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A patriotic Egyptian and Middle Easterner view on China and US
Dear all,
Just received below from my WhatsApp group for sharing
From a patriotic Egyptian and Middle Easterner
I am a patriotic Egyptian and Middle Easterner. Yet I freely admit that compared to the Chinese, we are simply monkeys. A race of dumb animals. It doesn't matter who we are. Egyptians, Syrians, Pakistanis, Indians, Africans, even Americans. Next to the Chinese, we are pathetic. We can't do what they do. We would have a mountain, an Everest of changes to make, and we would whine and bicker and fail at every one of them. China's story since the 1980s has been one of an almost divine metamorphosis. Next to China the entire Western world from Alaska to New Zealand has stagnated. Next to China the entire developing world from Brazil to Madagascar has progressed only at a crawl. China, my friends, is the mother of all gargantuan bullet trains. Every day it manages to create something new and astonishing. And unlike the United States, unlike the British Empire, unlike the French, Dutch, Germans, Spanish, Portuguese or any other Western nation that had its turn at being a superpower in the past four centuries, China doesn't need to run anybody over or take something from somebody else, to rise majestically.
China is also standing up to the Western world all by herself. The West hates and fears that China is shooting up to the top. They can't believe their four-hundred-year-old global supremacy is being challenged. They hoped that the more China developed, the more it would submit to their influence, interests, and leadership. That didn't happen. So now they will do anything possible, short of a nuclear war, to make China end. Their goal is to destroy this country. That's why, although the United States has killed several million people and turned several regions of the earth into hellscapes since I was born in 1988, your TV, newspapers, Google newsfeed, and social media are all cursing, condemning and pandering panic and hatred of China 24 / 7. China is the worst fear of our planet's Western masters. They want you to despise and dread a country that's done nothing to you, that hasn't invaded anyone, bombed or sanctioned anyone, that hasn't overthrown any foreign government, or used its military on anything since 1979. You'll hate China and pray for its collapse, so that the West can continue to do what it's done since the age of Hernán Cortés and Francisco Pizarro — rape and pillage the earth from Latin America to Southeast Asia, and disguise its blood-spattered imperialism in the soft power and propaganda of “Western civilization" and world leadership.
China is the only major country in the nonwhite developing world, to stand up to the West. To look it in the eye when challenged or threatened, and say, No, I'm not afraid of you. Do your worst. I'm just as big as you are. All other countries in the Global South are simply Western puppets who submitted long ago. Even the most powerful ones. Saudi Arabia, Brazil, India — their leaders are busy listening to the United States, pen and paper in hand, writing down all its demands and going, Yes sir, Mr. Yankee sir. Let me get on that right away for you.
The 1500s—1000s BC were Egypt's time. Antiquity belonged to the Greeks and Romans. The 1700s belonged to France, and the 1800s to Britain. From 1945 to the present, the world has been under American overlordship. And they call it the Pax Americana but believe me, there isn't much Pax in it. There's plenty of Pax if you're in Europe or Australia. But the Middle East? Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria, Iran and Yemen in the past 20 years. Latin America? They've destroyed that part of the world beyond any hope of recovery. Africa? It's only been spared because of disinterest. The US sees Africa as nothing. The whole West does.
But in the twenty-first century, we are witnessing the rise of China. We are decades away from China becoming the greatest power on earth. This will be China's time, and there's nothing anyone can do about it. Attack China all you want, curse her and monger rumours and hysteria — but the truth is that none of your accusations are backed up by evidence, because you are a stooge of the Western press which is under the thumb of Western governments that want to stay on top of the world for all eternity. And the truth is that China is not affected by the noise and maneuvers of her enemies. What's going on now, this stupid new Cold War, is nothing. For her first thirty years, from 1949 to 1979, China was basically blockaded and isolated economically and politically by the West. It didn't even have a seat in the UN General Assembly. And it was dirt-poor in those days, barely a speck of the global economy, a tiny fraction of Japan's or Germany's GDP — not even able to prevent famine. And it still didn't submit to pressure or take any orders. Why on earth would it do that now?
China will be the next global power. There's nothing that can be done about that. The first stage is that its economy only needs to grow at 4.7 percent per year to become the world's largest by 2035. That means the usual, historical bare-minimum of 6 percent is already overkill. The US can build as many bases as it wants, slap as many sanctions as it wants, recognize whatever bogus genocides it wants. That's what it's been doing all along. Has any of it made a difference? China can adapt to any situation. It took China a mere ten years to go from being barred by the US Congress from participating in the “International" Space Station, to building its own Space Station from the zero. See, the US has an $800-billion war budget, 800 military bases, 13,000 aircraft, 500 warships, 6,000 nukes — but it doesn't have what China has: invincible national resolve. It takes the US about 5 years to renovate a bridge, and it takes China 43 hours. There's simply no competing with that. China doesn't need to be a military superpower or empire. That was never part of the plan. US troops, God bless their souls, will continue sitting in their bases, scratching their balls, costing their government $800 billion a year to do nothing. Meanwhile, China will continue to actually develop. That's the part of the equation that America totally missed, because it has barely developed since Reagan's day. China is a better place to live today than at any time in its previous 5,000 years; Americans saw their highest standard of living in the 1960s and those days will never come back.
So yes, China will be the next global power, and the Chinese are vastly superior to us in every way. This is a fact that everyone can attack but that nobody can change, like the theory of evolution. The difference between me and other people is that I ask, Why is this a problem? Why is this something to be afraid of? Why doesn't it mean — that the world will finally get better?
Look at you silly buggers, talking about China like it's going to be the next Nazi Germany. Even many Middle Easterners I know fit in this foolish category. Did you notice when the US invaded or overthrew the governments of 20 countries in the past 32 years (my lifetime)? Did you even know? You think just because you're ready to forget all that because of Beyoncé and Game of Thrones and Snapchat and other US cultural exports, it didn't happen and isn't still happening? But but, I’m scared! China's big and bad! Because the US is feeding me terror-bytes about Hong Kong, Taiwan, Tibet, Tiananmen Square, Great Leap Forward! I don't see any dead bodies, I can't show you one invasion or one example of Chinese regime change, I can't even find Hong Kong on a map or tell you one factual detail about Tiananmen Square, but the US State Department and all its media are telling me CHINA BAD! Wa, wa!
Even my father, brother, brother's in-laws have no real knowledge of any kind about the Western terror-bytes that have given them such an apprehensive feeling about China. And they're Egyptian and Syrian, so imagine how blank the typical Westerner is. Blankness doesn't stop prejudice and gullibility. That’s what most China-haters are. As gullible as children getting told about the boogeyman to procure their obedience.
Aren't you at least curious to see what a world with a nonwhite, non-Western leader might look like, after 400 years? Because God knows that leader won't be us. It won't be Brazil or Africa, or the Middle East or India or Indonesia or Nigeria or Pakistan. We're a mess. China was a mess too. But we remain a mess many decades after we achieved independence, and the Chinese went their own way, disentangled their mess and created their destiny. We’re not made of what the Chinese are made of. We might be one day, if we stop taking orders and cozying up to Western puppet-masters. I'm not holding my breath for that to happen.
Where's your concept of innocent until proven guilty? You turn a blind eye to the country that gave you dozens of destroyed nations and millions of corpses to see as proof of its brutality, because it also gave you some amazing sitcoms! While a country you don't have the slightest objective knowledge of, is already Nazi Germany to you because its adversaries, who are also your historical and present-day oppressors, tell you so?
Come on. Let's wait to see one dead body, one invasion, one regime-change operation from the Chinese, before we fly into rage and hysterics about them! Is that so crazy? We've seen centuries of horror from the US and we're still giving 'Murica the benefit of the doubt, even when the brutal truth is crystal-clear.
For myself, I see China as hope. Hope that a colonized, brutalized, primitive and humiliated country, can rise above its past — refuse to be weak any longer — rebuild itself from nothing, with iron resolve, and become too strong to be overrun by the West again! Hope that a nonwhite, non-Western country can look deep within itself and find its own solutions to its problems — proving that (foolishly) trusting the West to guide us isn't necessary! Proof that if we can do what the Chinese did, there will be no limits for us. Imagine a world where the US, France, Britain, Australia, are no more important than Uzbekistan or Paraguay. A world where the World Court might be headquartered in Kuala Lumpur, the World Bank in New Delhi, the United Nations in Jakarta, the IMF in Cairo. A world liberated from the US banking system and the dollar as its reserve currency, so that Washington can no longer tell 200 other countries who they can and can't trade with. A world where an American can be tried for war crimes at the Hague, not just an Iraqi or Liberian or Serb. A world where we don't hear about a non-Western-made vaccine and grunt to ourselves, Oh, it must be poison. A world where we don't have to immigrate to the same countries that turned ours into hellholes, to work as sales clerks or taxi drivers, or even if we're brilliantly employed — to drain our brains from our homelands in the best of cases, and use them to reinforce Western riches and supremacy in exchange for a fat paycheck, instead of using them to make our own countries semi-habitable. When I hear that China has built its own Space Station, landed a rover on Mars, ended extreme poverty, built the Earth's biggest city, dam, telescope, 5G network, highway, air purifier, or whatever the heck it is that will come tomorrow — I feel the same pride as if I were Chinese. It's not happening for all of us, but it's happening for one of us and that's a start. There's got to be such a thing as developing-country nationalism — a common nationalism for all the countries that were colonized and plundered, and remain economically and politically captured by their ex-rulers. A nationalism for the Global South. We are too divided, too brainwashed, too fooled and weak — most of us still worship the countries that destroyed us, are non-Western on the outside and Western on the inside, are hating and fearing and buying all the lies about the only one of us that's made it, and are leaving our countries in droves to let them burn while we “make a better life for ourselves" in the West. Do you want to live on a Western-dominated Earth for another 400 years? If you do, keep doing what you're doing. But I don't!
You know what'll happen for all of us if America's sick wishes come true and its global thuggery does make China collapse? Nothing. Eternal repetition of the status quo. More enslavement, hijacking of our resources and weak corrupt governments, neo-colonialism, invasion, regime change, sanctions, MISERY. Haven't we already seen this? Libya, Cuba, Venezuela, Yugoslavia, Belarus, Iraq, Iran, Vietnam, the Soviet Union. Rest in peace. Even FRANCE and JAPAN for God's sake. What does the United States do when any other country says NO, or simply becomes too powerful, too good at honest competition? IT CRUSHES IT LIKE A BUG. Japan was a Western-style democracy crawling with US troops, with a US-authored pacifist constitution and almost no military and an extremely pro-US government and populace, and it STILL got crushed when it looked like it would become the #1 economy in the 80s. Do Indians really believe that if China goes down, India will be allowed to become a great power? Do they not see that a strong or wealthy India would immediately fall victim to the same despicable US tactics? Don't make me laugh. I remember 10–15 years ago when China was still relatively poor and impotent, and Bush and Obama would talk about China as sweetly as swans. Obama happily had dinner with Xi Jinping in late 2015, called China a crucial partner of the United States, and said the US welcomed China's rise; it was all horseshit. Today Biden, who was there with Obama in late 2015 as Vice-President, angrily rebukes a reporter who merely said that Biden and Xi were old friends. America has taken off its mask. China made it, it wasn't supposed to make it, so now it must die. What a difference 5 years can make. China went from “crucial partner" to “number one threat.”
We should be helping and supporting China to keep climbing to the top, and giving her some serious solidarity as she withstands the new Cold War of Western imperialism. It’s been a long 400 years. China is the first non-Western country to even come close to reaching a status of ultimate global importance. She is akin to the the first member of an impoverished family to go to university. That is our family of nations. And when China gets to the top, believe me, it won't be a repeat of the French, British, or American Empire. Not a single developing country on earth will be worse-off because of China becoming #1. There will be something good in this for all of us, so let's wake up and let's go!
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LOL! Where is my comment?
Seems like someone is butthurt.
"This Egyptian(maybe a writer for a dime) only knows the surface level of the Chinese.
Having lived with Chinese, their greed is insatiable and no wonder swine is the main food which is equally greedy.
Yes, undeniably Chinese are industrious and creative in their endeavour.
However, their arrogance and greed is nauseating. They want SLAVES not employees, to work for pittance. They do DISCRIMINATE and disrespect people.
Whatever great qualities they may have is nothing when mannerism and respect is absent."
2021-06-22 14:05
A patriot is one who is a hard line supporter of his birth nation, not one who talks proudly of other nation.
2021-06-22 14:16
@DickyMe,
Not going to argue with you.
You can read below blog:
Nationalism, Racialism, Patriotism, Being Chinese
https://klse.i3investor.com/m/blog/Sslee_blog/2018-11-16-story-h1456087603-Nationalism_Racialism_Patriotism_Being_Chinese.jsp
2021-06-22 15:53
Nationalism, ideology based on the premise that the individual’s loyalty and devotion to the nation-state surpass other individual or group interests.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racism
Racism is the belief in the superiority of one race over another. The term may also mean prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism directed against other people because they are of a different race or ethnicity. Modern variants of racism are often based in social perceptions of biological differences between peoples. These views can take the form of social actions, practices or beliefs, or political systems in which different races are ranked as inherently superior or inferior to each other, based on presumed shared inheritable traits, abilities, or qualities.
https://www.thoughtco.com/patriotism-and-nationalism-4178864
While the words patriotism and nationalism were once considered synonyms, they have taken on different connotations. While both are the feelings of love people feel for their country, the values upon which those feelings are based are very different.
Feelings of patriotism are based on the positive values the country embraces—like freedom, justice, and equality. The patriot believes that both the system of government and the people of their country are inherently good and work together for a better quality of life
History had told us, Hitler openly proclaimed his racialism as nationalism in order to gain support/blind royalty/power with “you are either with me or against me (the nation)”, the poison indoctrinate of racialism as nationalism which lead Nazi to power and blinded the whole German Nation into world war II.
2021-06-22 16:02
Non-white is trying to use China to show colors to the whites.
A must-see drama.
2021-06-22 16:04
Now playing the prickling bitcoin series. Helping the west by bringing e-miners back to physical workforce.
2021-06-22 16:32
wow, SSlee, one of the best piece I have read from a fellow traveler in the developing world.
The same message that CCP teaches its 100 million party members and 1.4 billion population.
for a better world
2021-06-23 12:43
China did the right thing, by discouraging its citizens from buying into good for nothing cryto currencies that are use mainly for illegal activities mah!
Posted by stockfreak > Jun 22, 2021 4:32 PM | Report Abuse
Now playing the prickling bitcoin series. Helping the west by bringing e-miners back to physical workforce.
2021-06-23 12:51
Its a very good piece to read.
but this covers only half the story. The other half of the story is about humility. Once humility is lost, the peak is over. Like Emperor Chieng Long time.
But not to worry. Unless things go out of hand, out of control, Chinese still buying iphones, Tesla cars and what ever works. Still learning and still adapting to see to what works and can be adapted to China.
Nationalism and national pride yes, and sacrifices. China still aims to be an open society, open minded and learning. At least for next 20 -30 years that I can see.
Xi generation still admires western civilization in many ways., while recognizing its defects. His own daughter is educated in Harvard....China is in a very good situation , for now.
2021-06-23 12:57
stockfreak Now playing the prickling bitcoin series. Helping the west by bringing e-miners back to physical workforce.======
Once it is determined that bitcoins doing harm to environment, not really adding value to society, China is willing to let go of the mining profits and send them all to other countries willing to accept them.
This is rule by virtue.
2021-06-23 13:01
osted by DickyMe > Jun 22, 2021 2:05 PM | Report Abuse
Yes, undeniably Chinese are industrious and creative in their endeavour.
However, their arrogance and greed is nauseating. They want SLAVES not employees, to work for pittance. They do DISCRIMINATE and disrespect people.
Whatever great qualities they may have is nothing when mannerism and respect is absent."
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u need to learn how Huawei, tencent, Baidu treats their employess. U also need to learn how Chinese conglomerates all provides accommodations for the employees.
There is nothing unChinese about treating employees well. It all depends on prosperity or lack of it.
2021-06-23 13:09
When you have the culture of scarified everthing to provide the best education (even oversea education) and to push our next generation to do better than the last. Be smarter. Be stronger. Be faster. Be more righteous. Be more pious. Be more innovative. Be more creative. Be richer. Be everything that you can be in this lifetime. That the formula for success and progress.
2021-06-23 13:24
With patriot like you, or as you define it, it is no wonder we have leaders ( I assume you are Malaysian) that are corrupted to the core....and still get away with it.
Truth and hard facts offended certain group, butt hurt until cannot differentiate what is nationalism, patriotism and reality.
Spare the rod and spoil the child, an adage applies to a nation too.
In China, all it cost is a bullet to end the vermin's life.
Posted by DickyMe > Jun 22, 2021 2:16 PM | Report Abuse
A patriot is one who is a hard line supporter of his birth nation, not one who talks proudly of other nation.
2021-06-23 14:45
it's too easy to throw mud at China but without any credible evidence... hats off to a Muslim, an Egyptian, fellow member of a developing country, fellow member of humanity to write such a penetrating article
2021-06-23 14:58
Sslee, what u say about sacrifice and education is true but insuffient to prevent the century of humiliation nor ensure India success.
So environment and political leadership must be there.
Not united it's just like a hand full of sand... That is the situation of China before 1949
2021-06-23 16:17
The role of the party is never expanded on outside China... It's limited to Deng saying let's be rich and China became rich.
2021-06-23 16:23
Mostly people idea is... Deng and capitalism, oppress it's own people easier to built roads.... Reality not like that.
2021-06-23 16:26
Why China succeeded while India could not is fascinating stuff.... The deeper one digs.
2021-06-23 16:28
The essential elements of Confucians and Daodejing is about how to be a virtuous and moral emperor and model citizens.
Now the west tell u China success is because CCP oppresses it people. What nonsense
2021-06-23 16:51
qqq3333 Why China succeeded while India could not is fascinating stuff.... The deeper one digs.
You just need to look at Kashmir to know why China succeeded while India could not.
https://klse.i3investor.com/blogs/Sslee_blog/2020-01-17-story-h1482808323-Communism_Communist_Party_of_China_Mandate_of_Heaven.jsp
The government of China officially espouses state atheism, though Chinese civilization has historically long been a cradle and host to a variety of the most enduring religio-philosophical traditions of the world. Confucianism and Taoism , later joined by Buddhism, constitute the "three teachings" that have shaped Chinese culture.
The emperors of China claimed the Mandate of Heaven and participated in Chinese religious practices. In the early 20th century, reform-minded officials and intellectuals attacked all religions as "superstitious", and since 1949, China has been governed by the Communist Party of China, an atheist institution that prohibits party members from practicing religion while in office.
The government formally recognizes five religions: Buddhism, Taoism, Catholicism, Protestanism, and Islam . In the early twenty-first century there has been increasing official recognition of Confucianism and Chinese folk religion as part of China's cultural inheritance.
2021-06-23 17:33
In Malaysia, UMNO needs to demonize Chinese to gain the reward of easy 62% vote. Poor people will believe any excuses of why they are poor. Just that the 62% are now sliced into 3 pizzas. Thanks to Jho Low.
2021-06-23 17:41
As 62% are sliced into several chunks, Tun M (fox with horse disguise) said Chinese votes will be "造王者"。It's also dangerous to have a leader to see this so clearly and saying this has also another meaning, it like said "Watch out! UMNO! train wreck in front".
2021-06-23 18:18
These poor & unfortunate malays should wake up & stop being conned by the elites malay mah!
Posted by stockfreak > Jun 23, 2021 5:41 PM | Report Abuse
In Malaysia, UMNO needs to demonize Chinese to gain the reward of easy 62% vote. Poor people will believe any excuses of why they are poor. Just that the 62% are now sliced into 3 pizzas. Thanks to Jho Low.
2021-06-23 19:21
a lot of books already written about India vs China, how, why, predictions mostly written by Indians and whites.
Of course China also got its own interpretations.
me? I also got my own interpretations.
while
Overseas Indians can match overseas Chinese in every field.
India was never, is not and will never be a great nation..Western hopes of using India as a counter balance for the rise of China will only end in disappointment. Covid third wave makes this very clear. and Western nations beginning to re assess the viability of using India for that purpose.
2021-06-23 19:30
malaysia?
malaysia is like China warring states period.
best is turn to laozi and ignore them.
2021-06-23 19:36
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I can only wish there are more open minded and patriotic Malaysians like the above patriotic Egyptian and Middle Easterner.
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