Liu Yuguang, a scholar of Buddhism on the other side of the border in mainland China, said on April 1 that the Chinese Communist Party is actively developing the concept of a “new Buddhist homeland” and linking it to nationalism for internal propaganda. The Chinese Communist Party knows that the Confucius Institute is a failed tool for foreign propaganda because it is “ultimately a Chinese thing” and has therefore chosen Buddhism as a tool to expand its influence externally because its followers are transnational and can complement the lack of transnationalism of the Confucius Institute.
As we all know, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has cracked down on traditional Chinese religious beliefs and destroyed minority groups and traditional culture. The CCP regards religion as an issue of subversion, secession and terrorism for national security.
In an interview, Dr. Zeng Chien-yuan, Ph.D. in law from the National Development Institute of National Taiwan University and adjunct associate professor in the Department of Guest Languages and Social Sciences at Central University, said that the CCP treats religious beliefs and destroys minority cultures cruelly, holds up “atheism and materialism” and uses material benefits to deny the importance of spiritual civilization. This kind of “Buddhist diplomacy” with communist characteristics has no connotation, and the CCP’s way of making friends with other countries is the biggest insult and joke to a country that has a thousand-year-old religious faith.
Zeng Jianyuan said that the CCP’s “united front” work as a class revolutionary magic weapon, not through violent means, but public relations management, so that the public accept the Communist ideology, the united front work in the formation of allies against the class enemy. The CCP’s “United Front” is “public relations” in domestic civil society, and “public diplomacy” in international diplomacy, which generally seeks like-mindedness, shared values, reciprocity and reciprocity in national public relations, without much politics. However, the failure of the CCP to “make friends” with others lies in the fact that it harbors a “united war” agenda and is therefore resented by countries in general.
The Communist Party has been in China for nearly 100 years, and the world has come to understand that the Communist Party’s rhetoric is full of lofty ideals, but its actual political practice is full of flaws, and its centralized leadership has created an authoritarian, anti-democratic party-state system. The most important “trust” between countries cannot be built.
Using Buddha as a tool is a desecration of faith
Zeng Jianyuan said, no matter how the Chinese Communist Party changes and wraps the “united war” veneer, its heart is obvious to everyone. The “Buddhist diplomacy” will definitely end badly. The Chinese Communist Party’s “Buddhist diplomacy” is not a sincere attempt to promote the recovery of the country’s spiritual civilization, and it is far from the pursuit of the ultimate state of religious integrity, which no one will believe.
“The Chinese Communist Party’s treatment of religious beliefs in its territory is in the eyes of the international community,” Zeng Jianyuan said, the Communist Party since the theft of power since the “Cultural Revolution” smashed Buddha statues and burned antiquities, forcing monks and nuns to return to secularism, and continued religious persecution to date, and even take Buddhist monasteries to collect tickets for tourism to enrich themselves. Tibetan Buddhist monasteries have set up public security bureaus, communist branches of temples, and Communist Party appointees as abbots and masters, and there are numerous incidents of persecution of religion by the Communist Party. How can the Chinese Communist Party use what it does not believe in itself to share and exchange with others to make friends?” Zeng Jianyuan said that the CCP’s use of “atheism and materialism” to combat religious beliefs and the use of Confucius and Buddha as political tools is a desecration of the world of faith and a pollution of the academic hall.
Chinese Communist Party’s “Buddhist Diplomacy” to Infiltrate Southeast Asia
Chinese scholar Liu Yuguang pointed out at a symposium on the 1st that the “Nanhai Buddhist College” on Hainan Island, for example, is a religious education institution opened by the Chinese Communist Party, not to cultivate domestic religious talents, but to absorb monks from Cambodia, Laos and other Southeast Asian countries, so as to cultivate religious relations with Southeast Asian countries, and to use the influence of religion on politics in Southeast Asian countries. religion’s influence on politics to lobby and promote bilateral relations.
In this regard, Zeng Jianyuan pointed out that the CCP’s “Buddhist diplomacy” is related to the CCP’s layout of the South China Sea, the Belt and Road, and its attempt to carry out the United Front. The Chinese Communist Party creates public opinion and influences the public. In particular, Buddhism is an important faith for the Chinese, and the Chinese population and Chinese media in Southeast Asia are numerous, and driven by interests to become a major foreign propaganda of the CCP, the CCP is trying to whitewash the perception of Buddhists in various countries about China through interpersonal and Buddhist cause donations.
The destruction of universal values by the CCP is a catastrophe for human civilization
The CCP’s persecution of religious beliefs, traditional culture, and ethnic minorities is internationally known. In the past, the CCP did not want international public criticism of its human rights and faith persecution, so it turned to an under-the-table exchange of benefits to silence countries urging China to improve human rights. Zeng said, “Now that the international situation has changed, it is impossible for the world’s major countries to ignore and condone the CCP’s human rights misdeeds.” Zeng believes that the new cold war between the liberal-democratic and totalitarian camps in the world today, as well as the restructuring of the global industrial supply chain, is the most effective way to curb the expansion of communist forces into the world, and can significantly reduce the collusion and dependence of political and business relations between “old friends of China” in various countries.
“The issue of human rights has become a new diplomatic battlefield,” he said, Lithuania, Jack, Palau are willing to jump out, many countries are brave to counter the Chinese Communist Party’s united war, there is no gray area of universal values, human rights has been a topic that can not be avoided, human beings should remember the lessons of history, the Chinese Communist buyout may have some effect, but the marginal effect has been diminishing, I believe the future It is not so pessimistic.
Therefore, the real core purpose of the global siege of the CCP is not because the CCP challenges the hegemony of the United States or the expansion of its economic influence, but to prevent the CCP from destroying the universal values. “To prevent the CCP from destroying universal values is the most important reason for the global siege of the CCP”.
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