Who are the aggressors and territorial expansionists both past and present. Is it China or Western colonialist and imperialist powers of the United States, its allies the European powers of England, France, Germany, Spain, Portugal, Dutch Netherlands ( Holland ), Russia, Italy, Belgium, Denmark or Japan? Let's examine the historical facts and seek truth from it.
It is lamenting that Asean and Singapore journalists either do not know historical facts or they are so blindly drunk with the toxic pot of western insidious propaganda that they are so influenced and bias in their reporting on China vis-a-vis the Western countries, Japan and former western colonial countries in Asia and South East Asia. Invariably their views, articles and comments have always been bias and prejudiced against China no matter what the truth is. Western countries and Japanese politicians who intentionally and fallaciously point accusing fingers against China is understandable because they have the hidden agenda to find a scapegoat to bear the blame, the sin and burden of their evil aggressions and expansionism both past, present and future. They always plan their aggressions, conquests and expansion years or decades ahead. It is just they are wicked to push the blame on others to deceptively deflect and distract attention from their aggression and expansionism and their evil deeds. Their easy and common scapegoat is China and this expose their shameless lies, deception and fraud as China has never attacked any foreign country and never has any colonies at all. They are highly deceptive and shameless in telling incredible lies. They are telling incredible lies because China has never attacked or colonize any other country and they know it. Then why do they persistently tell such incredulous lies. They should answer to this question. Anyway as the story goes on their scam will eventually be exposed.
Lets look at the historical facts in the annals of foreign and western aggressions and expansionism. First, China and Chinese Civilization has existed in this world for more than 5,000 years. Throughout the course of Chinese history China had never attacked,encroached or colonize any foreign country or sent soldiers to intimidate other countries. Historically China has always been a pacifist country against war and violence and bullying of others . Military service and soldiers has always been placed at the lowest strata status of the Chinese society in face of a ridiculous traditional Chinese maxim, "Good iron is not used for forging nails and good sons do not join the army as soldiers." This pacifist policy tend to invite Western imperialists and Japanese aggression against China.
Thus China has always been on the victim of foreign aggressions and expansionism. As early as few thousand years ago before Jesus was born China frequently suffered attacks from savage Mongol tribes in Siberia. To ward off these attacks the various dynasties of China built the Great Wall of ten thousand miles as a preventive measure to ward off the Hsiung Nu or Mongol invasions.The Mongol tribes attacks were fast and furious and continued up to the 17th Century. Besides the invasion by the Mongols China also faced attacks from other central and northern Asian tribes. The most notorious were the Manchus. Indeed China was under two foreign dynasties for two periods. The Mongols under Genghis Khan and Kublai Khan ruled China from about 1190s to 1265, while the Manchus ruled China from about 1644 to 1911 before they were thrown out by the Chinese.
But the worst and most brutal attacks and occupation of China unexpectedly came from the most savage white European invaders of England, France, Russia, Germany, Holland, America and Japan in modern times from the 1830s to the 1940s. The British had no money to pay for Chinese goods especially tea and porcelain products so they resorted to treachery of military attacks to force the sale of opium to Chinese people. Opium was grown in abundance in British occupied India. The Chinese government had banned opium smoking in China and forbade the sale and trading of opium. However, the British continued to use gunboats to force the illegal and illicit trading and sale of opium to Chinese society. When China confiscated large amounts of British opium and threw them into the sea the British used gunboats to shell Chinese ports and cities which culminated in the Opium Wars of 1839 to 1842 and the Second Opium War of 1856 to 1860. Many European countries including Russia and America took part in the opium war against China. China lost the wars and this resulted in the dismemberment of China in which the western aggressors carved out China into their separate spheres of influence and control. In short China was reduced to a semi-colonial status and hundreds of thousands of square miles of Chinese lands were cut off and annexed by England, Russia, France, Germany and Japan. They outrageously called this episode "Cutting the Chinese Water Melon." In addition to decapitating Chinese territories they imposed war indemnities or war reparations from China to the tune of hundreds of millions of Chinese silver dollars and gold bullion. It is a ridiculous outrageous humiliation that they attacked and made wars on China and when China was gravely and brutally defeated they still demanded compensation from China for their war expenses. This was clearly white men's most wanton and brutal aggression and expansion against China.
European or white men's aggression and expansionism is worldwide, timeless and know no limits and is based on their evil insidious and diabolical militant and religious doctrines and policies of Christian divine rights to dispossess other non-white and non-Christian countries of their lands and resources and to enslave the people of the conquered territories. This has been happening for more than 500 years since 1445. Thus whole continents of North and South America, Africa, Australia and most of Asia were attacked and occupied. This western aggression and imperialism caused millions of deaths to native populations and millions more in suffering, pain and agony besides tremendous destructions in homes and properties.
England and France were notorious in occupying North America and genociding most of the natives. Spain and Portugal and to a smaller extent Dutch Holland attacked and occupied the whole of Central America and all of South America and they similarly killed and murdered the natives while Russia was extending its claws of expansion across the vast continent of Central and north Asia into Siberia and China.
England also occupied all of India and Australia. In India the British killed hundreds of thousands of Indians before they could rule the territory. The first thing when the British landed in Australia was to kill and murder the natives and subsequently the whole continent came under British rule . Also in the 1850s England attacked and invaded Burma. England also attacked and invaded Afghanistan and Ceylon or Sri Lanka in the 1800s.
While the British were busy conquering India and Australia the Dutch were expanding and conquering throughout Indonesia. The Dutch adopted a very cruel and brutal policy in ruling Indonesia where millions of Indonesians who resisted their occupation were gunned down mecilessly. In all Indonesia was under the Dutch rule for about 400 years until 1950s when an Indonesian revolt led by President Sukarno drove out the Dutch.
Africa was attacked and invaded by many European countries from as early as the 1600s. England attacked and occupied South Africa, Sudan, Rhodesia, Kenya, Tanganyika, the Seychelles and Reunion Islands which include Diego Garcia Archipelago,Nigeria, Sieera Leone, Gold Coast or Ghana , Gambia,Tanzania, Botswana, Zambia, Lesotho and Swaziland. France attacked and occupied most of North and north west Africa viz Algeria, Niger, Chad, Tunisia, Morocco, Ivory Coast, Dahomey, Mauritania, Senegal,French Guinea, Burkina Faso, Madagascar, Gabon, French Congo, French Cameroon and Sao To Me. The Portuguese conquered Angola and Mozambique, Guinea Bissau and Cape Verde. Belgium attacked and occupied Congo for a few hundred years. Italy took and annexed Libya, Ethiopia, Somalia and Eritrea. Germany ruled Namibia, Burundi, Cameroon, Rwanda, Tanzania and Togo.
In the meanwhile in 1895 the white Americans of the United States were aggressively expanding into the vast Pacific Ocean after attacking and annexing more than half of Mexico's territories of about one million six hundred and sixty five thousand square miles viz Texas, Nevada, New Mexico, Colorado, Utah, Arizona, Wyoming and California. The expansionist white Americans attacked and occupied Hawaii after forcibly dethroned the native Hawaiian queen. In 1898 US also took over the colonies of Spain in Puerto Rico, Philippines and Guam after the defeat of Spain in the Spanish - American war.
American aggressions and expansions have never stopped. It is meant to be permanent. Immediately after the Second World War the United States drew up plans to attack and invade several countries. US invaded North Korea in 1950. Wherever there is oil US armies will be there to seize control of the land. The United States have invaded the Middle East countries of Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Yemen, Syria and many more others to seize and loot their oil and other mineral resources. US had also invaded several countries in Central America and South America. It had carried out regime change in several Latin American countries and looted their mineral resources. US took all the copper from Chile, oil from Peru,Colombia and lithium from Bolivia almost for free. It is threatening to invade Venezuella to grab it huge oil resources.
Japan imperialist had well learnt and copied Western aggression and expansionism against China taking advantage of a very down, weakened and devastated China due to perpectual western aggression. Japan first attacked China in 1875 and caused a Sino-Japanese war. Japan won this war and as a prize for its victory it took away Chinese territories of the Liuqiudao ( Japan renamed it Okinawa ) and Sahalin Dao, an island of about one hundred and twenty thousand square miles to the north of Hokkaido. Japan renamed Shahalin Daos as 'Karafuto'. However, Russia took over the Sahalin Dao in the 1880s after defeating Japan in the Russo-Japanese wars. Russia renamed the island 'Sakhalin' very close to the original Chinese name. Russia used Sahalin Island as a penal settlement where thousands of Russian convicts were settled.
In the next Sino-Japanese war of 1905 - 1910, Japan again won the war. And as a prize for its victory it took away Taiwan island, the Pescadores or Penghu Archipelago and the Korean Peninsula.
In the 1930s China was in the chaotic period of the warlord era, Japan took advantage of the chaos and in 1937 it attacked and invaded North-East China or Manchuria. In this Sino-Japanese war not a single western country was willing to come to China's help because Japan had been their ally since the First World War 1914 - 1918. During this invasion the Chinese communists armies led by Chairman Mao Tse-tung posted great resistance against the Japanese. Chairman Mao and his comrades of great generals and marshalls with the tremendous and dedicated support of the patriotic Chinese people conducted guerilla wars against the Japanese invaders. During this Japanese invasion hundreds of thousands of Chinese civillians were killed in Japanese occupation and there was mass execution of prisoners of war as Japanese did not take prisoners.
1937 was the beginning of the eight years of Japanese war against China and also the beginning of the Second World War. Japan proceeded to invade all the coastal provinces of China and occupied all Chinese territories in the South China Sea which include the Paracel Islands, Spratly Island Archipelago, the Scarborough shoals and many more others.
In the meantime in1946 immediately after the Second World War Russia with the connivance of the United States stripped away the Chinese province of Outer Mongolia from China. Russia also annexed Tannu Tuva which was a part of Outer Mongolia.
After the Second World War, China had witnessed how Chinese lawful claims were cast down in the course of international treaty negotiations. China was still very weak and had to swallow the humble pie of being forced to accept the status quo of its sovereign territories. China was willing to accept the status quo for the sake of world peace. But China cannot afford any more concillatory stance since this would equate to a political suicide in the light of the Chinese people's wish to restore the territorial integrity of the country. Thus the Chinese firm stand in the South China Sea islands issues and the border issues with India must be viewed in this perspective of the Chinese firm intention to preserve Chinese territorial integrity and not to lose any more of Chinese lands whatsoever.
But the imperial west especially the United States and Japan choose to cast and twist Chinese perspectives as Chinese aggression and expansionism. A century of terrible humiliations and the painful and agonizing historic experiences which the Chinese suffered during the unlawful dominance of western and Japanese imperialism is deeply engraved in Chinese minds and has now strongly influenced and impacted on today's Chinese nationalism. This has caused the Chinese the urgency to work hard and develop China as quickly as possible. Under the great leadership of the Chinese Communist Party, China has in the last few decades built up a very strong economy and a powerful well equipped military. China has seen great strides by leaps and mounts in the innovation and development of its science and technology and in cyber and computer technology. Many of present Chinese science and technology development are second to none and in fact quite a few are ahead of the Americans and others especially in space technology. Moreover China has very good, strong and cohesive political and domestic governance and the Chinese people are strongly united in support of the government.
The fast and tremendous unprecedented development of China in all fields of science and technology and its strong economy and powerful military has aroused the unreasonable fear of the West especially America and Japan. Is this morbid fear due to their guilty conscience of past atrocious aggressions against China and fear of China's future revenge. The United States view China's rapid development with jaundiced eyes because it does not want any competitor. It has clearly shown its intention to try all ways and means to contain China's peaceful development and to ultimately destroy China.
Herein lies the irrational reason for US/West to fallaciously demonize China as aggressive and expansionist. This toxic false accusation against China is part of US hybrid warfare against China. Being inherently wicked and diabolical it wants to arouse and instigate China's neighbouring states with psychological fear and hatred against China and influence them to unconsciously confront and fight China on America's behalf. In short US the world's only hegemon has no qualms in making use of others to fight its proxy wars. Yet many of Asean countries politicians and jouranalists have either no eyes to see the wicked diabolical plots of the US or refuse to see just because they have their own selfish interests. They tend to imitate and echo American demonization against China in the most illogical manner. They may be playing with fire and in this dangerous game against China they have played into the evil empire's hands and succumed to their wicked plots and intentions.
It is very clear now the world's aggressors and expansionists are the white people of the white Americans who are the descendants of the European invaders, the Europeans of England, France, Spain,Portugal, Holland, Belgium, Italy, Germany and Italy.
Incredulously accusing China of aggression and expansion is white men's hoax and scam against China. This incredible accusation must fall flat as China had never invaded or colonize any other country or station any Chinese soldiers abroad to intimidate and threaten others unlike the Europeans and Americans which have invaded other countries and turned them into their colonies. Also many European countries still have military bases abroad and the white Americans have the most with over one thousand military bases all over the world threatening the peace and security of other countries. The United States alone has surrounded China with more than four hundred military bases. China has no military bases or soldiers stationed abroad.
The United States and the Europeans and Japan are just wicked and have an insidious motive and agenda in casting China as aggressive and expansionist, This fake and false accusation is a great injustice to China. They are just trying to cover their own aggressive and expansionist behaviour and deflect from what they are doing to China just because they refuse to accept and believe that a non-white country like China can develop so fast and come out on top to challenge them. They are too arrogant and conceited and still think Asians or non-white people should not have the ability or be allowed to progress on par with the whites. They are desperate that China's overall achievements par excellence have put paid to their arrogance and false assumption and that China's achievements have opened the eyes of non-white people in Asia, Africa and South America that they are just as capable and able if given the same safe and peaceful environment as demonstrated by the Chinese. This is the real reason all and sundry for their illogical and ridiculous lies and incredible assertion to cast aspersion on China as being aggressive and expansionist. China's built up and development with a strong and powerful military is China's direct reaction and response to white men's never ending aggression and expansion. A strong and powerful China will ensure not only China but also all non-white countries ability to live in peace and security save from white men's marauding aggression and expansion.
In their extreme and boundless greed and craving for other countries and people's wealth and riches and their lunatical obsession for world hegemony and total domination of all other countries the Europeans and white Americans have shown to the world that they are the real wanton brutish unrepentant aggressors and demonic expansionists.
During the last five hundred years the imperial powers of the West, the European countries and America have enriched themselves tremendously with the stolen wealth, riches and resources of their colonies while at the same time impoverished their colonies to the bone, the impact of these impoverishments have a lasting effect to this present day.
White men's never ending aggression and expansion is the cause of all conflicts and wars in this world. This white men's aggression and expansion is now led by the evil white Americans of the United States. Hopefully God will now punish the white men for all their evil deeds with the corona virus or COVID - 19 so that others may live in peace and security.
Southernglory1
Wednesday, 7th October, 2020
In 1880s France attacked and occupied Indochina
