Hi everyone, this is Klaus.
Recently, Xi Jinping visited Guangxi
and made a speech in front of background actors wearing ethnic clothes,
which was broadcast live on China's national TV.
Xi Jinping said, "When the Chinese people, the Chinese Communist Party,
and the CCP leaders say something, they mean it."
As a leader, of course, you must have extraordinary courage and talents,
and crack a joke from time to time to show that you have a sense of humor.
Xi must be joking when he said that the CCP always meant what it said.
At the beginning, the CCP said it would liberate all mankind.
Later, it said China would overtake Britain and the US.
But it couldn't, so the CCP said "to realize the four modernizations".
The CCP couldn't achieve that either, so it let a few people get rich first.
As a result, people who are well connected did get rich first.
But ordinary people became slaves working from 9 to 9 for 6 days per week.
Mao Zedong promised to build a democratic country like the US,
and supported the independence of Hunan, Taiwan, and various provinces.
The constitution of the Chinese Soviet also said,
"The autonomy of all ethnic minorities is recognized
and the independence of all ethnic groups from China is supported."
But now if you advocate independence, you will get arrested and labelled as a traitor.
The Chinese Communist Party has never fulfilled any of its promises.
What Xi Jinping said was laughable.
But I want to explore this issue in greater depth and on a larger scale.
Has China, an ancient country with supposedly 5000 years of history and culture,
whose people claim to be descendants of the dragon, the Chinese nation,
been a country of integrity since ancient times?
The kind of people a country has is determined by the kind of its government.
I'm sure many people have personally experienced this.
I lived in China for over 20 years and then came to the US.
I didn't feel my life in the US was any different
until I went back to China.
If you greet and ask strangers for directions in China,
they would take two steps back, and then look at you up and down.
Many people would even ignore you and just walk away.
The best case-scenario is that they would warily say a few words to you.
Their apathy made me realize that I was in China again.
The Chinese strongly distrust one another.
They feel most insecure when they're with other Chinese people.
If we look at history,
China has never been a place where promises are kept.
Integrity is not what the Chinese culture advocates.
On the contrary, as early as the Spring and Autumn period, over 2500 years ago,
China already developed a fraud culture.
"The Art of War" by Sun Tzu is an example.
The so-called tactics are actually unscrupulous.
In that book, there is a tactic unheard of and unthinkable in the history of Western warfare,
which is to gain the trust of the enemy by pretending to surrender.
If the enemy is suspicious, Sun would advise you to swear oaths, or mutilate yourself,
or even kill your own relatives, wait until the enemy is no longer suspicious,
and launch a surprise attack when the enemy is totally unprepared.
Later, there was "The 36 Strategies", an encyclopedia of ways to deceive, including crossing the sea under camouflage,
creating something out of nothing, killing someone with a borrowed knife, hiding a knife in a smile,
trying to catch it by letting it go first, replacing beams and pillars with rotten timber,
the "empty city" strategy, honey trap, the battered-body trick, sowing discord, etc.
The essence of these tactics is to deceive.
China's fraud culture is not just for military use.
It is present in all aspects of history, politics, business and life in China.
The stories of those strategies have all become classical Chinese literature,
and those who succeeded through unscrupulous ways are praised for being clever,
and have become idols worshipped by posterity.
The Chinese have had to learn to survive in a sinister environment
full of intrigue since ancient times.
Since childhood, they are educated to beware of others everywhere,
to be cautious everywhere, and not to easily trust anyone.
Thus, China has always lacked what is called the "contract spirit" in Western society.
The word "covenant" in Chinese consists of "contract" and "agreement".
The spirit of contract is a mainstream spirit advocated by Western civilization,
and it's about being trustworthy.
In the words of Xi Jinping, whose literacy skills are primary school level,
"the spirit of contract" is to "say something and mean it".
The spirit of contract is the most important cornerstone
for the establishment of a modern civilized society.
Modern prosperous business, a sound legal system and political democracy,
they were all built on the basis of this contract spirit, of keeping promises.
However, China never developed like modern Western countries did.
One of the reasons is that China has lacked the contract spirit since ancient times.
The mainstream Chinese culture emphasizes "flexibility".
This is in contradiction with a fixed and customary contract.
This shows in the nobility representing the mainstream society,
who were never good at keeping promises.
The emperors of the past all ensured their own power and wealth first,
before massacring loyal servants.
As early as in the Spring and Autumn Period, the king of Yue, Goujian,
who dominated the world after defeating Wu,
betrayed his right-hand men, Wen Zhong and Fan Li.
One was sentenced to die, and the other stripped of all titles.
Liu Bang, founder of Han, also killed those who had helped him build his empire.
Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang, founder of Ming, almost killed all of his generals.
At the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, Han generals were used to unify China.
Later on, their misery began.
Similarly, after the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949,
the old courtiers around Mao Zedong were all in danger,
such as Lin Biao, Liu Shaoqi, and Peng Dehuai.
Even high-ranking officials couldn't protect themselves.
On the other hand, over the centuries,
there have been many cases where enemy generals have been made promises, recruited, soothed for a while,
and killed after they had served their purpose.
At the national level, China has never had the spirit of contract.
After signing contracts, it has always plotted behind the scenes,
and backstabbed whenever possible.
Those familiar with the history of the Three Kingdoms know that
in order to resist Wei, the Xiangshui alliance was formed between Wu and Shu.
Even political marriages between the two countries were arranged.
However, Liu Bei borrowed Jingzhou and never gave it back.
Later, Wu was afraid of Guan Yu being strong on the border of Wu,
and plotted to have him killed.
Neither Wu nor Shu fulfilled their agreement.
In the end, both countries were annexed by Wei.
During the Northern Song Dynasty, Song and Liao signed the "Chanyuan Alliance".
The two countries became brothers, and maintained peace for nearly a hundred years.
Later, the Kingdom of Jin grew powerful behind the back of Liao.
The Northern Song unilaterally tore up the covenant,
and signed a treaty with the Kingdom of Jin to destroy Liao.
After Liao was defeated, Song violated its contract with Jin,
and secretly tried to persuade Liao to surrender to the Northern Song.
Jin caught wind of this, so it took the opportunity and ended the Northern Song.
The Southern Song signed a treaty with Jin,
and maintained relative peace for another hundred years.
Then Mongolia became stronger.
The Southern Song and Mongolia formed a strategic alliance and destroyed Jin.
After destroying Jin, the Southern Song breached the contract
and conspired with Mongolian lord Li Tan against Mongolia.
However, after Li Tan sent troops to occupy Shandong,
the Southern Song betrayed Li Tan by not sending troops to assist Li Tan.
Kublai Khan killed Li Tan and sent troops to attack the Southern Song.
The Southern Song sent an envoy to seek a truce with Kublai Khan.
Kublai ordered people to carry out a few large boxes containing
all the contracts signed by Song and Mongolia since the collapse of Jin.
Kublai said as long as the envoy could pick out a single contract
that has been honored by the Southern Song,
he would withdraw the entire Mongolian army, and never go south again.
As you can imagine, the Southern Song Dynasty fell.
In 1911, the Republic of China and the Qing government signed a treaty that
promised the Qing royalty monarch treatment and 4 million liang as financial support every year.
Qing renounced the throne, and power was transitioned peacefully.
But the Republic of China breached the contract in the next year.
The royal family was given no more financial support, and Puyi was driven out of the palace.
This indirectly led to Qing's comeback and the subsequent establishment of Manchukuo.
CCP China signed the Sino-British Joint Declaration,
but then said that it was a historical document and therefore no longer valid.
If you say that, then you're saying that all contracts are valid only at the moment of signing.
In a way, all contracts are historical documents, aren't they?
If you look at China's so-called five thousand years of history,
you can hardly find anyone with the spirit of contract.
In the eyes of the Chinese, a contract is merely a temporary compromise;
when the situation has changed and the contract is no longer profitable,
the contract becomes waste paper.
Even to this day in China,
even though Western commerce and legal system have been introduced,
the Chinese still don't have the spirit of contract.
Far too many contracts have been violated by companies, governments, and individuals in the Middle Kingdom.
In China, there are tons of bankruptcies (caused by debt dodgers), various kinds of traps, and endless exploitation.
Basically, it's because the Chinese are educated and raised in an environment of authoritarian values,
and these poisonous values passed down through the ages serve tyranny.
Therefore, they will not be eradicated in China now.
On the contrary, they will be glorified.
If China really wants to amaze the world, it still has a long way to go.
OK, time to hear your comments on my last video.
In our last video, we talked about how China had become a world-renowned dual-standard country.
Netizen Michaelkelly said,
"Samsung's mobile phone explosion was hyped, while China's vivo mobile phone exploded
and the government silenced it. This is CCP China."
Netizen Once Only said,
"The swine fever outbreak in Africa can be called 'African swine fever'.
The flu outbreak in Spain can also be called "Spanish flu".
There's also European Black Death, Ebola virus, Japanese encephalitis, etc.
But we can't talk about the outbreak in Wuhan using 'Wuhan pneumonia'. Such a double standard..."
Netizen Black Star said,
"When foreign products are 'boycotted' by China,
China calls it 'safeguarding the country's dignity'.
When Chinese products are 'boycotted' by foreign countries,
China calls it 'the destruction of the market economy'."
Netizen Chao Ma said,
"Minister Wang Yi said, 'Whether China is good, Chinese people have the final say.'
But the people don't even have the right to open their mouths and tell the truth.
Those opening their mouths not for singing the praises of the government are labelled as trouble makers."
Okay, that's all for this video.
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This is Klaus. See you next time.