Jacobim Mugatu is the fashion-designer villain of the 2001 comedy, Zoolander. When everyone else swoons over male model Derek Zoolander’s range of “looks”, Mugatu finally screams in disbelief. They’re the same face! Doesn’t anybody notice this? I feel like I’m taking crazy pills!
I’ve often felt the same way, listening to talking heads chattering about China’s “miracle economy”. For the last decade or so, the babble has constantly been about China’s official growth rates. Almost nobody seems to have noticed the obvious thing: China lies. Doesn’t anybody notice this? They’ve been lying since the Maoist regime covered up the catastrophic death toll from the Great Leap Forward, the worst mass killing in human history. They’ve lied constantly, since the 1950s, about pandemic outbreaks. They lie about Tiananmen, Tibet…
