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Can the US Stop China From Controlling the Next Internet Age? (nytimes.com)
Tech executives worry China will turn to tit-for-tat arrests of Americans in response to the detention of Meng Wanzhou. And the worries don't stop there. Kara Swisher, writing at The New York Times: Imagine, if you will (and you should), a big American tech executive being detained over unspecified charges while on a trip to Beijing. That is exactly what a number of Silicon Valley executives told me they are concerned about after the arrest this week of Meng Wanzhou, the chief financial officer of the Chinese telecom company Huawei, in Canada at the behest of United States officials. "It's worrisome, because it's an escalation we did not need," one executive said, referring to the already tense trade talks between the two countries. "What China will do, given all the existing tensions, is anyone's guess."
No one I spoke to would talk on the record, out of fear of antagonizing either side and also because no one knows exactly what is happening. But many expressed worry about the possibility of tit-for-tat arrests. While everyone focuses on the drama of the arrest -- Ms. Meng was grabbed while changing planes at the airport -- and its effect on the trade talks and stock prices, to my mind there is a much more important fight brewing, and it is about tech hegemony. Specifically, who will control the next internet age, and by whose rules will it be run?
Until recently, that answer was clearly the United States, from which the Internet sprang, wiring the world together and, in the process, resulting in the greatest creation of power and wealth in history. While China has always had a strong technology sector, in recent years it has significantly escalated its investment, expertise and innovation, with major support from the government. That hand-in-glove relationship creates obvious issues, and the Trump administration is right to stop pretending that China does not present a threat both from security and innovation perspectives. Further reading: China summons U.S. ambassador, warns Canada of 'grave consequences' if Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou is not released.
No one I spoke to would talk on the record, out of fear of antagonizing either side and also because no one knows exactly what is happening. But many expressed worry about the possibility of tit-for-tat arrests. While everyone focuses on the drama of the arrest -- Ms. Meng was grabbed while changing planes at the airport -- and its effect on the trade talks and stock prices, to my mind there is a much more important fight brewing, and it is about tech hegemony. Specifically, who will control the next internet age, and by whose rules will it be run?
Until recently, that answer was clearly the United States, from which the Internet sprang, wiring the world together and, in the process, resulting in the greatest creation of power and wealth in history. While China has always had a strong technology sector, in recent years it has significantly escalated its investment, expertise and innovation, with major support from the government. That hand-in-glove relationship creates obvious issues, and the Trump administration is right to stop pretending that China does not present a threat both from security and innovation perspectives. Further reading: China summons U.S. ambassador, warns Canada of 'grave consequences' if Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou is not released.
China as we know it is not going to be around a decade from now. I think the more realistic scenario is some countries will run their own networks under/through the internet that don't follow its centrally-agreed-to rules.
No one else uses China’s internet except China. As long as there is a great firewall, and it’s attendant lack of trust, China’s Internet will remain a separate entity from the world at large.
What makes you think they 'switched to capitalism'? Just because they want a bigger economy doesn't mean they abandon their 'political philosophy'. They hate the West and all it stands for just like they always have, and want to destroy us and everything we're about, make the Earth one big Communist state full of good little obedient Communist automatons that don't question the Party, don't complain about anything, and don't seek to better themselves or make a better life for their one State-allowed child. They play our games only for their own ends.
This racism violence and hate is exactly why free speech is obsolete. We need to rewrite the first amendment and state that hate speech is exempt from protection! There is no way civilization can continue if hate speech is allowed.
Dumbasses. Do they think they are the hub of the world? What hubris. Does not matter much. Forcible compliance folllows
controlling the Internet, which is global.
We really, really need to make a geography-free distributed encrypted storage layer (e.g. IPFS) much more of a reality, so that no country is in control. Preferably with TOR-like obfuscated routing also.
The Internet should become a platform on which we can build global society, economy, and democracy.
Where are we going and why are we in a handbasket?
The Free World would do well to get rid of both.
Shag the chinese, baby!
Unfortunately, there is precedent for this: the arrest of Marc Emery, a Canadian citizen, in Canada, for violating US drug laws, but not those of Canada. He was extradited and imprisoned anyway. The War on Drugs, is there anything it can't screw up?
"Free speech" doesn't actually protect hate speech when it crosses the line into that. It's incitement to violence, a crime. The issue is one of enforcement, which will come in time. Nazis are a dying cult of morons.
Good thing Google is helping them with Dragonfly. Google is upset that there are leakers spilling beans about all these wonderful things they do in China.
Go Google! Go China!
And why should any country "be in control" exactly? USA is as good at controlling the message and attacking inconvenient reporting as any other country.
if you're asking this question. The ruling class has long since gone global. The US, at least as far as our ruling class goes, won't be trying to stop anything. They'll be working closely with China's ruling class since their interests (keeping the working class in line) align.
The real question is, will the working class stop letting the ruling class take control of the Internet. If the death of Net Neutrality is anything to go by the answer is 'no'. America's got an Election in two years, so we'll see then. I think if we reelect Trump (who's party is pretty obviously in favor of a corporate takeover of the Internet as a public commons) we'll be pretty much shot to hell.
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What makes you think they 'switched to capitalism'?
Ensuring private property rights and allowing capitalists to join the party were huge milestones in the switch to capitalism. The only vestiges of Communism now in China are the name, and publicly placed guards in museums, who often look very bored.
They hate the West and all it stands for just like they always have, and want to destroy us and everything we're about, make the Earth one big Communist state full of good little obedient Communist automatons that don't question the Party, don't complain about anything,
What are you even talking about here? Your comments are informed by ignorance. Not only Rare communism/capitalism economic systems and not a government systems, but the best way to understand the Chinese government these days is to think of it as an extension of the old Imperial system. Of course, if you don't know what the imperial system was like, that won't help you.
make a better life for their one State-allowed child.
Showing your ignorance again. The one-child policy ended years ago.
"First they came for the slanderers and i said nothing."
This has NOTHING to do with tech.
Meng Wenzhou will answer charges that she circumvented sanctions against trade with Iran.
Fears of Chinese retaliation are overblown, not because it's not a risk, but because you are always subject to arbitrary or politically or economically motivated arrest in China, it's not a free or democratic country, and even if you are arrested you can console yourself with the fact that China treats its own citizens even worse.
watching Silicon Valley executives get arrested would fill me with joy, we should be arresting them anyway.
I'd call BS on that. I worked as a consultant for a startup where the president and VP were abroad to ink a deal, hoping to expand. The VP got arrested for some vague "sedition" charges upon landing in China. Well, after the deal was written which was very generous to the Chinese, which went beyond the 51% control of any venture on their soil, to having all IP be handed over to the Chinese partner, the VP that was arrested was freed.
Stuff like this does happen.
I am sure there will be a nice letter arriving shortly explaining that their fake claims are redundant, since the extradition program has officially closed its doors, bye! 28
> Imagine, if you will (and you should), a big American tech executive being detained over unspecified charges while on a trip to Beijing.
That's the second to last place any American tech exec should be going, right behind Pyongyang.
Quit trying to break into the Chinese market at the cost of your customers in the free world, assholes.
We don't need Chinese style Internet control, so stay out of China
China is a bad actor on the world stage. The US is a slightly, imperceptibly better actor in terms of advocating for freedoms around the world. This is a well-measured fact.
If the US disappears over 1 million of its inhabitants for being of a certain ethnicity or religion alone, and no other offense, then we can talk about parity.
Get the fuck out of here with your dogeater equivocations, fuck you Chinoids.
Wow, you've really swallowed the China-supplied Kool-Aid in one gulp haven't you? Or are you ignoring everything else in the news about China?
..or are you a China shill? Paid? Foreign national operative perhaps, astroturfing China to the West? Not as crazy as it sounds. Bugger off, I know better.
Of an American businessman? This is a game of tit for tat, an optimal play from game theory strategy.
If you are that worried about being arrested on made-up charges when you visit a country, how about DON'T VISIT THAT COUNTRY. If you are worried that said country will make it hard to do business there or persecute your employees if executives stop paying so much attention to it, how about DON'T DO BUSINESS IN THAT COUNTRY.
Sometimes the better business decision is to turn down a prospect.
Republican, am I right? You certainly sound like one -- a somewhat crazy, ill-informed person. You need some medicine, or perhaps you've forgotten to take it.
Corporate representatives sent to China to resolve issues with Chinese partners have always been in danger of being kidnapped, often with the help of corrupt local police.
Fuck China.
2 words: Great Firewall.
1 answer: yeah we should stop that.
Wow, you've really swallowed the China-supplied Kool-Aid in one gulp haven't you? Or are you ignoring everything else in the news about China? ..or are you a China shill? Paid? Foreign national operative perhaps, astroturfing China to the West? Not as crazy as it sounds.
I want to point out that you are incapable of responding to a single factual point in my comment, so you resorted to insults. Good job.
I know better.
Clearly you don't.
"First they came for the slanderers and i said nothing."
It's pretty obvious that politicians should look to problems in their own country first. Any problem that China may have with it's consumer goods, the same problems exist in products sourced in other countries. It's well known the efforts western governments have gone to weaken security in consumer products. Does it make a difference? Better we look at our own problems, especially when a lot of noise is being made pointedly away from where it matters to consumers.
Yeah well we should also stop the US holding the encryption keys.
Their currently strategy has been to bully Australia into getting them so they can be handed over to the USA.
The US is no better than China as far as the rest of the world is concerned, especial with the Orange Gremlin running the show.
I think it had that gerbil guy it it. Richard Gere. He was an American business man in China but he was arrested for something (NOT sticking a gerbil up his ass).
But this is all hypothetical. What's happening in Japan to Carlos Ghosn is much worse.
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Bullshit, the US advocates for their view of the world.
When democratic decisions get made that the USA does not like, its not "Hey thats democracy" its "How do we punish them".
How about the millions starving in Yemen where the US gladly supply someone else with the weapons to do the dirty work. How about the US being the main funder for the IRA, or how the CIA and others have bankrolled terrorists groups because the US did not like the current leadership of a country.
Lets also look at the forced labour camps in the USA (Called prisons).
The USA is a long long way from being clean.
Well, no, double bullshit on you. I didn't say "the US is clean" at all, you're illiterate and in denial. The fact is China has 1-party rule, and no free and fair elections. They can't even compare their President with Pooh, it's illegal.
The US support of Saudi war in Yemen is obviously a massive mistake, as were several wars, coups, CIA operations, other things... I don't deny any of that happened.
I'm saying even with all that, China is provably worse. This is true locally there, and even on the ocean where China attempts to stop freedom of navigation which is international law.
China is a pariah state hold-over from Communist Authoritarianism. Anyone who pretends otherwise is a willful moron, and it doesn't even matter where you're saying it from.
Once again, nobody said the US was entirely clean. You're just a propagandist liar.
You're pretending China has more than 1 party rule. They do not. You're pretending China has free and fair elections, they do not. You're pretending they have an equal egalitarian society, they do not.
China is an imperialist authoritarian state without respect or heed of any international law or norm. Which isn't to say the US or Europe, etc, are blameless or completely innocent, they are not.
But your dishonest equivocations just don't pan out, sorry. China has over 1 million ethnic uighurs in prisons for no other reason than not being Han Chinese.
Anyone who defends them deserves to end up in one.
Oh, okay, then convince me, with credible-source facts: Show me China's free and open elections, freedom of speech, freedom of the press, unfettered access to the global Internet, respect for basic human rights, respect for civil rights, respect for due process, respect for a citizens desire to emigrate from China to another country, and so on, and so on, and so on. All rhetorical because China has none of those things. What they do have is treating their people like garbage, threatening their lives and the lives of their family and friends if they do not do as they are told (regardless of whether what they're told is right or wrong), military expansionism, likely supporting terrorist organizations that hate the West, and so on, and so on, and so on.
You're just a troll or a paid China shill. Fuck the fuck off, you're not for real, conversation over.
I'd run this thorough google translate, but I don't know what language it's supposed to be.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
Show me China's free and open elections, freedom of speech, freedom of the press, unfettered access to the global Internet, respect for basic human rights, respect for civil rights, respect for due process, respect for a citizens desire to emigrate from China to another country, and so on, and so on, and so on. All rhetorical because China has none of those things.
He didn't say it HAD any of those things. He said it had capitalism (true), and imperial rule (which actually implies all of the things you just started).
I guess that's why you posted AC!
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With the Republicans siding with corporations over citizens, does it really matter between governments or corporations?
Free and open would win, but we are not being given THAT choice.
Yeah and the US didn't fund the IRA. You are inferring that the US government did that. That is not, and has never been true. Individuals in the US of Irish decent did that. Just as those of Arab decent support groups all over the Middle East, like say Hezbollah? Does that now mean that the US supports Hez? No, that isn't how things work.
This is the sort of thing that leads to war and really pisses me off. Countries all over the world from Europe to the United States need to stop forcing there own jurisdictional boundaries beyond there boarder. The United States in particular should start respecting others jurisdictional boundaries.
It's sad and pathetic that other countries are so eager to appease the American authorities. It's even more pathetic that they are willingly surrendering citizens to be prosecuted under other countries laws when the people being extradited have never even stepped foot (more often than not) in the United States and are fully capable of prosecuting citizens within should they have actually committed a crime within the jurisdiction that they are acting from within.
This situation is particularly egregious given that a foreign entity and its executive thereof are not bound by American law and should not be persecuted under American laws for actions taken abroad that were not crimes in there own countries where they operated.
That's silly, what if they were never actually Communist, but Confucian Autocrats?
Westerns don't realize this, but Chinese and Korea societies are deeply Confucian, and the Confucian system is all about meritocracy; with the understanding that different types of merit exist. So they have traditional ways to make different types of governments based on the same underlying philosophy. For example in North Korea they are a Confucian Dictatorship, not any sort of "Communism." Merit in this case is believed to be inherent merit of the original ruler which he passed to his offspring. Very different than the European idea of kings being placed by God; instead they would presume that whatever natural powers they believe in endowed the leader with extra talents and skills for leadership, and his right to rule comes merely from ending up with more merit for the task.
China is an Authoritarian Confucian Bureaucratic state. Not communist, not capitalist. There is only one party because it is not representative; merely being alive is enough to be presumed to have equal merit in choosing leaders. Instead, people with more Merit rise through the bureaucratic system and get additional access to decision-making.
Of course they made room for the rich, by definition they've either proven their merit in actual practice, or used criminal acts to get there. If you're starting from the understanding that it is Confucianism wearing a Communist uniform then that was obvious all along.
One child policy was replaced once they got better at tracking the merit of individuals, and to gain data about what sort of tax structure would merely limit additional children to those with more merit.
You can't understand China with a view that only goes back to the Age of Empire, their system is a lot deeper than you think. And it isn't about the uniform that they wear so that foreigners can place them on an international team.
None of the different ideas about how to implement Confucian meritocracy involve being anti-business. None of them. They all assume that merit leads to prosperity; money, nice things, power, personal freedom, happiness, etc. But they have very different theories about which types of government lead to merit for a nation; eg, what leads to prosperity. They're always going to be pro-business, and they're always going to view unity as essential; once you figure out which system you're using, everybody needs to use that system.
None of their systems contain the western idea that open competition has more merit in government than purposeful unity. But that doesn't imply that they're against trade competition, or against individual economic freedom. They like individual economic freedom. They just consider political "freedom" to be anti-social and without merit; the thrashing of people without enough merit to participate in the decisions.
But that doesn't mean you should have that economic freedom as some sort of "right." You're expected to have enough merit to achieve it.
I did English->Spanish->Bulgarian->German->English and it tells me that it means,
Not just unusual communist / capitalist economies, no systems of government
I think he's saying that if you don't understand anything at all about systems of government, you'd end up thinking China is in the Age of Empire.
Let me guess. Yet another person on the internet spewing whatever nonsense they want about China?
My predictions about you:
- Probably do not have a passport, if you do, it has limited usage
- you do not have a chinese entrance stamp on your passport.
Can you provide a few examples of china trying to "destory the west"? Want some examples of the west trying to destroy China? (hint, this article and many posts abou thte US tring to 'contain' china).
"they hate us" OMG.. are you serious?
one State-allowed child
You know they ended that rule a while ago, right? but why let facts get in the way of your nonsense.
PS.. they may have had a "one child" policy, but you had a forced sterilization program.. Seems the two programs are roughly equal?
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The United States during the Progressive era, ca. 1890 to 1920, was the first country to concertedly undertake compulsory sterilization programs for the purpose of eugenics.[72] Thomas C. Leonard, professor at Princeton University, describes American eugenics and sterilization as ultimately rooted in economic arguments and further as a central element of Progressivism alongside wage controls, restricted immigration, and the introduction of pension programs.[73] The heads of the programs were avid proponents of eugenics and frequently argued for their programs which achieved some success nationwide mainly in the first half of the 20th Century.
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The main difference between America and China is who wears the boots. The US government got smart and contracted out the oppression to the private sector.
We Americans love to preach about freedoms, until people start acting free and then all of the sudden "I don't like it..." magically becomes "You have no right to..." Just look at how our law enforcement acts towards citizens...
America figured out the right amount of bread and circuses required to keep the plebs content and then they added the illusion of choice to government. So now Americans blame each other AND foreigners for all our problems.
"and no free and fair elections. "
They have elections, you get to select your comunist party representitive.
How about Iran-Contra? This story is about iran trade violations... what about the US gvt violating its own embargo?
2 words: Great Firewall.
1 answer: yeah we should stop that.
I would have gone with, no, we don't need to stop it, because it is already contained by their own firewall. We just need to adjust our border protocol settings to prevent leakage.
1 answer: yeah we should stop that.
why? why do you think it is your business what they do? They are 13,000 miles away from you, why do you care so much about their rules/laws?
Have you considered that some Chinese want some form of censorship? Think about hte US prior to wide-spread porn. Was everyone in favour? What about the people who were not in favour, where is their voice? Have you considered your own censorship? Go on TV and say "f*ck".. see what happens.
Try getting yourself a passport, and entrace visa and spend some time there...
Sounds about right.....I worked for some Asians (here in Canada),....merit is rewarded...I think that the crowd that shouts (USA, USA, we are the best, everybody envies us etc) need to take off the rose colored glasses, reality is that the oligarchs like trump and the political machines like the Republicans and the (Republican lite: corporate Democrats) do find that the authority centered countries like China can get things done and after all, world companies function better when there is less political turmoil (except for blackwater type companies and of course the war machine military complex (world wide).
There already are multiple American CEO's already under arrest in China. FML these idiots at NYT need to do some research, but then again they would rather create fake news.
The Chinese attitude, I expect, is, "Who died and made you the boss?"
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Ghosn got ratted out for tax fraud. Even CEOs get locked up for tax fraud just about anywhere. Even, occasionally, in the USA.
Quote the Red Skull from Capt. America 1 movie: "I have seen the future Captain - there ARE NO FLAGS!" & I agree w/ him & you...
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Except for the following market failures:
1) Inability to slow down and stop anthropogenic global warming (and ocean acidification) due to fossil fuel use
2) Inability to stop worldwide rapid ecosystem and biodiversity destruction (terrestrial, oceanic)
3) Inability to stop the rapid reduction of clean freshwater resources worldwide
4) Inability to use sustainable agricultural practices, leading to worldwide soil degradation.
5) Inability to prevent unsustainable increasing rates of consumption of non-renewable resources
6) Near future inability to distribute wealth to rapidly increasing unemployed percentage of population due to automation and AI
and I would be a little cautious about holding up US government as a shining example, being as how it is led by a cartoon character and serves the interests of large corporations over the interests of people.
Where are we going and why are we in a handbasket?
China has a method of tracking every online user as an ip range in and out of China.
That internet use then adds or takes from their social credit (Social Credit System) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
The Communist party has a fear that people in China will read about:
Democracy
Tiananmen square
Term limits.
Find a cartoon bear funny.
Talk about protests and protesting.
In the USA a person has the freedom to talk online about politics and freedom.
To freedom to petition the Government.
The freedom of the press as a profession. A freedom of religion.
That makes the USA a much better location for publishing and networking political/art/faith/sport/mil content to and from.
All China can offer the USA and EU is the tracking of dissidents and Communist police reporting methods. Not something "internet" freedom needs more of.
The USA offers freedom of speech and freedom after speech.
Something the US internet can use to keep "publishing" and stay fun and interesting.
Who wants an internet controlled by Communist China? The political and publishing laws of a Germany, France, Spain? The UK laws of who and what a website can publish about?
The USA looks great against a list of EU nations police doing investigations and Communist party laws in China.
Domestic spying is now "Benign Information Gathering"
Iran-Contra happened. Halliburton even traded with Iran directly. Both were crimes. Both were not prosecuted sufficiently. But they were acknowledged as crimes and big deals, they got attention, things changed.
I would have liked to have seen those criminals prosecuted more fully also. Certainly however in both cases people went to jail for a period. Not long enough.
Just because the US committed crimes historically isn't exactly a real logical pass for ongoing crimes by any party, is it?
In the case of Huawei there is compelling evidence and the defendant has been made aware even prior to her arrest that she was going to have to answer for it.
She chose to travel through the jurisdiction knowing that. The arrest and extradition is no different than anyone else. Just because she's the daughter? She's the CFO. That's an OFFICER.
Absolutely fair game to arrest, face a trial confronted by accusers and evidence in public, a chance to rebut and offer ... a powerpoint defense in this case...
Compared to just disappearing her for 20 years, which do you think is more respective of law and human rights? China's outrage is weak sauce on this.
All of the crimes the US committed are serious and bear revisiting even if admittedly once swept under the politico-legal rug. You won't get such a sentiment in Beijing though, not in a million years.
And if you tried, you'd be gone.
Id china is a one party system then the US is a tribal two party system. A vote for third party is a wasted vote. So in reality the American people don't really have much choice.
a big American tech executive being detained over unspecified charges while on a trip to Beijing.
Then don't travel to Beijing.
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that the country (or person) that dies with the most debt is the winner!
having debt means other people trust you.
Where are we going and why are we in a handbasket?
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Actually US taxpayer funded institutions funded the IRA. And a number of well known senators backed and hosted Sinn Fein an many occasions, especially the Kennedys. Also many of the registered 'charities' who sent money to the IRA were only able to exist thanks to US government approval. You cannot start a registered charity in the US with out goverment approval. This wasn't really clamped down on until after 9/11
Not only are commmunism/capitalism economic systems (and not government systems)......
Sorry about that, I don't know where the R came from.
"First they came for the slanderers and i said nothing."
They were going to take over cars, electronics, computers. Big long range plans. Didn't turn out so well for them. Of course this time is always so so different I hear.
The problem with Canadian authorities detaining someone on behalf of the US without any proof shown is that it sets a precedent for say, France detaining you on behalf of Saudi Arabia because you said something online that doesn't adhere to Sharia Law and the Koran.
I'm a Canadian, and I'm sick and tired of my government rolling over and being America's bitch. First the recent 'NAFTA' re-negotiations, and now this. Sure, Huawei probably bakes report-to-Chinese-goverment functionality into everything they make. And sure, America, and everyone else, has a right to be pissed off. But this arrest comes dangerously close to being an act of war - the US should never have done it, and my government sure as fuck should never have let it happen on Canadian soil. It's necessary to take China's plans for world domination seriously, and to make plans to counter them. But being irresponsible butthurt fucktards isn't the way to go about it.
'The Economy' is a giant Ponzi scheme whose most pitiable suckers are the youngest among us and the yet-unborn.
You can't understand China with a view that only goes back to the Age of Empire, their system is a lot deeper than you think.
Confucianism is younger than the empire system in China.
China is an Authoritarian Confucian Bureaucratic state. Not communist, not capitalist.
Communism and capitalism aren't states, they are economic systems. Democracy, authoritarianism, anarchism, utopianism, and monarchy are all types of governments (not always plausible).
"First they came for the slanderers and i said nothing."
He went back to China!
And how many people are in American prisons on minor drug related offenses... making the prisons billions of dollars. They're just not as picky about who they lock up, as long as they keep the place stocked. And free and fair elections in America are a complete illusion as well. The most heavily gerrymandered states in the US are favouring the republicans... and there has almost always been rampant voter suppression. Yeah, China is garbage... but America is probably almost equally bad.
You mention term limits. And yet the US backed Juan Orlando for a second term despite a constitutional one term limit. America likes democracy only when they get can a supportive vote in the UN. Otherwise its time for a US backed coup detat
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Well, we will have to fight them now or later. That is inevitable. We're too stubborn.
For now, Canada arrested someone, but China didn't.
The US does business with worse countries than China. Does doing business with Saudi Arabia bring their values to America? Does using Israeli made CPUs (like many of Intel's parts) bring their culture to the US?
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then dominance of either is bad. USA is still the dominant one although the lead has been narrowing down for a while. Multipolar world is the best solution, but only without warmongering USA or China. So far, China hasn't been the one warmongering.
Import and exports do not stop a person with freedom of speech from publishing and talking.
Communist nations laws stop publications and track users who protest.
Theocracies have powerful blasphemy laws that track users and their comments about faith and wanting to not be part of a faith.
That will stop the freedom of speech.
Spain, Germany and France do not like publication on a wide range of political and historical topics. They will use laws to try and prevent further publication and find out who published.
The USA protects all the freedoms to publish and publish again. For the press to publish. To talk in the open about trade policy. Thats the values of the USA.
In contrast to Communist nations, theocracies and some of the EU nations.
Domestic spying is now "Benign Information Gathering"
A Free Market does not have "failures". There is by definition no such thing. There are market outcomes which result from continual competition, innovation, disruption and entrepreneurship.
When the market value of these topics becomes apparent, private companies will move to provide solutions which people are prepared to pay for. That's show markets work and that's what our democracy is based on. The interests of corporations are the life blood of the interests of the people.
AC in the USA you are free to talk about a funny cartoon and term limits. Under a Communist government investigations start when such topics are mentioned.
Domestic spying is now "Benign Information Gathering"
China should get rid of that debt quickly, like Russia did. It's likely US will choose to default on those bonds first, if total debt becomes unserviceable.
Okay but how does Chinese companies holding some of the 5G patents block publications in America? How does using a Huawei router running firmware that was certified at source and binary level independently in the US stop freedom of speech?
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In the USA a person has the freedom to talk online about politics and freedom.
To freedom to petition the Government.
The freedom of the press as a profession. A freedom of religion.
China nominally also has these same rights. Nominally, as in on paper. On paper, China is the world's largest democracy. However, in the western world, that honor belongs to India because no western country recognizes China as a democracy.
The defining right of free speech that exists in the western world that is completely absent in China is the right to directly, openly, and repeatedly criticize the existing government leaders and to call for their removal. That right is the essence of the American First Amendment. It will never exist in China.
The USA has the academic ability to make its own telco equipment.
To seek out advanced EU nations who can make new telco equipment.
In the USA people have the freedom of speech to question all trade policy and seek out other nations to trade with.
The USA has that freedom to "petition the government" part to consider trade.
To talk about not trading with another nation for any reason.
Thats the power of freedom of speech. People do not have to worry about talking about "patents" and "firmware" from Communist nations.
People still have the freedom to seek out and publish ideas about not using telco parts from a Communist nation.
Domestic spying is now "Benign Information Gathering"
The greatest production of wealth is also one of the biggest intellectual scams since Intellectual Property became a thing. There was no wealth created by the introduction of the internet, although there was a lot of wealth REDIRECTED because of the internet, namely through a combination of lack of regulations/enforcement in the early days, inflation and stock manipulation thanks to large investors manipulating the markets upon tech sector's on-paper success to value all tech companies using traditional industry valuation calculations which caused them to appear much more profitable, on paper, than they actually were before the lack of real income potential caused the majority of them to collapse, leaving mostly common folk holding the bag.
Today the aftermath of that has been felt: Physical businesses were bought up or collapsed by underregulated online businesses who often avoided paying taxes as a result of their out of state status, allowing them to undercut prices and avoid fair market labor wages in many regions, enhancing their profitability in ways that allowed them to gobble up or collapse sales of the competition. The final nails in the outsourcing coffin saw the majority of all kinds of white collar tech production skip right past Japan and head straight into the heart of China, leading even American citizens to set up shop *IN* China because shipping the whole or majority of the product over was cheaper and safer than having the parts shipped over and taxed in the US or elsewhere. Given the imbalance in ownership laws between China and most US/Euro countries, the 51 percent ownership and property ownership laws gave the disadvantage of Chinese being able to buy up swaths of foreign property while China was able to retain full ownership of its own domestic assets in ways more egotistical nations did not understand the dangers of, with the large quantities of capital and manpower of china allowing them to rapidly gain economic footholds all over the world. Combine all this with 'progressive' western countries following in chinas footsteps with behavior quelling free speech and data security on the internet and what do we have left but a bunch of half rate authoritarians losing to the authoritarians with the 7000+ year history of conquest, political and social manipulation, and deceit against their adjoining nations until economic and eventually political hegemony and annexation results?
Now, in the end, it is all coming home to roost. The internet as envisioned by the hackers, nerds, developers, anti-establishmentarians, and academics is going to die. Not all at once, but as a result of both us not banding together, and giving up control of it to the common folk, thanks in large part to the greed and hubris that brought venture capitalists, then MBAs, and finally thanks in large part to the 'tech bros', the government.
Short of a political revolution or exodus the internet will not be coming back. The Chinese hegemony WILL gain power, followed closely by the Indians. And after that, who knows. Maybe the ~1 billion euros will find themselves serving their Asian masters as what is left of their fiscal independence is slowly leeched away into the countries that put rampant capitalism above all. They didn't develop it, they just too it to its logical conclusion.
As to Tor and other services like I2P: They have been technically compromised for quite some time, but lack the 'out of foundation' money and scrutiny for anyone to prove that fact and have a voice over and above their official mouthpieces, both of which are too busy sucking up funding into their administrative staff to actually produce secure software, even if they wanted to, which I question if they do.
As a short term solution, we need a p2p 'numbers station' random number generator to be established for countries like Australia, where un-compromised encryption is becoming illegal, with the eventual goal of applications who can push real packets into the datastream not altogether dissimilar from what OBFS tries to do, but
Wow, you're a fucking idiot. I got 2 passports, full of stamps and visas. Been in China at least once a year for the past 10 years. No Chinese like the GFW. NONE! Stupid motherfucker. Go spread your bullshit elsewhere.
I thought it was strange that we grabbed this woman and pointed out that we had NO rights to do so. Yet, trump's ppl are doing it.
While Trump is right to go after China for their economic war on us, either directly or indirectly grabbing a CFO (who has NO say on who the company sells to), makes zero sense.
I prefer the "u" in honour as it seems to be missing these days.
Fortunately, no one died and made you the dictator of the world.
Just because your preferences for using government to make people poor are what you think should happen isn't a "market failure". The preferences of the actual participants in the market are actually what happens. That's market success.
Really, "inability to distribute wealth"? "Rapidly increasing unemployed percentage"? Do you look outside occasionally or consider how stupid you sound compared to reality?
Citing non-existent scares to try and tell people how to live their lives may make you feel better about yourself, but most people got wise to the tactic a long time ago. Are you a convenient dupe of a true believer, or just another cynical power grabber who doesn't actually act in his own life like what he says is true?
Well, you're using supposedly "precious non-renewable resources" to post on /., so I guess we know the answer there...
Actions taken abroad? You mean, purchasing prohibited equipment in the U.S. from a U.S. company and then using a subsidiary they control to (barely, because they didn't even bother to take their name off the sales proposals) hide that they are bypassing sanctions to sell that equipment to Iran?
If the law prohibits X selling to Y, then someone buying from X (with clear terms agreeing not to sell it to Y) to sell to Y doesn't magically make it legal. The lawmakers are generally pretty stupid, but their staff (or the regulators with nothing better to do than create more bureaucracy) at least is usually competent enough to account for the most obvious ways to circumvent the rules.
There are no clean actors. There are just actors that are furthering their interests to allow themselves to have more money and more power and more bitches than the other guys. You belief that there is some inherant good in the world is pathological.
Nazi Germany, communist Russia, and The USA all have a common belief that they are in fact the good guys.
There are no good or bad guys. There are just strong and weak guys. The lefts self hatred will mean the West will die out like the sick old man that it is. It will be replaced with Chinese and Mexicans who embody every patriarchal instinct that the left says they hate in the old white males that stole the continent from the Indians. Get your shoes ready. You have a long trail of tears ahead of you.
Can China control the next internet age when they cut themselves off from the internet?
He may have got the details wrong but his point remains. It is not about who is more communistic or who has the most freedom. Point is there is in human nature a need to have an enemy.
The Chin hate the USA and vice versa. Nothing will ever change that unless there is a new enemy to hate.
My problem with the West is it activly hates itself. My theory is a lot of Chinese and Russian billionaire pay CNN and Fox lots of money to constantly run stories about white privilege and welfare fraud to cause the citizens to hate themselves, while we pay 1/3 of out taxes in interest to China and fight an endless war on a military tactic, China is laughing their ass off.
Maybe if we kidnap more Chinese they will stop laughing
...if we continue to sell our souls in the name of profit. Time and time again, we ignore the Chinese governments abuses and atrocities just so we can get access to their vast population. It's a literal deal with the devil.
Point is there is in human nature a need to have an enemy.
We really don't need an enemy.
"First they came for the slanderers and i said nothing."
Guess what will happen next if China detains one of the US tech execs? It'll hasten the move of capital investment elsewhere (that's already happening). Next step: China implodes.
> No Chinese like the GFW. NONE!
Thank you for taking the time to interview every single one of the 1.4 billion or so Chinese people. It's dedication like this that makes me proud to be a human.
US elections are hardly free and fair either . Voter reregistration Gerrymandering Failure to supply enough working voting booths in ethnic areas Hell even your sex offender president did not get the most votes.
Youâ(TM)re a worthless scum trying to deceive people. China is outright theiving , and sponsoring that theft. The lowest of the low and piper is calling after several decades. Tripe like this article is meant to deceive. They already lost.
If you've read the history of Huawei in America, it's been clear for some time that they only wanted a foot-hold in the USA in order to spy and infiltrate things.
Some years back, they appointed an American citizen as the president of their U.S. operations, and picked a guy who lived out in the midwest. He didn't look anything like the type you'd expect was in charge of a telecom business at all, and I'm pretty certain he was just selected because he was happy to get paid big money to go along with whatever he was told.
As long as the company kept cranking out super low-cost "pay as you go" Android smartphones, I guess most people didn't care? But I'll bet everything they make has back doors in it for spying on something or other.
The thing that concerns me is not that they are evil.
The thing that concerns me is that they clearly do not understand us. They will force us into war, just like Japan did, merely because they think that Trump will not be supported by the rest of the US. Because they think that deep down, we are like them and do not really value individual liberty and freedom. Because (like all other humans), they believe they are right.
They will go too far, it will be war, billions will die.
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Hmm... I think you have some serious issues. I mean really, you might want to consider visiting someone that can observably identify whether you're a danger to yourself and/or others.
The one child policy has been relaxed.
You are correct in one sense. The Chinese government is and has been Communist for a long time. Much of what the West sees as competition from the Chinese is completely misconstrued. The Chinese government really doesn't bother with competition... they really don't care who the best is. They focus instead on reaching the goal of a self-sustaining economy.
An example of this has been China's willingness so far to collect and take in much of the world's trash. Not only does it provide China massive amounts of natural resources, it also provides the money required to recycle it. They didn't accept the trash for free you know?
China has systematically focused on three key points
- Housing
- Food
- Energy
They have an incredible effort underway that will completely collapse the world housing market by making it basically free. If you want a house, the Chinese government will be able to provide one to you free of charge. They are simply recycling all our trash into the materials needed to provide them and using our money to recycle the materials.
They have many massive efforts underway to eliminate the need for classical farming. Whether this includes mass scale meat printing or massive underground automated farms able to yield 6-12 crops a year. The Chinese are moving incredibly fast to become 100% independent from the world market with regards to food. And thank goodness they're doing it. I believe this might be one of humanity's most desperate needs.
As for energy, they have the world's largest solar farms, they are taking wind power extremely seriously. They have managed to take control of massive oil interests and if they manage to arrange a "silk road" pipeline to Africa, then they have energy complete sorted out. Of course, I think they'll manage to go almost entirely renewable far faster than most western countries as their government has less bureaucracy involved in such decisions.
You are entirely wrong about China hating us. This is a major shortcoming in most people's understanding. They simply don't see us as anything other than tools to accomplish their goals. They want to achieve one China and are doing extremely well working towards it.
If they can use the world market long enough to become self sufficient, eventually they can simply withdraw from the world market and operate entirely internally. Once they pretty much collapse all the non-Chinese markets by withdrawing, countries like Taiwan will be forced to beg for entry to the One China and China won't make them beg, they'll simply embrace them with open arms and accept them in.
You are right, as designed by Plato so long ago, they will need to have a ruling class and a working class. Chinese Communism has a believe that they've improved on the Republic and hopefully have worked out the serious kinks. It does however require a simple belief.... the government will let you be so long as you don't rock the boat. This means that there will be none of this American style "everyone is the enemy except me and mine" instead, everyone will contribute the best they can and a balance will eventually be struck.
China is not what you think it is. It's actually a lot closer to the American dream than when America offers today. Chinese Communism rewards people looking for the American dream.
But I guess anger and hate is a much easier thing for you to understand?
"Bugger off, I know better"?
I read more positive in the news each day about China than negative. There are some bad actors and we scream it from the tops of our mountains for all to hear. There are also a lot of damn good things going on in China.
Foreign national operatives? I'm choking on this... do you have any idea how many stories I read each year implicating the American government on mass scale spying operations within and without? Do you honestly think this is a one-sided relationship?
The main difference is that no one notices a Chinese person working somewhere in the west anymore... but a white guy in Beijing still stands out.
Like in my earlier statement.... you should see someone. I recommend maybe a proper brain scan as well. I think we have much to learn about serious brain disorders by studying you closely
Oh, and emperor Xi
The shills are frantic tonight.
Clearly, re-education camps for the Muslims are the same to you shills as selling weapons to an ally who has a hostile foreign power launching rockets from a puppet regime to the south. Oh, your propaganda source didn't tell you that Iran is causing the problem in Yemen, not the Saudis? Sorry.
You said Progressives, although you meant Democrats. And back then, we all know the Democrats were the conservative party. Remember, some of us are old enough to vividly remember the Southern Strategy.
And they might even have more than 2 candidates!a
"we were forced into a war"...yeah
Are you fucking serious? That's the tactic you are going to use? EVERYONE knows you just lost the argument. You couldn't be bothered to expend a couple of calories to state your case, instead you cunted out and attacked his character. That's the last tactic of the lazy liberal left. You're a coward and now you're a public pussy. I hope you don't interact with adults on a daily basis.
The GP is a moron who accuses everyone of being a Nazi. You, however, are an even larger moron and a threat to democracy. Instead of being happy when assholes expose themselves, you want to force them into the dark corners where they won't be discovered. You've decided that there are limits to speech. Who decides these limits? You? You're both idiots.
Begin Rope is hardly a valid physical threat. It's a vague general threat against an unspecified somebody. Nobody was actually targeted, not in the singular sense. The "threat" barely even qualifies against a group. Anyone of any common sense knows this asshole is just blowing hot air. He probably lives in a basement and jerks it to tranny porn, no doubt imagining himself as the bottom.
Grow a thicker skin.. Jesus Christ.... Your complaints and whining remind me of a 6 year old girl who isn't getting her way.
Please chi.com slants ... arrest some traitorous blojobbing USA biz-sluts. Lock them away forever ... never let those IP & job-thieving bastards return to America ... oh the pain ...
The USA has a huge problem, and that is that there are areas in this country where people are against the idea of higher education, and they prize stupidity and ignorance. Look at entertainment, and you see reality shows all over the place that actually elevate people who don't have much education and they embrace ignorance and stupidity. The bottom of the barrel are given a lot of money, and in turn, we see those people continually. The Kardashians are idiots who have money, look at the cast of Jersey Shore....and they won't go away!
You have anti-education politicians and those who are technically clueless in charge, which is how you had problems with Hillary Clinton and a private e-mail server, with no improvement out of the Trump administration. Yes, Trump tweets nonstop nonsense, but his actual understanding of anything relating to technology is actually below zero, he throws out things that are WRONG. How do you get technology to thrive when you have people with zero understanding of technology placed in charge of education? How do you get improvements when the politicians put more money into the military than on anything else?
No the GP was right for everything except (as usual) the use of the term "free market". The "perfect market" is what he GP is referring to. The internet *was* a perfect market early in it's life.
People often confuse the terms and freak out at the idea of regulation. The reality is for their "perfect market" to exist regulation is a must as the "perfect market" is a "free market" at it's most unstable point. A free market on the other hand will tend towards monopoly and consolidation of power, and the natural endgame of the free market doesn't solve any problems in a way that benefits society.
No. Like most western countries, the US has decided to dump engineering and science and logical thinking. We prepare to become more stupefied than ever. And we all do that willingly or because we are manipulated in that direction. Mostly because we are lazy.
Sorry, for being negative today, but just had some "great news" from the political domain as input and read university correspondence.
"They will force us into war, just like Japan did,"
Right..
As i posted before, you do realize they are approximatly 13,000 miles away right? If you dont like them, why not just not deal with them?
They have disputed islands (just like the US).. So what does the US do? Sail warships there to "prove a point".. I guess that is being "forced into war"?
Shut-up retard. You add nothing of value to any discussion.
Technical illiterate, scared, and indoctrinated people elect politicians who are themselves technical illiterate. They do so for three reasons: (a) they understand what theses politicians are saying. Of course it is bullshit, but it conforms with the people's opinion. (b) these politicians get more funding by lobbyists and interest groups. (c) adverts and political indoctrination via "news outlets" specifically, local news, Fox News, favorite Youtube rubbish. Furthermore, the "other side" in media follows the old style of "we only report" and "let's hear both sides argument" practice.
The people are illiterate, because the education system is broken. This is not only the case in the USA, but also in many other western countries.
name calling.. the last resort of a moron.
In the early days, it had no significant international capacity. International links were supplied by International Packet Switch Stream.
Yes, the US forged TCP/IP, but authentication and security were taken from CCITT standards.
Yes, the US held the root DNS, the IANA and ICANN, but that's by convention. In the 90s, I always cloned the DNS servers of sites I connected to, because DNS was so unreliable and slow. I used my own independent DNS tree first, theirs as backup.
Control is tenuous, power is a phantom, in a cooperative market/federation like the Internet. If China, or the UN, wanted to take the Internet from the US, all they'd need is something better and sufficient mindshare.
There are no owners, outside the physical, and no loyalty to any self-proclaimed elite.
It's a small world and it smells funny; I'd buy another if it wasn't for the money; Take back what I paid (SoM)
Aw did APK beat your ass again lil' unidentifiable anonymous troll who stalks apk all over slashdot because you're butthurt? Yes.
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Would these would be the same US executives who have given us some the worst broadband access in any first world country while charging us more than virtually every other country?
Would they be the same executives who have actively opposed any regulations that would help the consumer and then forced consumers into one-sided arbitration agreements to take away their ability to even sue the companies?
Would they be the same executives who load up hidden fees on contracts, making any advertised price you see a complete joke?
Would they be the same executives who forced data caps down the customers' throats?
Would they be the same executives who have been using data caps and speed throttling to make using competing streaming services while allowing their own streaming services to be unhindered?
I could go on, but I think I've made up my mind. Fuck those executives. Every goddamn one of them can rot and die in a Chinese prison. The rest of us will be better off without them.
Mod up please, I heartily agree with you.
There are three kinds of falsehood: the first is a 'fib,' the second is a downright lie, and the third is statistics.
Gotta admit, my very first impression upon hearing something like that, is that it sounds shady from an American perspective. WTF was a tech executive doing in Beijing? Sure, might be totally above-board. It might be. Presumed guilty, though. My first guess would be that the executive was there for the purpose of committing a crime, and then was arrested because he decided to refuse to do it.
Several States in the US have effective one Party rule. Just because it has the patina of free elections doesn't make it so.
There is no functioning Republican Party of California or a functional Democrat one for South Carolina
If you're going to talk about the Iran-Contra, you might consider spending 10 minutes reading up on it before spewing things about it. If you'd spent that 10 minutes you'd know it was government officials acting without government approval. What those people did were illegal under US law. But I'm sure you knew that, right?
...and I would be a little cautious about holding up US government as a shining example, being as how it is led by a cartoon character and serves the interests of large corporations over the interests of people.
You probably didn't notice but at least the past 6, and probably more, administrations have served the interests of large corporations over the interests of people. If you think that voting for one of the two big parties is the solution you haven't been paying attention. If you regard the middle class as a barometer it's been falling since the 70's, during both D and R administrations.
Confucianism isn't younger than the imperial system in China. The imperial system started in the Qin dynasty which is 3rd century BCE. Confucius was born sometime in the 6th century BCE.
> They have disputed islands (just like the US)..
I must have missed the part where the US is building up military bases on those islands, adding artificial military platforms, and is using them to try and control trade and freedom of navigation of our neighbors (the 9 dash line, as rejected by a UN arbitral tribunal).
We sail warships through there so every other country in that area can sail commercial and cargo without fear of pirates or rogue government harassment. Most countries do not have the power or resources to patrol the high seas as we do. Trust me, without the U.S. Navy out there, it would be a shit show. Go ask anyone from those Islands around there what they want. I bet they will not desire Chinese Naval bases in their ports and harbors. I wish we did not have to be there, but the harsh reality is that it is our duty to shield those nations from harm as long as we can, no matter what. Disclaimer: sailed on a U.S. Naval warship in that area for months at a time, did good work there, rescues and intel for allies to combat pirates and terrorists, and have family in Guam and Philippines.
Name a country the US doesnt have a military presense in.
I see.. it is is great the US does this, but not other countries?
War Is A Racket
By Major General Smedley Butler
Good book..
So will she get a "suspended prison term" Like Mr. North got?
You seem to be mixing up economic and political philosophy.
Last thing I'm saying to you: Want to know why I'm not bothering responding to your trolling? Because you're speaking in support of a shit government that treats it's people shitty and there's no excuse for that. You can say "Oh well the U.S. is shitty and corrupt so you have no room to say anything about other countries" but that's complete and utter BULLSHIT, BAD is BAD, the Communist Chinese government is BAD, and I have no use for anyone who supports them for any reason -- and you're supporting them with your words (and your deeds perhaps) therefore all you get is a big fat "FUCK YOU". What's next for you? You going to speak in support of Iran, North Korea, and Bashir al-Assad, too? Vladimir Putin? Donald Trump? Eat shit and die.
The answer isn't a one party system, a two party system, or a many party system. The answer is a zero party system where each candidate has to fight individually.
"But they were acknowledged as crimes and big deals, they got attention,"
Yup
" things changed."
*Scratches head* When? Probably about the same time as net neutrality issues, copyright cartel abuses, and nsa domestic wiretapping. As in, things were passed that claimed to be intended to fix the problems but actually gave legitimacy to the actions instead.
I really wish you would write better comments.
"First they came for the slanderers and i said nothing."
Except that the actions she was arrested for took place in NYC, NY, USA. So, you know, that tends to fall under US jurisdiction.
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She's being arrested for things she (allegedly) did in NYC, and the US requested an extradition for that. Are the charges made up? Probably not. But the Canadian government is giving her a chance to demonstrate it's BS before they extradite her. That's pretty much how extradition works.
Your ad here. Ask me how!
What you are referring to as Confucianism is basically the Chinese version of Legalism with a thin veneer of Confucianism on top to keep the masses happy. In the Qin Dinasty China placed everyone under a class system with 10 classes which was supposed to be meritocratic. As Confucianism became more adopted the regime became increasingly bureaucratic and the 'merit' basically consisted of written exams in which you basically reflected on ancient Chinese texts. Do that over and over a couple of hundred years and you stifle all creativity in society.
Oh and a lot of people basically passed the tests by bribery as you can expect of a regime like that.
He might have been but in Qin China Confucianism was not widely adopted by the state. That only happened much later. Back then they had a major Taoist bent. Which might be pseudo-scientific crap but at least they tried to understand the universe around them somehow. A lot of Taoist 'theory' if you can call it that is basically their equivalent of a blend of our Western Society's Greek schools of thought. It's like if you mix up Heraclitus with the Five Elements and a bunch of other crap. The difference is while we did lose a lot of knowledge about the Greek schools of thought, we never lost quite as much as the Chinese thanks to the Qin's "burial of the scholars" and the Han's burning of the Qin's Imperial Library. The Chinese basically lost technology in the transition from Zhou to Qin to Han. Plus because of the imperial exam system in the later periods all philosophical development was basically stalled.
And likewise in the West, even the parts of culture that came from the Greeks weren't necessarily adopted by everybody at that time. And indeed culture existed before the Greeks.
A bureaucratic state is one where there are lots of employees in the government who wield power granted by some sort of multilayer bureaucracy with its own rules and levers of power that are largely not operated directly by a ruler. It is an aspect of government that can, and usually does, exist combined with some other aspect of government. Perhaps department heads are hereditary, or perhaps they are elected, or perhaps even appointed by an elected head of State. It differs from "autocratic," which also still leaves attributes undefined. (Machiavelli warned that in a traditional bureaucracy, if the Prince gains enough power and replaces the bureaucrats with magistrates, the ruling classes will revolt whenever the Prince is weak, and the new Magistrates will understand that their position is reliant on the Prince and will seek to stab him in the back at the earliest sign of trouble in order to gain the forgiveness of the rest of the ruling class.)
Communism, if the pedants were even correct, would exactly mean the government, the ability to regulate, the ownership, not the economic part which is described as Socialism. And to some extent Capitalism is an economic system, in that it is the economic system that exists when you have a government that is not involved in business and regulated markets in the way described in Wealth of Nations to create a level playing field for new capital. But it is a bit obtuse to claim it is somehow not a matter of governance.
Right, but attempts to get pedantic about the etymology entirely miss the point, which is about the way that people in a large part of East Asia see their governments now, and what the public viewpoints are that the governments try to pander to. Just like, people in the west refer to the Greeks as the founders of western culture without even knowing who the Greeks were, who the Minoans were, what any of the culture actually was, or how it differed from other ideas in different parts of Europe. None of that matters, people still presume some sort of common connection, and whatever the modern mythology is, that is what modern people base their cultural understanding on.
If China, North Korea, South Korea, and Taiwan were all on TV engaged in Battle Virtue Signaling, they'd all be trying to show the same virtues, they'd all be fighting over their version of who is the True Scotsman, but it would be who is the Truly Meritorious Confucian.
I just wish western governments would understand that, and try sometimes to position our squabbles so that we appear more Meritorious. Instead we perhaps appear pedantic and strident, like a strong person with some sour grapes who didn't learn to check them in the market. It hobbles diplomacy.
In Thailand they used to convert your merit to a number, and you had to wear the number on your shirt to be allowed to go in public.
The numbers could be added to or subtracted from at the whim of local magistrates.
Abolishing that system is also referred to as "freeing the slaves."
They did take over cars. Ever heard of Toyota and Honda?
They failed with the electronics segment because the South Koreans undercut them to it. Still most of the segment moved out of the USA. Guess who is the world's largest electronics company in the world today? Samsung. There are parts of the sector still remaining in the USA, yes, but that slice of the pie keeps shrinking and shrinking in terms of number of devices.
There are communist groups even in democracies. Orderville comes to mind as an especially nice example. OK, so in what way is the Chinese government meritocratic? Did the princelings pass their Confucian exams with flying colors? Did Xi demonstrate his excellent decision making?
"First they came for the slanderers and i said nothing."
The current Chinese government has leaders well educated in technical sectors for sure. Personally I liked the previous leader (i.e. Hu Jintao) better. I think that government was more focused on actually achievable goals and left much of the rest to take care of itself with minimal interference. This guy takes a much more heavy handed approach to rule. It's like they decided to go back to the imperial regime again.
I can understand why they did it. They probably expected friction with the West and that's why he was granted plenipotentiary powers. They are basically cleaning up their house (remember Stalin's Purges?) before the major event happens.
Westerns don't realize this, but Chinese and Korea societies are deeply Confucian, and the Confucian system is all about meritocracy; with the understanding that different types of merit exist. So they have traditional ways to make different types of governments based on the same underlying philosophy.
China is an Authoritarian Confucian Bureaucratic state. Not communist, not capitalist.
You can't understand China with a view that only goes back to the Age of Empire, their system is a lot deeper than you think.
None of the different ideas about how to implement Confucian meritocracy involve being anti-business. None of them. They all assume that merit leads to prosperity; money, nice things, power, personal freedom, happiness, etc. But they have very different theories about which types of government lead to merit for a nation; eg, what leads to prosperity. They're always going to be pro-business, and they're always going to view unity as essential; once you figure out which system you're using, everybody needs to use that system.
None of their systems contain the western idea that open competition has more merit in government than purposeful unity. But that doesn't imply that they're against trade competition, or against individual economic freedom. They like individual economic freedom. They just consider political "freedom" to be anti-social and without merit; the thrashing of people without enough merit to participate in the decisions.
But that doesn't mean you should have that economic freedom as some sort of "right." You're expected to have enough merit to achieve it.
As a Chinese reading this, I have to say, Very Well Done, Sir, for you do have a deep understanding of "Tao".
It's the "Tao", instead of 'Confucianism', which predated all Chinese dynasties, as "Tao" had already deeply ingrained itself within the proto-Chinese mindshare, way before the emergence of the Xia Dynasty ( c. 2070 BC -- c. 1600 BC ) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Again Sir, WELL DONE !!
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Thanks for the laugh
Please stop APK.. you're only hurting yourself.