“[China’s] portion of the global economy and their portion of the global population match exactly,” Bill Gates informed his audience at Australia’s Lowy Institute. “Countries like Australia, U.S., we have per capita GDPs five times what the Chinese have, so we have a disproportionate share of the world’s economy.”
Funny that no one made a citizen’s arrest of the world’s fourth richest man, who, when it comes to personal wealth, is disproportionately disproportionate. But maybe the crowd has the respect for what people produce and earn that Mr. Gates appears to lack.
Gates main point was that China’s rise has been “great for the world.”
While I’m not rooting for the Chinese people to be impoverished, I note that Uyghurs, Hong Kongers, Taiwanese and dissident Chinese aren’t exactly singing the Chinazis’ praises.
. . . except when Uyghurs are forced to sing Chinese Communist Party (CCP) propaganda songs in those re-education camps.
Australians are also well aware of China’s ugly behavior, having suffered under punishing economic sanctions ever since the Australian government suggested an international investigation into COVID’s origin and the CCP’s cover-up.
“Gates also leveled criticism at China,” explained Fortune: the billionaire “philanthropist”
- admitted that China is “not a democracy,”
- rebuked the country for not getting people vaccinated faster and
- referred to it as an “outlier today in terms of that level of wealth and still being as autocratic as they are.”
Actually, “autocratic” is the nicest term available for such a regime.
Bill Gates is a brilliant businessman, a billionaire many times over, but a complete buffoon (at best*) for failing to even mention the crimes against humanity being committed by the CCP government.
When he thinks about world governance, now we know what he doesn’t think about.
This is Common Sense. I’m Paul Jacob.
* “Evil” is another explanation I’ve heard, but I’m not making that case here.
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A British comedian once chuckled sociopathically that he and others bashed Christians and not Muslims because the latter were “better at protecting their brand”.
Well, somewhat likewise for how those involved in business involving America and China will bash both Americans and some of its United States, but will avoid criticism of the Chinese state.
But, if we cannot have courage, let us at least not have hypocrisy.
When Mr. Gates has addressed his own personal disproportionate share of the US and world economy, I will be then willing to consider his plan for the rest of us.
Until then, he’ll have to figure out a different way to buy his way into heaven.