China Demise of a Civilization: The Eleven Principles of History and Economics Against the Chinese Marxist Model
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Read the demise of what was once the leading civilization in the world into a base rule-of-man dictatorship, where the government fears her own people. How strong can she be if she lies to her own people; cheats on her international agreements; and, steals the technology and intellectual property of the rest of the world? Shouldn't a great civilization be a fount of creation in the arts, technology, medicine, music, literature, sports and culture for the benefit of mankind and not the state? The photo of happy people above is forbidden by the Communist Party of China. Scared of a picture?! How strong can such a dictatorship be?"
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China Demise of a Civilization - Peter Thalheim
China Demise of a Civilization
The Eleven Principles of History and Economics Against the Chinese Marxist Model
Peter Thalheim
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On the cover: Copyright, Li Zhensheng/Contact Press Images. Chinese citizen Yu Ziwan being shamed on stage at Red Guard Square, in Harbin, China, circa 1966. Yu Ziwan was accused of being a big property owner
during a struggle session under the rule of Mao Zedong, the founder of Communist China. During public struggle sessions citizens are publicly humiliated on stage for hours before tens, hundreds or even thousands of their fellow citizens. Ms. Ziwan had to carry a chair to the appointed place before the crowd and stand with the sign around her neck with head bowed down for hours whilst being castigated. The placard hanging around her neck says she is a big property owner who refused to change
and it contained her name. (Red-Color News Soldier,
Li Zhensheng, Phaidon Press Ltd., London, 2003, pgs. 122–123.)
Ms. Ziwen was allowed to live. Other citizens were not so lucky under Mao Zedong and might be paraded around on trucks after a struggle session with signs around their necks and driven out to a field for public execution, or as set forth in this book they might be beaten to death on stage with farm tools or other implements to be made an example of for the rest of the citizenry.
The dual value of a struggle session is not only the public shaming of Yu Ziwan but also the intimidation of all other citizens who saw and heard her fate knowing that they could be next on stage. This is a variation on the intimidation of cancel cancer, also known as cancel culture
in the United States in 2020. History should neither be ignored nor sanitized as lessons abound.
In addition, the color red is used as a background color on the cover, which has a double meaning. Red is a lucky color in China and can symbolize authority and privilege as well as a color to ward off a mythical beast, Nian Shou, around the Chinese New Year with loud noises and the color red. Thus a Chinese New Year tradition of firecrackers, red lanterns and red scrolls on windows and doors. Rising stock prices in China might be denoted in red, whilst in the West, declining stock prices might be denoted in red. (Why is red considered a lucky color for Chinese?,
Chris Lee, medium.com, April 20, 2017.)
Red is also the main color of the national flag of Communist China as it was for communist Russia, formerly known as the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. Communists and socialists use the color red as a symbol of revolution. The flag of communist Vietnam is a star on a red background. The flag of North Korea is mostly red with a red star. The flag of the Khemer Rouge who ran Cambodia from 1975 to 1979, was a red background. The Khemer Rouge killed 1.5 to 2.2 million of their own citizens, almost one-quarter of the country’s citizens in only four years.
Red and revolution, from whence did it come? During the French Revolution of 1789–1799, the color red became inextricably linked to bloody revolution. The Bastille jail in Paris, France had been stormed on July 14, 1789 to start the French Revolution. The King of France was still in his royal residence on August 10, 1792 when crowds numbering nine thousand appeared at the king’s residence to depose him. King Louis XVI and his family were defended by nine hundred Swiss guards, wearing white uniforms, amongst others, but they were vastly outnumbered. The King came down to the people to avoid bloodshed, but bloodshed came to both sides. After the King sent orders to the Swiss Guard to cease fire the Swiss Guards were overwhelmed. Most were slain right there. Others were sent to the Hotel de Ville and put to death there. After killing guards, looting furniture and wine cellars and burning buildings some paraded with banners made from the red uniforms of the dead Swiss Guards-the first known instance of a red flag used as symbol of revolution.
(The Age of Napoleon,
Will and Ariel Durant, Simon and Schuster, New York, 1975, p. 40, citing, Sorel, Georges, Reflections on Violence, 194.) If the Swiss Guards had had grey, brown or other practical color for their uniforms, the blood of a dead person might just have made the hue of grey, brown or green darker. Blood shed on white uniforms, on the other hand, is unmistakably red. The use of red as a revolutionary color is not limited to Marxists and communists. Socialists and fascists also like to use red.
After his electoral victory in 1981 in France, Socialist Francois Mitterrand marched down the Champs Elysees clutching a red rose. The flag of the National Socialist German Workers Party of Adolf Hitler was a swastika on a white circle over a red background, another bloody regime. Fortunately for the Chinese people they have been able to keep what was good about red, relatively intact from their pre-Marxist days. Nonetheless the Marxist regime has also persecuted the Chinese people under the color red.
On the rear cover: Copyright, Ken Jorecke/Contact Press Images. The Goddess of Democracy statue in Tiananmen Square, Beijing, China, June, 1989. The Communist Party of China is so weak today, that the image of the Goddess of Democracy, built out of papier-mache and steel, during the Tiananmen Square Protests in 1989 is prohibited in China today. The student protests in Tiananmen Square and around China had begun in mid-April 1989. There were calls for an end to official corruption and political reforms. The Communist Party of China had come to power at the business end of a rifle in 1949, and has lacked legitimacy ever since as they have never held a free election in all that time, instead it is a Marxist dictatorship of the proletariat
The springtime protests in China in 1989 were the high-water mark of the liberal, democratic dream for China. The Tiananmen Square protest and massacre of civilians in June, 1989 by army troops is not allowed to be taught nor discussed in China. Images of the protest are sanitized and removed. Young Chinese who leave China to study abroad are ignorant of the Tiananmen Square protests and massacre. You may have heard of the image of the Tank Man,
the solitary Chinese citizen dressed in plain clothes standing before a row of tanks numbering more than 19 with a burned-out bus off to the side. Tank Man stopped them in their tracks. When the lead tank tried to go around the Tank Man, the Tank Man blocked him. Only after onlookers escorted the Tank Man away did the tanks continue their mop-up operations after the Tiananmen protests had been crushed the previous morning of June 4, 1989. To this day, his photos—and anything referring to the massacre—are banned in China.
(The story behind the iconic ‘Tank Man’ photo,
Kyle Almond, cnn.com, accessed December 2, 2020.)
How strong can the Communist Party of China, (CPC
), and the nation it controls be if it fears and prohibits the image of the Goddess of Freedom facing the portrait of Mao Zedong in the highest place of honor in China, on the wall of the Forbidden City on Tiananmen Square in Central Beijing? Query whether the Goddess of Freedom, which was modeled after the Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor and her smaller cousin on the Seine River in Paris, France, was built to a height of approximately 30 feet to be the exact height of Mao’s portrait? That would have been a direct affront to the grip of the CPC on the Chinese people. The perceived threat from this immobile statue was so great that when the tanks and soldiers crushed the protest in Tiananmen Square in the early hours of June 4, they simultaneously bulldozed the Goddess of Freedom and removed all evidence of her existence by sunrise.
Afraid of a statue! Sanitizing history! These are all too familiar tactics of the Marxist-inspired cancel cancer mob in the United States of America in seeking to silence history they disapprove of and attempting to sanitize the past so that the truth cannot be arrived at.
Query whether the front and rear covers of this book could be held up silently any time a representative of the Chinese Marxist government appears in an official capacity outside of China to remind them of the CPC’s inherent weaknesses?
Introduction
Lying, cheating, and stealing are no ways to run a country. But today that is the modus operandi of the second-largest economy in the world, China, which by some measures is the largest economy in the world. It doesn’t hurt to achieve that milestone when China has over 1.4 billion people compared to the 327 million people in the United States; 126 million people in the third-largest economy, Japan; followed by Germany with over 82 million people for the fourth-largest economy; and then trailed closely by India, Great Britain, and France.
Prior to the COVID-19 Coronavirus outbreak in China at the end of 2019 and then the rest of the world thereafter, there was already copious evidence of the dysfunctions of China. The 2019–2020 spread of the COVID-19 virus beyond the borders of China and to the rest of the world, with the apparent nonfeasance of the Communist Party of China, merely adds another chapter to the decline of China’s civilization.
How would one characterize the rise of China from agrarian backwater under Mao Zedong through the renaissance enabled by Deng Xiaoping and his fellow rulers starting around 1978, the year I graduated from Greenwich High School? Many of you were not even born then, but it doesn’t seem all that long ago for me. Wishful thinking, perhaps. Yes, it is now the demise of a civilization. Much deference is due China for her position long ago as a leader in government, science, and trade. She represents about 18 percent of the global population today. Even as she was suffering a war with Imperial Japan and in the throes of civil war in 1945, the Great Powers granted her one of five permanent seats on the soon-to-be-formed United Nations Security Council. This was a recognition of her prior stature in humanity. The three who designed the United Nations at the Yalta Conference in 1945 were the United States, Great Britain, and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, also known as the USSR. The liberation of France from German occupation had only begun with the previous June 1944 Normandy invasion. France was not even fully liberated when France was intended to be given a permanent seat on the United Nations Security Council. China was also still partially occupied by Imperial Japan at that time. Neither China, France, Great Britain, nor the Soviet Union had any nuclear weapons at that point. The United States was closing in on achieving an atomic weapon with Russian spies littered throughout the Manhattan Project. Giving China a permanent seat on the UN Security Council could have been likened to giving a seat to the shadow of a great civilization. The renaissance encouraged by Deng Xiaoping and his co-leaders held great promise for our brothers and sisters in China, but this renaissance has since gone from promising to disappointing.
Chapter 1
chapter one: What is a Civilization?
What is civilization? One could be in deep discussion for days to address that question. Historian Will Durant summed it up quite eloquently in his text Our Oriental Heritage , Chapter 1: Civilization is social order promoting cultural creation. Four elements constitute it: economic provision, political organization, moral traditions, and the pursuit of knowledge and the arts.
¹ For civilization is not something inborn or imperishable; it must be acquired anew by every generation and any serious interruption in its financing or its transmission may bring it to an end. Man differs from the beast only by education, which may be defined as the technique of transmitting civilization.
² Historian Durant discussed the many elements of a civilization, such as water, without which there can be no life. It starts with a reliable supply of water and food and the creation of shelter and schools. But rightly, we need a city to accelerate the creation of a civilization. Civitas in Latin is city. In the city we have invention, industry, luxuries, and arts. Only when you have enough food and shelter does one have enough surplus time to create science, philosophy, art, and literature, the hallmarks of a civilization. ³ And you need education to