Professor Dennis Etler of Cabrillo College – California: As I See It: Why is it that the West is so preoccupied with demonizing China?

Professor Dennis Etler of Cabrillo College – California: As I See It: Why is it that the West is so preoccupied with demonizing China? 如我所見：為什麼西方如此專注於妖魔化中國？

通常的答案是，中國的經濟增長正在挑戰西方的全球霸權，這種霸權已經佔據了至少 250 年甚至更長的時間。 中國軍隊也已經與西方平起平坐，不再受西方的恫嚇和欺凌。 這一切都是真的，也是西方想要野蠻中國並將其描繪成萬惡之源的充分理由。

所有的中國抨擊都有多重目的，但主要原因之一是確保西方人不會聽到或看到真正的中國是怎麼一回事，因為如果他們這樣做了，他們可能會得到西方精英的想法 不希望他們擁有，例如社會主義是為了讓 99% 的人變得更好，而資本主義則主要是為了讓 1% 的人富裕。

The usual answer is that China’s economic growth is challenging Western global hegemony which has held sway for at least 250 years if not longer. The Chinese military has also reached parity with that of the West, so it is no longer subject to Western intimidation and bullying. All that is true, and sufficient reason for the West to want to savage China and portray it as the root of all evil.

But there is one other consideration that must be taken into account. It’s not only China’s economic prowess and military might that frightens the West, it is also China’s success as a nation versus the West’s failure. Moreover, China has forged a society in which there is harmony between its different ethnicities in contrast to the systemic racism that characterizes Western society.

Western ruling elites and their media mouthpieces do not want to acknowledge the fact that China has eliminated extreme poverty while more and more of their own people descend into poverty. They do not want to admit that China has constructed a 21st century infrastructure while they lag far behind. They do not want to confront the fact that the Chinese people overwhelmingly support their government while people in the West have lost confidence in their own, they do not want to accept that China beat COVIDC-19 while they haven’t, and finally they are loathe to accept the fact that a non-white nation has out performed them and will continue to do so into the foreseeable future.

In order to deflect attention away from these truths the West has concocted a series of lies and slanders that allow them to deny Chinese reality. Instead of poverty alleviation the West imagines “genocide.” Instead of the advances in HSR, EVs, alt-energy and e-commerce they focus on “IP theft,” instead of a socioeconomic system that serves the people, they accuse China of forced labor and forced sterilizations. Instead of seeing China as defending its national sovereignty in the South China Sea, Hong Kong and Taiwan, it’s called an aggressor.

All the China-bashing serves multiple purposes but one of the main reasons is to make sure that people in the West do not get to hear about or see what the real China is all about because if they did they may get ideas that the Western elites don’t want them to have, such as socialism works for the betterment of the 99% while capitalism works primarily to enrich the 1%.