In 1900, after the defeat of the Manchu Qing Dynasty by the Eight-Nation Alliance, seven of the eight countries proposed partitioning China, which was strongly opposed by the United States, which advocated an “open door” to maintain Chinese sovereignty. The U.S. either refunded or used the Gengzi reparations paid by the Manchus to support Chinese students. The U.S. had no concessions in China, and set up universities, hospitals, and evangelized in China. The U.S. supported China’s resistance against Japan during World War II and later entered the war to turn the tide. After the establishment of the Chinese Communist Party, the U.S. sent troops to fight the U.S. in support of the North Korean invasion. But in 1972, the United States took the initiative to resume relations with the CCP, and with U.S. support, China joined the WTO in 2001. In the midst of globalization, China’s economic rise has been a triumph of state capitalism with no rules, and Trump said, “America has rebuilt China in the last 25 years. However, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has been brainwashing its people that “the U.S. empire will not die if it destroys us”.
Japan invaded China in the past, but after establishing diplomatic relations with the CCP, it began to provide massive economic aid to China in 1979, providing a total of about $32.5 billion in 40 years, including loans, non-reimbursable funds, and technical assistance. The Communist Party’s GDP has surpassed that of Japan, and Japan’s aid did not stop until 2018. In the meantime, the Chinese Communist Party has made no mention of Japan’s aid, and instead has been inciting its people to oppose Japan by making many anti-Japanese dramas to encourage Japanophobic nationalism.
China has been bullying and plundering the Soviet Union, which occupied more than a million square kilometers of land during the Manchu era. The Soviet Union forced the Chinese Communist Party to send troops to help the DPRK at the beginning of the Communist regime, with more than a million casualties and prisoners of war, and in 2005, China recognized the Russian occupation of more than a million square kilometers of land by signing a treaty with Russia. On July 2 of this year, the Russian Embassy in Beijing celebrated the 160th anniversary of the founding of Vladivostok (formerly Vladivostok, China) with a post on its official microblog, which mentioned that the Russian name means “rule of the East. The Chinese Communist Party did not say a word about it.
Next Thursday is Thanksgiving Day in the United States, which originated 400 years ago when the Mayflower brought a group of European Puritans to the American continent, where they learned to hunt and plant with the help of Native Americans to usher in the first harvest and to give thanks to God for the blessings they received.
Gratitude is an emotion arising from faith, a spiritual state. However, in traditional Chinese culture, there is no “feeling” for “grace” but only “reward”. The “feeling” is spiritual, and the “reward” is material. The emphasis of “repaying kindness with gratitude”, “repaying kindness with revenge”, “repaying virtue with virtue”, “repaying virtue with righteousness” is all about “knowing kindness”. “Repay”. To repay means: I will repay whoever gives me a benefit, which is a good person. This is a good man. However, there are also the wolves, who are always robbing and stealing from those who give them benefits, and even do evil things to them. But they are afraid of the wicked, and dare not fight back or even speak out.
There is a saying about Chinese human nature: If you have helped someone ten times, and they take it for granted, it means that you have no right to refute it. If you refuse again, you are a wicked person. If you show the bottom line from the beginning, if you help someone once in a while, you are an angel, you are an invincible good guy.
In April of this year, it was reported that Russia drove tens of thousands of Chinese away, but the Chinese government did not squeal or protest as loudly as the U.S. did against China’s closure. The Chinese writer Shen Yan said, “I suddenly like Russia,” because they know too well what kind of temperament the people from the south have, “So, there is never a good attitude, the whack, the punch, the punch, the drive, no mud. The more ruthless Russia’s attitude, the more people in the south flatter them as a fighting people. It’s so cute. I really like Russia.
She said she grew up remembering two fables: the farmer and the snake; and Mr. Dong Guo and the wolf. “The U.S. is like the farmer and Mr. Dungak, who are kind and should have hammered the snake and the wolf to death, but the Americans don’t. They do everything they can to keep them alive. The result? I don’t have to tell you the result, we all know what happened to the farmer and Mr. Dong Guo.”
As Chinese, why is it so hard to tolerate American kindness? For toleration breeds evil. Just as the more people love their country, the more despotic and terrible it becomes, the more toleration makes the snake or the wolf stronger and more vicious.
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