China Update – August 2nd by MARIO CAVOLO AUG 3 2023

Pardon my lack of posts recently, we are on summer holiday currently visiting family in the United States. This is our first time back visiting in over four years and we are having a wonderful time especially reconnecting with the family. It’s important to note that we are on a daily basis here exposed to upper middle class society here and it’s terrific. People are very friendly, the environment around us is very clean and safe American style. Of course it is. If you have money, if you have a high paying job, life in america is quite nice. Expensive, too. It is more obvious than ever the country is split into 2 completely separate societies. It is obvious low income people are struggling And we have caught some glimpses of that along the way.

While on holiday I have been keeping up with the China news feed and it remains as frustrating as ever With the US government, mainstream media and certain other media and public voices constantly presenting a false dark view of China to the world, nothing new.

China is now and without a doubt the largest safe stable and successful capable civil and peaceful country in the world. It didn’t get that way by infringing on people’s rights or oppressing anyone. It got that way remarkably fast in around 25 years by improving the lives of more people in less time than any other country has ever done on earth, by providing hundreds of millions of people more than ever with an entirely safe stable low violence low crime gun free decent middle class society to live. I know because for the past 24 years I’ve been here. I’ve lived it, I married into a local family. I’ve watched it, i’ve witnessed it and i’ve been part of it every step of the way including constant researching and writing about what was happening along the way.

Society TODAY is my focus and my priority and Chinese society today has virtually NONE ZERO ZIP of the nasty societal problems found in today’s United States and other failing neoliberal states which cause people to feel fear and despair in their daily lives.

There is little about US / western society and government that is in any way objevtively better or superior to the way China’s society and government operates. China’s current govt is far superior to the current US govt at doing what govts are supposed to do, responsible governance for the economy and society. This has been the case for well over 20 years and it is deeply disturbing to find the US still claiming it is superior, attacking and lying about China’s success, instead of taking care of its own problems for its own citizens.

Finally, China hasn’t started a war, attacked or bombed any other country in almost half a century so they’ve accomplished all of this rising to superpower status in peace, without killing millions of other innocent people all over the world in order to gain what power and control and influence they have across the world. China’s military built up with respect to Taiwan is strictly defensive to protect its rights sovereignty and the long standing agreements currently in place. As you have probably read in my previous articles, I am more firm than ever in my view that there will not be a war with China over Taiwan.

That my friends, is the straight up, accurate, sober, realistic view of the situation which I offer for your consideration.