Editor’s Note: This is an offering from Point Loma on another player in the wild circus that will continue to sweep over us in the next few weeks and months. I was distracted today in a matter of oral surgery that replaced several well-used teeth. The travel, anesthetic and kinetic impact is leaving me a bit out of norm. More on all that mañana.
– Vic
Author’s Note: This was written several months ago but got lost in the shuffle. Still doesn’t change much in the greater scheme of things.
– Point Loma

Wolf Warriors – Yeah, Right…

Wolf Warrior Movie Poster

I don’t know about you, but I’m tired of being threatened by a bunch of aggressive Chinese foreign policy and comical PLA general staff bobbleheads and would-be Wolf Warriors every time we take exception to what they are doing over in my Westpac. I think there are a few more people over there who are growing weary of thuggery and bullying: to list a few – Vietnam, Malaysia, Indonesia, the PI (finally), Brunei, Singapore, Japan, Taiwan, and a few of our European/NATO allies who still have a fucking clue about their enduring interests – like the French. The Indians even got their spines up after their little border dust-up so the Chinese decided to dis-engage and go bully up on Bhutan – Bhutan? Then there is what is happening in Hong Kong, which is a crime against all humanity and notions of human rights and respect for the sanctity of sealed agreements. Really? And then threaten to levy sanctions on your critics, weak. So how fucking brave is that?

So after all of the tough talk on cracking down, the following two headlines sort of sum up my headline:
South China Sea: Chinese military told not to fire first shot in stand-off with US forces[1]
· Sources say that troops have been given orders not to escalate situation as both sides step up their activities in the disputed waters

· Beijing said to be keen to cool the ‘tense and dangerous situation’ and agreed to a conversation between defence ministers after initially snubbing the request
And this one doing a backstroke on all the Hong Kong tough talk:
National security law: Hong Kong media mogul Jimmy Lai freed on bail as activist Agnes Chow calls her arrest ‘political persecution and suppression’[2]
· Lai appears outside Mong Kok Police Station shortly after midnight to loud chants of ‘Support Apple! Support till the end!’ from supporters
· Apple Daily founder was one of 10 people arrested in dramatic operation on Monday
Even the “Wolfmen” are afraid of Jimmy Lai. Why am I not surprised?
Confucius and Sun Tzu must be doing cheetah-flips in their tombs. Wolf Wimps is more like it – we know how to bring it a lot bigger and badder than they can dream, because we already have – ask the IJN, the Nazis, or what’s left of the Iraqi Rev Guard. Ah-so, I and my friends have the track record and resume to prove it. I had to go to a few lengths to figure out how to say “go fuck yourself” in Mandarin as well as translated into Kanji characters. Here’s my own personal message:

It Looks Right – Admire the Symmetry

“Yeah, you didn’t like the contrast of the images of our two carriers vs. your puny ones operating in the SCS. And then telling the world that you control where and when we operate as if that were your prerogative – you are playing right into my personal wheelhouse so Wolf Warriors my ass. You’ve got to earn that right and show me something. The last time you really tried it after Korea, the Vietnamese handed you your sorry butts. If you want to play ball with the big boys, then time to start working out. I know you, and you haven’t shown me shit, so 去他妈的 – Qù tā mā de.”

So, I’ve been there and done that with those motherfuckers; gotten down and dirty drunk with them and saw a lot of what they are attempting in the construction of a new Chinese society – it was breathtaking 25 years ago, but a beautiful and breathtaking culture bent to a polluted ill wind, built upon a gomi pile of corruption, shoddy construction, and bullshit – all show, no go. But still, I actually liked some of our barbarian handlers – they were smart and engaging guys and so were there for that reason, mostly to solicit information out of us and my God they partied hard. There’s no reason we can’t get along with them with a certain amount of mutual respect and understanding but that’s not the message President Xi Jinping is preaching. He’s trying to have it both ways, which usually fails – ask guys named Adolf and Benito when you get to wherever that certain rung in Hell may be. Now you can see how this is being played out in Hong Kong – they were rightfully afraid of Hong Kong as I predicted almost 40 years ago; that Hong Kong could wind up controlling all of China – well now they really need Hong Kong. But instead, as all dictatorial miscreants do, they will destroy a good thing and a wondrous place as consumed in their wanton stupidity and as mis-guided by their own precious perceptions of the exceptionality of the long-term history of China as they are. Just wait until the Three Gorges Dam bursts…
So right now, I think their strong-arm tactics suck but it’s all threat, and ours should also be as biliously empty on rhetoric but long on deeds – and this is no time for 娘们 (niáng men = wussies). As usual in the peacetime interregnums, we unilaterally disarm, so here we are once again woefully unprepared and not in a good position in Westpac for a lot of the wrong reasons, mainly a lack of leadership over the past thirty years as well as complaisance with the status quo, so we have got to trade bluster for bluster to gain some strategic distance and time. Sending two carriers into the SCS was a good idea, as well as flushing all the fast attack SSNs which was fucking brilliant – I wouldn’t want to have been the PLAN Intelligence Head of Submarine Analysis when that news happened.
I take a certain grim satisfaction in knowing that the Belt & Road Initiative is turning into an invitation to unforgiving debt, disease, and death from COVID-19, and not deliverance from poverty but national indentured servitude for entire nation states who signed up for that hit of crack. When they try to invade and take over Taiwan, which they may, I would love to be the Commander of the Joint and Combined Forces that gets the pleasure of drowning several hundred thousand stupid PLA pricks. And for you Wolf Warrior boys, it would be better for you that you should go out and earn some T-Shirts as mine came at a price, one that I’ve already paid. If not, go out and howl at the moon, make your fucking empty threats, or shut the fuck up. Right now, all I see is a huge backing down when faced with a couple of carriers who meant no-shit business – that’s the Navy I loved, and the right way to use it. Take notes.
I remain your faithful servant.

[1] South China Morning Post article, 03 August 2020.
[2] Ibid, 12 August 2020.

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