Jabs at China

The Google vs Rep of China spat is being outplayed to be more than just a case of a business entity vs a country’s rule. The western media is outplaying the incident and the detective in moir

is detecting an undercurrent of the start of series of jabs against the People’s Republic of China.

I tried to resist writing on this issue for the past 2 weeks, but this is a very interesting development. I’m looking at this issue using an out-of-the-box perspective.

It appears that a certain faltering economic giant has to do something to win a battle that it’s losing, and losing badly. And as it has done in the past, this lumbering giant will not hesitate to do anything necessary to win it. Any crack that it can inflict on the Great Wall, it will do.

No doubt that in today’s global world of capitalism, China unique political, social and economic system stands out like a sore thumb. But being different does not mean you’re wrong. As a sovereign country, China should be entitled to choose its own way. Anyone who has been a teenager should think back the feeling and the angst experienced.

Malaysia felt the brunt of being an outcast when it famously imposed capital control at the height of 1999 Asian Financial Crisis and later survived and proven right.

It is obvious that the huge market of China is very salivating to the big businesses. In a current economic turbulence where many so-called-developed economies have gone to the doghouse, the huge underdeveloped economy of China is seen as a potential savior. Not just to the businesses but to the whole countries’ economies.

Unfortunately, many have failed in their attempt to penetrate that fortress of the Great Wall. Not only due to the exotic business culture of that society but also the doggedly stubborn political and legal values and environment that are marked different from the western world.

In the early 19th century, there were opium war and rival factions that provided the cracks that led to the fall of Qing Dynasty in 1911. But the current Government looked solid, for now. So it seemed that the Google incident is being played to expose the evil system which hopefully will catch on by the international community and provided the crack to split open the Great Wall for the invading barbarians.

If anyone care to look back at the 1970′s emergence of Japanese economic juggernaut. At one time, the Japanese, with its unique business and management ethics, outproduce and outsold the then economic giants that it seemed that they’re unstoppable. If you remembered, Malaysia managed to hang on its coat tail using the Look East Policy to get its way against the Brits. But the Japanese economic managed to be screwed up badly when they agreed to open up and embrace the western capitalism amidst the influx of gaijin consultants and advisers. For more than 10 years now…. the Japanese economy has been mired in a state of flux.

So it remains to be seen, what is the effect of this jab at the Great Wall. Will it open a series of jab, hook and upper cut that will floor China? Or will the passive giant of China decide to exercise its power over the ailing superpower in tenterhook? Will China go for the jugular and withdraw the Dollar lifeline and put its massive money reserve in another currency?

Interesting game to watch. Will the mahjong strategy call the bluff on the poker player? Guess how will a 300 years old civilisation built from taking other people’s land win this war against a civilisation that’s thousands of years old. Using the method that they know best, of course.

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