CHINA

As a Member of the European Parliament representing Ireland, Clare Daly is often the governing body’s voice of conscience, and most recently she spoke out against the escalating rhetoric and militarism threatening war between NATO and China over Taiwan. The “One China” policy that treats Taiwan and China as a single unit is imperfect, Daly says, but has helped maintain peace for decades and should not be so cavalierly discarded, especially considering how dire the consequences of war could be for the entire planet. Jimmy and America’s comedian Kurt Metzger discuss the Biden administration’s potential abandonment of the One China policy and Daly’s efforts to salvage it.

JEFF BROWN—One of the great fabrications of Western mainstream media, among academics and on Wall Street is that China, starting in 1978 with Deng Xiaoping’s economic reforms, became a capitalist country. The favorite Western shibboleth bandied about is that, China’s authoritarian regime (it’s almost never called a government) runs a system of state capitalism.

ERIC ZUESSE—America’s aristocracy don’t care about “democracy” (other than — like any aristocracy does — to defeat democracy everywhere), but they do want to weaken any country that they are hoping to “regime-change” or take over. Breaking off a piece of a targeted nation is a prominent standard traditional way to do that — to weaken a targeted victim-nation.

METALICMAN—China has just now released a “white paper” on the Taiwan reunification issue
China has just laid down the “rules of engagement” regarding Taiwan reunification. It’s being ignored or minimized by the Western “news”, but it is a strikingly important document. MM discusses this document.

LARRY ROMANOFF—Americans are not “inventive”. They are greedy and self-serving, interested much more in commercial domination and control than in creativity. Creativity is defined by art, not by money and, since Americans have no art, they have redefined creativity as something that produces money. And it’s even worse than this. As I’ve noted elsewhere, about two-thirds of American R&D budgets are directed exclusively to finding ways to degrade product quality and lower the cost so as to make a cheaper product and increase profits. In what way is this a reflection of “creativity”? Even worse, the US government and corporations have not only hijacked all American universities as incubators of profit but also as hotbeds of weapons research, now extending this to the research departments of universities in other Western nations.