy to international trade and have more exchanges with the world.  The door to the WTO was opened in 2001 when the Americans relented with the prospect of exporting their dirty factories and labour intensive industries to China to take advantage of China's cheap labour. China ate the humble pie, did the dirty jobs that the West had given up doing and at dirt cheap prices.

China was willing to start from scratch, to learn everything they could and to acquire skills and knowledge in the process, to rebuild its economy. There was no dispute about the West having a bigger slice of the pie, no criticism and acrimony about the West exploiting the Chinese labour. The Chinese people continue to slog along, quietly, no protest, no demonstration, no strikes. It was too good to be true for the western companies, making huge profits and paying very low wages for it.

China and the Chinese people learnt very quickly, from just making shoes and copies of everything, they acquired new knowledge and skills and funds to do it on their own. They innovated and improved on whatever they had learnt and done for the West. And the rest is history.

The poor Chinese peasants have come knocking at the doors of every country in the world, in Europe and the Americas, with stash of cash to spend, the nouveau riche of the 21st Century. 

Then came the meeting in Anchorage, Alaska, USA. The Chinese have been bidding their time under the guidance of Deng's policy of working quietly and not to speak up to ruffle anyone's feathers. The Americans were still expecting the Chinese to bend their heads when lectured by the West, speak politely and not to talk back. And when slapped by the West, just turn the other cheek. The Chinaman, condemned to be railway workers, cooks and laundrymen, berated the Americans for their bad behaviour as a hegemonic power, and talking down to the Americans as the new super power to be reckoned with.

This time, on 18 Mar 2021, the Chinese stood up and told the Americans they would not take American white lies anymore. Instead of being lectured by the Americans about their domestic affairs and unacceptable behaviour, the Chinese gave the Americans a lecture they would never forget. The Americans are not fit, not qualified to lecture Chinese for fabricated crimes that the Americans had been committing and perpetuating for centuries, in the genocide of Red Indians, inhuman treatment and abuses of the black Americans, for abuses of power and hegemony in invading countries, in conducting regime change, in wars etc etc.

The Chinese gave notice to the Americans that henceforth, if the Americans do not stop meddling in China's domestic affairs or the domestic affairs of other countries, China would be putting its fingers into American domestic affairs and air American's dirty laundry to the world. The Chinese told the Americans in no uncertain terms, to mind their own business, and China would mind its own. China would deal with the Americans in exactly the same way as the Americans think fit to deal with China.

The Chinese Miracle has arrived, a new and rich China, economically strong and wealthy, scientifically and technologically on par with the Americans and surpassing the Americans in many fields, would be talking down to the Americans, the number two super power, with confidence and strength.

The Americans can try to make America Great Again, if they could, in trade, science and technology. They could no longer use military might to threaten and coerce the Chinese Miracle not to overtake them and be better and richer and stronger than the Americans. The Chinese have every right to be rich and live a better life without having to fight a war for dominance. To be rich, to want to live well, is not a crime against anyone or any country. This is not a threat to anyone or any country. Every country has the same right as the Chinese and the Americans to want to live well and good. This is basic human right and freedom for every human bean on earth.

The Chinese Miracle is going to become the nightmare of the Americans. From virtually penniless, they have amassed a national reserve of US$3 trillion. On the other hand the Americans have gone from being the richest country to a poor country with a national debt exceeding US$30 trillion. China is now the world's biggest creditor and banker while the USA is the biggest debtor and borrower of the world.

The Chinese Miracle is the new reality waiting to explode and overturn the American apple cart.