First edited on tumblr in German on April, 3rd, 2012 - deutsches Original vom 3. April hier
Where to the way will lead the Middle Kingdom in its struggle to find its center again – in the year of the dragon, at Qingming-festival 1 , where the ancestors get honored – after the story of the conflict between Wen Jiabao and Bo Xilai, the chased party head of the 32 million town Chongqing at the Yangtse’s upper course has grown out to rumours of coups and putsches and that way has also lead to a tightening of internet censorship – that has to be observed carefully.2
The air space here at Hangzhou recently has been frequented quite strongly with fighters again. Internal conflicts here might also favor enough irrational moments and – short-circuit fault like action – also in connection with the Israel-Iran-conflict and – the common mood for saber rattling on planet earth in times of recession – or – one might also think – shortly before passing the threshold to hyperinflation? 3
Anyway – in times, when bankrupt states everywhere fill trillions of cash into black holes – mostly also holes of mass corruption and the majority of people on the streets just seem to fall behind. If that is desired or not – one doesn’t know.
Who does still trust the other one in this eternal crisis, wherein everywhere propaganda battles are fought for distracting people’s view from the own problems – and – the own incapacity of dealing with one’s problem alone – not to mention solving them ?
The way Western propaganda – thus – unilateral news coverage in the sense of the twilight zone of competitive shadow boxing partially acts – one is tempted to ask involuntarily, how long people should still be taken for fools – here as much as there. While here in China the media get controlled and censored by the state the same thing happens in the “liberated” and privatized West because of the interests of private publishing houses and the body of entrepreneurs, who more or less represent it. 4
In an article titled “Almost like at Mao’s times – a brutal infighting reveals China’s weakness. The West doesn’t need to fear the competition with Beijing therefore ” Mathias Nass writes on „ZEIT-online“ (the German weekly TIMES), that China’s “authoritarian state capitalism” wasn’t a competition for the West – starting with the Bo Xilai affair.
Latest at the rows: “Western democracy might be very slow and vulnerable for populism. But it has one incomparable fortitude: It does correct its mistakes. It replaces a George W. Bush by a Barack Obama, a Silvio Berlusconi by a Mario Monti – by peaceful means,” – one might wonder, what that has to do with a kind of balanced “quality journalism” above party lines – a news coverage, which also covers the duty of enlightening people – of being part of a political and civil formation of opinion system.
The relationship to the ordinary Joe and his wife are cut off in both cases - in the extreme case like that shown here – news coverage just follows hierarchic targets – the pure retention of power. Enlightening contents in the sense of complexity – of one or the other society one is looking for here in vain.
And – those contents – those forms do exist – here as much as there.
This country here – it’s not a country of almost 1,4 billion sheep and a few alpha wolves, having a lock on the herd with the iron fist.
No – this country and its people are as multilayered as the so called “free West” and – many here feel at least as free as most people in the West. When the West instead tries to claim this feature as an island position for himself – then it’s getting dangerous.
One more time – China never intended to erect a world leadership on their own – one looked for partners, but – one wants to act on eye level with them – also because of one’s own disgraceful history. People want to be respected and acknowledged as what they really are – and they never want to be back again and get the beating – as it has happened long enough after the Opium Wars. An event, to which is at the very most paid some attention to in British historiography – in German history books it still rests nothing more than a small footnote.
There has never been such a thing as a “Project for a Chinese Century”, that even made it to a governmental doctrine and should have been started with Nano-thermite and many splinters. 5 The real estate bubble here instead – of course does that result from the fear of falling behind again. After all they have to rule almost 1,4 billion people and – those also have to be kept busy. Thus the light industry – the building and planning branch were massively expanded – also for bundling capacities and – for continuing the development of things – also following the new interpretation of Deng Xiaoping’s quote from 1992: “The Economical development basically serves for making all people lucky. ” 6


That people sometimes have their own special – seemingly “pathological” sensibilities – that’s quite evident. Just the way everybody shares that – and - all people – all humans – the street hawker at Isfahan as much as the nurse in Tel Aviv – the administrative officer at Teheran as much as every descendant of Holocaust-survivors – and people who got killed there – and every frightened locked-in person in Gaza as well - everybody first of all wants to get treated without any reservation. And – insofar one wants to get regarded and respected – without having to be afraid of getting beaten up or getting to be treated with other evil tricks from one’s counterpart. Lately though – dealing out blows one is always able to do as well.
Accepting everything and - taking the stick with a dignified smile on the face without being broken to pieces ultimately – that couldn’t be accomplished by Gandhi’s India as well.
The more important it is, to know the counterpart’s traumas – but also to muse about, who when has been victim and when instead has been or is a delinquent or – perpetrator and – whether there has been formed some certain neurosis, which one somehow has to get under control by hard and tough negotiations – together with one’s counterpart.
The loss of face and – the body count – the dead bodies in the basement of the particular house – who is still able and – who does still want to count them ? Whether Assad now is the worse mass murderer than Bush and Blair in Iraq and – who’s safeguarding why which interests by which means – who’s still able to claim for him- or herself to be on the right side of law and justice?
“ At a certain point it doesn’t matter any ore, from which side the cruelty - the inhumanity got started. It should just stop.” 7
The many war reporters, who already have been killed in 2011 and 2012 – who benefits more of the dead bodies between the front-lines – particularly the Marie Colvins 8 und Gilles Jacquiers 9 ? War – and any kind of (in-) security assured at gunpoint has become an all-embracing big business and – also Western mercenary soldiers are playing with fire here and there. Perhaps there’s also some Russian telecommunication engineering, that enabled Assad’s henchmen to find the lady with the eye-patch – perhaps there are also Eastern franctireurs – Russians, Chinese – who’s still in the know of these things ? Who’s still able to differ, who’s standing on which side of which front-line – following whose interests by order of whom and – who does report about that ? Has the “free West” prevented in Libya, what currently is committed by Assad in Syria – the genocide from the side of a despotically acting gunman, who’s equipped with all instruments of power? Maybe.
Who’s making big business with war – before it starts and afterwards and – speeded up particularly – in the meantime?
Where are we heading to ?
The media report about the closed commenting feature of QQ here in China – they continuously imply, that we’re living in freedom there in the West. “China tightening prosecution law enforcement” – a report from March, 14th 2012 - and - “Debt crisis – AGENDA 2020 – Europe’s democrats abrade workers rights” somewhere else is reported on March, 22nd – perhaps one might also say in a polemically exaggerated way – they abolish the last relicts of institutionalized worker’s rights, which was still existing there. 10
In war times there’s one thing dying first of all others – freedom as the mother of truth.
“ Money system leading to War, Crash or Revolution” – the colleague Margrit Kennedy is saying.11
Who’s still listening to the admonishers in the deserts, when the sounds of combat are getting closer, the sirens are already wailing ? 12
How instead could a politics of international understanding – an entente cordiale look like, which returns to the ground of diplomacy and smart – sometimes also sharp rhetoric for sure – but which is definitely also based on empathy – the regard and respect for the other one – aiming at stability and security for all beings ?
Isn’t it high time to finally leave the battle field as the last resort ?
The drone attacks on Yemen and Pakistan – who benefits from that ?
How high are the unnoticed “collateral damages” within attacks of that kind – how many more civilians get killed there as “real” – or – “potential terrorists” ?
What actually really is that – a terrorist - if a foreign country is allowed to just simply send killer robots over to myself ? 13
Who obviously is exultingly glorying in the instability of the Middle Kingdom, which facing a gigantic real estate bubble and a culpably neglected social balance is stuck in a gigantic tension test ? And – who in the West is really interested into the affairs of the Chinese migrant workers – the 99 % here ?
Who actually could also applicably effect, that the quite visionary 12th Five-year-plan could fail – what would inevitably cause enormous conflicts in China ?
When do people finally notice, that any war always bears more losers than winners – always and everywhere and at all times and – that World War Three also as a locally decentralized and controlled “hot” event cannot be controlled on the long run – that we finally have to find common solutions for the survival of the human species on planet A, as planet B won’t be found that soon as well ?
Isn’t it finally high time to take a look on the watch and – to finally take over the steering wheel, after the assumed autopilot has almost missed no shallowness at all ? Isn’t it finally really high time to synchronize clocks anew and – to go for a global currency reform – one instead, which is based on balance and justice – between North and South – East and West – one that has to be adjustable in a refined way everywhere, but – which enables to set new perspectives and targets for the 99 % - as much as for the 1 % - thus developing common perspectives for hypothetical 100 % and – defining those anew on a day to day basis? In consideration of the time of day – several seconds before high noon – perhaps also some minutes – a last resort?
Who actually is able to tell that ?
But – isn’t it really high time now to dare the supposed impossible – after the seemingly possible for long time has showed simply too poor “results” and has rather torn us further and deeper down?
That many reports – that many questions. 14
The answers – they are laying in the drawers since long time and – they got thwarted – and destroyed - again and again.
It’s high time to finally set notes of exclamation.




All photos by the author - Old City shopping street at Hangzhou – if it is new-built or truly “old” – that’s not important – most important is just the human scale. –The “Zigzag-Tao – a catwalk kind of footbridge at the Westlake bank at Hangzhou – a popular meeting point – for sitting, staying – for being – resting – the same shopping street at night.
Notes
1 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qingming_Festival
2 http://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/0,1518,824927,00.html - German article from the SPIEGEL about the tightening of internet censorship
3 http://www.welt.de/finanzen/article13506288/So-hoch-tuermen-sich-die-Staatsschulden-der-USA.html?pg=9 - the German state debts and the EU debts – they were definitely as impressive as the US debts shown here in these graphics – the more so as these days they are just galloping with their speed.
4 http://www.zeit.de/2012/13/01-China/komplettansicht
5 once again hinting towards the PNAC – and – who was assembled there and was steering the puppet George W. Bush that way is also to be found on Wikipedia – with the well known results, which now get prosecuted in the sense of neocolonial politics, because – the PNAC thinktank might be dissolved – but – its splintered groups are currently active in an infiltrative way at many places – and, the main effect of that also is, that President Obama doesn’t have any space for decision-making and – thus former supporters as much as opponents are more and more hostile to him. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_for_the_New_American_Century
6 Ambassador Wu at the presentation of the 12th Five-year-plan of the People’s Republic of China at Hotel Albrechtshof in Berlin on May 25th, 2011 - http://www.china-botschaft.de/det/dszl/baogao/t826701.htm (just in German)
7 quote from the movie „Die Bleierne Zeit“ – “The Leaden Time” - “Marianne and Juliane” by Margarethe von Trotta, dealing with a plot leaned on the story of the Ensslin-sisters from the view of the delinquent – the politically active journalist on one hand and the sister, who joins the German terrorist group of the “Red army fraction”. Seems, the film was just recently shown on German state TV - http://www.daserste.de/unterhaltung/film/filme-im-ersten/sendung/2012/die-bleierne-zeit-100.html and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marianne_and_Juliane .
8 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Colvin and the SPIEGEL-obit - „The Witness“ http://www.spiegel.de/spiegel/print/d-84162375.html
9 http://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/0,1518,808622,00.html - particularly his death has caused some rumors, as he seems to have been killed on a Pro-Assad- demonstration at Homs. The blog comments cannot be opened from China and – cannot find them from here as well these days. Anyway – one journalist, who got killed between the front-lines is one dead human more – as a human killed on the battlefield of war one dead body too much.
10 http://www.zeit.de/politik/ausland/2012-03/china-gesetz-hausarrest?commentstart=1#comments and - http://www.fr-online.de/schuldenkrise/agenda-2020-europas-demokraten-schleifen-arbeitnehmerrechte,1471908,11946122.html .
11 http://derstandard.at/1332323771502/Wirtschaftskrisen-Geldsystem-fuehrt-zu-Krieg-Crash-oder-Revolution
12 “USA tightens sanctions against Iran’s oil industry” – Obamas smart rhetoric for continuously controlling the paranoid state of Israel, which was actually founded on a tragical trauma and – for preventing any irrational action ? http://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/0,1518,824916,00.html - and – http://www.zeit.de/politik/ausland/2012-03/israel-un-menschenrechtsrat-boykott?commentstart=121#cid-1958075 - but – another man who received the Peace Noble Price – the Egyptian Mohamed el Baradei also comments sharply about the paranoid “plans” Israel seems to have in its leadership’s mind - http://www.hintergrund.de/201203291986/politik/welt/das-wuerde-die-gesamte-region-zerfetzen.html
13 http://dissenter.firedoglake.com/2012/03/29/us-drone-strikes-surged-during-yemen-uprising/
14 One more time – the “Questions from a Worker, who Reads” by Bertolt Brecht – in English - https://www.msu.edu/~sullivan/TransBrechtWorker.html – and German - http://www.kerber-net.de/literatur/deutsch/prosa/brecht/fragarb.htm























