The core of contemporary human civilization crisis lies in culture. The key reason for the failure of the free world’s China policy for a century has also be in culture. Westerners have never truly realized the distortion of traditional Chinese culture by communism, and the CCP’s complete cultural genocide in mainland China. This ignorance is also manifested in the long-term marginalization of the Republic of China, which carries traditional Chinese culture.
Now the world is awakening because of the epidemic caused by the CCP and the problems in Hong Kong and Xinjiang. The two parties in the United States have reached a consensus in principle on the recognition of this external threat. I hope those elitists who do not understand Chinese culture and the nature of the CCP will not dominate China policy again. I hope policymakers and the public will hear different voices from now on. What is the essence of modern Sino-US relations? What is the key strategy and fatal acupoint of the CCP? We must at least answer these questions before designing our countermeasures.
The answers to the above questions are both complicated and simple. Besides the socialist ideology, some American elitists have made so-called theories that complicate everything. For a long time, most of western politicians and humanity scholars have overestimated the wisdom of the CCP leaders but underestimated their hooliganism. At the operational level, in most cases, the elitists were not ready to deal with the opponent’s sophistry. Facing the CCP, another erroneous zone of the Western society is that they often place the cultural differences in an inappropriate position. For the objects with fundamental differences, people mistakenly think they could be culturally identical. For example, the fundamental differences between the CCP’s Confucius Institute and the Goethe Institute, the British Council and the French Alliance have been undiscovered. The CCP has been using the excuse of Chinese characteristics and the aura of ancient Chinese culture to cover up their rejection and hatred of the universal values of human society. Many people in the Western world often mistakenly interpret the CCP’s culture as Chinese culture. Regrettably, most of the well-known China Hands at the top of US political circles have long trapped themselves in these erroneous zones.
What is even more regrettable is that some famous scholars have recently brought people into new erroneous zones through the so-called theories of Thucydides’ trap. Some scholars even demanded that to escape this trap we must provide the CCP with what it wants. If someone prefers the term ‘clash of civilizations’, what really exists is the catastrophic clash between human civilization and savagery. The authentic picture is that a rising communist barbarism poses a threat to a well-established human civilization. Starting from such a true logical premise, the reasoning process and the conclusion should be crystal clear. In this context, the fans of Thucydides’ trap theory would find the fatal logic errors within their syllogism.
Dispelling the myth created by these elitists, the answers to strategic questions become simple, because things are straightforward and crystal clear originally. The essence of our China policy should be to defeat the rising barbarism (the CCP) that is subverting the established civilization, and to ensure the normal development of civilization.
(12/09/2021)