Let me tell you some more stories about China, the country the Democrats want America to mimic.
I still talk to a lot of people in China, mostly former students (I lived there from 2011-2022). One of them recently told me that after she finished her Master’s degree this summer, she wanted to take the Civil Service exam to get a government job. The government wouldn’t let her take the exam because her father (not her) was a member of a Christian prayer group. The Chinese government claims all religious believers are “afflicted with thought viruses.” Matters have “significantly deteriorated since last year,” said Nury Turkel, chair of the U.S. Commission of International Religious Freedom. Religious groups in China have been “ruthlessly persecuted.”
That’s a Leftist, totalitarian government.
Personally, I was twice denied a work visa renewal. Both schools I worked for wanted me to stay and there was no reason, health or otherwise, why I should leave. The government, arbitrarily, wanted me gone. So gone I was. Why I went back to other jobs the gods only know.
That is a Leftist, totalitarian government.
The last year I was in China (2022), Covid was still being used to control people. I had to get a (required) physical checkup to extend my visa. I went to the hospital to do it, but something was amiss with the Covid health code on my cell phone, and the guard at the gate wouldn’t let me in. Hospitals in China were gated with guards.
I couldn’t get into the hospital unless I could prove I wasn’t sick.
That is a Leftist, totalitarian government.
My situation wasn’t the worst. A young woman, 8-months pregnant, had early labor pains and was bleeding. She went to her local hospital, but they wouldn’t let her in, either, because she didn’t have the right Covid health code. She lost her baby.
The last six months I was in China, the police came to my school three times (twice to my apartment) just to hassle me. I had done absolutely nothing wrong, they just like to badger foreigners. I left the country at the end of that semester even though I had another year and a half left on my contract. Well, the company I was working for was stealing from me anyway, so it was time to go. For good.
That is a Leftist, totalitarian government. Isn’t that just what we want in America? Vote Democrat if you do.
I mentioned in my previous column how the only two Chinese employers I had stole incessantly from me, and the Chinese government did nothing to help me though my evidence was overwhelming. Undeniable. But the Chinese steal from each other, too. Recently, I was talking to a friend who has a new job. “My boss wants me to work overtime, but I’m too tired,” she told me. So I asked a question I already knew the answer to: “Would he pay you overtime?” Her response: “Of course not...There are many bosses like this.” All of them that I’ve heard about. That is theft, of course, but that’s China.
China has had a master-slave society forever, but it’s been exacerbated under Marxism. Anything goes, anything to survive, no morality. Mao Zedong had none, neither does Xi Jinping or any other government official. The people learn well, though as I have said, not all Chinese are lying, thieving scum. Just most of the bosses and all the government officials. And lots of the common people are following suit now, too.
These are just anecdotes, of course, and prove only what has happened to me and what I heard. But if these are tales of just one person, imagine the stories that could be told by the millions. I have a lot more, but this is sufficient.
As mentioned, I still talk to a many people in China, those who appreciate my attempts to help them. (Incidentally, in my ten years in China, I never had one Chinese bureaucrat or one Chinese administrator at a school thank me for sacrificing my time, effort, money, etc. to go to China to help their children. Not one. Well, I’m a “hairy foreign devil,” they owed me nothing. I should have been grateful to serve the Master Race. Hitler had nothing on these people, and current Americans know nothing about true racism.) The average recent college graduate I have talked to is struggling to get a job, and when they do, they are paid a little over $1,000 per month (before taxes)—with, of course, no overtime pay. They can only find employment in big cities where housing costs are exorbitant. They either rent a small, cheap apartment (usually shared), maybe the size of a hotel room (I had to do that once), or their parents help them buy a place (if they are lucky). China is less expensive than America, but $1,000 isn’t much, wherever you are. Not if you want to get ahead in life.
It’s worse, far worse, in the countryside. Li Keqiang, who served as Premier of China from 2013 until his recent retirement, was honest enough to admit (in other words, he was talking to his own people and it accidentally leaked out) that 600,000,000 people living in Chinese rural areas subsist on about $140 per month. That wouldn’t rent an apartment in a major city. Only about one in three can attend high school, and (I’ve heard) some students must carry their own desks to school with them. That’s almost half the people living in poverty.
China’s socialist “economic miracle” indeed. It sounds to me more like a Leftist, totalitarian government full of lying propagandists covering up the true situation in their barbarian country.
All is not well in China. I want to talk about China’s “economic miracle” in a subsequent article. Until then, believe absolutely nothing their lying media say. Xinhua is almost as bad as MSNBC.
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