May be a long read but worth the time to know facts to be pondered about rather 'serkap jarang' due to personal sentiments.
China has traded with my country Malaysia for 2000 years. In those years, they were the world’s biggest powers many times. Never once they sent troops to take our land. In 1511 the Portuguese came, in 1642 the Dutch came, in 1786 the British came, we were colonised by each, one after another. When China wanted spices from India, they traded with the Indians. When they wanted gems, they traded with the Persian. They didn’t take lands.
The only time China notably expanded beyond their current borders was in Yuan Dynasty, when Genghis Khan and his descendants Ogedei Khan & Kublai Khan conquered China, Central Asia and Eastern Europe. But Yuan Dynasty, although being based in China, was a Mongolian Empire. It’s during the Yuan Dynasty that Tibet fell into China’s current territory.
Then came the Century of Humiliation. Britain smuggled opium into China to dope the population, in a strategy to turn around a huge trade deficit, after the British could not find enough silver to pay the Qing government in their tea and porcelain trades. After opium was destroyed in salt water and ports were closed by the Chinese in ordered to curb opium, the British started the Opium War I, which China lost [24]. Hong Kong was forced to be surrendered to the British in a peace talk (Nanjing Treaty). That time, the British owned 90% of the opium market in China, sourced from India. The remaining 10% was owned by American merchants from Boston, sourced from Turkey. Many renown institutions in the east coast of America were built with profit from opium [1].
After 12 years, the West got really greedy. The British wanted the Qing government: 1) To open the borders of China to allow goods coming in and out freely and tax free. 2) Make opium legal in China. Ridiculous requests, and the Qing government rejected. The British and French, with support by the USA, started Opium War II with China, which again, China lost. The Anglo-French military raided the Summer Palace (Yuan Ming Yuan), an estimated 150,000 pieces of historic treasures with a 1900-year span from the first Qin(秦) Dynasty up to the Qing(清) Dynasty were raided and some ended up in the British Museum in London and the Louvre in Paris.
After the Summer Palace was burned down, the Anglo-French military then threatened to burn the Imperial Palace. The Qing government was forced to pay with free trade ports, 300,000 kilograms of silver and Kowloon district next to Hong Kong Island was taken. Since then, China’s resources flew out freely from the free trade ports. In the subsequent amendment to the treaties, Chinese people were sold overseas to serve as labor, famously known as “piglet labor” or “mai zhu zhai” in Cantonese.
The Opium Plague turned the biggest economy in the world into “The Sick Man of East Asia”. Between 1850–1864 a deadly revolt in Southern China called the Taiping Rebellion broke out and took 20 million lives.
In 1898, a Boxer Rebellion was formed by traditionalists to counter foreign influences in China, and the Boxers, Qing and foreigners engaged in armed conflicts. In 1900, Peking (Beijing now) was seiged by the Eight-Nation Alliance (Imperial Japan, Russian Empire, British Empire, France, USA, Germany, Italy, Austria-Hungary).
Upon defeat, the Qing Government was made to pay 16.7 million kilogram of silver in 39 years. Artilleries from Peking to Tianjin were removed, Qing arm weapons were banned for 2 years, and the intruders occupied lands around Peking to safeguard their interests.
Between 1931–1945, China was occupied by the Japanese. Over 20 million Chinese died during the occupancy. 300,000 Chinese died in the Nanjing Massacre alone, where 20,000 women were raped [25].
After defeating the KTM, in 1949 Mao brought China together again from the shattered land with a population having an average life expectancy of just 38 years old, and improved that to 65 in 1976, 2x the world’s average growth in the same period, and the population increased by 400 million. But unfortunately Mao’s reign in later stage was marred by sufferings and 20 million deaths from famine caused by a terribly over-ambitious strategy to industrialize the country between 1958–1960 called The Great Leap Forward, and later on the Cultural Revolution between 1966–1976 which Mao started to regain power, which caused a few millions death. Despite the mishaps, today Mao is regarded amongst the Chinese as “a hero with 70% merits and 30% faults”.
Then came Deng Xiao Ping and his infamous “black-cat and white-cat” story. His preference for pragmatism over ideologies has profoundly transformed China. This thinking allowed China to be pragmatic, instead of rigidly bounded to ideologies. It also signified Communism being relegated to symbolic in actual practice in China. The current Socialism+Meritocracy+Confucianism+Local Democracy+Market Economy model, fits the Chinese like gloves. Singapore has a similar model, Lee Kuan Yew once said that the visit to Singapore in 1978 inspired Deng to adopt market economy in China.
In just 30 years, the CPC lifted 800 million people out from extreme poverty. The rate of growth is unprecedented in human history. As poor as India in 1978, China today has 4.7x the GDP of India.
They have become a behemoth in infrastructure, and have built by far the biggest high speed rail network in the world. They made a fishing village called Shenzhen into the world’s second largest technological centre after the Silicon Valley. They are growing into a technological power house. It has the most elaborate e-commerce and cashless payment system in the world. There are now more electric vehicles than any other countries (ranked #6 in EV per capita), and in the past 30 years they have contributed to 25% of total trees planted globally.
The Chinese are living a decent life and China has become one of the safest and harmonious countries in the world [2]. The level of patriotism in the country has reached an unprecedented height. A survey conducted by Harvard University in 2016 has shown that the central government has a support rate of 93% from its people [3].
For all of the achievements, the West has nothing good to say about China. China suffers from intense anti-China propagandas from the West.
Everything China does is negatively reported.
They accused China of using slave labor in making iPhones. The truth is, Apple is the most profitable company in the world, it takes most of the profit, leave a fraction to Foxconn (a Taiwanese company) and in turn very little to the labor.
They claimed China was inhuman with the One-Child policy. At the same time, they accused China of polluting the earth with its huge population. Two self-contradictory accusations. The fact is the Chinese consume just 36% of energy per capita compared to the USA [4], because the average household floor size per capita for China is 20 sq m and 77 sq m for the US. The average motor vehicle ownership per 1000 person in China is 196 vs 838 in the USA. The world set up factories in China, and blame China for polluting the earth.
They claimed China underwent “Muslim Genocide” in Xinjiang, with just a few satellite images as “evidences”.
When terrorist attacks reached a height in Xinjiang in 2014, China had two options:
1. Re-educate the Uighur extremists before they became terrorists, and then give them a job.
2. Let them be, after they launch attacks and killed innocent people, bomb their homes.
China chose the first option to solve problem from the root and to avoid bloodshed. And it worked, since 2017, terrorist attack in Xinjiang has come to a halt, and tourism boomed. How did the USA and its allies fight terrorism? Launch missiles from battleships, drop bombs from the sky. More hatred, more terrorism, more bombs dropped, more deaths, but problems never solved.
The USA’s war on terrorism has directly killed 900,000 people, 68% of which not terrorists, in Syria, Yemen, Iraq, Pakistan and Afghanistan [29], and most being Muslims. Instead of learning from China how to effectively deal with terrorism without bloodshed, China was accused by the West (in blue) for committing “Muslim Genocide”. The fact that all Muslim countries (in red or gray) around the world either support or have no objection to China’s Xinjiang policies, and the fact that zero refugee fled to the neighboring Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan, indicates that this is just a Western campaign to demonize China, as reported in depth here [5][6].
In many occasions, Western mainstream media including BBC were caught making fake reports on Xinjiang, an example here [14]. The real motive behind the West’s accusation: The Belt and Road Initiatives (BRI). More on that later.
Here’s the fact: China prides itself with its ethnic minorities policies. When the One-Child policy was introduced in 1979, all the 55 ethnic minorities in the country were exempted from it, and were allowed to have more than one child, while the majority Han Chinese was limited to one. The ethnic minorities are allowed a lower score for university intakes. In each of self-autonomy administrative regions, the chief officer has to be an ethnic minority. Public signs have to be written in both the local language and Mandarin. Local cultures are well preserved and religions are practiced in daily lives [20].
Now, where are the indigenous tribes like the Pueblos, Navajo, Hopi, and Mojave in North America?
And who rule the states of the aborigines in Australia?
Unlike China, where the Uighurs, Tibetan, Mongolians etc having their own administration regions, North America and Australia do not have problems with the indigenous people, because they were already wiped out or dispelled from their lands, or simply assimilated.
In a similar way, countries like the USA, France and the UK avoided being branded “sea bully” by making islands like Guam, Tahiti and The Falkland Islands officially their own and put disputes to rest. Yes, as a Malaysian, the proximity of the China claimed sea border to our Sarawak state is pretty ridiculous to me. But let’s put things in perspective:
America:
France:
The UK:
China:
These 3 countries occupy much more water and reach much further than China.
Western media would portray the matter in the South China Sea as being “China vs The Rest”. The fact is, there are multi-nation disputes, between Malaysia and The Philippines, between Malaysia and China, between Vietnam and The Philippines, between China and Vietnam, between Brunei and Vietnam, between Malaysia and Vietnam and so on.
The disputes in the South China Sea are ours to resolve. We are frustrated with the tension escalation effort by the West in the region. The British Royal Navy, Royal Australian Navy and the US Navy should leave the South China Sea.
China was blamed to have eaten the Americans’ lunch. Whenever a trade between two countries is established, economy gets bigger on both sides. Yes, manufacturing in USA has shrunk, but the Waltons and the Bezos got richer. The problem lies with the USA politicians refusal to put heavier taxes on the Bezos and the Waltons.
Let’s take Apple as an example. China did not ask Steve Jobs to setup factory in Shenzhen, it’s Steve’s own idea. By having a lower cost, Apple products reach a wider market, and gives a higher profit and enjoys higher rise in stock. On the other hand, it creates jobs in China. And the Chinese could afford to spend in Starbucks franchise in China, and fly in a Boeing aircraft. So it’s a big win for American corporations. When jobless rate rise, the politicians just blame China for taking away Americans’ jobs, while it’s American corporates that initiate, operate and benefit from it.
The West claimed China a threat to world peace. China has not engaged in a war for more than 30 years. 59 years ago, the “battle of millennium” with India at the border, two countries with a combined 36% of world’s population and a shared history of 4000 years, was so minor that there’s nothing to write home about (casualties=2,105). Most of China’s conflicts with other countries were related to border disputes in the South China Sea and at the border with India. China does not have warships outside their territory, in Californian coast, Gold Coast, the Mediterranean, or the Caribbean etc. China does not have troops deployed in the neighboring Philippines, Laos, Thailand or Myanmar etc. China has only one military base outside their territory, in Djibouti, in stark contrast to the 800 US military bases around the world. In fact, like all the countries in the world, China is surrounded by US military bases. So can we blame China for building man-made islands to protect their own neighborhood?
The US has been in wars 93% of the time, in 227 years of its 243 years history. As warned by President Eisenhower in his farewell speech [27], The Military Industrial Complex (MIC) has become a monster. Arms contractor Lockheed Martin alone, has 110,000 employees worldwide and an annual turnover of USD60 Billions [13], which equates to the annual GDP of a country like Bulgaria. Wars stop, payrolls stop. The Iraq War has taken 1 million Iraqi lives, and enriched Dick Cheney affiliated KBR-Halliburton. The war in Yemen, lobbied by arm corp Raytheon, has caused the death of at least 85,000 children under the age of 5 from starvation. The secret war in Laos, saw a total of 270 million bomblets dropped in a country with a population of just 2.5 million, making Laos the most bombed country in world history [22]. The US alone has a military spending of USD775,000,000,000 per year (in 2020), equaling the combined military spending of the next 11 countries in the Top 12 [32]. Yet the USA has won very few wars since WW II, because it does not need to win. The military budget for the Afghan war was USD 315,000,000 per day, for 20 years. Pretty lucrative for the arm contractors. Enemies are created from nothing, hatred is fanned, to steal money from tax payers in America [30].
Let’s look at the killing record: US Has Killed More Than 20 Million People in 37 "Victim Nations" Since World War II - Global Research.
If the world is not afraid of the USA, why are they afraid of China?
During the pandemic,
-When China took extreme measures to lockdown the people, they were accused of being inhuman.
-When China recovered swiftly because of the extreme measures, they were accused of lying about the actual numbers.
-When China provided medical support to other countries, they were accused of politically motivated.
> Western Media always have reasons to bash China.
This is because the USA spends USD300 million per year (between 2020–2024) on anti-China propagandas [33], to influence the world’s opinion on China. All Western mainstream media are involved in the campaigns.
Just like any country, from time to time there are irresponsible individuals from China which do bad and dirty things, but the China government has done a spectacular job during the last four decades. But I hear this comment over and over by people from the West: “I like Chinese people, but I hate the CCP”. Hating a much loved government in a country that they themselves do not live in, is beyond comprehension. The only reason I can think of is that they want the Chinese to turn against their government.
Fortunately for the Chinese, China is not a multi-party democratic country, otherwise the opposition party in China could well be supported by notorious NGOs (Non-Government Organization) of the USA, like the NED (National Endowment for Democracy), to topple the ruling party. The US and the British couldn’t crack Mainland China, so they worked on Hong Kong [19]. Of all the ex-British colonial states, only the Hong Kongers were offered BNOs by the British. Because the UK would like the Hong Kongers to think they are British citizens, not Chinese. A divide-and-conquer strategy in the CIA playbook used in Color Revolutions around the world [7].
To understand the new Cold War, we have to look at the big picture:
The circle has 87% of world population. The USA has just 4% of world population and it is geographically isolated from this main part of the world.
How does US keep its dominance with just 4% of world population?
- By being the biggest economy in the world.
- The US dollar being the world’s reserve currency.
- By being dominant in high technologies.
- By having the biggest military, and by commanding allies in NATO, QUAD, Five Eyes and AUKUS.
- By holding the discourse power and soft power through controlling Western mainstream media. By putting whistleblowers like Julian Assange and Chelsea Manning who exposed US war crimes, and anti-drone activist Daniel Hale who exposed 90% civilians casualties in drone strikes, in jails.
- By deploying NGOs like the NED to carry out regime change in foreign countries to favor its interests [8][16][17], by sponsoring oppositions such as Alexei Navalny in Russia or Juan Guaido in Venezuela.
- By practicing long arm jurisdictions to bring down the competitions, as in the case of Toshiba, Siemens, Huawei and the Nord Stream II gas pipeline, or robbing technologies from a foreign country, as in the case of Alstom of France.
Recent developments in China challenged the first three:
Development 1: China is set to overtake the USA in nominal annual GDP by 2028.
Development 2: The Belt and Road Initiatives (BRI) which develops infrastructural, financial and constructive corporations in Central Asia, Middle East and Africa, will shift the centre of world economy from North Atlantic to Central Asia.
A new crypto-currency, the Asia Drawing Rights (ADR)[9], is introduced for trades in the region, and in 2021 a digital-Yuan was introduced in China, which bypasses the SWIFT system.
Development 1 & 2 are set to reduce the USA’s share of world economy and marginalize the US dollars.
The US has been printing money out of nothing. The reason why the US Dollar is still widely accepted, is because:
- It’s the only currency which oil is allowed to be traded with.
- The USA promotes a consumption economy, and hence a trade deficit to make sure lots of US dollars circulate in the world.
- To avoid appreciation of the local currencies, making their exports unattractive, countries like China and Japan have to keep some of their trade earnings in US Treasury Bonds. With this, they must support the US dollars.
With a Ponzi-like scheme as explained clearly here [23], the US dollars will inevitably collapse. With that in sight, many countries are moving away from trades in US dollars.
To avoid the collapse of the US dollars, USA has no mercy on any country which threatens the US dollars:
- In 2000 Saddam Hussein said he would start selling oil in Euros not Dollars. Saddam was hanged by the US.
- In 2009 Gaddafi made Libya export oil in Gold Dinars. Gaddafi was killed by US-backed NTC.
- Syria had an independent Central Bank NOT under the Rothschild and Federal Reserve controlled Bank of International Settlements (like Iraq and Libya once had before US regime change). Obama attempted to overthrow Bashar al-Assad.
- Iran has been trading oil in currencies other than US dollars since 2011. Iran was being sanctioned by the US.
- In 2011, Russia started to find alternatives to dollars in oil trades. Russia was sanctioned.
- China introduced the BRI, the ADR and digital-Yuan which bypass the SWIFT system. Now it’s China’s turn.
When the dollars is no longer the world’s reserve currency, the US will no longer able to print money out of nothing without a hyper inflation like we have seen in Venezuela.
With that, disrupting the BRI is America’s top agenda.
All 3 land routes of the BRI passes through Xinjiang. That’s why the USA is desperate in destabilizing Xinjiang, by drumbeating “Muslim Genocide”, “Forced Labor in Cotton Fields” & “Forced Abortion to Uighur Women” propagandas [18]. The ETIM, once enlisted as a terrorist group, was removed from the list by the USA, to allow funding to reach the group to carry out terrorism in Xinjiang [5].
BRI projects in Africa and Pakistan were sabotaged by terrorist attacks orchestrated by the USA [21].
BRI projects were branded “debt traps” by the West. But ironically, after the G7 meeting in 2021, a “Build Back Better World” (B3W) political mouthpiece was proposed by the G7 to “compete” with China. Which is effectively a big slap on the faces of the “debt trap” accusers.
The maritime route of the BRI (blue line) passes the waters of India, and countries in South East Asia. This also explains why the USA is stirring up the South China Sea disputes and pulled India to its side. For India, to be close to the US is an opportunity to replace China as the world’s factory. On the other hand, the US needs India to “neutralise” China both politically and economically. Modi visited Trump in Sep 2019. Five months after that in Feb 2020, a conflict broke out at the border between India and China. Coincidence?
Development 3: Ok, the USA is still the world leader in technologies. But what if a country in the circle replaces the USA as the world leader in technologies? Then the US will no longer be relevant in world economy.
Huawei, the world leader in 5G, was accused of spying by the USA without any evidence. This is while the USA spies on everyone over Google, Facebook & Apple through its PRISM program as exposed by Edward Snowden. Even Crypto AG, an encryption machine manufacturer based in Switzerland, was found leaving back door for the CIA during the 1970-2018 period[10]. The lie was blunt and the motive was clear: To bring down China high tech industry.
The daughter of the founder of Huawei was arrested and the USA lobbied countries around the world to ban Huawei. And Korea and Taiwan were lobbied to cut high end semiconductor supply to China, the last piece of technology China does not possess.
With these 3 developments, the USA-China relationship has gone to a point of no return. Make no mistake, this Cold War could last for decades.
Sadly, the USA, once the heroes of WW II, have turned into a rogue nation. Imperial America has made the world its own. Wars waged by the USA in the name of liberalism mostly ended up in destruction, deaths, terrorism and poverty. At the same time, inflation caused by money printing in the USA is exported to the world, so the poor countries stay poor.
In 1972, Nixon established tie with China, to access its cheap labor and to prevent China from joining force with USSR. 50 years later, the USA is doing the same to India, for its cheap labor and to counter China.
In the 80s, when Japan was about to overtake the US’ economy, the US hammered Japan to a 3-decade stagnancy.
In 2020, the USA lobbied Australia to counter China at the expense of Australia’s exports to China. The USA even gained from the ban, replacing Australia’s place in wine and coil export to China.
The USA allows a gas pipeline from Russia to Germany which passes through Ukraine, but it does not allow the Nord Stream II pipeline from Russia directly to Germany. Because then the USA can control energy supply to Europe at Ukraine, a government the US installed in the Orange Revolution.
The USA ordered its allies to ban Huawei, which leaves no back-doors to the CIA, so that they could continue to spy on the allies [31].
The USA abandoned the Kurds, the Afghan government and other allies when their interests changed.
It’s all geopolitics. And it’s all about money, control and benefits, never about “Human rights”, “freedom”, “moral”, “justice”, “friendship”, not even “alliances”.
It doesn’t matter the Democrats or the Republicans, the true rulers of America are the bankers, the Military Industrial Complex, the corporate oligarchs, State Security and the ruling elites, by lobbying lawmakers through “revolving doors” as explained here[28].
All ordinary people in the world: Americans, Asians, Europeans, Africans are just like milk-cows to feed these 0.01%.
30 years ago, China pledged for a peaceful rise. They have since turned from a country poorer than Bangladesh (per capita) to a superpower today, without dropping a single bomb in a foreign country. Never before in history of mankind, from the Athenian, to the Roman, to the Mongolian, to the British, to the German and Japanese, to America, has a superpower risen without any bloodshed, wars, slavery & colonization of other countries. And the magnitude of the rise of China is bigger than them all. After building their own country, China is helping other countries to build. Instead of celebrating and saying “well done” to China, the same countries that put China into a century of humiliation (The UK, America, Japan, Australia and etc) marked this achievement by going against China again.
I have deep sympathy for China for all the sufferings, but now I feel happy for them. China is not rising, they are going back to where they belong. Good luck China.
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References:
[1] John Pilger’s documentary on a War On China
[2]Homicide rate by country, around the world | TheGlobalEconomy.com
[3]Harvard University survey on CPC support rate https://ash.harvard.edu/files/ash/files/final_policy_brief_7.6.2020.pdf
[4]U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA)
[5]A detailed 40-page report on Xinjiang: https://b25aada1-945d-452b-9335-083bf3931cb8.usrfiles.com/ugd/b25aad_bc7272abab494cbb9f4cb1e9714078fa.pdf
[6] Grayzone’s report on Xinjiang
[7] CIA regime change
[8] The NED and Atlantic Council
[9] The ADR
[10] Crypto AG exposed
[12] China’s ethnic minority policies
https://research.nus.edu.sg/eai/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/Vol1No3_LaiHongyi.pdf[13] Arm contractor Lockheed Martin
[14] BBC caught making fake story about Xinjiang
[15] WUC funded by the NED
[16] Protests in Thailand funded by the NED
[17] The NED
[18] Vijay Prashad on Xinjiang
[19] Foreign interference in Hong Kong
[20] Photos of ethnic minorities in China
[21] The USA and the R.A.W of India colluded in a terror attack on the BRI
[22] The secret war in Laos
[23] How money works
[24] Opium War I
[25] Nanjing Massacre
[26] MP Mick Wallace silenced by corrupted officials in EU Parliament
[27] President Eisenhower warned about the Military Industrial Complex
[28] Corporate lobbying
[29] The US “War on terror” - Human costs
[30] Fraud testimonies to justify wars
[31] The USA spied on Germany
[32] Military Expenditure per country
[33] Congress’ bill for anti-China propoganda
https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-bill/7937/text?__cf_chl_jschl_tk__=pmd_gWalQDu7e7qIvGnOas3PCSEnT6zuFaSfgOKm5BID5UY-1632903018-0-gqNtZGzNAfujcnBszQel.
This is one of the most complete summary of the reality and truth of what is going on. You should expanding it further into a full book for publication.
I see that you are a fan of Eric Li 李世默 as well; one of the most articulate and clear-minded speakers I have ever encountered.
Easier said than done. The issue is, Trump's presidency escalated the yellow peril to a yellow threat. Have you noticed the traits of my name? It's practically the best bait to netizens like them:
If it's Dangerfield or something else, the hospitality would be very different.
A fantastic comprehensive reply and write-up. Thank you very much.
It is. Please reshare.
Or else, Mr Assange's sacrifice would be in vain.
Long read but good read.
China need to stay strong for fairness to have a chance.
Thanks.
Thank you for a wonderfully comprehensive report, we'll done!
It might be hard to find the truth but China or (the CCCP) Have gone greedy claming land and (south China sea)seas,resorces(Kashmir as it has pure water which the CCP want for production of chips ) and exploiting African nations.If you see Beijing sends countries to money traps and making poor countries lose land,etc.The west did do imperialist things but thooses ages are gone.The Uk is no more of a maniac.Also China is’nt a peaceful country it engaded wars with India, illegally ocupying Aksai Chin and taking full control of Pakistan using Pak as a corridor for minerals transport and etc.And don’t forget China is stealing The south china sea by building artifical islands.Dont forget the re-education camps it’s just a Place to torture the muslim minority and brainwash them.China has built 380 internment camps in Xinjiang, study finds
www.theguardian.com › world › sep › china-has-built-38...
0:20a The USA might of been a bad but that was the past .Its is really needed now because of this crisis and also by saying She needs to battle the Dragon.Once look at the Russian ccp China might not be like that but it’s goverment bans any news that speaks bad about the country and various other crime that it did.Now you only compare and look at who is the bad guy in the present.And don;t forget the corona.there are several other crime the ccp has done aganist humanity like organ harvesting the sad thing is that it is goverment sponsered.This is just and example of the horiffic crimes that China has done (CCP)Now think who is the Bad guy(present).
You meant these?
Point out in which time frame do you see suppression.
Even Modi said himself:
Unfortunately so far only downright lies and fake news and comments been picked to make your points. Pathetic isn't it