(iii) The Chinese Communist Party should not be treated differently from the Soviet Communist Party
The former Soviet Union and Communist China are the two largest communist countries. In the late Cold War, both Deng Xiaoping, the top leader of the Communist Party of China, and Mikhail Gorbachev, the general secretary of the Soviet Union, initiated reforms in their respective countries. Although Deng also proposed to liberate the mind after his comeback, he soon issued a ban on the so-called “four basic principles,” the core of which was that the leadership of the Communist Party must be upheld and not denied or opposed by anyone, blocking access to political reform and limiting it strictly to the economic sphere. Deng’s reforms gave birth to a communist monstrosity with Chinese characteristics, i.e., to lead the people to be money-oriented, rich, and happy at the same Time, under the premise of slaughtering civilians to ensure a totalitarian communist system.
Gorbachev’s reforms, though starting a little later, came later and greatly surpassed the CCP in magnitude. Gorbachev’s new thinking was truly emancipatory, and his openness (Гласность) included freedom of expression, lifting press and publication censorship, redressing historical grievances, releasing political prisoners, and even abolishing the constitutionally mandated leadership of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Gorbachev’s economic reforms (Перестройка) were also bold. Such as abolishing state directive plans, making enterprises self-financing, allowing private economy, opening up foreign investment, and even allowing foreign capital to take more than half of the shares to gain control of enterprises. This last point has not been achieved by the CCP until today. Gorbachev himself was awarded the 1990 Nobel Peace Prize for his reform initiatives.
But the U.S. attitude and strategy toward the two communist states was very different, with double standards.
The lack of U.S. interest in economic assistance to Soviet Russia is not surprising. As an old enemy of the United States in the Cold War, Soviet Communism was not only ideologically hostile to the free world, but also posed a real threat to the security of the United States and its Anti-Communist allies in Western Europe in terms of military power. There was a long-standing consensus in the U.S. public and private sectors to check and confront this communist superpower, which Reagan called the “evil empire. So despite the gradual de-communization of the Soviet Union under Mikhail Gorbachev, for historical reasons, the United States has never trusted Russia and does not dare to lower its guard.
However, America’s almost incomprehensible appeasement of and assistance to the Communist tyranny proved that the U.S. policymakers had an overly superficial understanding of the nature of communism.
During the Cold War, the U.S. faced a Soviet Union that was a militarily powerful, economically anemic monster. If the Soviet Union was on par with the United States in military power and equipment (and at one time ahead of the United States in space technology), it was no match for the capitalist United States in the development of its national economy. The rigid system of public ownership and planned economy left the Soviet Union in a state of chronic deprivation and shortage of Food and clothing. In addition to militarism and the persecution of human rights, poverty and backwardness were the general impression of the Soviet version of communism on the American public.
After the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Communist model of communism with Chinese characteristics made its appearance. In order to perpetuate its illegal rule, the CCP was forced to introduce so-called reform and opening in the economic sphere, abandoning many orthodox Soviet fundamentalist elements and dogmas and giving the green light to private ownership of the economy. In the countryside, land was divided into households, self-employment was approved in the city, private entrepreneurship was encouraged, and special economic zones were developed to attract investment, processing of incoming materials, and export earnings. In order to join the WTO, the CCP approved the privatization of some state-owned enterprises. As a result, Chinese people became rich, rich and glorious, and even produced rich people, and widespread poverty and backwardness of the whole population was no longer a necessary sign of a communist country. Deng Xiaoping, who was twice deposed by Mao Zedong, really became a “capitalist in power” after his comeback, creating the kind of economic growth usually found in capitalist countries. No wonder the Americans exclaimed that China is still a communist country? No wonder the American policy makers are under the illusion that “they will become us”. And this is exactly where America’s shallowness lies.
The Soviet Communist Party was the main antagonist of the U.S. during the Cold War, and the U.S. learned about communism mainly through the Soviet Union. If one looks at and interprets the “features” of the Chinese Communist Party along the lines of the Soviet Union’s orthodox and rigid model of communism, the latter has indeed deviated from the norm by introducing capitalism, at least in part, in the economic sphere, and it seems to have worked. Self-righteous Americans categorized Deng Xiaoping, known for his “cat theory,” as a pragmatist, intentionally or unintentionally ignoring his nature as a communist dictator. The Americans also let their guard down with Deng Xiaoping’s treacherous tactics of hiding his light and smiling diplomacy. The sophisticated Deng Xiaoping knew that the Communist Party did not yet have the strength to call the United States’ bluff, so he warned the Communist Party members to hide and keep a low profile, to take advantage of the United States’ ignorance to develop the economy, and to build up strength to replace them later. The gentle image of Deng himself wearing a cowboy hat during his visit to the United States was also more palatable to the Americans than the arrogance of Khrushchev when he took off his shoes and hit the table at the United Nations General Assembly.
But these are all illusions. What exactly is the basic characteristic of communism? Is it poverty? No. Poverty is only one of the results of communist totalitarian rule. Is it the economic model? Neither is it. The Communist Party does not care to change the ownership system to some extent, using capitalist factors such as the market economy, so much so that today Communist China has more rich tycoons than even the United States. Is it some Marxist-Leninist dogma? Not necessarily. The so-called reform and opening up is essentially the bankruptcy of the public economy and the bowing and begging to the advanced Western civilization, which is tantamount to a disguised admission of the absurdity and failure of the Marxist-Leninist communist heresy. The original intention of the Communist Party was to bury capitalism, and now the Communist Party is the biggest capitalist. The workers and peasants of the Maoist era have long since fallen to the bottom of society. Some years ago, Maoist university students followed the example of their Communist predecessors and staged a labor movement in Shenzhen, which was suppressed by the Communist Party, and the inconsistency and self-denial of their ideology can be seen.
In fact, the essence of communism is anti-humanity, that is, the slavery and animalization of human beings, that is, the degradation of human beings into non-human beings. This is true in all communist countries, only to different degrees.
The anti-human nature of communism is manifested in its enmity to the universal values of human civilization, both ancient and modern. From its emergence to the present, the Chinese Communist Party has always acted against the tide of civilizational evolution, playing the role of the devil. The CCP regards party nature as higher than human nature, redefines right and wrong and good and evil by the standards of the evil party, and transforms the nation with the evil and ugly gangster Culture of the Communist Party. The CCP also does not recognize the various rights inherent in the people listed in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The CCP has so far refused to ratify the international conventions on civil and political rights. The CCP puts forward the so-called five no’s and seven no’s, claiming that universal values are an evil path and refusing to change its flag. What the Chinese Communist tyranny fears is the loss of their illegally acquired power, because with power, they can guarantee their privileged communist Life of taking whatever they want for generations; with power, they can guarantee their freedom to enslave people as they please without being liquidated; with power, they can realize their ambition of globalization. Only with power can they realize their ambition of globalization, and only with globalization can they achieve ultimate security.
By the standards of universal civilization, the CCP’s rule is completely illegitimate. Almost all of the CCP leaders at all levels are suspected of felonies against humanity. The CCP has survived to this day by lies and violence. No matter how much the Communists reform, they will not return the government to the people, return power to the people, and abandon the rule of state terrorism; no matter how much the Communists open up, they will not open up freedom of speech, press, information, and religion. Violence and lies are the hallmarks of the communist state and its eternal means of rule. As long as the Communists are in power, the actual status of the Chinese people is the same as political, spiritual, economic and cultural slaves of the Communist tyranny, and they can only be slaughtered by the Communists like pigs and sheep, except that the Chinese people in the Mao era were even less well-fed than pigs and sheep, while the Chinese people after Deng only know how to eat and drink like pigs and sheep.
After the fall of the Soviet Communist Party, the complacent U.S. never took the CCP into account, not realizing that the Cold War had not really ended, because the Soviet Communist Party’s counterpart, the Chinese Communist tyranny, still existed and was quietly growing under the nourishment of U.S. and Western appeasement. The CCP has creatively surpassed the Soviet godfather by infusing communism with the evil characteristics of the CCP, processing and transforming it, disguising and mutating it, politically rigidizing it, loosening its economic ties, using the so-called economic “miracle” to dilute the bloodshed of its communist totalitarianism and disguise its anti-human nature, and even succeeding in creating a certain rationality and superiority for the tyranny. This superficially glamorous, but in fact highly poisonous, variant of the Communist totalitarian model introduced by the CCP is so deceptive and harmful that it is a substantial violation of the United States and the free world, dwarfing the evil empire of the Soviet Union during the Cold War!
For years, the Chinese Communist Party has been trying to use the so-called economic miracle to whitewash the sins of its criminal group against humanity, and to erode the Western values of freedom, democracy, rule of law, and civil society with the immoral, conscienceless, and bottomless Communist Chinese development model. Once the West acquiesced to the heresy that communist development is the hard truth, the dictatorial rule of the illegal Chinese Communist regime gained legitimacy. Communism, which has always been regarded as horrible and evil by the free world, became gentle and legitimate in the CCP. Communist China under totalitarian tyranny is then accepted as a normal country by the international community. This is why even such a shocking crime as the live harvesting of organs from prisoners of conscience for profit is drowned out in the clamor of, for example, the world’s second largest economy and the pouting of great powers. This is why people seem to forget that a set of well-dressed communist high officials on the international stage are in fact blood-soaked animals. The West thwarted the Soviet Union’s fundamentalist communism, only to be disoriented and lost in the face of the CCP’s variant communist attacks.
However, communism, no matter what version, is evil. No version of communism, no matter what it is, will change the basic characteristics of lies plus violence. Not only does the so-called economic miracle of the CCP not offset its evil against humanity. On the contrary, countless new Crimes Against Humanity are being committed in the midst of the “smothering of wealth”. The more Communist China develops, the farther it is from mainstream civilization; the more Communist China develops, the greater the danger to the world. In fact, the fact that the tyranny of the Communist Party is tolerated to this day shows that the Communist Party has eroded the values, rules of civilization and way of life of the free world in accordance with the evil intentions of the Communist Party. The CCP has turned right and wrong in normal society upside down, and the free world has been partially assimilated by the CCP – and it was only when Trump rose to the helm of the White House, vowing to return America to greatness, and seeing the CCP as a more serious threat than the Soviet Union, that the situation began to reverse.
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