Crisis Update - Perception And Resilience In China

Globalists misread the (former) communist blocs, while pursuing a nihilistic hegemony

Dec 01, 2022

Apple CEO backs China crackdown — personally unconventional, publicly censorious.
Western corporations side with Beijing; is it a 2-way relationship or plain infiltration?
Unilever’s CEO revealed in September that Woke is more than a cult of intolerance.

Politicians seem to misread China; like Russia it guards its culture and is not globalist.
The G20 meeting showed that finance capital’s colonial universalism has little appeal.
Rather the BRICS nations perceive it is a descent into “soulless western nihilism.”

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Dec 1, 2022

If you didn't happen upon a story in the Daily Mail, you likely missed the images of tanks on Chinese streets after the recent protests across the country.

Granted, the pictures from the eastern city of Xuzhou may have captured a routine convoy but the rest of the press didn't know that — and the media remained almost uniformly silent.

Had the images come from Russia or Hungary, Western journalists would have leapt to conclusions. Given the hyperventilating style of today’s performers, the headlines would likely have shrieked dictator and crackdown.

Don’t imagine the media was withholding due to an “abundance of caution.” It was only last month that the same news outlets ran with headlines that Russia had attacked NATO-member Poland. Associated Press even claimed to have confirmed the missile attack with an anonymous intelligence official. It turned out that Ukraine had fired in the wrong direction.

See Moneycircus, Nov 22, 2022 — Crisis Update - Rule By Mind War And Disinformation: AP fires reporter for claiming Russia attacked Poland but he served the system

So why the pussy-footing on China? Admittedly the media has shown a sympathy for demonstrators that it did not extend to their Western counterparts.

In contrast, however, its coverage of the Hong Kong protests of 2019-20 was much more aggressive. Back then the Western media was shrill, while China was blaming U.S. interference for stoking protests against the extradition bill.

What has changed?

The 2019-2020 protests belong to the old world order — before “the new normal.” In three short years governments, corporations and the media would have us believe they are on board with China’s authoritarian response to protest.

Apple has jumped in with both feet. Its phones have a feature called AirDrop that allows users to share files over Bluetooth to create a network independent of the Internet. Just as the protests began, Apple curtailed the feature — but only in China.

It caused the app to shut down after 10 minutes, making it less effective as a communication tool. Bloomberg news agency says Apple plans to impose the restriction worldwide next year.

Chinese police are conducting stop and search to delete apps from citizens’ phones.

China, we are told, pursues an understandable, if tough, response to Covid. Anthony Fauci and Bill Gates are among those who have lavished praise on Beijing’s lockdowns.

It was a fire in which citizens died having been sealed in their apartments that triggered the latest protests.

Some have observed a further historical parallel with Tiananmen Square, when protests kicked off after the death of a leader, prompting citizens to gather in public spaces. Jiang Zemin, the Shanghai-based leader after the 1989 Tiananmen events died on Wednesday. Chinese authorities face the tricky decision whether to risk a repeat or to cancel a state funeral for one of the architects of China’s revival.

The dilemma for the Chinese state is one thing; Apple’s objectives are another. The company makes its iPhones in slave-like conditions that have led to numerous suicides. During Covid staff were effectively imprisoned so that they could continue assembling iPhones.

Is Apple pursuing commercial self-interest — or is CEO Tim Cook that strange mix of personally unconventional and publicly censorious? A reason to take his views if not seriously then at least, dangerous: Unilever boss Alan Jope pledged his troth to the same Woke credo a few months ago.

“This anti-sustainability backlash, this anti-Woke backlash is incredibly dangerous for the world and the first thing that Unilever will do is we will not back down on this agenda, despite these populist accusations.” [1]

See Moneycircus, Sep 2022 — Crisis Update: Big Three Polluter Unilever Goes For Woke; CEO's conflation of sustainability with virtue, reveals the game of deception

Klaus Schwab appeared with Bill Gates on the sidelines of the G20 meeting of leading economies last month to promote The Great Reset.

You must watch what leaders do; not what they say. The state corporate media continues to dismiss “baseless” suggestions that globalists plan a world without borders, in which constitutional rights are replaced by limited humanist privileges under a communitarian compact.

Most of the alternative media steers shy of exploring the topic for fear of ridicule or harassment from the Fakt Cheka.

A rant

The Great Reset was announced in Jun 2020 not by Schwab but by now King Charles III of the UK who said he was speaking for finance capitalists boasting trillions of dollars in assets and land.

He sounded not simply elitist but banal, proposing a cultural wasteland in the name of saving the planet. The fact that the United Nations celebrated the announcement with a televised concert of bare-foot, grass-skirted Pacific islanders escaped BS detectors at the time — but Pacific Unite was clearly an attempt to drape a cloth of authentic culture over a financial scheme.

The wording of The Great Reset is vague, allowing the media to dismiss that it even exists, beyond being the title of a book somebody wrote (as per BBC). What comes to mind is president Joe Biden’s scripted Teleprompt that Antifa is an idea not an organization. The Great Reset is a conversation not a plan.

See Moneycircus, Nov 2021 — The Great Reset Is Complete: A future retrospective

Schwab, co-founder of the World Economic Forum (WEF) and a past student of Heinz Kissinger, in turn a protégé of the Rockefellers, promotes “governance” by private-public partnerships in the control of “stakeholders.”

“What we have to confront is a deep systemic and structural restructuring of our world. This will take some time and the world will look differently after we have gone through this transition process.”

Did anyone say vague?

The reality lies somewhere off-stage. The WEF is a public relations agency which can misdirect as much as it promotes. Watch what they do; not what they say.

Covid was The Problem.

The Reaction has been to transfer wealth over the past three years to the very richest in the name of stimulating the economy, as the middle class has been expropriated through lockdown of small and mid-size business, while governments have shown casual disregard for the education of children as if there was no future into which to guide them.

There is unprecedented death and injury from an injection; magnitudes greater than the few-dozen deaths that caused vaccines to be withdrawn in the past, and greater in total than all such deaths combined.

No-one in authority seems to know or care that people are dropping dead. Indeed, the opportunities for dropping dead seem to be expanding. Governments are warning of electricity blackouts caused by sanctions on Russia (which politicians imposed), by a lack of renewable energy capacity to replace oil and gas (the Green policy which politicians imposed), and from food shortages caused by a lack of inputs from fertilizer to water (resulting from policies which politicians imposed).

It is the express intention of the Dutch government to shut down 3,000 farms in the world’s second-largest food exporter. Loss of life from malnourishment will be collateral damage, though exactly who will suffer and where is, at this point, unknowable.

See Moneycircus, Nov 12, 2022 — Crisis Update - Dutch Farmers Need Us: If They Fall, We're Next: The Hague is infiltrated; shadowy networks drive 'nitrogen' farago

The Solution: embrace the New Normal, for it is one of the few data points that governments concede. We have been told since 2020 that we live in the New Normal; there is no going back to life before Covid. This is one aspect of the The Great Reset-Build Back Better that Fakt Cheka do not dismiss as a “baseless conspiracy theory.” However, they don’t define it, either.

(NPR has launched a newsletter called The New Normal. A tip: If you want to know what’s happening, search for the term “baseless” in Google and select news. These propagandists doth protest too much — one can read between the lines.)

“Are we there, yet?” Have we passed though The Great Reset? That’s the elusive project, the transition that dare not reveal its pronoun, the man without a face. Who will conduct this reset; to whom, how? The gutteral generalizations of General Schwab do not fill us with confidence. The more he sprays his spittle, the less we trust his spiel; the more we see a salesman.

One can scarcely say that we’ve Built Back Better — just look around you. Have we even finished with the Problem and Reaction? Bill Gates is confident that we’ll “take notice” of the next pandemic. God knows what the television images will look like, probably people bleeding from their eyes and ears, leaving a smear as they drag themselves through the streets — given the record of Chinese television in 2020 the bodies may spontaneously explode. There’s also a war in Eurasia that could yet mushroom.

(Sorry, dear reader, I wish I could write with a light touch but my circumstances killed a budding excursion into comedy. I promise to try to lighten up.)

See Moneycircus, Mar 2022 — When The Satirists Take Charge: War is hell, bankers fund both sides and politics is theatre

The WEF speaks for the interests of the owners of the world’s biggest corporations, and there is no reason to assume they will communicate their plans except in symbolic language that winks to their fellow dealers and pimps without alerting the passers-by. It’s a big club and you’re not in it.

Fear in the Time of Covid

China’s protests are prompted by economic stress as much as zero Covid and, in fairness, the two cannot be separated. We’ve previously reported that one motive for lockdowns may be to stop people withdrawing their money from banks.

Zero Covid may, therefore, have the parallel effect of containing unrest as authorities seek to manage and disguise the economic reset, just as lockdowns in the West served to shut down small business and contain a monetary crisis.

We have no proof the Chinese authorities regard Covid as anything other than real and a threat. The “lab leak theory” was one more scene in the performance art of the West’s state corporate journalists.

First they apportioned Covid to a wet food market and ridiculed Chinese culture; then they dismissed a lab leak as unfounded; and when they later advanced the lab leak as the probable cause they declared — in contrast to their earlier behaviour — that to call the virus Chinese was racist.

From the point of view of Chinese, the Western media speaks with forked tongue. The media promote the financial interest of their owners, while smearing the government with “atrocity propaganda.” [2]

When you compress the timeline of this media theatre, clearly it lacks continuity, rhyme or reason: a rainbow parade of unlikely characters, jump-cuts between Technocolor floats; a beard in a dress, a disconsonant lack of logic designed to confuse and disarm.

Until, that is, you recall that what we call Covid and the vaccine were a Western research project. The Covid response, which was practised in a table-top exercise, Event 201, in Oct 2019 was prepared in advance.

The fact that all the “pandemic preparedness” immediately unraveled — the predicted shortage of personal protective equipment (PPE) had not prompted anyone to address said shortage: “look, my trousers fell down just like I warned they would. Beware my dangerous nakedness” — incompetence became part of the narrative.

The debate would dong back and forth for months about whether masks actually worked. You’d think they might have established that at Event 201.

China certainly played its role as tabletop transitioned into a live exercise but, like Russia, it was not in a war of its choosing.

If you want to explore the crepuscular, Mao like the Bolsheviks had the backing of Western intelligence services; as did Fidel Castro — see Earl T. Smith. Since the earliest days of the Venetian republics spies and meddlers have been the tools of the rich and powerful.

See Moneycircus, Dec 2021 — Maxwell Case: Surveilled And Silenced: Twitter censors trial coverage as FBI connections broached

After forcing China open, the East India Company was hardly likely to walk away.

(The key to clear thought is not to demand certainty but to take the measure of uncertainty, from Big Bang theory to the Missing Link. Those who cannot live without certainty end up falling for the Piltdown Man.)

The research into spike proteins, modified RNA and lipid nano particles was a project of the West, with the U.S. Department of Defense playing coach on the field of the military, pharma, fintech complex.

Covid was no more deadly than the flu. Since the flu disappeared as an officially-recorded cause of death in 2020-21, it’s not unreasonable to contend that Covid may actually have accounted for the flu by another name. A rose by any other name… on the cross.

Death followed from two officially-prescribed responses to illness: go home, take no preventive medicine and wait until you struggle to breathe; then come to the hospital, test positive for Covid under an unfit-for-purpose PCR test that produces false positives at cycles approaching 40, then be intubated and given Remdesivir or Midazolam.

Anyone who tested positive for Covid (probable false positive at 40 PCR cycles) was listed as dead from Covid.

See Moneycircus, Sep 2021 — Matt Hancock and the Midazolam Touch: I Can't Breathe - a Very British Way of Death

The economy, stupid

China’s factory output has been falling for months. The purchasing managers’ index slipped further in November to 48 (a number under 50 represents contraction) and profits have been sliding all year. On an annual basis, gross domestic product (an imperfect measure of national output) has been running at the second-lowest level since 1992.

One of the most insightful comments at the start of this crisis was that of investor and markets advisor Jim Sinclair, speaking to Greg Hunter, a distant 30 months past.

“We were stepping into the door of a major financial crisis, magnitudes larger than what happened in 2007-09… If the virus had not occurred we would presently be in a crisis much more serious.”

Central banks were struggling to supply $350 billion in liquidity per day to keep short-term interest rates from spiking. Dollars on deposit in Europe were heading into the same crisis as the repo market. The virus came at a “fortuitous point of time from the monetary science standpoint” by shutting down demand for loans. [3]

Sinclair said in May 2020 that Covid had prevented a worldwide global collapse but did they once again kick the can down the road?

China’s main customer is in a self-induced crisis: the West is on the verge, if not yet of depression then already recession. One cannot decouple the economic powers. The debt-fueled binge of the West is the same debt that purchases Chinese products, and which China holds in the form of foreign reserves invested in U.S. treasuries.

China’s lockdowns have objectively accelerated its economic decline. The property sector accounts for about a quarter of economic activity and more than a third of borrowing. The government’s attempts to redirect wealth into the domestic economy is not restricted to billionaires. Even officials have reportedly pressured subordinates to buy extra properties.

China, like Russia, has struggled to develop an internal bond market. This limits the consolidation of savings, leaving institutions reliant for borrowing on foreign creditors, and thus foreign exchange risk, while government uses price controls and bailouts to try to regulate the market.

As Western governments discovered, bailouts raise the expectation of state support in other sectors, creating moral hazard or the disease that Western bankers have promoted in their own self interest: privatize the profits, socialize the losses.

Analysts argue that the Beijing government cannot stabilize the entire property sector; it will have to decide what to save, and who to let go to the wall. [4]

The difference one might speculate is that Chinese people have experienced tougher conditions and are thus more resilient than the padded Western populace. Urbanization is common to both multipolarities but in the Great Depression of the 1930s, 44 per cent of Americans lived on the land. Today it is three per cent. While 64 per cent of Chinese live in cities, about 36 per cent still farm.

Cultural resilience

Yet there is another, more profound resilience.

Alastair Crooke writes that the Washington and London think tanks seem to have abandoned their presumption to draw Russia and China into the Western cultural orbit, but their financier-investors still dream of co-opting if not controlling those countries for commercial purposes. [5]

Western financial-capitalist logic proposes that corporations can rise above nation states and create a no-borders paradise for the commercial class, while partnering with governments to press the population into a compliant residue of servators.

It may be that sequential bank bailouts have financialised the Western economies and everything within it — commodities, staples, even water and life itself — to the extent that finance capitalists can no longer see anything but resources.

Yet Russia and China, writes Crooke, still regard themselves as nations founded upon, and built around, a culture. These countries’ political philosophers accuse the West of a sham humanism: a supposedly neutral, “equity” of rights under nature, when the corporate objectives remain rapacious.

He argues that the European states of the Renaissance have been “de-cultured” by technocrats — not unlike our argument on this site that the threat today comes from bureacracy gone mad — the Organization Man identified in 1956 by William Whyte.

Universalism is, in this view, the externalization of a derascinated, desiccated, fiat “common currency” or purpose, in the sense of transactional ideology, of interest only to its Western proponents and offering nothing of value to the cultures which it seeks to dominate, subsume or purchase.

Crooke posits Russia and China as wounded civilisations seeking to reassert themselves after past humiliations — and this is partly the case but it is by no means the whole story.

One risks stepping onto metaphysical territory but countries cannot reassert themselves without a cohesive culture. The West, perhaps the European Union above all, continues to try to disprove this. However to quote president Xi Jinping after Crooke, like the Soviet Union at its dissolution: the EU “fails to provide a satisfactory explanation for its own rule, objectives and purposes. It dissolves into a party of loosely connected individuals linked only by personal goals of enrichment and power.”

On the other hand, nothing is more invigorating than a struggle for survival.

The threat that both presidents Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping perceive is the descent into “soulless Western nihilism.”

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