Generational Dynamics World View News

[John]

** 09-Jun-2019 Kindle

> When does it come out on Kindle (I don't want the dead tree
> version)?

I'm looking at different Kindle options.

[John]

** 09-Jun-2019 Trevor

> Just bought myself a couple copies. Looking forward to reading
> it.

Thanks!! You're probably the first, Trevor.

[John]

** 09-Jun-2019 Giving stuff away for free

> Have you thought about "comping" a bunch of copies to various high
> profile "China interested" influencers on the interwebz to see
> what happens?

> A potentially pretty decent one might be "CaspianReport"
> (YoobToob).

> ..yet another random thought that made it's way to my completely
> undisciplined fingers and thence out into the aether.

Since 2003, I've tried any number of ways of giving stuff away for
free -- free books, paid publicity, thousands of articles, including
thousands of free articles for Breitbart that they consider too
worthless to pay anything for.

So giving stuff away for free has never done anything but cost me
money, and in return brought contempt and hatred for me and
Generational Dynamics. That's all I ever get -- contempt and hatred.
This is the "Cassandra Curse."

So, to directly answer your question: I have absolutely no intention
of taking the "comping" route.

[John]

** 09-Jun-2019 World View: Massive Hong Kong demonstrations threaten CCP


It's now the middle of the night on Monday morning in Hong Kong,
and police are using batons and pepper spray to remove the
thousands of remaining anti-Beijing protesters. There are
violent clashes between protesters and police outside the Hong
Kong legislature building.

During the day on Sunday, there were hundreds of thousands of peaceful
protesters filling the streets, despite the sweltering heat.
Organizers say that the number was close to one million, while Hong
Kong police put the count at 240,000. Either way, this is the most
massive protest since 2003, and possibly the largest since 1997, when
Britain turned its Hong Kong colony over to China.

• Hundreds of thousands of protesters filled the Hong Kong
  streets on Sunday (Hong Kong Free Press)

The demonstrators are protesting a proposed extradition law, which
would permit someone in Hong Kong accused of a crime to be transferred
to mainland China for trial by Chinese Communist Party (CCP) thugs,
rather than in the Hong Kong courts.

The law will apparently also permit any international traveler passing
through Hong Kong on the way to another destination to be arrested in
Hong Kong airport and abducted to China.

The law will be debated on Wednesday and, if passed, will take effect
by the end of the month. The protesters targeted Carrie Lam, Hong
Kong’s chief executive, hand-picked by Beijing in violation of their
1997 promise to Britain and the world of free and fair elections. The
CCP thugs reinterpreted that promise to mean, "We'll pick a couple of
candidates, and you can vote freely and fairly among those two."

So now Carrie Lam and the CCP thugs are saying that the proposed
extradition bill contains "safeguards," and that Hong Kong would
protect citizens from illegal abductions. That's laughable, since
China has already been conducting illegal abductions. Since 2016,
Chinese thugs have abducted dissident publishers and business
executives off Hong Kong’s streets without the legal cover of
extradition proceedings. The proposed law would legalize the
abductions of dissidents to China, where they can be freely tortured,
beaten, raped and executed.

• Protester holding up a 'no extradition' sign

Sunday's protesters were much larger than anyone expected, and they're
sure to put the CCP thugs in Beijing into full-scale panic. These
massive protests will remind them of the 1989 Tiananmen Square student
pro-democracy protests, which led to massive slaughter of thousands of
young people, and to new policies that clamped down violently on
religions and dissidents. It also led to the adoption of a vitriolic
nationalistic CCP hate campaign towards Japan, in order to deflect the
pro-democracy sentiments.

It's clear that the Hong Kong dissidents are not going to back down.
And it's also clear that these growing protests will lead to panic in
Beijing, with resulting plans for wide retaliation. The timing and
form of that retaliation is yet to be seen, but it's sure to be
violent and bloody.

---- Sources:

-- Over a million attend Hong Kong demo against controversial
extradition law, organisers say
https://www.hongkongfp.com/2019/06/09/j ... l-new-law/
(HongKongFreePress, 9-Jun-2019)

-- China Seizes Toilet Paper Bearing Face of Hong Kong Leader
https://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/hong- ... er-n302066
(NBCNews/AP, 7-Feb-2015)

-- Hong Kong protest draws hundreds of thousands over extradition bill
https://www.foxnews.com/world/hundreds- ... ition-bill
(FoxNews, 9-Jun-2019)

-- Hong Kong plunged into political crisis after huge protest against
extradition law
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-hong ... TA05L?il=0
(Reuters, 9-Jun-2019)

-- China / Vast protest in Hong Kong against extradition law
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/ ... -law-china
(Guardian, 9-Jun-2019)

-- Factbox: What Hong Kong people are saying about controversial China
extradition bill
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-hong ... SKCN1TA05R
(Reuters, 9-Jun-2019)


----- Related:

World View: War Between China and Japan: Why America Must Be Prepared
(Generational Theory Book Series, Book 2)
by John James Xenakis
Paperback: 331 pages, over 200 source references, $13.99
https://www.amazon.com/dp/1732738637/

[John]

** 09-Jun-2019 World View: Chinese migrants in Australia join Hong Kong anti-Beijing protests


An interesting related story is that Chinese migrants in Sydney,
Australia, are joining Hong Kong in anti-Beijing protests. They're
urging Australia's government to condemn the proposed Hong Kong
extradition law, as the US, Canada and the EU have already done.

Their motivation, beyond fraternal support, is that Chinese
expatriates who pass through Hong Kong on their way to another
destination could be arrested and abducted to China.

Australia, with a population of 25 million, has a large Chinese
diaspora. More than 500,000 people born in China and more than 86,000
people born in Hong Kong were in Australia as of the 2016 census.

There's a wider question here: in a war between China and the West,
would the Chinese diaspora in Western countries side with China or
with the West?

We can look for analogies in America in World War II.
Japanese-Americans were viewed very suspiciously as being on the side
of the Japanese, though they denied this, and the US set up internment
camps for Japanese-Americans. On the other hand, there were no
internment camps for German-Americans, since there was little fear
that they would side with the Nazis.

An interesting example that I looked at some years ago was the Spanish
Armada war (1588), when Spain (a Catholic country) launched its
Invincible Armada to invade England (a Protestant country).

The Catholic New Advent encyclopedia described how the Catholics in
England sided with the Protestant English against the Catholics
in Spain, France and Germany:

"Among the many side-issues which meet the student of
the history of the Armada, that of the cooperation or favor of the
Pope, and of the Catholic party among the English, is naturally
important for Catholics. There can be no doubt, then, that though
the Spanish predominance was not at all desired for its own sake
by the Catholics of England, France, and Germany, or of Rome, yet
the widespread suffering and irritation caused by the religious
wars Elizabeth fomented, and the indignation caused by her
religious persecution, and the execution of Mary Stuart, caused
Catholics everywhere to sympathize with Spain, and to regard the
Armada as a crusade against the most dangerous enemy of the
Faith. ...

There is no doubt that all the exiles for religion at that time
shared Allen's sentiments, but not so the Catholics in
England. They had always been the most conservative of English
parties. The resentment they felt at being persecuted led them to
blame the queen's ministers, but not to question her right to
rule. To them the great power of Elizabeth was evident, the forces
and intentions of Spain were unknown quantities. They might,
should, and did resist until complete justification was set before
them, and this was in fact never attempted. Much, for instance, as
we know of the Catholic clergy then laboring in England, we cannot
find that any of them used religion to advance the cause of the
Armada. Protestant and Catholic contemporaries alike agree that
the English Catholics were energetic in their preparations against
it.

These examples show that people tend to side with the country they're
living in, rather than the country of their ancestors, and that
actually makes sense.

So we can look at these historical examples as support for the
proposition that Chinese-Americans and Chinese diaspora in other
foreign countries could very well side with the West against China.

It's a little more complicated than that, though. The Japanese in
World War II were a united country at war with China and the US.

But China in WW II was in a bloody north-south civil war (Mao's
communist revolution), and that refighting that civil war is expected
in the coming years.

The people of Hong Kong and Taiwan are largely from southern China, so
they would be expected to side with the West against the
northern-based CCP thugs.

However, there are many northerners in the Chinese diaspora in the
West, and so the question of which side the Chinese diaspora will be
on won't be decided until they're forced to make a choice.

---- Sources:

-- Hong Kong protests against extradition law spill into Sydney
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-hong ... SKCN1TA06L
(Reuters, 9-Jun-2019)


-- The Spanish Armada
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01727c.htm
(New Advent Encyclopedia)


----- Related:

World View: War Between China and Japan: Why America Must Be Prepared
(Generational Theory Book Series, Book 2)
by John James Xenakis
Paperback: 331 pages, over 200 source references, $13.99
https://www.amazon.com/dp/1732738637/

[Guest]

"It's clear that the Hong Kong dissidents are not going to back down.
And it's also clear that these growing protests will lead to panic in
Beijing, with resulting plans for wide retaliation. The timing and
form of that retaliation is yet to be seen, but it's sure to be
violent and bloody."

Yes, exactly. I fully expect the Chinese communist military to attack any day now. There is a concrete yellow army barracks in the middle of Hong Kong. I've seen it, but I have never seen any Chinese soldiers in Hong Kong. The Chinese don't have to invade the city; the soldiers are already there. They are invisible now, but they are there.

Yes, oceans of human blood will pour out of Hong Kong soon; along with billions in cash and the complete implosion of Hong Kong's economy. That will lead to the near collapse of mainland China's economy. I have a lot of experience in Asian countries; this is how it will pan out.

[Guest]

I bought a copy of your China book. Thank you for your hard work, John.

Still hoping to escape Korea in July.

[Tom Mazanec]

The Crisis of 2020: http://www.jordantimes.com/opinion/tala ... -world-war

[FishbellykanakaDude]

The Crisis of 2020: http://www.jordantimes.com/opinion/tala ... -world-war

Delusional.

"Brazil, Russia, India, China and Korea will grow at a steady rate during the next 10 years."

..uh,.. yeah.. ok...

[Guest]

The Crisis of 2020: http://www.jordantimes.com/opinion/tala ... -world-war

Delusional.

"Brazil, Russia, India, China and Korea will grow at a steady rate during the next 10 years."

..uh,.. yeah.. ok...

Asia is a train wreck. The economy is a disaster here. The governments here all rig the growth, inflation, and employment charts; and everybody knows it. Youth unemployment in Korea and China has led to prostitution among university graduates and mass emigration. Those who can do neither often commit suicide. It's an unmitigated disaster.

I can't imagine the Russians, Brazilians, and Indians are doing better. Brazil is on the brink of implosion and civil war. Russia is facing demographic collapse. And India can't even supply the average Indian a toilet.