Does China defend the Palestinian people and annihilate the Islamic Uyghur?
China condemns Hamas terrorism and has always advocated for the Palestinians to have their own state. Beijing has allowed Chinese Uighurs to speak Arabic and wear the burqa and exempted them, as a minority, from the one-child policy.
So why is the Chinese repression denounced in international forums?
After 9/11, the US put “Uyghur terrorists” on the list of IS allies and China defended itself against its armed attacks.
And now the US protects these Uyghurs?
Now the US wants to contain Chinese power and it turns out that they consider the Uyghurs victims of repression and support them to slow down the Chinese Silk Road (Belt and Road).
Does China want to dominate us all or just sell us everything?
Imagine if the Roman Empire had managed to reform itself and survive 2,000 years of history…
In a way, the EU has inherited it.
But the EU is not ethnically, linguistically and culturally homogeneous. Instead, those who invaded China, such as the Mongols, ended up becoming Chinese, speaking and writing Chinese and adopting Chinese laws and institutions.
China has also suffered recent wars and colonial invasions.
But it has maintained its unity, that of the Han ethnic group. I give you numbers…
Will he scare us with numbers?
Not just numbers: China doubles the population of all of Europe, but if you take the car in Barcelona, ??you will have to speak other languages ??in two hours; on the other hand, he will travel to China for weeks talking the same with the same heroes, books, history… There are 1.425 million Chinese, a people as large as it is homogeneous.
Are the Chinese regions not competing?
The regional differences are irrelevant compared to the European ones or those of India and the fact is that, when there were epidemics, they expelled foreigners and closed all the doors.
We’ve seen it recently.
This is what they continue to do and today they have no intention of invading anything or installing military bases anywhere: they do want to sell their products, win markets…
They don’t want to invade Taiwan?
Taiwan is China, as the victorious world leaders recognized in Cairo in 1943; but it will only be a problem if the US insists on supporting a Taiwan independence referendum: then we would have another world war.
How can it be avoided?
The referendum would be the red line, but there is a pink zone in which China and the US dance now and which sometimes heats up – but also cools down – very quickly. Neither China nor the US wants to go beyond the pink.
Isn’t it better to cool it completely?
In 2015, I was able to see President Xi Jinping and Taiwan’s President Ma Ying-jeou having dinner at the Shangri-La restaurant in Singapore and both were treated cordially. If Jinping was thinking of invading Taiwan, he would not have gone to that very high political risk dinner for him.
Is China a threat to the West?
China threatens US global hegemony to the extent that it has shown that – with its own system of government and geopolitical influence – it can prosper.
And don’t Apple and hundreds of US companies also manufacture and profit in China?
Yes, but China has not been docile – the EU has been – to the changing orders of Washington and has preferred not to interfere in the affairs of other countries. Now, Beijing does not want, for example, to condemn Moscow.
Hasn’t Russia invaded a sovereign country?
China does not feel compelled to condemn Russia. And in the US this upsets them, because it is an example of rebellion for others. The EU, on the other hand, depends on NATO for its own security. And, on top of that, it is very difficult for their countries to decide together.
What is the Chinese nightmare for the US?
Not so much the invasion of markets as China influencing the global economic system – IMF, World Bank, financial system – and the dollar losing its hegemony.
Aren’t the US worried about the Chinese technological threat and losing the chip war?
The US is obsessed with Chinese progress in artificial intelligence and space because it is a serious and real threat and I understand that they want to limit Chinese access to their technology to prevent it from copying it.
Will the US succeed in curbing China?
Maybe they’ll get her to stop going as fast as she has been, but not stop her…
So will China rule the world?
I am convinced that the American empire, like every empire before it, will one day fall; but also that China is not interested in replacing him as world leader.
Why are you so sure?
Because it knows that being the first world power is too expensive: China prefers to dominate markets instead of countries.
