Getting China Right...
.... like your future depended on it.
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Victor Gao offers a staunch defense of China’s development model and foreign policy, positioning it as a pragmatic and stabilizing force in an increasingly multipolar world.
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Victor Gao contrasts China’s infrastructure-focused outreach to under-developed nations with what he sees as the West’s history of neglect or exploitation of such nations. Gao frames China’s engagement in Africa, Latin America, and Asia as a non-colonial, sovereignty-respecting alternative rooted in mutual development. He dismisses criticisms of China — such as claims of resource extraction in Zimbabwe or coercive diplomacy — as either hypocritical or unfounded, emphasizing that “permanent development achievement is the hard truth.”
Other obvious hard truths that US leaders are not facing: Multipolarity is already here. The use of the US dollar in International trade is no longer mandatory. The Swift System that once tracked all foreign trades, became a sanctions-abuse machine for the US. Swift has now been has been replaced with alternative forms of trade settlement that are much less costly.
One unaddressed problem here is that President Trump and his Apprentices have no idea that any of this has already happened in the world. No US politician has yet to admit to the economic facts as they currently exist: The BRICS organization for global trade is now larger and wealthier than the G7. The US global dominance over international trade has become toothless, and that is becoming a very good thing for the rest of the world. The US dollar is losing favor globally; its use in foreign trade is facing sudden decline. Thus, US Treasuries, which have been used to sell US debt to other nations, are already facing a serious decline. At one time, US Treasuries were a power tool that forced US hegemony upon the world, but the US betrayed that trust when began spitefully stealing the Treasury holdings of rival nations. That betrayal finished the Dollar as a credible and trusted investment at the global level. The current global perception is that the US dollar is a risky investment with great potential for instability, devaluation, (and embezzlement). There are now several alternative investments for holding trading currencies, investments that are fully backed with physical gold.
The question remains, what will the current administration do when it discovers what happened to the Dollar while they were dishing out tariffs and making plans to become the Supreme Rulers of the World? Most of the world is very aware that the US government is deeply delusional and irrational. When and if the US finally accepts Reality, and allows for the election of a sane government, China will be standing by to help the US build a productive economy, based on something other than killing machines. It is in no one's interest for the US to have a failed economy and a misinformed population that is trending toward illiteracy.
Professor Victor Gao is a Chinese lawyer, businessman, and academic who is the vice president of the Beijing-based Center for China and Globalization (CCG). Dr. Gao is an expert on international relations at Soochow University, where he is a Chair Professor; he is a former interpreter of Deng Xiaoping and a senior advisor to Saudi Aramco. He has experience in government, diplomacy, banking, corporate management and media, and is involved in several energy-related organizations and institutions. Professor Gao is frequently interviewed by the global media on China and the multipolar world that is rapidly taking shape.
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Gao articulates China’s broader philosophical stance: democracy and human rights must be contextually grounded and balanced with obligations. He criticizes Western liberal universality, especially when paired with military and financial coercion. On Taiwan, Tibet, and Xinjiang, Gao asserts non-negotiable national unity, drawing a controversial parallel to Lincoln’s Civil War rationale. He positions BRICS as a megatrend affirming global sovereignty and warns against weaponizing the U.S. dollar or SWIFT system. Ultimately, Gao champions China’s rise as peaceful and inclusive, urging others to engage without imposition or ideological arrogance.
The United States government's moral collapse in politics — and the collapse of the government's moral and financial obligations to American society — are upon us right now... much earlier than was expected. Understanding China and understanding that China is not the enemy of the United States, or any other country, is something that the American people need to get right. Their immediate well being is going to depend on this.
What is your thinking on this matter?
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To my mind the west is at war with BRICS+
...which includes China. The idea of a new cooperative world not dependent on the USD frightens TPTB. It is one of the reasons to attack Iran and it's future North South corridor. Another reason is China has a RR into Iran from China now by passing the US navy.
We are in decline BRICS+ is rising and gaining more members everyday. As your video begins he says, China builds...I'll add, we destroy.
Thanks for the clip and the essay!
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
The reaction you describe is strange
.....as if the US politicians had learned about the BRICS just today for the very first time — and they are completely in shock.
BRICS has been a concept since 2006. It began in earnest under XI, with just five member nations. It has taken a very long time for BRICS to get their free trade principles ironed out. BRICS has built no trading machinery, no trading exchange, and it has created no trading currency. Does BRICS even have a headquarters? We do know there are only 11 Member nations, today.
China did announce last week the availability of its new electronic currency exchange settlement system — which can be used by trading nations as an alternative to the Swift System. The US sudden reaction is almost cartoonish in its panic. Trump and his ilk thought that BRICS failed a long time ago.
The BRI (Belt and Road Initiative) is another matter altogether, and it has no direct connection to the BRICS. The BRI is a Chinese-led infrastructure investment and development project that began in 2013. There are approximately 150 member nations. The BRI aims to improving connectivity, trade, and communication across Eurasia, Latin America, and Africa. Its objective is to bring international trade to all nations and eradicate poverty throughout the world.
Building rail across Iran to Iranian ports is not a political project. It is part of a regional trading route that that was never fully developed. The Belt and Road Initiative is described as a Chinese-led infrastructure investment project aimed at improving connectivity, trade, and communication across Eurasia, Latin America, and Africa.
I believe that Trump assumed that the BRI, too, had failed a long time ago.
Hi PR!
Thanks for this topic! Victor Gao, unfortunately, has to deal with the deep seated propaganda overlay of those who have some axe to grind with China. So he has to deal with a lot of unfounded accusations and western inspired polemics. Someone has to be the point man I guess. It's a thankless role. Einar Tangen has a somewhat lighter delivery.
On the Taiwan subject, I like to listen to Joanna Lei. She's really good on relating Taiwan's internal political history to its relations with the mainland and the US.
I'm really engaged now on listening to the this Little Chinese Everywhere youtube channel. Looks like the intrepid host's broken leg is healed up, and she's on to season 3. Below is season 3, episode 3. Part of her journey on the new/old silk road. It's a great program! Many of the familiar faces, westerners who either live in China, or have lived in China for substantial periods of time, have said, "Come to China and see for yourself," whether it's the totalitarian nightmare portrayed in the west. Or if some of the other propaganda views are true, how it's collapsing, the economy is in a nosedive, religions and minorities are discriminated against, blah, blah, blah.
I think I'm too old to travel there. You have to be young. But these videos are a good way to see for yourself, whether all the foregoing nonsense is true. It isn't an ideological pitch, it's more of an ongoing travelogue, where you can see the places spoken about by western bs artists, and judge for yourself what you see. She introduces the myriad of ethnic groups, customs, regions, and culture on every episode. I've never seen anything like it. The travelogues by the Korean Phd's I've watched in the past have their place, but she doesn't get bogged down with academic specialization.
It's a shame the US leadership is so totally out of touch with reality. In a way, it can't be any other way, because the ruling elites here are reactionaries/racists/militarists. 19th Century gunboat diplomacy is all they understand. Some huge USAF/ US Space Force military exercise involving hundreds of military aircraft was going on while Rubio was at ASEAN promising what exactly?
Newsweek is a rag, but they're ecstatic over this:
US Launches Massive Air Force Drills With Eye on Pacific War With China
語必忠信 行必正直
Very nice videos, Soryang
I am familiar with these series.
The Rachel Blevins video is a very important one to watch, in my opinion, with up-to-date information about the US war on China.
Thanks for posting.
Interesting perspective
Expected by whom? I know that I am not the only one in the country who has noted the dismantling of the New Deal, the long term effort to abolish the idea of universal pensions as a social necessity, the absurdity of the Vietnam War and all the other Imperial adventures since then, the ritual suicide of the labor movement, the globally organized horse shit of Covid, the mendacity behind the funding of the Ukraine War with the asserted goal of depleting the resources of Russia, the insanity of funding Israel's genocide and just about everything else of significance since the assassination of JFK.
I cannot prove my suspicion that the rulers of America are not stupid and know that they are sinking the ship of state because that is the global program. The only evidence I have for this assertion is the common sense assessment that nobody is a stupid as our nominal leaders pretend to be.
This thread's analysis of American immanent comeuppance is very persuasive for the obvious reason that "our" leaders are behaving like morons.
I cried when I wrote this song. Sue me if I play too long.
Interesting perspective
enjoyed your take on "things" fwf
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981