Look, I’ve traveled China extensively and I have lived in Hong Kong for about a year during the Umbrella Movement. I’ve made friends there, seen places, and experiences quite a lot of amazing — and some less amazing — things.
One thing I quickly learned is that these people are stubborn as hell, prideful, and raised from an early age to be fiercely, at times ridiculously, nationalistic.
When Chinese people get mad, they get next-level mad. Now Hong Kong has it’s own unique culture but I witnessed a million people out of a population of seven million souls flooding the streets, most carrying yellow umbrellas or wearing yellow clothing…
Can you imagine the atmosphere, the feeling, of such an enormous crowd? United in one voice, erupting in anger and defiance? And yes, I know Hong Kong was eventually broken by Beijing, it’s protests crushed… but this was just one city out of many. And China is huge. When America keeps hitting China with unreasonably high tariffs, do you think this people will back down? Think again. Remember — they’re raised on a steady diet of “the West sucks, Century of Humiliation!” and “we’re inevitably going to lead the world, our rise is unstoppable, suck on it!” and this will not decrease because America imposes tariffs and sanctions… it’ll only strenghten their resolve.
Mao Zedong drove tens of millions of Chinese people to needless and preventable deaths and still these people think it was worth it. Many outright idolize the man in spite of how evil and incompetent he was in retrospect… you think they won’t suffer a bit more, out of spite, just to get their biggest geopolitical rival to fall to its knees? Because they will. And trust me, a good portion of China is still far poorer than most of America — their capacity to endure hardship is far greater than that of the average yankee. You’re cooked.
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