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This is fantastic, but IMHO missing one important point that I've learned from my Chinese friends: the Chinese Communist Party is well ... essentially communist
by samspenc 12y ago
This is fantastic, but IMHO missing one important point that I've learned from my Chinese friends: the Chinese Communist Party is well ... essentially communist, and differs in a few big ways from the European powers:
1. The current leaders want to colonize the rest of the world
2. They want to do so in the same heavy-handed manner that they use to subjugate their own people
3. With overseas dominance, use that "soft power" to increasingly assert themselves over their own people in China.
So the overseas expansion isn't for the sake of only resources, etc, they apparently want to use their external international influence to assert more control internally over the Chinese people as well.
- latch 12y agoThe article doesn't miss this point, it explicitly and absolutely disagrees with it: "FOR all this ambition, China is not bent on global domination. It has little interest in polities beyond Asia, except in as much as they provide it with raw material and markets. " "China is “neither a missionary culture nor a values superpower,” says Kerry Brown of the University of Sydney. “It is not trying to make other people into China.” "Clan-focused Confucianism and the fear bred by communism have persuaded the Chinese to mind their own business"
- moogleii 12y agoEr, I haven't heard that from my Chinese friends (and I personally disagree anyway). That sounds like extremist hogwash. The article is pretty fair.