China still makes things, builds things and mines things, putting the jobs, heat and light of her people first. She is emerging from the gangster capitalism that always follows Communism by returning to her own culture, which is firmly centred on the family and the local community, reveres tradition and ritual, upholds government by moral rather than physical force, affirms the Golden Rule, is Agrarian and Distributist, has barely started an external war in five thousand years, and is especially open to completion by, in, through and as classical Christianity. She takes Africa seriously, even going there to secure the food supply necessary for her to give up the extremely anti-Confucian one child policy.
The correct response to the rise of China is therefore a return to making things, building things and mining things. To prioritising jobs, heat and light. To the family and the local community. To tradition and ritual. To moral rather than physical force. To the Golden Rule. To Agrarianism and Distributism. To a pronounced aversion to war. To the classical Christianity that completes and transcends Confucianism, in no way destroying it. To a very Classical and Patristic openness to, and interest in, Africa. And to the glorious celebration of the fact that the very last thing wrong with the world is that it has people in it.
Hostility to China, like hostility to Russia, is frequently nothing more than the student Trotskyism of those who manifest it, and they ought to have grown out of that a long time ago.
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There was fear of the 'Yellow Peril' in the West long before anybody knew who Trotsky was.
ReplyDeletePersonally I see nothing wrong with hostility to a country that locks people up just for saying stuff its government does not like. I can understand the logic behind limiting the franchise but not behind locking up people for their opinions.
But that is not a threat to us. The buying up of our utilities by a foreign power is, but that is just as true no matter which foreign power it is. Likewise, economic domination generally.
ReplyDeleteWe know what we have to do. Reverse globalisation. Then we should be able to harangue the Chinese as much as necessary about human rights, as we cannot do now.
And they might even respect us a bit when we did, as is no more than case now, nor does it deserve to be, than when the Americans go through the motions of standing up to the Chinese, or than if we ever even went through the motions of standing up to the Americans.