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2005.07.21

THE CHINA THREAT China's government-controlled media has recently been trying to downplay what is described as an attempt by other countries, primarily the United States, to create a theory of China's threat to the world. The basis of this theory is that China's rise in economic, political and military power poses a threat to the world. China's spokespersons, academics and media claim that the China threat theory is simply an attempt to oppose China and to contain the rise of China. They say that China's rise is natural and inevitable, that China poses a threat to no other country and that China's rise should be regarded as beneficial to the world rather than harmful. They say that the primary proponent of the China threat theory is the United States because the US fears that China will become a rival for influence in Asia and in the world. China's government spokespersons, scholars and media pretend to examine the China threat theory with objectivity and dispassion as if the theory were some curious phenomenon without any foundation in fact. However, the Chinese media downplays the supposed China threat theory with such frequency that they raise the very suspicions that they attempt to refute. Such frequent denial inevitably arouses the suspicion that there is some reality to the China threat. This suspicion is increased if one is aware of Deng Xiaoping's advice that China should bide its time in a non-confrontational way until China's strength is sufficient to achieve whatever China wants. The constant downplaying of the China threat thus seems to be part of a deliberate strategy rather than a curious theory without any basis in fact. Chinese propaganda typically arouses suspicions by the constant repetition of other slogans and phrases, such as that China is a country ruled by law. The constant repetition of the claim that China is a country ruled by law only serves to emphasize the fact that China is a country ruled not by law but by the Communist Party. Similarly, China's constant repetition of the phrase "the peaceful liberation of Tibet," only reminds the world that China's conquest of Tibet was neither a liberation nor was it peaceful. Even China's constant characterization of its economic development as a peaceful rise leads to the suspicion that China's rise may not be peaceful at all. China claims that the US estimate of its military strength is exaggerated. China denies the accusation that it has thousands of spies in many countries whose goal is to steal industrial and military secrets. China claims that the US is threatened by the rise of China and is trying to use the China threat theory in order to contain China. It blames the US for using this theory in order to create an alliance with Japan against China. It blames the US for supporting Taiwan militarily in order to prevent the unification of China. It blames the US for using the China threat theory to persuade the European Union to keep its arms embargo against China. It blames the US for using the China threat theory because the US needs to create an imaginary enemy in order to justify its domination of the world. China says that its military modernization is simply for the purpose of national defense and that China poses no threat to any country in the world, including the United States. Unfortunately, what China terms as its territory also includes Taiwan, whose people do not agree that they should be ruled from Beijing. Military conflict between China and Taiwan and between China and the US is therefore possible so long as Taiwan remains separate and the US supports Taiwan. Conflict between the US and China is also possible due to competition for energy resources. However, the main threat that China poses is probably not a military threat, just as the Chinese themselves say. The main threat that China poses is political and ideological. The main threat that China poses is that China, rather than being changed by the world as it enters the world's system, will change the world system to suit itself. China's political system is still characterized by authoritarian control by a single political party, lack of the rule of law, lack of human rights, and pervasive corruption of party officials precisely because of their monopoly on power. Current Chinese international policy seems to be to export these characteristics to the world rather than accept the world system as it exists. To avoid criticism for its human right abuses at the United Nations Commission on Human Rights, rather than improving its own human rights practices China has promoted other human rights abusing countries to membership on the committee. China poses a threat to the international copyright system because of its disregard for intellectual property rights. The Chinese Government is complicit in the theft of industrial secrets and copying of foreign products. Rather than allow Chinese citizens to enjoy the freedoms of other countries to which they have migrated the Chinese Government attempts to control their activities by spying and pressure tactics. China has recently been caught trying to spy on and pressure Falun Gong and Tibetan activists in Australia. Chinese officials and spies are reportedly active in many countries in the world trying to prevent any criticism of the Chinese Government. Despite Chinese attempts to downplay the China threat theory, China truly does pose a threat to the world. China may cause world war by its refusal to allow freedom in Taiwan. So long as China is ruled by the CCP it will undoubtedly attempt to impose its system of repression and control on all its critics. Ultimately, what threat China poses to the world will be determined by the Chinese themselves. A China ruled by the CCP certainly poses an ideological and political threat to the world due to the very nature of the Chinese political system and its attempt to impose this system upon the world. What threat China poses to the world remains undetermined but the world has no reason to be reassured by China's disclaimers of the China threat theory. 07/01/05

བལྟ་བཤེར་མང་ཤོས་བྱས་པའི་གནས་ཚུལ།
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རྒྱ་ནག་གཞུང་གིས་གྲོས་མོལ་སྒོ་ཕྱེ་ཡོད་ཚེ་བོད་རྒྱའི་དཀའ་རྙོག་སེལ་ཐབས་ཀྱི་གྲོས་མོལ་བྱེད་དགོས་པ་བོད་མིའི་སྒྲིག་འཛུགས་ཀྱི་མགྲིན་ཚབ་པས་ལན་འདེབས་གནང་བྱུང་།
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གཤམ་དུ་ཡོད་པའི་འགེང་ཤོག་འགེང་ནས་སོ་སོའི་མཆན་བཀོད་རོགས་གནང་། མཆན་དེ་མ་ཐག་ཏུ་གཟིགས་མི་ཐུབ་པ་དང་འབྲེལ་ཡོད་འགན་འཛིན་གྱིས་ང་ཚོའི་སྒྲིག་འཛུགས་ཀྱི་ནང་དོན་སྤྱོད་ཕྱོགས་དང་བསྟུན་ནས་བསྒྱུར་བཅོས་དང་ཕྱོགས་སྒྲིག་བྱེད་དེ་དྲ་གནས་ཐོག་ཁྱབ་སྤེལ་བྱ་སྲིད། མཆན་གྱི་ནང་དོན་ཐད་ཨེ་ཤེ་ཡ་རང་དབང་རླུང་འཕྲིན་ཁང་ལ་འགན་གང་ཡང་མེད་པ་དང་། མཆན་གཞག་གནང་སྐབས་གཞན་གྱི་ཚོར་སྣང་ལ་བརྩི་མཐོང་དང་དངོས་འབྲེལ་ལ་ཐུགས་སྣང་གནང་རོགས་ཞུ༎