Comments by "Al Loomis" (@alloomis1635) on "Cyrus Janssen" channel.

  1. mr jansen, every time you say 'america's democracy' you reveal a carelessness with language which eviscerates what follows. the whole story of usa history is based on the fact that usa is not a democracy.
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  2. read 'decline and fall of the roman empire' as a young lad. interesting for the battles, but in retrospect, the value of the denarius is equally important, and as the silver was slowly replaced by copper, so the empire declined. not co-incidence, it turns out. the evil empire can sink beneath the sea, and much of the east coast will do that, the west coast will be devastated by fire, flood and tectonic plate wiggles, and some or all of the usa will likely be visited by the supervolcano under yellowstone. so will the evil empire be erased by god, or merely shredded by greed, arrogance and institutional idiocy? isn't it exciting?
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  3. it's all been said, anyone interested can reach a decision. i've been watching the usg with increasing dismay and occasional horror for 50 years, and no longer waste time on weighing their activities: just assume they are genuinely evil.
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  4. it will make some politicians richer, that always seems like a good idea in usa.
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  5. not more democratic, but at least doesn't lie about being democratic. currently prc is the most vigorous and effective society, which reflects badly on the western plutocracies.
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  6. you don't have to. but their track record is better by far than usa.
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  7. pompeo cleared the air with an unguarded admission that he lied and murdered as an officer of the cia. no dirty business that he had not done. you can't give a sociopath credit for anything- if you can't put him in jail, at least don't believe a word from his mouth.
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  8. go into politics, mr janssen. anyone who can talk as fast as that while reporting world conditions needs a more powerful audience than youtube. you are wasted, here. not sure talk is any real value, though. the visible major actors are voicing primal drives to power, wealth and simple status. they aren't listening to contrary ideas. that is the value of democracy - decisions are made by people who are searching for survival rather than dominance. too bad democracy, much talked about, is not in use, nor likely to be
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  9. you are very well-placed for the century of chinese domination. and vancouver area a good place to live. congratulations, and enjoy a well-deserved prosperity.
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  10. can't work together, usa is determined to be the world hegemon, china will have equality, at least. but it's wrong to talk about nations, since most people play no role in decision. only the swiss, really. usa government is an adjunct of the rich and well-to-do people, who are used to running the world for their profit. they won't compromise until they see the muzzle of a gun. and they hire people to do that. prc is developing faster, is better integrated, and suspects they are smarter. we will be lucky to survive this struggle. i believe the best strategy for the ants is to gnaw at the foundations of usa wealth and power. at the very least, stop pretending usa is directed by any principle but greed and arrogance, supported by professional murderers and thugs.
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  11. the 'government' of the usa used to be an administration- in the 30's and 40's they pretended to be a democracy to keep the plebs from revolution. but nixon thought that normal service should return and started saying government. he also tried out a palace guard uniform with roman helmets. didn't last long. made the cattle uneasy. face reality: usa is a commercial variety of fascism. prc will never be a democracy, any more than usa. but right now they are developing under a government that sees their welfare dependent on the support of the people. so, for the moment, they are the good guys, and usa the evil empire. no 'even-handed' about it, seriously evil.
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  12. it is reassuring to note that evil nations can be easily identified by their activities. i hope the officers of the pacific island nations realise that 'gifts' of military 'oversight' is not only inappropriate, but maleficent. prc doesn't have many friends, and even if the pacific islands enter aid and development agreements, prc is not greatly strengthened. but if most, better all, of them turn their backs on the aukus vultures, it may signify that the tide is turning, and a few larger nations then are emboldened to join them.
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  13. before she spoke, body language was rude. i presume the ambassador was unsurprised. neither was i. i don't bother to pretend about the usa anymore. contemptible, and a clear danger to the whole world.
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  14. any discussion that uses the phrase 'american democracy' in a non-sardonic mode, is fundamentally flawed. the struggle between prc and usa is one between private direction of capital, and state direction. easily stated, but the situation is murkier than that. some usa wealth is used for public good. some prc wealth is mis-directed, or simply stolen. nonetheless, it appears that state direction is winning in a walk. so there is a certain amount of urgency in the usa response, perhaps even incipient fear. the constant propaganda of capitalist efficiency is exposed to visible opposite reality. not only are the two economies going in different directions, the myths which sustain plutocratic rule are being eroded. it is becoming a cultural war. i would like to think prc will win, it will improve chances of continuing survival of modern society, but clearly they are a long-shot. so is the survival of h. sap.
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  15. the trade war is lost. so usg reverts to type, and threatens war. by itself it is a significant presence, but not overwhelming. so the plan seems to be, lure, buy or threaten support in sufficient size to frighten prc into submission. this will not work. actual war is suicidal. so prc will simply continue building roads and trade, and mutually advantageous treaties. 10 years from now, usa will split into 3 pieces, as gb has done, and become just innocuous 'usttabe grand' nations. or so i hope. the alternative is armageddon, quite a lively possibility. the orcs who run usa have no recent experience with successful resistance. to them, i urge that they give deep thought to the viet nam war. usa never lost a battle, but couldn't beat a people equipped with 2nd hand weapons and 1st class courage.
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  16. yes, it's too good to belong to china. 1st step, break it loose. 2nd step, own it. result, raise the stars and stripes in urumqi. at the usa embassy, of course. in the green zone, of course. i don't know if there is forced labor in xj, haven't been there recently. but i do know that any opinion which suits the usa is likely to be a lie.
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  17. pretty sure prc is run by smart, and sane, people. but i wouldn't say that about usa.
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  18. lectures are all they can afford.
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  19. the central committee has the option of doing what the people don't want, so it is no kind of democracy. it is delivering an acceptable mix of socialism and capitalism at present. this is not the result of democracy, just a current belief that a strong china is best for an elite in danger from foreign attack.
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  20. as mr jansen points out, many americans think they can go where they wish. this attitude will not diminish until it is demonstrated to be wrong. which is why xjp gave some thought to being the person, time and place for the demonstration. no one can be eager to risk starting ww last, but americans think there is no risk. they will certainly be wrong, probably quite soon, but xjp is clearly in no hurry. he also has no 'face.' his grip on the cpcc must be weaker.
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  21. no. it is more socialist. democracy is a label for society ruled by the people. not politicians. it doesn't mean 'good' or 'kind.' the whole point of the word arises from the original greek: : 'demos kratia' literally means 'citizens rule.'
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  22. thx, a useful insight into minzhu. but voting for government is not democracy, either. it is elective oligarchy. only the swiss have democracy. it's not mysterious - 'democracy' is anglicized greek, 'demos kratia' a phrase which means 'the citizens rule.' not politicians, not aristocrats, not priests, not generals - there were greek words for all those types of society.
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  23. a valuable post. while usa continues to regard military dominance as the most effective tool of market control, prc just gets on with making good products at a lower price. usa is going to lose, unless the bombs fly. then we all lose.
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  24. that's about right, but keep in mind, ussr was not putting those missiles in cuba as an aggressive act, but rather as a counter to usa missiles in turkey. usa was the aggressor then, as well as now.
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  25. usa has nothing left to bargain with, just bullets and bombs, lots of both. prc has much less of both, but maybe enough of each to persuade the usg that war is obsolete. relying on the character of usg is clearly foolish, and relying on the sanity of the usg may well be wrong. perhaps the usa satellites might whisper into the president's ear, that they are not going to support war against prc. but they are uniformly cowed into submission by their own political situation it's a very bad time to be young.
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  26. 'violating usa sanctions with iran' is the moral equivalent of saying, 'we don't like her, she's costing us big bucks with her superior technology.' i sympathize with canada, canadian politicians can't get elected if usa frowns at them. but really guys, show a little spine.
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  27.  @SaurabhKumar-uo6ms  'just? call it a hint: "we don't put up with kidnapping."
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  28. well said, mr j. i stopped worrying about foreign affairs many years ago, i found that time could be saved by simply saying 'usa bad' and there was little to no loss of justice. if you had watched usa forces 'pacify' villages in vietnam, with frag bombs and napalm, you would have saved a lot of time classifying iraq and afghanistan as 'war-crime' as well.
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  29. 'released in 2021' is still possible, but looking less likely with every new action. it is wrong to publish wishes based on perception of laws, because usa does what its masters want, and canada listens to those masters too. usa is utterly corrupt, they plan and act out of naked greed. they wanted to put huawei out of business, because it would draw off profits from the west, perhaps more importantly, because they would not comply with allowing nsa to monitor their traffic. we have entered a new war, all measures short of open violence. pray it goes no deeper.
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  30. yes indeed. a good foundation of political structure is valuable in the long term, but seldom seen. so enjoy the sunshine when you can.
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  31. usa has been chasing the rich man's dollar, cost effective. prc must start by chasing the left-overs. mighty banks have started this way, and prc is not short of smart people. and they can be patient. so long as the nuclear bombs don't fly, they are going to win.
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  32. and, very loosely related, prc will build a nicaragua canal. bigger, deeper and cheaper than panama. the rest of central america will profit also. various treaties will emerge which will free the americas of usa grip.
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  33. they understand that prc may push usa off the world hegemony.
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  34. yes, and they lied about freedom too. between vietnam and iraq, it's hard to understand why usa hasn't joined the nazis in the evil corner.
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  35. a useful report, thank you.
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  36. i'm not afraid of xjp. he is sane and competent, from what i can see. and china is advancing daily in wealth and power. he has no reason to rip up the world. biden is senile, was never very competent, and is merely the front man for the rulers of usa empire. presumably chosen because faction leaders could not tolerate the rule of any one from that group. biden is a danger, every time he opens his mouth. he may deviate from script at any moment. what china is going to do is increase pressure on taiwan commerce, constrict foreign relations, and aim to occupy in 5 years time. by then, usa will be weaker, taiwan people more inclined to re-join china. usa will use every means to hold on to empire, short of war. but they will threaten war, for lack of attractive policies. this creates a tight-rope for xjp and several others - putin has grasped the nettle of real war, and has demonstrated that usa only will fight with money. and the money is increasingly without value. the situation is complex, but i guess prc will prevail, in some sense, because underneath the guns and lies, usa has nothing to offer anymore. prc is fresh and vigorous, building infrastructure and commerce. they are the future, so long as usa doesn't blow-up the world.
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  37. mr. jannsen, the flaws in usa society were built in, at birth. they cannot be changed without revolution. which is why i left 50 years ago, returning only briefly to bury my parents. when politics is a profession, it is done for personal profit. how could it be otherwise. result, inevitably, is polarization. built-in, at birth. there is no hope for the usa. there is fear that you will destroy the world, to preserve your hegemony. and i hear no voice from there able to extract the source of the decay now visible. there is total acceptance of the law and custom of the nation, and uncomprehending inability to relate social problems to legal structure.
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  38. only 70%? usa and israel should be sent to the naughty corner. but other nations are ruled by politicians, and do bad things - within their more limited power. homer sap is smart enough to deal with tigers, but not himself. impending climate collapse will shake up human culture, let's hope we have a 2nd chance at escaping from the rule of alphas.
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  39. you shouldn't trust anyone who has great power. which is why i think getting democracy is vital to the survival of humanity. but i am certain that the continuing hegemony of the usa is the immediate and chief danger we face. so, resist usa, support prc, and even russia, with fingers crossed.
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  40. usa is run for the benefit of a few, and those hyper-rich are thriving, and the top 10% are doing well, too. usa was designed to benefit the rich, and that design has worked well. while the people of usa remain ignorant, passive and politically crippled, prospects will not improve. abandon hope, and pray for peace. if you don't have the courage to get democracy, get used to being on your knees.
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  41. probably happier, too.
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  42. first 30 seconds had a sour smile on my face. these jerks are clueless. i hope they are just ignorant and dim, but you have to suspect cynical malevolence anywhere, nowadays. i despair of the usa. long ago, i just filed that whole nation under 'evil empire' and assume anything that comes from there is a lie. not sure how much good you are doing, mr janssen, there are industrial systems of lying being done, and a base of total ignorance in usa. you are a dove of truth flying in a hailstorm of lies. but, can't hurt if you want fight the good fight, damn the torpedoes!
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  43. what a silly question! rhetorical, no doubt. usa is an evil pustule on the face of humanity. it may be genetic, but more likely transmitted by education of the young in the path of evil. the death of useless people is of no concern to the uber-race. usa was born that way, and it turns out, evil prospers, when society is designed by evil. glad to hear the people of prc are surpassing usa in another area. usa is throwing every resource at them, and the outcome of this struggle is not clear yet. so long as the contest is commercial, we may hope prc will win. but they are threatening war, and god knows [and korea, vietnam, iraq and afghanistan, etc.] they are not visibly inhibited by the prospect of bringing death and destruction to any obstinate nation. usa and prc are going to play russian roulette over taiwan. i hope usa blinks, or i may not be far enough away from the fall-out.
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  44. chang is famous for wanting to go to war with china. been singing that song for many years. he would be a joke except that ww3 is not an attractive prospect.
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  45. i think you are wasting your time, but i hope i'm wrong. at the very least you would make a good german foreign minister: eu and china together could smother the usa imperial dream. and this is necessary- they could blow up the world, trying to hold on to their hegemony.
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  46. never admit to being lazy. always use a vague reference to health problems. ignore inquiries about evading police - there is no good answer.
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  47. the only problem i have with mr janssen is that he must be under some temptation to enter politics. he would good at it. but the world needs more outsiders, capable of reporting reality, and i hope he will continue in that role.
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  48. bbc is much like fox news nowadays. prc people need to hear and see westerners who are open-minded, at least. mr nishishei might be balancing between survival and editorial direction, in which case he better find other employment or a different assignment. you do good work, mr j, although telling the truth in usa and its tributaries must surely be stressful - they generally don't want to hear.
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  49. no one seems to understand that the usg does not do caring and sharing. discussions of the effects of 'soft power' are maybe not useless, but they are certainly not effective. the usg is a sociopathic organization intent on dominating the world. since the end of ww2 there has been little opposition, and usg has grown ever stronger, and more openly evil. talk about soft power all you want, can't hurt. may generate an income. but i've been watching the usg in action for more than 60 years, if there has been any soft power, it has failed to stem the arrogance and greed of the usa. prc is now strong enough to say 'no.' usg calls this 'aggressive.' so do a lot of people and governments who travel with the usg, looking for scraps. it's time for the soft power people to support the prc, for speaking softly to sociopaths is unproductive.
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  50. 'american democracy' is a nonsense. a society without referendum and initiative is no kind of democracy. that's why people riot- violence is the only alternative to submission.
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  51. 'normal' just means 'teacher's college.' students there will be teachers, at high school level, or lower. consolidating them with vocational colleges is probably a good idea. and the protestors won't get much support from more prestigious schools like beida. this ain't tiananmen.
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  52. same is true everywhere. the french learn several languages, probably including a local dialect. but their public life is in parisian french.
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  53. it's true, the 2nd amendment offers a protection against government, and i would support holding on to it. unfortunately, it doesn't work. usa society accepts the ideas of capitalism, and poverty, gun crime and pervasive drug crime result. in principle, having a judge stand between arrest by the government and the individual is a good idea, but somehow the rich get away with fraud more often than the poor. most chinese seem well- satisfied with their government, and it's not just the current prosperity. that's clearly helpful, but i lived there in the 90's and everyone was uncertain about the future, but most thought the central committee had the situation under control. deng xiao ping is never going to be the giant figure that was mao, but his guidance was the second half of the modern resurgence of china, they should put his picture beside mao on tiananmen.
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  54. this is not irresponsible language. it's sociopathic war-mongering. crazy or greedy - some plutocrats bank-roll this kind of poison. ever since we started farming, some members of our species have been exploring new behaviors in search of reward. "lt'll be the death of us!"
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  55. both usa and prc are oligarchies, but the people of china know who to blame when things go wrong. the facade of 'democracy' in the usa makes blame hard to assign. but talk is useless. raised to submit to whatever crook is in office, murrikins are without hope for sane and just leadership. just regard for a moment, that your political system put a trump in the oval office. god help you. and follows with a biden! it resembles 'the last days of the roman empire' with added icbms and nukes. god help us all.
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  56. by the way, what is 'innocent?' suppose she was negotiating with iran, that makes her 'guilty,' in usa. the question is not about innocence, it is about sanctioning 3rd parties as a means of preserving usa hegemony. since then, china and iran have proclaimed an immense cash for oil contract, will usa 'sanction' all of china?
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  57. it's very easy to lie and spread lies on the web, everyday there is a new 'private' blog denigrating china. but reality is still available, because of genuine private channels such as this one. it is not difficult to spot the real evil, just look at the objective news: 'iranian government officer [and several bystanders] murdered by drone.' 'venezuelan trade interdicted by us navy' and of course there is the 16 year occupation of iraq, floating on a monstrous lie. i decided, back in vietnam days, that the government of my native land was entirely in the hands of sociopathic monsters who would hang if they did not direct the biggest military establishment in the world. if anything it has gotten worse, frequently shameless and unrestrained in their crimes. saves a lot of thought. usa--- bad! anyone else, possibly good, certainly not as bad. 'On 3 January 2020, a United States drone strike near Baghdad International Airport targeted and killed Iranian major general Qasem Soleimani while he was purportedly planning to meet Iraqi Prime Minister Adil Abdul-Mahdi in Baghdad.' when did public murder become an acceptable tool of foreign affairs?
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  58. this is not a personal 'flaw.' the structure of the state is simply not fit for purpose. it is unfixable within the constitution, and no one within the usa will touch the constitution. the elite are happy with it, the rest have no power but revolt.
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  59. facts don't really matter. usa is determined to crush huawei if they can. if any phone spying is done, nsa/cia intend to be doing it. we will soon know if canada is completely owned by usa, and it will turn out that the law is flexible, or not. difficult to feel sorry for mwz, visiting canada was foreseeably dangerous. usa is operating on the might is right principle, and the rest of the world must walk around the limits of their power. usa is the evil empire of our days, and the decaying economic foundation will end their rule eventually. they will have few friends, without power.
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  60. there is little doubt that prc tech will soon be the world leader, except possibly military. in similar circumstance, sparta beat athens. that's homer sap for you. fingers crossed - we need to focus on climate and civilized population reduction.
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  61. usa is the evil empire, and evil people are generally too selfish to enjoy the fruits of co-operation. it appears prc has achieved sufficient material progress to sustain itself in the face of usa aggression. establishing a second center of power, and science, appears to have enough support to grow and become pre-eminent. good news! for humanity, although too early to celebrate.
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  62. long ago i simply filed every word from the usg under 'lie.' saves time.
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  63. what a silly question? it presupposes trust in, say, usa. or any other less dangerous feature of modern life. right now, i compare the leadership of xi jinping with the [nominal] leadership of joe biden, and think prc is my mother, usa the monster of 'alien.' the fact that biden in some respect is a puppet multiplies the danger immensely, as the puppeteers work without any public restraint. xi aussi, but he has a track record of sanity and competence, not so, biden. his masters are known to be the corporate greed demographic. they must be getting nervous about their grip on the world. nervous people with the usa military machine at their direction should terrify us all.
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  64. the usa is not a democracy. it is an elective aristocracy that is a functional plutocracy. voting for people is not democracy. voting for action, law and policy through referendum and initiative is democracy. democracy is rule by the citizens, that is the literal meaning of the greek phrase, it is not rule by any elite.
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  65. pompeo is the secretary of murder. but i don't expect more from the biden cabinet. they will preside over a declining empire, and excuse themselves by attacking china. wolff recently made the comparison between inter-war germany and current usa, and there is some similarity. i hope the specter of nuclear armageddon leads to a better outcome this time,
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  66. you may not know, but speaking chinese is no big deal. not only are there lots, and lots, of chinese, but more, and more, non-chinese see it in their personal interest to speak mandarin, and the good news, it's easier than french, or even spanish. simplest structure of any major language, very few anomalies, no sounds that are hard for english speakers. tones? well, do yer best and they will probably understand, and smile politely. musical people will catch on, the rest of us just plod on.
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  67. strange, i thought prc was under a trade sanction from 48 to about 75. usa, and its clients can do anything they want, so long as they don't force nuclear war. kennedy understood that. not sure about the usg puppet-masters now. putin seems ill, and has gone meek, but if he has a use-by date, he may throw the switch to full-tilt war.
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  68. building popular support for peaceful and productive relations between usa and prc is a good idea, and must have a beneficial result. but the ethical quality of the usa government is so bad, that i think offering them anything but distant silence is a mistake. talk to the people of the usa, directly, yes, by all means. but their government has occupied iraq and afghanistan for nearly 20 years, continues to threaten iran daily, and just recently announced they were building air bases in syria, conveniently close to oil wells. the only suitable response for people who value ethical behavior is to at least 'shun' them.
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  69. you will prosper in part because you are a 'wang now' and in part for, many other character assets. but in the new age of chinese pre-eminence 'wang now' is a solid base. your children may take it even further and use 'wang' as their family name. 3 generations later, and 'janssen' will just be a bit of family memorabilia.
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  70. does biden run usa? unlikely. but whoever is calling the shots is no patriot. they are protecting wealth corporate and private, at whatever cost. bad luck for the serfs, but their control over public affairs is nil. ironic in view of the continual reference to 'democracy.' which they have never had, the elite having grasped the principle of newspeak and doublethink way ahead of orwell. there is no 'good guy' in this struggle, but prc is being directed for the improvement of the nation, with visible and remarkable results. doubly admirable since being accomplished in the face of fear and hatred from the evil empire and its clients. will they win? good guys always win, since winners define good guys. virtue has little place in human affairs. 20 years from now, the struggle may still be visible, if nuclear warfare is avoided. alas, usa has demonstrated a willingness to exterminate cities, russia and prc will certainly strike back. interesting times...
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  71. my hope is different. i hope the s/c americas become usa-free. a public burning of the monroe doctrine would be effective theater, accompanied by "free at last!"
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  72. everyone is making a living from information now, or opinion sometimes offered with supporting facts. probably a good thing, if you can evaluate accuracy and possible bias. but if you are getting a wage or a fee from a commercial entity, there used to be a commercial advantage in accurate reporting. so when the scmp chooses biased language, you are entitled to pay no further attention to them. but people do. not only is there an incentive to broadcast lies to suit the publisher, there is a biased market unconcerned with any reality that conflicts with their wishes. and that is the great advantage of the web age: a multitude of voices from most of the world on any subject. if you are interested in reality, it is findable nowadays. carry on, mr janssen, add yer rivulet to the river of knowledge. in that respect you have chosen the right time to be young.
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  73. everyone face towards dc, and radiate rage, contempt, hatred, disdain, any or all. at least once a day, for at least 2 minutes. i believe their leaves will turn brown, and the weaker politicians will suffer constipation.
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  74. usa is making war on china, all methods short of visible violence. prc is ducking and dodging with some success. if the bombs don't fly, they will win. of course, rome 'fell' for 200 years. but, on the bright side, austro-hungarian empire went in 5. alas, usa more 'roman.'
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  75. i am convinced that humanity can only survive if we establish democracy widely, since it is visibly clear that elite rule creates sociopathic rulers. threat of war and now climate catastrophe comes with them. prc is about as far from democracy as you can get, without lapsing into psychotic society. even so, i find myself agreeing with their government, in its struggle with the usa. in spite of the pretense to democracy, usa is, in fact, psychotic. a danger to us all. and there is nothing to be done, no cure. we must walk a tight-rope between submission, and triggering nuclear war. 'we,' of course, is primarily the managers of prc. i'm sure xjp takes great satisfaction in being the current great helmsman. but, how well does he sleep?
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  76. 'should not have gone,' is not good enough. officers of state should not indulge their personal feelings in international affairs, it can lead to 'accidental war.' almost worse, perhaps this was a mere re-election ploy, to counter husband's drug charges. this is no way to run any nation, and when the greatest military power of this time any other appears to be run by a caste of casual entitled grandees, we should all begin to look for bomb shelters.
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  77. mixed emotions- anyone with a good word to say about usa must be viewed with caution.
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  78. compared to usa, prc is peaceful and progressive. came across a post today that mentioned usa maintains 750 military bases, all around the world. but there are endless reports of many bases, perhaps only 100? too many. then there's the actual wars. and coups, and political murders. and proxy insurrections. costa rica doesn't have an army. they figured usa would buy the generals and own the nation.
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  79.  @wistfulthinkn6982  prc figures their best way to fight civid is frequent local lockdowns. there is digital tracking, it makes a lot of crime difficult. it goes on in the usa, too. nothing on the web is secret. chinese prisons have a better reputation than usa, but i can't say if you have to work in them. i do know mississippi required field labor to work, if you wanted to eat, it was common in the black prisons of the south. would guess it continues. and of course, usa police kill often, when the target is brown.
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  80. it might be that ms gu thinks prc is a more civilized place than usa. an easy conclusion to reach.
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  81. usa was never designed to be well-run. the people who designed the usa, chiefly james madison, wanted a nation that was static. slave plantation grandees were on top, and he did all he could to make sure it stayed that way for as long as possible. with great success, 4 of the first 5 presidents were those grandees, and the 5th promised not to rock the slave ship. but after the civil war, slavery was illegal, but the management of the nation was locked away from the people, still. the constitution has precluded good management, on purpose. the rich were meant to rule from the beginning, and still do- it's not an accident. so, in 20 years, prc has come from nowhere to 2nd biggest economy in the world, while usa has decayed. any oligarchy will decay, since predation is much easier than development, and the desire to enrich one's children regardless of their capabilities means too much development money is in the hands of selfish and greedy incompetents.
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  82. well, a golf pro would be a very unthreatening ambassador, and a very typical feature of the emergence of a cosmopolitan middle class in prc. they aren't a communist nation, anymore. barely socialist. better to think of them as a new mandarinate, educated professionals who claim to rule the nation as the inheritors of marx, lenin, mao and deng. no tincture of democracy, nor ever likely to be, but a much better sample of china than the usa politician rulers, whose only expertise is lying, bribery and the occasional brief career in law. cp-prc is trying to control corruption, with some success, future may be less rosy. right now they are running china very well, and tired old usa can not compete. so usa will consider going to war, that is their only remaining strong point. i hope prc is strong enough to dissuade them. there would be no winners. the recent asean treaty shows that china's neighbors are at least remaining neutral, and even oz and japan want a piece of the pie, while conspiring to throttle china with military strictures. interesting times.
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  83. changes nothing, in reality, although it might expose the tawdry lies usg must use, to cloak their naked greed and arrogance. the reality is, meng has joined assange in the 'no-case, but we don't like what she did' category. fortunately, meng has powerful friends and might be released once a face-saving deal is thought of by the orcs in usg.
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  84. there is no clear path to peace. the usg reacts as the great commercial forces of the usa direct, and they fear declining wealth, since it is already clear that usa iis losing market dominance. similar conditions led to ww2, and usa is in the habit of using military force to shape and control world markets. i think, i hope, prc is already strong enough to deter actual war by the principals, but peripheral wars are certain. venezuels remains under immediate threat, iran is struggling under sanctions, but recent contracts with china and russia may relieve the stress. the usa people are going to solve nothing. they have no power to direct their nation. they have heard of democracy, but prefer to be ruled by politicians, acting for plutocrats. they are not citizen quality people. sorry, mr janssen, you don't have the power to ease tension, and those who do, don't want to.
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  85. and the fishing boats in shenzhen harbor still had functioning sails. 50 years later, and china leads usa in some aspects of electronics, centering on this one-time fishing village. if you doubt the capacity of prc government to surpass usa, think about that.
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  86. Xi Jinping is not much impressed by secret assurances, since USA generals are as crooked as USA politicians. Milley should have begged for congressional action.
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  87. sorry, it doesn't work that way. by the time anyone gets to the oval office, all morality is forgotten, and if the cia doesn't like you, you die.
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  88. khomeini characterized the usa with the phrase 'great satan.' it seemed accurate at the time, if a bit florid- i'm not religious. but he was right enough, usa seeks profit through murder, piecemeal and wholesale. so, while i applaud any effort to educate ordinary usans in understanding prc, i am inclined to think it will not change the nature of usa politicians and public officials. there is also a great number of ordinary usans who are simply sociopaths, unfussed at murder done abroad is search of a market. you won't meet them on this site, i suppose, but they make their presence known elsewhere on the web. as a simple example, consider the presence of usa in iraq and afghanistan, sanctions on iran and venezuela [plus a coup attempt!] and the continuing story of cuba. and there's plenty of sordid history in south and central america. so i wonder if becoming friends with the great satan is suitable to people striving for ethical life. shouldn't we be attempting to sanction usa?
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  89. only the swiss have any kind of democracy, flawed and being degraded by being encircled by eu. many usa states have some or all the attributes of democracy, except the vital one of independence. usa is an elective oligarchy, not a democracy. the politicians tend to be rich, and usually in the service of wealth, private or corporate, so it can be called a functional plutocracy. prc doesn't pretend to be a democracy. it is an oligarchy, dependent on the pla for its authority. even so, for historical reasons, the central committee tends to look after the welfare of nation and people much better than usa. because initially 'communist,' the whole world was their enemy, and the strength of the nation was the only defense of the party. the chinese people are not citizens, merely civilians. they play no role in the management of the nation, much less direct it. this equally true of all nations, except the swiss. why then, is 'democracy' claimed and discussed? because applying the word 'democracy' to all those varieties of oligarchy has killed the meaning of the word, and reduced chances of the people organizing to get democracy. it works wonderfully well.
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  90. i presume usa will be driven to compete with some or all of the features of drmb. with smaller domestic mass and starting 2nd, plus many nations yearning to be dollar-free, this could be a turning point in world power.
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  91. thank you gentlemen, for shining a little light on tibet. i'm not sure it does much good, the orcs who control usa are not interested in truth, the ignorant racist people of usa are no better. but resistance is a duty, and we can hope to add to its result. btw, mr rein, the jewish occupation of palestine is not a stain, it is genocide.
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  92. you are wrong, mr janssen, to blame corrupt politicians. they are what they are because to social/political structure selects them. hyenas are unlovable, and watching them may disturb the softhearted. they are the politicians of the veldt. politician and hyena both evolve from nature. this should be obvious to all. the nation was born to protect slavery, enable expropriation of the natives, and ensure the rule of the rich. the constitution reflects those goals, and guides the character of the nation. the rich are entitled, the politicians crooked, the people cynical and frustrated, and frequently desperate, whence the shooting eruptions. there is no quick and easy cure. in my view, there is no cure at all. there is no non-violent way to make massive change, and neither is there sufficient leadership in view to undertake radical change. as a nation, you will follow rome into decay and history. please don't destroy the earth on the way out.
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  93. one more wave and the sandcastle of usa economic power will dissolve. in principle, good. but they have this big military, and when big numbers of murrikins start throwing rocks at passing gummint convoys, some bright spark will say, "i have it, let's blame the world for not listening to us anymore and shoot them until they are more polite!"
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  94. this is shameless click-bait. shame on you!
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  95. you are on the side of the angels, more or less, but the devil bats first, last, and when he wants. greed and arrogance characterize every elite, and the usa version has overwhelming military power to support its masters. if sanity prevails and war is prevented, prc may come to be the most powerful nation. at present, that seems like the best situation available. usa must be humbled, if we are to survive. but prc is human too, so this can only be a reprieve, not a solution. we must get democracy as the only possibility of establishing a balance with nature and population. elites must always have 'more,' citizens can be satisfied with 'enough.'
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  96. always glad to hear a report from china pointing out reality.
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  97. usg is entering cold war against prc, after discovering that using prc as cheap labor has long-term down-side. usa peeps are now being conditioned with hate-speech, to support the notion that the usg works for them. it doesn't. looking for logic from usg only works if 'logic' is in aid of usa corporate profits. then 'logic' excuses war, murder and endless lies.
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  98. carry on. not sure anything can stop the usa war machine, but you are at least on the side of the angels.
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  99. they are texicans, and should be allowed to exercise their right to secede at their earliest convenience. cruz is an inheritor of brit aristos, going right back to norman warlords, and he doesn't work for texas. they work for him. serves 'em right, they probably heard of democracy, but want no part of it. it would lead to degenerate behavior or even socialism.
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  100. they are desperate to discover others are equally bad.
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  101. usa is at war with prc, by all means short of visible violence. never get between the very rich and a dollar, if there is any chance that more will be lost. prc means to lead the world, and probably will.
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  102. certainly progressive. come from nowhere, in the last 40 years. peaceful? they'd like to be, they are winning the peace, hands down. which is why usa has declared war. only economic war so far, but if that doesn't work, they will discover a reason to 'save the people of _______' by invasion and occupation of china. insert ukraine or taiwan or anywhere. which is why prc talks a lot tougher nowadays, reminding the world they are not poor old iraq. the prospect of nuclear war is no longer unthinkable. the usg developed 'tactical' nuclear weapons for just this purpose. they yearn for winnable war. prc can hold off the evil empire only with city-eraser bombs and an effective delivery system. the orcs who run usa have an optimism common to sociopaths, but even they know there is nowhere to hide from 10 giant hydrogen bombs.
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  103. pompeo bringing democracy? still waiting for usa to be a democracy. while we are waiting, usa is bringing murder, bombing and invasion to the world.
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  104. there can be no peace and justice from the usa, it is firmly in the grip of politicians who themselves owe their power and wealth to the even richer. i plead for the establishment of democracy, but 99 out of 100 usans think they have it, and the other one says 'no hope.' a populace of unthinking cattle, driven by agents of wealth into subsistence wages so that manufacturing jobs can be sent to foreign lands, for the further enrichment of shareholders, have no hope.
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  105. this is not an appropriate question. better would be, "do you trust the people who rule usa to act in your best interest?" if you answer 'no!' then the discussion can begin. if you answer 'yes, ' discussion is useless, for you are an ignorant fool. they are not your friends.
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  106. good report, mr j, i wish i thought it would prevent war. can't hurt, i suppose. but the usa government is simply evil. sold their soul to the devil, because the price was attractive. there was never a day when there was hope for usa, it was born to preserve slavery, exterminate the natives, and ensure the rich ruled. prc is run by humans, but currently they are the only power that can resist usa with effect. we everyone should do what we can to ensure usa feels too weak to attack china, your efforts are in the right direction, 加油
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  107. 加油
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  108. by the way, very impressed with your 汉与, did you study before going there?
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  109. usa can not peacefully co-exist, half their national budget goes into munitions, the soldiers vote, and much of that budget lands finally in share-holding class. hard to justify that kind of budget with out enemies and occasional explosions. it's rime for everyone to say, "usa is our mutual threat," and we must show them the muzzle. otherwise they are going to start ww3 out of toxic greed.
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  110. lies are the bullets before bullets, warfare by propaganda. people have to figure who is lying, if they are interested in the truth, but many people just want to hear the lies they subscribe to. a very depressing reality. i am not a great fan of the prc political system, but for now at least, it has delivered a rush towards general prosperity unprecedented in human history. it's very hard to explain that away, although other governments must try to do so. the usa in particular enjoyed a period of general prosperity after ww2, the fruit of ww2 'socialism', and later a period of unmatched military dominance after the collapse of the ussr. they are not used to looking like 'yesterday's men.' but they are, and only lies and sabre-rattleing maintain a shaky front of continuing dominance. this is a period of great danger to the world. as trump demonstrated, and now biden, their national direction is in the hands of incompetents and sociopaths. cross yer fingers, because sanity is not in charge.
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  111. prc has made a misjudgement about how much money to spend on public health. doctors and hospitals were over-loaded before the virus erupted. so lockdowns were necessary. eventually, vaccination should bring the situation under control, but it might be 3 years of continual suppression of movement.
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  112. there is no democracy in china. very, very, little in the usa. so, unless you are in the revolution business, move on from governance to performance. there, prc better than usa in every way. neither perfect, we are dealing with human beings, but for every china weakness, you can match a usa weakness, and worse.
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  113. btw, those little red flags clustered around the toe of florida probably it a fire under the orcs of cialand.* there will be an anthill disturbed appearance for the next few years, they may even resort to marines landing. *cialand is an autonomous state located in down-town dc. they have their own flag, which they only fly in public on the anniversary of jfk's death. by some ironic coincidence that happens to be the cia's summer picnic day. quirks of history, eh?
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  114. no, mr janssen, what is good for america is good for america. the rest of the world sends very few children to international meetings. usa continues to have a following, because nations may profit from the scraps, or rulers take protection from submission to usa. i do what i can to remind the world, that 'democracy' has a meaning, and it is nothing like what is practiced by the usa, at home and certainly has no international application at all. the tide is turning, and it is no longer immediately fatal to reject usa demands. a few who do are murdered, and many are bought, but resistance has reached self-sustaining levels. it is unfortunate that the two major nations resisting usa hegemony are themselves oligarchies, russia might even be a dictatorship, but the moral standing of the usa elective oligarchy is no better. homo sapiens has touched democracy, but it clearly is not natural, and i suspect we will destroy our world before we get there. in the meantime, it seems best to support the less bad nations, prc and russia.. by the way, your nation murders people who oppose them. it is foolish to suggest that others have rights, while the cia is a licensed killer.
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  115. most myths are about usa. freedom, equality, democracy, endless charming stories for children. all empty lies. the truth is sinister - military bases encircling the world, invasions, assassinations, drone bombing, poisoning of water and air as a tool of war. and they felt it was necessary to 'test' their new atomic weapon, to impress on the world of the intention to be master. i hope the human race will 'sanction' the whole nation, before it destroys us all.
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  116. every child should be warned, about sex predators, and politicians. sadly, it's not enough to warn, about politicians, they continue to flourish. indeed, even stupid and visibly corrupt politicians can hold any office in the nation. what that says about the ordinary usan, well, there are many aspects, let's just say things can't get better with the material at hand.
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  117. a good assessment of the cv19 problem. not the disease, but rather the blame game. various human societies met the disease with widely different capabilities and widely different cultures. we are god's petrie dishes! patient zero is of mild interest to medical science, but burning interest to those governments who visibly failed to use their resources to support the lives of their people. your discussion is the best i have seen, and should dissolve blame from anyone: cv19 appears to be widespread long before it became critical. i'll relay this vid as often as possible- everyone should see it. well done!
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  118. china would have invaded if they could, but bad weather intervened.
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  119. i didn't have to travel far to learn what usa 'freedom' is. i just joined the air force, and they took care of the travel. like most of the ground crew, i never was shot at. but, as a radio monitor, mandarin and vietnamese, i got some idea of what our guys were up to. occasionally, the ugly reality leaked into public view, you probably heard about 'mylai.' about 350 viets were gathered up from their village and machine-gunned. the grunts involved were not charged with murder, they were discharged instead. an officer did a couple of years 'confined to quarters' and then released. why was mass murder treated so lightly? because it was commonplace, and part of the command direction of the war. every officer from 1st lieutenant to westmorland should have been hanged, if the munich standards were applied. so i am not a civilian of the usa any more. leave if you can, you are living in a moral hell hole.
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  120. don't see why cgtn/prccc don't just publish the address of this video they like. it is much more valuable to them in foreign eyes if you are independent. perhaps they see an advantage within prc, in co-opting your active participation. i tend to support prc in its existential struggle with usa, because i am intimately acquainted with usa crimes and sins. but don't associate yourself with any government. homo sapiens can not handle power without corruption.
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  121. usa not a democracy, but athens was. also notably evil, at times. democracy is not a reference to virtue, just an answer to the question "who rules?' but elites have a long-noted tendency to be evil. when the people rule, there is a benefit in treating others well, as they are your partners in dealing with the world.
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  122. i will settle for deportation to labor camps in africa.
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  123. this presumption of good nature in the aukus triad is charming, but simply wrong. their only concern is profit. [for the usa, the others are hoping for crumbs]
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  124. this question is rhetorical, i hope. the people who framed the usa constitution were aiming for stasis. there is a 'presider', a body of old rich white men, and a body of gentry, to carry the claims of the people to the attention of their 'betters.' the establishment document of the prc is recent, action-oriented and tasked with lifting china into the front rank of nations. so the chinese have much better leadership now, and this will continue until the new 'mandarinate' of the cpprc is over-taken by age and corruption. usa will never recover until it gets a new kind of government, and none is in view-- even what passes for intellectual discussion only concerns itself with personalities. humanity needs democracy, for survival. but it seems to be too hard, just unsuited to the capabilities of homer sap. extinction looms, 'missed it by that much!' will go on the last tombstone.
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  125. this case has displayed the usg as guilty of kidnapping and extortion. they are elsewhere shown to be guilty of mass murder, so mwz may feel relieved to escape with her life. but the price of freedom is no access to reparation for the crimes performed by the usg and its canadian hench-hyenas. usans watching this story might reasonably feel some sense of shame, but most will merely be surprised that mwz walked, at the cost of whatever ransom is extracted from huawei. a shameless nation, ruled by gangsters.
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  126. demand democracy, gun in hand.
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  127. it's here to stay, and if humans don't want to live in ant colonies, hopeless slaves of the elite, they better get democracy soon. i see no sign of that happening.
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  128. put the boot in, follow with dancing on face.
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  129. at least you have stopped saying meng must be released. logic and law have nothing to do with it. poor lady will wind up in an american jail, unless chinese commandos grab bezos. and i'm sure he travels under heavy protection.
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  130. sane, informed and very relevant. you may have prevented ww3. full credit for intent, anyway. but the monsters that float to the top of nations don't pay much attention to us.
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  131. usa is 'stronger' today, and prc weaker. i suspect a few rounds across the path of pelosi's plane would have turned her around. glad it wasn't my decision. if this was the turning point in taiwan's independence, pelosi's corruption will never be referred to again. not in usa, anyway.
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  132. not necessary. it is possible now to 'bargain' goods and services on the web, without the intermediate currency.
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  133. of course. they are much more sophisticated, and their self-confidence is greater, for good cause. perhaps too, there is a sense that marxist-leninist futurology is making clear approach to reality: capitalism is cutting its own throat, out of innate necessity. prc will be the world's leading society soon, unless usa destroys society with nuclear war. interesting times. when you add in the greater threat of inadequate response to climate catastrophe, not a good time to be young.
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  134. not immature, the people pompeo wants to talk to welcome denigration of xjp. there are quite a few. not having elections makes it harder to guess how many are dissatisfied, but while the widespread rise in standard of living suggests xjp could win elections, there are always losers.
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  135. good vid. freedom to be unvaccinated is foolish, but a substantial %age of usans are sociopaths and simplenutters, so we should not be surprised at this behavior. the proper response is simply to put a wall around usa, and not let them out. speak to your local politician, if you think it will do any good. nation-wide psychosis is well-documented throughout human history, and usa is the latest and possibly worst example. i try to pity them, but they kill millions in pursuit of wealth, so i tend to use contempt instead.
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  136. what it will mean is 'america is back!' [ cue 'darth vader' theme ] then watch israel murder an iranian scientist, secure in the knowledge that anything goes.
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  137. biden needs a "see, i tried," exercise, but he has nothing to offer. his sponsors and his handlers are determined to continue the dominance of usa in world affairs, by all means. short of war? interesting question. war would be insane, between the protagonists, but it could happen if usa pressed too hard. perhaps india and philippines could be encouraged to test prc courage. they both have reasons to kick the prc ankle, to buoy up internal power. there is no good will in the usa government, it is rotten with greed and arrogance, and possibly conscious that usa greed fed the rise to competitive power by prc. that must rankle those few in usa capable of sanity. prc government is currently much stronger in simple mental competence and national spirit. so long as the bombs don't fly, they will win. i wish that were a given.
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  138. .... and feeding babies to moloch. in fact, bringing all of china into a rough facility in mandarin is crucial to the modernization of china. and don't worry about dialects, they will linger on indefinitely. although, usa is in danger of becoming a multilingual society itself - all those catholic spanish-speakers are spreading out of mexico. it's not fatal, the swiss have 31/2 national languages, india about 20, one of which is english. usa is greatly hampered by its monoglot history, but that's curing itself with immigration. now let's go back to thinking of ways to demonize prc, it's much cheaper than fixing usa.
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  139. the preamble starts with a lie, and continues in similar vein. the reality is available in the published statements of the grandees of the nation attending and voting on the establishment of the usa. it was not 'we, the people." most were the richest men of the nation, and the purpose of the constitution was to protect the wealth of slave plantation masters. britain was beginning to legislate against slavery, piecemeal.
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  140. scary stuff. but the thing is, usa is not a democracy, and the ordinary chump voter doesn't decide state activity. this kind of drum-beating is directed at the few hundred who will make the decisions. it is quite possible usa might win a war against russia, or prc, or both. but last time i looked, russia by itself had roughly comparable nuclear capacity, don't know about prc, but i bet it is not negligible. so there will be no winner. the drum beating is simply to transfer more money from public services to munitions profits.
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  141. good story, needs telling.
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  142. people who make a living from talking about politics can be listened to, but it's just entertainment. i hope some real revolutionaries are organizing, with the web, it's a great asset, but they can't have a sponsor, or they become televangelists.
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  143. i thought ma yun crossed a trip-wire by attempting to take control of his own digital money. no central bank will put up with that, nowadays. and i thought he was visiting a re-education camp, such as that deng visited, twice. perhaps he is merely under an informal house arrest. prc is not perfect, even by human standards, a very low bar. but they are doing well now, and seldom have to shoot rich men. better than usa, who only kills the poor. a clear and succinct exposition of the situation, mr janssen, though i am still inclined toward the summer camp.
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  144. don't know why ms gu made this decision, but any action that might evince dismay/contempt/horror towards the evil empire is appropriate. or maybe ms gu is betting a future in prc offers more personal rewards. a reasonable bet, so long as evil empire doesn't send an assassin, or blow up the world.
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  145. if humanity survives, if civilization survives, we will all have digital currency. taxation will be extinct, fraud and corruption very difficult, and financial management will be simple. roll on! but i wish we weren't sailing into the future under a selection of oligarchies, all of them corrupt and with the potential to be '1984' re-vivified.
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  146. to begin with, usa is no kind of democracy. elective aristocracy is closest label, in traditional language. in reality, the 'aristocrats' are in thrall to money, so plutocracy is the underlying reality. the difference between prc and usa is simply that the usa is the reigning hegemon, and china wants its share of the world. i'm inclined to support china because greed and arrogance of usa is a danger to humanity, through war and environmental destruction. to put it in simple terms, usa maintains empire through violence, prc seeks to roll back that empire with trade and development. usa shoots, prc builds.
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  147. btw: usa will not invade china. they have made plans, and publicized them, to extinguish 25 cities with atom bombs. it was back in the 50's, maybe things weren't going well in korea. they didn't invade then, when china was weak. they won't now, when prc strong. nuclear war? nutcases run the usa, anything is possible.
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  148. well done, sir. calm logical and researched. puts you out of step, dunnit. usa has initiated a modern version of cold war, and will damage prc any way they can. blatant lies are major tool of the usa, and they have plenty of others. bribery works too. and threats. let's pray it doesn't come to shooting. it turns out that reagan's 'evil empire' was his native land.
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  149. we will have peace, and a dominant china, or war, and god knows who or what will survive. usa is relying on quasi-military means already, which is an admission of social incompetence. if you are not worried, you are ignorant. the people who are directing usa activity may have already established a bomb shelter in greenland. this would not be a long term protection, but sociopaths are consistently optimistic.
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  150. perhaps those nations that chose to be clients of usa are governed by people who are insecure about their choice. so they are outraged when others make different choices. it calls in question their performance and judgement. oz politicians are no better than average quality, contemptible, in short. the government of solomon islands is clearly of similar standard, but perhaps the riots are inspired by the cia. that's what they do for a living. so it comes down to, butt out, oz. none of yer business.
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