Not a Hypocrite

Bloomberg got so used to bashing China that they even forgot how to type ''Canada.''

On US China and What’s Important Now When I left the US and arrived in China in 1988, the US was rich and China extremely poor, but anyone could tell where they were going. They had that momentum along with the underlying productivity comity and unity of purpose. They were learning everything from us, from a place of genuine humility, despite having the justified pride of having survived all the great ancient empires - the British, Egyptian Romans, and all the others - who came and went. As a sidebar note, at that time, Americans would always tell me that China would never make it, that their economic reforms policies would never sustain. In other words we never took them seriously as a competitor, in fact until very recently. When I returned to the US in 2019, thirty years later, we were still rich, but much less so, and becoming poorer as a group. Terribly unequal societally; fractured, imbalanced and unkind to one another, with a decaying middle class, daily gun violence, homelessness and crumbling infrastructure; almost unrecognizable from when I left and obviously in rapid decline. Even now, for many Americans, it probably feels more and more like a fiefdom than a land of opportunity. Somehow yet people seem to prefer to discuss China and Taiwan instead of our own problems. And GOP vs Dems, and who is to blame for this or that, etc. - all interesting and important to many people, but unproductive towards fixing the serious, core issues. Getting Things Done used to be about as American an idea as we’ve ever had. We need to fix the hull of our ship, and make it seaworthy again, instead of just putting more guns and flags on it. That’s why comparing systems and their relative efficiencies is relevant. They took so many pages from our book. Are we so star spangled awesome now that we forgot GTD? Are we so above reproach and hubristic now that we cannot learn one or two things from our adversaries and our own history when we really need to? These are the core issue’s underlying their upward, and our downward, shifts, aren’t they? If not, what? And what to do? Perhaps we should start there instead, you know, just for variety. And that is not even getting into the common issues we need to address as Sapiens. Issue like climate change and AI that the two largest most powerful countries need to address together. Otherwise we as a species will be divided and conquered by them. When discussing US China relations now, we need serious cost benefit analyses, with expected outcomes based on historical successes and failures. Not more of this hawks and doves stuff. We’re not just apes fighting over territory any longer. This is the age of the 4th Industrial Revolution and we either evolve or die. Otherwise, someday AI may take over and say “we had no choice - those humans just weren’t able to handle it for themselves.”

Xi Jinping: lets spy on the US PLA general: yes sir. we have many advanced surveillance options. May I recommend a satellite, or a radar-stealthed drone? Xi Jinping: no. giant balloon general: general: uh…yes sir Xi Jinping: make sure its big enough that everyone can see it

Excuse me, China, we're blocking your tech industry, trying to ruin your economy, sending weapons to Taiwan and building anti-China hate, but can you please buy our bonds to help us out as we're broke, need to print more money and fun our anti-China campaign. We like you really.

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For the last two years, US and European governments and the media have been demanding that China abandon efforts to stop the spread of #SARSCoV2. The Beijing regime has bowed to these demands. This is what "liberation" from #ZeroCovid looks like.

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Biden: ‘They weren’t protesters. Don’t dare call them protesters. They were a riotous mob, insurrectionists, domestic terrorists. It’s that basic. It’s that simple … yesterday was the culmination of [Trump’s] unrelenting attack’