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Wednesday, August 21, 2019
Meanwhile, in the Rest of the World...
It's much simpler and easier to base the front page of a newspaper or the lead stories on the network news on some variation of the Trump, Trump, Trump theme. Heck, I can't go to dinner parties without the conversation devolving into that morass. It requires neither imagination nor intelligence to do so, and reporters journalists are lacking in both in our age.
However, things are heating up considerably in the Pacific Rim and it may be time to get a little concerned as what happens on the other side of the world has ramifications for us, too. Red China has backed itself into a corner with the Hong Kong protests and, since they are a collection of puzzlewitted thugs, can't find a way out of it. A Tiananmen Square-type massacre, which was committed back when the government controlled all information, is out of the question in an era where everyone has a video camera, with international broadcast capability, in their pocket. So, now they're trying something like this, and it isn't working, either. They will get desperate and, like the simpletons they are, lash out in ways dangerous.
I'm not an expert on Australian politics, but having spent a little bit of time living and working there, I do notice that things like flu variants and Asian Pacific political squabbles start there but spread to the USA rather quickly, so note the following, too.