10/11/2020

The oppression of a Civilisation Revisited

Below is a comment by a Howe Lau that appeared in an interview with Kishore Mahbubani on 30 Sep 20 with network2020. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtFX0u_gvcw

Repost to Share. All Chinese, especially the overseas Chinese, should read this article.  

THE OPPRESSION OF A CIVILIZATION   

The world was turned into an ocean of colonies of subject people during the few centuries of ‘friendly’ European conquest. The Africans were turned into slaves, the natives of both Americas massacred. The ancient civilization of China was crippled and dismantled into pieces. After the Western powers brought down the decadent Qing Dynasty with the might of modern firearms, the Chinese civilization was turned into a pariah race of nothingness by the invaders in their country. The foreigners did not bring anything good but oppression, bullying and raiding China ’s wealth and dignity by all kinds of deceptive means, and by the barrel of the gun. The Japanese joined in and even thought of conquering and ruling the whole of China as their colony.  

There was a moment of salvation when Japan attacked Pearl Harbour and declared war on the Western power. China and its peasant soldiers were needed to open another front to sap the fighting power and resources of the Japanese. A large part of the Japanese Imperial Army was held down in China by the peasant soldiers. History would not be the same if the Japanese could run through China without resistance and conquer the whole of Asia. 

After the war there was a brief moment of equality for China as a key member of the Allied Forces that fought against the Japanese. Chiang Kai Shek was seated with the Allied leaders like Churchill, Stalin and Roosevelt in Potsdam and Cairo to divide the world among the victorious Allied Powers. China was lucky to have its lost territories back. Chiang was more like a flower vase, inconsequential, and would not be deserving of any war loot. His presence among the leaders of the big powers was a consolation that gave China a little recognition as a big nation.  

This little moment of dignity did not last long when Mao Zedong defeated Chiang and China adopted communism as a state ideology. This turn of event led to a renewed and concerted Western effort to brand and condemn the Chinese civilization as peasants, rogues, dumb, uncivilized, aggressive and the pariahs of the human race, a good for nothing race that was lack of talent, unproductive and unimaginative, and unfit to join the advanced nations of the West. This was the hopeless China painted by the West. They kept repeating the misinformation daily in all western media, like they are doing to North Korea today that the whole world simply believed so. Chinese are useless, Chinese are lame, Chinese are bad.  

Cold Wars, containment policies, encirclement, depriving China of its rightful seat in the UN, blocking China from joining international organizations like the WTO and the Groupings of rich nations, were history now. In the last 40 odd years, China came storming back on its own despite all the sanctions and barriers and threats against its rise as a nation and the Chinese people as a civilization, old, ancient, but not useless and remote of talents. 

Throughout the two hundred years of Western oppression and suppression, the Chinese civilization was not allowed to surface, no opportunity to break out and be the equals of other nations. The Chinese civilization was down and out, the Chinese in despair. Many Chinese had doubts in themselves, and were ashamed to be Chinese. The Westerners reinforced this belief by sneering at them, contributing negative literature furiously to debase the Chinese, discriminated against them in practically every human endeavour and industry. In the USA there were racist laws forbidding the Chinese from higher skill jobs. The image and perception of useless and untalented Chinese became a self fulfilling prophecy. The Chinese civilization was a joke, a condemned race that was lacking in industry and innovation.  

On its own, slowly and steadily the Chinese rebuilt their nation and their civilization, with little foreign talents and assistance, China has overtaken Japan and is closing in on the US as the number Two world power, economically and militarily. They have proven that they could match the West in every field of industry. The oppression and suppression of a civilization have failed, and a revitalized China has assumed its rightful place as a proud nation among nations. The Chinese civilization is no longer to be spitted at, to be kicked around by the Western powers or by teeny weeny little Asian states. It is now a force to be reckoned with and to be respected on its own merits.  

The tag of being the Sick Man of Asia, a semi colony of the West, a broken country with nothing, no inventions, no modern industries, no talents except poverty and all the trappings of a poor and backward third world country vanished over a few decades. There is renewed pride as a people, a nation and a civilization in the new China . A phoenix has risen from the ashes. There is no turning back. The Chinese have found their way back and will leap frog over the West in science and technology and in all things, while the West are still trying to restrain their advances by hook and by crook.  

Today, the overseas Chinese are also starting to rediscover themselves, their pride and dignity as a respectable people. They too find some renewed confidence that they are not rubbish and useless as the West wanted to hole them in, to be bullied by even little third world people, to be told to go home in western countries. They too share the pride of an ancient civilization seeking a second chance in renaissance, to achieve in whatever they seek to do, to be a respectable people and civilization on par with the best in the world. They no longer lower their heads in shame as they go about their lives. They are standing tall, heads and shoulders to the Western civilization with the knowledge that they are just as good if not better. The Chinese civilization is reviving and will no longer be oppressed and suppressed again.  

We can all benefit from a short history lesson of mankind and their actions on earth and the generations to come!  

The Chinese today have enjoyed a life far more better than their predecessors since the invasion and rule of the Manchus, through 100 years of humiliation by the West, the Japanese invasion and occupation, civil wars and the early days of the new republic. The first 40 years of reconstruction and rebuilding of China were tough and very difficult with the continued oppression, isolation and containment by the West. Today, the Chinese people are happy, rich and confident and very proud of being Chinese and their country China. They are very grateful to the Chinese Communist Party, CCP, for making all these possible and lives getting better and better by the day. 

And China is emerging as the most prosperous and powerful country in the world and this is unstoppable no matter what the declining American Empire and the West are trying to do to block this from happening. The oppression of the Chinese people cannot go on forever and would never be allowed to happen again. There is a new China and a new Chinese people that would stand tall and proud among the people of the world.

Every Chinese in China, guided and led by the CCP, is talking and living his Chinese Dream, to be rich and successful and respected. The Americans used to have their dreams but the dreams of many Americans today are turning into a nightmare.

 

AFTER READ PLEASE SHARE WITH ALL YOUR CHINESE FRIENDS NEAR AND FAR. -Howe Lau

 

PS. I wrote this article several years back and it is still circulating and often sent back to me by my friends. I have added a couple of paragraphs at the end of the article to update on the state of the China in the world and the position of the Chinese Civilisation.

Redbean 

16 comments:

  1. They also denied the Chinese from participation in space exploration and any high tech know how, all of which were attempted to make China backward and poses little threat to the West. They only wanted China to ride on low tech manufacturing of consumer mass production and the population to remain poor, the mythological propaganda idea stuck with communism.

    But like North Korea, all the deprivation makes the Chinese even more determined to progress on their own, and the last few decades proved their mantle, which makes the West nervous that China, a one party nation, could still rise despite all the hurdles placed before it.

    Now that the Chinese are set to overtake the West in many fields, plans have been made behind closed doors by the USA and allies, many years ago already, to cripple China's rise. Hence the crippling of Huawei, the trade war and the US Military Virus were all preconceived agendas to stop China.

    But China is already now a full fledged industrial giant, well advanced in manufacturing and technology, have conducted manned space missions to the moon, are deep into AI innovation, produces much of the world's consumer products and have lifted hundreds of millions of it's population out of poverty.

    They are sharing their capabilities with the rest of the more poorer nations by building infrastructures, all essential for progress. And that has even been sneered at and provoked much jealousy and bad comments by the West.

    To the West it is sale of weapons, war and destruction that is one if their foremost agenda. Helping other nations to progress in any other form is never in their minds. Only imposing sufferings by sanctions to bring countries to their knees is all that they are capable of. And hindering other nations from progressing is their deep ingrained mentality.

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  2. A very good eye-opener article.

    RB, many thanks for your efforts to enlighten us.

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  3. USA - White House, White Lies

    On Thursday (8 Oct), White House Doctor Sean Conjob oops Conley, is desperately attempting to paint a positive picture of his Big Boss Don Trump's health after only seven days of treatment.

    However, many people, both anti and pro Trump, are very worried that Trump is probably still contagious, despite Dr Conjob oops Conley's attempts to paint a rosy picture for his Boss Don Trump.

    The good Doctor's memo said the latest tests on Don Trump revealed there was "no longer evidence of actively replicating virus", and that his viral load was "decreasing".

    That clearly means Don Trump still has the Covid-19 virus in his body.

    Dr Conjob's oops Conley's latest update comes after Don Trump told a crowd protesting at the White House that he was "feeling great" and that he is no longer taking any medication against Covid-19.

    That only proved that USA has the antidote to Covid-19 virus infection all along. That means the Covid-19 virus has been produced in a US military lab, as many has suspected all along.


    How is Don Trump doing in the polls?

    Most polls suggest Joe Biden has a 10-point lead over Don Trump and only 34% of Americans approved of how Don Trump has handled the coronavirus crisis.

    Totally Americans infected by the Covid-19 virus has exceeded the 7 million mark and climbing steadily without respite.

    More than 214,000 Americans have died of Covid-19, more than the Americans died in the US invasions of Afghanistan, Iraq and Vietnam combined.

    This is how Don Trump has Made America Great Again!

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  4. We still read the Ang Mohs slander in Western media that the Chinese steal this, steal that. In fact, the hundreds of thousands of historical treasures that the Ang Mohs stole from the Chinese are still displayed today in Western museums . . .

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  5. Civil Law Defamation Suit - Lee Hsien Loong Against Leong Sze Hian Case, 2020

    Question : Who wins?

    1. Lee (the Giant Goliath) or Leong (the tiny David)?

    2. Davinda (the Giant Goliath) or Lim Tean (the tiny David)?

    3. High Court (the Giant Goliath) or Netizens and Social Media Users (the tiny Ants)?



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    1. Even if LHL sues 1000 people who reposted or linked to the original article that he alleged to have defamed him, he still cannot vindicate himself unless and until he sues the author of the original article.

      So, this is a case of looking at the trees and missed the forest.

      How can a person of his intelligence failed to understand the implications of his own actions before he acts? Even at the court hearing, he still holds the same mistaken belief that he is right to sue just one reposter of the article.

      The finding of this case has serious and long-term ramifications not only for all Singaporeans but also for all foreigners who are living or working in Singapore.

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  6. My answer is none of the above wins. Singapore as a whole, as a nation, lost very badly, because of weak, trivial and incompetent leaders who over-estimated their own self-worth and are resting on past laurel built by the pioneers.

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  7. Today the success Modern China under Leader Xi, there is also one leeder worth mentioning that is the then LKY whom gave some clue and advices to the then China Leader Deng Xiao Ping when China was studying Sg on the opening up of the economy. Back then SG leaders were wise enough to give advice to China & rise really learnt a lesson & the rest is history. Today Sg leaders r a arrogant lot so much so that they wanto tell China what to do like follow law, it's a shame in this part the world, imagine a Leeder is using its citizen on some petty issue like social media republishing case, did the China Leader did that to its citizens? It's a shame ...so shameful...

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  8. Many are suspicious that Trump may not have COVID19 after all, but all fakery to win sympathy votes. Never underestimate the ability of the White House to pull off such a stunt. It is unlikely that Trump could feel in any way well enough to hold rallies, just a few days after testing positive.

    How do they know he is not infectious anyway? Because the doctors know Trump does not have the virus! They are all implicit in the fakery!

    Trump is going to leave Biden a big problem if he loses the election. The out of control infection orchestrated by his actions is one. He is hell bent on crashing and burning the country if he knows he will face prosecution. Remember he threatened to crash the economy if they try to impeach him earlier!

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  9. The Chinese Civilisation is a civilisation based upon Wisdom of the Mind, through more than six thousand years of existence and experience. It is unlike the Western Civilisation which has been very short, based upon physical prowess and violence, and short-term gains of dominance, control and power.

    In the long-run, the ones with Wisdom will survive. All others will fade away like dust, mist and water vapour.

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  10. The Americans are all liars, a country built on lies, cheating and theft. And they are telling the world that China cannot be trusted, can only trust the lying and cheating Americans.

    They have no shame with all their lies in the open and still walking around as if they are the good guys, the angels, the non lying priests.

    Look into the mirror Americans, and see all your evil and wicked deeds over the centuries, the stealing of people's land, properties, abusing of human rights, genocides, cheating, wars etc etc.

    Your crimes against humanity are unpardonable. You Americans shall pay for your crimes. It is only a matter of when. And looks like God has decided it is time to destroy the evil Americans and the whites from the face of the earth with Covid19.

    The Covid19 virus may be invisible but will do the necessary to wipe you out. It is the reset button the world is waiting for, to end the brutality of the white race against coloured people of the world.

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  11. How can a person of his intelligence failed to understand the implications of his own actions before he acts? Even at the court hearing, he still holds the same mistaken belief that he is right to sue just one reposter of the article.

    Do you think Trump and Pompeo knew how wicked they are, that everyone knows that they are lying, that they are evil and wicked and immoral?

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  12. Sinkies
    are just too boastful about the Local Sin Leedership.
    Just like
    to remind Sinkies that Sin was and is the Richest in S E ASIA BY VIRTUE OF ITS STRATEGIC LOCATION DISCOVERED AND MADE FULL USE BY STAMFORD RAFFLES.
    It must also be said that long before Raffles came, Chinese and lndia migrants were seeking livelihood and fortune in Sin and Other Parts of S E Asia more than 400 years ago.
    The Shell Refinery at Bukom, was Worlds Largest Refinery for over a 100 years before others overtook it just not long ago.
    Be
    proud of your status, but do learn to know how it came about and not be misled by story and tale made to misinform.
    Read
    the History of the Colonial Days to know how prosperous Sin was for over the Last 4 to 7 Hundred Years.
    Or
    just watch the Documentaries About the History of S E Asia at Channel News Asia.
    Read up also the Histories of the Many Commercial Houses such as Shell, Humes, Hagameyer, Sime Darby, Dunlop, Rank Oconer and the Many Other Trading European Trading Houses that were are headquarted in Sin.
    The Japanese Trades were also mainly conducted through Sin from the Early 50s.
    SIN
    WAS A HIVE CENTRE FOR BUSINESSES AROUND THE WORLD LONG BEFORE IT BECOMES
    INDEPENDENT.

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  13. China is going to the moon, high speed train, high tech companies, super computers, 5G, electric cars, world satellites and Beitou GPS, robotic factories, huge housing estates of superior designs etc etc and we dare to go and tell the Chinese we can teach them how to be better. Hahahahaha.

    The polite Chinese must be laughing their guts out behind their backs.

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  14. The Chinese just play along for goodwill.

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  15. Phv driver,
    food delivery, warehouse hand, security guard, farmer and hawker.
    Ok,
    some making big bucks for
    the Last Two above.
    Do
    be aware that many in the Afore-mentioned Professions are pretty happy with their jobs.

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