The Post-China Balance

The size of China’s displacement of the world balance is such that the world must find a new balance. It is not possible to pretend that this is just another big player. This is the biggest player in the history of the world. Lee Kwan Yew. 

I am starting to appreciate the Singapore genius. The entrance of the Chinese people in the world scene has changed  everything. Few realize it, and even fewer (or none?) are courageous to think it over to the end.

American elite universities are unable to solve the dilemma of a balanced student body. If meritocracy is worth something, then the student body will be Chinese with a sprinkle of Ayers and Jews. If they opt for balanced democracy, they need to discriminate against the Chinese. In Malaysia and Indonesia the Chinese minority accepts second-rank citizenship. Is that the American solution too?

There are many Think Tanks in America and Europe mapping out the future. How will all this end? They are not saying. Maybe the end is unhappy.



Is it good for the Jews? The little we know about the Kaifeng Jews shows that most of the time they were rich and powerful. They travelled to Peking to take the Imperial Civil Service exam and were promoted to mandarin positions.

My aunt Kovacs spent the war as a refugee in Shanghai. Never said a bad word about the Chinese people. As far as I know, the Chinese helped them.

 The Chinese allow others to live and we shall be able to live with them. 

Bad News for POT and me

Deep under the North York Moors Area there is a reservoir of potassium fertilizer without Cloride. It is better than the Dead Sea Potash. Sirius is selling it as POLY4. This thing could disrupt worldwide fertilizer markets and devaluate investments in Israel, Jordan, Saskatchewan, Ukraine and even the Colluli project in Eritrea. Sirius estimates the cost of production of POLY4 at 32.60 $ per tonne, and sale price of 158 $ per tonne. If that comes to fruition, POT called ICL in Israel is doomed. What really bothers me is the projected price for potash fertilizer, which is lower than current price. If so, the probability of fat dividends is zero. This week I shall start liquidating my beloved shares.

Kibbutz in the North

The family spent the weekend in the kibbutz of my little daughter. They have two factories, nut tree plantations and sheep. The managing committee is a gerousia of retired elders. My impression is that the commune is unsustainable, there is a permanent loss of younger people and birthrate under replacement. They compensate by accepting working age candidates, including Arabs, who - private opinion here -  are unsuited for egalitarian communal life. Some colored children. It is not behooving to notice the browning of the kibbutz. Let's hope no one reads this. 

Crossness Sewage Pumping Station becomes a Circus

Crossness was a key element of the 19th Century London's sewage system and it has been nicely conserved. It embodies the industrial revolution, with its massive iron pumps. Improbably, Crossness was transmuted into a tourist attraction and now, a circus. I wanted very much to visit it when in London but it was closed (asbestos removal). Next time. I like London. 

Turkish Paradox

Hungarian President Orban said that in this very moment, 100 thousand "refugees" are walking in the Balkan migration track, trying to infiltrate Europe. And Hungary is ready to repulse them with fire, should they reach the Slovak border. Personally he does not enjoy the idea, but there is Erdogan holding 2.5 million Syrian and Iraqi refugees in Turkey, being fed by EU transfers, and he may open the borders anytime he feels so.

Not that Europe cannot stop any number of unarmed pedestrian migrants, it could be done bloodlessly by erecting a wall, or by shooting the vanguard of the invader column. But Europe is paralyzed by its universalist ideals inherited from the French Revolution. They do not want to face Erdogan's blackmail and their position should be appreciated.

Erdogan pretends to represent and lead the Turks, but he is not. He is strong against Europe but weak against far away China. The Uyghur and the Kazakhstan Turks are being jailed and re-educated by their millions in Western China. An historically Turkish area that used to be called East Turkestan is being absorbed into ethnic China. One or two million Turks are jailed there and there is no one to talk for them, surely not Erdogan.  The Uyghurs are part of the enormous Turkish nation that lives from China to Europe, hundreds of millions of ethnically homogeneous people. It is not the first time China is absorbing a large piece of real estate, it has done in Tibet and today Tibet is securely part of China. But the Tibetans had no ethnic relatives nor allies, they were an isolated indigenous highland people. The Uyghurs should have ethnic Turkish and religious Muslim friends.  They never were friends of the Jews, so I shall say nothing for them. Let Erdogan defend them.  I end echoing Donald Trump's sentiment: The pox on all of them. 

Making Fun of Franco Strocchi

A decade after its publication, a humorous paper by Gare de Lyon (or some other masonic pseudonym) where he makes fun of the verbosity of a collegue Prof. Franco Strocchi (on breaking symmetry), appeared on my computer monitor. The paper demonstrates that NorthEast Asians are smarter than Europeans BUT the they have lower verbal IQ, so they may form efficient hunting parties but they will always be lost in a capitalist society. Therefore their GNP will never exceed Western countries' GNP. We can rest assured that we have nothing to fear from Amerindian and Chinese competition. Yet the 2019 SAT results in America show that things are changing. Whites were bested by the Asian students taking the test. Must we conclude that IQ is not fixed? Should be worried? Funny, is it not? 

Rejtő Jenő: Vesztegzár a Grand Hotelben

Wow! Our home in Buenos Aires was full of popular cheap short novels by Hungarian humorist Rejtő Jenő, and I devoured them all. Times were bad in Budapest of the thirties, and the novels -  took him a week to write - allowed him to eat. 

I loved the story of a luftgescheft Jew who sold the French Foreign Legion cheap "military" equipment like black handbags that he bought in a fire sale. He describes the Legionnaires marching in formation in the desert holding the fashionable handbags and flowery parasols. Unforgettably funny. Now a theater in Budapest announces a play based on another of his cheap novels: Quarantine in the Grand Hotel. There is a contagious disease and the authorities close down the hotel, no one gets in nor out. The hotel is full of international shysters and crooks, an intrigue develops to steal the valuable Bananoxid patent. A musical. No one is what it appears to be. May be in November I can take off a weekend and return to enjoy my mythical Ur culture. Budapest, Vienna, Berlin are still living off the cultural produce of the Jews.