In China, what is truth?

These days, China knows exactly where it is going and how it will get there. 

It keeps us guessing though. So we Western observers monitor China's progress from the riverbank and speculate: forever running the risk that today’s old-China-hand opinion could well be tomorrow’s reputation-deflating embarrassment.

Most professional China watchers seem untroubled by such self-doubt however. So their media outlets accept their speculations readily. They (particularly those based in offshore Hong Kong) believe that because they have a government source in mainland China (every commentator worth his salt has one), they are privy to inside information.

Suckers. This is how the Communist Party of China disseminates misinformation. 

There are no truths in China. Truth is relative. Truth is what the government says it is, and truth is what your mainland Chinese sources may manipulate if it serves their purpose. Truth may change from day to day.

The Western ideology of Communism does that to societies. It degrades natural goodness. It forces people to discard traditional values and replace them with opportunistic or self-protective behaviours.

Eventually this corrupts both culture and country.

In China, ancient cultural hierarchies and their respectful sensitivities are being harmed by blunt instrument power politics. An ugly underworld lies beneath the beauty of traditional Chinese culture.

Perhaps living in a bi-cultural no-mans-land has finally got to me. Maybe it is time to return permanently to my home culture and write my memoirs.

No. Not yet.

This is the beginning of wisdom.