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Chapter 2068 Double Standards (Please give me a monthly ticket!!! Please subscribe!!! Please recomme

Chapter 2068 Double Standards (Please give me a monthly ticket!!! Please subscribe!!! Please recommend!!!)

This question is destined to have no result.

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!

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 do something 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, 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 just sit there and eat.

This made Strange and Zhang Qiang very puzzled.

Of course, Strange was more depressed. He thought Kai would support him... but the problem was that Kai never said anything about such things. Zhang Qiang was still worried before. Although Kai had a great influence abroad, it was just that in China.

But if Kai really leaves the court, they will still be a bit passive.

In the end, Kai said nothing. This made Zhang Qiang breathe a sigh of relief, but at the same time, he was worried deep down. This guy must be plotting something!

"Kai! How long will it take you to eat? Why can't you just help me talk?"

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

Strange is also a rich man... and he also supports small government.

Small governmentism, also known as minimum centralization or minimum government, advocates that the power of the government should be minimized. In addition to protecting people's freedom and preventing them from being violated, the government should not care about other matters. In short, small governmentism requires limiting the power of the government and requiring the government to let go of all matters except for punishing crimes, national defense and diplomacy in society, so as to achieve the highly free society pursued by liberals.

In order to convince the general public of the benefits of small government, the wealthy have repeatedly said that as long as small government is implemented, officials will lose the opportunity to engage in corruption because their power is taken away. Society can organize groups to replace government management and even do better. These are the theories of the wealthy.

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

Experts also cite other countries as examples. For example, they often use the United States as an example, saying that the United States is a federal country, and the state governments of each state are responsible for their own affairs, and the federal government has no right to intervene. Therefore, the American people have great freedom, and various social groups operate well, which is why the United States is so powerful.

They used Japan as an example. They first praised Japan, portraying it as a harmonious society with high moral standards and clean government officials. Then they changed the subject and began to promote their viewpoint: because the Japanese government practices small government, the scale of the Japanese government is very small, and many things are done by non-governmental groups, which greatly improves the efficiency of social operation and reduces fiscal expenditure.

But is small government really as good as experts say? If it is really good, why are only a few countries like the United States and Japan practicing it? Don't other countries know the benefits of small government?

In fact, the experts once again demonstrated their eloquent speech skills. They only talked about the theoretical benefits of small government, but never mentioned the drawbacks in actual operation.

For example, Hurricane Harvey ravaged Texas, causing flooding in many areas of the state, water outages and power outages, which severely affected 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 $1200 billion to $1800 billion. The state government cannot afford this money, so it can only ask the federal government for it. But the federal government threw up its hands and said, there is no money!

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

The harm that small government has brought to the United States is not only this. In the United States, the scope of the federal government's authority has been greatly reduced. Matters such as managing the economy have been handed over to private departments such as the Federal Reserve, and even the city's public security is managed by the community. This is terrible. Because if it is managed by the community, there will be serious inequality between different regions. Because the rich areas pay more taxes, the management departments of the rich areas have the money to hire more police to maintain public security, and the infrastructure and public construction are better than those in the areas where the poor gather. The whole community is full of birdsong and flowers, and the environment is very comfortable. On the contrary, a large number of poor people gather in the poor areas. The poor people don't pay much taxes, so naturally there is no money to increase the public security force to maintain public security. There is no money to maintain public transportation and infrastructure. Compared with the rich areas, the public security in the poor areas has deteriorated, the environment is dirty and messy, and the people living in the 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, but even the White House was unwilling to lend a hand. The White House only expressed its willingness to support the Texas government after raising funds by debt.

However, borrowing money will expand power, which will only be opposed by supporters of small government. These people are all liberals, and what they oppose most is the expansion of government power. Now that the White House is going to borrow money, I believe these people will strongly oppose it and prevent the White House from expanding its power.

Then the power of the federal government will be reduced and streamlined, and delegated to civil organizations and non-profit organizations, while it only needs to do basic public affairs and emergency crisis management, without unlimited responsibility or taking care of everything. Citizens can curse the president and his staff at will, and can use guns to protect their personal and residential safety. They would rather trust individual militias than the government, and vow to put government power in a cage. They also say that the US government departments are clean offices, hiding wealth from the people, and have no control over wealth. The budgets for various expenses must first be reviewed by Congress and cannot be spent casually. Therefore, every budget is transparent and clean, and can withstand the review of third-party independent agencies, and bribery and corruption will not occur.

Why do the rich support a small government? Because that way the government will impose minimal restrictions on them and they can expand indefinitely!

The expansion of capital is disorderly. They will instinctively devour everything they see, and finally... with a loud bang, everything will collapse!

Of course, these are minor problems for capital, but China will never allow such a thing to happen.

Of course this is getting off topic, but the bottom line is they can't pee in the same pot.

But this has nothing to do with Kai.

He was too lazy to participate.

"Don't look at me, it's none of my business! No matter how this matter turns out, I don't care."

Kai shrugged.

"I'm not even from Kamar-Taj."

Strange was speechless.

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

In fact, what he meant was that he was just an innocent passerby and he had no say in the matter.

Zhang Qiang obviously understood.

But obviously, Zhang Qiang didn't believe it.

"But you're here! Kamar-Taj allowed you to enter their temple, which means their rules aren't that rigid, right? Since they allowed you to go in, why did they stop us!"

Zhang Qiang’s logic is very simple. If Kai can get in, why can’t their Shenmao Bureau get in?

Are you playing double standards with me?

There is no way, Westerners just like it this way. It is an old tradition.

If you want to ask why Western countries always use this "double standard" attitude to view non-Western countries, this topic has to start with the more famous "Western-centrism". The so-called "Western-centrism" is, after all, a value concept and ideology based on Western racial superiority. With the birth and development of the industrial revolution, after the Western world gained advantages in science and technology and organization, this "Western-centrism" was developed by imperialism in a special form, that is, Western values, social systems, etc. are regarded as the only standard for measuring human civilization. According to this theory, Western imperialism naturally became the "God" who can rule everything, and other countries can be shaped into any form at will according to their own preferences. This is the ideological root of all the "double standards" of Western hegemonic countries.

Under the guidance of this kind of thinking, hegemonic countries can arbitrarily assess the standards of good and evil. As long as they set something, other countries must follow it unconditionally without any resistance. Relying on powerful military force, Western imperialism and hegemonism have been rampant for centuries. This approach has indeed affected the development of the entire human society and continues to affect the current world. As one of the largest non-Western countries in the world, China, which has chosen a completely different development path from the West, has naturally become a "thorn in the eye" and "thorn in the flesh" of some Western hegemonic countries. In order to completely force China to succumb to the tyranny of Western hegemonic countries, they have attacked, encircled, and smeared China... The means can be said to be unscrupulous, and using "double standards" to deal with China is a very eye-catching one of the means they use.

A well-known German media published an article saying that "controlling air pollution may lead to accelerated climate warming". Three years ago, the same media published an article accusing China, claiming that China's use of coal to generate electricity caused environmental pollution. Just over three years apart, two articles with completely opposite directions came out of the same German media. The reason is simple - if Germans don't want to suffer from the cold, they can only burn firewood if they don't burn more coal. For the Chinese, this phenomenon of "double standards" as soon as they encounter China is not the first time they have seen it. For a long time, under the banner of "environmental protection", "human rights" and "security", various "double standards" accusations against China have long become a common routine for some countries and organizations.

There are things even more outrageous than this!

On the topic of environmental protection, Western hegemonic countries have fully demonstrated the means of "double standards". In December 2020, US Deputy Secretary of State Krach publicly declared that China's environmental damage was "unique" and called on "all countries in the world to work together to stop China's destructive behavior". This "arguably irrational" reversal of right and wrong has aroused the anger of China. As we all know, since 12, China's newly added green area has accounted for a quarter of the world's total newly added green area. In the past decade, China has completed a total of 2000 million mu of sand prevention and control tasks, closed 2.82 million mu of desertified land for protection, and more than half of the desertified land that can be controlled has been controlled. In addition, China's non-fossil energy has risen to 2658% of its total energy consumption, and its installed capacity of renewable energy has accounted for 15.3% of the world's total capacity, accounting for 30% of the global increase. China has also formulated a carbon dioxide emission policy to strive to achieve the long-term goal of carbon neutrality by 44. On the other hand, the United States neither recognized the Kyoto Protocol nor withdrew from the Paris Agreement, refusing to assume its emission reduction obligations as a major country. Moreover, the United States is the world's largest plastic consumer, 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 while China is actively greening its land and turning large amounts of desert into green fields, the Washington Post has become excited...

They published a "brilliant article" titled "China is forced to plant hundreds of millions of new trees every year", criticizing China's greening work. This out-of-the-box idea can be called a "spectacle" in the public opinion field. But in 2013, the title of their report on China was "China's addiction to disposable chopsticks is destroying forests." So whether China plants trees or cuts trees, they are wrong in their eyes. In addition to the "double standards" on environmental protection, Western countries have also shown a similar attitude on the issue of "eating". For a long time, as long as the topic of "eating" is mentioned, their attacks on China have never stopped. The Economist believes that it is the Chinese who eat pork that causes global warming; The New York Times believes that the Chinese who eat pork have exacerbated the damage to the environment and led to the destruction of the Amazon rainforest and other problems; Time magazine believes that China can change the world by removing meat dishes from the menu... Anyway, in the final analysis, they just don't want the Chinese to eat meat.

However, according to statistics in 2020, the average meat intake of Americans reached 101 kilograms, while that of Chinese was 44 kilograms. If other meat-containing snacks are taken into account, the average meat consumption of Americans would be even higher. This behavior fully reflects the double standards of the West.

These Western hegemonic countries that talk about "human rights" all the time, when they themselves deal with "human rights" related affairs, they don't see any trace of human rights. According to 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 92.9 lives. The United States' 20 years of military operations in Afghanistan have caused a total of 3 deaths, including more than 17.4 civilians, and more than 6 injuries. The United States is world-famous for its "double standards" in the field of human rights. On the one hand, the United States often fabricates the lie that China has so-called "forced labor" without any basis, but on the other hand, it never mentions the real and commonplace torture and "modern slavery" in its own prisons. The United States' "black prisons" around the world, including Guantanamo Bay Prison, arbitrarily detain and torture people without trial, which has become a symbol of the United States' trampling on the rule of law and violating human rights. What is unimaginable to the Chinese is that there are still a large number of child laborers in the United States, and 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 between 2003 and 2016 alone, 452 children died in the United States due to work-related deaths, of which 237 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 have nicotine poisoning and have even been found to have lung infections, which has caused great harm to their physical and mental health. Such a long list of bad deeds has not changed the United States' "double standards" behavior. They still don't care about human rights issues in their own country, and wantonly wield the "human rights" stick to attack other countries internationally.

This thing used to make people sick.

Now they are doing the same thing again, which makes Zhang Qiang feel sick!

Kai, a foreign superhero, can enter, but our legitimate law enforcement officers cannot... What does that mean? Another double standard?

So this time, they had to enter the temple!