Jerry’s Take on China

Why are there more laws for protests than there are for progress?

As we approach the final sprint of the British US election and the last laps of the US election it’s worth looking at how they govern and what’s the difference between their system and China’s.

The USA in particular is a fundamentally flawed system of governance, it is highly adversarial and dishonest by nature and that transcends every aspect of their history and culture, from the Founding Fathers all the way to the current day. They have breached and broken every single Agreement they have signed onto since the Plymouth Treaty, also known as the Treaty of Wampanoag in 1621. Which the broke as soon as the signatories were both dead. Remember, they weren’t Americans, they were British and they were signing deals with real Americans who no longer have a voice, a place in society or a representation in their national governance.

Nowadays, you have senators and congress members in government and they have one sole purpose, to get re-elected, getting re-elected means getting large donations and getting large donations means getting big business interests and lobbies on your side. According to Georgetown University, a Senator needs to spend approximately four hours a day on fundraising and will need to raise up to 10 million dollars to get elected then a further 1.6 million a year to remain in power.

They could argue, and usually do, that it’s important to raise these funds so that they can represent the people but there we have another treaty that is broken. The people can’t be represented properly for two reasons, one is the senator is too busy raising money and once that money has been raised, the interests of the people donating the largest amounts need to be considered more importantly than the people who voted.

The agreement senators make between themselves and the people who vote for them is not only violated, it never actually existed. Both the Senate and the Congress swear to uphold and defend the Constitution, not the people of the United States.

According to Princeton University, which conducted a massive research program, the government passes laws that have no relation to what the people want; they represent self-interest and they represent lobbyists/donor’s interests. Their wording not mine: “nearly every issue we face as a nation is caught in the grip of corruption” because, as they go on to say: “moneyed interests get what they want and the rest of us pay the price”.

What’s most interesting is that this isn’t Democrats or Republicans, it’s all politicians, even those who stand as independents.

As long as this is the situation, then laws are made to protect big interest from little people rather than the opposite. Here in China, the CPC has been doing it since 1949 – protecting the people from exploitative corporations and even from government overreach – but every single media outlet reports it the other way – now we need to ask, who owns the media outlets and then we know why we are being misinformed.

The UK is no better: the BBC reported just a month ago that the UK has seen the largest increase in absolute poverty for 30 years, as for crime, the UK also reported spike, their own Office of National Statistics reported in 2023, that robberies, gun incidents, knife attacks, theft from persons, they all increased and shoplifting increased by a massive 37%, presumably linked to the increase in poverty. The same report stated there was no significant increase in sexually related crime because it went from 2.2% of the population to 2.5% – I’d disagree, that’s a greater than 25% increase which I’d consider significant, the fact that’s it’s a small number, they concede might be because many people don’t report these crimes.

However, despite all these failures of governance the Tories have declared that China is the biggest risk!

Why on earth would poverty increase when the GDP of a country is increasing, albeit in the case of the UK, very slowly. But that’s what we’re seeing Here’s why: the UK’s top 10 richest people between 2009 and 2022 got 281% richer. What sort of governance system does that? The British government’s own statistics show that pensioners and children are worse off, low income homes are increasing and the percentage of food insecure homes increased. Dissatisfaction according to one poll is at 79% – let me say that another way, satisfaction with the government currently sits at 21%

Instead of working to fix these problems, the UK has created stronger anti-protest laws, stronger foreign interference laws and now they’re working on stronger laws to arrest homeless people too.

All the while they say it’s worse in Communist China – it isn’t; in China, there are no homeless people, there is no absolute poverty, there is no street crime worth talking about – the number of murders in China doesn’t even register on any measurable scale – Macrotrends officially puts the number at zero because it can’t round up to .5 per 100,000 people.

It’s fair to say that the people in control of these so-called democratic governments, and by that, I don’t mean elected politicians, I mean the people who control them because if you think Biden is in charge of the White House, I’ve got a bridge here for sale!

They definitely do not have the best interests of the people in their hearts. Even Sir Keir Starmer, leader of the Labour Party has links to a Rockefeller funded Tri-lateral Commission designed to “handle the worlds toughest problems” through “off the record” meetings and decisions. In other words, Brits voting for Labour will be voting for a leader who has links to the CIA. Brits voting for Conservative will be voting for a leader with links to the financial institutions that want to own everything we have. What a choice.

If you’re voting in the British election next month, or the US election in just a few months, you have my sympathy – each of them will tell you, as they always do, that your vote counts. But if you look at the record they all have you know, what we want doesn’t matter, who sits in Number 10 or the White House won’t make a difference to any of us, unless we happen to be on that list of donors who has managed to buy themselves some power.

When I talk to my family and friends in China, they often wonder why it is that those countries are doing so badly after being so strong and China, after being so weak is doing so well – there’s only one answer – they have a government which cares about them.

The proof of that is visible on every street corner, where, instead of a homeless person’s tent, we can see 5G towers keeping us connected, we can see crime free streets and lots of cars belonging to people who can afford them. We can also see infrastructure, modernisation, new schools, colleges, universities and hospitals: in short, we can see progress.

Before you go to vote, ask your representative why they care more about laws for protests than laws for progress.