From 1945 to the present day, the United States has been the world’s dominant power, militarily, economically, and culturally. But a lot of people realize that this is changing, and soon, China will probably be the dominant power.
Perhaps you saw the news a few days ago about how Boston Celtics games have been removed from Chinese media after Celtics forward Enes Kantor made a video about the oppression of Tibet? As China is the NBA’s biggest emerging market, it would be naïve to think that Kantor isn’t in for an unpleasant word from the Celtics’ owner and/or manager.
Or perhaps you remember back in May how the actor and WWE wrestler John Cena was cajoled into telling his Chinese fans that he was “very sorry” for calling Taiwan a country? “I made a mistake,” he said, “It’s so, so, so, so, so, so important — I love and respect Chinese people …”
When China is the world’s dominant commercial power and also cares deeply about the ideological purity of those it does business with, it is only natural that the tendrils of the Chinese Communist Party will reach across the ocean and strangle freedom of speech in distant lands.
Despite the minor embarrassment of COVID-19, Chinese power and prestige are rising steeply. And let’s be honest here: even COVID isn’t as wholly Chinese a problem as some naïve Americans like to think.
Were the Chinese scientists in the lab from which the virus probably escaped doing things that would have been illegal in the United States? You bet. But you’ve also got to remember that the experiments were funded by American government money, while American virologists like Anthony Fauci were talking up the need for “gain of function” research and downplaying its hazards.
Basically, what we are looking at is a joint Sino-American snafu. It is definitely not a case of the innocent USA being bitten without reason by the Chinese Communist Party.
But such is the changing of empires. The bumbling incompetence of the declining empire paves the way for a new empire to arise. The Chinese have always known this….
The above comes from an Oct. 28 story on The American Thinker.
What does this have to do with catholicism? I’m concerned about Chinese agression too, but what does this have to do with catholicism in california?
It has a lot to do with Catholics in communist China, and that should be of grave concern to all Catholics in California.
Anything that annoys this guy pleases me.
Tough guy Jon Cena whimpered and begged forgiveness when he realized he might lose out on Chinese money, that’s so weak!
China has a huge population imbalance due to the one child policy that saw millions of girls aborted. Many men have no one to marry, so they kidnap women from bordering countries, and it’s still not enough. Women have a socializing effect on men, without them, men become violent and fight. Yes, war is coming.
PROC and mainland China is the breakaway country, having rebelled against Dr Sun Yat Sen’s Republic of China, which overthrew the dowager Empress in 1909. Mousy Dung (MaoZedong) was a Johnny Come Lately and started the Chinese Communist Party sometime in the mid 1920s. I myself regret having ever siffested the legitimacy of the mainland government, which for years only aurvived by bailouts from the Soviet Union and lack of political resolve among the Western democracies following the Korean War.