Why We Will Go to War
When I was ten years old my family and I left the Philippines for America (missionary kid.) I was nine months old when I arrived there and had been in the states for a total of six months after that – three months each when I was four and seven. On the voyage back to ‘Merica we had a layover in Taiwan. We went to the national museum in Taipei (of course, its on the must go-to list for that country.) The museum is very large and absolutely full to the gills of amazing artifacts and works of art dating back multiple millenia. We were told (not allowed to see) that seven bunkers each the size of the museum were similarly full and the displays were rotated in and out. I was told in bare form the basics that at the end of World War 2 the ruling party was being ousted and they grabbed absolutely everything of value and went to Taiwan with it. 5, 6, and even 7 centuries old artifacts were taken.
One object in particular caught my attention and I stared at it in awe for about five minutes. It was a perfectly round jade sphere about the size of a baseball. Highly polished and about a thousand years old as I recall. It was carved with a cancellous technique exposing the layer beneath, which also was a carved sphere inside the first. This continued for a total of seven spheres enclosed within one another. To my young mind, I envisioned a master craftsman spending his whole life on this small ball, but in reality it was probably a full decade of work given tools of that time. I stared in wonder, amazement, and even then, to my young 10 year old mind, I thought: “I am going to die for this little ball.”
I knew then what no president since then has seemed to grasp: It’s about the stuff. Now I am no Chinese apologist, just a kid that has since grown up knowing this fact.
I wonder what the city of Philadelphia would do if the outgoing mayor grabbed the liberty bell upon their defeat and moved it to a nearby island? I suspect all sorts of murder and mayhem would happen, and that is a 300 year old broken bell. Now envision an exiting president completely emptying every single Smithsonian museum. Leaving them completely bare.
I do not want America to intervene in this fight. At all. If we were to “side” with democracy we should demand that Taiwan return every scrap from the museum’s vaults and walls and then we could offer Taiwan recognized status as a country. I firmly believe China would recognize Taiwan as a country in that case. Peace is possible.
As it stands now we are in grave danger of dying for that jade ball. I write this in a medical blog because it affects all of us. I live and work 20 miles from Lockheed Martin which would be a prime target in a nuclear attack. I am glad of this – I strongly desire to go out in a flash of light. I have zero desire to ever sharpen a stick to kill either food or another person in some post apocalyptic world.
I do not think any change is going to happen on this issue, and China will eventually invade Taiwan and we will defend an island that we have never officially recognized and we will have a little war which will become nuclear shockingly fast. Any that doubt this should look at how a murder of a nobody in a nothing country became the First World War.
Ken~ Here’s a perhaps interesting aside from your desire to go out in a flash rather than live on in a post apocalyptic world. I have a friend who has expressed that he has no desire to live beyond the supply of toilet paper. Hopefully you will try to stick around if things go bad, because we will surely need doctors.
The Unknown Country
Our Future, future wars, … China imports 80% of its food, much of its fertilizer, 75 to 80% of its oil to run their industries, Its navy cannot project force to any other part of the World.. They have wasted the last 40 years trying to move into the world to dominate it.. Playing GO.. DOES not work well.Financial system breaking down now, a recession or Depression is coming to China.They are loosing 600 million people over next 20 or 30 years since their population is collapsing.. They copy other tech but Cannot duplicate the advanced tech required to manufacture it. Their Quality Sucks..They, like the Russians imported skills from outside China but did not lay the foundation for developing those skills by their own people.. They cannot maintain it.Now it is ALL falling down.. They must rid themselves of the CCP, encourage freedom,free markets, good Education and in 50 to 100 years be one of the leading Nations on this world and off this world on Moon,Mars,moons of Jupiter and Saturn..
WAR,DISEASE FAMINE OR A FUTURE OF INCREDIBLE WEALTH,HEALTH, EXPLORATION, into
The Unknown Country.. CHOICES, HOW WILL YOU CHOOSE…
The Communist Chinese Party (CCP) is responsible for many crimes against humanity—the latest being the death of millions and destruction of the well being of the entire human human population through their creation and release of SARS-CoV-2. Since you claim to have some sort of international perspective from spreading Christianity to Filipinos (by the way, what does the CCP do to Christians and those who proselytize?), ask those who escaped Red China about the cultural revolution, the Great Leap Forward, the famines, the totalitarian state.
Some things are worth fighting for.
I agree, I was not trying to be a Chinese apologist. I do not like their stance on anything. They are as I stated what I feel will be our enemy in the coming world war. There is some perspectives obviously about whether or not those things should’ve been taken, my perspective is that they will not be worth going to war over, these things. The ideals? I agree. Some ideas are worth war over. And I was 10 when I left the mission world.
If you were saving your country from communist onslaught, wouldn’t you want to save as many cultural artifacts and national treasures along the way, just as the nationalist Chinese did?
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Are you also faulting Dolly Madison for saving national treasures in the white house as the Americans fled the British invasion in 1812 and subsequently set the white house on fire?
History is complicated.
The CCP would have destroyed most of the artifacts in the museum either after the revolution or during the cultural revolution in the 60s. Leftists rewrite history. They were reminders of an emperor.