Before War Against China Read These Insights from an American Who Lived there for 2 Years

Americans may live in a bubble making them averse to my opinion, but it should be considered.

Preface

I make regular use of the word “America” in this essay. This is not done with the arrogance and ignorance which is typically the case. Please know that when I say “America” I am referring to the United States. I use “Americans” to refer to the citizens of the United States.

These words are felt deeper, resonating with the citizens of the country, the audience I am hoping to reach. It in no way is meant to imply that Canada, Mexico, or the rest of Central and South America are not also part of the Americas.

The need to state this explicitly shows precisely how far “America” has gone down its own rabbit hole, believing in everything it says about itself without listening to or realize that there are equally, perhaps even more valid, outside perspectives.

An UnAmerican perspective on America

It’s not like Americans to try and understand those who they make into their enemies. I expect any insight into the mind of our future enemy I provide will be ignored.

The insights I have gained living in China for 2 years will be seen as useless anti-American criticism by a people who refuse to acknowledge the validity of any point of view other than their own.

America is going to war with China. It seems inevitable. As we always do, we will see ourselves as righteously justified, almost to a religious degree, coming close to viewing the coming state-sponsored murders on both sides as acts of Holy War.

When the time comes, Americans will be so blinded by fear, hate and self-righteousness that even to entertain the idea of listening to a moderate voice of reason will be impossible. Any voice which tries to stop the bloodshed will be interpreted as treasonous and communist.

America, who uses their warped and singular version of freedom as a weapon of mass induction against their own people and justification for the destruction of others, will be the fiercest opponent of freedom of expression, freedom of speech, freedom of thought, objective analysis, and everything that they claim to stand for as a nation should war come to pass.

America has never lived up to their own self-proclaimed ideals. They loudly and boastfully proclaim to be the freest nation on Earth, or even at times believe themselves to be the only free nation on Earth. No amount of logic, reason, and evidence to the contrary can penetrate the indoctrinated American mind.

No one can convince Americans to have self-reflection. No one can convince them to reconsider their reactionary deeply held beliefs. Beliefs which they arrived at without any rational thought, without consideration of any factual evidence, and without empathy. They believe themselves to be in the right at all times regardless of the truth.

Nationalistic fervor will engulf the country. Crimes and discrimination against all Asian-Americans will skyrocket, even against Japanese-Americans, people who have a longer history of animosity towards the Chinese than ourselves. The rest of the world will see this buffoonery and lunacy for what it is. Americans will not.

Americans would rather die in an unjust unholy war than second-guess themselves, reconsidering their faulty reasoning and illogical conclusions. As a nation that prides itself on its own lack of intelligence, America will suffer untold numbers of casualties in a war with a country that has 6 times its population and 5,000 years of history longer than itself. American arrogance, its hubris, knows no bounds.

To modify the famous quote attributed to Albert Einstein, “There are only three things that are infinite, the Universe, stupidity, and American ignorance, and I’m not sure about the Universe.”

Things being the way they are, Americans waking up to the wool that has been pulled over their eyes and questioning the unquestionable idea that God Almighty is always on their side, is not likely to ever happen. Deaths which some of us can see now as preventable with a little more humility and a lot less egotistical aggrandizement will happen.

America will never return to the enlightened ideals of Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin, our founding fathers. The country abandoned these ideals long ago. It is a nation which has lost its soul. It is a nation that is doomed to failure, not being able to see a direction forward without a scapegoat to blame for its deep collective psychological issues, it will implode, collapsing in upon itself from the weight of its own misguided beliefs and inflated sense of self-importance.

It will take future generations to look back on these times with a more objective perspective. The reality that America has been the most murderous and genocidal nation in the history of the planet, the only nation to have ever used nuclear weapons against other human beings, and a nation drunk on its own boastful lies, will never enter the consciousness of today’s Americans. Believing themselves to be “one nation under God,” they would rather die than face these truths.

That is a more truthful background, a more objectively correct point-of-view held by many people worldwide, including many Americans. It is a more honest assessment of America than the self-abusive, nationalistic propaganda some Americans tells themselves about who they are. If more Americans understood that, we wouldn’t consider sacrificing the lives of our citizens in a war with China.

It is from that sobering perspective on America that I would like to show to Americans how the Chinese people perceive China. Just like America buys into its own distorted version of itself, China does the same.

China according to the Chinese

A perspective I pieced together during the 2 years I spent living and working among the Chinese people.

China is the first nation of the Earth. China has the oldest, most continuous history of all the people on the planet. The Chinese language itself is the oldest written language in the world, dating back at least 3,500 to 6,000 years ago.

The Chinese people revere Mao Zedong for unifying the country. They hold dear the idea that with a population of over 1.5 billion people, they can hold a unified singular vision of what it means to be Chinese and are proud of China’s place as a leader among nations in the modern world.

It is only with regret and a great deal of emotional pain that they feel they are compelled to act when a citizen of the country does not fall in line with their ideals and goals. It is only with sadness, after exhausting all other options available to them, that a dissident must be incarcerated for the good of the nation.

They still hold onto the hope that those who have been corrupted by erroneous and misleading anti-Chinese thoughts will come around to their point of view. In the end, they are all brothers and sisters of one nation, and should present themselves as such and act accordingly.

It is important to remember that this is their mindset when the US speaks to them of violating the human rights of their citizens. The West is largely ignorant of their culture and their history. Lately, we’ve even gifted the Chinese with the ability to point right back at us with our increasing violations of human rights within the US.

From racial tensions and discrimination to the highest incarceration rate in the world, to indefinite imprisonment of enemy combatants at Guantanamo Bay without a trial, the moral high ground once held by the US has disappeared.

America according to the Chinese

The expansionist military policies of the US can easily be seen. Acting to undermine democratically elected officials in South America, the unilateral policing of the world, delivering death by drone from the skies with impunity, the invasion of Iraq under false pretenses causing the emergence of ISIS destabilizing the world, and seizing control of the world’s opium supply and production through the invasion of Afghanistan, the United States hostile, violent, and deadly expansion of their influence cannot be denied.

To save the human race from neo-feudalism, doomed to be forever under the thumb of rich, greedy and selfish capitalists, the 1%, the inhumane, immoral, and unethical dominance which the United States regularly displays to the world needs to be kept in check.

China has, begrudgingly, resigned themselves to the necessity of taking this immense responsibility upon themselves. They may have deceived their own population with tales of their superiority to all nations and the glory of war through their domestic propaganda, but they have not deceived the world.

The brutality of the expansionist US Empire has been seen by all. It’s brutality abroad is matched only by the cruelty it has shown towards minorities in its own population.

China loves humanity and seeks to help raise up those who have been denied economic opportunity, such as the citizens of the nations of Africa. China invests in the future of Africa, helping them build their infrastructure to secure the future and financial freedom of their people. The US has all but abandoned the people of Africa, supporting the regimes of violent despots who oppress their own populations, the African people.

China has a vision of world peace with all people working together to help each other. The US has shown its agenda to be ultimately self-serving, abandoning those in need on a whim if it is inconvenient for them. Their foreign policy is a blatant grab at controlling the planet’s precious limited resources, reserving their use only for themselves.

China deeply loves it children. It provides all children with free education, promoting a system of meritocracy through friendly competition. It encourages its youth to be mindful that they maintain a healthy, nutritious diet. Each citizen is worthy of dignified employment using the skills they have acquired to promote the common good.

Debaucherously corrupt Western crony capitalism has no place among a free and loving Chinese people.

It is only with deep sorrow and great regret that the Chinese have felt compelled to strengthen their military to defend themselves and their allies against Western aggression and expansion. It saddens us that the citizens of the United States, mislead by their corrupt and lying greedy leaders, is incapable of listening to the voice of reason.

China and the peace loving Chinese people do not seek nor do they desire war with the United States. But they will not hesitate to act if provoked by the corrupt powers of Western gluttony in possession of a voracious appetite that unthinkingly puts the planet’s future and the lives of our children in danger.

American versus Chinese domestic propaganda.

The Chinese have been feeding the Chinese population on the above narrative for decades. To the United States, China is just the latest in a long line of “evil” archenemies that preceded it. Two generations of Chinese people have been raised on this slow and steady diet of “anti-American propaganda.”

The United States has, since its inception, been at war for 225 out of the 245 years of its existence.

Certainly, its population must be growing tired of war, tired of seeing its sons and daughters return home in body bags. The Chinese people do not see the citizens of the United States as their enemy, but they will not be swayed by the billions of dollars the United States spends on propaganda, promoting only its own interest above all others and above the interests of the entire human race.

Is war with China inevitable?

I certainly hope not. Although the United States currently holds superiority in its military and technology, the population of China outnumbers the US 5 to 1. Its standing army is twice the size of the United States Army.

China has carefully cultivated the concept of potential war with the United States to the past two generations. Anti-Asian and Anti-Chinese sentiment in the United States is a relatively new phenomenon, arising only in the last 2 years in response to the Covid-19 outbreak. As far as commitment to war among the populations of the respective countries, China hands down holds the advantage over the US in terms of conditioning their domestic populations (i.e., propaganda).

A conventional ground war is highly unlikely to take part within the borders of either country. All encounters in this war will likely take place in proxy locations, geographically closer to China than the United States. Disagreements over Taiwan is the most probable scenario leading to war.

What will the world think?

50 years ago, if I said that world opinion would likely favor China against the United States, you would be calling me crazy and rightly so. Considering resent history and the weakening of our relations with our allies worldwide, depending on the details, world sentiment may favor the Chinese if an outbreak of violence between the nations does occur.

In addition to our current attitude towards the Chinese, the United States is also pondering the possibility of war in the Ukraine against Russia. In a situation which under most circumstances should favor the United States, with two enemies on the horizon and the skill that pro-Putin actors have shown to sway popular opinion in their favor, any action taken by the United States to defend Ukrainian sovereignty might just backfire.

The United States is currently not a government by the people, for the people, according to the people.

The utter failure of the past 3 administrations ability to foresee these situations and plan appropriate responses that won’t turn world sentiment and opinion against the United States speaks volumes to the idea that the United States is no longer de-facto leader of the free world as it was during the 20th century.

Domestically, a vast majority of the American population, possibly upwards of 90% don’t believe that the government represents their interests.

Upwards of 90% of the population supports universal background checks for gun ownership.

Even 84% of the population is “socialist” enough to believe in paid maternity leave.

Yet, even with deep and broad support, the government of the United States is unable to get any law passed on these issues. The government of the United States has never been more out-of-touch with the people it purports to represent.

A war with China, whether declared or undeclared, could be the proverbial straw that breaks the camel’s back leading to no confidence in the polices of the United States government causing the collapse of our current system.

In 2018, the Chinese government abolished the two-term limit it had imposed on its leaders, announcing that President Xi Jinpeng will be “President for life.” He is only the second Chinese leader to have this recognition granted to him. The first was Chairman Mao showing the world a China which will be stable and unified for the foreseeable future.

Any moral high ground that the United States once had to lead the world is evaporating quickly if it hasn’t completely disintegrated already. World hegemony of the United States is on the decline. China is a rising global power.

Under these circumstances, from this point of view, war against China should be avoided. The United States would have to prove beyond the shadow of a doubt to its own citizens as well as the citizens of the world that it had exhausted all diplomatic solutions before turning to the tools of war as a final solution.