In 2012, Peter Nolan published a book under the eloquent title “Is China buying the world?” ed.Polity Press, UK&USA), which we can translate “Is China buying the world?”. And, of course, the book has attracted large interest not only among economists and politicians. Reviews came out, allists in 2024 began to delete the book from libraries – possibly its data was already outdated, or its subject was besides provocative? But whatever it takes to say, “buying the world” is inactive a better way than giving wars to the nations and taking distant their territories in ruins, covering the corpses of women and children after drone raids. The rulers of the Kremlin most likely do not know Lao-tse's ancient doctrine (c.571-c.490 before Christ), and this wise Chinese pointed to Tao's path, that is, the state of balance, peace and even peace, and, paradoxically, the effectiveness of "not acting." He was expected to influence Confucius. The creator of Taoism besides left us with a wise warning: “When through luck man can regulation the planet for a time, love could regulation it forever.” Lao-tse (also known as Lao Tan) was an archivist and astrologer behind the Zhou dynasty, and his doctrine of Taoism, collected in the philosophical will of the “Tao-to king” had a immense impact on Chinese thought and tradition until the 20th century, erstwhile it was unfortunately contaminated with Marxism-Leninism, so Tao is no longer the only busol of the Chinese. After the invasion of Ukraine, the Silk Road has besides lost quite a few importance, but traditionally trade expansion is inactive a priority, although Communist China defends itself all over and is increasingly reasoning of military expansion for the time being in the Indo-Pacific region, possibly an alliance with Russia attracts them to dream of escalation and expanding their borders. And the obsession with Taiwan is getting louder all year. But war is not the perfect solution, Taoism reminds us of it, and Russia's long conflict with Ukraine is besides a warning. Even more so, the Taiwanese would not be prohibited from utilizing long-range missiles, so Beijing would become their mark from the first day of the war. Or is it the North Korean dictator who's gonna start the fireworks in Asia? So the military road will regulation over the trade?
Everything's ahead of us. Today, however, it is worth recalling how the colossal and primitive mistake was Hitler's beginning of planet War II in the Allies with the Soviets. The German Chancellor most likely did not know Lao-tse's philosophy, but he could have done a better analysis of the situation and chose the way of economical dominance in Europe (and then gradually in Asia) due to the fact that after taking Austria he had almost everything given on a platter. And in 30 years the German manufacture drove distant another European countries, all it took was a trade expansion (as China is doing present by buying the world) and slow strengthening itself the position of the first power in Europe. Without war and bloodshed. Unfortunately, the desire for revenge for defeat in planet War I proved stronger, so the Germans fell into a trap with no way out and into an ocean of crime, of which they later had to explain in a little convincing way. I fear that present there are countries ready to fall into a akin trap, and it is Putin's Russia that first jumped into historical cesspools alternatively of seeking political solutions and economically “one” routes with its neighbours, as well as developing common trade links. And putting a problem on the edge of a knife is not a solution worthy of homo sapiens, but it has not yet died out in old Europe increasingly flooded with flash floods and burning at utmost summertime temperatures, especially in Spain. Burnt houses, full villages, olive trees and vineyards scare not only environmentalists. many pastures have besides burned down, and so shortly we will run out of milk, oil and wine, due to the fact that before that we lacked grey cells and more imagination as to defend ourselves from fires, of which almost 20% were supposedly caused deliberately. And will evil forces burn our peace branch too? It seems so, due to the fact that the expanding bombing of Ukrainian cities does not attest to the peaceful intentions of the Federation, which prefers to be an empire! possibly the threat was besides a drone that crashed at Warsaw last week? And Russian and Chinese ships are increasingly around Japan and investigating rockets...
Marek Baterovich, 21.08.2025
Marek Baterovich, born1944) as a poet, he made his debut in the pages of "The Common Week" and "The Student" (1971). Book debut - "Verses to Dawn" (W-wa, 1976); the title was an allusion to the night of PRL. In 1981, he published outside censorship a collection of poems entitled "Having broken branches of silence". Since 1985 on emigration, since 1987 in Australia. Author of respective prose titles(M.in "Zarno rises in wound"-1992 in Sydney and 2017 in Warsaw) and many poesy collections specified as "heart and fist" (Sydney, 1987), "From that side of the tree" (Melbourne, 1992 – poems collected), "Place in the atlas" (Sydney, 1996), "Chair and Shadow" (Sydney,2003), "On the Sun leash" (Sydney, 2008). In 2010 in Italy there was a selection of poems – "Canti del pianoa", followed by "Status quo" (Toronto, 2014), a collection of short stories – "Jeu de masques" (Nantes, 2014), "Over large Water" (Sydney, 2015) and an e-book of his naval novel, settled in the 16th century "Aux vents conjurés".(www.polskacanada.com/aux-vents-conjures-par-marker-batter
