An essay reflecting on Chekhov’s The Seagull and British cinema, expanding into a critique of Western misjudgments of China, global elites, mass immigration, and the political theater surrounding Britain, Europe, and Xi Jinping’s China.
On Chekhov’s The Seagull.
Just now, on Prime Video, I watched the film The Seagull starring Annette Bening, one of my favorite actresses.
Only now did I realize what it truly was about.
The other day, I watched Pride and Prejudice with Colin Firth as the hero.
After that, I went on to watch three films in total, one after another, all set in Britain of that era.
Just a moment ago, a kind of transcendence came to me.
I understood that present-day Britain is in a state of “a drowning man clutching at straws.”
Around 2017, I wrote a line that I still consider a remarkably apt aphorism of my own.
“From your windows, China cannot be seen.”
The West has misjudged China ever since the past.
In recent years, Henry Kissinger committed a grave error by confusing Japan and China, reversing them in his perception.
That mistake has led directly to the emergence of the extremely unstable and dangerous world we face today.
Exacerbating Kissinger’s error even further was his foremost disciple, Klaus Schwab.
He received enormous financial support from China and became the organizer of the Davos Conference, devoted entirely to serving China’s interests.
Through pseudo-moralism, Europe was made to accept massive numbers of immigrants, causing European society to collapse from within.
China skillfully exploited Europe’s past as the embodiment of colonialism, a civilization that had built its wealth on Black slavery.
Europe accepted mass immigration exactly as Schwab and China had plotted.
I have visited London, Paris, and Italy several times.
But I have absolutely no desire to visit today’s Europe.
Not satisfied with that alone, Schwab and China effectively took control of the United Nations, created the COP framework, and spread pseudo-climate-change theories across the world.
The moment Maurice Strong became the first organizer, people should have realized what an outrageous swindle this was.
And now, Starmer, like France’s Macron, visited China with a large delegation in a state of “a drowning man clutching at straws.”
In Britain, Chinese yellow dust does not blow in.
In other words, from their windows, China cannot be seen at all.
They cannot see that the Chinese economy is in a state of collapse.
They cannot see that public sentiment has already completely turned away from Xi Jinping.
They cannot see that appearances are barely maintained only through an Orwellian surveillance state.
They see none of it.
Xi Jinping himself is, in fact, also in a state of “a drowning man clutching at straws.”
Yet through this foolish farce, he was able to show his people a spectacle as if the former British Empire had bowed before him.
Therefore, this visit to China by Prime Minister Starmer and his large delegation served merely as a tool for Xi Jinping to maintain his power and indulge his vanity before the public.
Needless to say, Starmer’s government failed to understand that Xi Jinping, who is actually in dire straits, needs only to keep up appearances for the moment.
The promises made this time are, for Xi Jinping, less than scraps of paper, easily discarded.
After all, even figures who were once his closest confidants have been arrested and detained, and it is hardly an exaggeration to say that only Xi Jinping himself remains, an abnormal state of affairs.
In other words, Xi Jinping, whose situation closely resembles the final stage of a dictator and who may not even know what tomorrow brings, has no way of honoring promises made today.
The reality is that Starmer was merely used conveniently to help polish Xi Jinping’s image.
There is nowhere in today’s China any surplus capacity to sustain Britain.
Even China’s unbelievable reaction to Prime Minister Takaichi’s entirely reasonable remarks is nothing more than a farce, meant to divert the gaze of an angry populace away from domestic despair and toward anti-Japanese sentiment amid a devastating economic situation.
Today’s Chinese citizens no longer have the financial leeway to travel to Japan as they once did.
At best, their limit is travel to nearby, inexpensive destinations such as South Korea or Thailand.
If the number of tourists to Japan sharply declines, China’s economic distress will be exposed to the world.
That is precisely why Xi Jinping is staging the farce of “not sending tourists to Japan.”
And yet, the former British Empire, far across the seas, was thoroughly deceived.
To be continued.