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Generational Dynamics Web Log for 25-Jan-2020
25-Jan-20 World View -- China's coronavirus threatens Xi Jinping's Mandate from Heaven

Web Log - January, 2020

25-Jan-20 World View -- China's coronavirus threatens Xi Jinping's Mandate from Heaven

China's coronavirus spreads across China and around the world

by John J. Xenakis

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China's coronavirus spreads across China and around the world
Xi Jinping may lose the Mandate from Heaven

China's coronavirus spreads across China and around the world

Number of confirmed coronavirus cases continued to grow on Friday (Daily Mail)

Number of confirmed coronavirus cases continued to grow on Friday (Daily Mail)

The number of confirmed cases of China's coronavirus has been increasing every hour. It started weeks ago in the city of Wuhan in China's Hubei province, apparently in a meat market where the virus jumped from animals to humans. Since then, the virus has demonstrated the ability to pass from human to human.

It's not yet really known how dangerous the virus is, or whether it's more dangerous than the ordinary flu. It's in the class of diseases known as "coronavirus." The common cold is a coronavirus. SARS, the extremely dangerous disease that came from China, is also a coronavirus.

At this time (Friday evening ET), there are currently 1,126 confirmed cases worldwide, including 41 fatalities. It has spread to every province of China, and there are small numbers of cases in Thailand, Singapore, France, Japan, South Korea, Vietnam, Nepal and the United States.

This is the worst possible time for a pandemic of this kind to occur in China. This is the time of the Lunar New Year celebrations, where millions of people take planes, trains and buses to return home to see the families for the first time in a year.

China has been trying to contain the spread, by canceling many Lunar New Year celebrations, in Beijing and elsewhere, even closing Shanghai Disneyland and part of the Great Wall of China. There are confirmed cases in nearly every province of China. 14 cities across Hubei province have been "locked down," meaning that roads have been closed and buses, trains and planes are no longer running.

When SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome) broke out in 2002 in mainland China, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) kept it secret for months, and the world only found out about it when it spread to Hong Kong, and from there to other countries. The CCP claims to have learned its lesson from that disaster, and has been more open about providing DNA sequences and virus samples to researchers in other countries. However, the CCP is still censoring most information about it, including details of its incubation period, how quickly it spreads, and how long it takes to recover. As usual, the CCP harshly censors anything that criticizes the government.

Xi Jinping may lose the Mandate from Heaven

As I wrote my book "War between China and Japan - Why America must be prepared," it was clear that China has a highly racist view of themselves and the world that goes back millennia. We American people do not view ourselves as unique, as America itself is a "melting pot" of many nations and cultures. Instead, Americans view themselves as ordinary people who were lucky enough to be born in the greatest country in history.

That's not how the Chinese have viewed themselves for millennia. In the highly racist Chinese view, the universe is in three layers. The highest layer is the Kingdom of Heaven, where the gods live. The middle layer is the Middle Kingdom, where all the Chinese people live -- the Master Race, yellow race, black hair, brown eyes, yellow skin. The bottom layer is where you and I live -- the Barbarians, who must always be subservient vassals to the Chinese, must pay tributed and acknowledge the superiority of the Chinese.

This highly racist and arbitrary view results in a society which is ruled by corruption, bribery, torture, and execution. And the leader of this society is said to be have the Mandate of Heaven. If he does not follow Confucian principles, if he does not meet the needs of his people, then he can lose the Mandate of Heaven. After that, the leader can only continue to lead by means of beatings, torture, rape, and murder, and that's what's been happening in China to an increasing degree for the last 20 years.

But now Xi Jinping has suffered so many recent setbacks that he may actually be in danger of being thrown out. Here are some of them:

In Hong Kong elections on November 24, pro-democracy activists won a massive victory in electing members for local district counciles. ( "25-Nov-19 World View -- Historic Hong Kong elections throw relations with China mainland into disarray")

In Taiwan on January 11, Tsai Ing-wen and the pro-independence Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) won an enormous victory. ( "11-Jan-20 World View -- Taiwan's pro-independence party expected to win Saturday presidential elections")

The CCP for years have been trying to keep secret its genocide and enslavement of millions of Muslim Uighurs and Kazakhs in East Turkestan (Xinjiang), but it's turning more and more into a public relations disaster for the CCP. ( "18-Nov-19 World View -- Trove of leaked China documents detail jailing of Xinjiang's Muslim Uighurs")

And now the new coronavirus is apparently spreading quickly. Xi Jinping can blame the above three problems on American interference, but if this virus isn't handled properly then it will clearly be a message from the gods in the Kingdom of Heaven, and a sign that Xi has lost the Mandate from Heaven.

It's becoming increasingly clear that Xi Jinping is failing, and has had one failed policy after another.

However, I did hear a brief report on TV that some Chinese social media are saying that the coronavirus was planted by the United States as biological warfare.

As I've said many times, the CCP thugs have a record of doing one incredibly stupid thing after another. I don't know what the CCP thugs will do about the coronavirus crisis or the situations in Xinjiang, Hong Kong and Taiwan, but I can say with certainty that whatever they do, it will make the situation worse.

John Xenakis is author of: "World View: War Between China and Japan: Why America Must Be Prepared" (Generational Theory Book Series, Book 2), June 2019, Paperback: 331 pages, with over 200 source references, $13.99 https://www.amazon.com/World-View-Between-Prepared-Generational/dp/1732738637/

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