China's "Prime Minister" Wen Jiabao spoke at a press conference on March 14, and on March 16 UPI reported his speech under the headline "Chinese PM Downplays China Threat."
China threat? But from the UPI report or from any other report of the Western mainstream media, it is not obvious that China is a threat, still less why it is a threat.
To understand that China is a threat, nay, a mortal danger to the West, it is necessary to understand the macrosociology of dictatorship, but few Western reporters or radio/television hosts and guests are able to understand anything except "news." Had China invaded Guatemala and then Mexico, as Hitler invaded in 1939 "the rump of Czechoslovakia" and then Poland, all Western reporters, as well as TV hosts and guests, could talk the news all around the clock.
But actually, China's "Prime Minister" Wen Jiabao made the following statement to prove that China is a paragon of peace: "We have not sent a single soldier abroad in the world; we have not taken a single inch of foreign land."
The UPI report said nothing in reply.
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Well, Tibet or Taiwan can be defined as Chinese, and not foreign, lands.
Thus, Wen Jiabao tacitly invited comparison of China with the United States, which has sent soldiers (and/or bombers) into Iraq (in 1991), into Yugoslavia, into Afghanistan, and into Iraq again (in 2003).
The UPI report was silent. So let me reply.
The question is: Has the United States thus expanded its global power? The answer is: On the contrary, the United States has thus diminished its global prestige and influence – even in the United States, the public poll rating of the U.S. president has fallen to an unseemly low. Meanwhile, China has been waging a war that has been invisible to the West – a war waged not by soldiers (and/or bombers) but by labs for the development of superweapons, able to annihilate the West unless it surrenders unconditionally.
There is another difference between China's secret war by means of labs for world domination and the four unconcealed wars of the United States in the past 15 years, by means of soldiers (and/or bombers). China's war by means of labs has been conducted by the entire "ruling class" of China, for the entire "ruling class" in a dictatorship is vulnerable.
Thus, the fall of the Soviet dictatorship in 1991 due to the involuntary subversion by the West of the Soviet dictatorship was the fall not only of Gorbachev but also of the entire "ruling class," whose members had to begit their careers anew. The victory of the Tiananmen Square movement (recall a replica of the Statue of Liberty in the square?) would have threatened the high political posts of the entire "ruling class" of China.
On the other hand, the four U.S. wars were initiated by temporary top federal officials called U.S. presidents for their own private purposes. Every year, about 400 U.S. federal officials are sentenced for using their offices for their private purposes.
George H.W. Bush provoked Saddam Hussein (through April Glaspie, whom George H.W. Bush had appointed ambassador to Iraq) into seizing Kuwait, whereupon he invaded Iraq, whose active and potential oil assets were worth $10 trillion. However, George H.W. Bush failed to overthrow Hussein (a socialist who insisted on Iraqi state oil extraction), and this was relegated to 2003, when another temporary top federal official, George W. Bush, a son of George H.W. Bush, had Hussein overthrown, but has been bogged in Iraq's Sunni guerrilla war.
The United States had been buying its oil from the Iraqi state oil corporations no less successfully than from the oil corporations linked with George H.W. Bush, George W. Bush, their former and present subordinates, their next of kin, and their Texas associates. No one can explain the war in Iraq except by private oil interests.
Bill Clinton was a U.S. temporary top federal official whose private interests were not in oil, but in odalisque adultery in the Oval Office of the White House. Clinton's sexual escapades inevitably became internationally known and made Clinton (and the White House) the laughing stock of mankind. How to stop the derision? Clinton made a long and thunderous speech, according to which President Milosevic of Yugoslavia threatened mankind (just as Hussein before and after him). Do you know what he did? Ordered the slaughter of 44 Albanian civilians! Clinton described the slaughter in every detail. This is what awaited mankind.
The European media, however, described how the Kosovo Liberation Army picked up the 44 corpses of its fallen soldiers, dressed them in civilian clothes, shot the corpses point-blank, buried them, and complained that 44 Albanian civilians were slaughtered on Milosevic's order.
The bombing of Yugoslavia went on for more than 70 days, whereupon Yugoslavia surrendered and Milosevic was kidnapped for a trial by a tribunal, which tried to prove him guilty for four years, but he died and thus liberated the tribunal from the need to find him either guilty or innocent. But Clinton reached his private goal: During the bombing of Yugoslavia his odalisque sex in the Oval Office was forgotten, and today he looks like a happy circus clown, much as he had appeared before the discovery of his misdeeds in the Oval Office.
The fourth war, the invasion of Afghanistan, is no more connected with the interests of anyone except a temporary top federal official called a U.S. president. Afghanistan is valuable for an oil pipeline. On Sept. 11, 2001, 19 Moslems, of whom 15 were out of Saudi Arabia and two out of the United Arab Emirates, where a bank supplied the money for the terrorist act, rammed three airliners into buildings in New York and Washington, D.C., as a revenge for 80,000 Iraqis killed in George H.W. Bush's invasion of Iraq and 500,000 children who died in the ensuing blockade of Iraq.
In response, George W. Bush invaded Afghanistan, to kill Osama bin Laden, who had been falsely accused (to his infinite joy) of "planning and carrying out" the 9/11 terrorist acts of 2001. Osama has not been killed, but who needs it, given an oil pipeline in Afghanistan?
It is clear even from these sketchy notes that the four wars have nothing to do with the United States as a whole, but were initiated by U.S. temporary top federal officials for their own private purposes. The world outside Iraq, Yugoslavia, Afghanistan (and Iran?) has not been defeated by these wars, harmful geostrategically to the United States.
On the contrary, all the three U.S. temporary top federal officials who started the four wars, merely harmful to the United States, have been extremely nice to China and have contributed to the growth of its capacity to annihilate the United States unless it surrenders unconditionally. For her part, China helped Bill Clinton financially to get re-elected for his second term. Wen Jiabao can well praise him for his pro-Chinese stand in exchange for the money he received from the dictators of China.
Said Churchill, "Democracy is the worst form of government [see the private antics of the last three U.S. temporary top federal officials] except all others." That is, all other forms of government. Yes, the U.S. democracy is INFINITELY better than the Nazi, Soviet or Chinese dictatorship. Alas, it is so pacifist geostrategically that it will perish if it remains such. Wen Jiabao's possible comment will be "It was too good for this world." Unless Wen Jiabao is also annihilated – in a mafia-like power struggle at the top of the dictatorship of China.