The National Forum   Donate   Your Account   On Line Opinion   Forum   Blogs   Polling   About   
The Forum - On Line Opinion's article discussion area



Syndicate
RSS/XML


RSS 2.0

Main Articles General

Sign In      Register

The Forum > Article Comments > Courting disaster: now and in the future > Comments

Courting disaster: now and in the future : Comments

By John Harrison, published 15/4/2014

Two examples of how reactive short-term political thinking damages our long-term national interest emerged at the weekend.

  1. Pages:
  2. 1
  3. Page 2
  4. All
Clearly the west's idea of a "long-term solution" is our primary focus with the Asian markets.

However this solution contains a fatal flaw, that being -

- regardless of the obvious benefit to the west of cheaper prices and eventually best ratio of cheap-to-efficient products, and
- since the almost universal global market focus on letting Asia manufacture everything . . . still . . .

- the INEVITABLE fact remains that the feeding of market-cultures that accept slavery and oppression with enormous wealth will soon make then "Super-powers" matching the USA . . .

This is EXTREMELY DANGEROUS.

. . . to LET economies with cultures where the poor are abused and oppressed and human rights are seen as foreign imperialist devices and where truly All individuals ARE ONLY for SELF and 'War of ALL AGAINST ALL', to become super-powers will inevitably mean that they will be actively involved in their own interests around the globe . . .

. . . which, like the West these non-western nations may get powerful enough to be able to easily disregard any western opposition to their nation's military intervention into foreign nations.

Examples - recently an Indian Political Writer indicates that India might consider military occupation of Afghanistan now that USA is gone and so as to stabilize the region; few years ago in Sudan there was an attempted genocide and humanitarian crisis which the US and the UN tried to have votes passed to let intervention, BUT China's power blocked all attempts proving that to China (government, businesses AND its CITIZENS) mass murder and starvation is not important when their own trade deals are in jeopardy.

Effectively world stability will become more fragile than ever with numerous counter and cross-competing interests of USA, West, China, Japan, India etc. playing world chess with governments like pawns and without regard for human beings and for long-term humanitarian issues.

After all what possible concern would the average Chinese businessman or average Indian student have for the feelings and conditions of some poor person from a foreign place in another racial-cultural space-time continuum?
Posted by Jottiikii, Wednesday, 16 April 2014 8:12:32 PM
Find out more about this user Recommend this comment for deletion Return to top of page Return to Forum Main Page Copy comment URL to clipboard
  1. Pages:
  2. 1
  3. Page 2
  4. All

About Us :: Search :: Discuss :: Feedback :: Legals :: Privacy