Comments by "G L" (@gelinrefira) on "Thinkers Forum" channel.

Well, then we are glad that mersheimer is not in Beijing dictating the politics of China. Merhsiemer despite all his castigation of the current UAS foreign policies is very much a hegemonic style thinker who based his "realism" on western colonial mindset of power politics. He is very much a UAS hegemonist, he just disagree with how the UAS is doing it. China, as a culture and a society, has long since understood this kind of childish, (yes very childish) way of thinking will only lead to a collapse sooner or later because you will spend way too much energy and resources trying to maintain an empire, so they don't do it.
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When the western liberal system say it is all for freedom and economic growth, you should follow up with the question "Freedom for who? Economic growth for who?"
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Yes, becoming a neolib capitalist tends to do that to a person.
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That will depend solely on the US stop being an AH.
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A Chinese historian pointed out that China did expand in the past but it often took a very long view for its conquest and tributaries. It can take decades if not centuries to assimilate, sinicized other peoples which is how places like Xizhang (Tibet) and Xinjiang became part of Greater China. Xizhang was conquered by the Mongols and incorporated into the Yuan Dynasty but it took most of the entire Ming Dynasty to assimilate the region as part of China proper. China did not really used western colonial style to expand their territory, which is to go into another people's land, plant a flag and start taking the lands and enslaving or destroying the locals. Western colonialism is brutal and often does not seek to assimilate the locals but to displace, replace or enslave them and it create an entire concept of virulent racism to justify that brutality. Such a concept is alien to the Chinese, which emphasize on tributaries, sinicization and slow incorporation. Which is why these places eventually did become part of China because at the end of it, they became Chinese. Even outside invaders like the Mongols (Yuan dynasty) and the Manchus (Qing dynasty) are themselves sinicized heavily . They became part of the conquered. That's why it is intellectually dishonest to equate the history of places like Xizhang and Xinjiang in the same vein as western colonialism, as though China acquired these lands through western style brutality, racism, hypocritical double standards, and oppression.
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@robertward8035 Free Puerto Rico, free Guam, free Texas, free California.
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I think the covid and the real estate problem should be put in proper context. China came out of covid later than the rest of the world but with a death toll per capita far far lower than most of the world for a gigantic country. Yes, covid measure did a number on China's economy but it save potentially millions, if not tens of millions of lives. Those lives if lost could have done far immeasurably damage to China. Can you imagine if Liang Wenfeng died in covid, then we will never have DeepSeek. As for the housing market, it was a bubble built by an overheating market with developers making dangerous bets, and unsound financial decisions. The bubble had to be pop, and China did it on THEIR terms. It is because of what they did, that China avoid a 2008-like financial disaster. If the bubble burst later than sooner, the financial fallout from those bad loans, bad business practices would have been absolustely devastating. The Chinese government did the right and have accomplish what no one has done in history; successfully pop a bubble and managed its draw down and reduce its fallout to a minimum. The objective assessment of situations and rational management of any crisis or preventing the crisis in the first place is the proof of the strategic brilliance and administrative acumen and erudite of Chinese leadership. It is why China has already won this century because no country, no society, no culture can consistently produce leaders of such high caliber and a system that can move with the leadership.
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LOL the Chinese will be the first to tell you why the heck will they want a global empire, they have enough problems at home.
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Western mind blown.
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Taiwan is not a close neighbor because it is part of China. China has more historical claim to Taiwan than the US has on Hawai'i, which I remind you is acquired through an illegal coup and referendum. If the Union would not allow the Confederates to secede, and reabsorbed them after the Confederates lost, then China has the same right to not allow Taiwan to secede and reabsorb it.
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How did SZ happened? Central planning.
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"Businessmen are heroes" has to be one of the ironically vile thing to say in world history, considering that for most of the time, the merchant class is consider by most cultures as the most selfish people.
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@toma3025 this is the blind spot of western ideologue. It's not based on "logic", it's based on western assumptions in human nature, which we all know is already wrong. When you say power corrupts absolutely, that is already a wrong assumption. Western ideologies and culture incentivize selfishness and self interests far more than other cultures and you people just assume that's "human nature".
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Haha my replies are getting removed by UT.
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Hearing that person talk is like hearing grima wormtongue talks.
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The west never abandoned their colonial past and that mindset. Western culture is fundamentally tied to the notion that is always going to be a loser and winner, there is always going to be a top dog and the rest and they will rather be the winner, the top dog.
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@kobemop well imperialism and colonialism came before neoliberalism. Neoliberalism is just part of neocolonialism, the final form of colonialism and of course they are all Imperialism.
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Most of that US growth is in inflation, pointless government spending, finance, healthcare and military. None of these meaningfully produce useful stuff. Take these away, and I doubt the real growth of the US economy is more than a percent.
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@horridohobbies No, they don't. Western style conquest is especially brutal since ancient Rome. Brutality, atrocities, terror and systematic oppression and destruction of another people is a very western style way of expansion coupled with a intellectual system of racial supremacy. This culminated in the last 500 years of colonial history that continues to today. Rewriting history to cover up past crimes against humanity is also a very western thing to do. Most nations might write history to make themselves look good but the west is the only culture that engage in systematic mass propaganda and brainwashing to wipe their historical barbarism.
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The only thing they are right is that Germany is a puppet state of the US empire.
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@Rajsingh-ky9ky Free Falkland, free New Caledonia, free Puerto Rico, free Guam, free West Africa, free the world from western barbarians.
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That guy is encapsulated the most overwhelming tendency of the western civilization. That tendency overrides all other western civilization values, including liberty, freedom and democracy. That tendency is "if we don't fk you, you will fk us, so I will rather be the one doing the fking, then the one being fked."
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Europe has already been taken over a long time. People like von de leyen, macron, scholz all pay homage to Washington first. They wouldn't become leaders without the approval of Washington. Short of a revolution, there is no way Europe will ever get out of its vassal status to the US.
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But a declining empire can take the less trodden, more enlightened path to a rationally planned cessation. The UAS has the option, after so much of human history, to strategically remove the UAS empire and work with the multipolar world and usher in a new era. It could use its still power to birth this new world and still keep it's place as a powerful, relevant country. Instead it is going the route of how most fallen empires went, irrationally struggling against the rise of a new tide, and unable to reform itself because it is locked in its own self delusions from its past glories.
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@NorCalMoDo comments like these tell everyone just how juvenile, sophomoric and childish the USians and their culture are. You people really have no clue how bad things can go for you because you have never truly suffered for your crimes or being truly oppressed. You have done all the oppression on everyone else that you think you are invincible, so you can say this kind of arrogance BS.
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@vijayarajan3276 Exactly. Because the people ruling the collective west cannot abandon the colonial mindset, and all the terrible viewpoints on how the world should be that grew out of that mindset. They literally cannot imagine a world different from one where the west is ontologically always right, and always at the top. They don't know how to share the world, and how to respect other cultures, how to be a normal civilization.
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Bourgeois democracy is not real democracy.
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The UAS was never going to be able to create a new world order not based on domination after the collapse of the Soviet Union because the UAS fundamental characteristics are a warmongering, domination, racist, capitalist empire. The fact there are still westerners trying to portray like this was a lost opportunity mean that they have no idea who they really are.
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When you learn Marxism, you are either outraged at the current system or you become part of the system to exploit it even better.
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The fact that the rich are getting richer while the rest are getting poorer in the US and the west, while China has enjoyed broad spectrum prosperity (not perfect of course) over the last few decades already proved yet again that socialism works. The west will never admit that simple truth and that's why their economists, pundits, politicians, media, all act confused. They know, they just won't admit their system is crap and China's system is better.
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The insanity to believe that an inherently unstable system with boom and bust cycle is normal. Americans are really the most propagandized and indoctrinated people.
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biden only started changing his tune because he saw it has become politically difficult for him to unconditionally support that country to commit g-cide. Not because it is the right thing to do and it is obeying international laws and rules. That should tell you the moral bankruptcy of the UAS empire.
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Decolonization of the mind takes generations.
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They already know. This is for the west who still think they can do whatever they want without suffering any consequences.
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Blaming other people for your mistakes is exactly how losers and incompetent people behave. It is how an empire falls because it means the system is unable to do its own internal reforms because it is occupied by incompetent, corrupted people.
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