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What Are the Goals of China’s Development?

Letters to Editor
June 3, 2020 Updated: June 3, 2020

What are the goals of China’s development? This sounds like a ridiculous question, or maybe it’s not.

You could say that development is about obtaining a better life. You’re not wrong. This is generally true. But, by “China,” I mean the “People’s Republic of China” (PRC); this is different.

The final goal of China’s development is to change the existing international order and to enable China to rule the world. To put it more directly, their final goal is to eliminate the United States and the entire Western civilization, and to use the Chinese system, including its political system and culture, to rule the world. Is that alarmist? Is it impossible? Let me tell you what I know.

It is well known that after 1949, the Chinese Communist Party began to rule mainland China and established the communist dictatorship the “People’s Republic of China.” Marxism and Leninism are the foundation of all actions in that country. Naturally, the realization of Marx’s communist ideals throughout the world was the ultimate goal of all actions in that country. In other words, they must “completely smash the old world” and “build a new world” as Marx and Lenin meant.

This “old world” to be smashed, of course, refers to the world order led by the United States and established after World War II. Since then, China has regarded the United States as the number one enemy and all influence of the United States around the world as U.S. imperialism.

The “new world” to be established should be the communist society that they pursued at that time. Therefore, the whole world has seen that on the battlefields of Korea and later Vietnam, the Chinese army directly clashed with the United States and the United Nations.

The same is true in other respects. ...

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