Everybody loves a parade. My three year old, loves a parade. The bands, the candy, the floats, the entertainment - the weapons of mass destruction, tanks, and enough infantry to make the West take notice. Okay, so this particular parade my three year old would not like.
But the world noticed this "special" parade held yesterday. (It reminded us of those warm fuzzy feelings of the May Day parades during the Cold War.)
The Empire State Building even turned the colors of Red and Yellow to mark this special parade. (Just months after the national flag of China flew at the White House - to mark this "special day.") And of course I am talking about the Sixtieth Anniversary celebration of the bloody communist overthrow in what is now called - The People's Republic of China.
What a contradiction in terms: the People's Republic of China. Does the country really belong to the people? Hardly. If it did it would be called - freedom. And yet, many on the left, have marked the day as special. I did a little research on the track record of government leaders - in the People's Republic by reading just two articles printed yesterday.
Bloomberg reported the following truths on their Economics:
Economic growth and rising global influence have come at the cost of domestic expression. Opposition to Communist Party rule is banned while dissent, including the 1989 student demonstrations in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square, is crushed.
As many as 800 million Chinese, 60 percent of the population, still live in the countryside, and rapid development has left millions of them behind. Still socialist in name, China has a wider income gap than Taiwan and South Korea have now, or had during their export-led industrializations.
On Ethnic Tensions, Bloomberg reported:
The worst riots in six decades broke out in the past two years in Tibet and the Uighur’s homeland of Xinjiang, two provinces on China’s western fringe, spurred by income gaps along ethnic and religious fissures.
On the Environment, Bloomberg continued with:
The world’s most populous nation has also become the largest consumer of commodities and one of the biggest energy users. China last year passed the U.S. as the biggest emitter of greenhouse gasses, and widespread pollution of its atmosphere and waterways is rarely checked by public opposition.
The smog that enveloped Beijing for three days before today’s parade lifted overnight after a light rainfall and the parade took place under clear blue skies.
And Britain jumped into the truth telling game concerning the massive celebration of Communist China (who uses capitalism to fund its militaristic government and society.) On the economy of China, the Daily Mail writes:
But beneath today's orgy of celebrations that marks the anniversary lurksa disturbing reality. Mao's successors may have embraced cut-throat capitalism to a degree that makes even Western economists blanch. But the arrangements for the parade are a reminder that China remains a deeply authoritarian society.
On Ethnic tensions, the Daily Mail reports:
Tibet has also been closed off to foreigners for the duration - a reminder of China's expansionist ambitions, and of the threat it could pose to world peace in years to come.
On Education, the Daily Mail comments:
Since Chinese history is rarely taught in our schools and universities, it is not surprising that most Britons have only the foggiest notion of what goes on in the world's most populous nation.
When the Communists seized control in 1949, China was a poverty-stricken basket case, ravaged by famine, ethnic tension and feuding between rival warlords. And in the years that followed, Mao's policies of forced industrialisation and collective farming, as well as his murderous purges of the middle classes, accounted for millions of deaths.
On the Brutality of the Chinese government, Daily Mail writes:
One scholarly estimate suggests that in 40 years, almost 80 million Chinese were slaughtered or died as a result of government policy - making the regime the biggest killer in history.
But now, of course, all that is conveniently forgotten. And British politicians are more likely to pay tribute to China's economic renaissance than to draw attention to the undemocratic brutality of its Communist regime.
And on World Domination, the Daily Mail concludes:
With some $800 billion of U.S Treasury securities, China now has a hold over the American economy that would have seemed unthinkable a few decades ago.
Yet there is a dark side to China's revival - a disturbing instinct for sabre-rattling and neo-imperialism that arguably poses the biggest threat to world peace since the Cold War.
What we often forget about China is that it is not an ordinary nation-state like any other. It is a rigid, highly militarised and intensely nationalistic empire, in which 1.2 billion Han Chinese dominate dozens of other ethnic groups, by force if necessary.
In Conclusion:
And while the Chinese government manipulated the weather to make it sunny for their parade, the above facts, only taken from two news articles printed yesterday - truly rains on any parade. Maybe the folks over at that Empire State Building, the White House, our Presidential Administration - should have read the above articles.
Welcome - to the new Cold War, yet another communistic, socialist, Evil Empire.
Read Bloomberg Article
Read Daily Mail Article