There is the proverb of a
playful boy who cried wolf, scaring the people of the village who scrambled to
protect themselves, only to discover that the alarm was a hoax. There was no wolf.
The boy played the game
several times, losing a little of his credibility each time. And then it
happened one day that a wolf did appear roaming near the village, and the boy
cried wolf, but nobody believed him because he had lost all credibility by
then. And so, you can imagine what the consequences must have been.
There is more to the story and
so, please continue to imagine. It is that the playfulness of the boy was
apparently transferred to his father who cried wolf. When the people of the
village came out prepared to confront the wolf and stand up to it, they saw no
wolf to stand up to. Puzzled, the people asked the playful father: Where is the
wolf that's threatening our village? And the father responded that the wolf was
not here, threatening us. It is on the other side of the mountain threatening
the village over there.
So I ask you, my friend, what
do you think of that man? Don't you see him as a strange case that ought to be
dealt with accordingly? Maybe so, you say, but that's fiction; nothing like
that happens in real life. You are correct, nothing does exactly the same way.
But analog situations do happen, and they represent real danger to the people
who believe hoaxers on any subject instead of asking them: What's the point of
sounding the alarm among us when the issue concerns the people over there who
are not even worried?
You'll know what this is about
when you read the article that came under the title: “China's 'Debt-Trap'
Diplomacy with Third-World Nations,” written by Lawrence A. Franklin, and
published on August 28, 2020 on the website of the Gatestone Institute. You
must have figured by now that the story is a metaphor in which the wolf
represents China, and the village over there represents the people of the Third
World.
So, you have people like
Lawrence Franklin warn that China is threatening the people of the Third World.
The trouble is that these people are on the other side of the communication
divide, and when the alarm about China was sounded on this side of the divide, very
few of them heard it. Moreover, when those few heard it, they scoffed at it
because they view us as the wolves that have been devouring them for centuries,
and continue to devise ways to devour them again and again.
But given that we are
practically the only ones to hear the alarm, why do people like Franklin
continue to sound it? Well, we’ll find the answer to this question by looking
into the article. Here is a relevant passage:
“The objectives of China's
global Belt and Road Initiative [BRI] programs are as much strategic and
political as they are economic. They seem designed to win new dependents,
especially in areas neglected by the West or in the Western sphere of
influence. The ultimate objective of the global dimension of China's BRI appears
to be geared toward replacing the existing political, military and economic
dimension of the West's liberal democratic order”.
So there is the answer to the
earlier question. It is that Lawrence Franklin and people like him fear that
China will grow roots in areas that used to be in the Western sphere of
influence, intending to replace the existing political, military and economic
dimension of the Western order. That includes us, citizens of the West,
according to Franklin. In other words, he says he fears that we may someday
look at the Chinese order, and because we feel neglected by the Western order,
we may embrace the Chinese. But if we choose a new system because the one that
we have is neglecting us, what’s there to fear? Lawrence Franklin does not say
… which makes his entire presentation suspect.
Let me tell you, things will
begin to make sense when we think of the wolf, not as a character representing
the Chinese, but a wolf in human clothing pretending to be the father of the
boy who originally cried wolf. The pretender’s intention is not to save America
from going into the jaws of the Chinese order and be swallowed, but to serve
another order. However, before we see what that is, we need to know who
Lawrence A. Franklin is. Here is his story:
Earlier this century, when
America was governed by the neocons of George W. Bush, a Catholic named
Lawrence Franklin, who was a hater of Islam and the Arabs, used to work for the
American security apparatus. He gave the American Israel Public Affairs Committee
(AIPAC) classified information about America's operations in Iraq, to pass on
to Israel. He was caught, pleaded guilty and sentenced to more than ten years
in prison, as were several operators of AIPAC.
But as it often happens on the
American side of the “Western order” where Jews and Israel are considered to be
above the law, all the cases were mysteriously dropped before any of the guilty
had gone to jail. That’s American style rule-of-law for you to be amazed, and
for the world to be disgusted.
Whatever! In the end we are
forced to conclude that Lawrence Franklin sees the competition for controlling
the planet will not be between America and China; it will be between Islam and
the Jews.