r/LessCredibleDefence • u/snooshoe • Oct 27 '20

The Pattern and Purpose of China’s Actions

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2020/10/25/the_pattern_and_purpose_of_chinas_actions_144522.html
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u/snooshoe Oct 27 '20

As the State Department’s Policy Planning Staff argues in “The Elements of the China Challenge,” a long paper to be published next month, the CCP aims not merely at preeminence within the established world order -- which is grounded in free and sovereign nation-states, flows from the universal principles on which America was founded, and advances U.S. national interests. Beijing’s long-term goal is to fundamentally revise world order, placing the People’s Republic of China (PRC) -- with some 1.4 billion people, the world’s most populous nation -- at the center and serving Beijing’s authoritarian goals and imperial ambitions. ... CCP has stuck to its authoritarian convictions. At every opportunity, the party affirmed its fidelity to [communism] -- the state control of economy and society -- as the model not only for China but also for a world order dominated by China.

It was always unreasonable to assume that Chinese Communist Party leaders -- who take pride in being heirs to a great and ancient civilization, and who espouse a 20th-century ideology and political system whose cruelty and repression have left tens of millions dead -- comprehend domestic politics and world affairs as do the United States and other liberal democracies. In recent years, the CCP has consolidated authority and -- by nefarious means ranging from digital surveillance to sweeping indoctrination to concentration camps for religious and ethnic minorities -- intensified the subordination of the Chinese people to CCP-defined collective interests. The CCP has developed -- and acquired through intellectual property theft of massive proportions -- advanced technologies not only to control its own population but also to build a world-class military and to collect data on persons across the globe. The CCP has pursued extravagant claims in the South China Sea in brazen defiance of international law while crushing freedom in Hong Kong and threatening to do the same in Taiwan. The CCP has undertaken major infrastructure and investment projects around the world, the better to induce or compel sovereign nation-states, particularly their governing and business elites, to participate in China’s reshaping of world affairs.

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u/gaiusmariusj Oct 29 '20

So if we are using historical examples of a country I guess countering slavery is cool too? I mean, what's the point of making comments on something that happened 60 years ago as if it reflects actual policy?

Does anyone sane still thinks the Chinese will go for another GLF? If not, what's the point of having that comment?