1/3: Communist China – Reading the Mind of Xi Jinping; 2/3: Han Fei – Who Taught Treachery; 3/3: China – An Emerging Danger to the World
Current World Domination:
Today our world is dominated by the United States of America – by its military power, economic strength, scientific achievements and cultural ethos. This model is based on a liberal society governed by democracy, whatever that democracy may mean (to different persons).
It presents a model of free society with a free economy – with all their deficiencies – and uses its status as the supreme power of a unipolar world to export this model to every nook and corner of the world. Our world is dominated by this US.
We also know this political giant resorts to both legitimate and illegitimate means at its disposal to promote those who follow its plans and destabilize and topple those governments that are against its model of political power.
Those who graduated from Adam Smith’s “Wealth of Nations” to Karl Marx’s “Das Capital” to Sri Aurobindo’s “Ideal of Human Unity” know it very well that this American model of democracy mandates the freedom and domination of all those who have money and the liberty to all those who want to earn this money. But … but this freedom of money and liberty to earn money comes with many strings of conditions attached to them. And, thenceforth it becomes a matter of many contending political ideologies, which is better to be avoided.
Chinese World Domination:
Despite all the demerits of the currently dominating capitalist model of this liberal democracy, it is million times better than the Chinese model of ‘People’s Democracy’ running on the Hanfeizi principles. China of today is striving with all its strength to replace this model by its own model, which foresees China as the supreme power of our world in place of America. It is confident in the truth of this saying of Han Fei, “No country is strong forever and no country is weak forever”. And, this China may come to dominate our world – it is not an impossibility.
Then, how would our world look? To have an idea of how that world would look, just replace Han Fei with Adam Smith as the governing guide of this America of today! One would shiver to think of that possibility. For a person who loves his or her freedom, it would be better to die than to live in a world infested all around with the Hanfeizi.
It would be a world with the news of daily toppling of governments; killing of persons who talk of freedom; hand-picking of henchmen who are ready and willing to follow Hanfeizi to replace those toppled government; and a ruthless world empire ruling the obedient subjects! This is the Chinese model of globalism, and possibly a world government! Beware, China is coming – it is an emerging danger for our world.
For Super Power Big Size is a Must:
Land, land or more land! After all, it is not for nothing that USA or Russia are regarded as the great powers of the world today. They have big size of their land. Of course, it is not the size of the land alone that matters – but big size of land is a must for an aspiring country.
China in order to achieve its goal of becoming the supreme power of the world is on the spree of grabbing as much land as possible from its neighbouring countries. It has a clear vision of its goals that must be achieved to shape the future of this world: it knows fully well it is the geographical size of a country that matters most for becoming a world power and this size – the territorial land – cannot be purchased at any price. It is a must for China if it desires to to be treated as the supreme power by the world.
It knows that this almost an impossible work can be done – if it ever can be done – only by the full play of the time-tested Hanfeizi principles. Let us see how these principles of Hafeizi were played out with foreign countries by China.
Nehru loved China:
The three armed principles – Propensity (of power to force its way); Tactics (to suit the available conditions); and Law (to give fake cover of morality to its acts taken according to propensity and tactics) – found in the guidebook of Han Fei have been smartly played by the Communist China since its founding in its dealings with foreign countries.
Nehru loved Chinese communist leaders, including Mao Zedong. On their request to send a medical team of doctors to help their PLA – by treating its wounded soldiers – in their fight against the Japanese (and thereafter against the army of their own national government of Kuomintang led by Chiang kai Shek), Nehru sent to China a team of doctors led by Dr Kotnis. Nehru loved the Chinese comrades with his heart and admired them. But for the Chinese communists it was a tactic only and not a reciprocal love for Nehru or India. Nehru continued to love them when they came to power in 1949.
Nehru facilitated China’s Entry to UNSC:
Jawaharlal Nehru the first Prime Minister of India had written books like ‘Glimpses of World History’ and ‘Discovery of India’ and was regarded a learned man. But he had neither heard the name of Han Fei nor had the knowledge that his great friend Mao Zedong was an admirer of that ancient strategist.
Around 1955 the issue of representing Asia in the Security Council of United Nations came before the big four nations – USA, USSR, UK and France – and US President Eisenhower suggested the name of India as a permanent member from Asia, as he was dead against Chinese communists.
Feelers were sent through Smt. Vijay Laxmi Pandit (Indian ambassador to US) to Nehru to this effect but Nehru refused the American urgings for a permanent seat for India in the UN security council. Letters between Nehru and Indian ambassador to the US make it quite clear that Nehru’s stand was, “India certainly was entitled to a permanent seat in security council of the United Nations, it would be dangerous for this to come at the cost of China.”
And, China was made a permanent member of the Security Council – at the cost of India. It was the victory of ‘Tactic’ of Han Fei aided by the foolishness of Nehru.
Tibet, the First Victim of China:
Nehru helped Chinese craft its “Panchsheel”, an internationally crowed principle of non-interference in each other’s internal affairs – and gladly signed the treaty, unmindful of the fact that it was a classical play of Hanfeizi ‘Tactic’.
For its work, China like an experienced savage hunter probes the strength of its intended prey. In this exercise, the weakest country comes first as the victim of its operation. Founded on Han Fei’s classical guide of treachery, China – as a deceptive measure – appears innocent in its intentions and proposes to the existing powers of the world to willingly enter itself into agreements with them and promises to them to abide by international law. But its intentions always remain to find an opportune time to break its solemn promises and create a new conditions as fate accompli to its advantage.
It uses all tricks in its bag to achieve its objective. It uses history as the ground to claim its right on a foreign land. In this way, to give a colour of moral justification to its designed move to grab Tibet, it first claimed that historically Tibet was always a part of China. China in almost all cases of its claim over foreign countries uses the argument of “Historical Past”. Is “Historical Past” a valid ground to claim sovereignty over a presently independent – sovereign – country? It is a false and illogical ground. How many years one can go back into the past to stake his claim? No yardstick! The fact is that everyday the present is turned into the past and the history is made everyday with new reality. If the history is allowed as a ground to stake such claims to grab the lands of independent countries, then, one can go back to one hundred or one thousand or even ten thousand years’ history and claim the whole world as his own. Then, for example, modern India may stake its claim on Afghanistan, Indonesia, Thailand, and even Iran and some parts of Central Asia!! Once these lands formed part of ancient India and ruled by Indian kings. History cannot be used as a ground to claim right over a foreign land. But China is adamant to use this spurious ground – and claimed its right over Tibet.
And, then, Tibet was invaded and annexed to its territory in 1959. It was the play of ‘Propensity’ of power by China. It gave the first shock to Nehru’s India – and Nehru unwillingly accepted the fate accompli. He kept quiet over the invasion of a neighbouring country by a belligerent China; and, simply did nothing except giving the refuge in India to its fleeing ruler Dalai Lama. Nehru granted this sheltering to Dalai Lama – the prey of China – to give it a colour of his love for suffering and persecuted persons and of following an ancient tradition of India to provide refuge to one was in danger of his life. For China, this incident was an excuse.
India, the Next Victim of China:
Nehru got the ‘shock of his life’ – and Nehru’s India the first taste of ‘Propensity’ of power – in 1962, when China invaded India in Indian Aksai Chin area. China coined a phrase, “Hindi Chini Bai Bhai, Ye Zameen Hamara Hai, Tum Isko Chhod do” (India and China are brothers, this land is our, you leave this land). It was China who said, “Hindi Chini Bhai Bhai” and India never said it. It was the naked play of ‘Propensity’ of power; it was clothed with fake morality of ‘Law’ and both these goals to the advantage to China were accomplished by the play of ‘Tactics’ – first by entering into UNSC with courtesy of India, concluding ‘Pachsheel’ and annexing Tibet and then attacking India. China got more than one million of square kilometers of Indian land and annexed it as its own territory.
Vietnam and many more invaded:
In pursuit of its objective to grab more and more land from foreign countries, China even did not spare its supposedly communist friend country – Vietnam. Vietnam was invaded with its full force of PLA but was defeated by the veteran fighters of Vietnam – a small country. Since that time, China covets for its land but does not dare to touch it.
Likewise there were border skirmishes with Cambodia, claims against the lands belonging to Russia, Mongolia, Brunei and the Philippines. In its dispute against the Philippines, China has refused to honour the award of international arbitration forum that has gone against it in its dispute with the Philippines.
It makes a claim against the Japanese islands, stakes its claim on the now independent country of Taiwan, which was established by Chiang Kai Shek – just like mainland China was established by Mao Zedong.
Another example of following this Han Fei’s principle by Xi is breaking the solemn promise – a treaty signed by China and vouched with its national honor – made to Britain on acquisition of the British colony of Hong Kong. It passed a security law applicable to Hong Kong violating its solemn promise guaranteeing its democratic status till 2050.
South China Sea Islands:
Now this China has staked the claim of its sovereign rights over the entire South China Sea. To bolster this claim, it has artificially created many small islands and fortified them with military facilities. True to its Hanfeizi ‘Propensity’ of power, today China is daring the entire world to challenge its PLA power.
Design against Pakistan:
By entrapping Pakistan with enormous debt under its enticing and much touted “One Belt, One Road” project and playing upon the Pakistan’s fear of India, China is relentlessly pursuing its territorial design to grab Pakistani land in lieu of the repayment of its due debts.
It has staked its land claim to Bhutan’s natural sanctuary, India’s area in Ladakh and Arunachal Pradesh. It is relentlessly pursuing its objective of becoming a super power of the world by resorting to many devices, including stealing the US technologies and using the same against that very country to replace itself in that stead. It is resorting to experimenting in biological warfare against the united might of the world as well as space technology.
It all does not bode well for this world. At its least, this country may dominate this world with its inhuman Hanfeizi values, and at the worst, it may push our world to a cataclysmic world war 3!