The Sleeping Giant Awakens And Reveals “The West” as Lilliput

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Dominionist to her marrow, Victoria, Queen of the British, was at one time the world's greatest drug pusher. Official anglo-american history and pop culture continue to whitewash and even glorify, to this day, (witness the fascination with James Bond) the sordid record of British imperialism.

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I’m from Malaysia. China has traded with Malaysia for 2000 years. In those years, they have been the world’s biggest powers many times. Never once they sent troops to take our land. Admiral Zhenghe came to Malacca five times, in gigantic fleets, and a flagship eight times the size of Christopher Columbus’ flagship, Santa Maria. He could have seized Malacca easily, but he did not. In 1511, the Portuguese came. In 1642, the Dutch came. In the 18th century the British came. We were colonised by each, one after another.

When China wanted spices from India, they traded with the Indians. When they wanted gems, they traded with the Persians. They didn’t take lands. The only time China expanded beyond their current borders was during the Yuan Dynasty, when Genghis and his descendants Ogedei Khan, Guyuk Khan & Kublai Khan controlled China, Mid Asia and Eastern Europe. But the Yuan Dynasty, although based in China, was a part of the Mongolian Empire.

The 1963 Hollywood blockbuster 55 Days at Peking, focusing on the Chinese nationalist Boxer rebellion, largely glorifies the European powers and Japan, hiding the main reason for the uprising, the British desire to keep the opium trade going in China.

Then came the Century of Humiliation. Britain smuggled opium into China to dope the population, a strategy to turn the trade deficit around, after the British could not find enough silver to pay the Qing Dynasty in their tea and porcelain trades. After the opium warehouses were burned down and ports were closed by the Chinese in ordered to curb opium, the British started the Opium War I, which China lost. Hong Kong was forced to be surrendered to the British in a peace talk (Nanjing Treaty). The British owned 90% of the opium market in China, during that time, Queen Victoria was the world’s biggest drug baron. The remaining 10% was owned by American merchants from Boston. Many of Boston’s institutions were built with profit from opium.

After 12 years of the Nanjing Treaty, the West started getting really really greedy. The British wanted the Qing government:

1. To open the borders of China to allow goods coming in and out freely, and tax free.
2. Make opium legal in China.

Insane requests, the Qing government said no. The British and French, with support from the US and Russia from behind, started Opium War II with China, which again, China lost. The Anglo-French military raided the Summer Palace, and threatened to burn down the Imperial Palace; the Qing government was forced to pay with ports, free business zones, 300,000 kilograms of silver, and Kowloon was taken. From that point onward, China’s resources flew out freely through these business zones and ports. In the subsequent amendment to the treaties, Chinese people were sold overseas to serve as labor.

In 1900, China suffered attacks by the 8-National Alliance  (Japan, Russia, Britain, France, USA, Germany, Italy, Austria-Hungary). Innocent Chinese civilians in Peking (Beijing now) were murdered, buildings were destroyed & women were raped. The Imperial Palace was raided, and treasures ended up in museums like the British Museum in London and the Louvre in Paris.

In late 1930’s China was occupied by the Japanese in WWII. Millions of Chinese died during the occupation. More than 300,000 Chinese died in the Nanjing Massacre alone.

Mao brought China together again from the shambles. There was peace and unity for some time. But Mao’s later reign saw suffering and deaths from famine and power struggles. [Many of these triggered by foreign meddling and constant threats.)

Then came Deng Xiao Ping and his infamous “black-cat and white-cat” story. His preference for pragmatism over ideologies transformed China. This thinking allowed China to evolve all the time to adapt to the actual needs of the country, instead of being rigidly atached to ideologies. It also signified the death of Communism in actual practice in China. The current Socialism+Meritocracy+Market Economy model fits the Chinese like gloves, and it propels the rise of China. Singapore has a similar model, and has been arguably more successful than Hong Kong, because Hong Kong being a gateway to China, was riding on the economic boom in China, while Singapore had no one to gain from.

In just 30 years, the CPC have moved 800 millions of people out from poverty. The rate of growth is unprecedented in human history. They have built the biggest mobile network, by far the biggest high speed rail network in the world, and they have become a behemoth in infrastructure. They made a fishing village called Shenzhen into the world’s second largest technological centre after the Silicon Valley. They are growing into a technological powerhouse. It has the most elaborate e-commerce and cashless payment system in the world. They have launched exploration of Mars. The Chinese are living a good life and China has become one of the safest countries in the world. The level of patriotism in the country has reached an unprecedented height.

For all of these achievements, the West has nothing good to say about it. China suffers from intense anti-China propaganda from the West. Western Media used the key word “Communist” to instill fear and hatred towards China. Everything China does is negatively reported.

They have claimed China used slave labor in making iPhones. The truth was, Apple, easily one of the most profitable and greedy companies in the world, took most of the profit, leaving some to Foxconn (a Taiwanese company, acting as the direct manufacturer) and little to the labor force.

They claimed China was inhuman with one-child policy. (By the way absolutely recommended by the UN-Health-Organisation at that time). At the same time, they accused China of polluting the earth with its huge population. The fact is the Chinese consume just 30% of energy per capita compared to the US.

They claimed China implemented ethnic cleansing in Xinjiang. The fact is China has a policy which prioritises ethnic minorities. For a long time, the ethnic minorities were allowed to have two children and the majority Han only allowed one. The minorities are allowed a lower score for university admissions. There are 39,000 mosques in China, and 2100 in the US. China has about 3 times more mosques per Muslim than the US.

When terrorist attacks happened in Xinjiang, China had two choices:

1. Re-educate the Uighur extremists before they turned terrorists.
2. Let them be, after they launch attacks and killed innocent people, bomb their homes.

China chose #1 to solve the problem from the root up, and not to do mass killing. How does the US "solve" terrorism? Fire missiles from battleships, drop bombs from the sky.

• During the pandemic:
  When China took extreme measures to lock-down the people, they were accused of being inhuman and tyrannical;
  When China recovered swiftly because of the extreme measures, they were accused of lying about the actual numbers;
  When China’s cases became so low that they could provide medical support to other countries, they were accused of being politically motivated

Western Media always have reasons to bash China.

Just like any country, there are irresponsible individuals in China who do bad and dirty things, but the Chinese government overall has done very well. But I hear this comment over and over by people from the West: I like Chinese people, but the CPC is “evil”.  What they really want is the Chinese to change their government, because the current one is too good.

Fortunately China is not a multi-party democratic country, otherwise the opposition party in China would be supported by notorious NGOs (Non-Government Organization) from the USA, like the NED (National Endowment for Democracy), to topple the ruling party. The US and the British couldn’t crack Mainland China, so they work on Hong Kong. Of all the ex-British colonial countries, only the Hong Kongers were offered BNOs by the British. Because the UK would like the Hong Kongers to think they are British citizens, not Chinese. A divide-and-rule strategy, which they often used in Color Revolutions around the world.

They resort to low-down, dirty tricks like detaining Huawei’s CFO & banning Huawei. They detonated a silly trade war which benefits no one (and which cancels a huge income subsidy for the US population!—Ed) . Trade deficits always exist between a developing and a developed country. USA is like a luxury car seller who ask a farmer: why am I always buying your vegetables and you haven’t bought any of my cars? (But the balance of payments problem for the US is not just the natural result of international trade flows; the exports disequilibrium favoring China today was created by US and Western capitalists offshoring US industrial jobs and production to China in pursuit of higher profits. This process took off in the 1970s, with the scandal known as "the runaways" for multinationals relocating their production to low-wage/ low-environmental regulation countries.—Editor).

When the Chinese were making socks for the world 30 years ago, the world let it be. But when Chinese started to make high technology products, like Huawei and DJI, it caused a red-alert. Because when Western and Japanese products are equal to Chinese in technologies, they could never match the Chinese in prices. First world countries want China to continue making socks. Instead of stepping up themselves, they want to pull China down.

The recent movement by the US against China has a very important background. When Libya, Iran, and China decided to ditch the US dollar in oil trades, Gaddafi was killed by the US, Iran was heavily sanctioned by the US, and now it’s China’s turn. The US has been printing money out of nothing. The only reason why the US Dollar is still widely accepted, is because it’s the only currency in which oil is allowed to be traded. The US has an agreement with the Saudis that oil must be traded in US dollars ONLY. Without the petrodollar status, the US dollars would sink, and America would fall. Therefore anyone trying to disobey this order will be eliminated. China will soon use a gold-backed crypto-currency. The alarms in the White House are liable to go off like mad.

China’s achievement has been through hard work. Not by looting the world. The "Western way".

I have deep sympathy for China for all the suffering they have endured, but now I feel happy for them. China is not rising, they are going back to where they always belonged. Good luck China.