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[quote=APAULT,265061]People of China: don't take our comments personally, but this is the way of the world.

In a similar vein many of my students have said to me 'the people of China don't want to dominate the world', and 'Chinese people only want peace'.

Absolutely, because that goes for most people in most countries.  The problem is that national leaders didn't get to the top by being softies, they put the boot in when they find it expedient.  There is no reason why they should change at the international level.  AND maybe they shouldn't change: their responsibility is to the people they reperesent - so until we get a masive change in the the psyche of people worldwide, this will hold good.  In a capitalist competitive world this cannot, by definition, happen, because it is a system of competing interests.

Of course, when China achieves the still professed goal of the CCP and becomes a truly communist state, the rest of the world will see the benefit a co-operative rather than co-operative approach and there could be a change in the world wide psyche. From a Hegelian perspective this can only come about as a clash resulting from the contradictions in the new globalised society (that harmony is required but the system is competitive) and a synthesis to a new better world can be achieved.  While in Marxist terms the contradictions will only come about as a result of the imperatives of the continued working class struggle....by an industrial working class movement to overthrow the exploitative capitalism.   However, strong government measures ensure that there is no possibility of a Marxist type industrial workers revolution, and as such a revolution is a necessary prerequisite to achieving the ideals of the CCP.  Therefore, China will dominate rather than attempt to achieve the wellbeing of all mankind.

My students are required to attend classes in Marxism so I have tried to raise some of these questions with them.  With the teachers, I have asked why the students are being taught Marxism as it is a contradiction , a Hegelian contradiction perhaps - it is a subversive philospopy in the modern China.  Unfortunately, the students can only remember that their teacher told them they should not buy Japanese goods, and the teachers said it is a government requirement (which of course doesn't answer the real queston).

(OK,  so I have written a bit tongue in cheek, but the bottom line is we had better get used to the idea of a world led by a highly competitive and powerful China - soon.)[/quote]

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