This love affair the media has with China has got to be stopped...
How about having a love affair with God and America? You know, God the maker our our life and our world. Or how about the greatest country on earth. The most generous, the last superpower, the one that allows its' citizens the freedom of choice, self determination, religion and speech to name a few. You won't find any of that in China. Everything I mentioned is not true in China.
According to the CIA world fact book, China has a population of 1,338,612,968 (July 2009 est.) . Last time I looked the USA has 307,212,123 (July 2009 est.) people and the "entire world" has 6,790,062,216 (July 2009 est.) people. (For those of you wondering, India has 1,156,897,766 (July 2009 est)). This means China has 1 million more people to feed then we do here in the USA. This also means that they have an aging population that would make our "senior baby boomer issue" look like a "walk in the park".
Don't get me wrong, I am not bashing China or the Chinese. The Chinese I know ( and I know a few) are warm, friendly, generous and very courteous people. I love spending time with my friends to learn about their culture and issues. Most complain about the same issues I we face in our homes...kids, money, relationships, etc.
They want the best for their country and politically the sense is they are torn between being oppressed by Maoism Communism and this "new bread of young Chinese" that have tasted the outside world, capitalism, the Internet and like it. No wonder there is Censor-ism in China. I can hear Beijing now...What if they all could read the outside world views? They might adopt some of them. We cannot have that. It would not be controlled and aligned with our political views. It would be social change on a massive scale. Good thing 85% of the population does not have Internet access...let alone a computer.
No. I am talking about the media. They have put China on a pedestal and I think it is wrong for doing so. We Americans are ones who have caused this misalignment. We would rather go to Walmart and buy a cheap subsidized Chinese products than pay good money for a real well made American products. We shipped good paying US jobs overseas in all the millions of empty CONEX cargo box containers we received Chinese goods in. It is clearly our fault (a choice) and we should look in the mirror. One reason China can buy our debt is they are naturally thrifty people. They had nothing, so everything is precious. We have it all, so it appears nothing is precious...except more debt to show John or Sally that we can have it too.
Same thing with the Saudi's. Our love of oil and the flow of funds to buy that oil, transfered our wealth to a foreign power. Incredible wealth. Trillions upon trillions of US dollars. We loved our cars and the Saudi's loved our money. We thought we were helping a US oil major...the Saudi's ended up with most of our gasoline funds.
This world is not about free trade...it is about money, protectionism, trade deals, public opinion and political power. Instead of focusing on what is important, the mainstream media chooses to publish mush. The media have lost their proverbial compass. They threw away their sense of truth for a mock version of it, fed by all night streaming media feeds from slanted sources. Then to hold China out as some model we need to look up to...I think not. Not for this cowboy. I will take freedom over wealth any day.
Let's ask the media to run 5 stories about God and American Freedoms for ever story they show about China.
