Iraq, Afghanistan, Palestine, and Libya are in
shambles, crushed by the heavy boots of Western
imperialism.
But we are told
to fear China.
The entire
nations of Indochina were bombed back to the stone age, because
Western demi-gods would not tolerate, and felt they did not have
to, tolerate, what some yellow un-people in Asia were really
longing for.
Vietnam,
Cambodia, Laos – millions of tons of bombs dropped on them from
strategic B-52’s, from dive-bombers, and from jet
fighters. The falling bombs rained on the pristine
countryside, murdering children, women, and water buffalo –
millions of people perished. No apologies, no admission of guilt,
and no compensation came from the tyrant-nations.
Indonesia, the
leader of the non-aligned world, with a huge constitutional
Communist Party, was destroyed in the coup of 1965, through the
alliance of Western governments, Indonesian fascist military and
the elites, as well as religious bigots from the largest Muslim
organization – NU. 2-3 million people died, including
those belonging to the Chinese minority. Teachers, artists,
thinkers – all killed or silenced. Here, imperialism created a
submissive nation with almost no intellectual base; unable even to
analyze its own downfall.
But now we are
ordered to be conscious of China’s rise.
Latin America:
raped again and again, from Mexico to the Dominican
Republic, from Cuba to Granada, Panama, Haiti, Brazil, Argentina,
Colombia and Chile. For years, decades and centuries.
Almost all the
countries in Central and South America, as well as the Caribbean,
were ravaged at some point in history, by the
racist and outrageous implementation of the “Monroe Doctrine”.
The latest
coups against the progressive governments in Honduras and Paraguay
were enacted under the ‘soft leadership’ of the liberal West’s
supreme leader and ‘upholder of global democracy’ – President
Barack Obama.
But it is China
that has to be deterred, we are told! Not us – not the West – but
China.
In the Middle
East, entire kingdoms and emirates are bending over themselves,
competing with each other over who will become the most subservient
collaborator with Western business interests, who will place more
US military bases on its soil, who will kill, arrest or torture
more people – the opponents of global Western dictatorship.
But it is
China, naturally, which is unacceptably endangering the European
and North American’s inherited right, to reign over the world. Or
to be precise, the ‘danger’ is shared among China, Russia and Latin
America – three places that managed to wrestle themselves from
Western shackles, and to embark on their own political, social,
cultural and developmental paths. Whatever they are, but their
own!
But China is
the ‘worst’, because those Russkies and Latinos still
look kind of white, or at least most of them do. But to imagine
that the world’s most important country would be firmly placed in
Asia would be unthinkable, unacceptable, and truly
sacrilegious.
In Africa,
which of course does not matter much, as it is, in the eyes of
multi-nationals and the Western governments, inhabited by the
lowest breed of ‘un-people’ (to borrow Orwell’s lexicon), entire
enormous geographical areas and cultures had been plundered,
divided, debilitated, virtually canceled. Ridiculous borders were erected,
great people’s rulers like Patrice Lumumba of Congo,
assassinated. Murderous maniacs such as Paul Kagame
and Museveni were groomed in and by the West, armed and brought to
power, then sent on various missions; to plunder and police on
behalf of Western interests.
Congo lost some
10 million people during the reign of Belgian genocidal-king,
Leopold II (now the national hero of Belgium,
celebrated by countless statues all over Brussels). It is losing a
similar amount of people now, as Washington and London’s military
darlings from Rwanda and Uganda are invading freely, overthrowing
governments and pillaging that vast and battered nation on their
doorsteps.
Somalia is
virtually no more – forcefully divided, and regularly invaded by
Western allies – Kenya and Ethiopia. Europeans are dumping toxic
waste near its coast and then appear to be outraged by the piracy –
one more justification for the continuous militarization of the
entire region. The proud ‘African Cuba’ – Eritrea – is being
tortured by sanctions; while the country/military base called
Djibouti has been glorified and pampered, standing as a polluted,
frustrated and grotesque symbol of French and US militarism; of
Western imperialism, in the region that gave birth to the human
race.
In West Africa,
in Algiers, in Angola and Namibia, in Congo and Somalia, and in
dozens of other countries of Africa, tens of millions of people have been
slaughtered by Western imperialists in the 20th and 21st
Centuries. And the dreadful count was not any
better in the preceding eras, with a direct holocaust against
native populations, with genocides like the one performed by
Germans in what is now Namibia, with slavery, torture, rape and the
absolute disrespect for non-white human lives.
But would such
a legacy make Western nations humble, reflective, and apologetic?
Would there at least be some pathos of profound guilt that could
give birth to hope for global reconciliation? No – far from that!
There is no remorse in London, Paris, Berlin, Brussels and
Washington, or in the French countryside, the US Midwest or South.
Or if there is some, it is concentrated in small, mainly urban
pockets, disconnected from the mainstream.
But it is
China, which is now blamed for ‘doing business with African
dictators’! And it is China whose guilt is being manufactured,
inflated and implanted in the brains of people all over the world,
by the Western propaganda apparatus, and by local media outlets,
owned and ‘trained’ in the West.
For instance, a
mining accident in Zambia, whenever some Chinese company is
involved, the situation gets overblown to tremendous proportions.
The result is that dozens of people who died due to negligence are
put on the same scale as dozens of millions who perished because of
savage Western imperialism, the slave trade, colonialism and
neo-colonialism.
The same
propaganda tactics are used all over the world. For instance, the
Goethe Institute in Jakarta, Indonesia, not long ago, arranged a
photo exhibition of Polish workers in Gdansk clashing with police,
in the Solidarity days. Few people
died then.
But the Goethe
Institute arranges no exhibitions commemorating the millions of
Communists, atheists, intellectuals and Chinese people who died in
1965 and later, in Indonesia! It is almost like
saying: “You see, those 3 million Indonesian lives had to be
sacrificed, to prevent the scenario in which 30 people were later
killed in Poland.” Interesting logic. But supported by mountains of
cash, and it works!
In Oceania – in
Polynesia, Melanesia and Micronesia – the British, US, French,
Spanish, German and other colonial masters, smashed and then
reshaped the complex universe that used to belong to the proud
people inhabiting tens of thousands of islands, islets and atolls
of the South Pacific.
The local
inhabitants were then pushed into slavery, effectively; their
kingdoms, their geopolitical entities were first divided into
colonies, and then into nation-states. Their leaders were killed,
sidelined, threatened, and finally corrupted and bought.
Western nations
fought battles over the islands, performed nuclear experiments on
the local people, and then invented a so called ‘strategic
deterrence doctrine’, making sure that no ‘enemy’ ships, no
unsuitable ideas and anti-imperialist ideology would enter this
tremendous universe, encompassed by an endless mass of water.
In the end,
huge military bases were constructed; US, British and French; all
sorts of toxic waste was dumped, and the pristine atolls like
Kwajalein, were converted into missile testing grounds.
Waste,
radiation, junk food; all led to countless medical emergencies,
which became so great that only climate change and the consequent
rising level of the seawater, could realistically be considered as
a greater threat to the survival of the people and states of
Oceania.
I lived in the
South Pacific for more than 4 years, and I traveled and worked in
all the countries there, except in Niue and Nauru. I wrote about
the struggle of the islanders inhabiting the South Pacific in my
non-fiction book Oceania.
Several
countries – Kiribati, the Marshall Islands, the Federated States of
Micronesia, as well as the various islands and atolls now belonging
to other states – are rapidly becoming uninhabitable. The seawater
is rolling over their low-lying land, and the vegetation is
dying.
The West, which
is responsible for most of the pollution, the carbon dioxide
emission and global warming, has been doing close to nothing to
save these countries from vanishing.
The foreign aid
the US, EU, Australia and New Zealand are donating, is often as
damaging as the poisonous gasses themselves. It is habitually being
used to corrupt local government officials; to fly them around the
world, embedding the so called ‘per-diem mentality’. Tamed and
corrupt, the local rulers don’t demand real compensation and real
solutions for their suffering countries. ‘Foreign aid’ is also
being used to pay for foreign experts to visit, to ‘analyze’ and to
write countless and mostly futile reports. All that, just in order
to create the perception that something is being done: and just to
make sure that nothing ever will!
The people of
Oceania do not want to be evacuated; most of them want to fight for
the survival of their islands. I talked to them: in Kiribati,
Tuvalu, FSM, RMI and elsewhere. But the West and local governments
are insisting on idiotic evacuation schemes, for many unsavory
reasons.
At one point,
China began helping, in the spirit of internationalism; the way a
socialist country should. It rolled up its sleeves and started to
construct schools, hospitals, government buildings, roads, and
stadiums, as well as protective walls and other heavy
infrastructure, designed to defend endangered populated areas.
The West
immediately attacked all those efforts, injecting nihilism,
dragging through dirt everything pure and decent.
The first stage
of Western propaganda, the same that has been used in Africa and
elsewhere, consisted of the barrage of negative messages that China
does ‘nothing altruistically, ever’; it simply follows its dark
self-interests and designs.
‘Philosophical’
and propaganda punch lines are predictable and simple: “If we are
shits, if our culture sends us to plunder and enslave the world,
then humanity should be convinced that others have the same essence
as we do. This way, what we are doing would not be seen as
extraordinary. We are all human, all the same!”
It is rubbish,
of course, and even people like Gustav Jung saw Western culture as
exceptionally aggressive, as some sort of pathology. But, as was
proven many times by Western propagandists like Joseph Goebbels and
Rupert Murdoch, if propaganda is repeated 1,000 times, and if we
corrupt/pay enough people all over the world to repeat what we tell
them to, the rubbish converts itself to shining diamonds of truth,
and eventually to unchallengeable common wisdom.
But back to
China and Oceania:
When
the blitzkrieg of discrediting
China failed to work, or at least it failed in the countries
benefiting from China’s assistance, the West invented a unique
strategy: it went to Taipei and began ‘encouraging’ Taiwan’ to get
‘involved’. The Taiwanese were willing and ready, and began
offering bribes to the leaders of Oceania, in exchange for the
recognition of Taiwan as an independent country. Once Taiwan is
‘recognized’, something that even US or EU refuse to do, on most
occasions China (PRC) retaliates by breaking diplomatic
relations.
And that was,
most definitely, the plan of the old sly colonial powers.
While countries
that stuck with China, like Samoa, got their protective seawalls,
stadiums and Parliament buildings constructed in solidarity and
with socialist optimism, countries like Kiribati, a place that
could be easily described as one of the true basket cases in
Oceania, were flooded with Taiwan-inflicted nihilism. Cash flowed
in, but not to the people; into the deep pockets of the
government.
While entire
small countries in Oceania are near extinction, their leaders,
mostly groomed and trained in Australia and the US, are busy
selling their UN votes: voting in support of Israel’s occupation of
Palestine, in support of US invasions all over the world, or
against the environmental resolutions that could have a direct and
positive effect on the plight of their countries!
“One day I was
besieged by an Israeli television crew”, I was told by a priest in
the capital of Federated States of Micronesia (FSM). “The Israeli
public wanted to know: who are these creatures that are constantly
voting in support of Israel, alongside the US and against the
entire world?”
Well, the same
ones that welcome Taiwanese battleships, and their crews that play
national anthems on the beaches, and march all over the place like
maniacs, holding flags!
***
And, by the
way, those who think that China cannot act altruistically, should
read Fidel Castro, and his powerful and grateful words, describing
how Cuba got rescued by the Chinese nation, following Gorbachev’s
fit of madness and Yeltsin’s Western-encouraged, glorified
alcoholic orgy, with the destruction of the USSR and several
dreadful years of unopposed plunder of the world by the Western
Empire, as its aftermath.
***
When the
Chinese media interviews me, I am often asked the same question:
“What can China do to appease the West”.
And my reply is
always the same: “Nothing!”
Western
propaganda is not looking for objective ways to analyze China; it
is not looking for China’s good-will. It is there, to twist and to
harm any country that insists on its own development model, on
serving its own people instead of submissively succumbing to the
interests of the West, and those of multinational companies.
The West tries
to destroy socialist China as it had been trying to destroy
Vietnam, during what is called in Asia, “The American War”. As it
expended a tremendous effort to ruin Moscow, right from the 1917
Revolution, till the very end. As it tried to destroy all the
countries that insisted on their own principles: Cuba, Egypt,
Indonesia, Chile, Nicaragua, Eritrea, and Iran before Shah, to name
just a few.
Some, like
North Korea, were first ravaged and then pushed to the extreme,
forced to radicalize and then ridiculed and paraded on television
screens as some freak example of Communist gaga-land.
What the West
has in store for China is clear, and it is not much different from
its designs during the Opium War. The perfect scenario would be a
crippled, divided and submissive, West-admiring nation. The best
ruler would be some Chinese Yeltsin who would agree to commit
treason, break the country to pieces, open it to oligarchs and
foreign interests, cancel all social aspirations and bomb the
Parliament full of the people’s representatives that still believe
in socialism.
Then we could
‘do business with China’, and give it full ideological and
propaganda support.
***
My usual advise
to the Chinese media is: “Use numbers! Numbers are on your
side.”
But it appears
that China’s propagandist team is no match to Westernapparatchiks.
China is too
timid, too soft, as actually almost the entire world is, compared
to the Western political and economic
gangsters.
In a series of
deadly strokes, the West can bomb a country, poison its people with
depleted uranium, impose sanctions that kill hundreds of thousand
of defenseless women and children, then bomb the place once again,
invade it, plunder it, and make sure that its own companies will
make billions in a reconstruction process that actually shows no
concrete results.
Such an
approach cannot be matched by anybody; neither by China nor by the
Soviet Union, which always made sure that its satellite states had
higher standards of living than Moscow!
***
If China
doesn’t do it, let me do it, in brief. Let’s use numbers and show
to the world, especially to those ‘concerned’ Western citizens, how
China is really doing. Let’s compare. And let’s do it on a per
capita basis, the only fair way.
How many people
were murdered by the West beyond its boundaries, since WWII; in the
Arab World, in Asia Pacific, in Africa, Latin America, Oceania;
actually almost everywhere. I calculated, and my conservative
estimate is between 50 and 60 million. Well over 200 million in
indirect actions.
China – a few
thousand, during its punitive and erroneous invasion of Vietnam,
after Vietnam liberated Cambodia from Khmer Rouge. But that was the
worst China ever did! And it withdrew rapidly. And it never bombed
Vietnam to the stone-age!
So if, let’s
say, the Chinese invasion took 10,000 lives, the West killed at
least 5,000 times more people than China. Simple math, isn’t
it?
How many
governments that the West overthrew, including those that were
elected through painstaking and enthusiastic democratic processes?
I don’t have the patience to go through all of them: Nicaragua,
Chile, Brazil, Dominican Republic, Indonesia, Iran, Zaire,
Paraguay, and dozens of others. Basically, any government that
Western companies and politicians did not approve of, went up in
flames.
China:
zero.
The West really
gave the world great lessons in democracy!
But let’s
continue our comparisons.
Who is vetoing
UN resolutions on Palestine and on other key international
issues?
Who puts itself
out of the reach of international courts of justice, even
threatening to invade Netherlands in case its citizens are brought
to the international court in The Hague?
Who is the
greatest polluter, on a per capita basis? China does not even match
the Scandinavian nations, and it becomes the number two
environmental threat, after US, only if the absolute numbers are
applied, a totally bizarre way to utilize statistics. To use the
same logic, one would conclude: ‘there are more people smoking in
France than in Monaco’.
Even the former
US Vice-President, Al Gore, hardly a China lover, wrote that China
has tougher environmental laws than US.
But let’s
return to defense, to that ‘threat’ which China is allegedly posing
to the rest of the world.
According to
the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI 2012 Yearbook), The United
Sates, with a population of 315 million, spends (officially)
approximately 711 billion dollars on military expenditure. Many
analysts insist that the number is really over 1 trillion dollars;
others say that the amount is even higher than that, but
incalculable, because of a complex and non-transparent interaction
between the government and private sector. But let us stick to
official numbers and accept, for argument’s sake, the lowest
estimate of 711 billion dollars.
Close allies of
US are all great spenders as well; they all zealously shop for
their nukes, missiles and jet fighters: The UK with 63 million
people spends 62.7 billion dollars on ‘defense’. France with 65
million people spends 62.5 billion. Japan with 126 million people,
forks out 59.3 billion, although, officially it does not even have
an army. Two of the closest Western allies in the Middle East, are
even more radical:
Saudi Arabia
with 28 million people spends 48.2 billion dollars, and Israel with
population of only 8 million, spends 15 billion, proportionally
similar amounts.
China, the most
populous country on earth, with 1,347 million people, spends 143
billion dollars, approximately as much as UK and France combined,
but with over 10 times more people to defend!
On a per capita
basis, the US is spending over 21 times more on defense than China.
UK more than 9 times and Saudi Arabia more than 16 times!
And one has to
wonder: Who do France and the UK ‘defend’ themselves from? Could it
be Andorra, Monaco or Ireland? Or maybe that outlying bit of
Europe, Iceland?
In contrast,
China, which was attacked on several occasions; which was occupied,
colonized and plundered by Western powers, notably by the UK and
France (whose barbarity in ransacking Beijing was legendary), now
has hundreds of strategic bombers and nuclear missiles pointed at
its face, from the directions of Okinawa and Guam, from the US
fleets in the region, and from the bases in nearby former Soviet
Central Asian Republics.
The US, in
defiance of the constitution of the Philippines, is conducting
military exercises at the Clark base and other military
installations on the territory of its former colony. It has a heavy
military presence in South Korea, just a stone’s throw from China,
and is making overt and covert overtures towards Vietnam, trying
to, bizarrely; lease some its old bases, which were last used
during the war. And it is no secret that Mongolia is now one of the
staunchest Western allies, with thousands of kilometers of a long
border with China.
What justifies
such contrasting military expenditures between the West and
China?
The answer is –
nothing! Like in the case of the “Monroe Doctrine”, the West does
not need some silly justifications. Its presumption of racial and
cultural superiority, unpronounced but assumed, seems to suffice in
silencing all internal skeptics and critics.
The elites,
‘intellectuals’ and media in most of the world are trained and paid
to kneel and bow to that obvious but unchallenged farce.
What I am doing
here; asking all these questions, is not only unacceptable in
Europe and US, it is considered impolite!
And China, many
times a victim of Western aggressions, now finds itself on the
defensive, accused of ‘flexing its muscle’, despite its
disproportionally low defense budget and almost no history of
invasions and imperialism.
***
China is
portrayed as a threat, when shoulder-to-shoulder it stands with
most of the progressive Latin American nations and with Russia,
blocking UN resolutions designed to open the door to the Western
invasion of Syria.
In the eyes of
the Western regime, to try to prevent an invasion, amounts to a
supreme crime, almost akin to terrorism. Countries that are
standing in its way become vilified through the most vitriolic
propaganda.
One has to
recall that the same rhetoric was used by Nazi Germany, during the
war. Members of any resistance, partisans, and opposing forces –
were all called terrorists. And who can forget those colorful
insults reserved for the nations that were about to be attacked! Or
for the Soviet Union that faced Nazis, finally defeating them!
According to my
investigations in the region, Western forces are training not only
‘Syrian opposition’, but also Saudi and Qatari jihadists and
mercenaries, in so called ‘refugee camps’ in Turkey, near Hatay,
and at the US air force base in Adana.
But who will
forgive China, Russia and Latin America for trying to prevent yet
another Libya-style, horror scenario?
And then, there
are those Spratly Islands; that tour de force of Western
propaganda!
The Spratly
Islands could actually be the only proof that China is ‘flexing its
muscle’, or that it is ready to defend its interests.
The Government
of the Philippines, a former US colony, is at the fore-front of
harsh criticism directed at China.
I went to talk
to Philippine academia, to top scholars in Manila, and I managed to
speak to several of them.
Opinions were
generally similar, summarized by Roland G. Simbulan, Senior Fellow
and Professor in Development Studies and Public Management at the
University of the Philippines, explained:
“Frankly
speaking, those Spratly Islands are not so significant to us.
What’s happening is that our political elites are clearly
encouraged by the US to provoke China, and there is also a big
influence of the US military on our armed forces. I would say that
the Philippine military is very vulnerable to such type of
‘encouragement’. So the US is constantly nurturing those
confrontational attitudes. But to continue with this type of
approach could be disastrous to our country. Essentially we are
very close to China, geographically and otherwise.”
In Vietnam, the
US clearly exploits old rivalries, pitching two socialist states
against each other.
***
Then the human
rights issue.
Again, let’s
compare.
There are more
people in jail in US than in China. Not just more, but incomparably
more.
According to
the International
Centre for Prison Studies, the US has the highest number of
people in prisons, than anywhere in the world: 730 per 100,000 of
population! Out of 221 countries and territories from which data
was collected, China ranks 123th, with 121 prisoners per 100.000 of
population. That’s six times less than the US, and even less than
Luxembourg (ranks 120th with 124 prisoners per 100,000 of
population) or Australia (ranks 113th with 129 prisoners per
100,000 population).
It is a known
fact that in the US, many prisons are privatized and prisoners are
basically held as free or cheap labor. If it is not a violation of
human rights, to hold millions of people in jail, for minor
offenses, just in order to keep the coffers of private companies
full, then what is?
The use of
torture is accepted and used by US interrogators all over the
world.
China still
executes more people than the US, even on a per capita basis, which
is unfortunate, but the number of executions in China is
decreasing, as is being reduced, the number of crimes punishable by
death.
But while the
death penalty in China is often mentioned in connection with human
rights violations, it is rarely stated that the US is applying
extra-judicial executions in several parts of the world, including
Afghanistan and Pakistan, where it uses so-called drones, to
arbitrarily target terrorist suspects, including women and
children.
And what about
the main propaganda chip – Tibet? If we compare the situation there
to that in the territories ruled by the Western allies, like
Indonesia and India, we come to very uncomfortable conclusions.
Indian rule over
Kashmir can only be described as outright carnage; Indonesian rule
over Papua, with over 120,000 people killed (a very conservative
estimate) is nothing short of genocide.
But India and
Indonesia are never described as nations that should be deterred
because of the record of gross violations of human rights. Nor are
the Western nations for their endless crimes against humanity on
all continents.
Are human rights
only for those at home? Are 50, 60 or even 200 million that West
murdered mostly in poor countries, not ‘human’?
*
To claim that
there is no racism in the way China is perceived would be
ludicrous.
I have friends,
otherwise sensible and progressive men and women, who, when China
is mentioned, close their ears and begin to scream: “No, I never
want to go there. It is terrible!”
Communist,
socialist, or capitalist, the success of Asian nations is never
taken lightly in the West.
Who can ever
forget the sarcasm and ‘mistrust’ directed towards Japan when it
bypassed, economically and socially, most of the European nations.
And until now, when someone mentions that Singapore has many social
indicators that are better than those in Australia, he or she is
immediately countered by derogatory outbursts, directed at the
tropical city state.
Both Singapore
and Japan are staunch Western allies and highly-developed market
economies integrated in the global capitalist
system.
China is
different. It is developing its own model; it is clearing and
creating its own path through unknown territory. It is unwilling to
follow orders from others. It is too big, its culture too old.
In the past,
like Japan, China was closed, living in its own realm, never
externally aggressive, with no expansionist ambitions.
Westerners
arrived and forced it to open. What followed were bloodbaths and
deceits, confusion and a long period of national humiliation and
stagnation.
Then came the
struggle for independence, and revolution. Not easy, not smooth,
but China once again grew, began rising to its feet, educating its
people, housing and healing the poor.
It went its own
way; a complex way of balancing between its own culture and global
conditions, between socialism and the capitalist reality that is
dominating the world.
It experienced
some setbacks but many more accomplishments. And it did not really
‘rise’; it just began regaining its rightful place in the world,
the place that was denied to it for so long, after years of plunder
and debilitating invasions.
It is generally
a benign nation inhabited by kind hearted people. Almost all those
that know China, agree on that.
But it is also
an extremely determined and proud nation. It is wise, and in search
of harmony, always willing to compromise.
To try to
corner it, to provoke it, to attack it, would be insane, and almost
suicidal. This time China will not yield, not when essential issue
are involved. There is still the fresh memory there, of what
happened when it did.
The West,
blinded by the fear that it could lose the privileges of the
dictator, is doing the unthinkable: sticking an iron rod into the
dragon’s mouth. Here in Asia, dragons are respected and loved –
mythical creatures of great wisdom and power.
But dragons can
also be fierce when good-will is broken, and invaders are
threatening to ravage the nation.
***
China is
growing and trying to understand the world, to interact with it.
Its people are enthusiastic about what they see; they want to make
friends.
The West is
acting in the most antagonistic way: once again triggering an arms
race, spreading the most vitriolic propaganda, corrupting entire
nations in Asia and Oceania into adopting an anti-Chinese
stand.
Understandably,
the West did not sacrifice all those millions of people, all around
the world, just to abandon its dictatorial and exclusive grip on
power. It did not destroy dozens of freedom-seeking countries; it
did not bomb tens of millions to oblivion, just to back up now.
In the future,
confrontation cannot be excluded, and it is clear who will be at
fault.
China will not
abandon its course. There will be no Chinese Yeltsin. By standing
firm, China is showing an example to the world.
As these words
are being written, Latin America is resisting and winning. Russia
is resisting while searching for its own direction. And others may
join. Africa is dreaming about resisting, but still does not dare;
still too damaged. Arab countries dare, but have yet to decide in
which direction to place their dreams.
But discontent
with the boots crashing freedom is growing. And China is not the
one who is wearing them.
The irrationality and racism of the West may
backfire.
http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/01/04/the-irrational-racist-fear-of-china/