Much of this was couched and finessed within the norms of international diplomacy and Western alliances, until January 20th, 2017, when Donald Trump was inaugurated as America's 45th president. The only clean elections in the United States happen at the neighborhood level (school districts, town councils). Above this level, they are frequently rigged (see China Rising - Capitalist Roads, Socialist Destinations, Pages 73-94, "A Tale of Two Democracies: What It Is Like to Vote in the United States Compared to France?").
I think Trump's election was a miscalculation by America's deep state, which includes Wall Street, the Department of Defense and its military contractors, the global oil bankers (Rockefeller, Rothschild, Morgan, etc.), the clandestine cliques (Central Intelligence Agency-CIA, National Security Administration-NSA, Defense Intelligence Agency-DIA, etc.) and their propaganda apparatus in the global mainstream media, Hollywood and New York City. Hillary Clinton was the chosen establishment puppet. Both sides undoubtedly cheated as usual. But the Clinton side underestimated Trump's turnout and didn't cheat enough, and whatever rigging the Trump side contributed was superfluous.
There is the opposing speculation that in reality, the deep state made sure that Trump got elected, in order to create chaos and instability to such a point, so that the American public would readily accept a "legal" coup to remove him from office, and replace him with a military junta, under the guise of "Continuity of Government" (COG). COG was actually implemented after 9-11 in the United States (see Footnote #4 in http://www.voltairenet.org/article185257.html). More on 9-11 later.
Either way, to say that all hell has broken loose in America, and by default, among its many client countries, is a gross understatement. One only has to look at the headlines, in any language across the globe, to realize this. Before Trump, BRI and Western empire were largely unrecognized to world citizens. BRI continues to barely make a blip on the global stage. This, while bombastic, mercurial, theatrical and deep state outsider President Trump is proving to be a megaphone for everything that is wrong and fake about the West, as well as being the perfect catalyst to accelerate its fall.
So, what is China's leadership and the Communist Party of China (CPC) to do, with the unbelievable circumstances happening, since Trump became US president? The last thing your institute needs is an article extolling the virtues of BRI. My goal here is to play the role of devil's advocate, think outside the box and propose challenging ideas. This is in order to avoid complacency and to precipitate a conversation among China's opinion makers and leaders, to possibly look at alternative options to assure the short- and long-term success of BRI. Even more frightening is the potential nuclear destruction of the human race, which could be too easily caused by China's enemies, thus making BRI a moot point.
Number Five of the 36 Stratagems of War is, "Loot a burning house". I think we can all agree that President Trump is the gunpowder that has ignited the Western empire to flame. But, can China and its allies avoid getting badly burned in the process? The classic Chinese long game will not work if the West (including insane Israel) pulls the nuclear trigger. Even an exchange of 5-10 of today's megaton hydrogen bombs would likely push Mother Earth's delicate ecosystem into a humanity-ending nuclear winter. Why take the chance?
I have a theory as to why even a burning Western house of fire (a collapsing empire) can maintain its dictatorial grip over much of the world's people, and will likely continue to do so, until a powerful, anti-capitalist country like China adopts a new and smarter game plan. It is because of the West's unparalleled global propaganda machine, which is aggressively pushed and obsessively managed by the aforementioned deep state. And the reason that the vast majority of humanity, including the Chinese people and their allies still give the West the benefit of the doubt, is due to the image that the deep state so artfully projects on all of us.
Propaganda has been ceaselessly pushed on the world, since Alexander the Great's murderous conquests, which happened across much of Asia in the 3rd century BC. This "Western Racist Superiority Paradigm" tells us that:
- Western civilization is intellectually superior to the rest of the world.
- Western civilization has no technical rival on Earth.
- Western civilization is morally and spiritually above all other peoples.
Sadly, the vast majority of the human race accepts this as fact, while outside of China, only a tiny percentage of humanity even knows what BRI is. This phenomenon has deep roots in racism. Around the planet, Caucasians are perceived to be mentally and morally superior to the world's non-White races, proving just how successful the West's pedantic mantra really is (see http://chinarising.puntopress.com/2018/01/06/slavs-and-the-yellow-peril-are-niggers-brutes-and-beasts-in-the-eyes-of-western-empire-china-rising-radio-sinoland/) . As BRI continues to advance, the West will use this successful superiority propaganda to destroy BRI's "Chinese" (meaning racially inferior) credibility and reliability.
The precedence is well established. Everywhere China goes to cooperate economically, the imperial West is right there to destroy the dream. As BRI continues to spread its wings, the deep state will be right there, spending billions to destroy it at every opportunity, having a terrible impact on China's image, and causing untold suffering and losses with its BRI partners. The list is long, but look no further than Afghanistan, Ecuador, Iraq, Iran, Libya, Myanmar, Nigeria, North Korea, Philippines, Russia, Serbia, (South) Sudan, Syria, Ukraine and Venezuela, to name a few. Their cooperation with China is not the sole reason they have been attacked, and in some cases destroyed by imperial tyranny, but it is definitely an important contributing factor.
China has two choices. One is to keep going along to get along and playing the long game, as the West slowly devours itself. The problem is, even though the Western house is ablaze, it is big and it is global, so it could take generations to finally implode, and in the meantime, nuclear holocaust hangs thickly in the air. Therefore, I propose to short-circuit this conundrum, by changing the world's attitude, that everything Caucasians do must be better than anything the Chinese offer, including BRI.
The only way to do this is to destroy the foundations upon which Westerners build their civilizational/racial superiority paradigm, that they are smarter, more creative, more just and righteous. In order to weaken these foundations, the best way is to attack them at their vulnerable points. The 36 Stratagem's of War and Sun Zi's Art of War consider a frontal assault, even if the enemy is weaker, as a last resort. Why needlessly lose so many soldiers and citizens, when victory can be won with elliptical strategies and asymmetric tactics? But, when the time is right to attack, one must be decisive, not hesitate and push through to victory. Chairman Mao and his generals brilliantly proved this to be true in the Korean and Sino-Indian Wars.
Now is not the moment for a full face-to-face showdown with the West. But, with Donald Trump loudly personifying the West's decline, the time is ripe for China to undermine empire, by elliptically attacking its weak points, while continuing to bolster BRI with its development partners.
Below are five false Western narratives to exploit. Destroying their supposed veracity would greatly undermine the West's Racist Superiority Paradigm of higher intelligence, greater creativity and superior morality. In chronological order, they are:
- 15th century Age of Exploration
- Germ Warfare during the Korean War
- The John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy assassinations
- Apollo moon landings
- September 11, 2001 (9-11)
15th century Age of Exploration
The whole Western Age of Exploration narrative is a cruel and cynical myth for two reasons.
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