The Real China

Here is a fabulous antidote to the growing number of sycophants for the Chinese government in the American corporate-media-government complex, led chiefly by Thomas L. Friedman. They have a barely hidden admiration for highly authoritarian if not Totalitarian practices that the Chinese people are trying vainly to struggle against every day.

The facts are that almost all the "rise from poverty" that happened in China since 1978 began to dramatically slow in China by 1990 and has now virtually stopped. China today is the definition of plutocratic fascism with a facade of Capitalism to keep the Western capital flowing in. Chinese economic statistics are as phony as a three dollar bill (even more phony than US :) The numbers are collected by the CCP Central Committee in each province indivually and then all added together to get a total. Each province is given incentives by the CCP Central Committee in Beijing to put out the best numbers possible. They have a farcical relation to reality in China.

A wonderful historian once said to all those who laud the Beijing regime for its "progress" to take a bike ride in China from Shanghai to Xinjiang and then a bike ride from Maine to California and then say which society is healthier, wealthier, freer, and happier. Peasants riot against the ChiComs everyday in China. They get rounded up or slaughtered, it just never makes the news.