Submitted by People’s Democratic Congress (PDC)
While many people on here on BU blog on much trivia and whilst many citizens in Barbados itself talk and engage in much foolishness and crap, and are systematically being sidetracked by many Eurocentric Westernized into doing so, we in the PDC, and we suppose some others too in Barbados, are presently learning that the Chinese have just overtaken the Japanese as the world’s second biggest economy in terms of GDP, and are on course, according to a few talking heads in this western hemisphere, to overtake the Americans – who are presently the world’s biggest economy – in the next 3 0r so decades ( See Link)
However, the fact that the Chinese were at some points in the past bound to overtake the Japanese eventually, would have been seen from the time of their (the Chinese’s) implementation of particular state capitalist industrialist ideologies, principles and programs during the time in which such statist trends and events were categorized under the rubric as The Great Leap Forward – in the post World War II era under the Late Great Mao Zedong (1893 – 1976); from the time they would have implemented market capitalist imperialist industrialist ideologies, principles and programs that fell within the embrace of the introduction of greater Western market style reforms to a Chinese economy that hitherto was centrally planned, in 1978 under the paramount leadership of Deng Xiaoping (1904 – 1997) – and which were thus seen to be centered around the building on the positives that had been ushered in in the period of the Great Leap Forward – which though too had its own fundamental problems; and from the time they would have executed more of the same capitalist freemarket ideologies, principles and programs that would have inevitably led to profound increases in the strong holds that both Chinese and Western Capitalism have had on the Chinese economy, since the emergence of Jiang Zemin ( 1926 – ) as the paramount leader of China in the aftermath of the Tiananmen Square protests crackdown in 1989, and right up to this juncture with the present paramount Chinese leader Hu Jintao (1942 –).
These different and higher stages in the development of the Chinese economy and society, and American and Western political capitalists preference for investing in China rather than Japan, etc., have undoubtedly helped to produce the terrific rates of material growth and production that have been seen in the Chinese economy, and that have ensured that China has had an increasing share in global material output and investment flows.
So, while the Chinese economy has been growing at these phenomenal rates, and hundreds of millions of Chinese have been lifted out of poverty since the 80s, the Japanese economy has been on such a steady downward and stagnant spiral, that there has been the coming into existence of a political economic period of depression and deflation in Japan, that which when contrasted with the long term upward growth patterns of the American economy and the Chinese economy, has been termed by some international political economy experts, as: The Lost Decade – 1991 to 2000.
Such is significant partly because the Japanese are the only non-Caucasian dominated country that has ever been able to achieve the status of a G7 (G8) nation, which primarily would have happened through the President of France at the time (1975) asking five other heads of the governments of major industrialized powers (Japan included) to a meeting at Chateau de Rambouillet to discuss matters of mutual importance (Wikipedia.org). Part of the basis for the involvement of the Japanese was as a primary result of their having been able to reach the now former post-World War II ascendency/status of having become the second biggest industrialized economy, and its having become a mighty trading power from the 1960s up to early 2000s.
But, a lot of the financial value that emerged from returns on the industrialized growth and development capacity that the Japanese achieved in the 60s, 70s and 80s, eventually has become useless and worthless through the further development of American/Western style financial gambling and speculation in nominal money schemes in the area of land transactions, share stock transactions, government stimulus packages, etc.
And, so, with the Japanese’s increasing emphases on the latter, something would have had to give – its no 2 position as the world’s pecking order of economies, as real production in Japan has been withering away over the last two decades, and as it exports have had to face increasingly stiff competition from Taiwan and South Korea esp.
Well, given that there is available on the internet, and available from some actual reading literature desks across the world, information that speaks to a “Chinese Master Plan to destroy America” – it can be Googled!! – there must therefore be responses by Americans to any such real plans by a few Chinese to actually destroy America.
But, we in Barbados do NOT have to look very far for any of those responses from the Americans because, for right now , we – in Barbados and else where in this global maze – are involved in this covert silent “war” that continues to take place between America and its surrogates and China.
This “war” clearly started in the early times of Communist rule in China and with American flare ups over Chinese human rights violations, and their human rights record (even as the US itself would have had then a very bad human rights record in certain areas), with Americans demanding greater investment export access to Chinese markets in 1980s to 2000s, with present American demands for a devaluation in the renmimbi (the Chinese currency’s appellation), and with the just concluded mini-battle with the US based internet search engine giant – Google. These and other relevant situations are examples of the skirmishes that exist in this Sino-American “war”.
So, instead of, on one hand, many of us Barbadians “talking foolishness” and “blogging crap”, and, on the other hand, our paying greater attention and detail to much of what is happening in global politics and international relations, many of us are now left in state of ignorance – not knowing – that Barbados is now seriously caught up in the crossfire of this “war” between the Americans and the Chinese whereby there have been many moves by the Americans to prevent the Chinese from taking over them as the world’s biggest economy, which, if it were to be allowed to happen by the said Americans and their surrogates, would have serious and profound implications for the continued hegemonic dominance of the world by the American political enterprise, culture; would have severe and far-reaching implications for higher global “prices” for oil – which is a resource that the Chinese (and the Japanese) substantially lacks; and very adverse implications for the American Dollar being still
used as a globally traded currency( the rise of the Chinese Yuan as a global currency) etc.
So, the truth right now is that the Americans (and also their counterparts in Europe – which equals European Caucasians ) are STAGING these international financial and economic crises to slow, or stop, which ever, the Chinese’s ( the yellow people’s ) carry forward/momentum from being the only Asian superpower, with military and aero-spatial superiority, to ever achieve the goal of becoming the biggest economy in the world , onto its eventual planned course of becoming a global superpower. And Barbadians are caught up in this war and are NOT even prepared for the ongoing battles that are part of this “war”. What a tragedy of epic proportions!!!
For, it is very possible that there may be a double dip recession in the US and parts of Europe to achieve what the 2008-9 financial crisis did not do – that is- to cripple or maim the Chinese economic juggernaut and trading giant. But, of course, in that crisis, the Chinese did not roll up and play dead, and did respond with their own Western Neo-Keynesian style stimulus packages, and have been depending more on their so-called internal economy, to resist those real politicking Machiavellian efforts of the USA and Europe.
But, finally for now, surely the Americans and the Europeans do NOT have to worry about China ever becoming a global superpower since, they are many fundamental social political material problems that this Asian behemoth faces, that will prevent it from actually becoming a global superpower. One such fundamental political problem, is that, it does NOT have a federal system of government to unite or federate the different political ethnic and religious regions into a really stronger Chinese nation against other nations of this world. The Communist Party is no substitute for such a federation, primarily because in a matter of time – it will either be greater long term political freedom ( or such being asked for by many ordinary Chinese consonant with this greater wealth and income that they are now getting) – meaning that Communist Party of China too will have to give up more of its power and authority over the Chinese society to other political groups/regions – or it will be
greater material technological financial acquisitions for most Chinese along the present trajectory, with those greater social political freedoms for its citizens and others that are necessary to drive its becoming a great global power being otherwise stymied by a ruling elite that continues to tightly manage other competing political forces.
Surely, that is one of the Great Chinese dilemmas.
But are NOT many of us in Barbados going to stop talking blogging much foolishness and engaging in much crap, and instead think and act greater ideologically, politically, materially, financially in this country in the face of this ongoing Sino-American “war”???
The blogmaster invites you to join the discussion.