[quote=FlyerInHi]I’m not afraid to die either, although I do want to live a long healthy life.
What worries me is the incompetence in D.C. Our prosperity and national interest are at stake.
I just watched a Chinese official being interviewed on NBC. The guy doesn’t even speak perfect English, but he was so good that Richard Engel, a veteran journalist, was thrown into stuttering. https://youtu.be/d7J6wFa-vYc%5B/quote%5D
I could go through and show a whole bunch of inconsistencies with above statement.. but I’ll show one – you can find the rest. The Chinese official was very evasive – not really answering the questions put to him. Example:
gist – did China ask us if they could devalue their currency, build installations on what has international land and lay claim to waters under questionable grounds? On the other hand, China seems to feel it has the right to so comment against the United States on whether the US can devalue its currency – etc.
official’s response was – well you have all heard the official statement on that – and then launches into a long song and dance, not really saying much content nor directly addressing the question.
I don’t consider the Chinese official good, but I do think that the veteran journalist started realizing that he was being stonewalled, with questions not really being answered and wanting to avoid conflict while the Chinese official didn’t care.
Mainland Chinese are educated into the official party line at a very early age. It becomes almost rote. What the Chinese official did was defer followed by party line statement that was not really related to the question. There is a Chinese born miss World Canada that talks about this. Here is her statement on the propaganda and thought control/conformity:
Here is some meddling at personal affairs, reaching down into other nations – directly affecting individual citizens:
