【Article/Observer Network Columnist Crown of Tokamak】
White House press secretary Psaki said on Monday local time that the Biden administration will not send an official U.S. delegation to the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics.
Screenshot of CNN report
·“ Find a remedy"
This is a typical act of the Biden administration to find compensation, and the fundamental reason is that in the recent series of consultations between China and the United States, China has resolutely safeguarded its own national interests, refused to accommodate, take over, and take care of the inexplicable internal political sentiments of the United States, especially refusing to make satisfactory concessions to the United States on the issue of extremely serious systemic financial risks facing the United States at present.
It should be pointed out that the Biden administration clearly wants to repeat the old events of 2008, when the United States unabashedly used then-President Bush's visit to the opening ceremony of the 2008 Olympic Games as a bargaining chip against China, attracting then-French President Sarkozy and others to follow suit. At present, the Biden administration still wants to copy the previous set and talk about participating in the Winter Olympics, which is nothing more than that in the case of the United States lacking factual chips, it can only try to increase a little bargaining power by "imitating the old precedents of the past".
This is the typical carving of the boat and the sword.
Not to mention that the current comparison of comprehensive national strength between China and the United States is far from the situation in 2008, the United States is not qualified to stand in the so-called strength of the angle of China to ask for a price, just to say that the current systemic financial risks in the United States, and the subprime mortgage crisis in 2008 are obviously not the same grade of the problem. To put it bluntly, at present, the United States is in a deep bone, even if it wants to save, China can not save, I am afraid that no one in the world can save.
On the other hand, the Chinese side made it clear very early that it did not intend to invite US politicians to the opening ceremony this time, and deliberately did not use official channels but used "insider disclosure" to give the United States a step down, which is equivalent to letting the United States stop this kind of chip-making behavior in advance, and at the same time, it is also a good intention to advise the Biden administration to stop this self-humiliating behavior in time to avoid public scandal. This is a line of speech, which belongs to the clever political wisdom that allows the United States to discuss some serious matters with that bit of careful thinking. However, the Biden administration did not heed the advice and had to forcibly find a remedy, which was really ugly.
The deep-seated problem reflected here is that the political environment in the United States has become more and more distant from politics itself, and the main purpose of politicians in politics is obviously not to engage in politics, but to perform, to stay on stage through performance, and to enrich themselves by staying on stage. As for what politics itself is? What is politics itself for? How to do politics well? Obviously, it was not what the Gong Gong and the Man Tang Worms were thinking about at the moment.
The idea of performance and the idea of politics are completely different, the core of performance is to be big, in the words of the current self-media and short videos, it is to "live". As far as performers are concerned, "living" is life and just need, and "living" has everything, and it does not matter whether "living" itself is beneficial to the country, whether it can serve the development direction of advanced productive forces, the direction of progress of advanced culture, and the fundamental interests of the broadest masses of the people in our country.
Politicians want votes, not public interests, the goal of politics is to make the country live until the next century, and the goal of politicians is to make themselves live until next Friday.
·“ Performance"
Why is it that whenever China holds a grand event, people from all walks of life represented by Europe and the United States have to come out to make waves?
The fundamental reason is that the political environment in the West has degenerated, and the goals of politicians have changed from traditional political goals such as building the material foundation of a country, developing superstructure, nurturing metaphysics, and opening up the peace of the world to trying to survive until the next Friday. Then you also want to live to the next Friday, I also want to live to the next Friday, but there can only be one person who lives to the next Friday. Involution.
The direct consequence of this kind of political infighting is that the performances are getting more and more vigorous, paying more and more attention to visual effects, and engaging in politics is the same as hollywood.
When china holds a grand event, there is no doubt that the performance is full of effect, and a major international event like the Olympic Games itself has enough popularity, especially the Winter Olympics.
Here I would like to say that the Winter Olympics have an extremely broad social mass base in high latitudes such as the northern United States and Canada, and the people in those areas may pay much more attention to the Winter Olympic Games than the Summer Olympic Games. For example, the Winter Olympics key project ice hockey, the Attitude of the American North and Canadians to ice hockey may be better than the Attitude of the British to Football and Chinese to Table Tennis, and the world's highest level of professional ice hockey is the North American Professional Hockey League (NHL).
The Biden administration's choice of such a time to stir up trouble can not only fully demonstrate its fearless courage in not being afraid of the "unspeakable evil Far Eastern countries", but also attract a wave of traffic in time to attract the attention of the people in the north of the United States, and also give China's refusal to take care of the giant babies in the United States to forcibly find compensation. In his opinion, it can be described as a lot of success.
Biden is not stupid, he has obviously thought it through. Because 2022 is not only the year of the Beijing Winter Olympics, but also the year of the MID-term elections in the United States, and how important the midterm elections are needless to say, even as long as they can control congress, no one cares who is the president.
After Comrade "Understanding the King" was overthrown by american pro-establishment politicians in an almost coup d'état in the last general election, Biden took the throne; after he took office, he not only failed to clean up the mess left by the "Understanding King", but also further worsened the situation.
Taking the epidemic as an example, the cumulative number of deaths in the United States due to the new crown epidemic has exceeded 810,000, which has exceeded the total number of deaths in the United States in the two world wars, the Vietnam War, the Korean War, the Spanish-American War, the Afghan War, and the Iraq War, and even exceeded the number of deaths in the United States and the North and the South in the Civil War.
If this kind of thing were to be placed in China, would you dare to imagine? China has died more than 5,000 people due to the epidemic so far, and the whole country still has a sense of sadness, and it is afraid that hundreds of thousands of people will die like the United States.
This chaotic situation is precisely the biggest confidence that "understanding the king" dares to make a comeback. Moreover, "understanding the king" is now a banner, a brand, and a god card in the Republican Party, and if the "understanding king" does not fall, the Republican Party can still fight again. He himself is extremely capable of fundraising, and he alone raised more political money than the Republican Party has raised for the campaign combined, and the Republican National Committee Chairman Ronal McDaniel has made it clear that "Understand the King" is the most popular member of the Republican Party and has been de facto leading the Republican Party; the "Understanding King" himself has also repaid the favor, clearly promising that all the money he has raised will be used to help the Republican Party win the midterm elections.
Biden's hostility to "Understanding the King" is probably greater than his hostility to China, so he will desperately perform in order to suppress the "Understanding King" in the 2022 midterm elections. And 2022 happens to be the year of the Chinese Winter Olympics, and if this year, Sleeping King successfully shows the scene of "the heroic and fearless PRESIDENT refusing to succumb to the political pressure of the evil Far Eastern countries, refusing to attend the Winter Olympics, and standing with the gloriously isolated American people", I am afraid that it will really be a plus for the current Anti-Huawei basic politically correct American society.
You can't say that he is not refined in this abacus, there is only one small question - what is the benefit of Yu Guo?
From the perspective of US national interests, it is obvious that the most important task of the United States at the moment is not to be angry with China, let alone to serve the "sleeping king" and "understanding the king" to each other. Even if we don't talk about internal governance and social management, from the perspective of imperialism, the interests of the United States are not here.
At present, the core problem of the United States is to make every effort to suppress the inflation problem, especially to maintain the basic credit of the US dollar in the environment of indiscriminate issuance of banknotes, especially to firmly maintain the foundation of the three major DOLLAR credits of trade settlement currency, exchange rate benchmark currency and foreign exchange reserve currency. The fact that the princes of Capitol Hill can be officials and eat animals in the court is not because of the manifest destiny of the United States, but because of the abundant national foundation of the ancestral martial virtue, which is what the Us ruling class should really protect with heart.
To maintain this, it is necessary to gather the world's major economies together, spread out the chips that the United States can trade, and engage in a little pragmatic and effective bargaining. To put it bluntly, it is to use real profits to redeem the credibility of the dollar, rather than trying to empty the gloves of the white wolf with such a vain thing as "attending the Olympic Games".
The United States is no better than it was then, this is the reality; China is not what it was then, this is also the reality. Only by clearly understanding reality can we do a good job in politics and not be a worm.
In short, even from an imperialist point of view, the present United States is extremely unqualified, a failed empire.
Biden is not stupid, and can even be said to be very smart, but at the moment he is like the brilliant Jiajing Emperor in "Daming Dynasty 1566", his IQ is all used in extremely selfish and fly-camp dog places, he will only take the blood of the state to shape his own golden body, and the time and energy are used to fight with the Qingliu civil officials in the court. The smarter such a person is, the greater the harm to the country.
Stills from "Daming Dynasty 1566"
Be alert
Besides, can doing things at a grand event held in China really harm China?
There is an Arabic proverb: The dog is barking, and the camel caravan is still advancing. Setting off this anti-China wave will only enable Chinese people to further understand the faces of these people.
Just look at the 2008 Summer Olympic Games, the wave of boycott launched by international figures represented by then French President Sarkozy, and the overseas anti-China forces that were making waves at that time, not only did not shake China and hurt China, but on the contrary, the Chinese people once again received systematic patriotic education, enhanced the awareness of national security, and made Chinese society fully realize that fighting in the international community is not to invite guests to dinner, not to make a fuss, not to paint embroidery, but to always remain vigilant and never slack.
The difficult cause of sailing against the current and retreating without advancing once again brought together the Chinese people, who had slackened their thinking due to years of rapid economic development. It can even be said that In recent years, Chinese society has been able to gradually recognize the current situation at home and abroad, and let those Fifth Columns lose their position in the right to speak, to a large extent, thanks to the 2008 Summer Olympic Games and the anti-China elements.
It is precisely our enemies who educate us, and it is precisely our enemies who awaken us.
Finally, a poem by the people's leader is given back to those people:
A small globe, with a few flies hitting a wall. Buzzing, a few mournful, a few sobs. The ant edge is exaggerated, and the grasshopper shakes the tree. The westerly wind is falling under the leaves of Chang'an, flying and singing. How many things, never urgent; Heaven and earth turn, and time is pressing. Ten thousand years is too long, only to fight for the day. The four seas churned with clouds and water, and the five continents shook and thundered. Sweep away all pests and be invincible!
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