It took 31 years for a different diaspora to learn the lessons of Auschwitz and execute Entebbe - showing that hard power is the only reliable safety net a diaspora can depend upon. The Chinese diaspora has the benefit of hindsight. It must incorporate these lessons for itself.
If Huawei, Tiktok, WeChat, and SMIC should have taught you anything, it is that American liberalism will not protect your right to build when push comes to shove. Only the Chinese system will protect your efforts from foreign governments and domestic monopolists.
If American liberalism is actively trying to enslave you with false promises of prosperity, there is only one path to safety for you: to do everything you can to hasten the day China gains primacy.
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FYI, this gets multiplied 1,000x when Western (mainly US) media talks about China.
The US loves to talk about how China's Leninist model makes it prone to 'miscalculation' in foreign policy, but the US's media echo chamber is a far bigger driver of miscalculation
Like, just witness the reaction to this article. The article is a fairly banal discussion of a) intent and b) capability among the US, PRC, and ROC. This is the kind of discussion that is found in mil/int, academia, and corporates all the time
Senior US regime official from the nominally 'reformist' camp finally admits that the US views China's economic growth itself as a threat
For all you Chinese 'liberals' out there, it is time to disabuse yourself of the notion that the US or the West in general will ever be 'friendly' to China.
Here, they admit it: as long as China is growing, they will seek to constrain it.
This is why I believe China should move on Taiwan sooner than later: if the US is going to try and constrain China's development no matter what, the US will never negotiate in good faith. In that case, it's better to 'negotiate' from a position of strength.
1/ Definitely give this a read. Goes to the heart of l'arrangement infernale that Facebook has struck with the BJP in India wsj.com/articles/in-in…
2/ This infernal bargain is that the BJP will help boost FB's userbase and engagement metrics in India, while FB turns a blind eye to the BJP's increasingly violent oppression of non-Hindu religious adherents to build a majoritarian Hindu coalition
3/ This infernal bargain also extends to the BJP's imposition of political controls on capital and tech inflows into the Indian market under Atmanirbhar, to force foreign companies to embrace its majoritarian politics and partner with favored domestic oligarchs