This is also not true. The ccp is an organization filled with politicians and bureaucrats. They are not ideologically opposed to democracy or "Western" values. At this point the words "communist" and communism are meaningless in China. The ccp is actually an authoritarian system that is most interested in managing China's survival for the benefit of the Chinese people. They believe that the principles of good citizenship are important to enforce because of the need to have a peaceful society of 1.5 billion people is practically necessary. But like any other large organization they are full of corruption.
What the Chinese don't want is any other nation telling them how to manage their country. They are clearly guilty of human rights abuses but they themselves don't agree that their actions are abusive to human rights. They believe in a greater good giving them the right to suppress dissent.
But mainly they are not interested in the destruction of democracy or Western nations. They don't have imperialist ambitions. What they do have are national security mandates which are why they are using investment to form alliances with third world nations in emerging markets.
As for Taiwan. It is a thorn for the ccp that a thriving democracy coupled with a stock market and populated by Chinese people is sitting right off the coast. The same was and is an issue with Hong Kong. The ccp definitely believes in authoritarian power rather than messy unpredictable democracy based on populism as the best way to manage a nation built on a capitalist economy. They believe that the government should have the ultimate unrestricted power to act because it is, in their opinion, the responsibility of the government to be in firm control of every citizen and organization that exists within their borders. Not as a form of suppression but instead as the foundational and structural support for the well-being of the Chinese people.
We do not agree. The principles of liberal democracy are antithetical to the the principles of authoritarian governance. We prefer government that can be changed by the will of the people. The communist government prefers government that directs the will of the people through indoctrination education on good citizenship for the benefit of the nation.
That government doesn't want to destroy the west. They want to take from the west whatever they can that they feel will help them keep China manageable and secure. They want the tech, they want to be invested, they want the manufacturing business, they want foreign investment into China. They want to know what we are planning politically and socially to expand our influence throughout the world and work to counteract that and expand their own influence.
That's basically it. No one is running around China promoting the destruction of America. In seven years I never once met a person who was negative about America. Just people who were curious about America.
I never saw a single story about people gathering to wish harm upon America. Of course that doesn't mean such people and groups don't exist in China. Just that they are seemingly in the extreme minority if they do exist.
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