newkidontheblock wrote: ↑Sun Jul 26, 2020 7:59 pm The world will either be communist Chinese in the end or there will a cultural war to prevent that from happening.

Does it have to be necessarily communist or simply Chinese in the end? The emperors were not communist. The ideology may change in another hundred years.

hunter8 wrote:

newkidontheblock wrote: ↑Sun Jul 26, 2020 7:59 pm The world will either be communist Chinese in the end or there will a cultural war to prevent that from happening.

Does it have to be necessarily communist or simply Chinese in the end? The emperors were not communist. The ideology may change in another hundred years.

The CCP is like Iron Man, neither will be going away. They will hold onto power as long as there is the Mandate of Heaven. But since they can now control people’s thinking with the social credit system and the electronic Great Wall, there is nothing to challenge their reality. The Mandate is forever.

China has dynastic cycles. At the end of the cycle, things get very messy. There are decades of chaos and turmoil.

But the culture persists. Win at all costs. Absorb all and transform into (communist) Chinese. Obedience, loyalty, self-sacrifice, for the greater good. (Aka the party, previously the emperor.)

Outsiders can’t understand. Hence, not allowed to pollute the Chinese restaurants in Phnom Penh (borrowed from another topic).

newkidontheblock wrote: ↑Sun Jul 26, 2020 7:59 pm The Chinese strategy is simple. Sinification = transforming non-Chinese into Chinese.

i have to say nkotb usually spews lots of naive
but in this case, spot on