Jay, it continues to fascinate me how two people can see the same coin but observe two different sides; reverse and obverse. Or perhaps it's more like a single reality, but one person is looking in a mirror with left and right transposed - at least top and bottom don't get transposed or we'd really be in a muddle. Top and bottom get transposed from our corneas to our retinas, then tipped back up the right way in our brains. Yet, for the most part, with all the mixing up, people sensibly go about their business and buy CDMA cyberphones and have a happy life.
Your post was excellent, yet I suspect was meaning the reverse of my obverse.
I do not know if Zemin is weak or not, but I do know that weakness can show through in a variety of ways, for example, in clarity of thinking, logic of reason, sense of proportion, honesty, and intellect, not to mention the courage to face the truth, and re-examine faulty judgment and unwind unwise decision.
Meanwhile, in the cash flow realm, Jiang's sons are doing okay. There is obviously serious cash flow up the political tree to the right place in China.
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Jiang Zemin lacks a sense of history. members.tripod.com He needs to go back a little to get a sense of proportion and historic flow. He's wanting to return to the hideous realm of the Forbidden City after Ghengkis Khan had marauded across the landscape. The Forbidden City is just up the road from him, so I can see how he'd get sidetracked by it. He has to drive around it to the airport.
Like Saddam, he has a chance to remake the world suitably for the 21st century, but instead is casting his mind back into the dark ages for megalomaniac purposes and with false sense of which direction the world is going. They should think whether we are observing the obverse or reverse of the same coin. It's too late for Saddam, but not for Jiang Zemin, though time is running out.
There is an arrow of time and it does not run backwards. There is a teleological trend. We do not drive looking in the rear view mirror. We are not seeing reality when left is right while looking in that mirror. We don't know where we're going, but we're on our way. We can't stay where we are because in the last last couple of hours, the Earth has spun, people have been born, people have died, the sun has risen and all is different again. We have a much better chance of getting there if we are gung ho than if one megalomaniac wishes to dictate with false concepts and decides to kill anyone who gets in his way.
Saddam and Zemin wish to remake the world in the reverse image of a time gone by with left as right and serfdom as freedom; note the palindrome nature of those reversed words [serf free].
Zemin has an opportunity with Taiwan to build a One Country, Two Systems way of life to which New Zealand could also sign up. The Eurozone is trying the same trick with a suffocatocracy of bureaucrats. The USA did it with the Federal Papers and their constitution of closely bound states. The UN has tried it with a WWII Victors Club cobbled together arrangement with vetoes and oddities such as India being just an also-ran.
China and Taiwan and Hong Kong for that matter could create a political entity which would be so attractive that people would want to be in it, not frightened of megalomaniac rule by some Kingdom of the Kleptocratic Khans [KKK]. We the Sheeple are nervous about being herded into meat works. We have seen the KKK types before and their secret society murderous ways. We like our freedom and self-determination within happy harmony in a gung ho world.
Jiang is too long in the tooth, I suspect, to do as you say and have < the courage to face the truth, and re-examine faulty judgment and unwind unwise decisions. >
Jiang could hold a UN constitutional conference to deal with such situations, remaking the whole world, not just the reversed and backward-looking historical world he imagines. Or maybe Hu Jintao could arrange it. Give him a call Jay, you can speak the lingo. I'd have to talk in colonialese. Tell him Mqurice asked you to make a suggestion. I've got some presents for him if he can get a new constitution for the UN to reflect 21st century geopolitical realities instead of red in tooth and claw megalomania. I've got a nice silk wedding tapestry, with white herons and other symbols and a pair of small vases. I've wondered what to do with them having inherited them a couple of decades ago, so have just stored them to wait for a suitable place for them to go. I'll throw in one of those super-duper phragmented photon CDMA2000 cyberphones which bring peace, light, harmony, happiness, health, prosperity, longevity, fun and love. What the heck, I'll also throw in a RoamAD WiFi network to cover central Beijing, plus a free subscription for him.
Or, we could rumble. Bring it on!
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