Sydney Humanism Meetup Group

China isn't imperialistic. To call China Imperialistic is severely insulting to the actual victims of Imperialism, particularly that domination perpetrated by the Capitalist elites of Western Europe and their settler colonies. Most of the criticism we hear about China in the West is simply the Western elites projecting their own character flaws onto China. Price dumping, debt trap diplomacy, meddling in the political systems of foreign countries, genocide, massively underpaying for natural resources and manufactured goods, placing intimidating military bases on foreign territory, bribing foreign leaders, assassinating foreign leaders who are either too independent or too humanistic, etc. These are all the crimes of Western Imperialism, not China. In fact, China does just the opposite, they have given huge assistance to the third world and are finally giving these desperately poor countries the opportunity to develop that they have been denied for centuries.

Join us at this months Humanism Meetup as I walk you through point by point and show you why China is not guilty of Imperialism, there is no conclusive proof that the Chinese government has engaged in such domineering, exploitative practices. The best examples of Chinese Imperialistic behaviour you can give me are speculative and not proven. Go ahead and embarass me if you can.

China empathizes with the Third World countries because within living memory, they were a third world country. The People's Republic of China tends vote in alignment with the third world at the United Nations while the first world countries tend to vote as block in opposition to the third world. For example, the third world countries and China have all voted at the UN General Assembly to condemn unilateral sanctions of one country onto another as a violation of human rights. They believe that for sanctions to be legitimate, they at least need the approval of the majority of the General Assembly. Pretty much all the first world countries disagree with them on this point, because most of them have imposed these sorts of sanctions, as if they were some sort of moral authority and not just blood suckers. You can see a distinct class division in the Assembly, the first world countries that have a common interest in exploiting the third world and the third world countries that have a common interest in not being exploited by the first world Capitalists. China is in solidarity with the third world.

The Western media slanders China horrendously because their system is vastly superiour to ours and our rulers are jealous. If I'm wrong, please come along and embarass me. While the West is facing recession, China is still growing strongly, as they have done for almost five decades continuously. Chinese working people have seen their wages steadily rise throughout this period while the west has largely seen wage growth stagnation or decline. Housing is much more affordable in China and there are very few Homeless people. Life expectancy has doubled since the Chinese revolution. Many visitors to China report a sense of positivity and optimism that as lacking in the West. Chinese working people have confidence that the lives of their children will probably be better than their own and that they are working to build a better society for all. We don't have that in Australia, if trends continue, your children will be much poorer than you were.

China is hugely innovative, they are completeing enormous constuction projects fully with automation, chinese robots have built entire damns. China has fully automated ports and farms. Fully autonomous self driving cars and buses are already a reality and on Chinese roads mingling with ordinary traffic. BYD car factories are already employing humanoid robots to construct very high quality but affordable electric cars. BYD has created the worlds first genuinely affordable electric car that will only be about $20000usd. Unfortunately high tariffs imposed by our friends in the Western governments, mean that working class people in the West probably won't benfit from this. China can build ten story aparment buildings in 24 hours. Chinese ai has designed computer chip from scratch in a tiny fraction of the time it would take a team of humans to do so. China has the most powerful fusion reactors and quantum computers by far. China has the fastest and most extensive train network in the world with magnetic levitation trains that can travel at the speed of sound. They are also leading the way with the transition to renewable energy, building by far the most solar panels.

China has achieved all this through their own hard work, intelligence and determination. The prosperity they have achieved is truly a product of their own merit and not wealth plundered from desperately poor weaker countries.

Democracy is not just showing up to vote every few years. Democracy is something we should practice everyday in all our relationships, discussing, consulting, compromising and trying to arrive at decisions that are both well informed and most people are happy with them. A genuine legitimate authority would only coerce you in exceptional circumstances if there was not time to try to persuade you or persuasion had failed. They would also only use coercion for doing things that are in the best interest of the group, rather than for their own personal gain. Democracy should be practiced in the workplace, in your local community, school, university, church or any organizations you are a part of.

Capitalist businesses are not democracies. The boss is not elected and not accountable. They can hire or fire you, but you cannot hire or fire them. The boss may choose to listen to the worker, but they also might not. Personally I have had very few employers who practiced social skills. They generally act like toddlers, petty, vengeful, uncompromising, hypocritical, lacking in empathy. They will order you to do things that are unhealthy, they will scapegoat you when things go wrong by concidence, they will treat you like you are disposable.

The difference between your true value and what the corporation pays you is the profit for the shareholders. They need you to undervalue yourself, otherwize there are no dividends. They will always treat you as though you are inadequate or inferior they shareholders want their dividends.

This is nonesense. What an absurd economic system.

At the Sydney Humanism Group we look at the great variety of alternatives to Capitalism that people have experimented with, their achievements and failures.

The elite's are perfectly happy for the workers to settle for defeat. It's not in the interest of the Capitalists to offer any constructive criticism or acknowledge any improvements to people's lives that can be acheived without Capitalism. These same elite's also have extensive control over the mediums through which information spreads throughout our society. If you haven't heard of many alternatives to Capitalism, it's because the Capitalists don't want you to hear about them.

Democracy is not just showing up to vote every few years. Democracy is something we should practice everyday in all our relationships, discussing, consulting, compromising and trying to arrive at decisions that are both well informed and most people are happy with them. A genuine legitimate authority would only coerce you in exceptional circumstances if there was not time to try to persuade you or persuasion had failed. They would also only use coercion for doing things that are in the best interest of the group, rather than for their own personal gain. Democracy should be practiced in the workplace, in your local community, school, university, church or any organizations you are a part of.

Capitalist businesses are not democracies. The boss is not elected and not accountable. They can hire or fire you, but you cannot hire or fire them. The boss may choose to listen to the worker, but they also might not. Personally I have had very few employers who practiced social skills. They generally act like toddlers, petty, vengeful, uncompromising, hypocritical, lacking in empathy. They will order you to do things that are unhealthy, they will scapegoat you when things go wrong by concidence, they will treat you like you are disposable.

The difference between your true value and what the corporation pays you is the profit for the shareholders. They need you to undervalue yourself, otherwize there are no dividends. They will always treat you as though you are inadequate or inferior they shareholders want their dividends.

This is nonesense. What an absurd economic system.

At the Sydney Humanism Group we look at the great variety of alternatives to Capitalism that people have experimented with, their achievements and failures.

The elite's are perfectly happy for the workers to settle for defeat. It's not in the interest of the Capitalists to offer any constructive criticism or acknowledge any improvements to people's lives that can be acheived without Capitalism. These same elite's also have extensive control over the mediums through which information spreads throughout our society. If you haven't heard of many alternatives to Capitalism, it's because the Capitalists don't want you to hear about them.