The Lie That Built Communist China
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So if you go back a couple of decades, We were told this comforting fairy tale about China. We were told that if we welcomed China into the global economy, and if we invested in their factories and handed them our technology and opened our university and gave them capital and access to our intellectual property, and if they, you know, integrated into that rules-based international order, that China would eventually become more like us. It would become more democratic, more free. It would follow the Soviet path. It would open up economically, and then it would open up politically. Some people were calling this approach constructive engagement. Others were calling it democratic peace. Again, the idea was sort of that if a McDonald's was in a country, then it would turn somehow non-authoritarian, that prosperity would bring moderation, and that wealth would eventually bring about peace.
Well, not so much, not so much. The reality is the Chinese Communist Party never accepted the idea of American hegemony. They viewed America as an enemy. In fact, they viewed and view American might as a symbol of Chinese surrender and a form of national embarrassment. America creating what the economic historian Neil Ferguson has called Chimerica, It was not actually welcomed by China in the name of peace or democracy or liberalism. It was an opportunity that China could exploit. China used its increased wealth to build the most sophisticated surveillance state in human history, expand military power, terrorize their own population, ingest populations like Hong Kong, and unleash a novel coronavirus that shut down the world and killed several million people.
As we all saw during President Trump's latest visit to Beijing, the history of that relationship is still being written today. But we should go back in time and figure out exactly how he got here. So to answer that question, we have to go back about a century, before Mao, before Nixon, before the Cold War, to a China that was weak and fractured and humiliated. So before World War II, China was extremely impoverished, very unstable, definitely not a sort of unitary country, and it was reeling from a century of what the CCP now calls an era of humiliation. Dominant European powers that had carved up some territory. Japan had invaded, taken over Manchuria.
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