Chapter 2068 Double Standards (Please Give Me a Monthly Ticket!!! Please Subscribe!!! Please Recommend!!!)

This question is doomed to have no results.

There is no doubt that Hong Kong belongs to China, and of course Kamar-Taj has never thought of overturning this conclusion, after all, it is the truth. But let them enter the temple to assist in defense? No way!

Kamar-Taj also has its own pride.

Both sides have their own principles that cannot be abandoned, so they are stuck here. Of course, Kai will never participate in such a discussion. After all, he doesn't want to be thankless. After all, deep down in his heart, he actually agrees with the Chinese official entering the temple... He is still the little criminal policeman in the prefecture-level city of China in his bones, and he agrees with the ideas of Zhang Qiang and others.

But the problem is that he is now yellow-hearted and white-skinned, and whatever he says will make people feel embarrassed.

So he just sat there and ate.

It made Strange and Zhang Qiang very puzzled.

Of course, in comparison, Strange was more depressed. He thought that Kai would support him... But the problem is that Kai never speaks on such things. Zhang Qiang was still worried before. Although Kai has a great influence abroad, it is just like that for China.

But if Kai really ends up, they will still be a little passive.

As a result, Kai said nothing, which made Zhang Qiang feel relieved, but he was also worried in his heart. This guy must have a conspiracy!

"Kai! How long are you going to eat? Why can't you help me speak?"

Strange couldn't help it. To be honest, he really couldn't stand this group of government officials... In fact, there is no rich person in the West who doesn't dislike government interference.

Strange is also a rich man... He also supports small governmentism.

Small governmentism, also known as minimum centralization or minimum government, is a doctrine that advocates that the power of the government should be minimized. In addition to protecting people's freedom and being free from infringement, the government should let go of other affairs. In short, small governmentism requires limiting the power of the government and requires the government to let go of all affairs except for punishing crimes, national defense and diplomacy in society, so as to achieve the highly free society pursued by liberals.

In order to make the general public believe in the benefits of small governmentism. The rich have repeatedly clamored that as long as small governmentism is implemented, officials will lose the opportunity to corrupt because of the deprivation of power. Society can organize groups to replace government management, and even do better. These are the theories of the rich.

Those so-called experts and scholars who have received money also vigorously advocate this theory.

The experts also cited the situation in other countries as examples. For example, they often talked about the United States, saying that the United States is a federal country, and the state governments of each state are in charge of the affairs of the state, and the federal government has no right to intervene, so the American people have great freedom, and various social groups operate well, which is why the United States is so powerful.

They also pulled out Japan as an example. They first boasted about Japan, portraying Japan as a beautiful society with a peaceful society, high moral quality of the people, and clean government officials. Then they changed the subject and began to promote their point of view: because the Japanese government implements small governmentism, the scale of the Japanese government is very small, and many things are done by civil groups, which greatly improves the efficiency of social operation and reduces fiscal expenditure.

However, is small governmentism really as good as the experts say? If it is really good, why are only a few countries such as the United States and Japan implementing it? Don’t other countries know the benefits of small government?

In fact, the experts once again demonstrated their eloquence. They only talk about the theoretical benefits of small government, but never talk about the drawbacks in actual operation.

For example, this time Hurricane Harvey ravaged Texas, causing flooding in many areas of Texas, water and power outages, and causing serious impacts on local residents. Now that Harvey has retreated, the devastated Texas is in urgent need of reconstruction. But reconstruction requires money, where does the money come from? The Texas government estimates that it will need 120 billion to 180 billion US dollars. The state government cannot afford this money, so it can only ask the federal government for it. But the federal government spread its hands and said there is no money!

The federal government has its own reasons. I was originally constrained by small governmentism. Not only has the number of departments been reduced, but even the funds and powers required for management affairs have been restricted. Over the years, the federal government has closed down many times due to lack of money. In this case, the federal government has difficulty protecting itself, and has no spare capacity and obligation to support the state government. As a result, because the federal government is unwilling to support, Texans are still homeless, and their lives are extremely difficult because they cannot get compensation for the property lost in the hurricane.

Small government has brought more harm to the United States than just that. In the United States, the scope of the federal government's responsibilities has been greatly reduced. Matters such as managing the economy have been handed over to private departments such as the Federal Reserve, and even city security is managed by the community. This is terrible. Because if it is managed by the community, there will be serious inequality between various regions. Because wealthy areas pay more taxes, the management departments in wealthy areas have the money to hire more police to maintain security. The infrastructure and public construction are also better than those in areas where poor people gather. The entire community is full of birds and flowers, and the environment is very comfortable. On the contrary, poor areas gather a large number of poor people. The poor people do not pay much taxes and naturally have no money to increase security forces to maintain public order. There is also no money to maintain public transport and infrastructure. Compared with rich areas, the public security in poor areas has deteriorated and the environment is dirty. People living in poor areas have no sense of security at all, and naturally they will not be happy. Therefore, not only did Congress refuse to support Texas under the pretext of small government, even the White House was unwilling to lend a helping hand. The White House only expressed its willingness to raise funds through debt before supporting the Texas government.

However, this method of borrowing will expand power and will only be opposed by supporters of small government. These people are liberals and are most opposed to the expansion of government power. Now that the White House wants to borrow money, these people will definitely oppose it vigorously and prevent the White House from expanding the scope of its power.

Then the power of the federal government will be compressed and streamlined, and the power will be delegated to civil organizations and non-profit institutions. It will only need to do basic public affairs and emergency crisis management. It will not assume unlimited responsibilities and will not do everything. everything. Citizens can curse the president and his staff at will, protect their personal and residential safety with guns, prefer to believe in individual militias than the government, and vow to imprison government power. They also said that the U.S. government departments are like bureaucracies that hide wealth among the people and have no power to control wealth. All spending budgets must first be reviewed by the Congress and cannot be spent casually. Therefore, every budget must be transparent, clean and withstand the consequences. Review by a third-party independent agency will ensure that bribery and corruption will not occur.

Why do the rich support small government? Because then the government's restrictions on them will be minimal and they can expand infinitely!

The expansion of capital is disordered. They will instinctively devour everything they see. Finally... with a crash, everything will collapse!

Of course, this is a small problem for capital, but China will never run such a thing.

Of course, this is far from the truth. In short, they can't pee in the same pot.

But this has something to do with Kai.

He didn't bother to participate.

"Don't look at me, it's none of my business! No matter what happens to this matter, I don't care."

Kai shrugged.

"I'm not from Kamal Taj."

Strange was speechless.

But Kai didn't really say nothing. He looked at Zhang Qiang and said, "By the way, why are you competing with a little Karami like him? He can't make the decision?"

In fact, what the truth means is that he is just an innocent passerby, and he also has no way to make the decision.

Zhang Qiang obviously understood.

But obviously, Zhang Qiang didn't believe it.

"But you're here! Kama Taj allows you to enter their temple. This shows that their rules are not so rigid, right? Since they allow you to enter, why should they stop us!"

Zhang Qiang's logic is very simple. Kai can advance, why can't they enter the Divine Spear Game?

Are you playing double standard with me?

No way, Westerners just like this. It’s an old tradition.

If you want to ask why Western countries always use this "double standard" attitude towards non-Western countries, you have to start with the more famous "Western-centrism". The so-called "Western-centrism" is, in the final analysis, a value concept and ideology based on Western-style racial superiority. With the birth and development of the Industrial Revolution, after the Western world gained technological and organizational advantages, this "Western-centrism" was developed in a special form by imperialism, that is, Western values, Social system and so on are regarded as the only standard to measure human civilization. According to this theory, Western imperialism naturally becomes the "god" that can rule everything, while other countries can be shaped into any shape they like according to their own preferences. This is the reason for all the "double standards" of Western hegemonic countries. The source of thought.

Under the guidance of this kind of thinking, hegemonic countries can assess the standards of good and evil at will. As long as it is something set by them, other countries must comply unconditionally without any resistance. With its powerful force, Western imperialism and hegemony have been rampant for centuries. This approach has indeed affected the development of the entire human society, and it continues to affect the current world. As one of the largest non-Western countries in the world, China has chosen a development path that is completely different from that of the West. It has naturally become a "thorn in the side" and "thorn in the flesh" of some Western hegemonic countries. In order to completely force China to succumb to the power of Western hegemonic countries, they attacked, blocked, and smeared China... They used all kinds of methods, and the "double standards" method to deal with China was what they used. A very eye-catching one among the means.

A well-known German media published an article stating that "controlling air pollution may actually lead to accelerated climate warming." Three years ago, the same media published an article blaming China, claiming that China's use of coal to generate electricity caused environmental pollution. Just over three years apart, two articles with completely opposite trends came out of the same German media. The reason is for no other reason - if Germans don't want to suffer from the cold and don't have much coal to burn, they can only burn firewood. For the Chinese, this is not the first time they have seen this phenomenon of "double standards" as soon as they encounter China. For a long time, it has become a common practice of some countries and organizations to make various "double standards" accusations against China under the high-sounding banners of "environmental protection," "human rights," and "security."

There are many things more extreme than this!

On the topic of environmental protection, Western hegemonic countries have fully demonstrated the "double standards" approach. In December 2020, U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Krach declared in public that China was "unparalleled" in the bad results caused by its environmental destruction, and also called on "all countries around the world to work together to stop China's destructive behavior." This "unreasonable" and confusing statement aroused the anger of China. As we all know, since 2000, China's new green area has accounted for one-quarter of the world's total new green area. In the past ten years, China has completed a total of 282 million acres of desertification prevention and control tasks, sealed and protected 26.58 million acres of desertified land, and more than half of the controllable desertified land has been treated. In addition, non-fossil energy accounts for 10% of China's energy consumption. The total proportion has risen to 15.3%, and renewable energy installed capacity has accounted for 30% of the world's total, accounting for 44% of the global increase. China has also formulated a carbon dioxide emission policy to strive for the long-term goal of achieving carbon neutrality in 2060. The United States, on the other hand, neither recognizes the Kyoto Protocol nor withdraws from the Paris Agreement, refusing to assume its emission reduction obligations as a major country. Moreover, the United States is still the world's largest consumer of plastics, but it refuses to ratify the Basel Convention and ships large amounts of plastic waste to other countries. What’s even more ridiculous is that just when China is actively greening its land and turning a lot of deserts into green fields, the Washington Post in the United States is getting excited...

They published an "aggressive article" titled "China Forces Planting Hundreds of Millions of New Trees Every Year", criticizing China's greening efforts. This outrageous idea can be called a "spectacle" in the public opinion field. But as recently as 2013, the headline they reported on China was "China's addiction to disposable chopsticks is destroying forests." Co-authored by China Whether they plant trees or cut them down, it is always wrong in their eyes. In addition to the "double standards" on environmental protection, Western countries also show a similar attitude when it comes to the issue of "eating". All along, whenever the topic of "eating" is mentioned, their attacks on China never stop. "The Economist" believes that the Chinese people's eating of pork has caused global climate warming; "The New York Times" believes that the Chinese people's eating of pork has intensified the damage to the environment and led to the destruction of the Amazon rainforest and other issues; "Times" I believe that China can change the world by taking meat off the menu... Anyway, at the end of the day, we just don't want Chinese people to eat meat.

However, according to statistics in 2020, the per capita meat intake in the United States reached 101 kilograms, while the per capita meat intake in China was 44 kilograms. If other meat-containing snacks are also included, the per capita meat consumption in the United States will be higher. This style of behavior clearly reflects the "double standards" of the West.

It is these Western hegemonic countries that talk so much about "human rights" that when they themselves deal with matters related to "human rights", they don't see any trace of human rights at all. According to statistics from the "2021 Report on Human Rights Violations in the United States" published by the Information Office of the State Council of China, the so-called "anti-terrorism" war launched by the United States in the past 20 years has claimed more than 929,000 lives. The 20-year military operation of the United States in Afghanistan has resulted in a total of 174,000 deaths, including more than 30,000 civilians, and more than 60,000 injuries. The United States is world-famous for its "double standards" behavior in the field of human rights. On the one hand, the United States often fabricates baseless lies about so-called "forced labor" in China, but on the other hand, it never mentions the real and commonplace torture and abuse and "modern slavery" issues in its own prisons. The United States' "black jails" around the world, including Guantánamo, arbitrarily detain people without trial and torture them, which have become symbols of the United States' trampling on the rule of law and violation of human rights. What is unimaginable to the Chinese is that a large number of child labor still exists in the United States. The United States is also the only country in the world that has not ratified the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. A report in the Washington Post pointed out that from 2003 to 2016 alone, 452 children died on the job in the United States, of which 237 child workers died in agricultural production accidents, accounting for more than half. In addition, tobacco farms in many states in the United States employ a large number of children to harvest and dry tobacco leaves. Many children suffer from nicotine poisoning and are even found to have lung infections, causing great harm to their physical and mental health. Such bad records have not changed the "double standards" behavior of the United States at all. They still don't care about their own domestic human rights issues and wantonly wield the "human rights" stick to attack other countries internationally.

This thing used to make people really sick.

Now this trick is happening again, which makes Zhang Qiang disgusted!

Kai, a foreign superhero, can enter, but our reasonable and legal law enforcement officers cannot... What does that mean? What the hell is this double standard thing about?

So this time, they must enter the temple!