Last week, Taiwan’s president forgot the law that his own political party created as a means of controlling the other political party, that won in a landslide. The Japanese seem to have a better memory. Abuse of international agreements has irritated Okinawans for over half of a century. A recent murder committed by US personnel at the base in Japan initiated more protests and more are anticipated.
The US and Taiwan Navies also anticipate responses from China. Taiwan announced 12 new vessels, pushing the program with large amounts of PR. There will even be an open house in Kaohsiung where the public can learn all about the beefing-up of Taiwan’s Navy. The US rescheduled a Stennis-Reagan sail-by off the Philippines, hoping to make waves, weeks before Hague rules on China’s nine-dash line. The US made no attempt to hide that the exercise was rescheduled early, just to make a point.
Hong Kong’s booksellers also remember. A recently detained and released seller led protests in Hong Kong. Unlike all other territories with public displays this week, Hong Kong does not supply its own military and there seems to be little-to-no effort from Hong Kongers to request any changes to this. It will be interesting to contrast any results between the protests in Hong Kong with the protests in Japan.
In tragic aftermath, Americans blame each other. Government agencies are not allowed to use the obvious as cause for suspicion. America’s president blames Americans for hatred of America, yet he can’t figure out why his popularity isn’t only sinking. Obama is becoming permanently infamous.
He is already on a down-hill train to being the “anti-president”—everything that a president should not be. He is a disgrace to the talented, brilliant Black community. Perhaps Carson’s run will serve to prove Obama’s term wrong: Black people certainly can be good leaders after all. In every other way, Obama has provided Americans with every reason to hate him.
When his policies fail, he condescends the very people who warned him. When America is attacked, he blames the victims. He has supported the LGBT community, yet freely welcomed members of a religious sect that want to kill them. Now, a sizable chunk of LGBT community members have joined Trump and taken an interest in owning firearms.
Obama failed to retain his own supporters—a large number of the very people his policies tried to “help” have turned against him.
More than that, Obama’s biggest failure is that he has not stopped the avalanche of his own failure. When he becomes unpopular, he has proven incapable of doing anything to gain that popularity back.
Obama doesn’t know when he is losing, he just keeps playing his losing tactics. That makes him the biggest loser of all. His non-unpopular days are numbered and, soon, he could seal his own eternal place in the Hall of Failing.
Taiwan has a new Sheriff. Former President Ma, whose regime pursued secret talks with China, wanted to visit Hong Kong just after leaving office. Remember, on the books, Taiwan is still at war with China. Since 2003, former Taiwan presidents must file 20 days before international travel as a matter of national security. Ma filed 14 days before and cited a 2000 visit as an example of why the policy should not apply to him. The new president’s office, held by the other political party, denied Ma’s tardy request, citing lack of cross-straight and interpol cooperation—cooperation China has promised to diminish in recent weeks, since Taiwan’s new president took office. Accusations of democracy and grandeur flew in all directions.
The highly-coveted “blue crab” lives in some controversial waters. South Korean fishermen towed Chinese fishing boats from the South Korean waters to the South Korean authorities. A few days later, the South Korean military drove more Chinese fishing boats out of the same waters. North Korea claims the waters and referred to the incident as an “invasion”. The United Nations recognizes the South Korean map. Seoul asked Beijing to watch its own fishermen more carefully.
Germany also asked Beijing to ensure rule of law, this time over NGOs not being involved in politics. Human rights and abuse of new police authority over NGOs were mentioned. Historically, NGOs are a tool of human rights advocates, which China has been known to view as political.
Few policies in Europe create fewer problems than they invent, NGO governance in China being one example, European immigration being another. There seem to be many satellites orbiting the headline reasons for Britain’s immanent “brexit” from the EU. The “brexit” would have financial repercussions—sooner and smaller as opposed to later and larger, so the narrative goes.
Britain and Europe would not normally be mentioned in an editorial on Pacific-Asia, except for Britain’s continued agreement with China concerning Hong Kong—a territory that could lose its financial status in Asia and, interestingly also, a destination recently denied to a former and distrusted president of a US ally in the Pacific. Neither HSBC’s headquarters nor the former Taiwan president will be going to Hong Kong anytime in the foreseeable future.
As predicted: Sanders lost to the Clinton machine, Trump reached out to unite all disgruntled voters disenfranchised by a “rigged” system.
Trump says that a judge’s association with professional organizations, specifically La Raza reportedly having made anti-Trump statements, has demonstrated a recusable conflict of interest. Then, Conservatives and Liberals discuss whether Trump should make “Anti-Mexican” statements. There are so many red herrings in this election that one could start a fishing business and so many straw men that a farmer could stock his barn for the next eight years.
So, Trump continues to be attacked by the old boys club for not speaking more peacefully. Interestingly, there was another attack from a member of a religion the Bush family called “peaceful”, this time, also interestingly, in Florida.
This week we see a new classroom game called “China Says”. China wants everyone to say that the South Sea is theirs. Manila wants Japan to say that Pacific nations should say otherwise. China says that no one else should say otherwise. The US says that China should be careful about what it says and does.
Taiwanese say that Tienanmen was a “massacre”, saying that Taiwan’s president is “disappointing” for saying Tienanmen was an “incident”.
John Kerry says that China should listen to what Hague says. China says that what Hague says doesn’t matter. Taiwan also says that what China says about the South Sea “Air Defense Zone” doesn’t matter. China says that there is no fear of trouble.
In a real-life drama resemblant of the novel-based movie All the King’s Men, Bill Krystol may have convinced another establishment military-focused Conservative to end his own career, this time in writing. David French writes for the National Review, is a lawyer and a war veteran. Krystol plans to make French the Dump Trump candidate with the expressed purpose of losing the election, both for himself and for Trump.
It is interesting how the “Dump Trump” group is full of writers with Conservative and RINO audiences. And, it seems their goal is not only to bring down Trump, but their own industries. Krystol’s goal is echoed in comments from writers at the Atlantic and the Wall Street Journal. “The Establishment”, voiced by big wigs in the writing zone of the press, plan to scuttle their own ship before the people elect their own choice. Their words betray an inner auto-suggestion that a democracy is wrong to elect its own elected and the press alone ought to determine election outcomes.
Meanwhile, back in the bathroom, the circuit court rejected an appeal of its own decision. While conflict of interest is another question altogether—specifically in a lower court’s ability to determine whether its own ruling can be appealed—the transgender concept itself is on display. And, it seems to correlate with the auto-destruct of the “RINO writing Establishment”.
Even the Liberals in media are willing to use Trump, whom they despise, because they know they make money from interviewing and hating on him. But, the RINO writer posse can’t even be that smart. As anti-Darwinian as Liberals love to be, and as much as the RINO writer posse gang loves to criticize the Left for being anti-Darwinian in their politics, the RINO writer posse really showed its own true colors on this one. They are more anti-Darwinian than the anti-Darwinians. Even as Capitalists, they cannot survive this fatal flaw.
Writers and transgenders alike have a history of expecting every leader to capitulate only to the smallest opposition, never the largest. This infectious mentality has infiltrated corporate American leadership: A few fake emails was enough for sponsors to dump Limbaugh, even though their customer base silently supported the opposite. They gambled and lost. A CEO is expected to dump the very principles that made a company successful, thereby dumping the majority of their silently-happy customers, merely because of one complaint from a disloyal—but outspoken—customer. RINO-audience writers expect Conservative candidates to drop their values in exchange for Liberal rhetoric “so as not to make their opponents oppose them”. And, some—neither all nor most—transgenders want their own biology and the rest of society to be entirely rearranged merely because of how they feel this morning.
It’s not that transgender needs to be any enemy of society. People involved in the transgender issue could have a powerful victory over the dilemma—if happiness is the goal and “capitulation” is the mode of operation to get us there. But, it appears that “compromising” and “capitulating” is the only acceptable response to help people with transgender questions. One-toilet bathrooms could be a solution, but won’t be considered. Other forward thinking won’t be considered—nothing but “giving-in or not giving-in”. Capitulation by definition is not success. So, here we are, lost in a world of capitulating. No wonder Jesus hates cowards; they make a tragic mess that can never bring peace.
Now, a transgender case has convinced three judges in a lower court to block their own peers from deciding whether the Supreme Court can decide a case rising within the United States. A writer, cheered on by other writers, wants another writer to lose an election, to cause the people to lose their election, even at the price of both—if not all other—writers’ credibility as writers. The “writing” is on the wall: Capitulation captains want everyone to capitulate to only the smallest opponents, otherwise they will self-destruct in public. Who, America, are the real terrorists who should be detained at airports? Shouldn’t it be those who preach, “Compromise, or else!”?
