CHINA IS A SERIOUS COUNTRY — AMERICA IS NOT

Shanghai. The loudest people on the planet are Chinese.  The most obnoxious sound you’ve ever heard is that of a Chinese man spitting – which they do often and everywhere.  The most evil mass murderer in human history is worshipped as a demi-god by countless Chinese.  His picture is on every denomination of Chinese currency:

The list of Chinese negatives is very long.  And they are all irrelevant.  They are all overridden by one single fact:  that China is a serious country and the Chinese are a serious people – while America and Americans are not.

Shanghai’s population is over 20 million.  When I was last here ten years ago, I stayed in a hotel in the Pudong section across the Huangpo River from the famous Bund riverfront street.  You couldn’t see it, the smog was so bad.  All the skyscrapers being built in Pudong were empty.

Today the skies are clear, after all the polluting industry was moved out into the rural west, and the skyscrapers are full.  The hotel I’m in, the Grand Hyatt, is in one of them, 88 floors high.  It is dwarfed by its neighbor:

One of China’s oldest and most beautiful cities is Hangzhou (hang-jo), an hour by bullet train away.  It has the world’s largest, and arguably the most modern and spectacular, train station:

This is only the center area — on either side are enormous areas for shops and restaurants.

There is almost no way to describe the massiveness and ubiquity of the construction going on in hundreds of cities.  Gigantic apartment complexes are springing up everywhere.  Bullet trains going 200mph with amazingly smooth rides over railroads that go everywhere.  Superhighways are the same.  There must be at least two or three dozen airlines that fly to hundreds of cities.  Three of them just placed an order for 68 A320s worth $6.75 billion – European Airbuses instead of Boeings as a slap in Zero’s face.

This same massive, purposeful, determined energy is being channeled into China’s military.  The Chinese will have a full-on blue water navy within a few years.  They are focused on aircraft carrier-sinking cruise missiles, communication satellite-destroying ballistic missiles, undersea cable-slicing deep water robots, and of course, incapacitating our entire computer-based economy and military via hacking.

The Chinese are different from us in many ways.  They operate under a different set of moral rules and proscriptions.  They will lie straight to your face, know they are lying and know you know they are lying yet arrogantly insist they are telling the truth.  If you don’t have the guts to call them on it, they win and despise you for letting them get away with it.

But one thing the Chinese are not is stupid.    Another thing they are not is apologetic and unconfident.  They are racist beyond any KKK Grand Wizard’s imagination.  They genuinely believe they are a superior form of humanity – morally, intellectually, physically, artistically, in any way whatever – which gives them the moral right to get away with anything they can get away with regarding all lesser breeds of humanity.

China today is a competitor of America’s unlike any we have ever faced.  It is deadly – literally deadly – serious, and deadly smart.  Really smart.  China is becoming more serious, more confident, and more educated-smart by the day – while we are becoming the opposite of all three, by the day.

How confident are you in America’s future?  Most all Chinese are supremely confident in the future of China.  Supremely.  How many Americans feel the same?

Can you imagine the utter, total, complete contempt China’s leaders feel towards us as a people for being so utterly, totally, and completely frivolous, stupid, masochistic, and unserious as to elect the farce we have in the White House – and to do this twice? 

For allowing this farce to ruin our economy on purpose, to ruin our culture’s foundational institution of marriage, to ruin our military by allowing it to be run by politically correct bureaucrats in uniform?  For tolerating this farce’s bottomless incompetence in foreign policy, exemplified by being steamrollered by some Russian gangster?

The ultimate irony of this is that the Chinese want to have us as a worthy competitor.  They respect the combination of strength and intelligence – people who are both smart and serious, who are strong and unafraid to intelligently use their strength.  They’d love to have an America like that, the America that used to be like that.

They’d hate it if an American government stood up to them and refused to tolerate their BS – but they’d respect us for it, and out of it would come a relationship that would be far less dangerous.  Here’s a perfect example:

This is a map in China Eastern Airlines’ inflight magazine.  Note the insert map in the bottom right corner.  The dashed border line depicts China’s claim to the entire South China Sea. Here’s a clearer map:

No other country along it gets anything – Vietnam, the Philippines, Brunei, Malaysia.  No sharing, no win-win, it’s all China’s.  The Chinese never got out of Kindergarten where the first lesson you learn is how to share.

The East China Sea is the same – no sharing with Japan which proposes a 50-50 split of the sea border (the white line, China’s is the red), it’s nothing but win-lose:

The Chicom mouthpiece in English, China Daily, had a front page story about a meeting between Foreign Minister Wang Yi and State Department Buffoon John Kerry in DC last week (9/19), in which Yi waxed mellifluously about his country’s desire for "win-win cooperation" with the US.  He said this with a barely disguised sneer for he knew that 1) China operates exclusively on a win-lose basis, 2) Kerry knows this, 3) Kerry wouldn’t even hint that China prove its alleged win-win intentions with bona-fide action.

Then again, behind Yi’s sneer was a look of wonder:  Maybe this American is too stupid to really know what’s going on in the first place.

Is there any good news here, a pony in the manure pile?  Sure.  The good news is that we have some time.  Not a lot, but enough.  We currently have the most unserious president in our history and we have to suffer 28 more months of him.  During that time, China will have made major strides against us, while our weakness, humiliation, and unseriousness will do ever greater damage to us.

But… if we start being serous again, by electing a serious president like, say, Ted Cruz, who is just as smart as any Chinese alive, and has the cojones to stand up to them and demand they start behaving on a win-win basis, then the Chinese will not eat our lunch.

We’re not going to eat theirs.  China has serious problems, but it is not going away.  It has been around for a long time and will be for a long time to come.  But we can get them to graduate from Kindergarten, and learn to play nice and get along with the other boys and girls in the world.

It’s been revelatory being here.  The Chinese people bear us no ill will.  It’s amazing, for example, how many people of all ages (but especially the young) wear t-shirts with a phrase in English – never any other language like French, German, or Arabic, only English and most always something from or about America.  Like this friendly fellow with his girlfriend in Chengdu:

Another instructive revelation is how the Chinese are recovering their culture.  Mao and the Chicoms were dedicated to destroying it, in order to create the New Chicom Man.  They have failed.  Chinese are returning to their deep religious traditions of Buddhism and Taoism, as we saw at the giant Leshan Buddha in the pouring rain:

And they are turning to Christianity as a palliative for Communism.  Here is a huge brand new cathedral in Henan Province:

It’s packed every Sunday.

Here is a sales lady in a store proud to display the symbol of her belief:

The lesson for us is that Communism and any other variety of Leftism tries its best to ruin and eliminate a nation’s culture, as it stands in the way of their goal of total power over people.  This is Zero’s goal and he is struggling mightily to achieve it.  But he will fail, just as the Chicoms have failed.  Our culture will have a resurgence, just like China’s.

Our advantages over China are immense.  Our freedom is being suffocated by Zero, but we still have so much more of it than China – Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube, for example, are blocked by the Great Chinese Firewall as is so much else.  All we have to do is start being serious about our freedom and our culture, become a serious country and a serious people once again, and the threat of China will recede into our rear view mirror.