Comments by "Winston Smith" (@kryts27) on "The West’s costly China misconceptions (2): Don’t criticize China, Chinese people or the CCP" video.

  1. The foolish statement that you are against China or the Chinese if you are against the CCP is ridiculous. It's as foolish and shallow a statement that Germans should be reviled because of the Nazi Party. An intelligent and well educated person can spot the difference.
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  2. Both Bushes' were naive about the CCP. Similarly with Nixon, Kissinger and Clinton. The CCP will be a dark age period in the long history of China. People don't understand the politics of the twentieth century. It's a history of the collapse of the traditional imperial or feudal regimes of Eurasia (in roughly the second to forth decade of the twentieth century), and replacement with authoritarian, ideological totalitarian dictatorship outside the Anglosphere and also some other countries in Western Europe who had undergone revolution a century before (France). This largely happened both in Europe and China (Fall of the Qing Dynasty 1912, Soviet Union 1917, Fascist Italy 1922, Showa Japan 1926, Nazi Germany 1933, Nationalist Spain 1939 and finally Communist China in 1949). Some rise of these dictatorships were preceeded by civil war, others were quicker and more bloodless. This resulted in a political and ideological divide in the form of government (democracy versus ideological dictatorships) which rapidly precipitated World War 2 (World War 2 started in China in 1931, in Europe in 1939). This ideological divide still continued in the Cold War after 1945. The fall of the Soviet Union in 1991 did not end the Cold War in the minds of the Communist CCP; it intensified and was codified doctrinally by works such as "Unrestricted Warfare" by Qiao Liang and Wang Xiangsui 1999 (two PLA colonels). Works like these were largely ignored by Western scholars in strategic defence, but perhaps the language and ideological barrier helped ignorance as well. Thus ideological divide provides a potent and ongoing economic and political division between the democratic West and Communist China, as it has done for a century, and will continue into the near future. The CCP understands this divide much better than the Americans and Wall Street investors, but I think the US government is now slowly, but finally catching on.
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