Dear all,
China is a growing power yearning for recognition. But is China also becoming the most potential threat to our democratic system since Nazi Germany or the Soviet Union?
China is one of the oldest surviving civilizations, counting with nearly 5,000 years of uninterrupted history and many historians nowadays agree that if the Ming dynasty hadn't decide to close China to the outside world in the 14th century, the European monopolies of world trade and world colonization would have been seriously compromised. Few europeans are aware that China was by then constructing the world's largest trade ships and was strong in science and (believe or not) in research and development, while most of medieval Europe was still living the so called Dark Ages.
After all, what we are all witnessing now is just the rise of an empire that has known its ups and downs throughout a millennia old history. Given this, is our western way of life being silently subjugated by this rising eastern superpower?
Well, despite of what all politicians continuously say the answer is a devastating "YES".
By the end of Mao's disastrous reign, China was bankrupted and was only worthy of notice because it had access to the atomic bomb and was steadily building the world's largest army, meaning that it was nothing more than an isolated military powerhouse yearning to have its say on the world stage based solely on the potential aggressiveness of its armed forces.
The western societies have thenceforth cemented their political and economical strategies based on the assumption that Eastern Europe, the Soviet Union and communist China would forever be closed to foreign investment and would not pose a threat to western growth and prosperity. Furthermore, and since South America was a barrel of political instability and Africa was little more than a continent filled with countries starving for foreign help, investors didn't have many other places to invest on. Everything was circumscribed to West Europe, North America, Japan and Oceania.
But then, the Soviet Union imploded, Eastern Europe opened itself to the world, Deng Xiaoping implemented the new socialist market economy and Brazil began to stabilize enough to become a new potential world power. Not only the rules of the game changed, the gaming board was also completely different and many times larger ... it was the outburst of globalization.
Two decades after, China became one of the world's wealthiest nations and it has been fast and steadily cannibalizing the west. Even more relevant is the fact that we, westerners, are willingly jumping into China's boiling cauldron and not being shoved in ... they open their borders and we rush in ... they show us the money and we sell everything ... they say "sit" and we obey. Most industrial production is permanently being moved to China, meaning Europe as well as America are consolidating year after year their role as being nothing more than China's assembly units.
Furthermore, China is using its money to literally convert poorer states to their way of doing business. I mean, why should an african nation follow the rules of an IMF or of a World Bank if China just arrives there, throws the money on the table and starts sucking the wealth out the country's womb, not giving a damn on what will that money be used for?
Chinese people have the right to become wealthier and to have their quality of life improved, but not on the expense of our own way of life and not by being responsible for throwing hundreds of thousands of western workers to the unemployment rows. A balance must be achieved so that we can all cooperate and work for our common good.
The big problem is that China, instead of being a country that wishes for a leading role on world affairs, wants to become a reemerged Middle Empire standing between its world vassals and the will of its Government. The disturbing truth is that within 20 years or so they will in fact achieve this goal, making us nothing more than lion feeders, scared to be eaten by the red lions but even more scared to be thrown out of the colosseum.
Now I will return to the mists, for this dragon is far too powerful for my modest capabilities.
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