Everything is not as it seems.
China, a self-proclaimed democracy, actually sits on a régime with rather extreme inclinations.
The Chinese constitution accordingly provides that The People’s Republic of China “is a socialist state governed by a people’s democratic dictatorship that is led by the working class and based on an alliance of workers and peasants,” and that its state institutions “shall practice the principle of democratic centralism.” Right.
… “democracy” and “dictatorship” being antonymic and mutually exclusive.
Still, the robustness of the Chinese political standing sees it take 2nd place in the world right now, behind the United States of course. It is widely understood to be the world’s second most powerful nation currently. Before this, China previously held the title of one of the world’s foremost economic powers over two whole millennia —intermittently, having fractured and regrouped at different points— from the 1st until the 19th century. Over this period, it was ruled by absolute hereditary monarchical dynasties, in contrast to its contemporary populist leftist arrangement.
Chinese people derive great pride from cultivating their political front by which they present themselves to the rest of the world.
At the moment we are on Chinese kawaii i.e. the direct Chinese equivalent of the Japanese subculture of ‘kawaii’.
Kawaii / かわいい / 可愛い
…is translated from Japanese as ‘lovely’, ‘loveable’, ‘cute’, or ‘adorable’. It is an ordinary Japanese word which also refers to the spectacular “culture of cuteness” that has acquired crazed following around the world. But there is quite a bit more to it than celebrating cuteness.
Chinese and Japanese are both two of the world’s absolute most superior “Super-Tongues”. They both significantly enhance the base capacity for reason among speakers, literally streamlining people’s brains to acquire reasoning aptitude. I classify them both to be related to each other as Oriental languages, along with Korean, Burmese, Tibetan and Mongolian. Together these are all the “Efficient” Tongues, all buzzing about something related to efficiency of an elemental form. Indeed, Chinese buzzes about 效 xiào ‘effect, efficacy’ and Japanese about 効 kō ‘effect, efficiency, success, result, efficacy, benefit’. These Buzz-Concepts are very potent and useful but equally demand a lot of graft of speakers. People grind so hard that surplus energy is created. Why is modern Japanese culture so astoundingly vibrant?
Kawaii is favoured among the Japanese as an outlet for all this mental energy they have to spare.
It’s a good idea that the Chinese are also playing with. FYI, the Chinese equivalent is not about celebrating cuteness but the trait of effervescence, and is darker, more real, much less vibrant, and purposefully less aesthetically alluring. And it’s totally ironic. And instead of making tonnes of money from a global subculture, as the Japanese now do, the Chinese get to slay on the global political stage.
Delightful. Yet appearances can be deceiving.
China’s President is a magnificent specimen named Xi Jinping 习近平 Xí Jìnpíng – given name Jinping, family name Xi. He was born into a political background, yet studied chemical engineering at university. He duly entered politics following. Xi can be credited as having majorly refreshed the dynamic within the ruling CCP (Chinese Communist Party), at the helm since 1949, pursuing anti-corruption governance; more proactive diplomacy; enhanced discipline from within the centre of the party itself, and ideological unity. Xi is one of the world’s most stunningly powerful individuals, yet he considers himself a communicator i.e. effective user of language i.e. eloquent Chinese speaker first and foremost. This humble orientation has pushed the CCP to declare his ideology as the “essence of Chinese culture”.
A magnificent specimen indeed, whose actions are strikingly totally synced up for political prowess and geopolitical advancement, down to biological factors like muscle movement, via the intrinsic strengths of the Chinese language alluded to above.
Chinese history truly reads as the story of the superiority of the Chinese, a.k.a. 汉语 Hànyǔ – the language of the Han ethnicity.
Why?
Chinese is the Language of Processing.
汉语 | hànyǔ = Chinese language, language of the Han, Hanspeak
汉 | hàn = Han, Chinese, Han Dynasty, man
语 | yǔ = language, speech, dialect
中文 | zhōngwén = Chinese
中 | zhōng = middle, centre
文 | wén = literary, arts, culture, language, writing, script, character
普通话 | pǔtōnghuà = Mandarin, Putonghua: the standard spoken form of modern Chinese, based on the dialect of Beijing. Literally, ‘common spoken language’.
普 | pǔ = general, universal, popular
通 | tōng = pass through, common, communicate
话 | huà = dialect, language, spoken words, speech, talk, words, conversation, what sb said
官话 | guānhuà = Mandarin, ‘speech of officials’, originating traditionally from North China
官 | guān = government official, governmental, official, public, organ of the body
话 | huà
Chinese speakers have been proven to use both sides of the brain when speaking Chinese, while English speakers only rely on the left side. To clarify, the left brain accounts for functions like logic, fact processing, realism, planning, calculation i.e. maths & science aptitude, language itself. The right side of the brain takes care of things like emotion, creativity, imagination. Using the Chinese language is much more stimulating for the native speaker, drawing from cerebral functions beyond what is normal, like that of imagination.
So efficient is the Chinese brain that they don’t really have words in Chinese, preferring to keep internal processing raw. They conceptualise intensely while they process, going accordingly strictly by concepts encapsulated strikingly by these distinctive characteristic symbols we know as Chinese characters, 汉字 hànzì. Technically they are called sinograms or sinographs. They are simply averse to the practice of dividing up prose into words, as outsiders do, as even their Oriental brothers in Korea and Japan do nowadays.
Do it properly and you become a machine. A machine with feelings. Such is the potency of this Super-Tongue. History unfolds accordingly, very literally as Chinese speakers churn through it… Let’s say the English language is there to be explored… the Italian language is to be cherished… and Chinese is there to be mastered… And so you -saying you are a native speaker of Chinese- do indeed master it… You become a machine. Life is supposed to run smoothly for you in return for all your inner toil adhered to the Buzz-Concept (elemental) efficacy. What do you do when things don’t go your way? Well, the Chinese are bloodthirsty.
For whom?
The westernmost extremities of China contain its two largest territorial administrative divisions, Xinjiang and Tibet. While China is home to about 1.4 billion people, Xinjiang and Tibet are sparsely populated regions with strong affiliations to cultures other than that of the Han Chinese.
A wonderful thing Xinjiang and Tibet have in common, on the flipside of their torment under Chinese subjugation, is that they are home to two remarkably open, likeable, loveable ethnicities called the Uyghurs and Tibetans, respectively.
The Uyghurs are Turkic-speaking Muslims, the world’s most benevolent people. Their territory is officially named the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, and was once traversed by the famous Silk Road trade route. Uyghurs today supposedly number upwards of 10 million in Xinjiang and neighbouring countries. The capital of Xinjiang is called Ürümqi, and is situated in a fertile belt of oases along the northern slope of the Tian Shan range, northeast of the Tarim Basin and the Taklamakan Desert. Only a small portion of Xinjiang’s land is fit for human habitation. It has passed between different hands over its history, in and out of Chinese control at different points. The region’s autochthonous Uyghur Muslims now supposedly make up about 45% of its population, up against 42% Han Chinese, and used to preside over a namesake Khaganate i.e. empire that covered a large portion of northeast Asia. Since then, their status has taken a tumble, and Xinjiang has been part of the People’s Republic of China since 1949 and the Chinese Civil War. Tibet is located south of Xinjiang, and is home to the Oriental-speaking Tibetan people. Tibet is known in Chinese as Xizang. It is the highest region on Earth, averaging an elevation of 4,380m, known as “the roof of the world”. The Tibetans also once presided over their own empire in times past, emerging first in the 7th century. According to a Tibetan legend, the Tibetan people originated from the union of a monkey and a female demon. Tibetans are obsessed with quirkiness and idiosyncrasy. They are supposed to have originated among the nomadic pastoral Qang tribes who were recorded by the Chinese as inhabiting the great steppe of northwest China around 200BCE. Characteristically open, they used to mix with other peoples. Beijing now claims a centuries-old sovereignty over the Himalayan region they call the Xizang Autonomous Region. Tibetans number around 6 or 7 million, although numbers are disputed, making up an overwhelming majority of Tibet’s population. They are predominantly Buddhist, of course. Ethnic tension in the region has engendered a strong desire for independence among the Tibetan people, who are THE Orientals, incidentally.
The Buzz-Concepts of Uyghur / Uyghur tili / Uyghurche:
- Shepqet = clemency
- Ochuqluq = openness
Uyghur is the Language of Tact.
It is a Turkic language. It belongs to the Karluk branch of the family, along with Uzbek.
The Buzz-Concepts of Tibetan / བོད་སྐད་ / bod skad:
- (Elemental) efficacy
- Openness
Tibetan is the Language of Awarenes.
Tibetan is an Oriental language, along with Burmese, Chinese, Mongol, Japanese, and Korean. According to me. More specifically it is widely accepted to be a Sino-Tibetan language like Chinese. It then belongs to the Tibeto-Burman subgrouping along with Burmese.
Yes, two remarkably gracious peoples of the world, both of whose languages have openness as a secondary Buzz-Concept. The Second Layer of human language is the layer which buttresses emotionality, meaning that goodwill practically comes bleeding out of these populations. And bleeds often happen uncontrollably, a state which the Chinese have been taking advantage of.
The Uyghurs have appeared a lot in the news over the past few years because of the concentration camps in which they have been allegedly being detained by the Chinese authorities. They have been subjected to human rights abuses including forced labour and forced sterilisation. Estimates invariably maintain that at least one million Uyghurs have been detained in these camps since 2017. The Chinese government maintains that the camps exist to foster adherence to the CCP ideology, to counter Islamic extremism, and to provide vocational training to the disadvantaged Uyghurs. Meanwhile, accusations of genocide are being leveraged. The programme is shrouded in secrecy, carefully regulated by the Chinese government, but the theory of genocide has even been explicitly corroborated by the US Senate, among other governments. Additional allegations have been made of torture and sexual abuse, and even organ harvesting. And there is more. Overall, the Chinese seek to erase Uyghur culture. Xinjiang produces one-fifth of the world’s cotton and is rich in oil and gas, but Xinjiang is nonetheless very poor and the Uyghurs so very deprived. Xinjiang is now covered by an intensive system of surveillance, with intrusive policing, checkpoints, and cameras that scan everything from number plates to faces. Police also apparently have an app at their disposal with which they can monitor electricity use and how often people use their front door. China denies all but the existence of the physical architecture of the camps.
The Chinese are by no means sated by the Uyghur loot. No, they have even bigger plans. They are currently sniffing out Tibet, too. They are already taking measures to cut off, isolate and appropriate the Tibetan sphere and perspective, just like they did with the Uyghurs over the past couple of decades.
Chinese repression has been triggering violence in Tibet for decades. The 17-point Agreement for the Peaceful Liberation of Tibet was a treaty signed under duress by representatives of the Dalai Lama’s government and their tormentors, the government of the People’s Republic of China in 1951, and promised autonomy unto Tibet in domestic and religious affairs while China may take care of borders and security, yet it rather saw a sordid dynamic officially take hold by which the central Chinese government proactively filters its own identity and viewpoints at the expense of the rights of subjugated populations like the Tibetans and the Uyghurs. These populations can only ever be fodder to the Chinese.
Decades of unrest have ensued. Decades that have seen Buddhist monasteries attacked and looted; monks humiliated and sent to labour camps; the exile of the Dalai Lama; the catastrophic Cultural Revolution unfold; many thousands arrested (at one point in 1958 including 20% of Tibet’s population); thousands of deaths; thousands sent to prison camps; brutally crushed uprisings culminating in people being shot in the head; heavy surveillance introduced; many torment-induced suicides including people setting themselves on fire; activists tortured.
Tibetans are preconceived by outsiders to be rural, tradition-bound people. Their contact with the outside world has long been been regulated and stifled by Chinese authorities, with reports of intensification surfacing following the coronavirus crisis. Once upon a time, Tibet was home to a thriving population of discerning, cosmopolitan, erudite Oriental cultural pioneers. Since then, Chinese domination and spite have confined them to serfdom and a reputation of being dirty, lazy and ungrateful. And of course the Tibetans are THE Orientals, heirs to the most legitimate strand of the collective patrimony of this branch of the global language family tree, and continue rightly to see themselves as inherently superior in spite of it all —somehow —surely at least spiritually. And that they are indeed: the Chinese, meanwhile, are the freestylers. The Chinese are frustrated and confused by this dynamic.
Speakers of Tibetan slay over ground and earth when they speak Tibetan, like the Burmese and trees, Mongols and grass, the Japanese and flora, and the Chinese and spectacular peculiar natural features… and Tibetans accordingly are being ground down gradually by the Chinese state.
How does the Dalai Lama continue to radiate inspiration out into the world?
“To conquer oneself is a greater victory than to conquer thousands in a battle.”
Perhaps that’s what the Han Chinese should be doing instead: focusing on themselves on all those levels deeper than the ego. Thankfully, the Dalai Lama is onto them, astutely critiquing their very angle as Orientals who are disruptively subverting the collective heritage while believing themselves the chosen ones. The Chinese government will never be able to isolate Tibet enough to be able to close in on them
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