It is naive for the West headed by the United States to think they can revisit the Opium War era 'Gun Boat on China again with impunity.
In the last over ten years from about 2010, the West headed by US has been very hostile to China and the Chinese people. The US hostilities towards China accelerated in 2015 and picked up momentum during dotard Trump's presidency and continues now even more viciously into Joe Biden's administration. They are behaving like savage wild dogs gnashing their teeth at China, demonizing China endlessly with wild fabricated accusations and carrying out various extreme provocations from sanctions, trade tariffs, high tech blockades and conducting dangerous provocative naval and aerial surveillance very close to Chinese shores and islands. Do they stupidly think they can revisit the 'Gun Boat Policy" on China again with impunity. Have they become comatose and gone berserk with insanity. They are trying to play fire with the Dragon not knowing this time round if they try to trivialise with China they will be badly burnt and destroyed.
From the 1830s to 1950s when China was weak and poor the West including the United States look down upon China and the Chinese people, describing the Chinese people in the most derogatory terms, associating Chinese with the dogs and claiming that the Chinese are subhuman incapable of any scientific and technological progress. That's an outright arrogant besmirching and demonizing of the Chinese people. Time will show they will have to swallow the insulting things they said about the Chinese people.
It is important to point out that before the 1830s and before the evil bellicose white people came to China, the Chinese people and and nation was a living example of richness and gloriousness with rich scientific background. For thousands of years China's civilization and scientific and technological prowess radiates throughout the world. ( NB: For details of the richness of Chinese ancient science and technology please read Professor Joseph Needham's work on the subject as he had written volumes of books on ancient Chinese science and technology; and had once said, "All modern science and technology has its basic foundation in China." In passing I would just like to mention the European Renaissance in the Middle Age was kindled or took place because the Europeans were stirred up and aroused by the descriptions of the wonders of China by Marco Polo as well as Chinese scientific works brought to Europe by the Mongols and the Arabs. The Europeans were all fired up and started to learn in earnest a lot of Chinese science and technology indirectly from the Mongols and the Arabs who once controlled the vast land mass from China to Europe. Before the Renaissance the European barbaric tribes were still living in the Dark Ages of ignorance when they were still wild and savage and warlike and where the many European tribes were always engaged in fighting for dominance.
China had always been attacked by the barbarian hordes, the nomadic Hsiung Nu, Mongol and Turkish tribes from the landmass in the north and west of China. But the new European barbarians came to attack China from the sea in which the Chinese had never expected. Moreover in the early 19th century when the British started a war on China to force China to open up for opium trade China lost the war and all subsequent wars imposed by the European countries. China lost all the wars because the Europeans had more powerful guns and cannons which outranged the Chinese ones. Basically the Chinese had always used their guns and cannons in religious ceremonies to frighten ghosts and spirits and not for killings in war. So the Chinese were too complacent and had never make any improvement to their guns and cannons. Thus the Europeans who learnt how to make guns and cannons from the Mongols were able to improve their power and range.
From the 1830s to 1940s whenever China lost the wars to the invading Europeans, China was forced to pay huge war indemnities of hundreds of millions of Chinese silver dollars to each and every of the invading European country which later were to include the U.S. and Japan. It was these huge war indemnities that impoverished China for over a hundred years. China was still paying the war indemnities until the establishment of the People's Republic of China on October 1st 1949, when Chairman Mao stopped the payment, considering it illegal and unwarranted.
China is now again at the cross roads of danger. With over hundred years of shame and humiliation suffering from Western and Japanese aggression still strongly embedded in Chinese minds, the West headed by the United States still think fit of trying to tear the Chinese down again. China and the Chinese people have yet to take revenge on the past atrocities, great destructions and lost of her lands that China sufferred at their hands and here they are again threatening China and the Chinese people with hostilities and endless hostile provocations. But surely they know they are facing a different China now. Today's China is like the mighty mythical Dragon spouting with intense fire ready to destroy all trouble makers and aggressors. But one thing is certain China and the Chinese people will never be bullied and trampled again. We Chinese are a peaceful people. We believe in helping all other poor countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America to achieve all round success in a win win situation for our common economic prosperity.
Then what are the reasons for the West wanting at this juncture to pick a fight with the new indomitable Dragon. Below is an article forwarded to me via WhatsAPP, an article written by an American professor who shares with the world an inkling into the illogical insane minds of the West headed by the United States who are bent on warmongering to achieve their objective of world domination and hegemony. The United States is picking on China as an enemy because China is a stumbling block to its diabolical objective for world domination and hegemony.
Professor Dennis Etler : American political analyst who holds a doctorate in anthropology from the university of California, Berkeley.
The article : As I See It. ---------------------------------
"Why is it the West is so preoccupied with China? The usual answer is that China's economic growth is challenging Western global hegemony which has held sway for at least 250 years. The Chinese military has also reached parity with that of the West, so it is no longer subject to Western intimidation and bullying. All that is true and reason for the West to want to savage China and portray it as the root of all evil.
But there is one other consideration that must be taken into account. It is not only China's economic prowess and military might that frightens the West, it is also China's success as a nation versus the West failure.
Moreover, China has forged a society in which there is harmony between its different ethnicities in contrast to the systemic racism that characterizes Western society.
Western ruling eliites and their media mouthpieces do not want to acknowledge the fact that China has eliminated extreme poverty while more and more of their own people descend into poverty. They do not want to admit that China has constructed a 21st century infrastructure while they lag far behind. They do not want to confront the fact that the Chinese people overwhelmingly support their government while people in the West have lost confidence in their own, they do not want to accept that China beat COVID-19 while they haven't, and finally they are loathe to accept the fact that a non-white nation has outperformed them and will continue to do so into the forseeable future.
In order to deflect attention away from these truths the West has concocted a series of lies and slanders that allow them to deny reality. Instead of poverty alleviation the West imagines "genocide." Instead of the advances in HSR, EVs, alt-energy and e-commerce they focus on "IP theft", instead of a socioeconomic system that serves the people, they accused China of forced labor and forced sterilizations. Instead of seeing China as defending its sovereignty in the South China Sea, Hong Kong and Taiwan, it's called an aggressor.
All the China-bashing serves multiple purposes but one of the main reasons is to make sure that people in the West do not get to hear nor see what the real China is all about because if they did they may get ideas that the Western elites don't want them to have, such as socialism works for the betterment of the 99% while capitalism works primarily to enrich the 1% elites."
End Of Article.
Professor Dennis Etler and many of his other American professors like Jeffrey Sachs, Richard Wolffe and Christopher Black are peace loving people who denounce wars and Western aggressions. They are realists and pragmatists who preach for world peace and harmony of all people on this earthly world. We all have a duty and responsibility to spread their goodwill around. For a start after reading Professor Dennis Etler's article please forward it to as many friends and relatives as possible wherever they may be since it is from the eyes of a prominent American professor.
Southernglory1
Friday, 5th November, 2021
