Hi everyone, this is Klaus.
Many people believe that
every political party has its pros and cons,
and that the CCP has done horrible things,
but it has helped China grow tremendously in the past decades.
Old Pinks in particular like to say,
“People used to starve. Today things are so much better.
So we need to thank the communist party and our country.”
They wouldn’t change their mind even if the commies were to kill them.
So today let’s talk about
the reason for China's growth.
China is indeed much better than before
in terms of quality of life.
However, the primary reason for this is the advancement of human technology.
Food production has increased greatly, eliminating large-scale famines,
thanks to chemical fertilizers, pesticides, and the growth of breeding technology.
Life expectancy has doubled, mainly due to the advancement of modern medicine,
including anatomy, microbiology, immunology, pathology, and pharmacology.
Thanks to this complete western medicine system,
life expectancy worldwide has doubled in the past few decades.
This has nothing to do with the CCP.
The advent of electricity, cars, airplanes, TVs, mobile phones, the World Wide Web, etc.,
has greatly improved quality of life,
and enriched our spiritual and cultural needs.
Name the things you can't live without.
None of them were invented by China under communist leadership.
China’s recent power cuts have sent many places back to the era of kerosene lamps.
Maybe many Chinese people don’t even know kerosene lamps were invented by Europeans.
Since birth, the Chinese have taken various vaccines invented by various European countries.
The milk powder they grew up drinking was invented by the Americans.
The rice they eat is grown with a chemical fertilizer invented by the Germans.
They wear clothes made with British textile technology.
They live in houses made with reinforced concrete invented by the French.
The mobile phones in their pockets were invented by the Americans.
And yet, connected to the Internet invented by the British, they say,
“None of these existed before.
They were all blessings from the party mother! Hail the party and our country!”
Funny, isn’t it? But many Chinese people really think like that.
China is indeed much better than before.
Unlike before, we now have high food production and convenient transportation.
We have lights to brighten our nights, and access to all kinds of information anytime, anywhere.
A few hours’ flight can take us to a new world.
All of these that people of centuries ago couldn’t enjoy
are the result of human technological progress.
To be precise, they are the result of Western scientific and technological progress.
As long as China is not anti-humanity or anti-technology,
it’s a natural thing that the Chinese could enjoy a modern life,
which is certainly not an achievement by the CCP.
On the contrary, the CCP actively denies the Chinese enjoyment of human technological progress.
From the founding of Communist China in 1949 to the reform and opening up in the 1980s,
science was given labels such as "Western", "Capitalism", and "Imperialism".
Communist movements, for example, eliminating the four evils, steelmaking with indigenous methods, conquering nature, the Cultural Revolution,
were all anti-science and anti-nature movements, cutting China off from the world.
A great number of scientists were persecuted.
The whole country went to hell.
It wasn’t until after the 1980s that science was proposed as the primary productive force,
and scientific development became a slogan as science became valued.
That was how China began to catch up with the world.
Thus, it was Western science that made our lives better.
It had nothing to do with the CCP, who did nothing but hindered progress.
The social system is another main contributing factor.
China’s economic and technological progress that many Chinese people are proud of
all happened after the reform and opening up.
Reform and opening up directly made China the world’s second largest economy.
This is undeniable.
But many Chinese people don’t really understand what reform and opening up is.
Many people had a simple and vague idea that reform and opening up
is something invented by the CCP to make China better,
a good thing that helps the Chinese people make money.
Of course, it's not that simple.
The core of reform and opening up is to transform the planned economy into a market economy,
which is a capitalist economic system,
something the CCP is strongly against.
In the decades since the founding of Communist China,
there have been various anti-rightist movements against capitalism,
persecuting and killing a whole lot of people.
Through public-private partnerships, the Great Leap Forward, the People’s Commune and other planned economic movements,
another lot of people starved to death.
In the end, the CCP chose the path of capitalism, which it had been trying to kill.
That was certainly a slap in the face of the CCP.
Thus, the CCP came up with a nice name for it, “reform and opening up”.
However, reform and opening up is not entirely about taking the path of Western capitalism.
Simply put, reform and opening up is about imitating the West halfway.
The CCP only copied Western market economy,
not its political democracy.
The market was opened, free trade was allowed, and foreign capital was introduced.
The people can now make money freely.
But the power remains in the hands of the CCP, the one party that rules everything.
The people still have no say in politics.
In the end, reform and opening up is to protect the party.
At the time, China had been isolated from the world for far too long.
Without reform, the communist regime was about to die.
The CCP couldn’t care less about the Chinese people.
Nonetheless, reform and opening up has brought about fundamental changes in China’s social system.
In order to hide its half-capitalist ways,
and the fact that it’s totalitarian,
the CCP calls its abomination system “socialism with Chinese characteristics”.
Now we can have a profound understanding of reform and opening up.
The Little Pinks say that democracy doesn’t suit China.
Actually, reform and opening up is, in a way, a form of democracy.
Democracy means that the people are the masters of the country, whose sovereignty rests with the people.
After reform and opening up, a little bit of power was returned to the people.
Farmers can contract land, and people can start their own businesses and find jobs.
In the Mao Dynasty, the people had no power at all.
The government controlled everything, big or small.
Therefore, what Little Pinks call “Chinese characteristics” is actually communist tyranny.
The idea that the dictatorship helped China grow is just bullshit.
They say that China can only flourish under tyranny.
Following that logic, the Mao Dynasty must be China’s most glorious era.
The truth is, China developed due to its half-democratic reform and opening up policy.
Even half-democracy has made China the second largest economy in the world.
If democracy were implemented all over China, the country would have unlimited potential.
To sum up, there are two main things that have allowed China to develop.
One is Western technology, and the other is Western system.
Both have been heavily criticized by the CCP,
who eventually and sneakily used both.
The detour and the painful price paid in the process are called “crossing the river by feeling the stones”.
But the bridge has always been there, ignored by the CCP.
The communists just had to “cross the river by feeling the stones”.
So many people drowned. When the deepest and most rapid part of the river was reached,
the CCP touched the pier, climbed up with a muddy face,
and shamelessly asked survivors to be grateful to them.
If you see a bridge, just go for it.
Do you care about who made the bridge?
Do you care whether it is a bridge made by the West or a bridge of capitalism?
As long as it allows you to cross the river,
as long as it’s helpful, just go for the bridge!
Even the corrupt late Qing Dynasty knew to "learn from the West to compete with the West".
Without the CCP, China would have worked with developed Western countries after World War II,
engaged in market economy and democratic politics,
and would have become a developed country by now.
While the Four Asian Tigers were growing rapidly,
the Chinese, famished and starving, were busy with the Cultural Revolution.
Taiwan’s GDP per capita is 3 times that of China.
China’s GDP multiplied by 3 surpasses that of the US, ranking first in the world.
When the Chinese praise today’s China,
giving credit to the communist party,
I like to use North Korea as an example.
I say, “North Korea is now poor and backward.
Isn’t it because of Kim Fat?
If Kim Fat were to carry out economic reforms now,
and the people were well-fed, should they be grateful to Kim Jong-un?
Should they be grateful to the Korean Communist Party?
Do North Koreans deserve to be born poor?
Look at South Korea. A developed country. Same language and ethnicity. No communism.”
Technology, system, democracy, and human rights are inherently borderless.
They belong to all mankind.
If a bully takes away what inherently belongs to you,
and then gives a little bit back to you,
should you be on your knees and thank the bully?
Have you no shame?
A person can only be saved if he wants to save himself.
The same is true for a nation.
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Alright, time to hear your comments.
In our last episode,
I proposed that China’s future lies in condominium, for democracy is difficult to achieve
because after thousands of years of autocracy in China, everyone is an emperor wannabe.
Many people held different views and used Taiwan as an example.
However, Taiwan is different from China.
The first Han regime in Taiwan was founded by Zheng Chenggong in the late Ming Dynasty over 300 years ago.
Only a small southwestern part of Taiwan was ruled by Ming Zheng.
It was not officially ruled by the central government until the Qing Dynasty.
Even then, the Qing Dynasty only governed about one-third of Taiwan.
So Taiwan itself was less affected by China’s autocracy.
Also, Taiwan was colonized by Japan.
Taiwan’s democracy movement began under Japanese rule.
The Japanese promoted democratic ideas in Taiwan,
and encouraged the Taiwanese to participate in politics.
During that period, Taiwan founded its first political party, Taiwan’s People’s Party.
Finally, Taiwanese democracy was a success thanks to the intervention of international forces.
Netizens Lie Flat said,
“I suddenly discovered that
the great culture of this land with a long history of over 3000 years
was neither Confucianism nor Legalism nor Taoism nor Mohism,
but a culture of schemers and conspirators.
Everyone hopes that others are sensible.
But everyone hides their true colors,
because those who are honest and frank die the fastest.
It’s the survival of the fittest.
Thus, the country is run by schemers.
The more powerful, the more diabolical!”
Netizen YT44AMTF said,
“A group of friends and I had a gathering, where they cursed the Communist Party.
They asked me why I didn’t join them.
I smiled and said, ‘Forget it.
You are actually worse than the Communist Party. You are just not in power yet.’”
Netizen Tsiivi Lao said,
“The Chinese never hate the privileged.
They just hate the fact that they are not one of the privileged themselves.”
Netizen Max Cheng said,
“Chinese people don’t need human rights.
They don’t care about not having human rights,
because they worship power and privilege.
Everyone is thinking of ways to obtain and use privileges,
so that they can show how special they are.
It’s all for personal gains.
But on the other hand, if one person gets privileges,
the remaining people will lose their right to fairness.
This small peasant DNA is innately possessed by the Chinese.
The CCP’s system and attributes coincide with this DNA,
and completely brings out the evil within human beings.”
Netizens say the wheel of fortune,
“Research shows that children from families of domestic violence
are more likely to commit domestic violence themselves.
Because violence is the only way they’ve learned to maintain a family.
It is almost impossible for China to create a democratic and free environment on its own.
Most people are used to living under tyranny.
When they have the opportunity to become leaders,
they will also rule the country with tyranny.”
Netizen StormMonkey said,
“When I was young, I most often heard my parents say,
‘The old man has the final say. Do as you’re told.’
Disobedient children don’t get food.
Democracy in China may be one of the most difficult things on this planet.
Get out of China if you can. Don’t linger.”
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