Selma, my Zionist,
red-blooded American-Jew relative, sent an e-mail from a site called “Today’s
Israel Connection” with a teaser: “Brigitte Gabriel admits what no one else
will about China”; a well-dressed middle aged woman complaining about
American-used products (including military [though she is too ignorant to
realize the war stuff is made in Taiwan, Provence of China]). I wrote back, not
to educate Selma, because she is not capable of learning anymore, but for a
blog piece I have written to be equally ignored.
The British East India Company fed China opium in the 19th
century and the western colonial powers carved up China into little fiefdoms.
After China pulled back from the Cultural Revolution, it being too much too
soon in development towards communism, the U.S. and the capitalist west obliged
their market reforms by letting companies outsource operations there to avoid
environmental, workplace safety, and low overhead, meanwhile, charging
Americans the same price items cost when made stateside. Materialism is
capitalism's opium, selling stuff people don't really need, polluting the
planet and enriching the stock holders on Wall Street.
China's plan, and it was
done successfully, was to gradually learn the best business practices, discard
the worst, and raise the living standard of all its people, especially in
Special Economic Zones (SEZ) along its coast, and gradually move production
inland lifting most of Chinese people out of poverty. The government never lost
control of business and centrally planned many initiatives. Temporary minority
share of foreign leases of property was the deal. Along the way, they
developed their own technology that surpassed the west's, and an infrastructure
that is recognized around the world, making the US look like a third world
nation; unbelievably, the US has no high speed rail and its electric grid
looks like a street in Mumbai with wires everywhere, susceptible to the weather
and blackouts.
It is not a matter of bringing industry home to the US; the
industry is wasteful and harmful to American workers, the health standards have
been decimated by Reps and Dems alike, unions have been attacked by both in
Washington, too. What the US needs is a Green initiative, such as Europe and
China have been investing for in the 21st century, reducing carbon emissions
from coal usage and developing a better world. The US and the west failed where
China succeeded and has had a taste of its own medicine destroying the
livelihood of Americans; just like the shabby response to COVID-19. Outsourced for cheap labor and mismanaged response to a human virus? It is not
China's fault; blame your own government in bed with
corporations with its own greedy leaders, not unlike the brutal
colonizers that tried to steal China from its own people. The US corporate
government has stolen America from its own workers.
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