Generational Dynamics World View News

[tim]

I remember when not that long ago the Left was claiming that Asians were not "people of color" and are actually "white".

Cue a mentally ill white man murdering Asian women and the Left no longer claims that Asians are "white", but are now regularly victims of "white supremacy".

https://reason.com/volokh/2020/11/16/sc ... -of-color/

https://www.nationalreview.com/news/sf- ... get-ahead/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/vol ... ame-white/

[John]

** 22-Mar-2021 World View: Blacks and White Asians

> I remember when not that long ago the Left was claiming that
> Asians were not "people of color" and are actually "white".

> Cue a mentally ill white man murdering Asian women and the Left no
> longer claims that Asians are "white", but are now regularly
> victims of "white supremacy".

> https://reason.com/volokh/2020/11/16/sc ... -of-color/

> https://www.nationalreview.com/news/sf- ... get-ahead/

> https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/vol ... ame-white/

Thank you for posting those article links.

The NIH article that I referenced in my previous message, which NIH
posted in January of this year, makes it clear that anti-Asian hate
crimes are overwhelmingly perpetrated by blacks. The NIH article
gives two reasons: that blacks are resentful of the economic success
of Asians, and that blacks feel that they are in competition with
Asians for resources, since Asians are another "minority."

The articles you've posted make it clear that both of these reasons
are highly prevalent. One San Francisco school board member refers to
Asians as "house ni--ers" because she wants to "combat anti-black
racism." I guess she feels that the anti-Asian racism is the best way
to combat anti-black racism.

One of the articles says "Asians have become white," which is likely
"to create nasty, corrosive, sometimes fatal battles over which racial
groups get the spoils."

So the issue of anti-Asian hate groups is really about black
resentment of Asians' success, and about competition among minority
groups (blacks and Asians) for resources.

[John]

23-Mar-21 World View -- Book Announcement: World View: Vietnam, Buddhism, and the Vietnam War

How Vietnam became an economic powerhouse after the Vietnam War

** 23-Mar-21 World View -- Book Announcement: World View: Vietnam, Buddhism, and the Vietnam War
** http://www.generationaldynamics.com/pg/ ... tm#e210323



Contents:
Book Announcement: World View: Vietnam, Buddhism, and the Vietnam War
Description
Generational Theory Book Series
Table of Contents - World View: Vietnam, Buddhism, and the Vietnam War

Keys:
Generational Dynamics, Vietnam, Buddhism, Vietnam War,
India, Hinduism, Cambodia, Laos, China,
Confucianism, Daoism, France, French Indochina,
Vietnam Villages, Doi Moi, Le Duan, Ho Chi Minh,
Boer War, Malaya Emergency, Strategic Hamlets,
John Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon

[John]

** 24-Mar-2021 World View: Trump's legacy

A web site reader asked me to comment on an article on Trump's legacy.
The following are excerpts from my response to him:

The problem I'm having with this article is that it's making a number
of political judgments that may seem true today, but which could turn
out to be false at any time in the future, even a few months from now.
Making these judgments is definitely not the domain of Generational
Dynamics.

Most likely, the only thing that will matter ten years from now is
whether and how well the country survives the war with China. The
current political nonsense will end with a "regeneracy event." This
is a concept in generational theory, referring to an event that
regenerates civic unity for the first time since the end of the
previous crisis war. It's an event that presents a strong existential
threat to the nation or society, and forces all sides to put aside
their political differences and unite behind the leadership for the
common survival.

In 1941, it was the Pearl Harbor attack and the Bataan Death March.

Today, it might be a missile attack on an American city, or it might
be a major military loss overseas. Today, it's most likely going to
be whatever event triggers war with China.

So if you take a look at the article, and evaluate the remarks in the
context of a Chinese missile attack on the United States, then you can
see that nothing that it says is something that anyone would care
about.

How will future historians evaluate Trump's presidency? Maybe they
will praise him for increasing military spending. Of maybe they will
condemn him for some policy that caused a Chinese advantage in a way
that we don't yet even know about.

These are the kinds of issues that I watch for and write about. The
creation of a Stalinist state by the Democrats, mainstream media and
Big Tech is probably the scariest domestic development in my lifetime.
The mindless destruction of the country by the Biden administration in
order to stay in power is heartbreaking.

And yet, I can't really say whether Biden's policies will help or hurt
during a war with China. For example, Biden's Open Borders policies
is creating a massive cartel force in Mexico using children for sex or
as slaves or drug mules. The Democrats are doing this because they
assume that these abused children will vote for Democrats. How will
these cartels act when there's a Chinese invasion?

Trump is promising to launch a new "Trump Big Tech Platform" within
the next 2-3 months, and he expects his 74 million supporters to
become subscribers. That may be the next event that will define
Trump's legacy. And then we might begin to see whether your article
is relevant.

[Tom Mazanec]

The only thing that will matter ten years from now is whether and how
well the country survives the war with China.

So the war will definitely have been fought by 2031?

[John]

Correction: Most likely, the only thing that will matter ten years from now ...

[John]

** 24-Mar-2021 World View: Massive cargo ship blocking the Suez Canal

• Massive cargo ship, the Ever Given, operated by
  Taiwanese company Evergreen Marine, wedged horizontally
  across the Suez Canal

One of the largest cargo ships in the world, the Ever Given, operated
by Taiwanese company Evergreen Marine, is wedged in the Suez Canal and
is blocking traffic in both directions. It ran aground on one side
and then rotated around so that it's blocking traffic on both sides.

There are already a few hundreds ships that are frozen in place,
waiting for the opportunity to continue. The only way to avoid the
Suez Canal is to travel around the southern tip of Africa, and that
can take several days.

The blockage is affecting all kinds of things -- oil deliveries, parts
for cars, and so forth. Already it's apparently begun to affect the
price of oil.

They hope to free the ship within a couple of days, but it may be
wedged too deeply in the sand to do that. In the worst case scenario,
they'll have to unload some of the cargo to lighten the ship, and that
could take weeks.

--- Source:

-- Evergreen / Ever Given, the massive cargo ship that ran aground in the Suez Canal, is still stuck
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/03/24/ever-gi ... canal.html
(CNBC, 24-Mar-2021)

[John]

A number of repetitive posts have been moved into a new topic,
Cool Breeze's Topic

viewtopic.php?f=25&t=5966

[John]

** 25-Mar-2021 World View: North Korea launches two ballistic missiles, violating UN resolutions

• Kim Jong Un

North Korea launched two ballistic missiles into the Sea of Japan on
Thursday, in violation of UN resolutions.

Earlier this week, North Korea fired two short-range missiles into the
sea. Those launches were legal under UN resolutions, and were largely
ignored by the US and its allies. However, the launch of ballistic
missiles is a clear violation of UN resolutions, and will require a
response from the Biden administration and other countries.

The missiles landed outside Japan's territorial waters and exclusive
economic zone and there have been no reports of harm caused to
aircraft or ships. Both Japan and South Korea have lodged formal
protests.

The timing is interesting. Thursday is the day of Joe Biden's long
awaited press conference, where he will take questions from reporters.
In the past, Biden's handlers have carefully selected the questions in
advance, and Biden simply read the answers from what appeared to be a
notebook. Reporters will have many questions about the North Korea
missile launch, but it will be interesting to see if most of them are
censored and suppressed.

---- Sources:

-- North Korea fires two ballistic missiles into Sea of Japan
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-56518998
(BBC, 25-Mar-2021)

-- First North Korean National Brought to the United States to Stand
Trial for Money Laundering Offenses
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/first-no ... g-offenses
(DoJ, 24-Mar-2021)

-- North Korea test-fires ballistic missiles in message to US
https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump ... b2d2350a3a
(AP, 25-Mar-2021)

-- Reaction to North Korea's ballistic missile launch
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-nort ... SKBN2BH068
(Reuters, 25-Mar-2021)

-- Biden laughs off question about North Korean missile test
https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/202 ... ot-vpx.cnn
(CNN, 24-Mar-2021)

-- North Korea missile launch tests Biden administration and Tokyo
Olympics
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/ ... ea-launch/
(JapanTimes, 25-Mar-2021)

-- EXPLAINER: N. Korean missile tests follow same old playbook
https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/ne ... d-playbook
(AP, 25-Mar-2021)

• What missiles does North Korea have?

[Guest]

How likely is a North Korean attack on South Korea?

Driving around in Seoul, Taipei, and Singapore and seeing how fantastic these places are really begs the question: why screw this up? Asia is on the top of the pile now, why destroy everything and be left with nothing? Isn't a lot of this just posturing?

NK wants money to survive. Are they really going to nuke someone to get it? That would be national suicide. The North Koreans want to survive not perish.