<https://tinyurl.com/2g89cjnf> dw.com

Scholz's China trip raised more doubts than congratulations ..
Experts say that Chancellor Olaf Scholz's trip both contravened
German government strategy and endangered EU unity ..

"While I think Europe needs to find a way to constructively
talk to China from a position of strength, what Berlin is doing
undermines that position by pursuing its own interests at the
expense of the emerging, yet fragile, European unity that we've
seen since the Ukraine war," ..

....

Deutsche Welle is declared a German "state-owned broadcaster",
but regular observers can easily notice that the DW's narratives
and assessments are often in some odds against policies of the
German government. It reflects the fact that mainland Europe in
a large part still remains under American/Atlanticist political
control. The Americans mastered the post-WW2 European design
carefully in order to secure their significant influence within
the European institutions regardless of what parties the local
voters might prefer to democratically elect into governance. In
Germany (since it was the main defeated nation) it is the most
visible, and so the "state-owned" DW broadcasts more Atlanticist
interest rather than their national interest. But it's also to
certain extent true for other European nations.

The above I've cited the key passage of the Atlanticist message:
("to talk from a position of strength"), and their concern that
the Scholz's trip doesn't fit to this agenda.

I posted before <https://archive.is/tjbe8> ("garden vs. jungle"
thread) that democracy in real life is not really as noble thing
as the popular concepts developed around it sound. In practical
implementation, the Western model of democracy always demands
some group(s) of disenfranchised - sort of inferior jungle, yes
- whom the noble "democratic community" can - "is entitled to" -
legitimately subjugate while keeping them in disenfranchisement.
The Atlanticist ideologues don't speak it out (and many of them
perhaps even can not comprehend this feature in rational terms),
but this "from a position of strength" typal claim (or defaultly
implied premise) essentially means just that.

The Atlanticism in its current mental state will never accept
China as an independent world center of gravity (and, say, Japan
and South Korea that adopted Western models, are not accepted
within the "Western democratic" community truly "on equal", they
are rather supposed "to follow the line", like pets).

Against that, truly inclusive democracy, as on a national level
as in the world affairs, requires a significant correction of
the popular cliches developed within the Western way of thought.

On Friday, November 18, 2022 at 8:18:19 PM UTC, Oleg Smirnov wrote:
> <https://tinyurl.com/2g89cjnf> dw.com
>
> Scholz's China trip raised more doubts than congratulations ..
> Experts say that Chancellor Olaf Scholz's trip both contravened
> German government strategy and endangered EU unity ..
>
> "While I think Europe needs to find a way to constructively
> talk to China from a position of strength, what Berlin is doing
> undermines that position by pursuing its own interests at the
> expense of the emerging, yet fragile, European unity that we've
> seen since the Ukraine war," ..
>
> ...
>
> Deutsche Welle is declared a German "state-owned broadcaster",
> but regular observers can easily notice that the DW's narratives
> and assessments are often in some odds against policies of the
> German government. It reflects the fact that mainland Europe in
> a large part still remains under American/Atlanticist political
> control. The Americans mastered the post-WW2 European design
> carefully in order to secure their significant influence within
> the European institutions regardless of what parties the local
> voters might prefer to democratically elect into governance. In
> Germany (since it was the main defeated nation) it is the most
> visible, and so the "state-owned" DW broadcasts more Atlanticist
> interest rather than their national interest. But it's also to
> certain extent true for other European nations.
>
> The above I've cited the key passage of the Atlanticist message:
> ("to talk from a position of strength"), and their concern that
> the Scholz's trip doesn't fit to this agenda.
>
> I posted before <https://archive.is/tjbe8> ("garden vs. jungle"
> thread) that democracy in real life is not really as noble thing
> as the popular concepts developed around it sound. In practical
> implementation, the Western model of democracy always demands
> some group(s) of disenfranchised - sort of inferior jungle, yes
> - whom the noble "democratic community" can - "is entitled to" -
> legitimately subjugate while keeping them in disenfranchisement.
> The Atlanticist ideologues don't speak it out (and many of them
> perhaps even can not comprehend this feature in rational terms),
> but this "from a position of strength" typal claim (or defaultly
> implied premise) essentially means just that.
>
> The Atlanticism in its current mental state will never accept
> China as an independent world center of gravity (and, say, Japan
> and South Korea that adopted Western models, are not accepted
> within the "Western democratic" community truly "on equal", they
> are rather supposed "to follow the line", like pets).
>
> Against that, truly inclusive democracy, as on a national level
> as in the world affairs, requires a significant correction of
> the popular cliches developed within the Western way of thought.

American political writer Kevin Philip had published a 2005 book entitled "American Theocracy:
The Peril and Politics of Radical Religion, Oil, and Borrowed Money in the 21st Century." He
did not really explain why the US is theocracy according to what criteria. He, however, had
mentioned that the US system was how a theocracy could exist in a 21st Century large nation
like the US. British economist Umair Haque also wrote an article "This is How America Becomes
a Theocracy" two years ago.

Seeing the US as a kind of theocracy makes some sense. Among Western nations, the US is
the most religious. All other things being equal, a theocracy is actually a better democracy since
people are more likely to express consent toward their God and indirectly to god's chosen leader.

But of course, this kind of "a priori, faith based, and holier-than-thou democracy" could not apply
to world affairs. Hence, the world is always divided between democracy and autocracy. Regarding
Russia and China, John McCain's famous observation: Russia is a 'gas station masquerading as
a country' and China is not allowed to have high tech and resultant products that other nations
need or want.