By Jeff J. Brown
Above: centuries before marauding Western pirates scoured the planet like locusts, beginning in the 1400s, the Chinese were fantastically advanced over the backward West, in all aspects of technology and innovation. Genocidal Columbus’s biggest ship would have qualified as a kitchen skiff for China’s fleets. The New World Exterminator had three pint-sized boats, carrying 87 bloodthirsty corsairs. The Chinese had many hundreds of ships carrying over 27,000 people – half the population of London at the time. With their advanced weapons, they could have overrun England or Spain in a week. Yet the Chinese did not massacre, enslave and rape anybody, nor conquer any lands for plunder. They conducted mutually beneficial commercial-cultural exchanges and diplomacy, making the world a better place for all. This is not Sino-propaganda. This is all irrefutable, historical fact, completely ignored and censored in the West, unless you know where to look.
Chinese President Xi Jinping’s win-win cooperation model and the visionary Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) are simply a continuation of national policy, going back thousands of years.
Downloadable podcast (also at the bottom of this page), as well as being syndicated on iTunes and Stitcher Radio (links below),
In this podcast, in addition to reading Robert Temple’s summative book, based on the life works of Dr. Joseph Needham, I also did many hours of online research.
If you have an interest and fascination with technology, inventions, innovation and/or history, Robert Temple’s book, “The Genius of China: 3000 Years of Science, Discovery and Invention” is well worth reading. With tens of beautiful, full color plates, it makes a great coffee table book. Used copies are available for a song on Amazon.
Here are a couple of reviews:
http://www.curledup.com/geniusch.htm
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/959257.The_Genius_of_China
And here is an excerpt of sorts:
Chinese innovation article based on Robert Temple’s Genius of China book
The irony of all this is that greedy, rapacious Westerners could have never left their European ports to enslave and plunder the planet, without the myriad of Chinese innovation and technology given to them. The Chinese had all this technology and much more, hundreds of years before the backward West, yet didn’t use it to exploit Mother Earth and its many peoples. Starting in the 15th century, Caucasians did and are still doing so, with venal violence.
Something to ponder while listening to this podcast.
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JEFF J. BROWN, Senior Editor & China Correspondent, Dispatch from Beijing
Jeff J. Brown is a geopolitical analyst, journalist, lecturer and the author of The China Trilogy. It consists of 44 Days Backpacking in China – The Middle Kingdom in the 21st Century, with the United States, Europe and the Fate of the World in Its Looking Glass (2013); Punto Press released China Rising – Capitalist Roads, Socialist Destinations (2016); and for Badak Merah, Jeff authored China Is Communist, Dammit! – Dawn of the Red Dynasty (2017). As well, he published a textbook, Doctor WriteRead’s Treasure Trove to Great English (2015). He is also currently penning an historical fiction, Red Letters – The Diaries of Xi Jinping, to be published in late 2018. Jeff is a Senior Editor & China Correspondent for The Greanville Post, where he keeps a column, Dispatch from Beijing. He also writes a column for The Saker, called the Moscow-Beijing Express. Jeff interviews and podcasts on his own program, China Rising Radio Sinoland, which is also available on SoundCloud, YouTube, Stitcher Radio and iTunes.
In China, he has been a speaker at TEDx, the Bookworm and Capital M Literary Festivals, the Hutong, as well as being featured in an 18-part series of interviews on Radio Beijing AM774, with former BBC journalist, Bruce Connolly. He has guest lectured at the Beijing Academy of Social Sciences and various international schools and universities.
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