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☝️ Good piece on the catastrophic failure of business-driven appeasement of the kremlin neoimperialist.
「Members of the Russian establishment remained convinced that while their Western counterparts enjoyed making idealistic speeches, they were ultimately driven by a far baser hunger for money. This Russian contempt for so-called Western values was further strengthened by experience, particularly the indecently rapid clamor for a return to business-as-usual following Moscow’s 2008 invasion of Georgia. The same was true in the wake of Russia’s 2014 annexation of Crimea and invasion of eastern Ukraine.
Russian perceptions of Western weakness and hypocrisy directly paved the way for the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. 」
The same #NoConsequences policy failures apply to business-driven appeasement of the zhongnanhai neoimperialists in Beijing, which started all the way back in the 1970s but inexplicably (read: greed) went into overdrive *after* the 1989 Tiananmen massacre and all the 'domestic' repression in China and its occupied lebenraum territories that followed.
💥 Instead of (free) trade being used as a leverage to discourage #dictatorship, it became a tool for *empowering* it!
The sociopath taking over kremlin in 2000 might have no EQ and an IQ of under 60 and still see the CCP thriving in the Business Uber Alles environment further enabled with the granting of the #WTO membership (to manipulate in every means possible).
And with the CCP now empowered, all tinpot despots across the globe are aligning under its "safe for #authoritarianism" umbrella...
The rest is history now unfolding, with all those business-driven democracies shocked and dismayed and wondering "how did we get here!?". ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
#russia #ccp #china #HandelOhneWandel #appeasement #authaxis
@EugeneMcParland -
☝️ Good piece on the catastrophic failure of business-driven appeasement of the kremlin neoimperialist.
「Members of the Russian establishment remained convinced that while their Western counterparts enjoyed making idealistic speeches, they were ultimately driven by a far baser hunger for money. This Russian contempt for so-called Western values was further strengthened by experience, particularly the indecently rapid clamor for a return to business-as-usual following Moscow’s 2008 invasion of Georgia. The same was true in the wake of Russia’s 2014 annexation of Crimea and invasion of eastern Ukraine.
Russian perceptions of Western weakness and hypocrisy directly paved the way for the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. 」
The same #NoConsequences policy failures apply to business-driven appeasement of the zhongnanhai neoimperialists in Beijing, which started all the way back in the 1970s but inexplicably (read: greed) went into overdrive *after* the 1989 Tiananmen massacre and all the 'domestic' repression in China and its occupied lebenraum territories that followed.
💥 Instead of (free) trade being used as a leverage to discourage #dictatorship, it became a tool for *empowering* it!
The sociopath taking over kremlin in 2000 might have no EQ and an IQ of under 60 and still see the CCP thriving in the Business Uber Alles environment further enabled with the granting of the #WTO membership (to manipulate in every means possible).
And with the CCP now empowered, all tinpot despots across the globe are aligning under its "safe for #authoritarianism" umbrella...
The rest is history now unfolding, with all those business-driven democracies shocked and dismayed and wondering "how did we get here!?". ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
#russia #ccp #china #HandelOhneWandel #appeasement #authaxis
@EugeneMcParland -
☝️ Good piece on the catastrophic failure of business-driven appeasement of the kremlin neoimperialist.
「Members of the Russian establishment remained convinced that while their Western counterparts enjoyed making idealistic speeches, they were ultimately driven by a far baser hunger for money. This Russian contempt for so-called Western values was further strengthened by experience, particularly the indecently rapid clamor for a return to business-as-usual following Moscow’s 2008 invasion of Georgia. The same was true in the wake of Russia’s 2014 annexation of Crimea and invasion of eastern Ukraine.
Russian perceptions of Western weakness and hypocrisy directly paved the way for the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. 」
The same #NoConsequences policy failures apply to business-driven appeasement of the zhongnanhai neoimperialists in Beijing, which started all the way back in the 1970s but inexplicably (read: greed) went into overdrive *after* the 1989 Tiananmen massacre and all the 'domestic' repression in China and its occupied lebenraum territories that followed.
💥 Instead of (free) trade being used as a leverage to discourage #dictatorship, it became a tool for *empowering* it!
The sociopath taking over kremlin in 2000 might have no EQ and an IQ of under 60 and still see the CCP thriving in the Business Uber Alles environment further enabled with the granting of the #WTO membership (to manipulate in every means possible).
And with the CCP now empowered, all tinpot despots across the globe are aligning under its "safe for #authoritarianism" umbrella...
The rest is history now unfolding, with all those business-driven democracies shocked and dismayed and wondering "how did we get here!?". ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
#russia #ccp #china #HandelOhneWandel #appeasement #authaxis
@EugeneMcParland -
☝️ Good piece on the catastrophic failure of business-driven appeasement of the kremlin neoimperialist.
「Members of the Russian establishment remained convinced that while their Western counterparts enjoyed making idealistic speeches, they were ultimately driven by a far baser hunger for money. This Russian contempt for so-called Western values was further strengthened by experience, particularly the indecently rapid clamor for a return to business-as-usual following Moscow’s 2008 invasion of Georgia. The same was true in the wake of Russia’s 2014 annexation of Crimea and invasion of eastern Ukraine.
Russian perceptions of Western weakness and hypocrisy directly paved the way for the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. 」
The same #NoConsequences policy failures apply to business-driven appeasement of the zhongnanhai neoimperialists in Beijing, which started all the way back in the 1970s but inexplicably (read: greed) went into overdrive *after* the 1989 Tiananmen massacre and all the 'domestic' repression in China and its occupied lebenraum territories that followed.
💥 Instead of (free) trade being used as a leverage to discourage #dictatorship, it became a tool for *empowering* it!
The sociopath taking over kremlin in 2000 might have no EQ and an IQ of under 60 and still see the CCP thriving in the Business Uber Alles environment further enabled with the granting of the #WTO membership (to manipulate in every means possible).
And with the CCP now empowered, all tinpot despots across the globe are aligning under its "safe for #authoritarianism" umbrella...
The rest is history now unfolding, with all those business-driven democracies shocked and dismayed and wondering "how did we get here!?". ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
#russia #ccp #china #HandelOhneWandel #appeasement #authaxis
@EugeneMcParland -
☝️ Good piece on the catastrophic failure of business-driven appeasement of the kremlin neoimperialist.
「Members of the Russian establishment remained convinced that while their Western counterparts enjoyed making idealistic speeches, they were ultimately driven by a far baser hunger for money. This Russian contempt for so-called Western values was further strengthened by experience, particularly the indecently rapid clamor for a return to business-as-usual following Moscow’s 2008 invasion of Georgia. The same was true in the wake of Russia’s 2014 annexation of Crimea and invasion of eastern Ukraine.
Russian perceptions of Western weakness and hypocrisy directly paved the way for the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. 」
The same #NoConsequences policy failures apply to business-driven appeasement of the zhongnanhai neoimperialists in Beijing, which started all the way back in the 1970s but inexplicably (read: greed) went into overdrive *after* the 1989 Tiananmen massacre and all the 'domestic' repression in China and its occupied lebenraum territories that followed.
💥 Instead of (free) trade being used as a leverage to discourage #dictatorship, it became a tool for *empowering* it!
The sociopath taking over kremlin in 2000 might have no EQ and an IQ of under 60 and still see the CCP thriving in the Business Uber Alles environment further enabled with the granting of the #WTO membership (to manipulate in every means possible).
And with the CCP now empowered, all tinpot despots across the globe are aligning under its "safe for #authoritarianism" umbrella...
The rest is history now unfolding, with all those business-driven democracies shocked and dismayed and wondering "how did we get here!?". ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
#russia #ccp #china #HandelOhneWandel #appeasement #authaxis
@EugeneMcParland -
☝️ It took just over three decades of no-consequences business with despots to get here — from the immediate post-Tiananmen massacre kowtow queues in Beijing to putin launching a full-scale war on Ukraine in attempt to take it all, or if that fails, to simply eradicate the nation.
And now the axis of despots are backing and cheering on their fellow terrorists' attack on Israel.
Fully building up that axis took many years, but the memo from the 'Free World' was sent and noted by the CCP in the autumn of 1989.
Due to greed and indifference of investors and industrialists from democracies (!) we ended up funding and empowering hostile despots instead of friendly developing democracies.
And here we are. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
#china #russia #iran #authaxis #WWIII #friendshoring #derisking #decoupling #Ukraine #Israel #neoidealism #HandelOhneWandel
@noelreports -
☝️ It took just over three decades of no-consequences business with despots to get here — from the immediate post-Tiananmen massacre kowtow queues in Beijing to putin launching a full-scale war on Ukraine in attempt to take it all, or if that fails, to simply eradicate the nation.
And now the axis of despots are backing and cheering on their fellow terrorists' attack on Israel.
Fully building up that axis took many years, but the memo from the 'Free World' was sent and noted by the CCP in the autumn of 1989.
Due to greed and indifference of investors and industrialists from democracies (!) we ended up funding and empowering hostile despots instead of friendly developing democracies.
And here we are. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
#china #russia #iran #authaxis #WWIII #friendshoring #derisking #decoupling #Ukraine #Israel #neoidealism #HandelOhneWandel
@noelreports -
☝️ It took just over three decades of no-consequences business with despots to get here — from the immediate post-Tiananmen massacre kowtow queues in Beijing to putin launching a full-scale war on Ukraine in attempt to take it all, or if that fails, to simply eradicate the nation.
And now the axis of despots are backing and cheering on their fellow terrorists' attack on Israel.
Fully building up that axis took many years, but the memo from the 'Free World' was sent and noted by the CCP in the autumn of 1989.
Due to greed and indifference of investors and industrialists from democracies (!) we ended up funding and empowering hostile despots instead of friendly developing democracies.
And here we are. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
#china #russia #iran #authaxis #WWIII #friendshoring #derisking #decoupling #Ukraine #Israel #neoidealism #HandelOhneWandel
@noelreports -
☝️ It took just over three decades of no-consequences business with despots to get here — from the immediate post-Tiananmen massacre kowtow queues in Beijing to putin launching a full-scale war on Ukraine in attempt to take it all, or if that fails, to simply eradicate the nation.
And now the axis of despots are backing and cheering on their fellow terrorists' attack on Israel.
Fully building up that axis took many years, but the memo from the 'Free World' was sent and noted by the CCP in the autumn of 1989.
Due to greed and indifference of investors and industrialists from democracies (!) we ended up funding and empowering hostile despots instead of friendly developing democracies.
And here we are. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
#china #russia #iran #authaxis #WWIII #friendshoring #derisking #decoupling #Ukraine #Israel #neoidealism #HandelOhneWandel
@noelreports -
☝️ It took just over three decades of no-consequences business with despots to get here — from the immediate post-Tiananmen massacre kowtow queues in Beijing to putin launching a full-scale war on Ukraine in attempt to take it all, or if that fails, to simply eradicate the nation.
And now the axis of despots are backing and cheering on their fellow terrorists' attack on Israel.
Fully building up that axis took many years, but the memo from the 'Free World' was sent and noted by the CCP in the autumn of 1989.
Due to greed and indifference of investors and industrialists from democracies (!) we ended up funding and empowering hostile despots instead of friendly developing democracies.
And here we are. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
#china #russia #iran #authaxis #WWIII #friendshoring #derisking #decoupling #Ukraine #Israel #neoidealism #HandelOhneWandel
@noelreports -
Ulrich Speck (🇩🇪) on democracies vs 🇨🇳 & 🇷🇺 :
「The battle clearly is about principles: how to organise power inside states and between states. What rulers in Russia and China want is clear: the right to run states without democracy and rights of the people, and the right to dominate weaker countries by using every instrument.
Liberal-minded countries around the world, led by the US, are pushing back against this vision that Putin and Xi try to jointly advance ("changes that the world has not seen in a century").
That struggle is not just about borders and the independence of countries (Ukraine, Taiwan), it is a struggle about far broader principles: the future of the liberal order -- the package consisting of human rights, rule of law, democracy, market economy and collective security.
Ukraine and Taiwan are on the frontline of this struggle for broader principles and ideas of order. Important for the liberal-minded coalition to win: to make sure that Russia won't control Ukraine and China won't subjugate Taiwan by force.」
https://nitter.net/ulrichspeck/status/1703328806411370949
As recently as in 2021 it would've been seen as scandalous to state the reality of rising threat of authoritarianism as clearly. The peoples on the front lines of that struggle were routinely shrugged off as "alarmists" or worse.
On a personal note I recall hanging out with a number of German China-business types and discreetly gauging their interest in the ethical considerations of their 'engagement', not least due to certain historical considerations supposedly learned from Germany's own past. Depending how one counts, they collectively hit either 0% or 100% batting average. Zero concerns about anything. Schroeder and Merkel weren't complete anomalies, but normalizers of that indifferent appeasement and collaboration (for profit).
Thankfully I already knew that this lot wasn't representative of entire Germany and the reaction to russian invasion of #Ukraine shows that most Germans still see value in doing the right thing.
#china #russia #authoritarianism #AxisOfDespots #Germany #UlrichSpeck #Zeitenwende #HandelOhneWandel #democracy #Taiwan #humanrights
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Ulrich Speck (🇩🇪) on democracies vs 🇨🇳 & 🇷🇺 :
「The battle clearly is about principles: how to organise power inside states and between states. What rulers in Russia and China want is clear: the right to run states without democracy and rights of the people, and the right to dominate weaker countries by using every instrument.
Liberal-minded countries around the world, led by the US, are pushing back against this vision that Putin and Xi try to jointly advance ("changes that the world has not seen in a century").
That struggle is not just about borders and the independence of countries (Ukraine, Taiwan), it is a struggle about far broader principles: the future of the liberal order -- the package consisting of human rights, rule of law, democracy, market economy and collective security.
Ukraine and Taiwan are on the frontline of this struggle for broader principles and ideas of order. Important for the liberal-minded coalition to win: to make sure that Russia won't control Ukraine and China won't subjugate Taiwan by force.」
https://nitter.net/ulrichspeck/status/1703328806411370949
As recently as in 2021 it would've been seen as scandalous to state the reality of rising threat of authoritarianism as clearly. The peoples on the front lines of that struggle were routinely shrugged off as "alarmists" or worse.
On a personal note I recall hanging out with a number of German China-business types and discreetly gauging their interest in the ethical considerations of their 'engagement', not least due to certain historical considerations supposedly learned from Germany's own past. Depending how one counts, they collectively hit either 0% or 100% batting average. Zero concerns about anything. Schroeder and Merkel weren't complete anomalies, but normalizers of that indifferent appeasement and collaboration (for profit).
Thankfully I already knew that this lot wasn't representative of entire Germany and the reaction to russian invasion of #Ukraine shows that most Germans still see value in doing the right thing.
#china #russia #authoritarianism #AxisOfDespots #Germany #UlrichSpeck #Zeitenwende #HandelOhneWandel #democracy #Taiwan #humanrights
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Ulrich Speck (🇩🇪) on democracies vs 🇨🇳 & 🇷🇺 :
「The battle clearly is about principles: how to organise power inside states and between states. What rulers in Russia and China want is clear: the right to run states without democracy and rights of the people, and the right to dominate weaker countries by using every instrument.
Liberal-minded countries around the world, led by the US, are pushing back against this vision that Putin and Xi try to jointly advance ("changes that the world has not seen in a century").
That struggle is not just about borders and the independence of countries (Ukraine, Taiwan), it is a struggle about far broader principles: the future of the liberal order -- the package consisting of human rights, rule of law, democracy, market economy and collective security.
Ukraine and Taiwan are on the frontline of this struggle for broader principles and ideas of order. Important for the liberal-minded coalition to win: to make sure that Russia won't control Ukraine and China won't subjugate Taiwan by force.」
https://nitter.net/ulrichspeck/status/1703328806411370949
As recently as in 2021 it would've been seen as scandalous to state the reality of rising threat of authoritarianism as clearly. The peoples on the front lines of that struggle were routinely shrugged off as "alarmists" or worse.
On a personal note I recall hanging out with a number of German China-business types and discreetly gauging their interest in the ethical considerations of their 'engagement', not least due to certain historical considerations supposedly learned from Germany's own past. Depending how one counts, they collectively hit either 0% or 100% batting average. Zero concerns about anything. Schroeder and Merkel weren't complete anomalies, but normalizers of that indifferent appeasement and collaboration (for profit).
Thankfully I already knew that this lot wasn't representative of entire Germany and the reaction to russian invasion of #Ukraine shows that most Germans still see value in doing the right thing.
#china #russia #authoritarianism #AxisOfDespots #Germany #UlrichSpeck #Zeitenwende #HandelOhneWandel #democracy #Taiwan #humanrights
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Ulrich Speck (🇩🇪) on democracies vs 🇨🇳 & 🇷🇺 :
「The battle clearly is about principles: how to organise power inside states and between states. What rulers in Russia and China want is clear: the right to run states without democracy and rights of the people, and the right to dominate weaker countries by using every instrument.
Liberal-minded countries around the world, led by the US, are pushing back against this vision that Putin and Xi try to jointly advance ("changes that the world has not seen in a century").
That struggle is not just about borders and the independence of countries (Ukraine, Taiwan), it is a struggle about far broader principles: the future of the liberal order -- the package consisting of human rights, rule of law, democracy, market economy and collective security.
Ukraine and Taiwan are on the frontline of this struggle for broader principles and ideas of order. Important for the liberal-minded coalition to win: to make sure that Russia won't control Ukraine and China won't subjugate Taiwan by force.」
https://nitter.net/ulrichspeck/status/1703328806411370949
As recently as in 2021 it would've been seen as scandalous to state the reality of rising threat of authoritarianism as clearly. The peoples on the front lines of that struggle were routinely shrugged off as "alarmists" or worse.
On a personal note I recall hanging out with a number of German China-business types and discreetly gauging their interest in the ethical considerations of their 'engagement', not least due to certain historical considerations supposedly learned from Germany's own past. Depending how one counts, they collectively hit either 0% or 100% batting average. Zero concerns about anything. Schroeder and Merkel weren't complete anomalies, but normalizers of that indifferent appeasement and collaboration (for profit).
Thankfully I already knew that this lot wasn't representative of entire Germany and the reaction to russian invasion of #Ukraine shows that most Germans still see value in doing the right thing.
#china #russia #authoritarianism #AxisOfDespots #Germany #UlrichSpeck #Zeitenwende #HandelOhneWandel #democracy #Taiwan #humanrights
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🔥📜☭ 🇨🇳 ★ A highly recommended recapping of personal account and insightful advice for the current batch of sinologists from someone who's seen and experienced most if it, Geremie R. Barmé 👇
Thanks to livelihoods and eventually whole identities being dependent on 'playing ball' (i.e. collaboration and collusion) with the CCP party-state apparatus, the sinologist contingent were always going to pay by providing cover and excuses for the never-ending (un-critical!) engagement and appeasement, logically considered to be necessary for the ultimate prize: business.
Some sinologists had the nous and moral compass to try and minimize the corruptive aspects of the engagements aiding the party-state.
Most I believe took the easiest and most lucrative road and became useful tools for the machine that fed them. This ranged from learning to withhold criticism of the Party to becoming a shameless firebrand promoting CCP ideology no matter how deranged. (case in point: the so-called "peaceful liberation" of #Tibet by the Chinese communist party's army oxymoronically named the 'PLA').
The china-trained sinologist army was then recruited as academic advisers for foreign ministries across the globe, speading their gospel of the necessity of (uncritical!) engagement and appeasement over the decades. Thanks to this decades long normalization of dictatorship many people are now shocked (!) when exposed to harsh critical evaluation of the uncritical #appeasement era. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
#longread #GeremieRBarmé #ethics #ccp #prc #xijinping #china #chinese #sinology #academia #sinophilia #oldchinahand #selfcensorship #HandelOhneWandel #zeitenwende
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🔥📜☭ 🇨🇳 ★ A highly recommended recapping of personal account and insightful advice for the current batch of sinologists from someone who's seen and experienced most if it, Geremie R. Barmé 👇
Thanks to livelihoods and eventually whole identities being dependent on 'playing ball' (i.e. collaboration and collusion) with the CCP party-state apparatus, the sinologist contingent were always going to pay by providing cover and excuses for the never-ending (un-critical!) engagement and appeasement, logically considered to be necessary for the ultimate prize: business.
Some sinologists had the nous and moral compass to try and minimize the corruptive aspects of the engagements aiding the party-state.
Most I believe took the easiest and most lucrative road and became useful tools for the machine that fed them. This ranged from learning to withhold criticism of the Party to becoming shameless firebrands promoting CCP ideology no matter how deranged. (case in point: the so-called "peaceful liberation" of #Tibet by the Chinese communist party's army oxymoronically named the 'PLA').
The china-trained sinologist army was then recruited as academic advisers for foreign ministries across the globe, spreading their gospel of the necessity of (uncritical!) engagement and appeasement over the decades. Thanks to this decades long normalization of dictatorship many people are now shocked (!) when exposed to harsh critical evaluation of the uncritical #appeasement era. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
(sorry for the typoes!)
#longread #GeremieRBarmé #ethics #ccp #prc #xijinping #china #chinese #sinology #academia #sinophilia #oldchinahand #selfcensorship #HandelOhneWandel #zeitenwende
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🔥📜☭ 🇨🇳 ★ A highly recommended recapping of personal account and insightful advice for the current batch of sinologists from someone who's seen and experienced most if it, Geremie R. Barmé 👇
Thanks to livelihoods and eventually whole identities being dependent on 'playing ball' (i.e. collaboration and collusion) with the CCP party-state apparatus, the sinologist contingent were always going to pay by providing cover and excuses for the never-ending (un-critical!) engagement and appeasement, logically considered to be necessary for the ultimate prize: business.
Some sinologists had the nous and moral compass to try and minimize the corruptive aspects of the engagements aiding the party-state.
Most I believe took the easiest and most lucrative road and became useful tools for the machine that fed them. This ranged from learning to withhold criticism of the Party to becoming shameless firebrands promoting CCP ideology no matter how deranged. (case in point: the so-called "peaceful liberation" of #Tibet by the Chinese communist party's army oxymoronically named the 'PLA').
The china-trained sinologist army was then recruited as academic advisers for foreign ministries across the globe, spreading their gospel of the necessity of (uncritical!) engagement and appeasement over the decades. Thanks to this decades long normalization of dictatorship many people are now shocked (!) when exposed to harsh critical evaluation of the uncritical #appeasement era. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
(sorry for the typoes!)
#longread #GeremieRBarmé #ethics #ccp #prc #xijinping #china #chinese #sinology #academia #sinophilia #oldchinahand #selfcensorship #HandelOhneWandel #zeitenwende
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🔥📜☭ 🇨🇳 ★ A highly recommended recapping of personal account and insightful advice for the current batch of sinologists from someone who's seen and experienced most if it, Geremie R. Barmé 👇
Thanks to livelihoods and eventually whole identities being dependent on 'playing ball' (i.e. collaboration and collusion) with the CCP party-state apparatus, the sinologist contingent were always going to pay by providing cover and excuses for the never-ending (un-critical!) engagement and appeasement, logically considered to be necessary for the ultimate prize: business.
Some sinologists had the nous and moral compass to try and minimize the corruptive aspects of the engagements aiding the party-state.
Most I believe took the easiest and most lucrative road and became useful tools for the machine that fed them. This ranged from learning to withhold criticism of the Party to becoming shameless firebrands promoting CCP ideology no matter how deranged. (case in point: the so-called "peaceful liberation" of #Tibet by the Chinese communist party's army oxymoronically named the 'PLA').
The china-trained sinologist army was then recruited as academic advisers for foreign ministries across the globe, spreading their gospel of the necessity of (uncritical!) engagement and appeasement over the decades. Thanks to this decades long normalization of dictatorship many people are now shocked (!) when exposed to harsh critical evaluation of the uncritical #appeasement era. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
(sorry for the typoes!)
#longread #GeremieRBarmé #ethics #ccp #prc #xijinping #china #chinese #sinology #academia #sinophilia #oldchinahand #selfcensorship #HandelOhneWandel #zeitenwende
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🔥📜☭ 🇨🇳 ★ A highly recommended recapping of personal account and insightful advice for the current batch of sinologists from someone who's seen and experienced most if it, Geremie R. Barmé 👇
Thanks to livelihoods and eventually whole identities being dependent on 'playing ball' (i.e. collaboration and collusion) with the CCP party-state apparatus, the sinologist contingent were always going to pay by providing cover and excuses for the never-ending (un-critical!) engagement and appeasement, logically considered to be necessary for the ultimate prize: business.
Some sinologists had the nous and moral compass to try and minimize the corruptive aspects of the engagements aiding the party-state.
Most I believe took the easiest and most lucrative road and became useful tools for the machine that fed them. This ranged from learning to withhold criticism of the Party to becoming shameless firebrands promoting CCP ideology no matter how deranged. (case in point: the so-called "peaceful liberation" of #Tibet by the Chinese communist party's army oxymoronically named the 'PLA').
The china-trained sinologist army was then recruited as academic advisers for foreign ministries across the globe, spreading their gospel of the necessity of (uncritical!) engagement and appeasement over the decades. Thanks to this decades long normalization of dictatorship many people are now shocked (!) when exposed to harsh critical evaluation of the uncritical #appeasement era. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
(sorry for the typoes!)
#longread #GeremieRBarmé #ethics #ccp #prc #xijinping #china #chinese #sinology #academia #sinophilia #oldchinahand #selfcensorship #HandelOhneWandel #zeitenwende
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@raymondpert "KUKA is a German manufacturer of industrial robots and systems for factory automation. The Chinese company Midea Group owns more than 95% of the company."
#zeitenwende #HandelOhneWandel #KUKA #germany #Deutschland #natsec
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It's got to be some kind of a sneaky plan where the Germans foot half of the bill (their share €5 billion) in order to somehow ship the whole shebang to "people's republic" of China...
I mean that's simply what Germans always do with any advanced tech they've managed to build. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
What other reason could there possibly be?
#Germany #CCP #PRC #china #HandelOhneWandel #sarcasm?
@rikefranke -
☝️ Question to the #EUCommission: If the values enshrined in #UnitedNations (#humanrights) declarations are considered truly important, why are all the democracies financing, industrializing and otherwise empowering hostile #authoritarian regimes?
There are basically zero incentives for governments and elites of developing countries to choose #democracy over #authoritarianism... 👀
💥 Why not establish a global trading system where authoritarians and despots face serious tariffs and embargoes, and military-expansionist or even genocidal regimes actually face at least *some* real world consequences over their crimes? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Meanwhile trade and financial, industrial and technological assistance should be reserved for countries with at least *minimal* adherence to the most basic #UN ideals.
Why is this simple concept so difficult? Reward good, not evil.
Is it really hard to fathom *why* the post-1989 world rewarded greed over democratic values? In 1989, only months after the #TianAnMen massacre, trade delegations were queueing up to kowtow the #CCP #dictatorship... They got the message, as did #putler a decade later.
#WTO #MFN #MostFavoredNation #china #russia #AxisOfDespots #brics #SCO #EuropeanUnion #HandelOhneWandel
@EU_Commission -
⬆「Haldenwang said there were “astonishing parallels” between the present and the 1920s and 1930s that should prompt concern.
“For too long there was too little opposition to the rise of extremism and authoritarianism,” he told a conference of security experts Monday. “Ninety years ago an elected extremist party gained power that first led Germany into a dictatorship and finally toward total ruin.”
While the current conditions are different than a century ago, Haldenwang said Russia’s attack on Ukraine last year has been seized upon by “intellectual arsonists on the new right, demagogues and extremist ideologues, conspiracy theorists and influencers for foreign powers” who have helped stoke anxiety and polarization in some parts of society.
Germany and other European countries have expelled a considerable number of suspected Russian spies since the outbreak of war and sought to curb its state-backed media. China is also increasingly being seen as a threat in the theater of “hybrid warfare,” though Beijing’s efforts to undermine democracy in Germany and elsewhere are considered more subtle but potentially more dangerous.」
https://apnews.com/article/germany-extremism-russia-hybrid-warfare-qanon-climate-7d982c4a514d22d05b315449ea138c07
#dictatorship #authoritarianism #ZeitenWende #HandelOhneWandel #Germany #democracy #russia #china #ccp
@AliceStollmeyer -
But.. with a business delegation?
Where does #Singapore actually stand in the democracies' struggle against the rising forces of belligerent #imperialism?
It is a "business hub" alright, but an #autocracy dominated by a ruling elite from (currently) post-colonial #Chinese #diaspora, some of whom feel a strong pull of the ever more powerful #HanChinese "motherland.
From what I understand Singapore is trying to "play the field", for now, and see where the tide turns. Or worse.
Is is where democracies should be directing their investments though?
Then again, #Hongkong — the pearl of a CCP's banking colony — is *still* considered by some to be an acceptable place for #business by some very decent and ethical people...
#EuropeanUnion #democracy #CCP #china #dictatorship #ZeitenWende #HandelOhneWandel @kajakallas
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⬆️ News at ...! Nevermind. It's all BEIJING TIME.
What's yet another publisher or journalist or civil rights activist or white A4 waver or Hongkonger or [insert any minority, occupied or otherwise]...
Because the #CCP is a *trading partner*.
#ccp #prc #china #humanrights #dictatorship #HandelOhneWandel #appeasement
@StephenMcDonell_mirror -
⬆️ Any lessons to learn from the last 30-50 years of doing business with unrepenting revanchist imperialistic despots?
「Lagarde said, warning: "The time to think about how to respond to changing geopolitics is not when fragmentation is upon us, but before."」
Before, indeed, but... fragmentation??
It was unrestrained business and greed that *enabled* and *encouraged* the #CCP-#China (from 1970s) and #neoimperial #Russia (from 1990s) to build up their dictatorships and to become global threats.
Yeah, should've thought about "fragmentation" *before* creating those threats through boundless entanglement and dependencies on your despot buddies.
“Biding time, hiding strength” and “selling capitalists the rope with which to hang them” clearly never rang any bells.
#xijinping #putin #dictatorship #autocracy #WandelDurchHandel #HandelOhneWandel #appeasement #IMF #ECB #CFR #EU
@AdelinaMarini -
⬆️ Any lessons to learn from the last 30-50 years of doing business with unrepenting revanchist imperialistic despots?
「Lagarde said, warning: "The time to think about how to respond to changing geopolitics is not when fragmentation is upon us, but before."」
Before, indeed, but... fragmentation??
It was unrestrained business and greed that *enabled* and *encouraged* the #CCP-#China (from 1970s) and #neoimperial #Russia (from 1990s) to build up their dictatorships and to become global threats.
Yeah, should've thought about "fragmentation" *before* creating those threats through boundless entanglement and dependencies on your despot buddies.
“Biding time, hiding strength” and “selling capitalists the rope with which to hang them” clearly never rang any bells.
#xijinping #putin #dictatorship #autocracy #WandelDurchHandel #HandelOhneWandel #appeasement #IMF #ECB #CFR #EU
@AdelinaMarini -
⬆️ Any lessons to learn from the last 30-50 years of doing business with unrepenting revanchist imperialistic despots?
「Lagarde said, warning: "The time to think about how to respond to changing geopolitics is not when fragmentation is upon us, but before."」
Before, indeed, but... fragmentation??
It was unrestrained business and greed that *enabled* and *encouraged* the #CCP-#China (from 1970s) and #neoimperial #Russia (from 1990s) to build up their dictatorships and to become global threats.
Yeah, should've thought about "fragmentation" *before* creating those threats through boundless entanglement and dependencies on your despot buddies.
“Biding time, hiding strength” and “selling capitalists the rope with which to hang them” clearly never rang any bells.
#xijinping #putin #dictatorship #autocracy #WandelDurchHandel #HandelOhneWandel #appeasement #IMF #ECB #CFR #EU
@AdelinaMarini -
⬆️ Any lessons to learn from the last 30-50 years of doing business with unrepenting revanchist imperialistic despots?
「Lagarde said, warning: "The time to think about how to respond to changing geopolitics is not when fragmentation is upon us, but before."」
Before, indeed, but... fragmentation??
It was unrestrained business and greed that *enabled* and *encouraged* the #CCP-#China (from 1970s) and #neoimperial #Russia (from 1990s) to build up their dictatorships and to become global threats.
Yeah, should've thought about "fragmentation" *before* creating those threats through boundless entanglement and dependencies on your despot buddies.
“Biding time, hiding strength” and “selling capitalists the rope with which to hang them” clearly never rang any bells.
#xijinping #putin #dictatorship #autocracy #WandelDurchHandel #HandelOhneWandel #appeasement #IMF #ECB #CFR #EU
@AdelinaMarini -
⬆️ Any lessons to learn from the last 30-50 years of doing business with unrepenting revanchist imperialistic despots?
「Lagarde said, warning: "The time to think about how to respond to changing geopolitics is not when fragmentation is upon us, but before."」
Before, indeed, but... fragmentation??
It was unrestrained business and greed that *enabled* and *encouraged* the #CCP-#China (from 1970s) and #neoimperial #Russia (from 1990s) to build up their dictatorships and to become global threats.
Yeah, should've thought about "fragmentation" *before* creating those threats through boundless entanglement and dependencies on your despot buddies.
“Biding time, hiding strength” and “selling capitalists the rope with which to hang them” clearly never rang any bells.
#xijinping #putin #dictatorship #autocracy #WandelDurchHandel #HandelOhneWandel #appeasement #IMF #ECB #CFR #EU
@AdelinaMarini -
Democracies could have, *should* have delivered despotism and military-expansionism a short, sharp shock of a coup de grâce in #1989.
But no. Business (with dictators) uber alles.
So now we have both #CCP #china and (as always) neo-imperial #russia trying to destroy liberal and progressive democratic order globally.
And this time we also have #climatechange, #plastic and other #pollutioncrises to deal with.
Isn't it time for all democracies to pull together and *only* deal with #dictatorships to the minimum extent where it objectively benefits humanity instead of empowering repressive authoritarians?
Let's see how powerful the old men of CCP are with zero foreign funding, technology and aid,,,
☝️ "The Russia-Ukraine war is not merely a humanitarian calamity, a monstrous collection of crimes against humanity, a gross violation of solemn agreements and international law. It is also a watershed, in which much will be determined about the future of the international system. It could lead to a very dark place, not different in kind from that of the 1930s and 1940s, if the dictators get their way. But if the liberal democracies unite and display the resolve, enterprise, and military capacity that they have shown before, that outcome can still be avoided."
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Democracies could have, *should* have delivered despotism and military-expansionism a short, sharp shock of a coup de grâce in #1989.
But no. Business (with dictators) uber alles.
So now we have both #CCP #china and (as always) neo-imperial #russia trying to destroy liberal and progressive democratic order globally.
And this time we also have #climatechange, #plastic and other #pollutioncrises to deal with.
Isn't it time for all democracies to pull together and *only* deal with #dictatorships to the minimum extent where it objectively benefits humanity instead of empowering repressive authoritarians?
Let's see how powerful the old men of CCP are with zero foreign funding, technology and aid,,,
☝️ "The Russia-Ukraine war is not merely a humanitarian calamity, a monstrous collection of crimes against humanity, a gross violation of solemn agreements and international law. It is also a watershed, in which much will be determined about the future of the international system. It could lead to a very dark place, not different in kind from that of the 1930s and 1940s, if the dictators get their way. But if the liberal democracies unite and display the resolve, enterprise, and military capacity that they have shown before, that outcome can still be avoided."
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Democracies could have, *should* have delivered despotism and military-expansionism a short, sharp shock of a coup de grâce in #1989.
But no. Business (with dictators) uber alles.
So now we have both #CCP #china and (as always) neo-imperial #russia trying to destroy liberal and progressive democratic order globally.
And this time we also have #climatechange, #plastic and other #pollutioncrises to deal with.
Isn't it time for all democracies to pull together and *only* deal with #dictatorships to the minimum extent where it objectively benefits humanity instead of empowering repressive authoritarians?
Let's see how powerful the old men of CCP are with zero foreign funding, technology and aid,,,
☝️ "The Russia-Ukraine war is not merely a humanitarian calamity, a monstrous collection of crimes against humanity, a gross violation of solemn agreements and international law. It is also a watershed, in which much will be determined about the future of the international system. It could lead to a very dark place, not different in kind from that of the 1930s and 1940s, if the dictators get their way. But if the liberal democracies unite and display the resolve, enterprise, and military capacity that they have shown before, that outcome can still be avoided."
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Democracies could have, *should* have delivered despotism and military-expansionism a short, sharp shock of a coup de grâce in #1989.
But no. Business (with dictators) uber alles.
So now we have both #CCP #china and (as always) neo-imperial #russia trying to destroy liberal and progressive democratic order globally.
And this time we also have #climatechange, #plastic and other #pollutioncrises to deal with.
Isn't it time for all democracies to pull together and *only* deal with #dictatorships to the minimum extent where it objectively benefits humanity instead of empowering repressive authoritarians?
Let's see how powerful the old men of CCP are with zero foreign funding, technology and aid,,,
☝️ "The Russia-Ukraine war is not merely a humanitarian calamity, a monstrous collection of crimes against humanity, a gross violation of solemn agreements and international law. It is also a watershed, in which much will be determined about the future of the international system. It could lead to a very dark place, not different in kind from that of the 1930s and 1940s, if the dictators get their way. But if the liberal democracies unite and display the resolve, enterprise, and military capacity that they have shown before, that outcome can still be avoided."
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Democracies could have, *should* have delivered despotism and military-expansionism a short, sharp shock of a coup de grâce in #1989.
But no. Business (with dictators) uber alles.
So now we have both #CCP #china and (as always) neo-imperial #russia trying to destroy liberal and progressive democratic order globally.
And this time we also have #climatechange, #plastic and other #pollutioncrises to deal with.
Isn't it time for all democracies to pull together and *only* deal with #dictatorships to the minimum extent where it objectively benefits humanity instead of empowering repressive authoritarians?
Let's see how powerful the old men of CCP are with zero foreign funding, technology and aid,,,
☝️ "The Russia-Ukraine war is not merely a humanitarian calamity, a monstrous collection of crimes against humanity, a gross violation of solemn agreements and international law. It is also a watershed, in which much will be determined about the future of the international system. It could lead to a very dark place, not different in kind from that of the 1930s and 1940s, if the dictators get their way. But if the liberal democracies unite and display the resolve, enterprise, and military capacity that they have shown before, that outcome can still be avoided."
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@andrewstroehlein "...and the EU is expected to relaunch its human rights dialogue with China..." and "These bilateral meetings have been a recurring exercise in pointlessness for decades."
Intimately related to this: #EU dialogues and the minor issue of occupied Tibet
I recall reading a convincing magazine piece written around early 2000s by a #Tibetan exile about the #EuropeanUnion's — or specifically the EuropeanParliament's efforts in the 1970s and 1980s at convincing the Tibetan Government-in-exile (#TGIE) to give up struggle for free and *independent* #Tibet in favour of "#autonomy* under the #Chinese #CCP #dictatorship.
The EU's efforts bore fruit and so-called "Middle Way" became TGIE's new policy. The Dalai Lama received the #Nobel Peace Prize in autumn 1989, only months after Tiananmen massacre.
The Tibetans, quite justifiably, expected the EU to stand behind the TGIE's demand for the restoration of Tibetans' indigenous rights and freedoms in Tibet.
What happened instead, now that the wee issue of *occupied* TIbet had been erased from the political map, was that European businesses beelined to ship what industrial base they could muster to the "People's Republic of #China. Business uber alles! #HandelOhneWandel!
And Tibet? <crickets...>
FWIW, it's a veritable dystopia. Has been since the PLA invaded in 1950.
The writer of that article appeared somewhat bitter by this most unexpected of turns — the EU apparently losing the TGIE's phone number and the subsequent CCP-appeasement-through-trade policy.
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☝️ Calling the pro-democracy #HongKongprotests "often-violent" without basic qualifiers (i.e. that is was the increasingly militarized regime forces forcing the citizens to take ever greater defensive measures) is essentially echoing the #CCP-imposed #Hongkong regime's #propaganda.
Should the #Chinese #dictatorship be even considered in terms of #tourism?
I suppose #business people must keep businessing. But must others normalize the #repressive regime?
Call of hands: Who here enjoys holidaying in a #PrisonOfNations?
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It's such a brutally basic question.
Would you buy plastic nazi trinkets? Cheap nazi electronics?
Would you watch nazi satellite "news"? Play computer games by nazis?
Would you use nazi apps that can access all your private data? (their own networks being only accessible to the nazi party)
Would you send nazis your industrial base and your bankers to finance it?
From the point of view of #Tibetans, #Uighurs, #SouthMongolians, #Hongkongers and most of their current neighbours worried about pesky "#lebensraum issues", the Chinese dictatorship are like nazis, just without the _express_ corporeal extermination programme.
Yet nearly everyone merrily does business with them. Even the Jewish state... They have full WTO access to abuse as they will. Those they trust with passports go on foreign holiday tours. Unlike those denied *exit*...
Kindly explain to me why.
It's not 1945. They overthrew their republic in 1949 and went on to commit atrocities they've erased from their subjects' memory, and apparently from the memory of most free people as well. The key thought driving them forward is "biding time and hiding strength" until they can erase *#democracy* — the one thing that they fear and hate more than anything. They're buying off (not only) developing country elites at a pace that would make the East India Company blush.
I suppose Lenin's lightbulb moment of "selling capitalists the rope with which to hang them" didn't go the waste after all.
#CCP #PRC #China #chinazi #dictatorship #zeitenwende #HandelOhneWandel #greed
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"Is EU losing the fight for human rights in Asia?"
The health of #democracy and #HumanRights in #SoutheastAsia is inversely related to the power of the giant neighbouring #dictatorship which the world's democracies — lead by their bankers and industrialists — have been feeding for the last several decades.
Also, blatant #hypocrisy is seldom a winning strategy anywhere. If values and principles are up for sale, the rest is merely about haggling over price.
#HandelOhneWandel #appeasement #CCP #China #MoralProstitution
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@mhmck "We said "Never again!" after the Holocaust but... Russians commit genocide..."
Also see: #PRC, 'People's Republic of China', 1949-
Didn't putin embark on his imperial re-conquests *exactly* because certain other expansionist dictatorship had already done it, consequence-free?
#Holocaust #UnitedNations #genocide #NeverAgain #HandelOhneWandel #russia #china
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We should all be so pleased that at least by some metric Germany has 'outperformed' in 2022 (and all the decades of deep collaboration with various dictatorships).
#Germany #Deutschland #stockmarket #HandelOhneWandel #FreeTheLeopards
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Great. But just #Iran?
What about technology exports and business with all the other #dictatorships?
Especially the ones engaging in #genocide?