Murilo Oliveira
Brazil, December 23, 2021.
About the Hong Kong elections, it’s something I’ve been trying to understand for a long time, that one thing remains clear to me. If an island loses contact with the nearby mainland, it suffers. This is what seems logical.
With Mama thus available at home, I must say that there were two worldviews in the United States, and one in the world about the United States. That one in the world about the United States is that it is a declining power, or in crisis. The two Americans are, first the Republicans, who thought they could put pressure on China with the help of Russia. Which I think is naive. And that of the Democrats, that Russia and China are not going to slip off the map, and a stronger NATO-based reorder might maintain some balance for some time, which is mine.
Following the tradition of the most ancient Brazilian diplomacy, we are happy with this. There is no very specific reason to be an enemy of either side.
The only ones I consider to be a partisan, in line with the one I resemble, which is Gramsci, are cultural affinities. I find them much more pronounced over here than over there. In line with what I call, with pragmatism and my own form, cultural hegemony.
We had three elections in a row that generate some new arrangement, from the United States, from Germany, and now from Hong Kong.
And within this NATO universe, I believe that France tries to make blends, and I don’t see a mistake in that. What I see is the limit of conservative reactionarism, which always comes as a counter wave.
It was the United States in Brazil, it was France, it was Germany, it was Russia, it was China, it’s essentially what I don’t care so much about, because my people go there every day to take food from that small section here to that small section there. I don’t know the situation in Hong Kong that well, but it is said that there is an economic north among people: the worsening of relations with Mainland China may not be good. The concern is about civil liberties. But deep down, as my Mother always said: when misery walks through the door, happiness jumps out the window.
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