China - ILANA MERCER

“While offering meek opposition to the Ukraine project, and little effective resistance to COVID-related usurpations; the ostensibly ‘sane’ wing of the GOP is ready with an alternative war: China.”—ILANA Mercer, “Oh, What Wonderful Wars: The West’s Lying Warlords,” March 10, 2023
“In 1949, during ‘the Cultural Revolution, Mao exhorted the Chinese to smash anything old.’ À la Antifa, ‘Gangs of Red Guards swarmed Qufu, Confucius’s hometown, and blew up his tomb.’ Americans have arrived at that point. They are purging their foundational teachings and obliterating memorials and mementos to their spiritual fathers. ‘Been there; done that,’ say the Chinese.”—ILANA Mercer, CNN’s Sinophobic Zakaria Is Clueless: China Is Reactionary, Returning To Confucianism; Not Communism,” December 16, 2021.
“So, which is the more exulted and elevated quest, Confucianism or charter schools?”—ILANA Mercer, CNN’s Sinophobic Zakaria Is Clueless: China Is Reactionary, Returning To Confucianism; Not Communism,” December 16, 2021.
“While America crumbles into a deadening, brutal wokeness; China, interestingly, seeks spiritual sustenance in its ancient, grand tradition of Confucianism.”—ILANA Mercer, CNN’s Sinophobic Zakaria Is Clueless: China Is Reactionary, Returning To Confucianism; Not Communism,” December 16, 2021.
“Asserting that China is returning to communism is shallow, even stupid, given the concerted quest among Chinese to reverse the Communist Cultural Revolution and reclaim Confucianism, which is antithetical to communism.”—ILANA Mercer, CNN’s Sinophobic Zakaria Is Clueless: China Is Reactionary, Returning To Confucianism; Not Communism,” December 16, 2021.
“Enabled by indulgent and permissive parents and pedagogues, America’s youth have become increasingly licentious, lippy and libertine. Most are ignorant and lousy at writing, reasoning, and conversing coherently about anything other than raaaaaacism. They have also become un-moored from their finest traditions. The Chinese—who seem to know what’s good—are returning to things classical, traditional and eternally and universally beautiful. Having banned corrupt hip-hop culture, China has a new export: Western classical music.”—ILANA Mercer, CNN’s Sinophobic Zakaria Is Clueless: China Is Reactionary, Returning To Confucianism; Not Communism,” December 16, 2021.
“The American foreign-policy elite’s Sinophobia is a distraction from the fact that the Chinese ruling elite generally acts in the national interest; whereas the American ruling caste acts in ways so antagonistic to its people’s welfare as to constitute treason.”—ILANA Mercer, “CNN’s Sinophobic Zakaria Is Clueless: China Is Reactionary, Returning To Confucianism; Not Communism,” December 16, 2021.
The neoconservative, COVID narrative: “Accordingly, the Chinese Communist Party is responsible for COVID, rather than the many millions of Chinese, who capture, torture—boil alive—and consume wild animals in ways that beggar belief. Liberate the Chinese and they’ll show their Jeffersonian propensity for enlightened self-interest, not to mention a palate for cuisine less craven and cruel.”—ILANA Mercer, “Actually, COVID Comes Courtesy Of The Chinese PEOPLE,” October 22, 2020.
“China’s plague-delivery pedigree is solid. Courtesy of China, the West got the H2N2 virus in 1957 and the H3N2 virus in 1968. Granted, the Chinese viral supply chain was broken with H1N1 flu; it came from Mexico. But, with the bird flu, SARS and SARS-Cov-2, China has fully reestablished its disease-delivery credentials.”—ILANA Mercer, “Actually, COVID Comes Courtesy Of The Chinese PEOPLE,” October 22, 2020.
“The Chinese people have no qualms or fear about expressing Han racial superiority, this, as the West embraces a multicultural mess of pottage that is now killing it and consigning us to years of penury.”—ILANA Mercer, “Who Invited The World To Infect America?,” April 30, 2020.
“As has become abundantly clear, in the wake of COVID, the very stuff of life has been outsourced to China. Not mere jobs; but careers, not just some products, but entire production lines; not one or two manufacturing plants, but the means of production.”—ILANA Mercer, “Who Invited The World To Infect America?,” April 30, 2020.
“Hate on the Chinese government if you wish, but hold your own government responsible for hollowing America out like a husk by inviting the word to invade it and infect it.”—ILANA Mercer, “Who Invited The World To Infect America?,” April 30, 2020.
“A silly society is a youth-obsessed society: To the Chinese, who appreciate the value of experience, the greater the ratio in a team of grey ‘hairs and no-hairs’ to ‘black hairs’—the faster and better a task will be completed. The opposite assumption obtains in the youth-obsessed U.S.”—ILANA (March 7, 2014)
“Chinese mercantilism is not free trade, but it is far better than American militarism.”—ILANA (August 24, 2012)
“Sadly, Sinophobia is sanctioned among American opinion makers. The dislike for China falls within the realm of perfectly respectable economic theory. Accordingly, the Chinese have levered themselves out of poverty not through industry, frugality, and ambition, but by manipulating their money and stealing American intellectual property.”—ILANA (January 21, 2011)
“It’s time we came clean about our economic system. The Chinese are honest about theirs; they call it ‘socialism with Chinese characteristic.’ We call ours free-market capitalism, when in fact it is a Third Way system too: ‘Socialism with American characteristics.’”—ILANA (February 29, 2008)
“Since American society is increasingly silhouetted by the State, we’re in the unproductive business of graduating lawyers. Because the Chinese State is receding, they’re in the productive business of graduating engineers.”—ILANA (February 29, 2008)
“The picture of China to emerge from behind those pretty Chinese screens is complex. The embodiment of feng shui it is not. The trend, however, is unmistakable: China is becoming freer, America less free. The devil is in this detail.”—ILANA (February 29, 2008)
“China is changing. It is ‘out of the red’ in more ways than one. The US is changing too: It’s in the red and getting redder.”—ILANA (February 29, 2008)
“The Chinese are ditching Mao for Milton, as Americans trust Oprah to pick their literature and leaders.”—ILANA (February 29, 2008)
“While America is becoming more militaristic; China is growing increasingly capitalistic. As America’s middle-class dwindles due to government’s wastrel ways, China’s middle class is 200-million strong and growing. The Chinese have money on their minds; murder, not so much.”—ILANA (May 11, 2007)

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