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China’s pride in the face of a perfect storm

 


China’s pride in the face of a perfect storm

New Delhi, July 12 (IANS) A perfect storm seems to be gathering around China, stirred by growing internal dissent, unstable external relations amid global outcry for a thorough investigation into Beijing’s possible role in the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic.

With us, there are worrying signs that Beijing is now violently repressing intellectual dissent. This, in turn, evokes dim memories of the time of Mao Zedong’s cultural revolution in the 60s and 70s. During this infamous period, millions of people, including China’s intellectual and cultural elite , joined together and sent for a “reeducation” in the countryside, in order to acquire “revolutionary” values ​​corresponding to the dreams of the president of a socialist paradise. An unknown number perish in the gulags intended to “downgrade” the spirits and to harmonize them with a common social denominator of the countryside.

Some aspects of the horror of the cultural revolution are now spreading in Xi Jinping’s China of the “new era”, as the leadership of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) intensifies intellectuals and stalking dissidents in the post-era. coveted from 19.

Xu Zhangrun, a law professor at Tsinghua University, was arrested by police on Monday at his home in a suburb of Beijing.

Xu had previously been under house arrest for publishing an essay, which criticized Xi for organizing the reign of one man. The Chinese academic had diagnosed that the concentration of power in a single individual was the underlying cause of the uncontrolled coronavirus cascade. In May, the outspoken criticized the Chinese leadership for “reversing towards the totalitarian regime of Mao Zedong”. “It is high time that China remedies the wrongs and returns to the path of the pursuit of a modern constitutional democracy and a people’s republic,” he said.

President Xi’s crackdown in recent months following the new coronavirus epidemic in the central city of Wuhan, China is now on an upward spiral.

The Los Angeles Times reports that in February, the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences dismissed Zhou Peiyi, a guest speaker from Hong Kong, following his critical response on social media regarding China’s handling of the COVID pandemic- 19. Last week, the University of Hubei sacked Professor Liang Yanping for posting an “incorrect speech” on social media linked to Japan and Hong Kong.

Liang had initially drawn controversy for relaying views on the Wuhan coronavirus epidemic, which dismissed Beijing’s official story of the pandemic. The Chinese scholar had quarreled with the authorities for supporting the novelist Wuhan Fang Fang.

Fang Fang’s “lockdown log” on the coronavirus is widely recognized as a true portrayal of the suffering of people in the city.

In the midst of an overseas choir demanding an investigation and accountability regarding the origin and spread of COVID-19, and the subtext that Beijing may have something to hide, China has become ballistic in its reply. The Chinese envoys abroad adopted the “wolf warrior” diplomacy with revenge. This includes the threat from host countries, as well as the adoption of aggressive social media posts in an effort to stifle opposing views that appear to damage China’s international reputation.

More worryingly, China is literally on the road to war, adopting a military posture deployed forward in the South China Sea and in Ladakh, facing India. In Ladakh, Chinese troops have moved en masse, as well as heavy weapons to disrupt a strategic route from the Indian border which connects Leh, the capital of Ladakh to the legendary Karakoram Pass, the gateway to the region from Xinjiang. Unless repelled by a combination of force projection, dialogue and diplomacy, Chinese troops can pass through the gates of India’s claimed Aksai Chin territory connecting Tibet and Xinjiang – and seriously threaten the lines. of defense in Kashmir.

In the South China Sea, the Chinese coast guard sank a Vietnamese fishing vessel on April 3, sparking anger from Hanoi and the rest of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) ).

China’s arrogant and authoritarian behavior, however, evoked a powerful military response. In Ladakh, India resisted China’s military rise and made it clear that it would not be the first to blink.

In order to dissuade China from militarily abandoning its claims in the South China Sea, the United States has sent two aircraft carriers – the USS Ronald Reagan and the USS Nimitz – and their armed naval forces to the teeth . .

These carriers have already shown their intention to use force, if necessary, to repel Chinese advances in the key strategic areas of this area. The Bashi Canal is of paramount importance. Located in the Strait of Luzon, separating the Philippines from Taiwan, the seabed of the Bashi Canal hosts a network of Internet cables, forming a large communication center in Asia. In a clear message to Beijing, the two American carriers had trained in the Philippine Sea, before entering the South China Sea, after crossing the Luzon Strait, which embarked on the Bashi Canal.

The proximity of the exercise near Taiwan is also important, signaling to China that Washington will stand alongside the island during this period of adversity. China intends to “unite” Taiwan, even using force if necessary, with the mainland, as part of the one-China policy. But the integration of Taiwan with the mainland also serves an extremely important strategic objective. Once China has a grip on the Taiwan Strait, it can “hide” its nuclear submarines in its deep waters, escaping into the wider Western Pacific, undetected by US surveillance. Sea has put on another undeclared red line dissuading China from taking over the Philippines-claimed Scarborough shoal, which has signed a long-standing defense treaty with Washington, which will come to life in case Manila is attacked.

Diplomatically, the Chinese have also started to feel the heat. The ruling Liberal Democrat Party in Japan on Tuesday passed a resolution to cancel Chinese President Xi Jinping’s state visit to Japan in light of last week’s passage of controversial security law by Beijing national for Hong Kong. Suddenly, the cold returned to Sino-Japanese relations, which had previously warmed up after President Xi’s visits to Tokyo and Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s visits to Beijing.

In silence, with India holding strong in Ladakh and taking the lead, the front line was activated in the Indo-Pacific, which has already taken its call to not comply with the dictates of the Middle Empire, determined to build, along its periphery, an impossible and anachronistic network of tributary states of the 21st century.

–IANS

Atul Aneja / sdr /


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