In the previous parts to this article, I discussed the basis of the Art of War and the economics of China’s strategy, in this part I will look at the covert and social elements that are leading to China’s dominance. And just a reminder; because something is a conspiracy it doesn’t mean it isn’t real. There is a difference between a conspiracy and a conspiracy theory. What is that? Well, that is up to you.

Espionage:

When we think of espionage we think of spies. Lurking in the shadows, wearing trench coats and making the drop. Or we think of James Bond misogysising around shooting people all the while everybody knowing exactly who he is. Not very secret agent. And that is what they are, agents. They are agents of ‘the State’; whichever state that might be.

And, like Bond, most intelligence agents are usually known to their enemies, or ‘oppos; as they often call them. They are operational cover agents working in Embassies. Others work for non- governmental organisations, or as journalists – foreign correspondents are often spooks, especially those gallivanting around war zones with their press credentials. But each side kind of knows who they all are; they are all playing a great game.

However, there are other types of agents too. These are people that work for a country despite not being a professional spy. They work in all sorts of places: industry, government, universities, basically anywhere that might have something the other guys want. Trade secrets, cutting edge technology or advancements – otherwise known as industrial espionage – and insider government info, usually boring stuff like negotiating positions, but also military secrets.

These agents are recruited and ‘run’ by the professionals. They find a weakness in the identified ‘agent to be’ and they recruit them. Sometimes it is for money, sometimes ideology (see the Cambridge ring in the 1930s-50s), sometimes it is simply blackmail. They recruit them. They spy.

One of the easiest ways to do this is to recruit people that have a personal or ideological connection to your country. Drunks, gamblers, and womanisers tend to be unreliable. So, what would be a good way of doing that?

Well one way is sleeper agents. These spies are often infiltrated into the host society at young ages becoming ingrained with the local society. They have normal jobs, get married, have kids, and are put in positions where they can gain access to highly valuable information. Perhaps they are a trained engineer and get a job working for a defence contractor. This sounds like a movie script but they are real – Russia had a massive ring exposed in 2010.

Another way is to recruit people that are already working or studying legally. For example, an international student studying in America may be recruited while studying, they graduate, stay in America with a working visa, work in a research facility studying, what I don’t know, maybe a highly contagious respiratory illness, which they can then pass info on to their home country. Perhaps even become a professor and work for NASA!

As a hostile foreign power, I am looking at doing the following: maximise the number of my nationals living and working in my targeted enemy country. And I am going to do that by making sure as many of my nationals get to study and work in that country as possible. Easiest way to do that? That’s right, students, international university students, and fuck loads of them. Especially if you play the long game.

China has sent more students abroad than any other country over the past decade. And since 1978 – when Mao left us for the great commune in the sky, and China’s global engagement policy began – China has sent more than six million students abroad and approximately 14% of those stayed in foreign lands – that’s about 91,000 Chinese (proper Chinese not Hong Kongers or people of Chinese descent). That’s a handy cadre of people to call upon.

And they don’t need to be ‘spying’. They might be real estate agents selling land to Chinese, scientists, doctors, professors – all working for the CCP/PLA. There are numerous ways they can serve China while working in seemingly benign jobs.

And if they still have family in China; well, that’s an easy way to ensure compliance, isn’t it?

Of course, not all students are spies, and obviously, not all ethnic Chinese are either. And they don’t need to be. But they are a pool of people that China may be able to use if the opportunity arises.

Social Disruption:

Imagine if you could fight a war without ever fighting your enemy? Never need to fire a gun or raise a sword. Never need to risk the lives of any of your people. That would be a fine way to wage a war, wouldn’t it? Certainly, Sun Tzu believed that.

Now imagine how you might achieve that without any weapons at all? How would you do this seemingly impossible task?

Get others to fight for you? Yes, go on you plead…

What if your enemy fought themselves? Literally fought themselves over anything and everything. Now that might be a fine way indeed.

Over the past few decades, since the fall of the Soviet Bloc, there has been increasing social unrest in the West. Many experts contend that there has been a vacuum which has needed to be filled. The fall of ‘communism’ created an ideological well that those disenchanted with western ideas of capitalism (and freedom – let’s be really honest here) needed to draw from, this was compounded by the decline in religious beliefs.

The initial idea was environmentalism, especially Global Warming – now called climate change because…well…no warming, but that is another story. However, that didn’t work out because, well, no warming. People weren’t going to give up their rights, sign over their first born, and God forbid dress in Lycra and cycle everywhere, just because a bunch of hippies were crying over the loss of their Evil Empire.

Although most people bought the bullshit – rampant propaganda will do that to you – pretty much we all just thought we’d recycle – not the same as bike riding – conserve some water, pretend that we cared about corporate social responsibility, all the while consuming more energy by flying everywhere on budget airlines, using our smart phones to post photos of our junk on social media, and eating more food that our morbidly obese bodies could ever possible need – even our Italian grandmothers would freak the fuck out at how much we eat – we never quite achieved the level of environazism, poverty, and loss of freedom that the communist environmentalists envisioned.

You see communism just doesn’t work. It just makes everyone apathetic. Fascism, on the other hand, well that really gets the people motivated. China is a case in point. Communism there sucked so they got a little fascisti about it and it took right off [see my article on this here].

So, they – the commies – decided that they needed to up their game. They needed to get the corporations and all the governments on side. They needed some causes that people could see and feel, right now, not in 2300 CE, but in 2015.

One way is to find causes that only right wing, white, heterosexual, Christian zealots would oppose. Hence, was born modern gender politics which was then followed by Black Lives Matter. Both of these allowed the virtue signalling that has taken place over the Covid pandemic and the Russio-Ukrainian war.

Only a right wing, Trump supporting, racist, homo/trans-phobic, science denying Neo-Nazi climate denying asshole would fail to support the young, vaccinated black trans-athlete, trying to win her race to raise awareness of the climate catastrophe, while showing her support for Ukraine, over the young, heterosexual, unvaccinated white girl, whose daddy once visited Russia in 1994, and is just trying to get a scholarship to a shit university so she can get a entry level job in a career she hates, while passing her unpaid loans off to her grand kids.

Now, imagine if we could get people fighting over bullshit like that?

The policies that are now being pushed, with increasing social and even legal ferocity, by governments, corporations, and individuals, are not benign. Are there many social justice issues that need to be addressed? Absolutely. Should governments be censoring people’s thoughts and drafting laws to prevent discussion? Absolutely not. Should we trust corporations that push the same agendas? Now just get the fuck out of here with that bullshit Cochise (that’s probably cultural appropriation – I will likely get cancelled and sent to Russia.)

The structure behind the organisations and the sheer numbers of politicians and businesses lining up behind these divisive policies is, I don’t believe, a coincidence. It is certainly not a benevolent push from those that know better (that’s a joke, no one knows better what is right for you, mostly). These policies are extreme left wing – communist – with a good old fashioned side of fascism.

Just a caveat here for all the woke amongst you – although I doubt anyone reading this is woke because, well, they only read the same echo chambering ideological brainwashing drivel that they have always read. You can’t be woke and challenge yourself because then you’d stop being woke. I am actually all for equality of opportunity. I don’t like racists or bigots of any kind. I am an environmentalist. I am also a critical thinker and I know when someone is lying to me.

The question is then: where did all this organisation come from?

The Soviet Union and the USA spent a lot of time funding and pushing various organisations and ideology throughout the Cold War. They did this directly through intelligence agencies funding all sorts of nasty people – like death squads – but they also funded other pro-democracy or pro-communist groups through private companies or ‘aid’ groups. They also recruited agents (see above) and paid off politicians.

It is my contention that the Chinese are doing the same. We know that the CCP has been caught bribing and attempting to bribe politicians, we know that they are a major funder of the World Health Organization, we also know that they fund certain media outlets through front companies and foundations.

Most people would think that policies that have radical left wing extremists (communists like ANTIFA), governments, and multinational corporations all agreeing would mean that it is clearly the right thing to do. That it must be good. Nothing could be further than the truth.

Governments care about control and money. Corporations care about money, and control when it leads to more money. And the lefty loons just want control; control over your thoughts, your finances, your diet, your social interactions, and your body, because you are too stupid to make your own decisions. Can you see the overlapping interests?

Of course, none of these benefits you. And, it doesn’t benefit governments or corporations, but because they are so short-term and narrowly focused, they think it does. But it weakens them. They don’t realise it yet, and once they do it will be too late. The lefties get what they want, but most of western society aren’t communists and eventually they will wake up to the scam – historically, this usually doesn’t bode well for the ideologues.

The one player that benefits from all of this? That’s right, our favourite communistic fascists the Chinese Communist Party. Nothing like a divided enemy.

More people in the West hate each other than will ever hate any potential enemy. How can you fight China when you have to mock some fucktard online who won’t get vaccinated and thinks women don’t have penises? And how can you fight China when you’ve lost your job because you disagree about receiving an experimental vaccine and you haven’t put a Ukrainian/Rainbow/BlackLivesMatter flag on your social media pages – you, you, fucking heathen.

All the while your beloved Chinese Communist Party ‘re-educates’ Uighurs, threatens war with their neighbours, and welds people inside their homes (and beats their pets to death). Of course, trans-genderism isn’t a thing in China, they like black people, as long as they are still in Africa, and support Russia’s Ukrainian special operation.

They do love your new social credit system though, so there is that.

Climate Change:

Imagine if there was something so terrible that it meant massive social and economic changes for the entire world, where countries and individuals had to stop everything they had previously done and do something new, something that cost loads of money, something that cost jobs, something that changed the very way in which individuals lived their lives. Imagine that.

Now imagine that you didn’t need to do any of that. Imagine that other countries gave you money not to do any of that. Imagine that your people got new jobs, better jobs, that they got more money that they could now spend on better things.

Imagine that you could do both things. Would you do it?

Now I admit that the rest of this piece is right at the top of ‘greatest conspiracy theories of the Twenty First Century’, but that doesn’t mean it’s wrong!

Let’s just take a trip in the way back machine, all the way to the early 1970s. In 1971 China – the People’s Republic of – supplanted Taiwan – the Republic of – in the UN. Taiwan was kicked out and China took their still warm seat. That was the moment the People’s Republic of China became a ‘modern’ international player.

At that stage they were the world’s most populous country, but they were living in a semi-feudal medieval state. Frankly, they were a bit of a joke. They could look across the Sea of Japan and the Taiwan Straits and see their two most hated rivals making exponential gains economically – Japan had been nuked, twice, only twenty-five years before for fuck’s sake! And here was China, the world’s oldest continuous civilisation, and world’s largest country with an economy the size of Canada’s (Japan was the third largest economy in the World at that stage.

Something had to change. China needed to bridge that gap as quickly as possible. How could they achieve that?

Let me introduce you to Maurice Strong. Strong was a Canadian who made his name and fortune in the oil business. In 1972 he founded the UN Environment Program (UNEP) and became its first director. Strong was the poster boy for bad corporate assholes turned good guy environmental saviours. From his UN role Strong led the push for environmental issues throughout the 1970s. And greenies were increasingly a big thing. Greenpeace (again Canadian – what the fuck is it with Canadians and environmentalism – the country had more of anything pristine than almost anywhere and it is cold as fuck, a little bit of warmth might do it some good eh?).

There were lots of doomongering environmental bullshit in the 70s too. The Club of Rome appeared around the same time with their stupendously ridiculous ‘Limits to Growth’ outlining how we were all going to run out of everything in couple of years unless we killed half the world off and stopped consuming anything (they are still around too – check out their membership at the link above). And like all doomongers none of their predictions came true so they just pushed them further into the future.

There were lots of reasons for this rise of environmentalism; increasing populations (China and India were real problems), global consumerism, and a lot of companies were doing bad juju at a time of little environmental protections. It was time for a little bit of love for Mother Earth.

There was one issue that stood above all else: climate change. However, there was just one little caveat. You see, the climate wasn’t warming in the 1970s, it was cooling. The threat to the world wasn’t that everything would be fried like a Glaswegian chippy. No, the threat was we’d all be too cold – maybe that’s why the Canadians got so into this? We were heading into another Ice Age – technically a period of glaciation as we are still in an Ice Age (yes we are).

Now for younger readers, and older ones too, this might seem strange to you, and it might also explain why Gen Xers are the most bullshit resistant people on the planet. When I went to school in the 1980s we were taught all about climate change, just like the younglings today. But we were taught about the coming Ice Age, how temperatures were plummeting across the globe and one day soon we’d all be playing hockey, eating poutine (not a megalomaniacal Slavic leader), and saying sorry, fucking eh! By the end of the 80s it was all Ozone Holes and Global Warming. So, forgive me if we (Gen X) think they lie all the time.

(there is an enormous amount of propaganda today trying to debunk this but as someone that lived through this I can assure you it was real – scientists and their disreputable organisations are engaged in significant rewriting of history helped of course by their Big Tech censoring friends)

Once the Global Warming narrative took off – because it was warmer than the previous couple of decades – it became easier and easier to push the socio-economic-political agenda that went with it. The collapse of Soviet communism helped ideologically, as did decreasing religious beliefs. Science became the new religion.

Non-Global Warming advocates became science deniers. You’ll also notice that I call it Global Warming, because what we are talking about is Anthropomorphic Global Warming – warming of the planet caused by human activity. Climate Change became the term when it was obvious that there had been no significant global warming for more than a decade. These are facts (of course the econazi scientists just lie about this despite being on record discussing the ‘pause’).

And unless you live under a rock you would have heard some of this over the years. If you live in the West, you’ll know all about increasing energy prices, carbon offsetting, renewable energy, and a bunch of other bullshit that is designed to make your life more difficult and expensive so you can save the planet. The current global energy crisis is a direct result of green energy policies. Putin isn’t that powerful.

Of course, Climate Change only affects poor people, who of course also cause it by being alive. Rich and famous people can do what they like, such as buying beach front property and flying in their private jets to hang out on their mega yachts, because the laws of physics don’t apply to them.

So, what the fuck has this got to do with China?

Let’s go back to the start shall we. If I was a country that wanted to increase its economic power, its relative and real wealth, it would need to increase its productivity. In the modern world that means making stuff that other people want. However, if most of the companies that make stuff people want to come from other countries that are both richer and more advanced than me, then I need to convince them to invest in my country – at least until I have the capacity and capability to do it myself.

How do I do this?

Cheaper costs are one way. Promising cheaper labour is a great way to get companies to move manufacturing from their home country to yours. Lower taxes are another. And less regulation is also a biggie. All of these lead to less operating costs, which in turn leads to greater profits.

It also helps if costs in the home country become prohibitive. If regulations increase then that leads to increased costs across the board; taxes, wages, and other operating costs associated with regulatory compliance. Oh, and there’s also energy. Energy costs, especially in production, add a considerable burden to the corporate bottom line – more so if these are fluctuating costs.

The answer is a low wage, low tax, low regulatory (especially environmental regs), and low energy cost regime. Ni hao ma you capitalist pigs, I mean foreign direct investors…

In 1990 China’s Gross Domestic Product was $396.59 billion. By 2021 this had increased to $16,862.98 billion. That’s an increase of 4151%. Yes, that’s right FOUR THOUSAND!

Their carbon dioxide emissions in that time grew from 2.48 billion metric tonnes to 10.67 billion metric tonnes (2020 numbers). That’s an increase of 330%. That’s also quite a lot.

What about their competitors. Let’s look at the USA. US emissions were 20.5 metric tonnes in 1990 (yikes) and went up to 31.5 by 2020. That’s an increase of 53%. That’s a lot less that 330%. Their economy grew from $5,963 billion (that’s 5.9 trillion) to $22,997 billion in 2021. That’s an increase of 285%. Still pretty damn good considering they cut their emissions growth by so much. But quite a lot less than four freaking thousand.

What about the EU, or Eurozone as it is now often called – bear in mind that the UK was not a member in 2020, and there has been vastly changing membership since 1990 – but let’s look anyway. In 1990

(then the European Community) it was $5,880 billion (pretty darn close to the US of A) and by 2020 it was $13,403 billion (not even close to the US!). An increase of 121% – less than half of the US and a whole 400 times less than China. WTF Europe.

So now let’s look at the emissions data, bearing mind the Europeans love a good energy scam. In fact, the EU are so good at reducing emission (and they’ve done all the work for us) – their emissions dropped a whopping 31%.

It seems pretty clear that there is a correlation between cutting energy consumption and GDP growth. Which is what you would expect if you were doing what I outlined above.

Europe is aiming for neutral emissions by 2050. I would make a snarky joke about ‘last one turn off the lights’…. but I fear there will be no lights left by then.

Any wonder why Europe has sold everything off to China. In fact, China now accounts for 2% of Europe’s GDP! What a clusterfuck.

Now back to all the greenies. China has been quite the vocal global leader when it comes to climate change. They have reps all over the place spouting off about the need to curb emissions and pursue green energy – which, naturally, China is pouring huge amounts of money into while using their massive coal fired power plants to build the technology that we all need to curb our emissions European style. They like to push it down our throats because it suits them doesn’t it. Because, the developing world didn’t have the same limits imposed on it, because, well that was racist and colonialist. Cutting emissions in the developing world would harm their growth and that was unfair.

Of course, the West accepted that it was all caused by us and we should allow 40% of the Earth’s population (China and India) to do whatever the fuck they wanted because, hey that was just the right thing to do man.

Just a question though. If climate change was such a threat, and we were causing it, would allowing China to increase its emissions from 2.6 billion metric tonnes to 10.5 billion really be a smart idea? Surely, that would make things a bit more fucked? Just a thought…

China is also the global leader for developing countries because it too is still developing! Obviously easy to get your Vanuatus and Tongas on side when you fight their corner. And as discussed in the rest of this article the Chinese have a large global reach with a large pool of willing agents pushing their agenda.

Now I don’t know if we are actually warming the planet, and if that is actually a bad thing or not. Honestly, I have serious doubts, I have spoken to people that study this stuff for a living and none of them have ever provided me with any proof at all.

Maybe this has all been a giant Chinese scam designed to cripple the West while giving China an opportunity to take over the World. Maybe we really are warming it up. If we are, and a big if, then I do know that the policy solutions are terrible. Like really fucking bad. And I know the Chinese have been pushing these.

Now back to Maurice Strong, the man who started global cooling which morphed into global warming. He’s dead now. He retired a few years before that. Remember he was a Canadian environmentalist. He retired to his apartment in Beijing. Yes, that Beijing. Not Beijing Ontario. Beijing capital city of the People’s Republic of China.

Have you ever been to Beijing? It is regarded as one of the most polluted cities on earth. The air pollution is so bad that the sun is often blotted out. Strange place for an environmentalist to retire don’t you think? And buying property in China? Not that easy if you are not Chinese. Now if one had been working for the CCP then I guess I could see an exception being made…

Conclusion: What does it all mean?

Ni hao bitches! That’s right you better get used to speaking Mandarin because that is the language of the future.

Of course, I could be completely wrong. All of this might just be an incredible coincidence. All these separate events, all working in China’s interests, supported by an ancient Chinese philosophy could all just be a huge coincidence.

The massive numbers of Chinese students and emigres are to be expected. Any country trying to better itself would do the same.

The Chinese spying and cash for influence scandals are also soup de jour. Everyone spies on everyone – the Americans are even spying on themselves – and cash for influence is about as western democracy as you get.

And China was a shit poor agrarian wasteland when it decided to industrialise. Why should it suffer when it was Europe and America that did all the polluting?

And that climate change man, that is the real deal. We are all going to end up extra crispy in the Universal wok. It’s not their fault that Maurice Strong liked to breathe in the rarefied air Beijing offers – perhaps he really liked the local chicken?

And don’t even get me started on the social diseases plaguing the West. What else do you expect from racist, misogynist, colonialist, bigoted, immoral, unethical, omnivorous scum like your average Western male. It’s about time there was a ‘correction’.

And the economy? China should assume its rightful place at the top of the global hierarchy. It’s the natural order and is to be expected.

All of these things happening at once? All of this happening since the PRC became the only legitimate China? Since Mao died? Accelerating since the biggest despot since Mao himself – Xi Jinping – became Leader for Life.

It’s all one hell of a coincidence. And if you believe that I have some non-fungible tokens to sell you!

In seriousness though, I have only touched the surface of some of the factual and conspiratorial actions that China is taking. And many of these are no different to what the Americans and British have done before them. The real difference here is just how complicit the West, in particular, has become with championing the Chinese takeover. It’s like turkeys voting for Christmas.

But don’t take my word for it. Look around you. Look at your politicians, your business leaders, your social and academic leaders, and even your military industrial complex. Listen to what they say, look at what they do, and think about who is really benefiting…cause it sure ain’t you!