Now what? Time for finance bros to brush up their XJP thoughts like their colleagues in China, that’s what.
What I love most about this article is that it explicitly likens Huawei to Sauron the immortal and the US hawks to the "scaly-faced orcs".
I can write a parallel article how all the West's problems they see are their fault. Surprise! Why is there an imbalance between the West and the rest of the world? Because that's how they engineered it. The West sought to take over the world through colonialism so the easiest way to do that is making everyone else poor so it would be easier for them to takeover. Today they can't compete against low wages in the rest of the world...? Well that's what happens when the West's economic model for the world was to enslave everyone. To enslave someone means they would work for you and not get paid. Because of the threat of communism bringing a world revolution against Western colonialism after WWII because that was when the West was at their weakest, they had to act like they saw everyone as equal. In those terms it meant they had to let the rest of the world grow without interference from them. The rest of the world are low wage countries because they had to start from zero. And who's fault is that that where I have to remind them because they want that part of history ignored...? Who's the evil that created this whole mess that they complain about in the first place? The West.
The reason why the West didn't see China coming is because they saw the world working only in the way they wanted to see it. When Nixon opened up to China, a reporter ask him if he was worried about helping an enemy? Nixon said he wasn't worried because he thought China wasn't going to amount to anything more than they are right now. That is how arrogant the West is to this day. When they get something wrong, it's not their fault that they're ignorant and set in their ways. It's everyone else's fault for not going along and go out of their way with what they believe. It's China's fault because they weren't as inferior as the West believed Chinese were to be. And who does the West like in the world? Everyone who does work to make everything the West wants to believe as being true.
When you having articles like these, they try to comes across as intellectually examining and analyzing something when they're just simply complaining about how they found out how they're not as superior as they believed and everyone is not as inferior as they want to believe. They can point out all the problems but they just simply don't accept that they got it wrong from the beginning and not because others are trying to undermine what is normal to them.
Earlier in this thread the comedy movie The American Society of the Magical Negro was brought up. The movie was accused of being racist towards whites because it says if black people don't go out of their way to make white people feel good in life, that's when white people are the most dangerous to black people's lives. These articles are the intellectualized version of making the case for it. The West isn't wrong. The West isn't the one that has to change. It's everyone that has to right this wrong or else what...? They're the ones talking about how China is the bad guy here. They're the ones talking about going to war with China. For what? Can they point out something specific that China has done that justifies military action on their part? Do these articles point to genocide that China is committing that the good guy West has to stop? No. These articles are talking about how China has beaten them in their own game of economic and technological competition. They're beating the drums of war for it. Now how is it racist to believe that the West can become violent if you don't go out of your way to cater to their pettiest whims...?