{"id":52832,"date":"2020-04-28T07:59:51","date_gmt":"2020-04-28T12:59:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=52832"},"modified":"2020-04-28T07:59:57","modified_gmt":"2020-04-28T12:59:57","slug":"chinagate-is-the-new-russiagate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=52832","title":{"rendered":"Chinagate is the New Russiagate"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/libertyblitzkrieg.com\/2020\/04\/27\/chinagate-is-the-new-russiagate\/\">Chinagate is the New Russiagate<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/libertyblitzkrieg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Screen-Shot-2020-04-27-at-10.18.07-AM.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-64379\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>I\u2019ve become convinced the next major event that\u2019ll be used to further centralize power and escalate domestic authoritarianism will center around U.S.-China tensions. We haven\u2019t witnessed this \u201cevent\u201d yet, but there\u2019s a good chance it\u2019ll occur within the next year or two. Currently, the front runner appears to be a major aggressive move by China into Hong Kong, but it could be anything really. Taiwan, the South China Sea, currency, economic or cyber warfare; the flash points are numerous and growing by the day. Something is going to snap and when it does we better be prepared to not act like mindless imbeciles for the fourth time this century.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>When that day arrives, and it\u2019s likely not too far off, certain factions will try to sell you on the monstrous idea that we must become more like China to defeat China. We\u2019ll be told we need more centralization, more authoritarianism, and less freedom and civil liberties or China will win. Such talk is nonsense and the wise way to respond is to reject the worst aspects of the Chinese system and head the other way.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2013 From my 2019 piece:&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/libertyblitzkrieg.com\/2019\/12\/02\/two-paths-forward-with-china-the-good-and-the-bad\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Two Paths Forward with China \u2013 The Good and The Bad<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As the clownish farce that is Russiagate slinks back into the psyop dumpster from which it emerged, an even more destructive narrative has&nbsp;metastasized following&nbsp;the U.S. government\u2019s incompetent response to covid-19.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was clear to me from the start that Russiagate was a nonsensical narrative wildly embraced by a variety of powerful people in the wake of Trump\u2019s election merely to serve their own ends. For establishment Democrats, it was a way to pretend Hillary Clinton didn\u2019t actually lose because she was a wretched status quo candidate with a destructive track record, but she lost due to \u201cforeign meddling.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chinagate is the New Russiagate I\u2019ve become convinced the next major event that\u2019ll be used to further centralize power and escalate domestic authoritarianism will center around U.S.-China tensions. We haven\u2019t witnessed this \u201cevent\u201d yet, but there\u2019s a good chance it\u2019ll occur within the next year or two. Currently, the front runner appears to be a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5,6],"tags":[130,15282,827,855],"class_list":["post-52832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-geopolitics","category-liberty","tag-china","tag-russiagate","tag-united-states","tag-viral-pandemic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52832"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52832\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52833,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52832\/revisions\/52833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}