| Subject: | Sakakibara: "Americans Never Change"! |
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| Date: | Wed, 24 Mar 2010 17:03:30 -0700 |
| From: | Jas Jain < |
Sakakibara is a very influential ex-Ministry of Finance technocrat from Japan. Unlike intellectually dishonest and boring Greenspan and Bernanke, he is known for his frankness and humor. Susan Li, a cutie pie on Bloomberg broadcast from Honk Kong, asked him about America's pressuring China to revaluate Yuan and he said, laughingly, "Americans never change." Americans were always demanding that Japan do this and that in 1980s. (BTW, American policy prescriptions were behind some of the problems that Japan had to face later; Chinese, I am sure, are quite aware of that fact too). Why can't Americans look themselves in the mirror and first find out how they are contributing to the problems that they are complaining about. That would be un-American, or out of character. Publicly pressuring the Chinese govt is plain idiotic and almost an invitation for a fight.
According to Mullin, a Brit, "Christian Empires are in decline" and THE Empire is on the rise once again. No race on the planet can claim greater success for the past 3,000 years than the Han. China has been successful in pushing back the fiercest groups of men known to mankind—Huns, Mongols and Turks—that were breathing on its neck for some two thousand years. China pushed all of them back and towards West (West China today, Central Asia, where they still are, Europe, Persia, India, etc.). Manchu, the last foreign rulers of China, were a mixed race related to these, IMO. Mao's Peasants' Revolution is a very Chinese way to overthrow the "foreign devil." Communism was merely a convenient tool at the time. Chinese "Nationalists," led by Chiang Kai Shek, were supported by the foreign devil America. Mao was smart enough to figure out intellectual dishonesty, or duplicity, of Americans when they offered to mediate a peace treaty during the civil war. Beware of Americans bearing gifts. American huckster always has an angle.
Chinese today are lot tougher customers than the Japanese were twenty years ago. Americans better learn humility fast or they would have to eat the humble pie. Someone is going to punch them in the face and score a KO. America is an old and tired ex-champion. Merely being big and heavy, mostly flab, is not a plus in a heavyweight fight.
Jas
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