An EX Chinese General's Hallucinations

It's good that Luo Yuan is out of the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) otherwise, there is already some blood spilling over some islets and rocks over at that sprawling expanse of oil rich Western Philippine sea.

The former general Yuan wants nothing more than China getting its message across the Philippines through a retaliatory move. Yuan wants the Philippines punished for arresting 11 Chinese fishermen who were caught killing and making a stuff animal over an endangered turtles species.

These Chinese fishermen violated not just the sovereignty of the Philippines over those shoals off Zambales but likewise, committed a heinous crime against humanity. Imagine, they fished in a territory which is not theirs and they want to be released? Excuse me, Mr. General but, for humanity's sake, these people ought to be jailed for the longest time until they rot the very same way these turtles did when they were summarily killed by these inhumane Chinese fishermen.

Yuan wants China to unleash hell against the Philippines. Mr. General, you are imaging things or as we say, you are definitely hallucinating.

The Philippines is not your average Mongol territory or as Buddhist as Tibet. As what I wrote here several entries ago, if China decides to invade the Philippines, it will lose. This is an era of wars being fought and won by small armies. And wars are not just decided on bloody battlefields but victory is achieved thru other things like economic blockades, international pressure and the like.

Yuan probably thinks that the Philippines is a pushover, that it is so weak militarily that it does not stand a chance in a tit-for-tat with a giant such as China. That when China sends its million army against Filipinos, that Filipinos will just cower in fear and will leave these proud Chinese alone. Wrong.

This General is a poor student of history and an embarrassment to his party, the Chinese Communist Party.

For one, this General is proposing China to do what Russia did in its Socialist heyday by invasion. The socio-global conditions now are different from the fifties. If China moves, the world will interpret it as a militarist move inspired by imperialism. Such a move would send shivers down financial guys out there in the US and Europe. In a minute, the Chinese bourse will fall. And when it does, millions of Chinese will go to their streets and militate against the Chinese Communist Party.

China probably thinks that its economic prosperity was brought about by its own. Wrong. China became strong economically because the labor conditions of Europe and the US changed due to technological and social changes. China is a paper tiger. It can still fall on the weight of international pressure or thru machinations of top-tier capitalists in the US and Europe.

Fact is, guns are pointed at China, not literally but figuratively, even now. One false move of China, and many will teach it a lesson. China lives under the illusion that it is not being controlled by global powers. Probably when it was still closed to the world and living under strict Socialist conditions, yes, it was independent.

When China decided to open its economy and play under capitalist rules, it wittingly or unwittingly allowed itself to be linked to the global economy being controlled by a few global powers. If China moves contrary to the interests of international capitalism, it stands to lose considerably.