tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7378807093271153119.post5791743856198419481..comments2023-06-20T02:25:36.578-07:00Comments on The Scholar's Stage: Give No Heed to the Walking DeadT. Greerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04621529800248145193noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7378807093271153119.post-57715164639345496662019-08-27T14:40:58.507-07:002019-08-27T14:40:58.507-07:00Engagement was about something else entirely.
Of ...Engagement was about something else entirely.<br /><br />Of course it was. It was about making money and somewhere else to which the rich could travel.<br /><br />Foreign travel is a major status symbol. Never underestimate the shallowness of our ruling classes.<br /><br />I refuse to vote for any candidate whose platform includes meddling in other countries.<br /><br />Nastaranahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17812042242313153159noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7378807093271153119.post-56290788616861427622019-07-11T23:52:45.741-07:002019-07-11T23:52:45.741-07:00"infect their population with an irrepressibl..."infect their population with an irrepressible love for liberty..."<br /><br />I think it would be best to use expressions like "awareness of their rights" rather than "love for liberty". Americans especially love the words "liberty" and "freedom", but what they really mean when they use them is "living in a system where individual rights areJi Xianghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03406727999722525339noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7378807093271153119.post-876354405001355692019-07-08T21:14:03.456-07:002019-07-08T21:14:03.456-07:00I do not have a deeply held opinion about China...I do not have a deeply held opinion about China's future. I only know what I read in the general press. But, I have a deep conviction that Human Nature is the same everywhere and everywhen. I believe that the wheel of tragedy (sometimes called karma) spins for all. The ancient Greeks knew that men often find that their greatest strength becomes their greatest weakness. A man who has arete (&Fat Manhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09554029467445000453noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7378807093271153119.post-75274706163288573802019-07-07T14:13:33.776-07:002019-07-07T14:13:33.776-07:00Things that can't go on forever won't.
Mar...Things that can't go on forever won't.<br />Markets can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent.<br />Things that are unsustainable can keep going longer than you thought possible, and fall apart faster than you imagined. <br />The end result will be more bizarre than anything anyone projected.Fat Manhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09554029467445000453noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7378807093271153119.post-44968739951897181222019-07-07T12:51:07.360-07:002019-07-07T12:51:07.360-07:00Well, the US has attacked many more countries than...Well, the US has attacked many more countries than China, and polls around the world show that the US is seen as the biggest threat by many people - it is certainly considered a bigger threat than China by most people. Furthermore, the US has an extremely dangerous ideology for its foreign policy, full spectrum dominance. So, if there is a country that urgently needs to by split and divided up inAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7378807093271153119.post-85607693393658395012019-07-07T11:53:36.410-07:002019-07-07T11:53:36.410-07:00Which is why I don't understand how well-educa...<i>Which is why I don't understand how well-educated people think that there is any other solution to this problem than the dismantling of the People's Republic of China into smaller and more malleable components.</i><br /><br />The same view obtains for China, Russia, Japan, European nationalists, and other sovereigntists with respect to the US: the US needs to be broken apart from its Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7378807093271153119.post-31491223198031379342019-07-04T01:03:27.275-07:002019-07-04T01:03:27.275-07:00Who wrote this? It's excellent.Who wrote this? It's excellent.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7378807093271153119.post-20367566633655554682019-07-02T23:05:55.081-07:002019-07-02T23:05:55.081-07:00"But in any case, physically divvying up a nu..."But in any case, physically divvying up a nuclear state is perilous"<br /><br />Well it has been done once...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7378807093271153119.post-89831043643411976742019-07-02T12:00:24.810-07:002019-07-02T12:00:24.810-07:00@Anon you are an idiot. China has been divided up ...@Anon you are an idiot. China has been divided up before, it rebuild itself through fire and blood, and nowadays the Chinese people have a cultural PTSD over that period. All your suggestion will do is to create a new Chinese Regime far more actively aggressive towards the US than the relatively tame PRC who had their extremists discredited during Mao's reign.<br /><br />Besides, American Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7378807093271153119.post-47167655415290307412019-07-02T01:19:17.321-07:002019-07-02T01:19:17.321-07:00Sense--
I have read Johnston's work on strate...Sense--<br /><br />I have read Johnston's work on strategic culture but not much since. Sad to see where he has ended up.<br /><br />@rector- Glad to have you aboard.<br /><br />@anon-- A non CPC regime may be easier to work with. It is likely. But in any case, physically divvying up a nuclear state is perilous. If the attempt failed it would mean a China whose hostility to us far outsrips T. Greerhttp://www.scholars-stage.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7378807093271153119.post-63754424631189397802019-07-01T20:24:55.425-07:002019-07-01T20:24:55.425-07:00Which is why I don't understand how well-educa...Which is why I don't understand how well-educated people think that there is any other solution to this problem than the dismantling of the People's Republic of China into smaller and more malleable components. They will not be Japan or Taiwan or Korea 2.0 but they will not pose an existential threat to the United States or the world order. Of course it may not behoove them to say this Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7378807093271153119.post-35522376408398330932019-07-01T20:11:26.763-07:002019-07-01T20:11:26.763-07:00This was great. Going to support you on Patreon.This was great. Going to support you on Patreon.rectorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13861282288583102652noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7378807093271153119.post-72379001344803510062019-07-01T19:55:11.372-07:002019-07-01T19:55:11.372-07:00Johnston is in any case a typical anti-anti-CCP co...Johnston is in any case a typical anti-anti-CCP contrarian. He has written two such academic articles before: one in 2013 arguing that China was not more assertive, and one in 2017 saying that China was not as nationalist [as you people say]. In that case he did a survey asking if people thought China was the greatest country on earth and the answer was not as strong. But of course, that is the Sense Hofstedehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17895331371474585613noreply@blogger.com