1/6. Xinhua thinks USA-PRC relations are the "question of the century", but China is increasingly a trend of the past. The world is moving on, and China is shrinking away from the center of global developments. 2/6. Culturally, economically, politically, spiritually, technologically, and intellectually Chinese society is disconnected from the world's center of focus. China is crawling away into the oblivion of xenophobic exile.

1. Very important post. Almost all Chinese people under age 40 live in high-rise apartment towers. China has the 2nd lowest fertility on earth, and they're tearing down villages for more apartment towers as we speak. China is demographically doomed (that's not an exaggeration).

https://twitter.com/MoreBirths/status/1820578610568216743

2. Although this is happening everywhere to some extent, China is almost unique in the extent to which it's talented young people are being drawn into fertility shredders like Shanghai and Beijing which have birth rates that have fallen into the abyss.

7 Reasons PRC China Is Not an Excellent Society (🧵): 1. China's Human Development Index (HDI) score is lower than Iran, Sri Lanka, and Costa Rica. China is far below Russia (HDI measures a countries overall health, education, income, and living conditions).

1/5. Chinese propaganda claims that the United States has a shorter history than PRC China, but the USA is over 240 years old while China is only 74 years old. If the propaganda is comparing Western civilization to Sinic civilization, than the the West goes back to Egypt. 2/5. If Chinese nationalists claim that "PRC China" is not equivalent to an alleged ancient entity called "China", than we have a right to ask why they're contrasting this "ancient China" to a modern nation-state like the United States? The comparison is illogical.

🧵 Although China is now at the peak of its power, it is becoming rather boring and meaningless to talk about China. This is a country with a dead Marxist ideology, almost no civil society or culture, an ancient history that was completely annihilated... China has stagnated, and there's no sign of any social reversal that might one day make China interesting. It's looking more and more like China is doomed to lumber into perpetual decline as an empty shell of a country. A spiritual and cultural wasteland...

China is not safe: random lockdown chaos, organ harvesting, sudden unwarranted police detentions, etc, etc. China is currently experiencing riots across the country (all censored and denied). It's a totalitarian dystopia. Underneath the propaganda, China is boiling chaos. Chinese people are finally starting to fight back. The full reality of their oppression is punching them in the face as they watch the World Cup and realize the world has left them behind. Videos show that, across China, people are fighting the new zero-covid restrictions.

The myth that China was the most developed or richest place on earth until the 1800s is false. 2000 years ago, the average inhabitant of the Italian peninsula in Western Europe was almost twice as wealthy and productive as the average inhabitant of what's now called China. There was a period in the Middle Ages when the Italian region sunk back to the same level of development as the Chinese region, but by 1500 the Italians had recreated their prior lead over the Chinese. In 1700, the average British person was also twice as wealthy as the Chinese.

The history of modern China did not begin with its humiliation in the Opium Wars, as the CCP claims, it began with the arrival of missionaries like the Jesuits and Hudson Taylor who introduced new science, technology, worldviews, education, and globalism. Modern China was not born in humiliation, it was born in constructive exchange with the world, especially with missionaries who built hospitals and schools. The original founder of China, Sun Yat-sen, was a Christian, and he was heavily influenced by well-meaning foreigners.

Those unfamiliar with China are often unaware of how fascist Chinese propaganda really is. It directly parallels 20th century cults of the leader and race. Students pledge loyalty to Xi Jinping and the Chinese nation, and vow to conquer Taiwan and restore China's "greatness". What's confusing, however, is that China stacks up totalitarian ideologies. They'll publicly worship Marxism, enforce dialectical materialism, and persecute religion... but then they'll simultaneously reject Marxist universalism and embrace a deeply xenophobic racial nationalism.

The Chinese believed for a long time that they were the center of civilization, but then the West came. The Chinese encountered a civilization both older and more advanced in every way than their own. This shattered their world forever and plunged them into centuries of anxiety. Nothing about the modern world has continuity with Chinese history. Everything that makes up our contemporary worldviews and lifestyles has its origin directly or indirectly from the West. Ancient China was utterly erased, and modern Chinese pride has been shattered by this fact.

Chinese lifestyle factors contributing to the spread of COVID:

1. Chinese people all dip their chopsticks in the same dishes to get food. 2-10 people a meal swapping saliva for an hour. Even strangers doing business eat like this. Everyone gets everyone’s germs. 2. Chinese people don’t use toilets, they use squat holes. In practice, this means feces and urine are splashed everywhere, and everyone steps in it in public bathrooms and drags it around the whole society. This is why Chinese remove their shoes before entering a home.

Before the 20th century, there was no such thing as "China". It was invented by Westerners and their students to make what was then the Qing dynasty fit within a Western nationalist framework. Modern Chinese ethnonationalism is the continuing development of the concept of "China" This is why Chinese racism is so extreme in comparison to developed countries. The Chinese are unsure of themselves as an identity, and they reassure themselves of their own nationhood by projecting racist in-group out-group dichotomies on anyone they label a "foreigner"

1. Much of China's worldview is based on an imagined lack of status. Everything in China is hierarchical, which makes Chinese people think that nations are stacked in a hierarchy with the West on top. Chinese also conflate an individual's status with their nationality's status. 2. Westerners are placed on top of this hierarchy, while Chinese are seen as lower. This low status, however, is largely just a projection of Chinese people's own worldview. So they become dominated by a fake humiliation that only exists in their minds.