Many years ago, I was at a cocktail party at a publishing industry conference, and one of the men was claiming that China was going to take over the world. I said something along the lines of “maybe, but I think freedom will prevail, and China will collapse under the weight of its own tyranny.” <\/p>\n
Which reminds me of something else …. It had bugged me (back in those days) that John Paul II didn’t do more to counter unorthodox movements in the church. His defenders said he believed error contained the seeds of its own destruction, so all that was necessary was to sit back and watch it collapse under the weight of its own contradictions. <\/p>\n
The obvious response is “tell that to the people who lived their whole lives under Soviet totalitarianism,” but JPII knew more of that tale than I ever will, and he still seemed to discourage direct action (although he did have an influence in Poland, so they say). <\/p>\n
The point being that while it’s nice to think error will eventually eat its own, it might take 100 years to do that, and who wants to live under the heel of the communists while we wait for them to fall under the weight of their own foolishness? <\/p>\n
China is a serious threat to the free world in many ways, but the United States is too busy trying to decide what pronouns we should use. I’m sure President Xi has fits of laughter over that — as he orders a new aircraft carrier with the money he gets from having permanent “most favored nation” status. <\/p>\n
With all this confusion bubbling around in my head, I took some small comfort from this: Is COVID China\u2019s Chernobyl?<\/a> <\/p>\n The Chernobyl disaster cost the Soviet regime whatever credibility it had with its citizens and was the last nail in the coffin for the image of Soviet communism abroad. For the current Chinese communist regime in Beijing, the growing evidence that COVID does not have zoonotic origins \u2014 that it did not jump from animals to humans \u2014 as China still claims, but most likely leaked from a lab at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, points to culpability for a global disaster far worse than Chernobyl: so much so that it is not unreasonable to speculate about its implications for the regime\u2019s survival.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n I don’t think COVID will tip the Chinese regime, but I do think COVID is yet another bit of evidence that shows the world how oppressive and untrustworthy the Chinese are. Those examples will continue because of the nature of Chinese oppression and their disregard for either people or the truth. And sooner or later, people might start to push back. <\/p>\n I hope it’s soon enough. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Many years ago, I was at a cocktail party at a publishing industry conference, and one of the men was claiming that China was going to take over the world. I said something along the lines of “maybe, but I think freedom will prevail, and China will collapse under the weight of its own tyranny.” … Continue reading “How long before the world pushes back against China?”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1421"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1422,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1421\/revisions\/1422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}