Comments by "Winston Smith" (@kryts27) on "How China is Turning itself into a Fortress" video.

To affect this plan of maximum turpitude (and I believe much of what Laowhy86 said about CCP China; it's a totalitarian state like Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union was, and state control, curtailing of any freedom, ethnic victimization and death is what they are most skilled at). However, CCP China at some point must launch a world war to attain it's political goals. It will try neutralisation of places like the United States by undermining it's democratic institutions (as this is much easier than fighting an actual kinetic war), but it needs the cooperation of the majority of America's social elites to affect this change in it's favour and I doubt that it can now attain anything more than a fraction of it's subterfuge goals there. Covid helped a lot with waking the slow, latent hostility of the American elites to the potential chaos and death that China under the CCP could spew at them, despite the mirage of making money in China (to Amazon it was not a mirage, but the CCP are hell bent in removing this obstacle at some point). Money means nothing without freedom. It's a message that the American public are slowly waking up to.
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I still think China's lack of freedoms will hamstring it. The Covid lockdowns (despite the Wall Street profiteers spinning otherwise), will go on for many months more. Xi Jinping does not care for Western style capitalism, in fact he despises it. A country as poor and backward as North Korea (after Herculean effort) has made long range missiles and some fission nukes. That's all it has achieved, and it is only to counter any perceived threats of invasion by the United States and it's Asian allies. Meanwhile, South Korea has (mainly by it's own efforts) has gone from strength to strength until it is now an economic powerhouse. South Korea is country with scant mineral and petroleum resources, and has admirably achieved all this mainly on it's own efforts (with initially much less foreign capital input than China). North Korea speak the same language as South Korea, but economically and politically they are very different countries. China is similarly divided between the mainland and Taiwan, and Taiwan (like South Korea) has created a powerhouse of technology and economic sophistication for itself, with many democratic freedoms. This is why the CCP and Xi hate Taiwan, it's a success story that CCP China could never be, but to sit back and let China militarily takeover Taiwan I think the United States and Free democratic countries will not let that happen and despite the sabre rattling rhetoric by Xi (I think Xi knows it as well). Undermining global order like the United Nations has been the CCP's secret goal for decades, but now it's finally unravelling as a neutral peacekeeping player. How is that a "victory" for the CCP where now it has to spend more on defending it's sea lanes and assests abroad just like the old European colonial powers had to, pre-1946.
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