December 6, 2009China Gripped By Conspiracy Theories - Song Hongbing’s novel Currency Wars about Rothschilds is a best seller
Martin McCauley writes: The Communist Party of China has long been sticking to one important rule: if something went badly wrong, the malevolent forces abroad were to blame. This has once again been the case with the violent riots in Tibet and, later, in Xinjiang that were supposedly ‘orchestrated from abroad’. This sort of attitude reflects a communist view of the world. Since the Party has convinced itself that it has created the conditions for the ‘harmonious development’ of the Chinese society, any violent disruption of this has to be a result of conspiracies that originate abroad.
There is a certain twisted logic in this way of thinking. Promoting democracy, for instance, for many Chinese leaders, represents a Western conspiracy designed to weaken China. Human rights are also part of this conspiracy, aimed at undermining the authority of the Communist Party. Those outside, who wish to undermine China, this thinking goes, insist on providing equal rights for all individuals, but in reality want to interfere into Chinese affairs and undermine the stability of the country.
China, according to the official point of view, has suffered a hundred years of humiliation at the hands of the West, from the mid-19th century to 1949 when the People’s Republic was finally established. China’s frailty, we are told, was the result of weak leadership and an inability to defend the country against foreign ‘conspirators’. These people sought to impose their ideas of modernisation on the Chinese, attempting to turn China into a colony of the West.
There were two main currents of political thought in China before 1949. One was liberalism and the other communism. The former was based on individualism, free enterprise, free thought and equality before the law. This was fine for the educated and those who had or could make money. The vast majority of the population remained outside this magic world. Communism, on the other hand, had more resonance with the ordinary Chinese. It was collectivist with everyone working for the social good. It was authoritarian which promised strong leadership. Mao Zedong simply became the red Emperor. The communist bureaucrats were the new mandarins. Mao propagated egalitarianism. However, after 30 years of communism peasants were still dirt poor. Deng Xiaoping had lived in France and England and had some understanding of a capitalist market economy. So market reforms were introduced in 1978. This allowed peasants, for instance, to go back to their farms and continue living as they had in the past.
Why were Western economic ideas accepted but Western political ideas were not? Western theory posited that a market economy could only flourish if were embedded in a democratic political culture. China has turned this Western concept on its head. An authoritarian Communist Party seeks to suppress dissent and prevent the dissemination of anti-regime views. Growth rates over the last thirty years have averaged about 10 per cent a year - a phenomenal performance.
Globalisation is seen as a threat to the Communist Party. If China is to become a world leader it must share some of the values of the international community. These include human rights for minorities. They have a right to be different. So one is back to Tibet and Xinjiang. However, if they are granted autonomy in culture, religion and education, why should others, such as the Han Chinese not enjoy similar privileges? The Party’s power would begin to unravel.
It is easier to believe that the troubles in the non-Han areas of China are the work of foreign ‘devils’ than to accept that they are the result of domestic policies. If they are home grown, something has to be done to resolve the problems which have emerged. That is a slippery slope which the comrades in Beijing do not want to ride.
But nevertheless conspiracy theories are still popular among the Chinese, especially the ones that are supposedly targeted at China. How about this: the main target of the global financial meltdown was actually China from the very start? Only in this way could China be stopped from becoming the world’s leading power. Song Hongbing’s novel Currency Wars meanders through the last two hundred years following the malevolent activities of international bankers, first and foremost the Rothschilds, aided and abetted during the last century by the US Federal Reserve. They are blamed for all the calamities which have befallen the world. Communism, for obvious reasons, is not seen as a calamity.
The author inisists that China does not need to follow Western advice - from floating the yuan to opening up its capital markets. It is all a conspiracy to halt the country’s advance to world dominance.
Anyone who is looking to write a blockbuster which will top the bestseller list, needs to look no further. Analyse current world politics, from Islamic fundamentalism to African tribal conflict, as a vast, coordinated conspiracy against China’s interests. The Chinese readers will love it!
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