Xi Jinping's rhetoric on Chinese 'dominance' must be taken 'seriously'



Australia should take President Xi Jinping’s own rhetoric on establishing Chinese dominance “seriously”, Sydney Morning Herald International Editor Peter Hartcher says.

Mr Hartcher said President Xi has shown he is capable of playing a long-term game of expansionism but is also capable of taking quick opportunistic action.

“For example, Hong Kong – no one was expecting him to grasp and crush Hong Kong and its liberties as quickly and decisively as he did.

“All of the movement is in one direction and that is … all expansion.

“We should take his own rhetoric seriously … he has said ‘I will take the initiative and establish dominance’.

“He doesn’t qualify it by saying Asia or the Pacific – he says dominance – I think we need to take him seriously.”

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27 thoughts on “Xi Jinping's rhetoric on Chinese 'dominance' must be taken 'seriously'”

  1. Taiwan is globalist hold like Ukraine held my Soros central banks and Pelosi inside chip trading . Central. Anders elites took over Taiwan creating trafficking hub China is just taking back like Putin took back rollout Gesara gold backed assets and out of fiat killing oil machine of elites but US they are trying to create war their bankrupt and need their money laundered system

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  2. This man is such a total embarrassment. He has weakened us so badly as a nation, he needs to focus on getting his crackhead son out of our affairs and taking China to the mat, China has flooded our communities with fentanyl and killing more Americans than smallpox, that Chinese Winnie the poo Communist President Xi has also unleashed biological disease on America, Covid has caused me to have terrible long term side effects and Ile never be the same. Now we have 87000 new IRS agents to wipe out small business and working families, instead we need 87000 new Border Patrol agents to stop this flood of Fentanyl wiping out our communities. These stupid people who voted for Democrats look what you did now, enjoy the audits for selling your crap on eBay and your kids newspaper route. I hope you enjoy 2 billion gallons of American oil going to China too. The democrats have wiped out the middle class and do not care about us one bit. IRS is coming for you people. Like I said enjoy the ride to the accountants for your tax audits and your property seizures. This is the start of Communism and it’s not going to stop unless we fight back and take this country back from these diseased demoncrat rats.

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  3. Meanwhile, Australia continues to admit tens of thousands of mainland Chinese as permanent residents every year. War is inevitable with Communist China and Australia will soon discover that we have a massive 5th column of traitors working against Australia and for China.

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  4. This is all Nonsense China’s never really been tested in any real way When it comes to war they don’t have the experience they don’t have the ability to invade they don’t have the Navy that the United States has if they decide to challenge the United States they will be utterly destroyed United States being nice by not provoking now but if the United States wanted to they could absolutely destroy China so all this talk that these people are having is just dumb

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  5. Compared with inflation! We should worry more about the default of US debt! 30 trillion debt × The interest rate of the Federal Reserve = the interest that the US government needs to repay!

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  6. For now china can only war around chinese waters, there aircraft carriers are diesil and need refueling. There woukd be major supply issues if they went to America. And America would also have supplies issues mainly with amunition and food and jet fuel because of the distance from China. I believe Theres only one way this will end and its with Nuclear Missiles. A war will be too long and difficult and expensive. China wont stop at Taiwan and Russia wont stop at Ukraine. Unless they get hit with a Nuke. And shown we mean business. Because they certainly do
    And Biden is a joke hes the weakest president ever and he darent do anything against China because they know how corruot he is and can spill the beans on his and his sons business deals.

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  7. im really not worried about china they atk us it will be the last time they atk anymore nukes or not they dont even know how to fight a war the best thing for them to do is sit down and shut up there is no war they can even come close to wining air sea land this is all a joke and its on them they are about to see why japan is in nado now and why Hitler lost his war

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  8. China
    The only
    ROWDY country in the world
    Its polcy only based on self centric
    Very Dangerous Communist political Doctorine

    China never care other nations legitimate welfare

    China built over very wrong
    Administrative selfish policies

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  9. Thats it im going to stop buying Chinese products all Chinese products are going to be forbidden to purchase in my household and my friends to no more made in China

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  10. Look at anything in your house on the tag and it says "made in china" noble thought but not possible unless grow own food, make own clothes, etc…..unfortunately the west is so concerned with climate, lgbtedb#%^& , hurt feelings, etc that this country will fall apart..very sad…we cannot say what a woman is and 30trillion in debt…no way we can sanction china and prosper…not that the sanctions work anyway when we make loopholes for the things we dont want to lose..look at europe and gas., turbines from canada can still be made and sent, etc…not looking good

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  11. Part 2
    Oria also debunks the notion of China becoming imperialist. Chairman Xi has on many occasions denounced hegemony. As Oria notes, the West seems stuck in projecting itself onto other countries. (p 114)

    American ideology is predicated on its chosenness, its exceptionalism, its having a manifest destiny, being the indispensable nation, and being the leader of the free world. (p 120-131) Being the leader, it has the right to decree what is right or wrong and to intervene at its choosing. Writes Urio, “the U.S. tendency has remained, constantly and consistently, to intervene everywhere, whenever possible, by any means, to diffuse the good news of the new world order.” (p 131)

    The Monroe Doctrine has been expanded around the world. Thus, the US breaks promises and sends military assets to the Russian frontier, to the former Soviet republic, Ukraine — what Russia has indicated is a redline. The US feels no embarrassment to tell NATO-ally Germany to not buy Russian gas. “This is another example of how the U.S. plans to lead the world and tell its allies what their interests are.” (p 145)

    The key US-designated adversary, though, is China. (p 150)

    Urio contrasts the static ideology of the US with the Chinese view of the world as perpetually changing. Thus, China remains prepared to adjust accordingly to seek harmony. The vehicle for that harmonization since 1949 has been Marxist-Leninism adapted to Chinese circumstances. Confucianism, molded to the present circumstances, holds the ruler is duty-bound to be moral and look after the people. (p 171, 187, 203) To this end, the Chinese people, writes Urio, will stand by the CPC as long as they can live comfortably. (p 186)

    Urio identifies the US as in decline because the politicians have favored the capitalists over the well-being of the country and its people. (p 243) Spending for the military-industrial complex is rampant (p 244) and has diminished spending in other social areas. (p 247) It is a priority markedly different than in China.

    Militarism is obviously out of the question to any sane analysis against a formidable, nuclear-armed China. Propagandizing is left as a tactic of choice. The US has targeted, in particular, Tibet, Xinjiang, and Hong Kong. Available facts belie western propaganda, disinformation, and incitement concerning these regions. Moreover, given that the continental US is based on the genocide and dispossession of the Original peoples, that Hawai’i was dispossessed from the Hawaiian people, that Guam, Saipan became administered territories of the US through far flung wars, it seems, moderately speaking, outrageous to criticize another country.

    Under Xi, the goal is attaining the Chinese Dream. Part of paving the way for the Chinese Dream means getting the economy right. In terms of economic growth China is faring extremely well, but as is detailed in America and the China Threat, getting the balance right between rural and urban, among the regions, and the narrowing the gap between the wealthy and struggling people (China has a high GINI coefficient) is a work in progress. Urio finds, “The overall result is that China is improving the living conditions of all strata of its society, thus realizing a satisfactory level of social cohesion, stability, unity and harmony, in spite of the persistence of disparities.” (p 287)

    One challenge for China, and other nations, is obtaining a level playing field in global commerce to break the stranglehold of the US dollar. Urio describes how this is being realized by China and other countries. China has entered several economic associations, among them the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), BRICS, and effective since 1 January 2022, the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP), a “free” trade agreement among the Asia-Pacific nations of Australia, Brunei, Cambodia, China, Indonesia, Japan, South Korea, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, New Zealand, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam. Some indications point to the supremacy of the US dollar eroding.

    Near the end of the book, the lynchpin of the Chinese policy, the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is fleshed out. The BRI is daring and brilliant. With a road belt across Eurasia and a maritime road connecting Africa, the BRI encircles the globe. It is an ever-expanding project encouraging economic development, sharing possibilities among several countries, and attracting the interest of other countries. Who’d like to be left out of such a massive project? The US is opposed to the BRI since it represents leadership by China. Part of the genius of the BRI is that it skirts much of the US military encirclement of China. Says Urio, “BRI is above all a geo-strategic project that, if fully realized, will allow China to reclaim its status as a world power, thereby putting an end to the unipolar ‘world America made.’” (p 337)

    Biden and preceding administrations have not understood that it is economic not military values that will attract other countries. (p 349) China seeks win-win relationships, respects national sovereignty, and does not interfere in the domestic affairs of other nations. (p 351)

    On January 18, 2022, Vice Foreign Minister Le Yucheng spoke to a forum hosted by Renmin University:

    Let the 1.4 billion Chinese people live a good life and satisfy the people’s yearning for a better life is the goal of the Communist Party of China. You must know that there are still 1 billion people in China who have never been on a plane, and more than 200 million Chinese families do not have toilets. The proportion of Chinese people who have obtained a college degree or above is only 4%, compared with 25% in the United States. This is what we should attach great importance to and strive to change. Compared with whether GDP is super beautiful, we value our ideology, governance ability, and contribution to the world to catch up and surpass, and strive to be more advanced, more in line with people’s expectations, and more in line with the trend of the times.

    Does that sound threatening? America and the China Threat lays out the background and foreground in detail to the dynamism between the US and China. One can comprehend the apprehension of US empire observing the unabating ascendance of China, and the US’s unwillingness to accept the rise of China. For most observers it is a fait accompli. The US can squawk about China ascendancy or work with it. Volens nolens, China will continue ascending.

    The original source of this article is Global Research
    Copyright © Kim Petersen, Global Research, 2022

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