In July 2022 I wrote a paranoid fantasy of state conspiracy by the Chinese Communist Party regarding the original outbreak and spread of the Covid 19 virus. Now this possibly engineered virus has spread throughout the world. Most nations have gained wide natural immunity despite relatively ineffective vaccines and treatments. These served only to enrich our pharmaceutical industry and further impoverish American taxpayers. Now the Chinese government has again produced (not allowed) a widespread breakout of the disease, but amongst its own people. Why would they do so? Who benefits? To answer those questions, we again fantasize about both short term and long-term gains.
The short-term gains preserve political power for the long term. Quoting my prior essay, “their cultural centerpiece [is] of very long-range planning for distinct, not integrated, nationalism” as a Communist society dominating by state-coordinated capitalism. While other world players may engage in a “coincidence of special interests” serving global corporatism (the WEF), China’s internally directed and externally directed special interests are all coordinated through tight control by the central government, as they admit. To continue that, the central government, especially its highly curated top echelon, must survive. That central government induced world-wide economic, political, and educational shutdowns, and massive restrictions on personal freedoms by governments, through its example of “Zero Covid” policy. Despite this policy’s direct contradiction of established Western plans for pandemics, China was able to export these largely ineffective restrictions through remarkable influence with the World Health Organization. Details of that influence and process are revealed by others such as Dr. Robert Malone and Alex Berenson on Substack. Possible reasons for these actions are covered in my prior July 2022 article. Once that campaign reached maximum adverse effectiveness elsewhere, the Chinese government had to deal with domestic consequences. The “virus” of personal freedom and choice that spread throughout the world in reaction to unjustifiable controls backwashed into China. Widespread demonstrations, violence, and “blank paper” protests posed a threat to the Chinese autocracy. Did they, as in the West, seek to avoid their population’s anger with gradual easing or temporary reduction in restrictions on an incremental basis? In the rest of the world this eased public impatience while largely maintaining the underlying edicts of emergency action for future use by our newly repressive democratic governments. Given the Chinese Communist Party’s long history of carefully planned actions, the sudden and almost complete release of the whole nation from prior behavioral control is unexpected and atypical. Despite the CCP’s absolute control of all levels of officialdom and complete support of the People’s Liberation Army, did the central government really fear their people that much?
The CCP may have a positive plan for the long-term future rather than a reactive placating of a people who are truly powerless to effect change in their own government. The rules forbid use of foreign vaccines in favor of Sinovac, which was mostly ineffective. Reports indicate that about 20% of their elderly population were immunized. Currently 60-90% of the Chinese population is being infected with what the government may hope is a more benign Omicron variant. Thus, herd immunity may be rapidly acquired by natural means. A very large portion of their elderly population is rapidly dying off according to all direct and indirect reports garnered from a closed society. This benefits that society in the near and long term. Chinese demographics realistically project a financial collapse based on inadequate numbers of younger workers to support their large and growing senior population. The underlying core of Chinese culture, still strong despite Communist practicality, still honors and supports their elderly. Allowing Covid to run rampant and completely controlling information flow, most of these elderly will be eliminated without the government acknowledging responsibility. The CCP has experience with elimination of millions of their population that are deemed undesirable. They remember Stalin’s purges and the Holodomor. Mao copied these methods in the Cultural Revolution.
Besides modifying the nation’s demographics to advantage, the Covid Cultural Revolution has potential financial advantages. Their state-controlled economy teetered on the edge of default and/or collapse recently due to overexpansion of credit by state and privately controlled financial institutions for real estate developments. These are a key part of China’s desire to fully urbanize their population, a process with financial, technological, industrial, and autocratic advantages. Dense populations are more easily monitored, controlled, and organized. Certain industries needed adjustment given new competition from Southeast Asian countries and India. Vast numbers of employees had to become unemployed and then “rescued” from Covid induced economic disaster by assignment to other industries. Buggy whips become extinct, as do gasoline engines. Energy supply and distribution to a growing middle class is simpler with a denser population. Those workers can produce different consumables now deemed more useful and lucrative in an externally competitive global market. Free markets cannot operate amongst the subjects of the CCP anymore than they could amongst the Russians. Neither had any experience or skills. Despite their recent instincts of self-determination, the Chinese people subconsciously know they have no personal agency over their own lives.
This Great Reset of the Covid Cultural Revolution also involves a forward-looking massive change in international finance. China intends to displace the U.S.A. not only economically and militarily, but also as the arbiter of the world’s reserve currency. To do this they must put their internal financial house in order as noted above and also create that new reserve fiat currency with other countries based on critical commodities. Oil had played that role for the United States since 1971, but the Chinese see that being displaced by the First World’s intent to abandon fossil fuels, even while the CCP expands coal and gas-fired power plants to serve their immediate needs. Replacement technology will be theirs for the taking through intellectual theft from our universities, reverse-engineering, benevolence of international NGOs, and the CCP’s agility in creating immediate new facilities and workforces to cheaply produce the new replacement energy technology on a subsidized basis. China has gradually assumed critical positions around the world with many Second and Third World countries in producing and dealing in critical commodities through their Belt and Road initiatives. Their investments are greater and broader than our philanthrocapitalism and are made with a more direct intended Return on Investment. They are now doing the same by obtaining control of large areas of farmland in the U.S.A. Although the CCP has been persistently increasing their gold reserves for decades, that ultimate form of true money can be bypassed through agreement with enough countries on the floating value of a “basket” of commodities. In our hubris we forget that the vast majority of the world’s population are in the Second and Third Worlds. They might welcome a reset of their own sovereign debt/financial problems through replacement of the current international financial system with a new one based in a nation with experiences and abilities closer to their own.
China’s first Cultural Revolution was fully inward-looking, a destruction of what came before. Their current revolution is a highly complex and complete creation of a new national and international identity and role. Given their oft-stated intentions, we should not presume their current methods of handling a pandemic they started are in any way haphazard.