On this page:
- George Orwell Got It Right: How I Experienced 1984 in Communist Hungary
- Inside the Dragon’s Costume
- Beware of Free College Offered on a Sharp Knife
- FROM THE COMMUNIST PLAYBOOK-THE “SHARP KNIFE” OF AGITATION
- Mao’s Plan for World Domination is Alive and Kicking
- Freedom, Art, and the Ugliness of the Berlin Wall
- Artificial Intelligence and the Rebirth of the Soviet Union
- Romania: Thirty Years After Communism
- The Man Who Had Funny Hands
- Scarred Bodies, Broken Psyches under Soviet Communist - Marx Got Economics Right, Comrade
- America, America, I Love You, Let Me Count the Ways
- Cracking the Genetic Code: Stalin’s New Soviet Man
- Ho Chi Minh: Communist Words versus Communist Deeds
- Why the Communists Make War on Religion
- Walmart’s T-shirt homage to mass murder
- DOWN WITH THE WORMS! - ‘Confront, Harass, Create a Crowd, and Push Back!’ (Maxine learned it from Fidel)
- Uncle Joe and Anti-Anticommunism - Deflating Nostalgia for the Golden Age of Terror
- Revolutionary Communists Capturing Hearts and Minds Inside Prison and Out
- Buddhist Letter Implores New U.S. Ambassador to Support Religious Freedom in Vietnam
- A Happy Life in China (YouTube Exchange)
- Socialism’s Cruel Illusion - Feeding the Body, Starving the Spirit
- I Was There: The Monstrous Atrocities that Marxism Has Committed Against Humankind
- Socialist Serfs Reduced to Bartering for Aspirin in Cuba
- Great Leap Backward: Human Rights and Rule of Law in China
- Import Drugs from Cuba? NO WAY!
- “Reflections on a Ravaged Century” (conference report)
- Why Are Communist Atrocities Ignored?
- The Brutality of the Berlin Wall
- WHAT CUBANS HAVEN'T LOST and WEATHER FORECAST FOR CUBA (gallows humor)
George Orwell Got It Right: How I Experienced 1984 in Communist Hungary
by Christopher Szabo
December 2022
PERMALINK
The year 1984 has a special significance for anyone studying totalitarian regimes, thanks to the work
of that name by English author George Orwell. That’s certainly true for me, and it’s personal, too.
On the night of 8 August 1984, according to my secret police dossier, which I was able to get a copy
of recently, a young lad and I were on this winding country road in the Börzsöny mountains in
Hungary. We were on a camp organised by a ‘rebel’ Catholic priest, Father Miklós Blanckenstein, or
just ”Miki”, as he preferred to be called. He had disobeyed the Catholic Hierarchy and the Pope
(Paul VI and his weak successors), who urged Catholics to accept Communism and collaborate with
them. (A bit like Pope Francis and the Chinese Christians today.)
Well, this young man and I had been having one of those deep talks you tend to when you’re young
and seeking the meaning of life and that sort of thing. I was probably only five/six years older than
him, but had travelled, been in the Army, and wrestled with the “big questions” for longer than he
had. Also, I knew my Bible, which he evidently didn’t.
We’d reached a village and turned around, it was late, maybe 2 A.M., with us going down this
narrow, forested mountain lane with ditches on either side (for the rainwater) and suddenly we
heard this roar, as of a vehicle coming down the road at high speed. The vehicle turned out to be a
four-door jeep-type light military transport, inspired by the US Jeep of WWII fame. It was a GAZ-69,
if memory serves.
The youth urgently grabbed my arm and said we should hide in the forest! I pointed out to him that
we had done nothing wrong and if we did go hide, it would appear we had something to hide, which
we didn’t. He agreed. The Gaz went roaring past us, screeched to halt and came roaring back at us at
high speed. If we were in any danger, it was from the crazy driver!
A couple of armed soldier-types came tumbling out of the vehicle and made straight for us. One
shoved an AK-47 against the ribs on my right side, another against my left side. They ordered us to
get in. I recall I managed to say something like, ”if you insist”! I ended up in the back with these two
on either side. I suppose my friend must have been in the front.
Eventually, I said to one of the soldiers: ”You guys are not too bright! If you shoot me, you’ll kill him
too!” They muttered something, but one moved his AK. I reckoned these were not elite soldiers, as
their AKs were the old ones with the wooden stocks, and I had seen newer ones than that in the
hands of African guerrillas.
It turned out they were part of the Border Guard and my friends on the camp (some 120 or so) told
me they were not the cream of the crop within what was then the Hungarian People’s Army.
Actually, the Hungarian people had very little to do with it, it was the Hungarian Communist Party’s
armed wing in actual fact.
We then roared along the narrow road and the Border Guards accused us of being terrorists and
asked where our ”hideout” was. I informed them that we didn’t have a hideout, just a tent camp and
many of our members were in a clearing to the right of the road playing a popular (and for the time,
edgy) rock opera, István a Király (Stephen the King, which was about Saint Stephen of Hungary, the
country’s first Christian king, crowned in 1000 A.D.) There were a lot of elements in the rock opera,
including parts of the script that the Communist regime would not like, if it had paid attention. I
recall there was a scene when a rebel against St. Stephen, Koppány, sings, purportedly against
Christianity, saying ”we don’t want a God who can’t speak Hungarian”. Of course one could take this
as railing against the Catholic Church of the day, which prayed in Latin, but everybody understood it
was all about the Soviet Union, the ”god” who couldn’t speak Hungarian. And there were many
other similar elements in the rock opera.
Of course, this was the summer of 1984, when the grip of János Kádár’s ’Hungarian Socialist
Worker’s Party’ (Communist Party) was loosening, but nobody knew when the Soviets would roll in
their vast numbers of tanks. Everybody also knew from bitter experience that the West – as always –
be that at Yalta in 1945, Berlin in 1953, Hungary in 1956, Czechoslovakia in 1968 or Vietnam in 1973
– would never intervene to save the victims of Communism. The West during the Cold War did not
cover itself in glory, to put it mildly. So people in Communist countries lay low and watched what
they said and did. But not everyone.
Miki, our priest, was one such. He organised ”illegal” camps where he held mass in the mornings,
organised outings during the day, and then arranged Biblical plays and other fun things, which also
included lots of singing and dancing around the campfire. On one of the days, we visited the nearby
ruin of Drégely Castle, lost to the Turks in 1552, led by György Szondi, who fought to the death with
his garrison. Unusually, the Turkish Pasha, Hadim Ali, allowed him a proper funeral. His two pages, or
squires, would not submit to the wiles or threats of the Pasha and remain famous in song and
poetry.
When we were there, it was hard to tell where there was a gate or where there was wall. It was all
overgrown, but still fascinating because of its history.
But, let’s go back to the night of the Border Guard’s ”visit”. Once they spotted our friends playing the
rock opera through a car sound system, they stopped and demanded that everyone go get their pass
books, or ”work books”. This was a kind of pass, or I.D., that had every detail of the person in it and
also where they were employed. As it was a criminal offence to be unemployed, some of my friends
would be worried.
The paramilitary types then asked where our camp was, and as I was one of the older guys, I
reckoned I’d lead them to the camp. It was on the other side of the road, past the ditch and through
some trees. (Trees are very common on both sides of country roads in Hungary, for shade in
summer.) At that point, one of the young Border Guard soldiers started swearing, as the saying goes,
”like a trooper”.
”Hush!’, said my previously-frightened friend. ”There are believers there!!” At this, the poor chap was
filled with fear, and although he was holding the gun and we were unarmed, he sputtered that he
was sorry and he would not go into the camp! While he was scared, we felt uplifted. Quite an
experience!
The rest of us went through to our tents and got our ”pass books”, except me. I was lucky, I was a
British citizen, so I got my passport. As we trooped back over the road to the clearing, I told all the
younger ones, some of whom were really scared, to get behind me. I saw the guy whose car it was
beckoning me (he was from an aristocratic family, hence he had to live by driving a taxi). He was
standing with the officer of the Border Guards, so I got everyone to go line up behind me and walked
up to this lieutenant. He took my passport, and laughed with my taxi driver friend, and said: ”British!
He must be a friend of James Bond. He’s a spy!” And they had a good laugh.
I then asked the lieutenant to come for a brief walk with me, which he did. We had a conversation
that went something like this:
Me: “You realise I’m Hungarian, but I’m now a British journalist.”
Him: “Interesting. But you do realise this is an illegal activity.”
Me: “What’s illegal about it? We’re camping in the middle of nowhere.”
Him: “True, but you are not registered.”
Me: “What are you talking about?”
Him: “The priest didn’t register the camp with the religious authorities.”
Me: “And why should he?”
Him: “It’s the law. All activities must first be registered with the legal authorities.”
By this time, we were both in good humour. He was saying what he had to say and I could tell he
wasn’t into this. I pointed out to him that the People’s Republic of Hungary was advertising itself as a
”Reform Communist” country, and touting the good life people enjoyed as well as the freedoms it
supposedly had. We understood each other. We went on like this:
Me: ”Look, I can’t stop you from locking me up, but there’s just one thing. Don’t ever let me out.”
Him: ”Why wouldn’t I want to release you?” (As if he didn’t know! Unlike the others, he was a bright
fellow.)
Me: ”Because if you do let me go, I will tell the international media, from the BBC to The Times to
the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung about how religious freedom looks here in the People’s
Republic.”
I could see that gave him a shock. He began to look really worried and pretty soon he was saying
that the whole arrest was a “misunderstanding”. Then we began to talk about the rock opera and it
looked like the whole thing was over. But it wasn’t.
In English Common Law, when a police officer or other authorised person takes someone into some
sort of custody (using AK-47s, for instance), that is an arrest. In Hungarian law, it is not. It is called
’őrizetbevétel’ (”taking into custody”) but is not considered a formal arrest until the person is
charged. Once they are taken to the police station with the intention of laying a charge, this is called
’letartóztatás’. This is a proper arrest. What happened to us was this ”pre-arrest”, then release.
But. The next day, all sorts of high-ranking police types showed up at our campsite. They demanded
to see the priest, who – understandably – was very respectful but also stood his ground, and then
they asked for ”that British citizen”. I went forward. Well, I was given a long lecture about how there
are laws in the People’s Republic and I, as a foreigner, have to report my movements (within 24
hours every time I visit another town) to the police (which I had tried to obey, but no police had ever
heard of it, so I gave up on that). I tried to be respectful, as the Good Book tells us, I tried to be
reasonable, but the guy kept on at me, and eventually I got annoyed.
”Where do you want me to report, at the nearest tree?!” I said, with rather more annoyance in my
voice than I had intended. Well, the ”little king” as we call people like that in Hungarian, really didn’t
like that! ”This is not over,” he said. ”Wait till you get to the border!” (He kept his threat.)
So, after chewing the priest and me out, but not stamping my passport (I suppose he didn’t have the
right stamps either), they left. We thought, ”now, it’s over.” It wasn’t, and it could have cost us our
lives.
I don’t have the period of time that elapsed in my diary, but it was either the next day or the day
after that the woodsmen came to our camp. They were looking very concerned and asked us if we
were crazy. I remember one actually asked whether we wanted to die! We assured him that we
were all for living and he explained that the valley had been evacuated because the Soviet Red Army
was moving into the next valley for a live-fire anti-aircraft drill. He pointed out that our valley was in
the fallout zone and the chance of being killed or injured by falling shrapnel or unexploded shells
(which might still explode on contact with the ground) was pretty high!
So we packed up in a hurry and began looking for somewhere else to camp. And then came the
irony! We reached one of the Communist Youth-type camps. It was either a ”Young Pioneer” or a
Communist Youth camp, I’m not sure which. (And I certainly didn’t care.) In front of the camp across
a road was a cable connected to a military field telephone, with a Soviet soldier manning it.
Somehow, one of our guys produced a bottle of vodka and went over to the soldier, and said
something to him. The soldier then used his phone and apparently spoke to some big boss on the
Soviet side, and then waved us in. So the Soviet Red Army gave us shelter from our beloved ”fellow
Hungarians”, the local Communists, who conveniently forgot to tell us of the fallout danger. Lovely
lot, they were!
The following evening we saw some really impressive ”fireworks”! This was the Soviet’s anti-aircraft
drill, with missiles, cannon of all calibres exploding a few kilometres away in the night sky. We were
thankful not to be under that lot. It did look impressive, once we knew we were safe. But I imagine if
we hadn’t been warned, there might have been some ”accidents” with the requisite deaths or
injuries.
Finally, we had a big fire and got meat and had a big farewell supper, with the usual relaxed talks,
songs, promises to keep in touch and so on. Interestingly, not one of the people whose address I
took down ever answered my letters. I strongly suspect they were intercepted by the state security
apparatus.
As a final thought, I’d like to share something that one of the girls, whom I only knew by her
nickname, ”Nyugi”, which means ”relax” said. She came up to me in the midst of all the feasting and
said this: ”You know, I’m glad this happened.” Now unlike me, with my foreign passport and
therefore my special status, where the worst they could do was deport me, she was a local citizen and
knew they had taken her name down. This meant she would have a ”black mark” against her name,
would not be allowed to study or have a good job, yet here she was, saying she’s happy about all
this. I asked her why.
She simply said: ”I used to think I was a Christian, but now I know I am.”
___________________________________________________
Christopher Szabo is a freelance journalist in Pretoria, South Africa
by Christopher Szabo
December 2022
PERMALINK
- Also by the author on this site - The Man Who Had Funny Hands
The year 1984 has a special significance for anyone studying totalitarian regimes, thanks to the work
of that name by English author George Orwell. That’s certainly true for me, and it’s personal, too.
On the night of 8 August 1984, according to my secret police dossier, which I was able to get a copy
of recently, a young lad and I were on this winding country road in the Börzsöny mountains in
Hungary. We were on a camp organised by a ‘rebel’ Catholic priest, Father Miklós Blanckenstein, or
just ”Miki”, as he preferred to be called. He had disobeyed the Catholic Hierarchy and the Pope
(Paul VI and his weak successors), who urged Catholics to accept Communism and collaborate with
them. (A bit like Pope Francis and the Chinese Christians today.)
Well, this young man and I had been having one of those deep talks you tend to when you’re young
and seeking the meaning of life and that sort of thing. I was probably only five/six years older than
him, but had travelled, been in the Army, and wrestled with the “big questions” for longer than he
had. Also, I knew my Bible, which he evidently didn’t.
We’d reached a village and turned around, it was late, maybe 2 A.M., with us going down this
narrow, forested mountain lane with ditches on either side (for the rainwater) and suddenly we
heard this roar, as of a vehicle coming down the road at high speed. The vehicle turned out to be a
four-door jeep-type light military transport, inspired by the US Jeep of WWII fame. It was a GAZ-69,
if memory serves.
The youth urgently grabbed my arm and said we should hide in the forest! I pointed out to him that
we had done nothing wrong and if we did go hide, it would appear we had something to hide, which
we didn’t. He agreed. The Gaz went roaring past us, screeched to halt and came roaring back at us at
high speed. If we were in any danger, it was from the crazy driver!
A couple of armed soldier-types came tumbling out of the vehicle and made straight for us. One
shoved an AK-47 against the ribs on my right side, another against my left side. They ordered us to
get in. I recall I managed to say something like, ”if you insist”! I ended up in the back with these two
on either side. I suppose my friend must have been in the front.
Eventually, I said to one of the soldiers: ”You guys are not too bright! If you shoot me, you’ll kill him
too!” They muttered something, but one moved his AK. I reckoned these were not elite soldiers, as
their AKs were the old ones with the wooden stocks, and I had seen newer ones than that in the
hands of African guerrillas.
It turned out they were part of the Border Guard and my friends on the camp (some 120 or so) told
me they were not the cream of the crop within what was then the Hungarian People’s Army.
Actually, the Hungarian people had very little to do with it, it was the Hungarian Communist Party’s
armed wing in actual fact.
We then roared along the narrow road and the Border Guards accused us of being terrorists and
asked where our ”hideout” was. I informed them that we didn’t have a hideout, just a tent camp and
many of our members were in a clearing to the right of the road playing a popular (and for the time,
edgy) rock opera, István a Király (Stephen the King, which was about Saint Stephen of Hungary, the
country’s first Christian king, crowned in 1000 A.D.) There were a lot of elements in the rock opera,
including parts of the script that the Communist regime would not like, if it had paid attention. I
recall there was a scene when a rebel against St. Stephen, Koppány, sings, purportedly against
Christianity, saying ”we don’t want a God who can’t speak Hungarian”. Of course one could take this
as railing against the Catholic Church of the day, which prayed in Latin, but everybody understood it
was all about the Soviet Union, the ”god” who couldn’t speak Hungarian. And there were many
other similar elements in the rock opera.
Of course, this was the summer of 1984, when the grip of János Kádár’s ’Hungarian Socialist
Worker’s Party’ (Communist Party) was loosening, but nobody knew when the Soviets would roll in
their vast numbers of tanks. Everybody also knew from bitter experience that the West – as always –
be that at Yalta in 1945, Berlin in 1953, Hungary in 1956, Czechoslovakia in 1968 or Vietnam in 1973
– would never intervene to save the victims of Communism. The West during the Cold War did not
cover itself in glory, to put it mildly. So people in Communist countries lay low and watched what
they said and did. But not everyone.
Miki, our priest, was one such. He organised ”illegal” camps where he held mass in the mornings,
organised outings during the day, and then arranged Biblical plays and other fun things, which also
included lots of singing and dancing around the campfire. On one of the days, we visited the nearby
ruin of Drégely Castle, lost to the Turks in 1552, led by György Szondi, who fought to the death with
his garrison. Unusually, the Turkish Pasha, Hadim Ali, allowed him a proper funeral. His two pages, or
squires, would not submit to the wiles or threats of the Pasha and remain famous in song and
poetry.
When we were there, it was hard to tell where there was a gate or where there was wall. It was all
overgrown, but still fascinating because of its history.
But, let’s go back to the night of the Border Guard’s ”visit”. Once they spotted our friends playing the
rock opera through a car sound system, they stopped and demanded that everyone go get their pass
books, or ”work books”. This was a kind of pass, or I.D., that had every detail of the person in it and
also where they were employed. As it was a criminal offence to be unemployed, some of my friends
would be worried.
The paramilitary types then asked where our camp was, and as I was one of the older guys, I
reckoned I’d lead them to the camp. It was on the other side of the road, past the ditch and through
some trees. (Trees are very common on both sides of country roads in Hungary, for shade in
summer.) At that point, one of the young Border Guard soldiers started swearing, as the saying goes,
”like a trooper”.
”Hush!’, said my previously-frightened friend. ”There are believers there!!” At this, the poor chap was
filled with fear, and although he was holding the gun and we were unarmed, he sputtered that he
was sorry and he would not go into the camp! While he was scared, we felt uplifted. Quite an
experience!
The rest of us went through to our tents and got our ”pass books”, except me. I was lucky, I was a
British citizen, so I got my passport. As we trooped back over the road to the clearing, I told all the
younger ones, some of whom were really scared, to get behind me. I saw the guy whose car it was
beckoning me (he was from an aristocratic family, hence he had to live by driving a taxi). He was
standing with the officer of the Border Guards, so I got everyone to go line up behind me and walked
up to this lieutenant. He took my passport, and laughed with my taxi driver friend, and said: ”British!
He must be a friend of James Bond. He’s a spy!” And they had a good laugh.
I then asked the lieutenant to come for a brief walk with me, which he did. We had a conversation
that went something like this:
Me: “You realise I’m Hungarian, but I’m now a British journalist.”
Him: “Interesting. But you do realise this is an illegal activity.”
Me: “What’s illegal about it? We’re camping in the middle of nowhere.”
Him: “True, but you are not registered.”
Me: “What are you talking about?”
Him: “The priest didn’t register the camp with the religious authorities.”
Me: “And why should he?”
Him: “It’s the law. All activities must first be registered with the legal authorities.”
By this time, we were both in good humour. He was saying what he had to say and I could tell he
wasn’t into this. I pointed out to him that the People’s Republic of Hungary was advertising itself as a
”Reform Communist” country, and touting the good life people enjoyed as well as the freedoms it
supposedly had. We understood each other. We went on like this:
Me: ”Look, I can’t stop you from locking me up, but there’s just one thing. Don’t ever let me out.”
Him: ”Why wouldn’t I want to release you?” (As if he didn’t know! Unlike the others, he was a bright
fellow.)
Me: ”Because if you do let me go, I will tell the international media, from the BBC to The Times to
the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung about how religious freedom looks here in the People’s
Republic.”
I could see that gave him a shock. He began to look really worried and pretty soon he was saying
that the whole arrest was a “misunderstanding”. Then we began to talk about the rock opera and it
looked like the whole thing was over. But it wasn’t.
In English Common Law, when a police officer or other authorised person takes someone into some
sort of custody (using AK-47s, for instance), that is an arrest. In Hungarian law, it is not. It is called
’őrizetbevétel’ (”taking into custody”) but is not considered a formal arrest until the person is
charged. Once they are taken to the police station with the intention of laying a charge, this is called
’letartóztatás’. This is a proper arrest. What happened to us was this ”pre-arrest”, then release.
But. The next day, all sorts of high-ranking police types showed up at our campsite. They demanded
to see the priest, who – understandably – was very respectful but also stood his ground, and then
they asked for ”that British citizen”. I went forward. Well, I was given a long lecture about how there
are laws in the People’s Republic and I, as a foreigner, have to report my movements (within 24
hours every time I visit another town) to the police (which I had tried to obey, but no police had ever
heard of it, so I gave up on that). I tried to be respectful, as the Good Book tells us, I tried to be
reasonable, but the guy kept on at me, and eventually I got annoyed.
”Where do you want me to report, at the nearest tree?!” I said, with rather more annoyance in my
voice than I had intended. Well, the ”little king” as we call people like that in Hungarian, really didn’t
like that! ”This is not over,” he said. ”Wait till you get to the border!” (He kept his threat.)
So, after chewing the priest and me out, but not stamping my passport (I suppose he didn’t have the
right stamps either), they left. We thought, ”now, it’s over.” It wasn’t, and it could have cost us our
lives.
I don’t have the period of time that elapsed in my diary, but it was either the next day or the day
after that the woodsmen came to our camp. They were looking very concerned and asked us if we
were crazy. I remember one actually asked whether we wanted to die! We assured him that we
were all for living and he explained that the valley had been evacuated because the Soviet Red Army
was moving into the next valley for a live-fire anti-aircraft drill. He pointed out that our valley was in
the fallout zone and the chance of being killed or injured by falling shrapnel or unexploded shells
(which might still explode on contact with the ground) was pretty high!
So we packed up in a hurry and began looking for somewhere else to camp. And then came the
irony! We reached one of the Communist Youth-type camps. It was either a ”Young Pioneer” or a
Communist Youth camp, I’m not sure which. (And I certainly didn’t care.) In front of the camp across
a road was a cable connected to a military field telephone, with a Soviet soldier manning it.
Somehow, one of our guys produced a bottle of vodka and went over to the soldier, and said
something to him. The soldier then used his phone and apparently spoke to some big boss on the
Soviet side, and then waved us in. So the Soviet Red Army gave us shelter from our beloved ”fellow
Hungarians”, the local Communists, who conveniently forgot to tell us of the fallout danger. Lovely
lot, they were!
The following evening we saw some really impressive ”fireworks”! This was the Soviet’s anti-aircraft
drill, with missiles, cannon of all calibres exploding a few kilometres away in the night sky. We were
thankful not to be under that lot. It did look impressive, once we knew we were safe. But I imagine if
we hadn’t been warned, there might have been some ”accidents” with the requisite deaths or
injuries.
Finally, we had a big fire and got meat and had a big farewell supper, with the usual relaxed talks,
songs, promises to keep in touch and so on. Interestingly, not one of the people whose address I
took down ever answered my letters. I strongly suspect they were intercepted by the state security
apparatus.
As a final thought, I’d like to share something that one of the girls, whom I only knew by her
nickname, ”Nyugi”, which means ”relax” said. She came up to me in the midst of all the feasting and
said this: ”You know, I’m glad this happened.” Now unlike me, with my foreign passport and
therefore my special status, where the worst they could do was deport me, she was a local citizen and
knew they had taken her name down. This meant she would have a ”black mark” against her name,
would not be allowed to study or have a good job, yet here she was, saying she’s happy about all
this. I asked her why.
She simply said: ”I used to think I was a Christian, but now I know I am.”
___________________________________________________
Christopher Szabo is a freelance journalist in Pretoria, South Africa
2/7/22 - Inside the Dragon’s Costume
PERMALINK
The opening ceremony of the Beijing Winter Olympics was a technological marvel. It was intended to showcase China’s prowess in hi-technology to the world and, in that, it succeeded admirably. The ceremony was also intended as a tribute to all the peoples of the world and, in that, it failed miserably. On the outside, we saw a dazzling dragon dance, but here’s what China looks like inside the costume:
China’s prowess with cameras and cellphone tracking technology is used to surveil and oppress its people. The Olympic light show was produced with lasers and LED lights. China is pursuing laser technology in order to wage war in space. The green LED sticks dancers used to evoke images of wavy grass and grain called to mind China’s deliberately engineered famine of the Great Leap Forward during which Chinese people starved to death by the tens of millions. The entire floor of the Bird’s Nest stadium was turned into a giant LED display screen, which could easily have shown the tanks rolling over the protesters at Tiananmen Square, reducing them to liquid pulp, but that part of China’s inner workings was left out of the ceremony.
As in the opening ceremony to the 2008 Beijing summer games, China’s ’56 Nationalities’ were proudly on display. This time, they passed the communist Chinese flag in a ritual intended to show they are all united in one nation. Many were in their traditional native garb. The entire exercise rang hollow, given the fact that the Tibetan, Hong Kong, Uighur, and all other non-Han nationalities were there only because China is an imperial power that conquered them by force. The only authentic note of the exercise occurred when the flag was passed to the Chinese military which then carried it to the flag pole, goose-stepping all the way. This would be the same military that has killed Indian soldiers on the border and is poised to invade Taiwan.
Later in the ceremony, Chinese schoolkids sang a song. This brought to mind recent videos showing Chinese children being taught to kill people, as well as a recent Chinese comic book in which a child-hero is praised for burning his landlord in his bed.
Then it was time for the Parade of Nations, the athletes from each country marching with their flag through the stadium. It was jarring to see Xi Jinping clapping when the Hong Kong athletes paraded by. But why shouldn’t he clap, now that he is secure in the knowledge it is ‘one country, one system’. The forced gaiety of the Chinese dancers on each side of the parade is not matched by the people at the margins of Chinese society - the migrant workers who have no hope of advancement, the persecuted house Christians and Falun Gong practitioners some of whom are killed for their organs, the political prisoners forced to labor in a thousand camps, or the children of unwed mothers barred from healthcare and education.
The closing dance was intended as a tribute to the peoples of the world, a ‘unique gathering of friends coming together to celebrate their differences and commonality.’ All different like snowflakes, but all equally targeted in China’s expressly professed dreams of world domination. Or considered prey for China’s debt-trap diplomacy which has caused two more nations to lose control of national assets in recent weeks - Sri Lanka and Uganda. John Lennon’s ‘Imagine’ was played during this dance - “Imagine there's no countries... Nothing to kill or die for.” Really? Tell it to Tibet and Hong Kong. It was hard to imagine the closing dance was a gathering of friends given the fact that China is pursuing ethnically-targeted bioweapons to kill non-Chinese. To China, ‘world peace’ means Communist rule under Han domination. [Who Are China’s Walking Dead?, an e-book about defectors from the CCP, p. 49]
Speaking of music, excerpts from the ‘Nutcracker’ and other Western classical music were played throughout the ceremony. Given that China’s rise was only made possible by stealing the intellectual property of other countries, this begs the question: Did China pay the royalties for using the music, like they were supposed to, or did they steal the music, too?
The final act was the lighting of the Olympic flame by two Chinese athletes. One was a Uighur, said to be personally chosen by Xi Jinping himself. The choice drew much commentary, none of it favorable. One commentator said Xi was doubling down, telling the outside world to butt out of China’s internal Uighur affairs. Another commentator said it was done to show there is no genocide and the Uighurs are all happy. It’s hard to imagine being happy when you have a Chinese official stationed at your breakfast table inside your home listening to your every word.
Overall, the opening ceremony was a dazzling display on the outside, but it was not enough to mask the sadness and sorrow that is communist China on the inside for so many people today.
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The opening ceremony of the Beijing Winter Olympics was a technological marvel. It was intended to showcase China’s prowess in hi-technology to the world and, in that, it succeeded admirably. The ceremony was also intended as a tribute to all the peoples of the world and, in that, it failed miserably. On the outside, we saw a dazzling dragon dance, but here’s what China looks like inside the costume:
China’s prowess with cameras and cellphone tracking technology is used to surveil and oppress its people. The Olympic light show was produced with lasers and LED lights. China is pursuing laser technology in order to wage war in space. The green LED sticks dancers used to evoke images of wavy grass and grain called to mind China’s deliberately engineered famine of the Great Leap Forward during which Chinese people starved to death by the tens of millions. The entire floor of the Bird’s Nest stadium was turned into a giant LED display screen, which could easily have shown the tanks rolling over the protesters at Tiananmen Square, reducing them to liquid pulp, but that part of China’s inner workings was left out of the ceremony.
As in the opening ceremony to the 2008 Beijing summer games, China’s ’56 Nationalities’ were proudly on display. This time, they passed the communist Chinese flag in a ritual intended to show they are all united in one nation. Many were in their traditional native garb. The entire exercise rang hollow, given the fact that the Tibetan, Hong Kong, Uighur, and all other non-Han nationalities were there only because China is an imperial power that conquered them by force. The only authentic note of the exercise occurred when the flag was passed to the Chinese military which then carried it to the flag pole, goose-stepping all the way. This would be the same military that has killed Indian soldiers on the border and is poised to invade Taiwan.
Later in the ceremony, Chinese schoolkids sang a song. This brought to mind recent videos showing Chinese children being taught to kill people, as well as a recent Chinese comic book in which a child-hero is praised for burning his landlord in his bed.
Then it was time for the Parade of Nations, the athletes from each country marching with their flag through the stadium. It was jarring to see Xi Jinping clapping when the Hong Kong athletes paraded by. But why shouldn’t he clap, now that he is secure in the knowledge it is ‘one country, one system’. The forced gaiety of the Chinese dancers on each side of the parade is not matched by the people at the margins of Chinese society - the migrant workers who have no hope of advancement, the persecuted house Christians and Falun Gong practitioners some of whom are killed for their organs, the political prisoners forced to labor in a thousand camps, or the children of unwed mothers barred from healthcare and education.
The closing dance was intended as a tribute to the peoples of the world, a ‘unique gathering of friends coming together to celebrate their differences and commonality.’ All different like snowflakes, but all equally targeted in China’s expressly professed dreams of world domination. Or considered prey for China’s debt-trap diplomacy which has caused two more nations to lose control of national assets in recent weeks - Sri Lanka and Uganda. John Lennon’s ‘Imagine’ was played during this dance - “Imagine there's no countries... Nothing to kill or die for.” Really? Tell it to Tibet and Hong Kong. It was hard to imagine the closing dance was a gathering of friends given the fact that China is pursuing ethnically-targeted bioweapons to kill non-Chinese. To China, ‘world peace’ means Communist rule under Han domination. [Who Are China’s Walking Dead?, an e-book about defectors from the CCP, p. 49]
Speaking of music, excerpts from the ‘Nutcracker’ and other Western classical music were played throughout the ceremony. Given that China’s rise was only made possible by stealing the intellectual property of other countries, this begs the question: Did China pay the royalties for using the music, like they were supposed to, or did they steal the music, too?
The final act was the lighting of the Olympic flame by two Chinese athletes. One was a Uighur, said to be personally chosen by Xi Jinping himself. The choice drew much commentary, none of it favorable. One commentator said Xi was doubling down, telling the outside world to butt out of China’s internal Uighur affairs. Another commentator said it was done to show there is no genocide and the Uighurs are all happy. It’s hard to imagine being happy when you have a Chinese official stationed at your breakfast table inside your home listening to your every word.
Overall, the opening ceremony was a dazzling display on the outside, but it was not enough to mask the sadness and sorrow that is communist China on the inside for so many people today.
Beware of Free College Offered on a Sharp Knife
- Sounds pretty cool today, but what happens when soft tyranny hardens?
by Agustin Blazquez, Cuban-American filmmaker and valued member of ACAT’s Speakers Bureau
November 2021
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Something for America’s new indoctrinated youth to keep in mind about Marxist Socialism is that the authorities keep files on each child from birth to death. So, the free "education" they will be receiving is according to their obedience and unconditional loyalty to the regime at all times. Some of their duty is to report what their parents and friends say in private that shows of political "deviation." No dissent is allowed and they punish the citizens who disagree. Depending on this loyalty you can have access to a university or college after high school, but they cannot chose their career.
For example, if the regime needs teachers, that's the ONLY option. If they need doctors, engineers, architects, mechanics, or other professions, free education is in accordance with the needs of the regime ONLY. After graduation, the regime sends them to places far away where they are obligated to serve for a numbers of years. They cannot change jobs unless the regime decides to transfer them to another location. They cannot chose where they want to live; they live ONLY where the regime places them. Vacations are designated by the regime and awarded in accordance with the conduct of the employee at work. Everything in life is in accordance with your conduct, because everything is political in Marxist Socialist regimes.
However, the children of the ruling elite have special schools separated from the regular citizens, plus other benefits not available to the rest of the population, like free healthcare which is very good for the ruling elite but lousy for the rest of the population. So much for "equity," equality” and "social justice". That's a BIG LIE they use to hook people into Marxist Socialist doctrine. They are masters of deception.
Food and clothing in reality are what the regime allows. Like in Cuba, we were eating elbow macaroni for lunch and dinners for almost a year. There was nothing else to eat. The food was rationed as well as clothing and other items of personal use. Toilet paper? Forget about toilet paper!
I am not enumerating all the inconveniences I suffered in communist Cuba because it would take volumes.
So you, the new indoctrinated youth of America, are exchanging all your freedoms and ability to think for yourselves for a highly regulated and dictatorial existence without a future.
- Sounds pretty cool today, but what happens when soft tyranny hardens?
by Agustin Blazquez, Cuban-American filmmaker and valued member of ACAT’s Speakers Bureau
November 2021
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Something for America’s new indoctrinated youth to keep in mind about Marxist Socialism is that the authorities keep files on each child from birth to death. So, the free "education" they will be receiving is according to their obedience and unconditional loyalty to the regime at all times. Some of their duty is to report what their parents and friends say in private that shows of political "deviation." No dissent is allowed and they punish the citizens who disagree. Depending on this loyalty you can have access to a university or college after high school, but they cannot chose their career.
For example, if the regime needs teachers, that's the ONLY option. If they need doctors, engineers, architects, mechanics, or other professions, free education is in accordance with the needs of the regime ONLY. After graduation, the regime sends them to places far away where they are obligated to serve for a numbers of years. They cannot change jobs unless the regime decides to transfer them to another location. They cannot chose where they want to live; they live ONLY where the regime places them. Vacations are designated by the regime and awarded in accordance with the conduct of the employee at work. Everything in life is in accordance with your conduct, because everything is political in Marxist Socialist regimes.
However, the children of the ruling elite have special schools separated from the regular citizens, plus other benefits not available to the rest of the population, like free healthcare which is very good for the ruling elite but lousy for the rest of the population. So much for "equity," equality” and "social justice". That's a BIG LIE they use to hook people into Marxist Socialist doctrine. They are masters of deception.
Food and clothing in reality are what the regime allows. Like in Cuba, we were eating elbow macaroni for lunch and dinners for almost a year. There was nothing else to eat. The food was rationed as well as clothing and other items of personal use. Toilet paper? Forget about toilet paper!
I am not enumerating all the inconveniences I suffered in communist Cuba because it would take volumes.
So you, the new indoctrinated youth of America, are exchanging all your freedoms and ability to think for yourselves for a highly regulated and dictatorial existence without a future.
FROM THE COMMUNIST PLAYBOOK-THE “SHARP KNIFE” OF AGITATION
By
Dr. Martin Scott Catino
May 2021
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Spinning a particular grievance into an indictment of the entire society is an old communist trick
“What Is Agitation?”
The radical Left is again using its “sharp knife” of agitation to harm American unity and prosperity and to create a world of chaos ruled by autocratic elites. Taken directly from the Communist Playbook (its doctrinal and operational writings), agitators employ tactics that target Americans and compel them to hate their country by believing the millions of contacts between police and citizens each year often end with the death of a “person of color.” The high-profile cases of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Freddie Gray are more recent examples exploited by the Left through misinformation, mischaracterization, and misapplication.
The “evidence of systemic racism” is then used by the radical Left to attack and undermine the entire American political and legal system rather than encourage reform and application of civil liberties. The Playbook asserts to its cadre regarding this approach:
Too many patriotic Americans mistakenly attribute this demonization of the police to the “bias” of mainstream media and the Left rather than a strategic tactic from the Communist Playbook. As the initial quote in this article reveals, agitation involves taking a single issue like alleged “police brutality” against people of color and making it the single narrative to a broad number of people, in this case Americans. Agitators use propaganda relying on the tactics of focus, repetition, emotive media images, gross generalizations, and high visibility victims not to bring improvements to these communities but to “draw blood around it,” generating the hatred needed to channel violence against the state and its structures, to destabilize and polarize Americans, and thereby create the conditions where a radical elite can dominate.
“Drawing blood around” police-related grievances -- real and created -- is a tactic Communists have long used from their Playbook, boasting of the dire consequences that result. Referring to the Communist agitation surrounding the brutal death of Mexican-American Joe Torres in May 1977, and the subsequent Moody Park Riot a year later in Houston, the Playbook referenced in this article stated:
The post-George Floyd protests occurring from May 25 to July 31, 2020 demonstrated the same “bloodthirsty” agitation tactics in the Communist Playbook. The Major Cities Chiefs Association, “Report on the 2020 Protests and Civil Unrest” (October 2020), notes the violence was predominantly Left-wing; nationally coordinated; targeting major cities, the police, police vehicles, and property attacked by arson and looting; and carried out in most cases “by individuals or small groups that infiltrated the larger protests.”
Over 2000 police officers were injured in the line of duty in the short time span of 9 weeks during the Summer of 2020. In one case, protesters attempted to trap police officers between a fire created behind the line of law enforcement and a barricade placed in front of them, a tactic that “was extremely dangerous and presented a high risk of death or injury to officers.” In fact, the radical Left has been targeting the U.S. police for over half a century. [See W. Cleon Skousen, The Communist Attack on U.S. Police, 1996.]
Concerned Americans should be aware of the agitation tactics taken straight from the Communist Playbook, their deceptive nature, and their objective of destroying America. These agitation tactics target the police, but the strategic target is the state and everything patriots hold dearly as personal liberties.
The architects and operators of the agit-prop have given careful attention to popularizing it, prioritizing it, permanently and persistently applying it, nationalizing it, institutionalizing it, and championing its violent methods while repudiating peaceful approaches. These modern-day agitators are committed to making sure the sharp knife of agitation remains “a mighty and indispensable weapon in the Party’s revolutionary arsenal” (Marxist Internet Archive, “On the Role of Agitation and Propaganda”). Therefore, every responsible citizen should resist its influence.
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Dr. Scott Catino is an Assistant Professor at Liberty University Online, U.S. Fulbright Scholar, and member of the Anti-Communism Action Team (ACAT). He served in the United States, Bahrain, Iraq, Afghanistan, and the UAE in various research, supervisory, and advising posts for diverse entities including the Department of Defense, FBI, and private security programs. His research on civil unrest, terrorism, and insurgency has involved field studies around the world as well as numerous publications in scholarly and industry journals.
By
Dr. Martin Scott Catino
May 2021
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Spinning a particular grievance into an indictment of the entire society is an old communist trick
“What Is Agitation?”
- “Agitation, whether spoken or written, generally focuses on one event, and one contradiction, and seeks to make a single idea powerfully clear to broad numbers of people. It is like a sharp knife seeking to expose and make raw a glaring contradiction and draw blood around it.”
Marxist Internet Archive, “On the Role of Agitation and Propaganda,” (original publication December 1978), https://www.marxists.org/history/erol/ncm-8/rcp-agit-prop.htm
The radical Left is again using its “sharp knife” of agitation to harm American unity and prosperity and to create a world of chaos ruled by autocratic elites. Taken directly from the Communist Playbook (its doctrinal and operational writings), agitators employ tactics that target Americans and compel them to hate their country by believing the millions of contacts between police and citizens each year often end with the death of a “person of color.” The high-profile cases of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Freddie Gray are more recent examples exploited by the Left through misinformation, mischaracterization, and misapplication.
The “evidence of systemic racism” is then used by the radical Left to attack and undermine the entire American political and legal system rather than encourage reform and application of civil liberties. The Playbook asserts to its cadre regarding this approach:
- Real agitation, by dealing with the particularity of contradiction, seeks to point forward to the broader picture. Its aim is not to leave things at the level of the particular. As Lenin put it, ‘we must make it our concern to direct the thoughts of those who are dissatisfied only with conditions at the university, or in the Zemstvo [town council], etc., to the idea that the entire political system is worthless.’
(What Is To Be Done? Section 3E). (Marxist Internet Archive, “On the Role of Agitation and Propaganda.”)
Too many patriotic Americans mistakenly attribute this demonization of the police to the “bias” of mainstream media and the Left rather than a strategic tactic from the Communist Playbook. As the initial quote in this article reveals, agitation involves taking a single issue like alleged “police brutality” against people of color and making it the single narrative to a broad number of people, in this case Americans. Agitators use propaganda relying on the tactics of focus, repetition, emotive media images, gross generalizations, and high visibility victims not to bring improvements to these communities but to “draw blood around it,” generating the hatred needed to channel violence against the state and its structures, to destabilize and polarize Americans, and thereby create the conditions where a radical elite can dominate.
“Drawing blood around” police-related grievances -- real and created -- is a tactic Communists have long used from their Playbook, boasting of the dire consequences that result. Referring to the Communist agitation surrounding the brutal death of Mexican-American Joe Torres in May 1977, and the subsequent Moody Park Riot a year later in Houston, the Playbook referenced in this article stated:
- Before the rebellion, there had been months of persistent agitation and action by the Party and other mass organizations, exposing and going straight up against the capitalists and cops around the murder of Joe Torres and combatting all sorts of reformist dead-end schemes advanced as a ‘solution’ to police terror. This had a major effect, especially in focusing the anger of the masses against the class enemy. So it was no accident that when the people rebelled on the night of Cinco de Mayo many took up the slogan ‘Joe Torres dead, Cops go Free, That’s what the rich call democracy’ as a battle-cry against the murdering cops.
(Marxist Internet Archive, “On the Role of Agitation and Propaganda.”)
The post-George Floyd protests occurring from May 25 to July 31, 2020 demonstrated the same “bloodthirsty” agitation tactics in the Communist Playbook. The Major Cities Chiefs Association, “Report on the 2020 Protests and Civil Unrest” (October 2020), notes the violence was predominantly Left-wing; nationally coordinated; targeting major cities, the police, police vehicles, and property attacked by arson and looting; and carried out in most cases “by individuals or small groups that infiltrated the larger protests.”
Over 2000 police officers were injured in the line of duty in the short time span of 9 weeks during the Summer of 2020. In one case, protesters attempted to trap police officers between a fire created behind the line of law enforcement and a barricade placed in front of them, a tactic that “was extremely dangerous and presented a high risk of death or injury to officers.” In fact, the radical Left has been targeting the U.S. police for over half a century. [See W. Cleon Skousen, The Communist Attack on U.S. Police, 1996.]
Concerned Americans should be aware of the agitation tactics taken straight from the Communist Playbook, their deceptive nature, and their objective of destroying America. These agitation tactics target the police, but the strategic target is the state and everything patriots hold dearly as personal liberties.
The architects and operators of the agit-prop have given careful attention to popularizing it, prioritizing it, permanently and persistently applying it, nationalizing it, institutionalizing it, and championing its violent methods while repudiating peaceful approaches. These modern-day agitators are committed to making sure the sharp knife of agitation remains “a mighty and indispensable weapon in the Party’s revolutionary arsenal” (Marxist Internet Archive, “On the Role of Agitation and Propaganda”). Therefore, every responsible citizen should resist its influence.
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Dr. Scott Catino is an Assistant Professor at Liberty University Online, U.S. Fulbright Scholar, and member of the Anti-Communism Action Team (ACAT). He served in the United States, Bahrain, Iraq, Afghanistan, and the UAE in various research, supervisory, and advising posts for diverse entities including the Department of Defense, FBI, and private security programs. His research on civil unrest, terrorism, and insurgency has involved field studies around the world as well as numerous publications in scholarly and industry journals.
Mao’s Plan for World Domination is Alive and Kicking
March 24, 2021
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While many in the United States are preoccupied with the seeming importance of Wokitude, so-called climate change, and other fairy tales of the Left, here’s what they’re thinking in communist China:
A top Chinese Communist Party strategist gave a speech in 2016, building on Mao Zedong’s plans for world domination announced in the 1950s. China’s goal, the strategist said is to surpass the United Kingdom, catch up with the U.S., and “become the No. 1 boss.” “The task of our next generation is to put the U.S. under our jurisdiction ... too,” the strategist said.
He laid out a number of devious means by which China intends to reach its goal. “First, create conditions for [the U.S.] to make mistakes... Second, we keep [the U.S.] busy so that it will suffer from depression and want to quit the job itself.” In other words, keep the U.S. fatigued and demoralized, so it will no longer want to be a superpower. “Third, we should get ourselves mixed together with the U.S., so that it cannot fight us. We should create such a situation where you have me inside you, and I have you inside me.” China and the U.S. are now each other’s largest trading partners, so the strategy seems to have worked. Having our pharmaceuticals and medical devices made in China looks like part of the plan, too.
China’s deviousness doesn’t stop there. China waited until the U.S. got militarily involved in Syria and distracted by the Ukraine to build islands in the South China Sea. “We only built the islands then. When the U.S. found that we had built such large islands ..., we immediately said to it, Oh, my dear boss, we will stop it,’ ... we are not building it anymore. The United States was very happy for a few months. They thought, after all, [the U.S. is] still the boss.”
The speech also laid out how China would get its hooks into U.S. politicians and go “deeper” into the U.S. Chinese capital would flow into U.S. investment projects. “We in the Chinese government hope that in the end, every U.S. Congressman's district will have Chinese investment, and China will be able to control one thousand or several thousand votes, and then we can influence (the congressman’s) attitude.” You can add to this the entanglements of Hunter Biden and Joe Biden in Chinese companies and largesse.
If all of the above is not enough to corrupt the ruling class and bring America down, the strategist has another way to do it: “Of course we can also have other evil tricks, such as throwing the world into further chaos.... If there are three external enemies outside the United States, I reckon it will start to feel dizzy. If it has four enemies, it will completely get lost. So China's strategic task is to ensure that there are four enemies [for the U.S.], terrorists are certainly one.” This will keep the U.S. confused and inert, and enable China to dominate the world with all its wonderful values like forced sterilization of minorities and reeducation camps for anyone who thinks the wrong way or resists the Dragon.
This is how China plans to turn America into a wholly owned subsidiary of China and take control of the world without fighting a war with the U.S.
The Chinese Communist Party has a long history of making statements about how they intend to target the U.S. and achieve world domination, starting with Mao in 1956. In 2005, a Chinese official said they had developed a plan to depopulate the United States and replace all current residents with Han Chinese. So you see, there are other things to think about aside from how to pay proper respect to each of the 57 genders. Time to get serious, people.
March 24, 2021
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While many in the United States are preoccupied with the seeming importance of Wokitude, so-called climate change, and other fairy tales of the Left, here’s what they’re thinking in communist China:
A top Chinese Communist Party strategist gave a speech in 2016, building on Mao Zedong’s plans for world domination announced in the 1950s. China’s goal, the strategist said is to surpass the United Kingdom, catch up with the U.S., and “become the No. 1 boss.” “The task of our next generation is to put the U.S. under our jurisdiction ... too,” the strategist said.
He laid out a number of devious means by which China intends to reach its goal. “First, create conditions for [the U.S.] to make mistakes... Second, we keep [the U.S.] busy so that it will suffer from depression and want to quit the job itself.” In other words, keep the U.S. fatigued and demoralized, so it will no longer want to be a superpower. “Third, we should get ourselves mixed together with the U.S., so that it cannot fight us. We should create such a situation where you have me inside you, and I have you inside me.” China and the U.S. are now each other’s largest trading partners, so the strategy seems to have worked. Having our pharmaceuticals and medical devices made in China looks like part of the plan, too.
China’s deviousness doesn’t stop there. China waited until the U.S. got militarily involved in Syria and distracted by the Ukraine to build islands in the South China Sea. “We only built the islands then. When the U.S. found that we had built such large islands ..., we immediately said to it, Oh, my dear boss, we will stop it,’ ... we are not building it anymore. The United States was very happy for a few months. They thought, after all, [the U.S. is] still the boss.”
The speech also laid out how China would get its hooks into U.S. politicians and go “deeper” into the U.S. Chinese capital would flow into U.S. investment projects. “We in the Chinese government hope that in the end, every U.S. Congressman's district will have Chinese investment, and China will be able to control one thousand or several thousand votes, and then we can influence (the congressman’s) attitude.” You can add to this the entanglements of Hunter Biden and Joe Biden in Chinese companies and largesse.
If all of the above is not enough to corrupt the ruling class and bring America down, the strategist has another way to do it: “Of course we can also have other evil tricks, such as throwing the world into further chaos.... If there are three external enemies outside the United States, I reckon it will start to feel dizzy. If it has four enemies, it will completely get lost. So China's strategic task is to ensure that there are four enemies [for the U.S.], terrorists are certainly one.” This will keep the U.S. confused and inert, and enable China to dominate the world with all its wonderful values like forced sterilization of minorities and reeducation camps for anyone who thinks the wrong way or resists the Dragon.
This is how China plans to turn America into a wholly owned subsidiary of China and take control of the world without fighting a war with the U.S.
The Chinese Communist Party has a long history of making statements about how they intend to target the U.S. and achieve world domination, starting with Mao in 1956. In 2005, a Chinese official said they had developed a plan to depopulate the United States and replace all current residents with Han Chinese. So you see, there are other things to think about aside from how to pay proper respect to each of the 57 genders. Time to get serious, people.