Things are heating up in China…👀
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Um, you'd THINK that Moser would be using his time to GET OUT of China. Rebellions and riots in China have a long history of not being very friendly toward outsiders.
And Westerners have a very long history of stupidity and suicidal behavior when it comes to being present in rapidly degrading situations.
Both would be right in line with historical precedent
Brings to mind that British school teacher/principal that went canoeing in Brazil. She was warned by the locals that she was entering a very dangerous area and that she would definitely be killed. She made some social media posts mocking their warning. The next day she paddled into the forbidden zone and was raped and killed. Noteworthy that someone with such horrendous judgement was in charge of teaching children.
Ya' got THAT right. If anyone has ever seen "The Comedians," "The Killing Fields," or "A Year Of Living Dangerously" should know that. Another movie that comes to mind it an old Steve McQueen movie, "Sand Pebbles" set in China at the time of the Boxer Rebellion. Great movie by the way.
Yes. It is.
Yeah - there has always been an undercurrent of rabid xenophobia in China. These sorts of very high emotions can unleash it for a time and then things would go back to normal and you would be welcome again as a foreigner.
In the 1930's when Stilwell was on assignment in China he was tasked to do some recon mission which saw him travelling across land to Shanghai and he was very nearly lynched on a train. It was only his Chinese associate telling them that he was on his way to see the Generalissimo and if anyone impeded that they would have to answer to him that took the wind out of their sails.
Barbara Tuchman's book "Stilwell and the American Experience in China" is fascinating and describes this time. I read it years ago but the ending stayed with me - after years of the Americans trying to change the way the Chinese did things, once the Americans left, "it was as if they had never been there".
Yeah - I read it probably about 5 years ago. I found it fascinating.
A lot of Americans think Stilwell was a communist agent. Being armed with an understanding of how obstinate and corrupt the generalissimo and his regime were makes me doubt that. The idea that 'we lost china' has always seemed strange to me. China is one of the worlds great civilsations, it was never Americas to loose or to decide what course they took and the futility of trying to foist our system on them seems doomed to fail from the start when you understand just how backwards China was at the time.
Why we were so insistent on even opening (forcing) relations with them is a mystery to me.
I get what you’re saying, but in a time of real crisis, putting on a convincing disguise will be easy:
https://www.cheatsheet.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Mickey-Rooney-in-Breakfast-at-Tiffanys.jpg
Hehehehe....
Or maybe his resolve has increased to the point he’s developed the Cajones many of us need to Grow… Both DOMESTICALLY and Abroad !!
If he had cajones, he'd come home and help fix THIS country, fuck China.
True… that’s why I put DOMESTICALLY in Caps ! In every battle different people have different responsibilities.. Albeit this is a Worldwide Problem and what happens there will definitely effect us, we need First to get Our House in Order !! He’s apprising us of those dangers, but This is more a Callout to WE THE PEOPLE Stationed on The Home Front….
True dat!