Re: thailand signs contract with china to develop kra canal bye bye sinkieland entrpo
Chinese are materialistic people and they go for what they believe work for the country china and for the world.
Sad part of China dark history was the Brit destroyed China with opium which almost wipe out China into poor peasants in the 1800-1900 to 1945 end of WW2. Then the Overseas Chinese in SEA were targeted as well.
The Chinese strategy to produce cheap opium, fighting fire with fire, works and the Brit would not weaken China further or colonized the nation which produced more opium than the Brit themselves.
The Chinese Sun Tze 36 War strategy works and never fail.
•Strategy 34 "苦肉计" - Inflict injury on one's self to win the enemy's trust. (Fall into a trap; become baited.) ◦Pretending to be injured has two possible applications. In the first, the enemy is lulled into relaxing his guard since he no longer considers you to be an immediate threat. The second is a way of ingratiating yourself to your enemy by pretending the injury was caused by a mutual enemy
http://chinesewarstrategies.blogspot.com.au/2008/11/36-strategies-of-ancient-china-overview.html
Fighting Fire With Fire
China reluctantly decided to destroy the Western opium trade by flooding the market with domestic opium. It was a painful decision, for Chinese rulers held that production of opium, for any reason, would “provoke the judgment of Heaven and the condemnation of men.”
It certainly provoked Britain’s condemnation, which resented China’s infringement upon her private opium monopoly. By 1876, China was earning over 1.5 million annually from opium, but Sir R. Alcock told the House of Commons that China would gladly abandon the trade if Britain stopped her own trafficking.
Five years later, Sir R. Alcock, the stalwart anti-opium crusader, sold out.
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As China tightened her borders, Britain pinned her hopes on her other Asian colonies. Opium production in the Straits Settlements (Singapore, Penang, Malacca, Labuan) rose from 353,938 pounds in 1916 to 370,688 pounds in 1920, in spite of Britain’s promise at the Hague Convention to limit opium sales. In 1918, 60% of Britain’s Asian income was derived from opium sales. In 1925, opium accounted for 48% of Singapore’s revenue, and 100% of North Borneo’s. At the 1923 Opium Conference, Mr. Campbell admitted that the British Indian government was determined to maintain high levels of both internal consumption and export, and that they,
“controlled the production, distribution, sale, possession – every possible practical question which could arise in connection with opium—in the strictest possible manner—They had built up a complicated and highly efficient administrative system which started from the time the poppy seed was put into the ground, and did not relinquish control of the drug until it was in the hands of the consumers, or till it was actually exported.”
Some wits noted wryly that the Crown did all but light the addicts’ pipes.
When Indians begged Britain to abandon the opium policy, Britain responded that her opium monopoly was a humanitarian service to India (as it had been to China), and that to end the trade would be “a mockery; to many millions it would be sheer inhumanity.”
History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
Abba Eban, Israeli politician
http://www.amoymagic.com/OpiumWar.htm
Today China is still in one piece and rise to lumber 1 economy.
Chinese with their can do attitude is what makes the civilisation successful.
Ask Mats to build simple high speed railway tracks and it's too complicated for them.
That is why they still have that fishing village mentality.
May God continue to bless the East Jewish Nation.