Communist China: An Ideology without Principles

 

COMMUNIST CHINA: AN IDEOLOGY WITHOUT PRINCIPLES

“Chinese political thinking [ideology] is generally thought to be more relativistic and flexible than American thinking, which is probably due to cultural differences as the countries developed separately. So American political thinking is often described as linear, which means building thoughts successively on top of each other. …Chinese thinking is often described as being lateral or holistic. And what that tends to mean is that it’s based on context or how things relate to other things.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyFZgIXucsQ

—Ryan Chapman, “Chinese vs. American Political Philosophy,” YouTube video, 24:49 minutes, November 2, 2021

What Communist China ideology boils down to is maintaining the dictatorship of the state by any means necessary.

What has been described as “flexibility” is really just an ideology without principles except the “principle”—if you could call it that—of the hegemony of the Communist Party.

The end is the overarching dominion of the Party, by any and all means necessary, so that the means in the final analysis is bereft of moral principles, while the end is the Golden Calf of the totalitarian state.

In sum, Chinese politics is unprincipled and as a consequence barbaric, inhuman, and genocidal. See:

https://www.minnpost.com/community-voices/2020/09/china-tibet-and-the-uighurs-a-pattern-of-genocide/

—Ellen J. Kennedy, “China, Tibet, and the Uighurs: a pattern of genocide,” MinnPost (September 9, 2020) 

Additional links:

Uighurs

https://www.ushmm.org/genocide-prevention/countries/china/case-study/introduction/china

—“Introduction: China,” United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

https://www.ushmm.org/genocide-prevention/reports-and-resources/the-chinese-governments-assault-on-the-uyghurs

—“‘To Make Us Slowly Disappear’”: The Chinese Government’s Assault on the Uyghurs,” United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-22278037

—“Who are the Uyghurs and why is China being accused of genocide?” BBC.com (June 21, 2021)

https://www.usatoday.com/in-depth/news/politics/2021/04/02/is-china-committing-genocide-what-you-need-know-uyghurs/7015211002/

—Deirdre Shesgreen, “The US says China is committing genocide against the Uyghurs. Here’s some of the most chilling evidence,” USA TODAY (April 7, 2021)

https://www.hrw.org/report/2021/04/19/break-their-lineage-break-their-roots/chinas-crimes-against-humanity-targeting

—“‘Break Their Lineage, Break Their Roots,’” Human Rights Watch, April 19, 2021

Tibetans

https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/running-out-time-tibetan-president-elect-warns-cultural-genocide-2021-05-21/

—Sanjeev Miglani and Cate Cadell, “‘Running out of time’: Tibetan president-elect warns of cultural genocide,” Reuters (May 21, 2021)

https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/08/31/tibet-china-repression-xinjiang-sinicization/

—Kelsang Dolma, “Tibet Was China’s First Laboratory of Repression,” Foreign Policy (August 31, 2020)

An informative and very revealing article about the social and political conditions following the Communist China takeover of Tibet—the date of the ICJ item is July 24, 1959:

https://www.icj.org/new-report-the-question-of-tibet-and-the-rule-of-law/

—“New report: ‘The Question of Tibet and the Rule of Law,’” International Commission of Jurists, July 24, 1959