Should China continue to be the faceless meek Chinaman?

 The recent change in China's foreign policy, from behaving like the faceless meek Chinaman, head bowed and quietly moving along doing his own things, letting people kicked and slapped and pretended that nothing happened, just to be safe and to avoid trouble, to the 'Wolf Warrior' policy, standing up to return a slap with a slap, a kick with a kick, at least to maintain a bit of manhood and dignity has seen some critics and opposition even in China.

There were many reasons, valid reasons, to behave like the meek and faceless Chinaman in the past. Deng Xiaoping had enough wisdom to know that during his time that was about the best policy to buy time to strengthen China in every aspect of nation building. Any attempt to raise the head and look up at the enemy would invite a big knock and back to head bowed and moving along silently.

When Xi Jinping came to power, China was no longer the poor and hapless agrarian country it was before. China had stood up in every field and built enough strength to be a respectable member of the international community. Xi must have made a thorough appreciation of China's ability vis a vis the number one enemy, the USA, before making such a major change in foreign policy. 

Xi is as good as saying enough is enough. China is not going to bow its head and suffer in silence anymore. After seven decades of struggling and hardwork, China now has enough strength to not only stand up but to hit back when attacked. It was a tough choice. Xi could continue with Deng's policy of not getting into trouble, and let the Americans and the West, including little countries in SE Asia to kick China around... and all would be fine. Everyone would be very happy with China, the meek country of 1.3b people but always bent its head to avoid trouble when being kicked or pushed around, or ridiculed. 

Until today, many analysts or politicians are still thinking that that the old ways was the best for China, to avoid trouble, and be the meek and faceless Chinaman that everyone 'loves' to kick around. The critics and skeptics are angry and unhappy and dismissed Xi as being stupid for standing up to the bullies, big and small. How can China stand up and upset everyone? China's place in the world is to remain unseen and unheard, only to be pushed around and kicked around even by small little countries. Doing what Xi had done made many countries and people very unhappy.

This is what Cui Tiankai's keynote speech in Diaoyutai State Guesthouse was all about. China must continue to bide its time, continue to be the faceless and meek Chinaman, not to ruffle feathers, not to make other countries unhappy. China should stay in its little corner, shut up and be a good boy as determined by the big powers and small countries. China has no place in international affairs.

The contrarian view, led by Yang Jiechi, culminating in the 'Wolf Warrior' policy is all about standing up to aggression, standing up tall with pride and dignity. This policy would be indeed foolish, if China did not assess itself, its economic and military might that it is able to stand up to the Americans and the West. China would have been beaten to mince meat if it is still the weak China of the past. It is not. 

The day must come, sooner or later, for China to stand up as an equal of every country in the world. It is a judgement call. And that day when China stood up, it is going to send shock waves around the world. And it has. Xi and his colleagues have decided that China is strong enough to stand up and be a respectable country. The Chinese people have suffered enough humiliation. Every single day of being meek and faceless is one day too much. No respectable people or nation would want to continue to bow its head and move around quietly like non entity in the world, when even small little country could strut around with pride and dignity.

And there would be strong and harsh reactions to a meek Chinaman standing up when he was expected to keep quiet, mind his own business, and to be slapped and turned the other cheek. The new China that would not be kicked around is too much for those that had lived with a China they could kick around. But soon they would get use to it. Soon they would learn that their proper place, their respective place vis a vis China would have to change. The pecking order has changed, must change.

China's standing up to the bullies of the world, big and small, would not be easy and peaceful. Fortunately it is peaceful so far. The timing is crucial. China would have a harder time if the policy change was premature, and China would have been defeated and isolated for good. The fact that China could stand up peacefully is a vindication that Xi has chosen the right time to stand up. The rest of the world, including the Americans understood the strength of the new China. If they think China is no match to them, the evil Americans would be the first to have started a war with China and press down China to where it was before.

Any doubters to Xi's policy of standing up as a respectable country and a world leader needs to have their heads checked. Anyone still thinking that China should go back to the 'good old days' of a faceless and meek Chinaman and think that that is the best for China must be sick, mentally sick and lack of confidence and pride in the new China. China needs to earn its right as the equals of the world and fearing trouble, avoiding trouble would not gain China any respect in a world where might is right.

China has not only proven itself that it is not a weak and meek nation to be kicked around, it is a new world leader taking its rightful place in a troubled and corrupt world that needs to be changed. Xi's time is as perfect as could be. The rest of the bullied world needs a new and upright and fair leader, not a warmongering and bullying terrorist striking fear and oppressing the world to do its bidding. More and more countries would be rallying to the Chinese side as they have had enough of the bullying and oppression of the Americans and the West.

China has risen peacefully and there is no turning back. The Americans and the West know this and trying their meek best to want to contain China and put back China into its little corner, not to be seen or heard, to be the 'good boy', to be bullied and kicked around.

Time has changed, China has changed, the world has changed, the Americans have not changed and still hoping to be the bully of the world. Some minds have not changed and still lack the confidence to be respectable and dignified Chinaman. China must not be the Ah Q anymore, not a single day.

Without Xi's confidence and wisdom to seize the moment, China would still be the punching bag of the Americans and even little countries in SE Asia. Yes, the Americans and the West are hitting back. This is expected. This is not something avoidable or to be feared. Does China still want to be the punching bag? For sure that is the China that the Americans, the West and the little countries in SE Asia want.

No respectable people would want to live a life time being despised as the faceless and meek people the world loves to hate, to be bullied and ignored forever. How could any respectable Chinese still be thinking that China must hide in the corner, not to be seen or heard?

Xi did not make the decision to change out of anger or egoistic pride. It was a carefully calculated move after very serious thoughts and consideration from all angles. To be a world leader, to be respected, China must fight for it fiercely, no need for any apologies.

Afghanistan - How to replace the Taliban with the Taliban?

 

Read in Quora this ....
 

Someone posted the following here at Quora which I think aptly summarized that US of A debacle…

"If you ever feel useless or totally frked-up something, remember that it took 4 U.S.A Presidents, trillions of US$, millions of lives lost, and more than 20 years to replace the Taliban with the Taliban."

The Americans are still controlling the mass media and setting the agenda. Everyday, every silly media would be reporting about North Korea testing their missiles or Russia amassing troops in the border with Ukraine as if it were their faults. North Korea cannot test missiles, Russia cannot amass troops when the Americans are encroaching into Russia's neighbourhood, trying to grab Ukraine and other former Warsaw Pact states in violation of an agreement with the USSR.

All the western media and crony Asia media would report or parrot the American agenda, daily, to make sure the unthinking be programmed, that they are the good guys, others were the bad guys. They never question or condemn why the Americans are having 11 aircraft carriers,  hundreds of military bases and biochemical labs all over the world, 7000 nuclear warheads all operational, all tested without being condemned or sanctioned, and invading countries, fighting wars and massacring the people of their invaded countries.

When would national media of the rest of the world be reporting news from their own perspective, using their own national journalists, instead of being unthinking parrots, reporting news from the American Empire? This is the 21st Century and many countries are still behaving like colonies of the American Empire, controlled and dictated and bullied by the Americans.

North Korea and any country have every right to build up their own defence capability or be bullied and threatened or invaded by the white savages that have overwhelming military superiority. Their only means of defence and remaining independent is to build up a strong military force able to strike back when attacked. North Korea, Russia, China or Iran are victims of American oppression and aggression. They are no threat to any country, no threat to silly unthinking American crony countries.

The real threat to every country is the American Empire and their terrorist organisations, the CIA, NED, the NGOs etc etc. They are behaving like gangsters all over the world, forming gangs to destabilise countries, create instability and inciting wars.

Don't be stupid. Think and find out who are the real trouble makers, the warmongers.

Leadership: Apologising Is A Weakness Or Strength?

It has been commonly believed, upheld and maintained consistently in Singapore by certain quarters of leadership that to apologise for a mistake is a display of weakness.

Is it true that to admit a mistake is to reflect a weakness on the part of the one who said sorry?

The UK's PM, Boris Johnson, has just apologised to his MPs for a mistake/blunder he should not have made. Here is his full Statement made in Parliament:

"Mr Speaker, I want to apologise. I know that millions of people across this country have made extraordinary sacrifices over the last 18 months.

I know the anguish that they have been through - unable to mourn their relatives, unable to live their lives as they want, or do the things they love.

And I know the rage they feel with me and with the government I lead, when they think that in Downing Street itself the rules are not being properly followed by the people who make the rules.

And though I cannot anticipate the conclusions of the current inquiry, I have learned enough to know there were things we simply did not get right and I must take responsibility.

No 10 is a big department with the garden as an extension of the office - which has been in constant use because of the role of fresh air in stopping the virus.

And when I went into that garden just after six on the 20th of May 2020, to thank groups of staff before going back into my office 25 minutes later to continue working, I believed implicitly that this was a work event.

But, Mr Speaker, with hindsight I should have sent everyone back inside, I should have found some other way to thank them, and I should have recognised that even if it could be said technically to fall within the guidance, there would be millions and millions of people who simply would not see it that way.

People who suffered terribly, people who were forbidden from meeting loved ones at all, inside or outside.

And to them and to this House [of Commons], I offer my heartfelt apologies.

And all I ask is that Sue Gray be allowed to complete her inquiry into that day and several others, so that the full facts can be established. And I will of course come back to this House and make a statement."

In reality, a good leader bound by his conviction to a high standard of morality, ethics, justice and fairness, and his ability to discern right from wrong, is bound to apologise to his people for mistakes, oversights and blunders made by himself, his colleagues or his subordinates. It shows his courage and strength in character. It displays his willingness to take full responsibility.

On the other end, cowards will never apologise or say sorry because they are afraid of making mistakes. They are afraid of being blamed. They are afraid to see themselves in the mirror. Why?

Because they believe that to apologise or say sorry is to admit a mistake, an oversight or a blunder done, and therefore it is a weakness. Perhaps, in their dreams at night, in the dark hours, they are seeing the images of ugly ghosts in themselves?

In truth, to be able to admit a mistake, oversight or blunder and say sorry, is a mark of a great man with great strength and great courage, not a weakness as has been maintained by some cowardly leaders both in the UK and in Singapore.

For a long time, I have been wanting to write about this inability or unwillingness of certain Singapore leaders to apologise to the people for the mistakes and blunders that they have made over the last 55 years or so.

I held it back because it does not reflect well of their legacy (a legacy of cowardice and irresponsibly in leadership), and it is better that it remains that way.

Why correct them when you know that the leopards will not be able to change their spots?

Why now? Think.


A-non-y-mouse.

COVID-19 VACCINATION: MORE DRACONIAN DECREES ENACTED BY SINGAPORE DICTATORSHIP

Taxi drivers who are not fully vaccinated against COVID-19 by Feb 1 will be suspended from their contracts until they are fully vaccinated.

That is the latest of a series of draconian decrees that have been enacted by powerful dictatorial leaders of the Communist Party of Singapore (the CPS aka PAP).

This latest draconian decree, against the Employnent Laws, has just been announced by the Senior Minister of Status for Transport, Amy Khor yesterday (Jan 13).

In years to come, if those who took the emergency use only mRNA pseudo vaccines suffered from serious negative consequences, all these draconian dictators will have to pay retribution.

The masses must store the details in their collective memory for posterity. Class actions should not be spared when the time arises.u

Queen of Hearts

US challenges China's claims in South China Sea VS China challenges the Europeans' claims to USA, Canada, Australia....

WASHINGTON: The United States on Wednesday (Jan 12) laid out its most detailed case yet against Beijing's "unlawful" claims in the South China Sea, rejecting both the geographic and historic bases for its vast, divisive map.

In a 47-page research paper, the State Department's Bureau of Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs said China had no basis under international law for claims that have put Beijing on a collision course with the Philippines, Vietnam and other Southeast Asian nations.  CNA

Ooohhh, China's claims of South China Sea islands have no basis under international law.  Really? What is the basis for the Europeans to claim the USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and the islands in the Pacific, Atlantic and Indian Ocean? It is the whole continent of North America and Australia with indigenous people living there. Not no man's land.

China should simply ignore their spurious and mischievous allegation and put up a similar paper to challenge the European Americans, Canadians, Australians and the New Zealanders claims of the land they called the USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Hawaii, etc etc to start with.

The white men's claims to these lands are simply illegal under any provision of international law. Their claims were based on conquest, claims by the use of military power, by massacres and genocides. This is the time to challenge this in the world court, in the UN, to settle the injustice committed against the natives of these lands by the Europeans, including abuses of human rights.

The natives of these lands that they have lost to the European invaders could work with China to fight for the return of their lands. China shall call on the Europeans to cease their unlawful occupation of lands belonging to the indigenous peoples. Time for China to rally the victims of the white curse and defend their rights.

The robbers, murderers and looters should not benefit from their crimes against the indigenous people of the world. The white men are the real thieves of other people's land, and murderers as well. It is the same methodology as they alleging that China is committing genocide when they were the real culprits. People living in glass houses should not throw stones at others.

The international law would not recognise the outrageous claim of American Exceptionalism, that indigenous people were subhumans and the Europeans have the right to seize their lands, subhumans have no rights of ownership of their lands according to their racist Doctrine of Christian Discovery. 

Bring the European robbers of native lands to justice.