The Chinese government is world's largest despotic dictatorship, literarily. With the World's largest population and third-largest geographical nation-state size, the People's Republic of China is also the world's largest communist nation, at least at home. China is not a nation that respect the dignity of "the man".
America, and the Western world have been entranced by China's rapid growth in the last four decades or so after Mr. Nixon's visit to Beijing. China's GDP has surged in 4 decades from a pittance to the globe's number 2 slot just behind sliding USA.
Almost a century ago, in the mid 1930s, another once downtrodden despotic nation had become the envy of the globe and was on the brink of hegemonies expansion, albeit with an olive branch. True, China is not Germany; but Chinese values of condoning dictators (like themselves) and enabling genocide (In Sudan and Tibet) is not different from the German's in the 1930s.
Soon, te world will have to decide, how much is the "dignity of the man" worth, or not worth?
The Chinese have come out, expectedly, siding with the autocrats of North Africa and the Middle East, including the Butcher of Tripoli. Chinas grows stronger; but so did Germany...
I don't agree with you, China and German are totally different two countries, you can check Chinese history, they never waged any war or been aggressive to other countries. Dignity comes from strength, everyone has dignity, so does Chinese.
ReplyDeleteUnless it is in self defense, right....?
ReplyDeleteRight, self defense. Remember it's Confucianism impact the whole society, that is be modest, be kind. But seems that always been that way doesn't work, so self defense is necessary.
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