Part 3 - The Dragon has been awakened. Written by : Lim Yu Book

 The QUAD was born.

Overnight, the Chinese government is demonized as Chinese Communist Party. And no sooner, protesters-turned-rioters surfaced in Hong Kong to fight for democracy, and a Uyghur genocide badge  pinned on China.

Many in China had thought Joe Biden would be voice of reasons when he became the president. Alas, how disappointed they are now.

Biden has if fact more Trump than Trump. He is now a Sinophobia by any yardstick. He knew he could do much harm on China in the area of trade. He is rallying the Five-Eyes and the Quad to halt China on the technological and military front. I believe all of us have read enough of his actions to either agree or disagree on this description of him and there is no need for me to elaborate further.

But it may be good to reflect a little on history.

First, the British ......

The British and Germans have an intimate knowledge of China and Chinese, thanks to their 19th Century Gunboat Diplomacy in China. However, unlike Angela Merkel, Whose woman stature is admired well beyond Germany and regardless of race , creed or colourBoris Johnson is a parochial politician. His flip-flop over Huawei is a clear-cut case of the man's indecisiveness and ever-readiness to please America at any cost. And the British and Irish ought to take note the South Asians are returning to rule them! ( I flew into Birmingham Airport not too long ago. I thought I was flying into India of the 22nd Century. I hope my South Asian friends take this as a compliment! I understand Johnson is also one quarter Turk. )

Joe Biden is making every attempt to provoke China in South China Sea and this is an opportunity for Johnson to ingratiate himself deeper with the former. A show- of- the-might fleet there is British nostalgic walk down the memory lane of the era when they were exercising gunboat diplomacy at will on China. But this is 2021! They forgot their HMS Repulse and HMS Prince of Wales were sunk by Japan without much ado. Can their HMS Queen Elezabeth and its flotilla now loitering right in front of China's front yard stand a chance if China decides to test their DF-21D missiles on them?

Second, the Japanese ......

The terror that was inflicted by the Japanese army in China and South East Asia, especially to their Chinese populations , is still vividly remembered by some who are still alive today. China was in a sorry state for more than a hundred years before Mao Tze-tung took over in 1949. The later Manchu Dynasty was totally inept, and the country was constantly ravaged by natural disasters. The warlords and Kuomintang were happy to see the country burnt while they fought for territories and loot the masses. Whereas in Japan, The Meiji Restoration had already propelled the nation to be at par with the Western powers in terms of sophistication.

The Japanese had a grand design to rule East and South East Asia and even Australia under the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere ambition. In their process of invading China, they began to cultivate a contempt for Chinese - borne out of the filth they saw in Chinese lives. To the Japanese, Chinese were were sub-human, hence the slaughter without conscience.