I spy Chinese
I moved from the countryside to a town so that I could learn to live in a population dense society. The so-called Chinese question is an evolutionary question: which branch of homo sapiens is better suited to live in an overcrowded world. I back the Easteners.
Westerners need space for their over developed imaginations, but the ever-pushing-further western horizon that fuelled the euro-american dream is closing down and the Westerners, up against the wall, are going for war. Elbridge A. Colby a defence analyst with The Marathon Initiative has thought himself deep into the Taiwan factor for example. He,
“… urges the US not to provide potential civilian targets with air defences, reasoning that collateral damage will whip up the public anger against China necessary to winning a war…”
Does this playbook really suit you? Look how we managed to bring our people on since 1949. Let the USA military go study ways to heal their rustlands before they come grab our peaches. Are you ready to be whipped up into anger? Wouldn’t you Europeans prefer a civilised accommodation as you transit under the African flood? We curb Russia, keep it within the bounds of its vastness and you disengage from USA hegemony.
England’s non-stop kneetrembler with the Pentagon and its canny financial muscle make for complication. At one end of the political pool or at least in the changing room, Liz Truss speaks of our authoritarian regime and vaunts your capitalism which governs by making you slaves of your basest desires. As Prime Minister her take was too naked and she was thrown back into the talkosphere.
Speedo boy Sunak’s miniature jet flights in the UK diagram the easy traveller of the future. A diaspora person, at home in the air and soon, no doubt, space. He probably wants a nuanced relationship with us, equivocation is in his genes. We know he is Hindu, he has the elephant, he may be on his way back to India, our next door rowdy.
Badenoch is the one we would most like to treat with, politician-slippery as a fish but a head well forward into the future (her married name derives from the gaelic for drowned land). What makes her special is that she has a masters in engineering — she knows about things. With her we can play applied pragmatics. We have her in mind for the Africa seat on our World Council just down the line, if Cleverley doesn’t quite make the cut. He’s trying hard tho, the beard may be the tippîng point.
I have been told not to wait too long for Chinese tourists to come filtering back into these Pyrenean foothills. Re-structuring and streamlining, lessons from covid have to happen first. Then, the leap forward will be a take-over of France’s confused and contradictory African portfolio. For a while we will rely on local, French and European, managers and engineers to manage their subsidiaries in France while our expatriate managers adopt observational roles for our key bent is learning how you behave. (reference)
If France brings Africa, what gifts can England bring the Middle Kingdom? Just as USA made you unsinkable aircraft carrier we will make you best back door dock for Arctic enterprises — we will bring back many fish and chip shops into serried ranks of workers housing, wellington booted labour force will sally forth from all your coastal pimple ports for six month shifts in freezing dark. That should do it.
references: Colby and see Nury Vittachi and Phill Hynes
China will curb Russia if Europe disengages from USA hegemony.
Thanks to Colby the strategy of our enemy is clear: pinprick by pinprick, salami slice by salami slice turn up the provocation. Remeber He Yat Chu the enemy wants to know where is your most secret pride.
