Thunor on Nostr: I'd rather not accuse you of being wrong Peter, but what you've omitted to say about ...

I'd rather not accuse you of being wrong Peter, but what you've omitted to say about the "real" China includes hidden facts that would shock most people. The most blatant of which are as follows ...

China joined the World Trade Organization (at the time, many argue prematurely) on December 11, 2001. That event was the culmination of 15 years of almost constant negotiations, during which China made extensive "commitments" to reform its domestic policies and reduce trade barriers (after all incentives to do so had already been removed by their late 2001 accession to the WTO!).

Unsurprisingly, therefore, China never fulfilled those commitments to the WTO ... an organization it has arrogantly tried to dominate in the same way it has tried (some would argue, successfully) to dominate the WHO.

China has cheated (in one way or another) almost every nation it has ever engaged with commercially since early 2002 ... and especially those more creative nations, such as Britain, the USA, Canada, Germany, and Australia. They also commenced a series of corrupt projects in both Cambodia and Malaysia. The chronic problems in Myanmar also carry the fingerprints of Beijing.

What this means is ... China has engaged in premeditated Intellectual Property theft on a grand scale, to such a degree, it should have already been thrown out of the WTO.

For example, all those sleek and fancy 300 mph trains you can see displayed in Youtube videos started out as the technologically brilliant brainchild of Germany's Siemens ... which the Chinese then turned into a self-congratulatory "nationalist" achievement after acquiring (i.e., stealing) all the know-how from the too trusting Germans.