The Lying Sleeps Tonight
31st January 2015
Jonathan Ray of the National Interest examines the question of how China builds weapons that it declares are immoral. “Why does China develop weapons systems that it opposes? China criticizes U.S. ballistic missile defense (BMD) systems, but conducted three BMD tests of its own from 2010 to 2014. China regularly supports a treaty to ban space weapons, but has repeatedly tested an anti-satellite (ASAT) system.”
Uh, they’re Communists, and Communists lie like a Clinton? Just a guess, you understand.
Why? Because the Chinese have realized that given a choice between what is real and what is depicted on paper, Western leaders always believe the paper. Incredulously, unbelieving at first but with growing confidence they realized they can treat Western leaders with the same contempt that European traders once showed to primitive tribesmen in the Amazon or Congo rain forests.
And equally profitably.