By Philip Yeung
Trump is backward-looking
Trump's MAGA is backward-looking. Make America Great Again is basically yearning for a lost past. To China, Trump is a reactionary. Devoid of the idea of progress, he only reacts. He blames anything and everything he dislikes on foreigners, especially transplanted foreigners who have made America home and made America great. The kernel of his concept is xenophobia. Trump's backward-looking is compounded by his inward-looking, driven by insecurity and fear of things foreign. It is government-by-whim, not government-by-reason.
Sidetracked by attention-seeking
Now another cancer is eating his diseased mind. As a pathological attention-seeker, he sleepwalks into a trap set by the diabolical Netanyahu and gets sucked into the Iran-Israeli war. People used to say that Trump is a born businessman who wants no wars. But Netanyahu plays him like a fiddle, as Trump is tricked into wars that get him worldwide attention. An erratic character is as dangerous as he is anti-progress.
Trump is just humping his old fax machine
I have yet to see a country that can make itself great (again) by wallowing in the past. This is exactly what ails the British. Their disastrous Brexit has left them with a much-shrunken global footprint. Isolationism doesn't spell greatness. He doesn't understand that it spells disruptions to the intertwined global supply chains. Trump is vision-impaired. What he sees comes only from the rear-view mirror. For all his brash and bold slogans, Trump is no revolutionary. A disruptor, he is no visionary change agent. Hate-filled, short-sighted, half-educated and wholly egocentric, he has gate-crashed and hijacked the US power system. A troubled man, deficient in compassion and drowning in self-love, what he is doing is equivalent to humping his old office fax machine.
No idea of planning or progress
The British historian EH Carr, famous for his study of the Soviet Union, lamented the absence of the idea of progress among Western leaders. He believed that planning was essential for significant economic progress. But in the West, systematic economic planning is ideologically repugnant and untested. It is also politically incorrect.
China shows the world the way
Enter the Chinese Dragon. China did not commit the former Soviet Union's mistake of enforcing rigid central economic planning. Instead, the Chinese came up with an ingenious hybrid system that filters the best from the West and tempers it with smart, long-term planning. Thus "Socialism with Chinese characteristics" is born. Visit any of its Special Economic Zones and see their magical transformation for yourself. Go to Zhuhai and see how livable and people-friendly the city is. If you are a holidaymaker, take a ride on the dirt-cheap, passenger-friendly local bus. From one end of the city to another, the bus fare is a miserly one RMB yuan or 14 US cents. A hot lunch is yours for under two US dollars. It is a paradise for the budget-conscious.
Long-term economic planning is a watershed moment in Chinese history, giving the country jaw-dropping bridges, sea-skimming highways and sleek high-speed trains. Its ubiquitous cashless payment system has made its streets walkable and virtually crime-free.
Compare the chaos in America with calm progress in China
Paranoid and green-eyed America has labeled China an evil system where people are downtrodden and sour-faced. Nothing could be further from the truth. Instead, you will see the young and not-so-young jogging along the seashore, the old waltzing in square dances. Everywhere, people are in love with life. No tear gas. No rubber bullets. No handcuffs, and no mass deportations. And no shuffling soldiers in an unsynchronized military parade for the leader's birthday either. L.A., right now, is a free fire zone.
China thinks in decades, centuries even. America can't see beyond its nose to the next quarter or the next election cycle. Its two-faced politicians are monkeys in a zoo, without backbone or belief, only a backward view.
The world prays for divine intervention
Trump is too erratic for the good of his country or the world. He thinks local. He thinks today. He thinks this moment. When he does venture into tomorrow, he is marching backward into the past. This attention-seeker gets sidetracked easily, launching hostilities on multiple fronts. He has no boundaries, ill-served by a cabinet of directionless losers and bootlickers. This arsonist is too busy putting out his own fires. His political shenanigans require battalions of marines armed to the teeth to handle the internal, self-induced chaos. America doesn't have a leader. It has an ogre—a 79-year-old goat who loves expensive military parades to celebrate his evacuation from his mother's uterus. The world must pray hard for divine intervention---as 2028 seems like an eternity in agony.
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