Dystopia in the East

Second of three parts

In their fear and weakness, the Communist Party is becoming desperate to rally their people in a national cause and gather everyday Chinese around the Communist Party banner. All schools, media, and popular culture have taught a brittle form of Pan-Sinoist Nationalism, pitting ethnically Han Chinese against non-Han minorities within the People’s Republic and the People’s Republic of China against all foreigners.

The anti-Japanese jingoism ubiquitous on Chinese television is breathtaking in its crudity and blatancy. The Communist Party is beating the war drums, with constant and lurid reminders of genuine Japanese atrocities from before Japan’s defeat in World War II. However, the raw emotionalism of this propaganda is designed to provoke nothing short of violent rage on a massive scale, which will need to be expressed at some future moment.

Everything that North Korea does is a direct result of ongoing Communist Party support. The Communist Party has publicly stated their intention to reunite Taiwan with mainland China before 2020, by reason or by force. Dubious claims by China over the islands and waters of both the East China Sea and the South China Sea threaten the free flow of maritime trade, as well as the territorial integrity of all nations bordering these seas. The possibility of sudden war along China’s Vietnamese border is a constant threat. Skirmishes have been occurring for generations along China’s Himalayan border regions with Pakistan, India, and Nepal. These skirmishes have recently intensified.

China was instrumental in North Korea’s nuclear program, which sparked both Pakistan’s and Iran’s nuclear programs. Communist Party support for Putin is key to his ongoing dictatorship in Russia, and is contingent on his continuing destabilization of Eastern Europe. Without Chinese support, the tyrannical regimes in Cuba and Venezuela would likely have already fallen.

The Communist Party’s “Confucius Institute” is but one organ for agitation and propaganda designed to infiltrate and destabilize free societies throughout the West. Chinese money and social media workers busily strive to undermine political parties and stymie civility between ideological opponents within Western nations. Those who work on the internet are already experiencing the effects of an undeclared war against Western governments, companies, and even individuals.

China’s “Belt and Road Initiative” is systematically putting strategically-placed nations around the world in debt-traps, whose only ready solution is to grant a series of 99-year leases for China to build a global network of Military Bases. This technique is as blatant and repressive as anything done in the heyday of the expansion of Britain and the other European Empires in the late 19th Century. In fact, much propaganda exists that celebrates these policies as righteous retribution for China’s “Century of Shame” from their defeat in the Opium Wars through the Communist Party victory in 1949.

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Ralph K. Ginorio teaches history at Coeur d’Alene Charter Academy. Part Three in the series will be published Thursday.