Regarding the China vs. Trump article:
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/48064.htm
I'm vehemently against that discourse. Everything in China is dictatorial window-dressing. This person is reading it from a Western media lens what the Xi-controlled Chinese media offers.
He is not seeing what is truly happening.
1) If you watch discourse from any "outside China" chinese programs from any country, you will notice the stamps of dictatorship. Xi literally "imprisoned" all former "enemies", including Hu and Jiang, to sit through his deliberately long 3.5 hour lecture. His enemies were clearly uncomfortable and almost begging to leave.
(2) Xi has firmed up his iron grip on the military, learning from the mistakes of his predecessors. This is actually the main reason why he is able to comfortably announce the "Silk Road" initiative.
However, nobody seems to understand what the "Silk Road" initiative means in the long term (except India and some Southeast Asian countries who, after reading the "FINE PRINT", realized what the grand plan really is). See 3.
(3) The "Silk Road" initiative sounds great, but..........
one of the major conditions is use of Chinese money/manpower/ industry/etc. That means lesser countries in the middle (basically everybody except Russia) will have to turn over their entire industrial-manufacturing complex to the Chinese. Imagine if one of your neighbors were to take ownership of your street, mail, water delivery, waste disposal, etc. - now what? It sounds great on paper (and it is, on a grand scale), but on the ground, good luck implementing it and getting everyone to agree.
(4) Chinese money is still flowing out of the country. Forex outflows are still positive despite the capital crackdown. Does that sound like support for the "Silk Road" initiative?
Back to the discourse. The hit on Trump is completely unwarranted. This is unbelievably biased for two reasons.
(1) Anyone ever read history of democracy in Greece and during the first 20 years of the USA, when the current system of government was forming?
Try it. You will realize that this type of harsh discourse is the norm. Everyone has opinions, grudges, biases - even households and couples have arguments. It takes time to mold great policy, and that is truly the great part of a quasi-democracy/republican government. There are checks and balances to ensure nobody gets completely control (see China with Xi Jinping now).
(2) Trump is, whether you believe it or not, instigating a type of "regime change" on the Establishment in the US, trying to return the government to the "responsible citizens". That goes for both sides of the aisle. This is why it is so ugly on the surface; everyone wants to keep their gravy. Establishment is afraid of change. Hence, you see attacks on all sides - Republicans, Democrats, MSM, business leaders, etc. Everyone realizes if Trump gets his way, "everyone" will need to "work hard" like normal people! That merit counts!
Yes, he is somewhat "despotic" is some way, but let's face it - he has no choice. When everyone is against you, the only people you trust are your family and friends. Look at Reince Priebus. The guy was an insider who sabotaged everything. And he was relatively a moderate Republican!
I am not condoning all of his actions; he really needs to learn how to pick his battles (see Twitter, augh, I understand where he's coming from, but come on, you have to pick your battles... some things are so small and petty, there's no point fighting them, haha - and please stop the personal attacks, sigh...... ).
It takes time and effort to implement change, especially when everyone is against it. Trump is basically trying to head off the USA's "Fourth Turning" by making a bloodless "regime change" to return the government to "responsible citizens". If he is unable to, we may see a violent civil war happen on American soil. Only time will tell.
Right now we are seeing the left, msm and hollywood eat themselves full of hypocrisy. So things are heading in the "good" direction.
