The Threat of China

There are plenty of reasons to be angry at China, or more specifically, the communist dictatorship that rules it. COVID-19 is just the latest threat that has originated from the Middle Kingdom, and its dictatorial regime bears direct responsibility for it. They knew about the outbreak months before it made world headlines. Furthermore, they hoarded personal protective equipment (PPE), and when the pandemic started showing up in the rest of the world, the Chinese government began selling that PPE at inflated prices. Such actions are very becoming of one of the world’s most evil regimes.

 

When people talk about threats to freedom and democracy, they usually refer to the regimes of countries like Iran and North Korea. But I would contend that China’s communist dictatorship is a much greater threat to the free world. In fact, China’s foreign policy is one of the reasons that rogue regimes like those of Iran and North Korea still exist. Indeed, without their alliance with China, North Korea’s totalitarian regime would likely have ceased to exist shortly after the fall of the Soviet Union. As for Iran, China’s ties with the Islamic Republic have been growing steadily over the years. China has been Iran’s biggest trading partner since the early 2000s, and has been instrumental in building up the Islamic Republic’s infrastructure, including its nuclear facilities. It’s not unusual for dictators to be chummy with each other, which is why a new eastern bloc composed of the dictatorships of China, Iran, and Russia has been gradually emerging since the turn of the century.

 

Meanwhile, China has been expanding its military at a rapid pace. The country’s communist regime’s ultimate objective is to match the military strength of the United States, or even surpass it by mid-century, and they’re well on their way to doing that. They are modernizing their forces, expanding their navy, building aircraft carriers, and bolstering their missile capabilities. Most recently, China has been expanding its presence in the South China Sea, which it claims in its entirety. The Chinese military has set about building a number of military bases on the small islands located therein. China has also been increasing harassment towards the activities of other countries in the South China Sea, such as Vietnam, Malaysia, and the Philippines. But China’s communist dictatorship is not content with expanding its military power in its own region. It wants China’s military power to expand worldwide, which is why it recently built a base in the small African state of Djibouti. It may be China’s first overseas base, but it definitely won’t be the last.

 

Then, there is China’s Belt and Road Initiative, designed to expand China’s economic influence around the world. In a nutshell, the initiative involves heavily investing in countries and markets all over the globe, particularly in developing countries, to create a modern Silk Route of trade corridors connecting to the People’s Republic. By doing this, China hopes to eventually turn its economic power into political power so that it will have sway over a growing number of countries, especially in Africa, where the communist regime is heavily involved in building the infrastructure of the continent, replacing aid from the West. Indeed, a new cold war is taking shape as China and the West jockey for influence among less powerful countries. The more China’s influence among these countries grows, the fewer allies the West may have in any future military conflict with the communist dictatorship as it forges itself into a new evil empire.

 

If you want a glimpse of what China’s regime has in store for the rest of the world, look no further than within China itself, where there is no free speech, little religious freedom, and almost zero protection for the country’s minority populations. In fact, China’s rulers have set about destroying the country’s minority cultures. They have relentlessly persecuted the Tibetan people for decades, trying to rid them of their religion and culture. They have put an untold number of Uighur Muslims in internment camps in an attempt to brainwash them so that they no longer maintain their language and religion. In general, China’s dictators have sought to impose the culture and language of the Han Chinese majority on the country’s entire population.

 

The free world must prepare itself for an eventual military conflict with China’s communist dictatorship with the ultimate goal of destroying it and giving the people of the Middle Kingdom their freedom. But what would a free China look like? First of all, it would probably be smaller, because after the dictators are removed, the regions of Xinjiang, Tibet, Inner Mongolia, and Manchuria, now under Chinese occupation, would be given their freedom. China would have a new constitution that guarantees the rights and freedoms of all of its citizens, and eliminates the use of armed conflict in order to resolve disputes, similar to stipulations put in Japan’s post-World War Two constitution. The dictators themselves will be put on trial for the crimes they have committed against their own people and the people abroad who have suffered as a result of their actions, just as the leaders of Nazi Germany were. All of this may sound like wishful thinking for now, but such an outcome is possible, if the leaders of the free world act in unison to oppose the ambitions of one of the world’s most evil regimes.