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ByHarriet Line

09:43, 7 JUL 2020UPDATED10:20, 7 JUL 2020

CHINA

Present & Past

China in the 21st Century of the Christian Calendar is an uncomfortable hybrid of Maoist Communism, venture Capitalism, and Feudalism.

In the recent period the Chinese Government hasn’t shed the iron control, or more aptly vice like grip of the Chinese Communist Party.

This Party still retains or rather clings to the notion that they are the natural Heirs to Mao’s legacy, though whether he would ever agree is open to debate.

The only real difference is the continuing propensity, to increase the influence of Capitalism to the Chinese economy.

Feudalism? Because Mao’s ‘Peoples Revolution’ never really dispensed with the ancient, Feudal System or Society within China.

The Chinese Communist Party merely swapped places with the ancient Chinese ‘Monarchy’, Mao displacing the Emperor shuffling onto his ‘Throne’.

I contend that Mao never really intended to completely sweep away ancient Chinese Feudalism within the Peasantry, which still accounts for by far the largest percentage of the population as a whole.

How can I say this? Because Mao’s view of the Chinese peasants, was exactly the same as that of the Emperor. Both Emperor and Mao considered and treated China’s Peasants with the same disdain, considering that Peasants are of a much lower intellect. Mao felt there was no point in changing anything for the Peasants, they were used to being ignored and discounted from any consideration. Mao had no intention of ever including the Peasants in his ‘Master Plan’ for China.

Hong kong

British Colonial Interest

The Qing dynasty ceded Hong Kong to the British Empire in 1842 through the treaty of Nanjing, ending the First Opium War. Hong Kong then became a British crown colony.^[2] Britain also won the Second Opium War, forcing the Qing Empire to cede Kowloon in 1860, while leasing the New Territories for 99 years from 1898.

In 1984, the British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher signed the Sino-British Joint Declaration, which incited a wave of emigration from Hong Kong.^[8] The Handover of Hong Kong on 1st July 1997, returned Hong Kong to Chinese rule, and it adopted the Hong Kong Basic Law.^[9][10]

When the British Government finally decided to relinquish any Colonial interest in Hong Kong, it made an attempt to placate the citizens by establishing an Administration to ‘Govern’ Hong Kong. They also sought to get an agreement from the Chinese ‘Government’ to honour this arrangement.

The Chinese appeared to go along with this going through the Ceremonials, smiling benignly throughout the proceedings. When the process of British withdrawal was complete, the Chinese allowed the Hong Kong Administration to take effect. Letting the British Ambassador deal with and mollify them in Hong Kong, while at the same allowing him to mediate with the Chinese.

The Chinese were playing their own game of Mahjong, another example of the ‘New’ China never really completely shedding the ‘Old’.

The Chinese were lulling Britain and Honk Kong into a sense of false security, they were well prepared to play the longer game until they got what they wanted.

Since China has regained territorial ‘Governance’ over Hong Kong the Chinese ‘Government’ has sought to increase its control by diminishing Hong Kong’s Legislature.

The overall aim was always to subsume Hong Kong into China as barely even another Province, for even that would be to admit that it deserved some degree of autonomy however mediocre. This has now happened and currently {2020} this is now the situation, Hong Kong is now officially designated by the Chinese as this:

'Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China (HKSAR)'

A police officer raises his pepper spray handgun as he detains a man during a march against the national security law.

At the Anniversary of Hong Kong's handover to China on 1st July 2020

China’s retaliation threat as UK offers sanctuary to 3 Million Hong Kong citizens

By Keir Mudie 22:13, 6 JUL 2020

DAILY MIRROR

CHINESE IMPERIAL AMBITIONS

Hong Kong to China is part and parcel of a Greater China, a reclamation of an ‘Ancient Territory’. But it is also part of an ‘Chinese Imperialism’ for when Mao, led his ‘Revolution’ against the ‘Old Order’, he was also assuming its Mantle. The Old China was repeatedly at ‘War’ with its neighbours such as Japan, and Korea, in its Imperial ambitions. A key example of this is the so called 1st Sino-Japanese War, of 25th July 1894 and 17th April 1895.
This was fought between the Qing dynasty of China and the Empire of Japan primarily over influence in Joseon Korea. While the 2nd Sino-Japanese War waged between 1937 and 1945, was fought between the Republic of China and the Empire of Japan. In many ways these 'Imperial Wars' can serve to bookend attempts of Chinese Imperialism, in that they effectively end the Ancient Chinese Empire. And link to the creation of a new Chinese Empire, under an alleged 'Chinese Republic'.
It is my contention here that Mao's 'Revolution' picks up from the 'Republic' to create an authoritarian 'State'. Mao has replaced the Emperor with himself, while the Chinese Comunist Party replaced the Emperor's Court.
In my analysis of China under Mao I make deliberate parallels, with Russia under Joseph Stalin. Both Mao and Stalin were engaged in similar exercises of political, social and economic control, over their respective domains.
Both China and Russia had been Feudal Imperial fiefdoms, with large rural areas replete with its peasent populations. Both Mao and Stalin replaced the Old Order with their, New One completely moddelled and fashioned in their Honour. Both Mao and Stalin had Imperial ambitions of their own, for them China and Russia would be centres of World political power and influence. The Korean War of 25th June 1950 to the ‘Armistice’ of 27th July 1953, was really simply a continuation of earlier ‘Conflicts’ with Korea serving as a setting. This was to see the 2 ‘Communist Empires’ of China and Russia united in some degree of political concourse. After the Second World War in 1945 the USA and Russia, subdivided Korea into North and South. With Russia assuming political influence of the North, with the USA influencing the South. This really served as a political recipe for war between these ‘2 Korea’s’, and China took great pleasure in adding its assistance to Russia.