Chaos plagues China these days. According to official statistics, 200 million people are unemployed. Every two minutes, someone kills him or herself. Grievances among the citizenry have lead to a rapid increase in mass protests, which are often violent.
In addition, the environment is gravely polluted, with half of underground water undrinkable. The seven major rivers are completely polluted, and one-fifth of arable land is polluted by heavy metals.
Corruption is rife. The gap between the rich and poor is massive. China’s Gini coefficient has already reached 0.51. [The Gini coefficient is a measure of statistical dispersion commonly used to measure inequality of wealth.]
The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) may well collapse, but before it does, it seems as though the world has been taken hostage.
The CCP’s rule of China is a tragedy of history. The 1989 democracy movement provided the CCP with a chance to go from evil to good, but it opposed the tide of history and took the students’ demands for democracy to be a plot of hostile Western forces, part of the “peaceful evolution” theory, and claimed it was a plot to split China. The protests were ruthlessly suppressed.
The Party then sent spies to infiltrate the democracy movement in exile, utterly undermining its integrity. Through threats and bribes, democracy activists were demoralized and divided, and the regime’s spies and agents-of-influence put down roots.
The CCP has also destroyed religious culture, destroyed the Chinese ecology, plundered natural resources, and aroused deep resistance and resentment from the peoples of Tibet and Xinjiang.
In the latter case, this resistance was used by the CCP to fool Chinese people. Under the banner of “opposing splittism,” the CCP carried out massacres in Tibet and Xinjiang.
The Party also made a premeditated effort to incite racist attitudes in Han Chinese in an attempt to transfer resentment that would otherwise be directed at government officials.
At the same time, the Party took the opportunity to mobilize military forces westward, ship supplies, and look for a chance to open land and sea channels in Southwest Asia, even extending its strategic antennae toward the Middle East, using the Shanghai Cooperation Organization to resist the Western world.
In all sorts of international forums, the CCP makes an enormous hubbub about the Taiwan issue. In actuality, the dispute over the Taiwan Strait has merely become an excuse for the Party to rapidly build up its naval and air forces. The CCP’s military buildup in this regard has already far exceeded what is necessary merely for the Taiwan Strait.
In particular, the focused development of submarines and guided missiles means the CCP is on track to possessing a military capability that can contend with any global player. Undoubtedly, this is all international political capital for the maintenance of an autarkic system that tramples on human rights.
The international community has generally maintained the well-intentioned outlook that through contact and cooperation and assisting China in developing its economy, democracy will be promoted, the human rights situation will improve, and China will become a civilization of the modern age. However, this aspiration has been entirely unrequited.
Western businesses that enter China quickly become accustomed to the hidden rules and corrupt practices that characterize the modern Chinese business scene.
By exchanging a larger bottom line for the blood and sweat of Chinese labor and severe damage to the natural environment, they inadvertently destroy the political credibility of the West.
When Europe criticizes the CCP’s autocracy, the regime flips its trade preferences to the United States. When the United States criticizes the regime’s human rights violations, the Party makes trade overtures to Europe. European and American politicians follow their noses when it comes to practical interests, and in front of the CCP, they abandon ethical standards and basic conscience.
Many Western politicians, economists, and cultural figures have been invited to visit China, where they receive the most meticulously coordinated treatment on the part of the regime. When the visit is over, the majority can only gush praise at the CCP’s apparent achievements.
Many officials from the West are especially “looked after” by the CCP. Former mayor of London Ian Clement’s treatment at the Beijing Olympics is a typical case: He was seduced and drugged by a Chinese femme fatale, waking in bed a few hours later to find her rifling through his documents before stealing out the door.
At the same time that the CCP is corrupting world order, it is also rolling out a cultural offensive, spending huge sums on overseas media and Confucius Institutes to ingratiate itself with the West, and mixing culture with politics. The strategy of using a tailor-made version of Chinese culture to penetrate the West works in tandem with its political, economic, military, and economic strategies.
The CCP’s military spending has escalated rapidly in recent years. Many scientific and technological research projects, like the lunar exploration program, disguise military intent. These ventures are unrelated to the welfare of the populace, having much greater military significance than civilian use.
Compare this with the fact that China’s spending on education is one-third of the standard set by the United Nations, and spending on health insurance is similarly nominal.
Meanwhile, house prices are soaring beyond the means of most citizens, the environment is being harmed without scruple, and the consumption of natural resources proceeds apace. Such damage to China’s own backyard is hard to understand.
The “drain the pond to catch the fish” development model cannot be sustained, and thus the collapse of the CCP appears inevitable. When that happens, what are regime officials going to do? Escape overseas? Some Party apparatchiks are making such preparations now, but will the Chinese masses let them go like that? Certainly not.
In that case, the CCP’s response could be unpredictable, erratic, and a danger to world security.
The CCP has made a series of high-sounding promises to the international community, but will it honor them? Of course not. Once the ruling regime arrives at the crisis point, it may try a number of desperate measures.
At the same time, China’s environmental calamity will bring disaster to the world. China and the United States’ fierce clash over environmental issues indicates that the CCP has no intention of dealing with the ramifications of the environmental devastation that is a consequence of its economic model.
The world has been kidnapped. To escape, Eastern and Western strategists need to have more wisdom and come up with more rational tactics.
Translated from the Chinese for BeforeItsNews.com
In addition, the environment is gravely polluted, with half of underground water undrinkable. The seven major rivers are completely polluted, and one-fifth of arable land is polluted by heavy metals.
Corruption is rife. The gap between the rich and poor is massive. China’s Gini coefficient has already reached 0.51. [The Gini coefficient is a measure of statistical dispersion commonly used to measure inequality of wealth.]
The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) may well collapse, but before it does, it seems as though the world has been taken hostage.
The CCP’s rule of China is a tragedy of history. The 1989 democracy movement provided the CCP with a chance to go from evil to good, but it opposed the tide of history and took the students’ demands for democracy to be a plot of hostile Western forces, part of the “peaceful evolution” theory, and claimed it was a plot to split China. The protests were ruthlessly suppressed.
The Party then sent spies to infiltrate the democracy movement in exile, utterly undermining its integrity. Through threats and bribes, democracy activists were demoralized and divided, and the regime’s spies and agents-of-influence put down roots.
The CCP has also destroyed religious culture, destroyed the Chinese ecology, plundered natural resources, and aroused deep resistance and resentment from the peoples of Tibet and Xinjiang.
In the latter case, this resistance was used by the CCP to fool Chinese people. Under the banner of “opposing splittism,” the CCP carried out massacres in Tibet and Xinjiang.
The Party also made a premeditated effort to incite racist attitudes in Han Chinese in an attempt to transfer resentment that would otherwise be directed at government officials.
At the same time, the Party took the opportunity to mobilize military forces westward, ship supplies, and look for a chance to open land and sea channels in Southwest Asia, even extending its strategic antennae toward the Middle East, using the Shanghai Cooperation Organization to resist the Western world.
In all sorts of international forums, the CCP makes an enormous hubbub about the Taiwan issue. In actuality, the dispute over the Taiwan Strait has merely become an excuse for the Party to rapidly build up its naval and air forces. The CCP’s military buildup in this regard has already far exceeded what is necessary merely for the Taiwan Strait.
In particular, the focused development of submarines and guided missiles means the CCP is on track to possessing a military capability that can contend with any global player. Undoubtedly, this is all international political capital for the maintenance of an autarkic system that tramples on human rights.
The international community has generally maintained the well-intentioned outlook that through contact and cooperation and assisting China in developing its economy, democracy will be promoted, the human rights situation will improve, and China will become a civilization of the modern age. However, this aspiration has been entirely unrequited.
Corrupting World Order
Western businesses that enter China quickly become accustomed to the hidden rules and corrupt practices that characterize the modern Chinese business scene.
By exchanging a larger bottom line for the blood and sweat of Chinese labor and severe damage to the natural environment, they inadvertently destroy the political credibility of the West.
When Europe criticizes the CCP’s autocracy, the regime flips its trade preferences to the United States. When the United States criticizes the regime’s human rights violations, the Party makes trade overtures to Europe. European and American politicians follow their noses when it comes to practical interests, and in front of the CCP, they abandon ethical standards and basic conscience.
Many Western politicians, economists, and cultural figures have been invited to visit China, where they receive the most meticulously coordinated treatment on the part of the regime. When the visit is over, the majority can only gush praise at the CCP’s apparent achievements.
Many officials from the West are especially “looked after” by the CCP. Former mayor of London Ian Clement’s treatment at the Beijing Olympics is a typical case: He was seduced and drugged by a Chinese femme fatale, waking in bed a few hours later to find her rifling through his documents before stealing out the door.
At the same time that the CCP is corrupting world order, it is also rolling out a cultural offensive, spending huge sums on overseas media and Confucius Institutes to ingratiate itself with the West, and mixing culture with politics. The strategy of using a tailor-made version of Chinese culture to penetrate the West works in tandem with its political, economic, military, and economic strategies.
Unsustainable Development
The CCP’s military spending has escalated rapidly in recent years. Many scientific and technological research projects, like the lunar exploration program, disguise military intent. These ventures are unrelated to the welfare of the populace, having much greater military significance than civilian use.
Compare this with the fact that China’s spending on education is one-third of the standard set by the United Nations, and spending on health insurance is similarly nominal.
Meanwhile, house prices are soaring beyond the means of most citizens, the environment is being harmed without scruple, and the consumption of natural resources proceeds apace. Such damage to China’s own backyard is hard to understand.
The “drain the pond to catch the fish” development model cannot be sustained, and thus the collapse of the CCP appears inevitable. When that happens, what are regime officials going to do? Escape overseas? Some Party apparatchiks are making such preparations now, but will the Chinese masses let them go like that? Certainly not.
In that case, the CCP’s response could be unpredictable, erratic, and a danger to world security.
The CCP has made a series of high-sounding promises to the international community, but will it honor them? Of course not. Once the ruling regime arrives at the crisis point, it may try a number of desperate measures.
At the same time, China’s environmental calamity will bring disaster to the world. China and the United States’ fierce clash over environmental issues indicates that the CCP has no intention of dealing with the ramifications of the environmental devastation that is a consequence of its economic model.
The world has been kidnapped. To escape, Eastern and Western strategists need to have more wisdom and come up with more rational tactics.
Translated from the Chinese for BeforeItsNews.com
