The last three decades have seen the unprecedented rise of the Chinese dragon. All of this has not happened by chance, it’s a country and people that are intent on becoming the de facto global power in the 21st C. They dared to take on the USA and the west, and one can safely conclude, as it stands today, they are beating their competition hands down.
The world fell for its own rhetoric of globalisation and harnessing a cheap supply-side to underpin their own national failings. The world went out of its way to view everything China has done through rose tinted glasses. It ignored the fact that China is a dictatorship. That it limits press freedom to almost zero. That it controls all aspects of social media and all social interaction in every sector and every sphere. It is a police state.
The Chinese premier and first lady took a leaf out of the Clinton's playbook and became poster ready dictators that the west could sell to its people. Through the smiles and the rhetoric, China galvanised its armed forces and established its presence in countries around the world. It printed money to fund its worldwide enterprise so it could get a stranglehold on nations. Day-by-day, it systematically leveraged its control over global institutions like the UN, the WHO, WTO, IMF, OECD, WB and so on.
Chinese companies, supported by easy money from the Government which has flouted international laws on patents. It understood its weaknesses and began to ensure that it had ‘Made in China’ replacements for communications, telephonic technologies (5G etc), heavy industry, mineral processing, and software to challenge Snapchat, Twitter, Facebook and many others.
Its ultra-cheap manufacturing plants mass producing almost anything the world might need at a fraction of the cost. In fact, in some case so low that even other developing nations could not compete with the ‘Made in China’ stamp. Maybe a more appropriate terminology might be to say, ‘Cloned in China’. The out-sourcing model to China bandwagon saw no end. China has put itself in a power position of an effective monopoly for goods and services.
Whilst China exported to the world, in its own backyard its violations of human rights increased. Can you imagine, they even placed some two mn Uighurs in what many have called detention camps. And not a word out of the lilly-livered liberals in the west or the 1.8 bn Muslims around the world! Such is the power of China.
Enter Covid-19 and once again we witness the lies emanating out of China. It misled the world about the severity of the impending pandemic. Its control over the WHO was such that even it backed the nonsense coming out of Beijing. Maybe President Trump has a point after all!
The Chinese empire is already upon us, the world is too naïve to understand that its enslavement is almost complete. The war that China is pursuing is not traditional, it’s fit for the 21st C where without firing any nukes, it’s going to nuke the world into submission. Of course, you have to commend China for looking after its own interest.
Post Brexit, the UK better get its act together. And it’s time India woke up and becomes the only beacon of hope for the world that can challenge China on the global stage. Can ‘Make in India’ save us from ‘Made in China’? One wonders how many more made in China viruses we have to endure before nations wake up to the threat that is China.
