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The Chinese Floods Will Change the Balance of Power On the Planet
Submitted by Dave Hodges on Sunday, July 26, 2020
Researched by Pastor Gary Boyd

All of the Chinese-manufactured protective equipment is now underwater.

China's next harvest is almost 100% destroyed.

China could soon have 400-500 million refugees. How many young men will be eager to join the Chinese military just so they can eat?

Massive famine, both in China and around the world will soon be realized.

China will be seeking to claim and take what it does not have, namely food.

Does anyone think that this will end well?

The following describes all of these disasters and yet, this is only the tip of the iceberg. The following broadcast is not for the faint of heart.

https://thecommonsenseshow.com/tragedy/chinese-floods-will-change-balance-power-planet

According to Gordon Chang author the book "The Coming Collapse of China", a Chinese-American lawyer and China specialist, the People's Republic is a paper dragon. Peer beneath the veneer of modernization since Mao's death, and the symptoms of decay are everywhere: Deflation grips the economy, state-owned enterprises are failing, banks are hopelessly insolvent, foreign investment continues to decline, and Communist party corruption eats away at the fabric of society.

Beijing's cautious reforms have left the country stuck midway between communism and capitalism, Chang writes. With its impending World Trade Organization membership, for the first time China will be forced to open itself to foreign competition, which will shake the country to its foundations. Economic failure will be followed by government collapse. Covering subjects from party politics to the Falun Gong to the government's insupportable position on Taiwan, Chang presents a thorough and very chilling overview of China's present and not-so-distant future.

Yet despite everything, Xi's China has still managed to become a technology leader in critical fields, such as quantum communications and 5G wireless communications. The Chinese, because of their success, are now racing to own the technologies of this century.

China also has weaknesses. Its economy is failing, and the regime, through especially provocative actions, is losing the support of the international community. The country's window of vulnerability, however, is only a few years at most. So this is the time for the world to act.

Thinker David Goldman persuasively argues that it does not matter whether the Chinese people can innovate. Their regime has put together all the elements needed to dominate technology.

Beijing spends enormous sums pursuant to meticulously crafted multiyear programs, like the 13th Five-Year Plan, the Digital Silk Road effort, and the infamous Made in China 2025 initiative. When China spends, it spends big. Premier Li Keqiang, while issuing his Work Report at the National People's Congress meeting at the end of last month, announced a campaign to build "new types of infrastructure," in other words, technology.

China, therefore, is going on a tech-spending binge. More than a dozen Chinese municipalities, including Beijing and Shanghai, have since the beginning of this year committed to spend $935 billion, and corporations like Alibaba and Tencent will chip in. The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology talks about the country committing $1.4 trillion in the next five years.

China can spend, but can it innovate in an oppressive political system? Oppressive political systems kill creativity in the arts and social sciences, but they also stifle the other sciences. Innovation often does not benefit from top-down decisions that are often ill-conceived and therefore counterproductive.

Yet it doesn't matter whether communist regimentation has made the Chinese people tech dullards — by and large they are not — because bureaucrats can hire all the creative talent they need from other countries.

As Goldman points out, "For the first time in its long history, China has succeeded in recruiting Western innovators on a large scale." There are, for instance, 50,000 foreigners working for national champion Huawei Technologies including, he writes, "some of Europe's best scientists and engineers in the field."

That was the formula for China's lead in quantum communications. Beijing took the breakthrough of an American — Albert Einstein described the phenomena of "spooky action at a distance" — and expertise from Vienna, and created for itself at least a half-decade lead in developing hack-proof quantum communications.

In another quantum area, computing, China's home-grown effort is lagging. Google is far ahead with a 72-qubit computer. IBM's computer is 50 qubits, and China, according to Zhu Xiaobo of the University of Science and Technology of China, is "working on 24 qubits."

China also is working on plundering Google, which has various operations in the People's Republic including its AI China Center in Beijing and partnerships with the country's two leading universities, Peking and Tsinghua. Yet the company has larger plans. "As Google's AI research ramps up in China, they will ultimately need greater capabilities than a built-from-scratch cloud computing firm can provide," Brandon Weichert of the Weichert Report told Gatestone. "So it is inevitable that Google will attempt to either partner with or purchase a Chinese cloud computing firm, like Tencent."

America's artificial intelligence efforts get an indirect boost from Google's operations in China, but China is benefiting a lot more, especially because tech, like water, flows downhill. Moreover, tech transfers to the Chinese pose a threat to Americans because of Beijing's policy of "civil-military fusion." This policy means there is no such thing as civilian-only tech cooperation in that country. The technologies that Beijing manages to beg, borrow, or steal — often steal — is directly pipelined to the People's Liberation Army.

So Google, which has refused to work with the U.S. Defense Department on artificial intelligence, is helping the Chinese military in that critical field. This situation is hideous, and hideous things never last. "The United States has to absolutely prohibit Google and other tech firms from doing business in China or with Chinese firms," Weichert, also the author of an upcoming book on Chinese space tech, tells me. Furthermore, he persuasively argues that Washington must prohibit American manufacturing concerns from transferring technology to China.

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