China defends the Palestinian people and annihilates the Islamic Uighur?
China condemns Hamas terrorism and has always defended Palestinians having their state. Beijing has allowed Chinese Uighurs to speak Arabic and wear burqas and exempted them, as a minority, from the one-child policy.
Why then is Chinese repression denounced in international forums?
After 9/11, the US put “Uyghur terrorists” on the list of IS allies and China defended itself against their armed attacks.
And now the US protects those Uyghurs?
Now the US wants to contain the Chinese strength and it turns out that it considers the Uyghurs victims of repression and supports them to stop the Chinese Silk Road (Belt and Road).
Does China want to dominate us all or just sell us everything?
Imagine that the Roman Empire had managed to reform itself and survive after 2,000 years of history...
In a way, the EU has inherited it.
But what the EU is not is ethnically, linguistically and culturally homogeneous. On the other hand, those who invaded China, like the Mongols, ended up becoming Chinese, speaking and writing Chinese and adopting Chinese laws and institutions.
China has also suffered recent wars and colonial invasions.
But it has maintained its unity, that of the Han ethnic group. I give you figures...
Are you going to bother us with numbers?
Not just numbers: China has double the population of all of Europe, but if you take the car in Barcelona, in two hours you will have to speak other languages; while in China she will travel for weeks talking to the same heroes, books, history... There are 1,425 million, a people as large as it is homogeneous.
Don't Chinese regions compete?
The regional differences are irrelevant compared to the European or Indian ones, and when there were epidemics, they kicked out the foreigners and closed all the doors.
We have seen it recently.
This is what they continue to do and today they have no intention of invading anything or installing military bases anywhere: they want, however, to sell their products, gain markets...
Don't they want to invade Taiwan?
Taiwan is China, as the world's victorious leaders recognized in Cairo in 1943; but it will only be a problem if the US insists on supporting a Taiwanese independence referendum: then we would have another world war.
How to avoid it?
The referendum would be the red line, but there is a pink zone in which China and the US are dancing now and which sometimes heats up – but also cools – very quickly. Neither China nor the US want to go beyond pink.
Isn't it better to cool it completely?
In 2015, I myself was able to see President Xi Jinping and Taiwanese President Ma Ying Jeou dine at the Shangri-La restaurant in Singapore and they treated each other cordially. If Xi Jinping was thinking of invading Taiwan, he would not have gone to that dinner of extremely high political risk for him.
Is China a threat to the West?
China threatens US global hegemony to the extent that it has demonstrated that – with its own form of government and geopolitical influence – it can prosper.
And don't Apple and hundreds of US companies also manufacture and profit in China?
Sure, but China has not been docile – the EU has been – to Washington's changing orders and has preferred not to interfere in the affairs of other countries. Now, Beijing refuses, for example, to condemn Moscow.
Hasn't Russia invaded a sovereign country?
China does not feel obliged to condemn Russia. And that is disconcerting to the US, because it is an example of rebellion for others. The EU, on the other hand, depends on NATO for its own security. And, on top of that, it is very difficult for their countries to decide together.
What is the Chinese nightmare for the US?
Not so much the invasion of markets as China influencing the world economic system – IMF, World Bank, financial system – and the dollar losing its hegemony.
Isn't the US worried about the Chinese technological threat and losing the chip war?
The US is obsessed with Chinese progress in artificial intelligence and space, because it is a serious and real threat and I understand that they want to limit Chinese access to their technology to prevent it from copying it.
Will the US be able to stop China?
Maybe it will stop it from going as fast as it has been up to now, but it won't stop it...
So, will China dominate the world?
I am convinced that the American empire, like every empire before it, will one day fall; but also that China is not interested in replacing him as world leader.
Why are you so sure?
Because it knows that being the leading world power is too expensive: China prefers to dominate markets instead of countries.
