China - Learn Mandarin II

I said on Monday 15th Oct be afraid of China.

Here is more evidence I am not alone.

I do not hate the Chinese. Good luck to them I say. Its US that's stupid. The West.

They do not seem to want to conquer the West not like we tried to conquer the world in times gone by.

We governed from afar, exported our ways of doing things, imposed our languages, our education, our religion and much else besides.

Zheng He's statue looks across to the city of Nanjing

The Chinese, in contrast, preferred to stay at home. They believed the Middle Kingdom, the old name for China, literally meaning the centre of the world, was the highest form of civilisation. So why step outside into ever darkening shades of barbarianism?

We are surrendering all that we strove for to the Chinese as the easy way - we have become lazy. We will regret it.