COMMENT:
"Only a congenital dunce can peruse the proceedings of the first Congress of American Revolutionary Writers, and doubt that the show was carefully staged by the communists. Every slogan of the Comintern was woven into the design of the performance. Its fundamental assumption was the perfection of Stalin's Russia, including its new literature. Messages from Soviet writers threw the audience into spasms of orgiastic enthusiasm. Every address was a direct or indirect salute to the Kremlin."
This was April 1935. For its relevance, keep reading. There is any number of scenarios very much alive in the world today, some more fluid than others. Right now, Hong Kong has centre stage with scene changes every day. This week I interviewed Jacob Shapiro, from Geopolitical Futures, specifically on what developments in Hong Kong might predict for Taiwan. Nothing good was the indication, largely because Taiwan was more important than Hong Kong.
With all the options for this week's attention, there was one persuasive influence: Peter Thiel, billionaire investor and part-time New Zealander. In a TV interview, the subject was "Globalist Google is in bed with the Chinese Military". Thiel's opinion was part inside experience in Silicon Valley, and part presumption based on that experience. He says Google is staffed by globalists who do not understand the threat that China poses.
In 2018 Google declined to tender for the US Defense Department's $10 billion Jedi contract, claiming it would violate its AI principles. However, "Google has a major research lab in China where, even though it's not working directly with the Chinese military, in effect, all the technology gets passed onto the Chinese military".