A Private Citizen’s Reply to China Daily’s Editorial of Feb 2, 2020
On February 2, 2020, China Daily published an Editorial addressing Mike Pompeo’s statement to reporters in which he described the Chinese Communist Party as the “central threat of our time.”
Before I continue, let me state that I traveled to Hong Kong, and southern China in 2006, visiting Shenzhen, Guangdong and Nanning among others. I marveled at the new buildings and the shopping malls which seemed to stretch on forever. I was touched by the kindness and friendliness of the Chinese people to me, a foreigner and an American. I wondered out loud at the examples of Chinese history I saw in museums. I was humbled by China’s history and culture. I love the nation, the terrain, the people and the history and culture of China, yet I was puzzled and dismayed with the Communist Party. Today I am disgusted and horrified by the Imperial Communist Party of China.
In the first paragraph of China Daily’s editorial, they state that Pompeo was condemning all of China when he did not. He specifically said “the communist party.” This editorial further states that Western technology and culture are the standards which the Western democracies seek to uphold. Perhaps so, but they have proven to be the best form of government and of technological development with which the human race has experimented with to date. They aren’t perfect, they have their faults, but so far, they are the best.
China Daily also states that Mike Pompeo should know where to “toe the line,” speaking of a representative of a sovereign state as if he was a member of the proletariat the Chinese Communist bourgeoisie think they can order and force to obey.
The editorial is correct in stating the the economic miracle of China has lifted over 700 million people out of poverty since 1978. But it was in 1977 and 1978 that Deng Xiaoping, a devout socialist and communist traveled to the Chinese countryside and rural areas expecting to find the wealth, prosperity and abundance promised by Marxism/Socialism. All he found was abject poverty.
Casting about for a solution, Deng Xiaoping correctly concluded that it was only capitalism that could pull the people out of poverty and bring prosperity to the masses. Although the central government calls this economic system “socialism with Chinese characteristics” it is nothing more and nothing less than capitalism.
Implementing this plan in 1978. China initiated the greatest economic miracle the world has ever seen, building cities nearly overnight, as it seemed to us in the west, constructing roads, bridges, highways and airports with startling speed and creating fountains of wealth where none had existed before — all of which are the benefits and products of capitalism unloosed without hindrance.
This editorial continues with the phrase that China is seeking to build a “multilateral world” and is leading a campaign against “trade protectionism and multilateralism.” What this article fails to state is that China is seeking these seemingly noble goals not out of altruism, but is seeking to replace the existing world order with its own trade protectionism and unilateralism enforced by its military.
China is “a country ruled by one dominant party, but that party has established a political system that represents the interests of the people from all walks of life in the broadest manner.”
Actions speak louder than words.
China does indeed have a one-party ‘dominant’ political system, (with emphasis on ‘dominant’). But it is not now, nor has it ever been, a party of the people, nor does it represent the interests of the broadest range of people. It is not any of these things now, nor has it ever been. It is a Communist bourgeoisie ruling over a proletariat whom the Imperial Communists are afraid will one day wake up and see them for the evil dictators they really are.
Actions speak louder than words. And this is demonstrated in how the Chinese authorities treat their own people. If I said I did not rob a bank yet I did, what is the truth? If I said I did not lie in court, but I did, what is the truth? If I said I did not accept a bribe and yet I did, what is the truth?
In China, the bourgeoisie claims they do not have people in concentration camps, yet we here in the West can clearly see that over 1 million Uighurs are in concentration camps. What is the truth?
In Hong Kong for the past several months, the police have been beating, arresting, torturing, raping and killing young adults. The Chinese Communist Party and the party of Carrie Lam says that is not true. But what is the truth?
Across China, the people are continuously monitored by facial recognition and those who support positions not held by the government are given a social demerit, prohibiting them from travel by bus, plane or train. The Imperial Chinese government says it represents the interests of the people. What is the truth?
In 1989, 100 million people in over 300 cities all across China, from all walks of life, from farmers and the elderly, from nurses to accountants, from college students to high schoolers peacefully demonstrated for an end to governmental corruption, injustice and and for universal suffrage. This angered the Imperial Chinese government. Who would dare to disagree with their policies? Who does the proletariat think they are?
Although by June only a few hundred thousand demonstrators, mostly unarmed college students, remained protesting, the Communist government knew they could not let this disobedience to their authority go unpunished.
In the early morning hours of June 4th 1989, tanks, armored vehicles and truck loads of soldiers rolled through Tiananmen Square and the nearby streets, shooting indiscriminately into the crowds of students who fell where they lay, their blood covering the paving stones. Tanks rumbled across groups of students crushing them to death beneath the tracks of the heavy armored vehicles. Both Chinese authorities and independent western authorities estimated the total number of deaths of young adults and college students as high as 7000. The Imperial Communist government claims that the 100 million protestors and those killed were all terrorists. What is the truth?
Imperial China claims it is building its military only for defense and its rise is peaceful. They claim they do not want hegemony nor do they seek confrontation with any other nation.
And yet they built islands where there were none and promised President Obama they would not militarize the islands. Today fighters, troops and missiles stand ready for war on these islands. What is the truth?
60 Filipino sailors were gunned down and shot while defending a point within Filipino territory by elements of the Chinese military. China claims its rise is peaceful. What is the truth?
A Chinese oil rig began drilling in Vietnam’s Exclusive Economic Zone violating international standards. When asked to remove the oil rig by the Vietnamese government, China refused. China claims it’s rise is peaceful and they do not want to claim the territory of other nations. What is the truth?
Chinese military authorities and President Xi Jinping have promised to invade Taiwan by force if they don’t consent to become slaves of the Chinese Communist Party. “Our rise is peaceful.” What is the truth?
An international court has declared that China has no historical or legal right to the South China Sea, but China claims the Sea is part of their territory. What will be next? The Philippines, Indonesia, Japan, Los Angeles? Yet the Chinese Communist Party asserts their rise is peaceful.
Actions speak louder than words and China has enslaved nearly a quarter of the world’s population. Chinese authorities claim they represent the interests of the broadest range of the people. But the people are slaves, giving their money, their lives and their organs to the state.
China threatens and coerces movie makers around the world to not make a movie critical of China. So these movies are not produced. The truth is suppressed.
China “disappears” book store owners and writers and artists who think on their own and are not slaves; refusing to parrot the phrases of their Communist masters.
China ruins the life of a Chinese college student studying in America when she dares to publish a blog stating how much more free the United States is than China. Who are the masters? Who are the slaves?
This has been going on since 1949 when the Chinese Communist Party won the Chinese civil war forcing Chiang Kai-Shek and his party to Taiwan, the true democracy of the people in China.
In 1950, China convinced its people to side with the North Koreans and attack the Americans whom they had fought side-by-side with during World War Two against the Empire of Japan. The Americans at great cost in lives and expense channeled troops, arms and equipment to the Chinese forces over the Himalayas as they fought shoulder to shoulder against the troops of Hirohito’s armies. When Japan surrendered, Chinese troops and american troops celebrated side by side.
In 1950, the Imperial Communist Chinese government had convinced its people that the Americans were demons and imperialists; but who are the demons, who are the imperialists?
Actions speak louder than words.
