Richard L. Armitage, undersecretary of state, announces in Beijing, China, that the state department will place the East Turkistan Islamic Movement on the list of terrorist organizations, and seize any of ETIM’s assets found in the United States.  The ETIM is a nationalist movement, seeking independence for the Moslem, ethnic Uighur (pronounced we-GAR) provinces in northwest China.  Yet as a price for support in the “War on Terrorism,” de facto President George W.  Bush (having received an unlawful advantage of 41 ineligible Electoral votes) is willing to sell-out the Uighurs, Tibetans, various political and religious dissidents, and probably the Taiwanese as well—all of whom the fascist government of China is repressing.

       [restored 11/19/2023]

       Actually the Chinese powers that be have adopted a dichotomy or two.  No subject may own real estate, but can occupy and improve land by negotiating a conditional land lease.  The improvements, such as residences, offices, shops, farm buildings and factories, etc., may be bought and sold on the private market; on the condition of paying the Single Land Tax, a ‘la Henry George.  Before you unicker, think about our arrangement in the “land of the Free and the home of the Brave, as to “Property Taxes” and what American States do when the land lease/tax is not paid.

       One child per couple means a lot of female abortions as male children are considered more valuable.  This has created a lot of young Chinese men who are doomed to live alone, unless they emigrate.  The People’s Liberation Army may be the GE of China, as it ‘owns’ many profitmaking enterprises.  It may not own them in the sense that the stockholders of GE own it, that is through the Rule of Law, and the usual proofs of ownership acceptable to the NYSE; but, who in the Chinese nation is going to take anything from the PLA that it does not want to give up? Individual Chinese make very good Americans; however, China’s masses have never been educated in the Western tradition of representative, limited-democracy.  The Taiwanese are closer to the American political tradition, but they are still having fist fights on the floor of their legislature, in lieu of Robert’s Rules of Order.

       As the Chinese work hard to improve their standard of living they are going to be very able competitors and consumers of the world’s trade.  China is building the world’s largest hydroelectric project at Three Gorges on the Yangtze.  It is about 5 times bigger than the 1930’s Hoover Dam project on the Colorado.  When that cheap, clean, electricity, from renewing sources of water due to the force of the Law’s of Nature, hit the Yangtze valley grid, who is going to employ all that energy–and some of 800 million people–to become the MegaSwitzerland of electrified manufactories and transportation? Reddy Kilowatt at your service! Well, at China’s service.  A whole generation will, for the first time in the life of their families, have hot and cold water on demand, electricity for heat, light and power.  That dam will also be a target of the first order.  When the reservoir is filled the water will be hundreds of feet deep for hundreds of square miles.  If the dam was sundered, the torrent could directly kill hundreds of millions downstream, and leave other millions to starve without water and power to support the then overbuilt economy.  It might take centuries to rebuild China and a new dam.  They can’t want that, capitalists and libertarians don’t want that.  And, as in the Federal United States, (FUS) there are almost as many capitalists as there are socialist/fascists in Chinese society.  Probably, many more convinced capitalists than communists.  (A communist is a socialist in uniform.) Many living Chinese lived through Mao’s communism.  They know that millions died for Mao’s ego.  They have been feeding themselves, and settling their own matters, for over 5,000 years, some with mixed results.  Chinese culture evolved with warlords and bandits, art appreciation and great cooking, but not with Greece and Rome as cultural models.

       Like all other nations, it has the perfect right to act in its own interest, not aggressing on others.  Would this were true for all nations.  China invaded Tibet decades ago.  Poor Tibet, so close to God, so far from water.  As I understand it the Chinese government needed to improve food production and found mountains of phosphates in Tibet.  Mountains of fertilizer for the fields of China, but the Tibetan powers that presume to speak for the people said, “No.  Those mountains are sacred to us.  To grind any part of them down to feed even more Chinese young male soldiers would be an insult to our religion, and a danger to our theocracy.” I may not have that quote just right, I wasn’t there, but the PLA did invade, and is replacing Tibetans with the majority of China, the Han speakers.  The PLA, or who controls the PLA, has decided to make Tibet, a Chinese province, much as the U.S.  pacified Florida, as one example.   (What would the National United States have done if Mexico came to the support of the Seminoles?)

       The Congress of the Union of “the united States,” should enact legislation to forbid, on pain of Treason, any transfer of Federal United States’ assets to any foreign government, or agency thereof, such as the UN, in any guise whatsoever. —- JL