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The Pandemic Will Make U.S.-China Relations Much Worse
Editor-in-Chief, SupChina.com
Senior Fellow, Hudson Institute
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May 14th, 2020
The power of words is incredible. And using the right words is essential when talking about US-China relations. We are in a battle against the Chinese Communist Party, not China. To be fair, I know Jeremy knows this and is not against the Chinese people, and there are times when it’s simple to say China. But to me, it is essential that all understand there are two Chinas: The People and the Party. When speaking of issues like policy, propaganda, and the pandemic, it is the Party we blame.
While I wholeheartedly agree with Jeremy’s assessment of the CCP’s lack of transparency, their moral, ethical and business violations, and their propaganda, I disagree that the “one-note blame-China chorus” of the Trump administration is having a swaying effect on the CCP. Our president and our political temperature are one bullet point in the epic-sized tome of CCP strategy.
The strategy is years, if not decades, in the making. It began after Tiananmen and will continue long after whoever wins in 2020.
The bottom line is the CCP regards our democracy, our Bill of Rights and our freedoms in the Constitution as a threat to their rule.
Document Number Nine describes this best when it states, “Promoting Western Constitutional Democracy: [Is] An attempt to undermine the current leadership and the socialism with Chinese characteristics system of governance.”
Thus, it is not sufficient for the CCP to subjugate the Chinese people. It must also actively undermine constitutional democracy abroad, and prevent it infecting the Chinese people’s thoughts.
The CCP goes on to say the Chinese people must be inoculated against this thought-virus. “Party members and governments of all levels must . . . make work in the ideological sphere a high priority in your daily agenda, routinely analyze and study new developments in the ideological sphere, react swiftly and effectively, and preemptively resolve all problems in the ideological sphere.”
Other documents of relevance include: The CCP Constitution; The Tiananmen Papers; and The Xinjiang Papers.
These documents allow glimpses of Chinese Communist Party intent. Scholars are left to surmise the true intentions and nature of the CCP from various interviews and anecdotes that have been leaked or discovered. The failure to tell the true story of the CCP and the Chinese people has enabled the CCP to capture and control the narrative. Those allowed to “tell China’s story well” from outside the Great Firewall, and who weigh the reward of a Mainland visa over telling the truth of the CCP are complicit as well. The better we understand the nature of the regime, the safer all democracies will be.
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