This is at the top of CNN today:
There is a 90% chance that this is simply made up by some intelligence agency.
The CNN article only gives his surname – “Zhou.” For those who don’t know, there are tens of millions of people in China with that surname.
I don’t think it would be physically possible to navigate both the Chinese and Taiwanese navies, let alone the American spy grid.
Furthermore, I don’t really think you could get across the entire strait in a dinghy. It’s 200 kilometers.
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How would anyone know what the true approval rating is? Does the author rely on a poll conducted by the CCP?
The Chinese people have been subjected to authoritarian rule for many thousands of years, mostly in a feudal setting but now in a communist setting, which isn't much different. Independent thinking has been bred out of them. I suspect they are by now rather genetically predisposed to subjugation, so whatever approval the gov has there is probably a result of that.
No, I don't believe the Chinese gov is any benevolent entity. Like all rising powers, they are power hungry and seek world dominance no less than any other rising power in world history.
Pinguinite posted on 2021-05-03 11:22:48 Reply Private Reply