Saturday, September 5, 2020
RE CHINA AND GERMANY FN JAPAN
The important point to make about the analogy re China and Germany is that the rise of China, and why I added the post above, is that not only was it not a new thing, to have an Asian power come seemingly out of nowhere, but that we had already spent decades living through a similar disastrous experience with Japan, decades before 1980, and I listed authors who knew and wrote about it in the 80s, over 30 years ago.
It had already reached a truly tragic level vis a vis Japan by 1980, but had been going on since 1950.
Prestowitz especially listed, in detail, things wrong with the American system that had caused the problems, but the other authors mentioned gave wide ranging accounts of discrepancies in ideologies and expectations.
Other authors could be named, Manufacturing Matters was thought an important book. Its authors' arguments went nowhere here.
Porter wrote The Competitive Advantage of Nations, a feel good President's Council on Competitiveness work, to make everyone feel better that the Presidency was not the problem but the solution, rather like Labor Secretary Robert Reich's highly disingenuous The Work of Nations nonsense.
One of the truly great ironies, here, is that after the Nixon Shock, and the resulting large scale pivot away from Japan and toward China, and then the seemingly inexplicable decline of Japan after that time, the pundits here, who had all along claimed that a threat from Japan was all a hoax and who had reviled Japan bashing, then after the fact seemed to be vindicated.
This was analogous, again, to the pundits, among whom is Professor Kaiser, who when once McCarthy (commie basher) was (properly) discredited in the 50s, no one later believed that there ever had been a large scale Soviet subversion program here in the first place, going all the way back to 1918, 30 years before; and that McCarthy, like Prestowitz, Johnson, Van Wolferen, etc, later, in the 80s, re Japan, had been chasing false chimeras in the 60s 70s and 80s, 30 years before.
So now the rise of China is treated, once again, as being newly made out of whole cloth by these liberal pundits as a wholely new, unanticipated, situation, with no real antecedents in recent American history.
Just one of the problems with the hoax theories discussed above is that more recent research on Soviet penetration demonstrates that although McCarthy was an idiot, he was finally onto something here after most of the Soviet horses had left the barn, and those who remained brazenly even believed, with some justification, in many cases, that they were safe even then. Most of them were. A number of them then retired comfortably here on federal government pensions, or to Russia as heroes.
Other authors could be named, Manufacturing Matters was thought an important book. Its authors' arguments went nowhere here.
Porter wrote The Competitive Advantage of Nations, a feel good President's Council on Competitiveness work, to make everyone feel better that the Presidency was not the problem but the solution, rather like Labor Secretary Robert Reich's highly disingenuous The Work of Nations nonsense.
One of the truly great ironies, here, is that after the Nixon Shock, and the resulting large scale pivot away from Japan and toward China, and then the seemingly inexplicable decline of Japan after that time, the pundits here, who had all along claimed that a threat from Japan was all a hoax and who had reviled Japan bashing, then after the fact seemed to be vindicated.
This was analogous, again, to the pundits, among whom is Professor Kaiser, who when once McCarthy (commie basher) was (properly) discredited in the 50s, no one later believed that there ever had been a large scale Soviet subversion program here in the first place, going all the way back to 1918, 30 years before; and that McCarthy, like Prestowitz, Johnson, Van Wolferen, etc, later, in the 80s, re Japan, had been chasing false chimeras in the 60s 70s and 80s, 30 years before.
So now the rise of China is treated, once again, as being newly made out of whole cloth by these liberal pundits as a wholely new, unanticipated, situation, with no real antecedents in recent American history.
Just one of the problems with the hoax theories discussed above is that more recent research on Soviet penetration demonstrates that although McCarthy was an idiot, he was finally onto something here after most of the Soviet horses had left the barn, and those who remained brazenly even believed, with some justification, in many cases, that they were safe even then. Most of them were. A number of them then retired comfortably here on federal government pensions, or to Russia as heroes.
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