In 2003, China’s former Minister of Defense, Chi Haotian—also a long time general in the People’s Liberation Army (PLA)—gave a speech to the Communist Party elite. The speech itself has never been denied by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) nor the PLA. It was originally obtained by the Epoch Times and published. Emerald Robinson, a former White House correspondent from One America News, just republished the speech in part.
I found what Chi Haotian said in this speech disturbing. It’s a long speech and I cherry picked two parts that could have been said in pre-WWII Germany. It was made 20 years ago but the following sentiments of Chinese leadership has only grown stronger since this former Minister of Defense said the quiet part out loud.
I’m very excited today, because the large-scale online survey [from] sina.com that was done for us showed that our next generation is quite promising and our party’s cause will be carried on. In answering the question, “Will you shoot at women, children and prisoners of war,” more than 80 percent of the respondents answered in the affirmative, exceeding by far our expectations.
Chi said this as the new China was beginning to emerge. China sees ascension to its rightful place as the leader of the world as being obtained through economic and political efforts but increasingly militant. If you decide that war is going to be a chief instrument of exerting this leadership, you better make sure your population has no problems being barbaric. That question, in the CCP leaders’ minds, has been answered.
The purpose of the CCP Central Committee in conducting this survey is to probe people’s minds. We wanted to know: If China’s global development will necessitate massive deaths in enemy countries, will our people endorse that scenario? Will they be for or against it?
The survey quieted their concerns.
But justification for world conquest must have a myth or lore to support superiority; just as the Nazis of Germany asserted, race is the engine that fuels superiority. Chi continues:
As everybody knows, according to the views propagated by Western scholars, humanity as a whole originated from one single mother in Africa. Therefore, no race can claim racial superiority. However, according to the research conducted by most Chinese scholars, the Chinese are different from other races on earth. We did not originate in Africa. Instead, we originated independently in the land of China.
Of course, you can pick up a copy of Mein Kampf and read the same sentiments.
[W]e can assert that we are the product of cultural roots of more than a million years, and a single Chinese entity of two thousand years. This is the Chinese entity of two thousand years. This is the Chinese nation that calls itself, “descendants of Yan and Huang,” the Chinese nation that we are so proud of. Hitler’s Germany had once bragged that the German race was the most superior race on earth, but the fact is, our nation is far superior to the Germans.
This is Chinese nationalism but it also expresses Han racial nationalism. The Han comprises a massive ninety percent of the population and “identify” as whites. Mao Zedong branded the Han as chauvinistic in order to push guilt onto the heads of the majority—much in the way the current anti-white narrative is espoused by the DEI crowd in the U.S.—in order to reeducate the majority to follow communist rule.
As China has emerged from the shadow of Mao, a new Chinese nationalism has emerged with Han nationalism as the strong undercurrent. In the Xinjiang province, home to the Uyghurs, it is commonplace to see “Whites only” and “No Uyghurs” signs. (Sounds familiar.)
These signs have also begun to spread throughout the rest of the country. Uyghurs and other non-Han ethnicities suffer at the hands of official communist authorities though it intensified at the beginning the Chinese Communist Party’s 19th National Congress in 2017. Uyghurs were rounded up and “disappeared” in Xinjiang and the “genocide” began in earnest.
“Muslims who performed poorly in their new jobs would be sent to a place to ‘learn’”, wrote Cha Naiyu, a Han and former Xinjiang resident.
I heard a relative of mine say the ethnic minorities at the factory where he works pick things up too slowly. He felt they were not as smart as the Han people. Another friend who worked in a state-owned enterprise said their unit had no ethnic minority members, and were not planning to recruit any. Another classmate mentioned that she hated “meeting Uyghurs” when taking the train because they were “noisy, smelly and dirty”.
On one train journey home, I got [sic] talking to a man who worked for the Xinjiang regional government. He told me the policy now being implemented is to “sacrifice a generation”, with social stability and counter-terrorism policies expected to cause Xinjiang’s economic development to stagnate. A generation of ethnic minorities and Han people will have to live through this ruthless transition, but tough measures now will supposedly build unity for the next generation.
Cha discussed the authoritarian state that exists in Xinjiang:
Every time I go back home [Xinjiang], I feel the atmosphere has become heavier as the government’s control has increased. Enter any building – restaurant, shopping mall, cinema, hospital, supermarket – and it’s the same: security check, bag check, swipe ID card. Compared to the place I remember from my childhood, it feels like being in a science fiction film.
Han nationalism, once considered a fringe movement, has become the predominate force behind Communist China’s foreign and domestic policy. The Imperial Han movement, the heart of Han nationalism, harkens back to a time when China’s influence in the world was at its largest, between the 16th and 18th centuries. The movement comprises three factions: radical, conservative, and revisionist. Each has different influences within the governing parameters but it is all race-based.
The radicals are focused on reversing past perceived humiliation perpetrated by all number of internal and external entities, hastening their imperialism worldwide. They favor economic expansion with the Belt and Road initiative as the tool to subjugate foreign economies to Chinese desires. China has been extremely involved in the politics and commerce of South America, buying up land and strategic industrial assets. It has recently been discovered that China has been building infrastructure in the Darién Gap to aid in the exploitation of the U.S. border; sending thousands of military-age men across the porous border doesn’t signify a desire for peace with America.
The conservatives—which cannot be compared to the Western world’s conservatives—believe that China’s ambitions should lie with the stretch of their pre-modern world exploration: like the “Classic of Mountains and Sea,” which is read by this faction as a historical account of ancient Chinese exploration, reaching all the way to today’s western United States. The ancient text suggests that China explored wide swaths of the world, during the 4th century B.C., that included North America—as far inland as the Rocky Mountains. These conservatives believe that what was discovered in these ancient times should be the lands that China occupy in the future.
Their approach also includes aggressive strategies against perceived historical violators of the Han people, with extreme suggestions like using nuclear force as retaliation for past aggressions, specifically against Japan for its actions in World War II.
The revisionists believe that the CCP and the PLA are instruments to propel Han superiority throughout the world. Each faction has its differences however, their beliefs all lead to the same conclusion: The Han have suffered at the hands of internal and external enemies and it’s time to retake what is rightfully theirs.
Xi Jinping, China’s president and General Secretary of the CCP, is Han. His moves in Xinjiang in 2017 to further enslave the Uighur population indicates he is practitioner of Han nationalism. His saber rattling toward Taiwan and exploitation of the Americas confirms his Han Imperialism.
Peter Zeihan, a geopolitical strategic consultant, has suggested in his book The End of the World is Just the Beginning: Mapping the Collapse of Globalization, that Xi is isolated and keeps only “yes-men” as counsel. Xi lives in a boxed-in fantasy world—much as Adolf Hitler did—and without realistic advice based on real world circumstances, he is becoming unpredictable.
“China aims to reclaim the imperial status it held from the 16th to early 19th centuries, when its share of world economic output peaked at one-third,” writes Ruchir Sharma, chair of Rockefeller International, “but that goal may be slipping out of reach.” China faces large debt increases in all of the major sectors of its economy as its growth has fallen in the last two years. Declining birthrates, mostly courtesy of its one-child policy, has doomed any future growth thus imperial expansion.
The ongoing baby bust in China has already lowered its share of the world working age population from a peak of 24 per cent to 19 per cent, and it is expected to fall to 10 per cent over the next 35 years. With a shrinking share of the world’s workers, a smaller share of growth is almost certain. [emphasis from source]
China, like most of the rest of the world, has peaked. I addressed this in a previous article:
From the time China rejoined the world after the initial communist isolationism, they have been, it can be argued, on a war footing with the rest of the world—especially the West and in particular the U.S.—in their dreams of being world dominate. The Chinese believe that it is their birthright to rule the world; this is seen through the racist lens of being the superior race, much like Adolph Hitler. Their engine of warfare has been economic but when that fails and they must prove they are the superior race, where will they go from there?
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