heron said:
Saw a great BBC segment yesterday on connections between countries and some trade implications. They reported that Bush just spoke in support of Taiwan, which is considered by China a renegade state that should be brought back in. China and Russia are doing military exercises together. The summary was chilling, like the stirrings of things that will be significant for us later.
And do listen to Tal, as protection for your own future. If it just puts you into a different brain wave state, then that's similar to other modes of relaxation (like pre- sleep). But if you're listening for
things, then you open yourself up to any spiritual force that's out there...and they're glad to offer their services.
A better suggestion, ask the Holy Spirit to pray through you for needs around the world. Many more exciting things happen that way. Not just knowing for your own enlightenment, but real action.
I don't really think it's a mix of French and Swahili, but maybe just Swahili...I have a dictionary around here somewhere but it's not where I keep it.
Some odd news clips:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/4204612.stm US sales of arms to Taiwan
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/3701114.stm China / Tawain conflict
(2004)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/4698655.stm China missile build-up
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/4439070.stm Bush and China
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/3589795.stm Gao's Deadly Migrant Trade
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/4449660.stm Kenya-- far east of Gao
As I posted on another thread about China, I have done some high (and low) profile work against that State.
I did not really want to, it was more of a direction given to me. I was more interesting in doing anti-totalitarian work against Islamist totalitarian nations.
China has the symbol of the Dragon as their primary symbol.
(I might also note that not too long ago I visited China on a business basis. I do believe in a sunshine policy, however I was largely there simply to get information on the State.)
[I should note this information gathering was on an informal basis, largely born out of my own curiosity.]
I have a lot of concern about China. They are acting very aggressively against the United States in some areas. Of course, historically, they aided the Viet Cong and North Korea.
Some odd twenty million plus have died as a result of Communism there.
Currently the State there is very bad. It is a slave State. The government has their fingers in everything and the corruption is incredible.
They have many positive things about their culture. It is very old and refined. They believe in working hard, in being polite and sociable, they believe in hard study. But, they also are too respectful of corrupt authority.
They have, of course, a great army, in terms of size.
The US started their relations with China by stating to China that we would not intercede if they took Taiwan by force. I do strongly applaud Bush's recent condemnations. I only wish more State leaders would do this.
They do not.
In fact, in global polls, China is preferred over the US.
That said, China is in serious, serious trouble. Poverty is rampant. China is eating herself. The banks are in incredible turmoil. About the only thing preventing her from having an economic collapse is that no one is allowed to withdraw their money and send it overseas. Gold is also once again prohibited. There are other measures they have brought forth which are used in an attempt to keep people from withdrawing all of their money.
(These things are largely being done through Western advisors.)
As Christians we have a mandate to pray that China might become free. Currently, Christians are widely persecuted there.
I am convinced that Democracy is the only solution for China. Yet, the one thing that would make her the major superpower on the face of the planet is the one thing her government hates above all else.
She needs a complete overhaul of her system.
People do not understand: this corruption is not unlike at all the corruption she experienced before the Boxer Rebellion and for many generations.
But, the free trade is getting a lot of western culture in there... and some of that is working towards her internal good by countering the propaganda of their state.
And, contrary to what soothsayers say about China: the living conditions there are absolutely deplorable except for a very few.
You know, strange messeges recieved from an unknown source at night, during trying out a new way of concentrating?
