Raising Awareness of the CCP in the news [POLITICAL]

This is something Nightbringer posted on the general meme thread.

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I am not Catholic, I am a Protestant, but I generally admire the current pope as a paragon of courage and humility.

The CCP violates nearly every international agreement with other governments, NGOs, or corporations yet people keep signing new agreements.

The CCP violates agreements with the Vatican all the time. They also water down and subvert the core values of Christianity all the time.

The pope has consistently shown he cannot be bribed. This event shows he cannot be intimidated. His actions show he is not a fool.

So I keep wondering, why does he keep signing agreements with the CCP knowing that they will cheat?

I came to a conclusion. The Vatican is getting something. Chinese Catholics are getting marginalized and having their beliefs and freedoms trampled on.

But they are not being sent to concentration camps and murdered for their organs. At least as far as I know.

The CCP knows that if they do that, they will probably lose the Vatican's support, and Catholics make up over a fifth of the entire world. The pope knows that if he pushes too hard against the CCP, he is exposing Chinese Catholics to mortal peril.

 

That's certainly a good guess

 

I will note that if you use the Brave Browser it will block all the ads on Youtube while still letting you watch videos there.

I kick China Uncensored a few bucks every month. Sadly I cannot afford more than that at this time.

 

A sad but representative story of the environment the CCP created.

 

I could not find a video that is succinct.

Anyway, Chloé Zhao, born in Beijing, historically won a Golden Globe for Nomadland and the CCP state press was happy to boast about a Chinese national winning a prestigious western film award.

Chloé Zhao's was not a rags to riches person, her parents were fairly wealthy which presumably means they were tight with the CCP. Zhao attended university in the United States.

Then an old interview where she said something critical of the CCP came out and the CCP unpersoned her, censoring mention of her when she won two Oscars.

So the CCP went from celebrating her to denigrating her in less than a two month window because of one criticism.

She was the director for Marvel's The Eternals which now may be banned from viewership in China. It's speculated that Zhao was made the director to appeal to Chinese audiences and now that backfired.

Disney has been bending over backwards to accommodate the CCP's censorship rules and soft racism, and now it looks like they are going to lose money because of it.

For international corporations, China represents a very large untapped market. About 1.4 billion people. But foreigners cannot do business there without the CCP's approval (locals cannot do business there without the CCP's approval).

The CCP constantly betrays their foreign business partners but big companies keep investing in China anyway.

 

Suddenly, i feel the urge to join Chinese or Russian army.

 

This video is over five years old, but most of the points still stand. One difference, I believe the PLA either recently built or are currently working on another aircraft carrier.

That said, it seems like the US military is more interested in being inclusive and politically correct than they are with protecting the nation and this does not fill me with hope. Similar to point 4 in the video where a large percentage of the training for the PLA consists of party indoctrination. We should not copy the weaknesses of our friends foes, we should emulate the strengths of our friend and foes. That's generally what the Americans have done for most of our history.

 

If for some reason, both the United States and the PLA agreed not to use their nukes and both sides fought a conventional war. The United States would win hands down.

The first problem is the PLA and their CCP handlers are not fighting a conventional war. Wolf Warrior Diplomacy.

The second problem is that in a war between the United States and the CCP, there would be no winner. The "winning side" would be so bloodied it would feel like a defeat.

In any event, I believe the CCP leaders have a "If I can't have it, no one can!" attitude about everything, so I think if they were losing a war they would start flinging nukes.

Yes, everyone has corruption but don't create a false equivalency.

I have never had to bribe a police officer to carry on normal business, that happens every day in China (and many other places). I have an acquaintance who sold construction equipment to China and they had to put bribe money in the budget. Basically to do business you need permits and to get permits you have to bribe someone. The bribes are small, but every region and province takes a slice.

Construction is the backbone of China's economy so there was probably less red tape than you would get for other stuff.

A Youtube channel called Polymatters has a recent series called "China's Reckoning" with four roughly 20 minute videos. A little lengthy to post here.

China's economic growth over the last few decades was helped along by the fact that a high percentage of their population was in the 22-50 age range which is the most economically productive zone.

The one child policy means they are going to have a huge amount of workers retire soon and the workers they have are going to be burdened with taking care of a lot of elderly people. Either a married couple is going to have take care of four elderly parents by themselves or the state is going to have to it.

I suspect, since the CCP does not seem to value human life that they are going to find some way to kill off old people but that's going to cause a backlash because care for the elderly is a huge aspect of Chinese culture.

Even if they removed restrictions on allowable births, the fertility rate will not rebound very fast. Because of sex selective abortions and the occasional infanticide men outnumber women by the millions in China. So that's millions of men that cannot reproduce.

A lot of Chinese women like their greater access to education and employment and don't want to have more kids. China has a "left over" women problem. Even with the shortage of women overall, Chinese cultural norms are such that it's very hard for a Chinese woman to find a husband after 27. Not 30, 27.

The CCP has been slow to change the one-child policy because they don't want to admit they made a mistake.


The Chinese economy is driven by construction but the state planned economy is so riddled with inefficiency that a lot of the buildings are things people don't really want or need. It's so riddled with corruption that so many things are tofu buildings which are falling apart. Eventually that bubble will burst.

The CCP has been slow to take corrective action because they don't want to admit they made a mistake (and the corruption is fattening their pockets).

China has a shortage of clean water and by extension food. This is largely a result of terrible agricultural and economic planning.

The CCP has been slow to take corrective action because they don't want to admit they made a mistake.

The CCP observed that shortly before the Soviet Union collapsed, they tried several liberal reforms to become more free and open.

The CCP believes this was a cause of the Soviet collapse, not a symptom of the collapse. That's why they don't give an inch. Other authoritarian regimes will offer token half-assed reforms for PR purposes, but the CCP won't even do that.

I think the CCP is going to collapse under it's own weight within a hundred years. But due to the "If I can't have it, no one can!" attitude I'm concerned they can do a lot of damage in their death throes.

I think what we need is a full counter to Wolf Warrior diplomacy where every free country works to stymy the CCP economically and politically, but that's a pipe dream because the CCP has bought too many wealthy elites.

 

And to die / to kill is among soldiers' duties.
To serve in the military is not like a vacation in a exotic country, as suggested.

 

I think we are mature enough that we could discuss this (and I can always nuke thread if it comes to that). But I would prefer to discuss it on a thread of it's own.

What is the difference between systemic racism and ordinary racism?

What would a racism free society look like and how would we get there?

In any event. While I would like to eradicate racism forever I believe, that I should focus on fighting one evil thing at a time. That's just me. If someone else wants to multitask fighting multiple evils at once, go nuts.

I still believe the CCP is the number one threat to the free world.

Among other things, the CCP encourages racism.

Want to fight global warming? China produces most of the world's carbon and they are building more coal plants. At the same, nations are bending over backwards to try to get China to join in the war against global warming to no avail.

Support gay rights? The CCP is very homophobic in their policies.

Are you pro-choice? The CCP denies women choice with mandatory abortions.

Are you pro-life? China has more abortions per capita than most countries on Earth.

Are you pro-wildlife conservation? China's fishing fleets are strip mining the world. The CCP basically destroyed China's ecosystems and made their hundreds of rivers into giant streams of death.

Almost every issue you can name, the CCP is on the wrong side of it.


To get back on topic.

The PLA has a major advantage over the US military. In that the CCP can tolerate massive casualties and thanks to a wide variety of factors, US politicians will face a political cost to any US casualties.

I consider this a good thing, but it is a weakness.

"Your compassion is a weakness your enemies will not share."
"That's why it's so important."

But the CCP/PLA has another weakness. Hypothetically, if the US went to war against the CCP, I do not think the US would go alone. I think India would join us. I think a wide coalition of smaller countries would at least provide public and diplomatic support even if they didn't supply troops. There is a good chance at least a few countries would supply troops.

North Korea is a puppet state of the CCP, but if they joined in, South Korea would join in. That leaves the CCP's allies being basically Pakistan and Russia. The Covid virus and other factors have weakened the bonds of their relationship to these allies. Also the oppression of Muslims and the trafficking of Pakistani women has not made China beloved by Pakistanis in general though they might aid the CCP just because Pakistan's foreign policy seems to be "Annoy India at all costs!"

 

I'm not a huge fan of professional wrestling, but I find it mildly entertaining and will watch it sometimes.

But my general rule is that if it's a non-essential good (such as entertainment) I will not pay a penny to a company that bends the knee to the CCP.

Problem with my economic boycott is that it's very very small.

I would occasionally watch pro-wrestling matches on TV or Youtube but I never bought tickets or merchandise, so my boycott means little.

I'm done with Blizzard. I used to be a Blizzard fan, but I was a late comer normally waiting to buy their games when they went on sale.

I certainly wasn't going to get a WoW subscription. So the fact that I've vowed to not give Blizzard a penny has probably only cost Blizzard $5-$20.

 

China amended their one-child policy to a two child policy in 2016. A mere five years later they amended this to a three-child policy.

The CCP just completed a once in a decade census. There is significant evidence suggesting that the party is doctoring the numbers they are presenting to their citizenry and the outside world.

One suggestion is that China's population is not just "experiencing the lowest recorded population growth in their history" as they admit but they are actually declining for the first time.

And it looks like a lot of Chinese couples of childbearing age don't want more children.

I noticed, it doesn't look like the the CCP has thought of implementing a "Have as many children as you like" policy.

I predict CCP propagandists are going to ramp up the pressure against people who have one child or no children. They are going to ramp up the stigma against China's left over women.

I predict that the CCP are going to quietly ramp up their trafficking of women from Pakistan, Vietnam, North Korea, and other locales, but they are going to encounter more resistance because after the Corona virus, other countries are putting up with the CCP's crap.

I suspect that the CCP is going to address their demographics problems in more extreme ways. The CCP is already working on "encouraging" marriages between Tibetan and Uighur women and Han Chinese men. I suspect that they are going to gradually ramp up to an unofficial policy where Han Chinese aren't given a maximum number of children they can have to be given a minimum number of children. First with economic pressure ramping up to Hand's Maids Tale escapades. Right now abortions are very easy to obtain in China (in fact, sometimes they are mandatory). I suspect the CCP is going to suddenly start denying women abortions to get the population.

The Soviet Union had a lot of state run orphanages trying to raise good little Communists. These were hellish places to grow up. I doubt the CCP will try something similar. The CCP's logistical and economical problems mean that creating such an extensive system for the state to adopt unwanted children is infeasible. It also flies in the face of traditional Chinese family values, but the CCP has not been afraid to do this before, so maybe I'm wrong.

I suspect the CCP is going to work on disappearing elderly people who are not high ranking party members. I suspect food and medicine will be denied to elderly people and elderly people are going to face suspicious causes of deaths in hospitals. Something that is already happening now. Political dissidents have weird deaths in hospital. Corona virus deaths are often papered over as some other cause of death so they can maintain their propaganda that they have the virus under control.