Far East Cynic

Better takes on China

My rant of yesterday was purposely unhinged. The simple fact that for all of China’s things to like- it is outweighed by the fact that its people are ruled by a commie government that has one of the worst records on human rights on the planet. And worse,  it supports even more sick bastards like those in Burma. ( Don’t speak Commonwealth to me-say Empire!).

However over at Coming Anarchy they have come upon proof a great fact that many have long suspected-China only cares about some of its people and is more than willing to sell the rest down the river.

And they whine about the Japanese being racist.

Most people when they think of China think of a nation of 1 Billion people that looks like this:

Curzon however, has broken the code. All the animals may be equal, but some of the stinking commie pigs animals are more equal than others. This is the only China that matters to Hu Jin Tao and the other bastards rulers who rule China. This to them is the China that matters:

Let’s let Curzon explain it:

“China has land borders with 14 other countries, but its best to think of “China Proper” as an island. Over a billion people live in the agriculture heartland shown in the map above. The Han people who life in this are speak Mandarin and are the majority of China’s population.

When the Chinese state was strong, it managed to conquer and rule these outlying areas, providing a defensive buffer for the heartland. When central authority was weak, these fringes broke off – leaving the heartland vulnerable to invasion. China is strong again, even up to the point where the fringes now are the target of large migrations of Han, much to the chagrin of the native peoples.

This Han-ification of the Chinese fringe does not necessarily imply that the Chinese have more contact with the countries beyond their borders. Only in three places are the Chinese borders naturally permeable: at the Vietnamese frontier, via the Silk Road, and near Russian Far East. Hilly jungles separate China from Laos and Burma, the Himalayas shield it from the Indian subcontinent, almost impassable deserts divide it from Central Asia and the forbidding expanses of Siberia have never appealed to Chinese expansionism (until now, as the Russians fear).

China’s relative isolation, combined with the size of its population (1 in every 5 humans is Chinese), means China is virtually impossible to subdue militarily (as the Japanese discovered to their disadvantage in the 1930s). It also means China can – and often has – turned its back on the world, existing in splendid isolation.”

Which means they don’t care about the outlying areas-except as a source of cheap labor, and as a buffer between them and the “barbarians”.

That’s why, even though I am more than willing to have sex with interact with a good deal of their female population between the ages of 22 and 45- I still am very aware of the fact that the Chinese have a long way to go before they are on the same plane as the West.

That’s why I want the Beijing government to be humiliated during the Olympics. It is the only way to expose them as the liars they are. The kind of guys who build fake buildings to hide the fact they can’t get it done:

Its a fake building! Read the whole post at Japan Probe for the translation.

China’s government is a sham and the only way to make sure they don’t get away with this Olympic hoax is to expose them as the charlatans they are. So the Economist has it right in this article: “On closer examination, the Olympics have been bad for human rights and the environment, and they have done little to make China more biddable when it comes to foreign policy.”

But it will still be nice to see them get their asses kicked.

  1. You really should read a book entitled “”Chinese Shadows” by the Belgique journalist Simon Leys (1977) that really encapsulates in one work the true nature of the regime you so rightly loath. A very little appreciated/remembered but highly insightful work. (Much acclaimed when first published, btw) Just as relevant today as the day it was published–despite a present-day more “open” China.

  2. BTW, I have a little (however slight) first hand experience/insight into the region. Besides the obligatory R&R in HK when stationed at DaNang, my 1st cousin was Chief of Staff of the old Taiwan Defense Command that time(USAF, O-7 at that time, retired as 0-9) and I finagled add. “basket-leave” to visit him in Taipei…….. Got the “Cold War”
    view “up close and personal.”