Is China a Fascist State?
Is China a Fascist state? I've heard several observers compare China now to European Fascist states in the 1920s and 1930s:Chinese dragon awakens
China's economy has been growing at a rate of at least 10 percent for each of the past 10 years, providing the country's military with the needed funds for modernization. The combination of a vibrant centralized economy, growing military and increasingly fervent nationalism has transformed China into what many defense officials view as a fascist state. "We may be seeing in China the first true fascist society on the model of Nazi Germany, where you have this incredible resource base in a commercial economy with strong nationalism, which the military was able to reach into and ramp up incredible production," a senior defense official said. For Pentagon officials, alarm bells have been going off for the past two years as China's military began rapidly building and buying new troop- and weapon-carrying ships and submarines. The release of an official Chinese government report in December called the situation on the Taiwan Strait "grim" and said the country's military could "crush" Taiwan. "The China military buildup has been accelerating since 1999. As the buildup has gotten worse, China is trying hard to mask it."
China throws down gauntlet to USA Inc
China is also a major holder of US debt. Put simply, the US is in hock to the Chinese to such an extent that if all the bills were called in at once, Uncle Sam would be bust. It's not in China's interests to destabilise the world economy at the moment, but circumstances change. Beijing might just like to keep that card - a financial nuclear option - up its sleeve for some future geopolitical crisis.
posted by Unknown @ 12:33 PM
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fascism (a term/movement coined by benito juarez mussolini) was a variant of socialism - as was Nazism (which after all stood for national socialist workers party).
the war fought between - on the one side - hitler and mussolini, and on the other side STALIN
was an internecine battle, not unlike the clash between trotsky and stalin - only on a more horrifying scale.
therefore it is NO NEWS that communist shina is "fascistic".
in fact, the concetp that left is commie and right is nazi/fasci is nothing more than commie propaganda. (which FDR used to assuage the public because we used stalin to defeat hitler).
in the traditional poltical spectrum,. commies are on the lef and nazis on the right. (and democracies with mixed staes/varying degrees of sociaism go in the middle). BUT THEN. WHERE DO YOU LOGICALLY PLACE ANARCHISM!? it has no where to go.
THE TRUE/ACCURATE POLITICAL SPECTRUM PLACES NAZISM AND COMMUNISM AND FASCISM all on the left (BECAUSE THEY ARE ALL STATIST IDEOLOGIES WHICH DEMAND THE INDIVDUAL SUBVERT HIS RIOGHTS TO THE COLLECTIVE - AS DETRMINED BY AN ELITE).THEN... you place anarchism - which is by its very defintion ANTI-STATISM in extremis - on the right.
Mixed demcracies/welfare staes go in the middle.
The Left - who dominated/still the academy - did not want their ideology to be associsated woith Hitler or Mussolini, that's why they invented the illogival model - which is a vestige of the 1930's.
It's LONG passed time we junked it.
The Chicoms and Hitler and Schroeder and Teddy Kennedy and UBL are all statists of one degree or another. And that's the FUNDAMENTAL reason why they must all be opposed.
Given the extent of China's dependence on trade and raw materials sourced from abroad, we are safe as long as China proves to be prudent about who it attacks.
Unfortunately a moment's reflection reveals that the track record of fascist states is exactly the opposite of reassuring in this respect.
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