Van Morrison - CONEY ISLAND

It amazes me, really. This anti-China thing that Australia has going at the moment. Why is China so bad right now? Because Donald Trump doesn't like them...that's the only reason...and the whole free media machine is instantly on the case. Pathetic. Australia is formulating ideas about how to deal with China etc...goodness me, for fuck's sake, we don't have a voice in any of that. America tells us when to trade, who to trade with, tells us our moralities and who we must support etc...and, for the size that Australia is, China doesn't care anyway. Tiny countries don't tell huge countries what to do, never have, never will. we are so full of ourselves to the exception of all others, and to the exception of reality itself. We'll be ok as long as we have stuff to dig up and sell them...that's how Australia has been for 25 years. That's why we have a reasonable, if falling, first world economy...thats why we still have pensions, an education system, a health system etc...because of China...no other reason. Nothing we've done for ourselves.... We still have stuff to sell. The rest is wanky rubbish-thinking.

Spring Sunset in a plain north-western suburb in deep southern Australia. Crows grow quiet. Various chirpy be-speckled small birds wonder whether to fly back to the new spring nests now or eat a few more seeds. They discuss this point. They note that it is safe to stay awhile. The big sky, mostly blue, is instantly cold with the slow departure of the yellowy unbuttered still wintry sun. House bricks absorb the last of the warmth for the trailing day. The TV news is telling people who they should dislike and fear today. Oh, it's China again. No surprises there, as we only get our opinions from America these days, and America is always afraid of someone. The radio babbles away with songs about girls just wanting to have fun. The world is moving into economic recession. In an hour, or so, the late, tired, low paid commuters will come home here to the gentle quiet.

On Hong Kong: I would expect the protestations will last about 6 more months or a year. The economy will fall. The Chinese Government will not interfere, and the squabble will become between the protestors and those who are happy as they are, basically the parents of the protestors, and the happy have the numbers...but the families will not break. After all, Hong Kong IS China. Families don't break. Chinese women hold it all together.

I guess some folk think that China could collapse, and give freedom to the narcissistic well off young Honk Kongers, the incestuous pederast Tibetans, the Mad Manchurians, the terrorist Uighurs, etc, and I guess it could, but it would be centuries after Hawaii achieves separate nation hood, by direct war with the USA, and long after the Dharug Mob own Sydney again, and sets up borders in Neutral Bay, and the Tasmanian Aborigines re-take Tasmania by Force. There will be One China for many, many hundreds of years to come and the impact of New China will be more influential in all the forms, money, art, science, technology, than the Romans ever were, and all without War. A new type of Human Civilisation. We will, over the decades, having been bred on the USA and the UKs multiple horrid wars, just have to get used to that, to get used to world peace. it won't be easy for us to do that, but we won't have a choice. Peace is good. Peace is better. Peace works. War is hell, and we can't win that war...we can't depend on Hell anymore to make things better for us. China will make things a lot better for China. What we does up to us, but I'd suggest we look after each other rather than to pre-figure or prescribe some enemy...to make an enemy of people who only want to buy and sell stuff with us anyway.

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