THE OPPRESSION OF A CIVILIZATION

I wrote this piece many years back. It is good to revisit this post and look at the fate of the Chinese people then under the oppression of the white men and how they fought back to destroy this white men's myth that the Chinese were stupid and dull people, only fit to be cooks and laundry men. This lie was enforced for centuries by the white men through their media and state policies to keep the Chinaman down and out. 

Just keep suppressing them, deprive them of the opportunity to be educated and rise in the world of science and technology. Just keep them dumb and tell the world that the Chinese are dumb. The Chinese Civilisation and China were suppressed and oppressed for nearly a century to the point of becoming irrelevant, poor, illiterate, ignorant, loss of confidence and pride, in a world controlled and ruled by the white men.

Look at what China is today, what China has achieved in a short 50 years after breaking free from the clutches of the white men. The Chinese today have stood up through sheer hard work and tenacity to be their true self, a people that is as good as anyone in the world, compete and be better than the white men in every field of science and technology. No more the oppressed Civilisation by the white men. The Chinese people will no longer be the joke of the white men, to be despised by the white men as a people with no talent.

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The world was turned into an ocean of colonies of subject people during the few centuries of ‘friendly’ European conquest. The Africans were turned into slaves, the natives of both Americas massacred. The ancient civilization of China was crippled and dismantled into pieces. After the Western powers brought down the decadent Qing Dynasty with the might of modern firearms, the Chinese civilization was turned into a pariah race of nothingness by the invaders in their country. The foreigners did not bring anything good but oppression, bullying and raiding China ’s wealth and dignity by all kinds of deceptive means, and by the barrel of the gun. The Japanese joined in and even thought of conquering and ruling the whole of China as their colony.  

There was a moment of salvation when Japan attacked Pearl Harbour and declared war on the Western power. China and its peasant soldiers were needed to open another front to sap the fighting power and resources of the Japanese. A large part of the Japanese Imperial Army was held down in China by the peasant soldiers. History would not be the same if the Japanese could run through China without resistance and conquer the whole of Asia. 

After the war there was a brief moment of equality for China as a key member of the Allied Forces that fought against the Japanese. Chiang Kai Shek was seated with the Allied leaders like Churchill, Stalin and Roosevelt in Potsdam and Cairo to divide the world among the victorious Allied Powers. China was lucky to have its lost territories back. Chiang was more like a flower vase, inconsequential, and would not be deserving of any war loot. His presence among the leaders of the big powers was a consolation that gave China a little recognition as a big nation.  

This little moment of dignity did not last long when Mao Zedong defeated Chiang and China adopted communism as a state ideology. This turn of event led to a renewed and concerted Western effort to brand and condemn the Chinese civilization as peasants, rogues, dumb, uncivilized, aggressive and the pariahs of the human race, a good for nothing race that was lack of talent, unproductive and unimaginative, and unfit to join the advanced nations of the West. This was the hopeless China painted by the West. They kept repeating the misinformation daily in all western media, like they are doing to North Korea today that the whole world simply believed so. Chinese are useless, Chinese are lame, Chinese are bad.  

Cold Wars, containment policies, encirclement, depriving China of its rightful seat in the UN, blocking China from joining international organizations like the WTO and the Groupings of rich nations, were history now. In the last 40 odd years, China came storming back on its own despite all the sanctions and barriers and threats against its rise as a nation and the Chinese people as a civilization, old, ancient, but not useless and remote of talents. 

Throughout the two hundred years of Western oppression and suppression, the Chinese civilization was not allowed to surface, no opportunity to break out and be the equals of other nations. The Chinese civilization was down and out, the Chinese in despair. Many Chinese had doubts in themselves, and were ashamed to be Chinese. The Westerners reinforced this belief by sneering at them, contributing negative literature furiously to debase the Chinese, discriminated against them in practically every human endeavour and industry. In the USA there were racist laws forbidding the Chinese from higher skill jobs. The image and perception of useless and untalented Chinese became a self fulfilling prophecy. The Chinese civilization was a joke, a condemned race that was lacking in industry and innovation.  

On its own, slowly and steadily the Chinese rebuilt their nation and their civilization, with little foreign talents and assistance, China has overtaken Japan and is closing in on the US as the number Two world power, economically and militarily. They have proven that they could match the West in every field of industry. The oppression and suppression of a civilization have failed, and a revitalized China has assumed its rightful place as a proud nation among nations. The Chinese civilization is no longer to be spitted at, to be kicked around by the Western powers or by teeny weeny little Asian states. It is now a force to be reckoned with and to be respected on its own merits.  

The tag of being the Sick Man of Asia, a semi colony of the West, a broken country with nothing, no inventions, no modern industries, no talents except poverty and all the trappings of a poor and backward third world country vanished over a few decades. There is renewed pride as a people, a nation and a civilization in the new China . A phoenix has risen from the ashes. There is no turning back. The Chinese have found their way back and will leap frog over the West in science and technology and in all things, while the West are still trying to restrain their advances by hook and by crook.  

Today, the overseas Chinese are also starting to rediscover themselves, their pride and dignity as a respectable people. They too find some renewed confidence that they are not rubbish and useless as the West wanted to hole them in, to be bullied by even little third world people, to be told to go home in western countries. They too share the pride of an ancient civilization seeking a second chance in renaissance, to achieve in whatever they seek to do, to be a respectable people and civilization on par with the best in the world. They no longer lower their heads in shame as they go about their lives. They are standing tall, heads and shoulders to the Western civilization with the knowledge that they are just as good if not better. The Chinese civilization is reviving and will no longer be oppressed and suppressed again.  

We can all benefit from a short history lesson of mankind and their actions on earth and the generations to come!  

The Chinese today have enjoyed a life far more better than their predecessors since the invasion and rule of the Manchus, through 100 years of humiliation by the West, the Japanese invasion and occupation, civil wars and the early days of the new republic. The first 40 years of reconstruction and rebuilding of China were tough and very difficult with the continued oppression, isolation and containment by the West. Today, the Chinese people are happy, rich and confident and very proud of being Chinese and their country China. They are very grateful to the Chinese Communist Party, CCP, for making all these possible and lives getting better and better by the day. 

And China is emerging as the most prosperous and powerful country in the world and this is unstoppable no matter what the declining American Empire and the West are trying to do to block this from happening. The oppression of the Chinese people cannot go on forever and would never be allowed to happen again. There is a new China and a new Chinese people that would stand tall and proud among the people of the world.

Every Chinese in China, guided and led by the CCP, is talking and living his Chinese Dream, to be rich and successful and respected. The Americans used to have their dreams but the dreams of many Americans today are turning into a nightmare.

When would Singapore change its political leaning?

 Singapore believes in joining the winning side. And this policy has done well for Singapore in the last 50 years, betting that the Americans would continue to rule the world. Who cares about American hegemony, American terrorism, viciousness, warmongering and even genocide in Ukraine and Gaza. Who cares about the Americans forming gangs and inciting and provoking wars, committing war crimes everywhere. What matters is to be on the winning side, on the side of the Americans is the safest thing to do. At least the Americans would not conduct a regime change no matter what the political system has morphed into.

Now the political fortune of the Americans is changing and waning. The world has seen the lies and treachery of the Americans and most stark in supporting and participating in the genocide of the Palestinians, not counting the tension the Americans are racheting up in the South China Sea. 

In the midst of American foolery, treachery and adventurism, on the flip side is the rise of China, Russia, Iran and North Korea and BRICS, American power in the world is shrinking daily. The Americans have not only lost spheres of influence in Asia, the Middle East, Latin America, Africa and South East Asia, they have also lost in all the wars they have started. Economic war, tech war, trade war, media war, propaganda war, whatever you name it, whatever the Americans started, none has succeed. The hot war in Ukraine is seeing defeat in the face and would fall flat very soon. 

In Palestine, the whole Arab and Muslim world has turned against the Americans. The whole Global South too is against the Americans. The evilness and savagery of the Americans cannot be covered up anymore. Blatant aggression and disregard to world morality and opinions, violation of human rights, war crimes, outright massacring of the Palestinians, are too much to stomach even to the most staunch and blind believers of the evil American Empire. The mask of evilness of the Americans has been torn to pieces.

The balance of power is tipping against the Americans. The Americans are no longer the winning side. If Singapore is to stick to its time tested policy of being on the winning side, this is the time to contemplate when it should change side. Unless Singapore is so inflexible and would die die want to stick to the side of the Americans and go against its policy of being on the winning side. Only time will tell and there is not much time left to choose side.

Many Asean states have already chosen sides, Of course Mickey Mouse is still choosing the Americans. The Arab and Muslim world has abandoned the Americans and joining BRICS in full force. Africa is totally out of bound for the Americans. So is Latin America. The only few bastions left for the Americans are the white men countries in Europe and American colonies in Japan and South Korea, and a few little crony states.

When would Singapore switch sides, to be on the right side of history? America is no longer the winning side. Its demise is written all over the wall.

Moreover, the choice for Singapore to make is much easier this time. It would not be just blindly joining the winning side, but on high morale grounds and principles. On one side is China, fully committed in trade and economic development, building infrastructure to benefit the world, fighting climate change with new technology, AI etc etc. On the other side is terrorist USA, fully committed in destabilising states and regions, fermenting wars, overthrowing democratically elected govts,  behaving like gangsters in issuing threats and sanctions, committing war crimes, genocides and crimes against humanity, spreading lies and rumours etc.

American propaganda machine - desperation and impotence creeping in

 The USA has run out of ideas to demonize China and is scraping the bottom of the barrel to find fault with China. It is a sign of desperation and impotence creeping in.

The USA and the West have run out of sanctions against Russia, after sanctioning even trees, musical performances, football owners and even creating fake news about Putin's health. Putin was only expected to last six months into the war in Ukraine. Two years on, he is still as astute, clear minded, highly strategic in his actions and easily outperforming even all the juvenile spoilt brats in Washington and Brussels.

The USA and the West are blowing off the dust on their playbook and recycling what they do best, creating malicious narratives and lies accusing China of spying on UK and Germany and making up stories about genocides in Xinjiang, while denying such openly apparent genocides in Gaza. The world must never ever forget their malicious lies about Iraq that killed millions of innocent women and children.

The accusation of spying by China has gone out of credibility, having no ability to garner any proof of national security threat by Huawei. The only threat I can think of is the USA not being able to use Huawei's 5G to continue in their spying activities. But that did not stop them from making a fool of themselves.

Now the list of spying and security threat by China has gone from Huawei to quayside cranes, solar panels, weather balloons, washing machines, toilet seats, onions, pigeons, electrical transformers, and consumer electronics. If not already done, the next narrative of spying will fall on EVs and probably Chinese made commercial jets when they start to compete globally.

TikTok is already going to be banned in the USA and the West for sure. But another Chinese app said to rival Telegram is on the rise. That will be demonized as well. The USA's playbook is 'give a dog a bad name and then skin it'.

Well, the USA and EU are not the only market that China is looking at now. There is a bigger world in Africa, South America and the whole Global South, a market that the USA and EU can choose to ignore at their own peril. And this is where overcapacity in China will win the game with cheaper products competing against expensive toys from the USA and EU.

The USA and the West are digging holes that they will fall into themselves. Juveniles are juveniles.

Anonymous

Iran, an old civilisation on the rise

 Objectively speaking, among all the Islamic countries of the world, Iran is possibly the most technologically advanced Islamic country in the world today.

That Iran was not allowed to have the nuclear bomb is all due to its nuclear treaty with the USA, otherwise Iran could not have been less capable of having the bomb far ahead of Pakistan, another major Islamic country.

Iran or Persia, is a very old civilization from about 4000 BC, and is as old as Chinese and Indian civilization. It is also rich in cultural heritage and boasts a well-organized military establishment, even in the very early days. The wars that it fought over the centuries probably held back its progress in early stages, but that it is capable of rising to greatness has not escaped the attention of the USA and the West. Hence the USA and the West preoccupation in attempting to keep Iran on a leash, held down as an Islamic State that can pose problems for the USA and the West.

If my memory of history is not clouded, having studied a little bit of history in the mid-fifties about the Persians and their wars against the Greeks and Romans, it certainly is a testament to its military prowess and a legacy it still holds today. Such preoccupation with Iran by the West probably favoured the rise of China in later years.

China was the least expected to rise to such heights and according to Political Scientist John Mearsheimer, China is now a 'peer competitor' that the USA had never faced before. China is a competitor in every category - military, economic and geopolitical influence, in fact all round competitor and is taking on the USA in technology as well.

Anonymous

Warmongering Americans and West busy daily in fictional and unproductive rhetoric

 Now the German Shepherds are raising the issue of spying by China in Germany. Did China spy on Olaf Scholz bathing in the nude, like what the world suspected USA did to Angela Merkel? China is not really interested in Germany as it is a dying economy like Japan, all thanks to the USA making them impotent. But more doggies will follow the cue. They bark when the USA tells them to. The signal now by the USA is - bark, bark, bark, as loudly as possible.

China is also not interested in spying on the USA Government either, as who wins in the USA Presidential election in November is a moot point. Foreign policies of both parties are the same, so what does China hope to benefit supporting a winner? In the USA, the President can change, but they still pass the same playbook down the line, and still sing from the same songbook. And the rest of their doggies will all sing the same chorus, whoever wins.

Did we see any change in trade relations with China comparing the policies of Trump and Biden? In fact, Biden is doing even more harm than good in relations with China. Now the USA has pressured Mexico not to allow BYD to build a factory in Mexico. Mexico has lost the marbles to decide on its own. But it is a blessing in disguise for BYD for not even having started its building of the factory, and its plans to invest billions, and losing all that in the end.

If Trump wins in November, further ammunition will be added in the trade war. Trump already promised he will make the USA even greater. Make USA even greater is his slogan. Honestly, the only greater things we can see is their spiraling deficit and money printing. It is going into the stratosphere. 

Anonymous