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The Cold War was as much an economic as a military war. In many ways, the West, especially Ronald Reagan, broke the Soviet Union by engaging in an expensive arms race that the Communists just couldn’t win. Marxist economics kept the Soviet empire on the brink of collapse for decades. Reagan’s challenge to the “Evil Empire” pushed it over the edge.
Communist China, perhaps learning from the Soviets’ mistakes, is launching an economic Cold War it fully intends to win. It has powerful allies to its cause in the globalist establishment.
You’ve got to hand it to China. It’s the world’s second largest economy in nominal GDP and, with 1.4 billion people, the most populous nation. It boasts the world’s largest military force with 2.2 million active personnel and another 510,000 in reserve. It has financially colonised much of the South Pacific, central Asia and Africa. Now it is buying influence in Europe, with heavy investments in Greece, including ownership of the port of Piraeus.
China is home to the world’s most extensive expressways and high-speed railways. There are 298 airlines and 235 airports.
According to Credit Suisse, for the first time there are more rich people in China than in the US. Of the world’s wealthiest 10 per cent, 100 million are Chinese, 99 million are American. China is also home to 12 of the 100 largest companies in the world.
Yet the UN still recognises China as a “developing” country. At the World Trade Organisation, it enjoys the same “special and differential treatment” as Zimbabwe and Haiti.
US efforts to put an end to the “developing nation” scam have been stymied. China, on the other hand, is fawned over by the globalists.
While it provides just 8 per cent of the UN budget, Beijing’s power and influence is disproportionate to this. Chinese officials run four of the UN’s 15 specialised agencies. Washington, which contributes three times more than China and, more than 185 member states combined, leads just one.
Nowhere is the cant, doublethink and treachery of the globalist elite regarding China more obvious than when it comes to climate change.
Because of its “developing nation” status, China avoids the economy-destroying emissions reduction targets guilt-ridden Western countries adopted in Paris. A self-effacing President Xi Jinping was quick to downplay this incredible gift, saying Beijing would cut its “emissions intensity” by 60 to 65 per cent by 2030.
This is a blatant lie, of course. Monitoring shows that Beijing is rapidly building a fleet of coal-powered generators. Its growth alone in coal-fired capacity is set to exceed Australia’s total generation in just 18 months.
Appearing virtuous is what counts. So when “developing” China, refreshingly distinct from the ugly “developed” West, signalled that by 2030 it intended to construct between 300 and 500 coal-fired power plants, it barely raised a murmur, notwithstanding that it renders the Paris global emissions targets practically unachievable.
No complaints either when, in addition to new coal-fired power stations and the 3000 coalmines it already operates, China announced it is funding 17 more mines…Why then, if the world’s biggest “polluter” is so clearly dismissive of the “climate emergency”, do global grandstanders such as Leonardo DiCaprio, Greta Thunberg and Greenpeace continue to direct their hostility at the West? Why isn’t Extinction Rebellion disrupting traffic in Tiananmen Square?
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In the last Cold War, the Soviets famously had their “Useful Idiots”: ideologically besotted academics, activists, and a network of spies and moles in government, who more or less secretively agitated for the communist cause. China has its own network of idiots, so deranged by their hysterical ideology that it has to be wondered whether they even realise who and what they are abetting.
