NorthOfNorth wrote on Mar 28
th, 2021 at 9:20am:
Ah, Sonny boy...
Using the National Socialists' defence to cover up enslavement and oppression eh...
Yes, that's right... What the CCP has perpetrated on the Chinese people and its ethnic minorities has been done before, in Germany, Russia and throughout eastern Europe (to name the two great evils of the last century), then on the world.
Internally, within the Third Reich and the Soviet Union, dissenters were treated in the same way as the Uighurs, which largely crushed internal dissent as, of course, they were under Mao.
It worked back then, largely because the world couldn't comprehend that a nation like Germany (and even in the Soviet Union - the 'workers' paradise' - under 'Uncle Joe') could turn its hand to that depth of evil.
The mainland Chinese people have not had the opportunity to develop a modern mindset regarding liberal democracy and are, as a consequence, comparatively medieval in their capacity for political depth, so it's no surprise that the complexity of the the journey from absolute monarchy / dictatorship to democracy mystifies them.
That's why CCP spruikers have all the political depth of a teenager.
With regards to imperialism, what do you think the CCP is attempting to do? The CCP is an expansionist, imperial power; a Frankensteinian amalgam of National Socialism and Stalinism.
You see, we in the modern world (outside mainland China) know the hows, whys and whats of the rise of totalitarianism; how it begins and where it leads and ends...
Mass surveillance, arbitrary arrest, detainment, torture, concentration camps, murder...
It's a well-worn path but that would be surprise to the Chinese people, so they cannot know the road to hell they're being led down.
The glimmer of hope is that comprehension of democracy's value is not lost on ethnic Chinese outside mainland China, as is evidenced by the courage shown by those in Hong Kong and Taiwan who are prepared to fight to the death to defend democracy; something we in liberal democracies should and do honour.
We have not had to do the same in nearly 80 years... But the call to the cause is coming...
To end the last great political perversion that survived the 20th century.
The Anglo American Alliance has difficulty applying to China their favorite method of divide and conquer as for example they did in former Yugoslavia, Libya, Ukraine and so on.
All these attempts did not go according to their plan so far in case of China.
The fact is that Han ethnicity makes up over 92% of the Chinese population in mainland China and 97% in Taiwan.
Also both the Muslim (Uyghur) and Tibet’s population makes up to 1%.
Many still remember the 1989 Tiananmen Square protest where the CIA unsuccessfully tried to provoke a split in China on the ideological basis in the name of "democracy and freedom".
Using Tibet and Uyghur Muslim population to destabilize China on religious and ethnic grounds also has not brought the satisfactory results.
The last attempt to organize long lasting protests in Hong Kong was the most ambitious and comprehensive.
The idea was first to divide Chinese society on an ideological basis, using familiar rhetoric about freedom and democracy and then to apply the Balkan’s model taking into account the special status of Hong Kong with an intention to engage other Cantonese-speaking regions in the protests against Chinese government.
However, this plan also failed miserably because it has not met with a positive response in Macau, Guangzhou or Shenzhen.
It seems that the Anglo-American coalition must apply some more creative methods, perhaps something like a new modified opium war, in order to destabilize China.