Chinese Leader Xi Jinping Lays out Plan to Control the Global Internet
Chinese Leader Xi Jinping Lays out Plan to Control the Global InternetLeaked Documents
Chinese leader Xi Jinping personally directed the communist regime to focus its efforts to control the global internet, displacing the influential role of the United States, according to internal government documents recently obtained by The Epoch Times.
In a January 2017 speech, Xi said the “power to control the internet” had become the “new focal point of [China’s] national strategic contest,” and singled out the United States as a “rival force” standing in the way of the regime’s ambitions.
The ultimate goal was for the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) to control all content on the global internet, so the regime could wield what Xi described as “discourse power” over communications and discussions on the world stage.
Xi articulated a vision of “using technology to rule the internet” to achieve total control over every part of the online ecosystem—over applications, content, quality, capital, and manpower.
4 comments:
I don't believe it is much exaggeration to say that Xi is presently the ruler of the entire world. Caesar Augustus if you will. At least that part the world worth ruling. I can't think of anyone else in history who has accomplished that feat.
Fortunately he won't last long. The foundation of his power structure is not very stable and his money will run out.
I tend to agree.
But when you say the foundation isn't strong, what do you mean?
I mean that China's financial underpinnings are a house of derivatives dependent on western monetary smoke and mirrors. Consider a nation where about 200m people live in at least some level of comfort and security while another 800m live the Chinese equivalent of Appalachia. China's big industrial boom hasn't reached into the vast countryside and the nation's agriculture is still in the Mao age. And its infrastructure is shoddy, massive construction projects erect empty buildings already falling apart, some even toppling over. A financial reset in the west, and one is coming, will devastate the modern Chinese economy. When the average Chinese worker wakes up to discover everything he has saved is gone, and now he's no better than a peasant, all bets are off.
China is extraordinarily difficult for a westerner to comprehend. The most vicious police state in the world can't contain a population that size when it decides to go bonkers. The Taiping rebellion in the mid 19th century racked up a higher death toll than World War I.
I'm glad I asked you. I had not considered the distribution of the population urban vs rural.
I do believe China is build on false foundations, for the reasons you write, as well as the fact the simple fact that their lack of freedom means fewer new ideas are brought to market (unless China steals them from other nations), and less entrepreneurship, and the sluggish economy that goes with that. China is able to make some companies look like they are doing extraordinarily well, by inflated their market share and stock price through an oligarchical arrangement with the government.
But the problem is, we have adopted that model as well.
So China's problems are relative to ours at this point.
All we are now is a vast corporate/oligarchic machine.
I had thought Trump would be able to pull us out of that, but it seeems more and more obvious we have lost.
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