People seem to think, or want, that China will somehow become democratic, or will collapse...but neither is realistic. China will continue as the massive and united society it is for a couple of hundred years at least, growing more powerful etc yet not war-like. In this way China is very different from every other rising power in our Western histories. It doesn't make war. We will have to get used to that. Sure, within China, there will be better organised more representational forms within government, but never anything as stupid as what we define as democracy. China is doing well and will continue to do well. As for the government...a solid party core at the centre of a free wheeling yet controlled capitalism, it will do very well indeed. The world has never seen a society like China as it now begins to just emerge on the world scene, so we have no way of understanding it. Our histories of rising and collapsing empires isnt what China is doing at all. it is not like what we know or understand. Tibet will not be free to sell its resources to India or America. Hong Kong will remain a city in China. Taiwan will be accommodated. China operates on the basis of the Walled World Concept, whilst utilising globalism as it is. The Great Gates of China, well, some open, and some close, as it suits the times, but it remains China. One China, intact. Certain.

I think the best way through the current social miasma to a new social dawn is simply to: 1: As Much as Humanly Possible, Buy Nothing. Minimise Food purchases, minimise energy use, and never buy cars or anything electrical. Just let them be, and let them run down. That about sums it up. That would really, really, help the whole world.

as a member of HACSU I note that when you put a legitimate comment about HACSU on the site, and its removed in a minute, then, a member feels they might as well withdraw their $500 a year membership and spend it on the charities of their own choosing. $500 is a lot of money to be wasted. I don't have that kind of money to waste just because my Union is interested in funding themselves and other vague changing social notions that never deliver improvements to their members pay packet. We are talking in the Decades now.

As an Australian, On the whole, I don't mind Trump at all. He hasn't launched a major war or conflict in his time as President. In this way, he has done more for world peace than Obama, and all the previous presidents going back to Carter. Sure, he is in favour of Americans in America having guns, but they only shoot other Americans with them. That's fine. The world doesn't need more Americans. And, yes, he is pulling US Forces out of Asia, which is great for all of us for enduring world peace.

What's happening? Really? Well, I'll talk to them about that. I'm sure we can work things out. If not, well, don't you worry, they'll answer to me!

HISTORY LESSON: Recalling Australian desire to form a free trade-association with China. A decade before the decision by Tony Abbott, New Zealand agreed to a very good trade deal with China, with the New Zealand players noting...well, China is the biggest economic market place on earth, and we are a really small country, and we got a very good deal! Very true indeed. For that decade Australia was told by the USA not to have a free-trade agreement with China, or suffer the consequences of the USA not being our friend...thus the USA had the opportunity, and took it, to sell all the same kind of stuff we wanted to sell to China without having us as a competitor. It was only when, after that ten years, that President Xi noted in a public forum that China WOULD sign a free-trade agreement with Australia that same year, and then stuck a $30/ton tariff on Australian coal until we agreed it was a good idea...as soon as the tariff was imposed, the then PM Tony Abbott flew immediately to China, signed the deal, and said it was a great achievement, and we were the best of friends, whilst the US Secretary of State, at the time, Hilary, said we shouldn't have done it. It interfered with USA export profits to China. How was Australia a friend of the USA if also a competitor? The "Smart" Australian view was to basically 'ride two horses, with one foot on each'...unfortunately, they didn't notice that the horses were going in opposite directions. Not Smart, Australia. Best to have gone one way or the other, way back then. Too late now. 2020: Australia: Broke both legs....and no real friends.

As for the USA relaxing covid-19 restrictions, well, why not? See how they go. It's kind of like watching what happens in a petri-dish from a long way away. \Same with their gun laws...or lack of laws. If guns and disease make them happy, well, good. They don't need to ask anyone else's opinion, and they never do anyway. If it all means less Americans, the real world can cope with quite a few million less of them in a minute.