I am one of those who woke up one morning recently and heard about a big Chinese balloon flying high above the airspace of the United States of America. Like billions of people on Planet Earth, I can walk, jog, and appreciate the power of technology. However, seeing the image of such a big balloon in the sky reduced me to a mere animate matter that may not even count in the eyes of these products of technology.
There was then news of other flying objects also high in the sky over North America.
I have heard about satellites. I know I am a beneficiary of them when I use my phone, or the internet, or the Global Positioning System. If I am not mistaken, they are launched into space and become useful while orbiting Planet Earth. I don't know if they cost a lot to make and launch.
News of the balloon and flying objects made it appear that they may be quite expensive to make. In my wild imagination, these kinds of efforts in both the United States and China are likely to cost trillions of dollars altogether over the years. I could be totally wrong on the cost estimate.
If there is any grain of truth in my wild imagination about the trillions of dollars in cost, in what era are both countries living when their leaders can say to each other your word is your bond at a much lower cost? This is the juxtaposition I couldn't get out of my mind ever since I heard about the shooting downs of the balloon and the flying objects. May be I live in a different era when the world's powers of the distant past, China being one of them, used to say your word is your bond and traded with one another nobly.
They have diplomats and ambassadors that can fly to Beijing or Washington, D.C. who could easily say, you know, we are oceans and continents apart. You have your Maryland and we have our Wuhan. Neither of our countries can practically conquer and occupy the other's country. Such is outdated to never come back as long as our countries are thriving.
When both of our countries thrive, the world thrives.
Let us not forget to what brink M.A.D took the world during the Cold War. It was MAD because it was mutual as in two. We can bring in the new Czar of Russia to make it a Trinity for the stability of the world. We should also not forget that using three for stability is one of the earliest inventions of mankind.
In that Trinity of Stability for the world, why would the young leader of North Korea be busy with that radioactive thing? He is busy with it because he knows what befell the late Muammar Gaddafi. If we guarantee him the trinity of stability for the world and commit that our word is our bond, wouldn't he take a break and take his young Princess wherever she wants to go around the world in freedom, whether it is to the Japanese Tea Garden, or Siberia's natural world, or the Amazon forest, or Ivory Coast, or the Mediterranean Basin's climate, or Paris, or Alexandria, or Pretoria?
If he were to rise, the late Muammar Gaddafi could even be of help to us to oversee our accord. That is because, they say they would die for Sharia, which is another word for accord. Sera is the earliest reckoning of mankind that put order over chaos and ushered in democracy that one of us claims to know how to practice better.
When we move to the era of our word is our bond, our budgets for these flying objects can be used for high speed planes or trains. Wouldn't it be nice for our people to take a weekend break aboard high speed planes to the Shangri La of China or America's National Parks, the Grand Canyon, and be back to work by Monday morning? Mitch McConnell could fly with Secretary Chao for a quick family union in China by taking a break from being stuck in vote counting in Washington, D.C.
They can bring along the moonwalk dance thrillers of the late Michael Jacksons for entertainment while vacationing instead of watching from a distance the awkward dance of Elon Musk in Beijing to sell his cars.
While at it, you can also bring the Simone Biles of swimming to meet our Olympic champions who can teach them how to throw themselves into the water almost perfectly.
We can count how many win-wins we both will have if only we say your word is your bond and commit to it and channel these funds on flying objects to mutual and multilateral thriving. Our facilities for making these objects can be changed into playing grounds for children, Area 51 can be changed into LEGOLAND.
So, can't Joseph Biden, for example, ask: in what era do we think we are living when we spend such amounts of money in each of our countries instead of investing them on win-win solutions?