China Rising!

Like many of you for the past week or so, I have been watching the Olympic Games in Beijing, China. I do enjoy watching the athletes compete and even find myself cheering for sports that I don't usually watch (i.e. gymnastics, swimming, track and field, etc). However, there is one thing that I have also noticed that many are not talking about: the pride that China has in these games and their athletes. Now I understand that since the games are taking place in Beijing the Chinese people have a keen interest in how they perform throughout the competition, as well they should. But there is something else going on here that is a little unsettling. There have been several instances where the Chinese athletes did NOT perform up to gold medal standards and yet they received them anyway. There is also the controversy behind the Chinese women's gymnastics team being underage and ineligible to compete. Even though they have Chinese passports that "prove" they are of the eligible age the AP found a story from 8 months ago that claimed that at least 3 of the girls now competing were only 14 years old...2 years shy of the eligible age of 16. Interestingly enough when the AP went back to check that same website 24 hours later the page had been removed. In order for this to be resolved the IOC would have to basically accuse the Chinese of falsifying the passports and that would cause an international incident.

Unfortunately, this is only one example of how the Chinese have "blurred" the lines of eligibility in order to stack the deck in their favor. Now I'm not saying that they don't deserve ANY gold medals because some of their athletes are definitely performing to that standard but not all of them and that is the point. So why would China take the chance of getting caught and causing their country and these games to be overshadowed with controversy? Simple; they don't care what anyone else thinks and they know they will get away with it. Consider this: by the year 2032 China will have the largest economy in the world. They also have more people than any one single nation on Earth and one of the largest standing armies in the planet as well. China believes that the future belongs to them and they mean to exert their power and influence at every turn. The Chinese government has mandated that their children will be the most scientifically and mathematically advanced in the world and have designed a curriculum to make that a reality. In contrast, children in the United States have the worst math and science skills in the world. We need to realize that slowly but surely China is waging war with the United States but they are doing it through economics instead of weapons. Why do you think your gas prices are so high? China along with India is buying up more oil now than it ever has and expects the demand to triple in the next 20 years. That means that we will be paying much more for gasoline than we ever have. The Red Tide is coming folks and the wave is building in intensity with each passing year. China is one of the oldest civilizations in the world and they have learned many lessons over that time period. One of which is how to wage a war and win. We need to realize that we are at war with The Chinese right now and have been for years. They are NOT our friends although they would like us to think they are. As the famous CHINESE philosopher Sun Tzu once said: “For to win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the acme of skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the acme of skill.”