Getting things done, the Chinese Way

THE CHINESE KNOW how to get things done. They don't play games. When they decided they needed defending against the Mongol hordes from the north, they built a wall that to this day stands, and can be seen from outer space. it worked, because it was well guarded. Eat your heart out, Donald Trump. When they decided that their population was increasing too rapidly, they limited families to one child per, and drowned an untold number of baby girls, like unwanted kittens. When MacArthur and the American invaders pushed a bit too far north into North Korea, they sent in their own massive army, drove the Yankee imperialist back, and turned the Korean War into a stalemate. They are willing to manipulate their own currency independently of the market, artificially totally abandoning market and international principles, inflating and deflating its value in accordance to their daily requirements, twisting it into bizarre shapes and values. They thus sacrifice economic stability to advance their ever changing agendas. And when they want technological knowledge or intellectual property from foreigners, and the price is too high, they simply steal it.T the Chinese, the end always justifies the means. and now, the coup de grace. For thousands of years Chinese culture has produced a rich variety of splendid art work, from magnificent ceramics pieces and sculpture, to bejeweled furniture, swords and armor inlaid with gold and silver, and an assortment of other forms of beauty. over the centuries, much of it has scattered all over the world, as wealthy individual collectors, institutions, and conquerors, through purchase, plunder, pilfer, or theft, took it far away. Now, they want it back. The cost of reaquiring it above board is prohibitive, even though there are now more billionaires in China than in America, and china is rapidly becoming the world's wealthiest nation. They especially want to snag back the art from their "century of humiliation", the period from the eighteen forties to nineteen forty five during which invaders, including the British Empire, the United States, and japan dominated, raped, exploited, and stole from the sacred kingdom. The century of humiliation ended only with the communist revolution of 1949, the beginning of the rule of Mao. they want their art back, and they are getting it back, one piece at a time. Perhaps you can imagine how. they are doing it like Jesse James. from galleries and museums all over the world, Chinese art is "mysteriously" vanishing Doors are jimmied, locks are picked. Shadowy figures dressed in black with Grouch Marc masks are moving stealthily in the night. Nearby buildings and cars are burning and exploding as a diversionary tactic. Nobody has been caught yet. They'rs good at it. A real life Agatha Christie James Bond scenario. And, truth be told, you sort of have to admire them and root them on, for their creativity, and for their pursuit of the sacred principle of justice, long delayed.