What a full-on surveillance state looks like; Hong Kong and the USA funded NED insurgency.

We often talk (and complain) about the bad side of the new Orwellian police state that all nations are morphing into. Yet, with all of our moaning, groaning, and complaining we neglect to look at the more positive aspects. No, this is not an article in praise of the Orwellian Police State. Instead, we look at how intense monitoring of enormous populations, using high resolution cameras and 5G networks enable full “real time” tracking of agitators and hooligans. Especially those from another nation. Ones that are intended to destabilize, and cause strife, for global political ends.

In particular, we will look at the tracking (by China) of the United States agitation in the (so called) “Free Democracy” movement in Hong Kong during the Summer of 2019.

Quick Review

The United States under President Donald Trump has been involved in difficult negotiations with China over trade. These negotiations began in 2017, and “heated up” in early Summer of 2019. During the Summer of 2019 mass “Pro Democracy” protests broke out in Hong Kong. The idea, of course, has been to put every type and means of “pressure” on China so that the trade negotiations would fall in favor of the United States.

I covered the Chinese reaction to all this here. The link below opens up into a separate tab so as not to interrupt your viewing pleasure in this article.

These “pressures” included such things as…

• Increasing Tariffs on Chinese made products.
• Protests and disruptions in Hong Kong.
• Asking European Nations to stop or break trade with China.
• Financial incentives to other nations.
• Pressure on American companies to move back to the USA.

Time will tell just how effective they will all be.

What I do know, as of the time of this writing, at the tail-end of September moving forward into the 70th anniversary of China, the following is true…

[1] International Trade

• There is a GLOBAL slowing of all international trade.
• International trade, across the board is reduced by 30%.
• Companies located in strong pro-USA nations (Australia, NZ, and the UK) are looking for alternative off-shore supply chain operations outside of China. But there just aren’t any.

[2] American Trade With China

China has also surprised Americans with the most complete supply chains  in the world. "You need a thousand rubber gaskets? That's the factory  next door. You need a million screws? That factory is a block away. You  need that screw made a little bit different? It will take three hours,"  one former high-ranking Apple executive was quoted as saying in a New  York Times report. 

- Smaller US companies depend on Chinese supply chain  

• The clear majority of American companies are staying inside of China. This is out of financial necessity. They do not have the financial means to take on the enormous financial risks to relocate back to the USA.
• Those American companies are passing on the tariffs directly to the American consumer (25% direct) or (10% through a “pass through” arrangement).
• But all accounts, the tariff situation is hurting American consumers much more than it is hurting China.

Read about the reasons here. Opens in a separate tab.

[3] Cut in American Food Items for Export

• The cut in importation of American foodstuffs has resulted in the increase in the price of food. But not in the availability of food. China has food galore and a-plenty.
• This goes absolutely against the American media narrative. Which on some websites are even suggesting famine! It’s insane. Ah, but, it’s easy enough to check.
• China has spent the last thirty years building up their self-sufficiency in food, technology and vital products. They have not forgotten the mistakes made under Communism under Mr. Mao.

Now, of course, there are all kinds of different cuts of pork. It would be like comparing apples and watermelons if we use different cuts of pork. But, you know what, we work with what we have to work with.

Here is a flier showing one of the more expensive cuts of pork (it’s the Chinese national holiday, after all, ) Never the less, you can clearly see that a pork roast costs 17.8 RMB / half a Kg in October. Where in January (before the trade embargoes) a cheap cut of pork shoulder costs 12.8 RMB / half a Kg.

At which I would like to remind the reader that China is a bacon-loving nation. They love their pork and out-produces pork products that makes America look like teeny-boppers.

China, with it’s enormous population, does not need food imports to exist. China is an enormous breadbasket. Farms exist everywhere. For instance, did you know that China has more pigs than the next 43 pork producing countries combined.

Yeah. America is a light-weight in pork production.

China does not need any imports of food to feed it’s people. It is self-sufficient.

China feeds 22 percent of the world population with only seven percent of the planet's arable land. Land is heavily utilized for agriculture. Vegetables are planted on road embankments, in traffic triangles and right up the walls of many buildings.

China is the world's top consumer of meat and grain. As it becomes more affluent people consume more meat and cooking oil and this has lead to increased demand for soybeans as an oil source and feed for livestock. China also uses more fertilizer that any other country.

According to United Nations statistics, China's cereal production is the largest in the world. In 2003 China produced 377 million tons, or 18.1 percent of total world production. Its plant oil crops---at 15 million tons in 2003---are a close second to those of the United States and amounted to 12.6 percent of total world production.

Lauren Keane wrote in the Washington Post, “China has a long-standing policy of food self-sufficiency, growing 95 percent of the grain required to feed its people. The country's sheer size means that a major crop failure or other food emergency here could have international ramifications, overwhelming world food markets with sudden demand. "Were China to need to import a large amount of grain, it would have a very dramatic impact on world food prices," said Anthea Webb, director of World Food Program China. [Source:Lauren Keane, Washington Post, May 31, 2010]

-Facts and Details

The idea that China cannot feed it’s people comes from the late 1960’s when the Communist central government failed in the implementation of policy. Taking advantage of that situation was a SJW moment known as the Cultural Revolution. It collapsed when the military had to be called into to restore order and control.

[4] Discarding of the United States Dollar

For a full half a century, the world used the USD to conduct international business and trade. This was advantageous for the United States. As the value of the dollar could be artificially propped up as the entire world was using this currency, and it was able to “float” upon the stability of the economies of multiple nations.

Not so any longer. Each time a nation stops using the USD as a currency for international trade, the stability of the USD decreases.

• Numerous nations are starting to conduct trade in the Yuan instead of the US Dollar.
• Numerous nations are buying up gold and increasing their gold reserves.
• America has countered to this by printing more money, and taking on more debt.

Maybe these nations know something that many Americans aren’t.

• 23 Countries Now Abandoning US Dollar – Truth And Action
• These countries could abandon their U.S. dollar pegs
• 7 Countries Considering Abandoning the US Dollar
• US Dollar’s Demise at the Hands of the Petro-Gold-Yuan
• De-Dollarization Complete: Iran Abandons US Dollar
• Top 5 countries opting to ditch US dollar & the reasons
• Will The Dollar Survive The Rise Of The Yuan And The End
• Dow Crashes After China ‘Weaponizes’ Yuan
• Switzerland Adds to List of Countries Dumping Dollar / Euro

Anyways…

In the forefront of all these various issues, we have the (so called) “Pro Democracy” movement in HK. This is an effort that is designed to destabilize the region as a way to put pressure on China.

Indeed, Donald Trump himself tweeted to Xi Peng in September that all the protests in HK would end abruptly if China agreed to the USA trade concessions. 

How could Donald Trump say that if he wasn't able to make that happen?

The “Pro Democracy Movement”

I covered this subject in great deal elsewhere. If you want to find out who the players are, the stakes involved, the money that changes hands, and the interests of the American “deep state” swamp you can clink on this link below. It opens up in a separate tab so as not to interrupt your reading pleasure here.

In order to put pressure on China, Donald Trump utilized a branch of the CIA known as the National Endowment for Democracy or NED.

This is all well known as the “paper trail” for the funding is public knowledge. Indeed, groups in the coalition reaped hundreds of thousands of dollars from the NED and NDI last year alone.

You know… for “democracy” around the world.

And the people used to [1] instigate the riots, [2] train the protestors, arrange and [3] organize the newsmen and cameras and [4] teach and instruct the rioters for “soft conflicts” used to [5] provoke violent actions by the HK Police all have LinkedIN profiles.

Don’t you know.

So, even a dweeb like myself can [1] track the funding, [2] see the names and addresses of the agitators, and [3] view where they are and what they are doing in Hong Kong.

Just imagine what the Chinese government can do.

But Hong Kong is not America. It is part of China.

As Americans, especially those who have never stepped foot outside of America, think of other nations, other people and other cities from our point of view. That is to say, we imagine the WORST outside the USA. And never give the other nations any credit for doing certain things well. We just assume that they are all blunder-head nincompoops.

When we think of Hong Kong, we think of New York city.

Which is sad.

We should be thinking of Tokyo. We should be thinking of High-Tech (though not nearly as high-tech as Shenzhen), and state of the art. China is advancing in so, so , SO many ways and NONE of it is being reported by the mainstream American media.

• China-Laos railway to make Laos a “land-linked” country
• Australia wins Chinese CEOs as US loses
• Chinese businesses prepare for prolonged trade spat with US despite a potential deal
• China’s first Mars simulation base in desert
• HK police warn students not to join criminal activities and ruin life

We think, maybe that there are a few cameras here and there. We think that maybe the video feeds are being monitored, or that the traffic police are checking things out.

We don’t realize that the entire city is under constant advanced surveillance. And that China knows exactly what is going on in great detail.

Here, we are going to talk about this.

5G networks in all the Chinese cities

In the USA, there is an active program to justify why America is still using obsolete technology. “We don’t want to be irradiated with that dangerous 5G radio waves”, we say to ourselves. “We don’t want our brains cooked”.

Yeah. We heard it all before.

We Americans don’t want or need High Speed Rail. We are just happy with boarding our cattle-car-airlines, and paying the enormous ticket prices. We like doing it. HST has no place in America. Besides we have Amtrak!

Who cares about fluoride in the water? It’s a great way to get rid of the by-products of aluminum production. Fluoride is good for us. It’s modern, don’t you know.

America is great!

And a wall on the border of the USA and Mexico. It’s been three years and America can’t even construct a simple, singular wall. You know you have a problem when illiterate goat-herders in Afghanistan can make a half-decent wall and the great United States can’t even start…

Well, while Americans are justifying living in a nation that is increasingly becoming a “time portal” back to the last century, the rest of the world is advancing at break-neck speed.

Most of Africa has a growing and vibrant middle class, with malls, toll booths, and high speed (5G) internet. The Middle East (outside of the American-sponsored war zones) are all prospering. Check out the photos, for goodness sakes!

America is still stuck in the 1970’s I guess.

You can tell.

• People still write checks instead of scan QR codes.
• AM radio has the largest listening audience.
• Everything comes with a price tag. Nothing is free, including water.
• Software still has the same functionality as it did in the 1990’s, only now it has a nicer interface, but you must pay for updates and it auto copies your work “to the cloud” for governmental purposes.

China is different.

They have implemented 5G everywhere. There are cameras everywhere. And instead of paying people to collect welfare, have free healthcare, and protest for more goodies, China puts them to work. They are employed. They build things, clean things, work on things and monitor things.

Yes, and Hong Kong is constantly being monitored.

China is aware of everything.

One of the mysteries that I had was why didn’t the Chinese just “take out” the agitators? I mean, it was public knowledge who they were.

The HK populace are getting increasingly pissed off with the Antifa-style interruptions, and they are actively unmasking (literally) the protester participants. And, of course, everyone knows that everything you do is tracked in China. HK is NOT an exception.

So why not “take out the agitators”?

And then they actually did…

On Wednesday 4SEP19, President Trump reached out to China’s President Xi in a tweet:

“I know President Xi of China very well. He is a  great leader who very much has the respect of his people. He is also a  good man in a ‘tough business.’ I have ZERO doubt that if President Xi  wants to quickly and humanely solve the Hong Kong problem, he can do it.  Personal meeting? ”

-Donald Trump

So what is Donald Trump saying?

• That’s he’s ready to stop the HK protests if Xi Peng negotiates.
• Or, perhaps that China can use their military to enter HK.

So.. the Chinese went forth and rounded up all the CIA related NED operatives in Hong Kong.

The video footage was pretty darn dramatic.

It’s all in 5G. You can even count the eyebrow hair on the American CIA agents. The Chinese had everything. From complete transcripts of the CIA instructing the rioters in “soft conflict” designed to provoke a military reaction, to a second by second, “walk through” where Trump advisors worked out planning with the protest leadership.

It’s all there.

Not televised in the USA, though.

Man! The Chinese knew everything!

People, it’s pretty obvious that Washington D.C. is involved in the HK protests, when you have photos of the protest leaders meeting with American presidential aides!

Check out the photo below. Notice the angle of the photo. Taken by an object on a dining room table. (Below belt level.)

This is very very embarrassing.  Julie Eadeh, a  US diplomat in Hong Kong, was caught meeting HK protest leaders.  It  would be hard to imagine the US reaction if Chinese diplomat were  meeting leaders of Occupy Wall Street, Black Lives Matter or Never Trump  protesters. pic.twitter.com/JfiU2O2HZq 

— Chen Weihua (@chenweihua) August 8, 2019

Of course, this kind of nonsense won’t be tolerated by China.

The Office of the Commissioner of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Hong Kong submitted a formal complaint with the US consulate general, calling on the US …

“to immediately make a  clean break from  anti-China forces who stir up trouble in Hong Kong,  stop sending out  wrong signals to violent offenders, refrain from  meddling with Hong  Kong affairs and avoid going further down the wrong  path.”

The Chinese knew everything.

Everything. And they expected the United States to realize (and expect it).

They didn’t.

From the moment that Julie Eadeh stepped foot in Hong Kong, to how many steps she took to the elevator. They knew her heart-beat as she rode in the elevator in the Marriott. They even knew the color of the bra and panties that she wore. (Well, at least that is the current joke on Chinese social media…)

They know everything she said with the young protestors.

Everything.

Everything. From, promises, various “guarantees”, words of support and hope for assistance. As well as implications and guarantees of a cushy future and financial support in all sorts of ways. Any outsider can clearly see the implied promises under the veneer of political jargon.

• Promises of free high-end university schooling .
• Promises that they will be backed politically and that they will become the future leaders of HK.
• Promises of houses, cars, and lifestyle,
• Promises of money, lots and lots of money.

As well as who they are, and what they told her. Then they used “Minority Report” style technology to back-track and see who all the connections and phone calls that the confederates made. They had full conversation records, don’t you know.

The Chinese knew everything.

Of Course the CIA instructed the protestors.

It’s all on video. It’s all recorded in audio, and transcribed in English, Cantonese and Chinese. And then, then… then, plastered all over social media for the Chinese to see. Woo woo. What ever the American media is saying, the videos that the rest of the world watch clearly show that the United States is LYING.

It makes the United States look like some kind of Keystone Kops.

The protestors were instructed by NED to take out cameras and video systems. They were told to use black cans of spray paint.

• Yes, but every can of black spray paint purchased in Hong Kong is recorded with a video of the person buying the paint. The Chinese government knows the person who bought the paint, and can make reasonable assumptions on it’s use. (The Chinese do not need to prove intent in a court of law.)

They were instructed to post flyers on the walls, use glue to hold them in place, and make banners.

• But, every printer shop is under surveillance. Every one has video cameras installed. They know who ordered the flyers. They even have the PDF artwork in digital file from which the flyers were made. They know who ordered the fliers, when they ordered, who they paid and from which bank account. They also know the moneys that went into that bank account and who deposited the money.

They were instructed to leave their phones at home. And, I am sure that this helped. Maybe.

• However, every person in China has a profile of “normal” behavior. If you take your phone with you every day, and then suddenly on a day of protest, you phone is at you house of residence, when the video cameras show you leaving the house, the police pretty much assumes what you are up to.

They were instructed in what to do by the CIA under the assumption that the Chinese are a growing third-world nation. Maybe like Libya or Syria.

They are not treating China like a high-technology version of Japan. They are not treating China like a serious, serious, SERIOUS nation that does not play around.

Conclusion

All of China is wired as a high-technology surveillance center. The larger cities are all wired. The Western cities (Hong Kong, Shanghai and Beijing) pretty much follow the “London model” of domestic surveillance.

While America has been busy throwing money away …

• In “NASA educational programs for elementary schools in the Sudan”.
• War after war. Now, eight simultaneous wars.
• And 15 miles of rail for a High Speed Train that was never intended to be anything other than a political slush fund to pay off people.

… the Chinese have been spending their money on their nation. Improving the roads, public transport, lines and means of communication, public works, buildings, and public health. Not to mention, planting trees, making parks, and increasing the amount of farmland.

And they are dead serious about it. These Chinese are very, very serious people. Those that oppose or try to siphon away money are seized, arrested and imprisoned by the corruption police.

The Chinese do not mess around.

Thus when the United States tried to use the same “play book” to agitate protests in Hong Kong in the Summer of 2019, the Chinese observed and leveraged that information. Then when the time was ready, they pounced.

• Round #1 – China win. USA media oblivious.

I anticipate another series of protests that the Chinese will observe, and then quietly (behind the scenes) squelch. Maybe in the first week of October 2019.

They will do so and the American television viewing public will be confused. They will wonder “what is going on”? Why doesn’t China relent and allow HK to be just like America?

• Round #2 – TBD

It’s because the main-steam media (both conservative and progressive) provides a skewed nonsensical narrative. One that has no bearing on the true and actual state of affairs. And that ignorance… will be what ultimately hurts and harms America.

People! Listen up!

America NEEDS a well-informed electorate to function properly. To think that the vast bulk of Chinese citizens, both on the mainland, and in Hong Kong want America “to save them” is ludicrous. Absolutely bovine excrement!

Looking at the big picture, it looks silly…

Just silly. It make the United States look… well… awful.

Predictions

I cannot predict the future. It has been my experience that the future will always certainly surprise. Anything can happen.

Anything.

Anything.

• Donald Trump could be impeached.
• Joe Biden or some other Marxist could become President.
• Anti-gun house-to-house collection efforts might begin in earnest.
• The USA could start a war with Iran.
• Bacon could be banned all over America so not to offend Muslims.
• Taxes could be raised 50% to fight global-warming.
• Gender-neutral operations could be mandated in all American elementary schools.

I do not know what is going to happen. I am always taken by surprise, and I haven’t a clue as to what is going to happen in the future. Maybe some more of the old same-old same-old, eh?

The future will surprise…

It has certainly surprised me. Time and time again, what I expected to happen, never came true…

Not just objectively, but socially as well, and on so many levels at that. Don’t you know.

The future cannot be predicted. Not by myself. Not by anyone.

The future will always surprise.

In the trade front, it’s all in flux. What I really hope for is a strengthening of relationships. I hope for balanced trade without influence by the greedy in Washington D.C. and a chance for American industry to recover from the devastation of the Marxist globalist agenda. I can see it being a win-win for both the USA and China.

Seriously! China is an enormous market. They would pay a premium (+50% more) for “Made in America” products. But that is never going to happen if China matches the Trump tariff scheme. It just will close American companies to the enormous Chinese consumer market.

Right now, and for the last three years, the tariff negotiations have been driven by the Neocon advisors to Trump. They have asked the impossible and set up road-blocks at every turn.

This is actionable disruption, and while it might make some political “hay” in the short term, it will result in some real serious problems in America in the long term.

As I have previously stated, John Bolton is a war-hawk and a neo-con from the “deep state”. He has opposed every effort that Trump has made to negotiate with China, North Korea, and Iran. In his world view these are all dictatorial nations and America must stand firm in opposing them in every way possible.

He’s wrong. Donald Trump is what America needs right now, but those neocon ideas of his are dangerous and are from another generation. They have no pace in the world today.

Understand that the rest of the world does not think like Americans. They do not watch American media and do not care what Americans think. They will follow nations that seemingly benefit THEM in the future.

They will be selfish. They will work with nations that provide them with benefit.

That being stated, do not make dated assumptions on the inflated capabilities of the United States, and upon the out-of-date ideas about China. I said it once, I said it twice. I will say it again. China is a serious, serious nation. They DO NOT PLAY. We had best start treating them as such.

Finally.

Do not think that China is not afraid to kill a few people for the greater public good. They will do so in a heart-beat.

Chinese Social Media

You do not need to rely on CNN, Fox or Rush Limbaugh for your news. You can [1] watch the videos of the CIA agents getting arrested yourselves. You can [2] read what the “Joe on the streets” thinks about the protests. You can [3] see what is going on in the other side of the world with your own two eyes.

America needs an informed electorate to function properly.

Here’s some links to Chinese social media. Warning, most are banned in the United States. You might need to use a VPN to use them. You do know that the Software moguls in California does not like competition.

• The 10 Most Popular Social Media Sites in China (2019)
• Confused By China’s Social Networks?
• Beyond WeChat: Top 12 New Social Media Sites to Watch in China
• The Top 5 Chinese Social Media Networks You Need to Know
• What are the top social media networks in China?

10-10-2019 Update.

I posted this article under “bloggers” in the Free Republic website, and was subsequently banned. I guess they do not like my opinions.

Never the less, immediately afterwards, it turned out the the United States government admitted that everything in this post is true, and that was posted on the well-known Washington Post.

• US Now Admits it is Funding “Occupy Central” in Hong Kong

Then they totally blocked me. Erased my 20+ years of articles and comments, and I became a non-person. That’s what “freedom of speech” is on Free Republic. You will conform to the Alt-Right narrative out of Washington DC, or you get destroyed.

Well, I was “killed”, but…

..everything I wrote was accurate, and real. And thus…

28JUN20 Update.

Update 28JUN20. Donald Trump decided to stop funding the protests in Hong Kong.

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