China Dirty Tricks
If I were Machiavelli-Wu, an international planner
deep in the bowels of Beijing Politburo’s Dirty Tricks Division, what could I
do to bring China economically, materially and militarily equal to, or ahead of
the West? Secondarily, how could I ensure
that modern China pays back the West for the humiliating defeats of the opium
wars of the 19th century, the colonization of parts of China by the
West, and the addiction of many ancestors in China to opium?
All under the cloak of absolute secrecy, what if
we weaponized a killer virus, ruthlessly controlled it within China, and ensured
its release to the outside world? That
would allow China to sprint ahead of most of the rest of the world, particularly
using our “Belt and Road Initiative” to acquire infrastructure throughout the
world.
As another effort, and remembering our addicted
ancestors in the 19th century, suppose we develop a killer drug and
export it to the world? Illegal drug
users would take it and die. We can even
make it look like candy for the western kids.
Far fetched? Maybe.
But anything is possible in this crazy world.
A personal note.
While I was living South of Sidon, in Lebanon in 1966-67. Our refinery was
next to the terminus of Trans Arabian Pipeline.
Saudi Arabian crude oil was being exported from this terminal on the Mediterranean
to European refineries.
Tug pilots were required to guide and berth the
large oil tankers, and these tug pilots were sea captains who were old China
hands. They were mostly European of
mixed nationalities who served as gunboat captains and crew in China during the
Western occupation there in the early part of the 20th century. What wonderful stories they told over beers
after a round of golf at the proximate country club. Of course, this was at a time in history when
the European powers, (and the U.S.), effectively colonized parts of China for
commercial purposes.
Is China doing a little pay back?
Ray Gruszecki/
September 2, 2022
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