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The imperialist logic the west has applied is now known to others, and the technology needed to apply it is now increasingly available to China, Iran, Russia and others.
No it isn't. The Industrial Revolution had nothing to do with imperialism. Military superiority was only a side effect of capitalism. And you are, once again, ignoring a massive capitalist breakthrough.
The British Empire had vastly superior Navy and firepower cannons than the Chinese.
Because of its manufacturing and technological superiority.
The ability to make things competitively is important in trade and economy and in war.
When the Chinese declined to enter into trade with Britain the British Navy invaded and humiliated the Chinese and then forced reparations on the Chinese and endless concessions.
Reminiscent of modern day Trump.
The aggressor blaming the target for defending themselves and then seeking to enslave them.
China has learned from this and so has embraced engineering and productive capability- and so has won the trade war- USA today cannot refine rare earths- Trump has to beg Xi for them China makes the majority of components essential to modern warfare and is building a Navy that will dominate the oceans. But China is in no hurry as it knows the current trajectory is all in its favour. Meanwhile TACO Trump sees his empire slowly fading and desperately seeks to prop it up a little longer while its Jewish financiers seek to seize their 'Greater Israel' regional hegemony before China is entirely dominant and Israel would risk annihilation.
Trump is literally debating with himself right now as to how many Iranians are worth killing and for what. Same situation in Cuba. Venezuela was liberated in a day and everyone's happy. Would Taiwan be this easy for Xi? Hell no.
Trump has 14 days before he must meet with Emperor Xi and deal with reality.
TACO ain't getting no more refined rare earths from Xi- not while the Strait of Hormuz is closed and Chinas energy imports are blocked.
Trump cannot make any more interceptors without refined rare earths, and Trump is out of Interceptors.
Trump looks like the Big Loser...he bluffed and gambled the last dregs of the fading US empire and is getting called out by Iran, and China.
TACO Trump is a a one trick wonder, and hes out of interceptors.
China wins without firing a shot.
Welcome back to the motherland Taiwan!
We know you are tired of kissing Eswatinis.
Because of its manufacturing and technological superiority.
But why was their technology superior? The answer is capitalism, not imperialism. Capitalism came first, then imperialism. Not recognizing this makes you a cargo cult. You're doomed.
Hence you weren't able to stop this visit from happening. He'll be visiting D.C. soon enough.
But why was their technology superior?
This is the question!
Was it capitalism- yes perhaps to some extent- but also the deeper culture of questioning and examining things which developed in the Protestant European nations.
To have strong technology you need a strong culture where individuals grow up more in an environment of love than fear. Where learning is valued and promoted and where questioning established wisdom allowed.
Where progress is celebrated and welcomed by citizens- where there is a sense of pride and commitment to the nation and its culture.
Where the productive economy is internationally competitive and can build the things your innovators design at an internationally competitive price.
Today China has just that.
Children excitedly study engineering and science - 80% of the politburo are engineers.
When a new port facility or bridge or power plant is built the people of the region celebrate and rejoice another step has been taken toward advancing their collective wealth creation capacity. Such unity of purpose and drive is almost gone for western cultures where most citizens are mired in introspective self analysis and political apathy and a feeling of helplessness because so much has been outsourced- to China!
China leads in most of the fundamental drivers of the post industrial economy.
Power generation, energy efficiency, EVs, PVs, drones, nanotech, rare earths, logistics, ship building, ports, airports, robotics, biotech, construction, engineering, medicine and across the board research and development.
The west today is a bloated self entitled and increasingly divided and dysfunctional culture and economy with no united and cohesive sense of values and purpose - mired in debt and crumbling infrastructure because its politics have been captured by sly corporate lobbyists who do not give a damn about the broader strategy but only serve their short sighted rentseeking profit motive...ie crony capitalism...and citizens who know they have been screwed but do not know how to fix it.
Their first concern also their own self interest- with the war in middle east they worry about the price of gas without bothering to understand The Greater Israel Project and how their leaders (and media) have been captured by extremist Zionist war criminals and usurers.
The dominant incentives and culture is to speculate on non productiove assets using debt leverage- not to produce things that can be exported and sold at a profit thereby enriching the nation- no because that is now almost impossible- Elon Musk is an exception to an otherwise very tragic overall dynamic of non productive self indulgent debt fueled consumerism.
China has a government that knows it must succeed or it will face execution by the masses.
There are no sham elections where both candidates are owned by Goldman Sachs and Chevron.
There are no Zionist bankers holding Xis arm behind his back.
That is self determination.
Enabling and building technological and manufacturing dominance.
That is empire building.
Today China has just that.
No they don't. They have the same system as the IRGC. There is no self-determination. It's 100% do what the government said because it said so. Taiwan doesn't want your system. It's trash.
China has a government that knows it must succeed or it will face execution by the masses.
Yeah and it failed. It has to go.
Taiwanese look across at China and see much greater wealth creation and opportunity than they experience in their Taiwan US empire tribute state slavery.
They see Trump abandoning them- reshoring the microchip production and Trump betraying their trust and loyalty, just like all other US tribute states who want nothing to do with the rogue state global bully and complicity to Greater Israel war crimes that USA has become.
Most people want peaceful trade, development and prosperity and China now appears to offer that much more than USA does.
Trump is not abandoning Taiwan. The whole point of blockading Iran is to prepare for a preemptive full-scale invasion of the PRC so the question is resolved by the end of his term.
You can get a lot of people to give a positive opinion about "China" on a survey. Everyone loves China. That's not the issue. The question is how many people are willing to die for the communist party, and I'll bet that demographic represents less than half the world's military spending.
Boycott Bitcoin if you don't want to fund USA's war crimes.
Trump is not abandoning Taiwan.
Hmmm... Lets see shall we - in 14 days when Trump goes to beg Xi for refined rare earths...and Trump has still failed to open the Strait of Hormuz..and USA has no Interceptors left.
Xi will say 'Sorry loser, can't help you...you lost your Iran war now stop being a puppet to Zionist war criminals.'
If Trump is not abandoning Taiwan why is he desperately reshoring chip production?
Chinese tradition of 'eating bitter' is unknown to the modern decadent westerner.
Bitcoin is my way of avoiding Zionist usury...works just fine for me.
Sadly USA is owned by the Zionist Greater Israel Extremists who own the Fed Res.
If Trump is not abandoning Taiwan why is he desperately reshoring chip production?
You think producing chips in the US is in preparation for not importing them from Taiwan? You don't understand this country at all. It's a war. Chips are a weapon. Of course we're going to build as many chips as humanly possible.
Chinese tradition of 'eating bitter' is unknown to the modern decadent westerner.
You talk about the US getting poorer. There's only two reasons: looters and moochers. Half the country are pro-PRC pro-socialism welfare cheats and fraudsters. Same for "Western" "allies." And of course there's the PRC itself, which is the whole reason we have to fund a military. So our entire tax base is spent on dealing with you people. We tolerate it because we don't want to kill you, but you're so insufferable and it's gotten so expensive that we can't deal with it anymore. We've been eating 苦. Our 苦 looks like luxury to you because you have no idea what real capitalism looks like. And now that the pro-PRC parties have lost three elections in a row we have a mandate to get rid of you.
Bitcoin is my way of avoiding Zionist usury...works just fine for me.
And yeah, of course trading with the US is working out for you.
Bitcoin is as Western as it gets. It was invented by a Brit, adopted by Americans as a conspiracy to overthrow the governmemt, and coopted by the Trump administration as a weapon against communism. If you were serious about collectivism you would donate your wealth to the PRC by holding their equities or their currency, instead of the currency they banned, but everyone submits to capitalism when it's their own life at stake.
The answer is capitalism, not imperialism.
If Trump’s naval mission ‘only half-thought out’, it could lead to ‘disaster’
We have more from Harlan Ullman at the Killowen Group.
The former US naval officer said the risks of Trump’s Project Freedom are significant and could lead to dangerous escalation if Iran chooses to resist it.
“Iran has huge amounts of drones and small craft that could make this very, very difficult,” Ullman told Al Jazeera. “I would hate to see a confrontation where an American warship is hit, because then the Americans will have no other option except to retaliate.”
He expressed hope that Trump’s announcement marked a diplomatic “breakthrough” made in coordination with Iran and the mediators in the talks between the two countries. “I hope the Pakistanis, the Omanis, or the Saudis have been instrumental in some kind of pre-negotiation to allow this to happen,” he said.
Ullman said success ultimately requires diplomacy. “The only solution to this crisis is a reopening of the strait, followed by a long diplomatic negotiation with Iran to deal with its nuclear ambitions. If this mission is a well-considered first step, well done to the Trump administration. But if it has only been half-thought out and leads to escalation, it could be a disaster.”
He added, “Negotiation, not bombardment, is the only way this will be solved without disrupting the international economic order.”
Please do. That's the point. It's obvious bait. The US does this every time they want to start a war. They parade their military around your borders and blockade your allies and wait for you to attack so they can claim it's self-defense. We're not even hiding it.
No it isn't. The Industrial Revolution had nothing to do with imperialism. Military superiority was only a side effect of capitalism. And you are, once again, ignoring a massive capitalist breakthrough.
You don't have it. You haven't unified China and when war breaks out it will be unified by the Republic, not the communist party. Your economy is a paper tiger, your military is a paper tiger, and your diplomacy is a paper tiger. The communists are poor, weak, and nobody likes them.
Trump is literally debating with himself right now as to how many Iranians are worth killing and for what. Same situation in Cuba. Venezuela was liberated in a day and everyone's happy. Would Taiwan be this easy for Xi? Hell no.
You should have done it while Biden was president. There's no path to victory now.