CHINA'S NEW YEAR RESOLUTION
China must resolve what to do if America should one day decide to
pre-emptive strike China with a force of Armageddon.
Historically, several such resolutions had been made. And it's
never too soon for China to make one now, in view of the critical
junction she's in.
Six hundred years ago, the Ming Dynasty made a similar
resolution. The court madarins forsaked a chance for world
dominations and disarmed its own superpower navy. This bought
China, and the world, a few hundreds years of peace, until the Manchu
Dynasty stirred things up a little. Then again, in the face of
military challenges by the West and Westernized Japan, the Manchu
Dynasty also resolved to make peace rather than war. If not for
the two Christian, democratic crusades, China might still remained a
stubborn peace lover.
China essentially escaped the world-wide, free-for-all, mutual
slaughterings in the two world wars. Yes, there were massacres of
Chinese, but they were worth the price for trading humanity's
salvation for military barbarism. Finally, through quagmire of
resistence, China outpatiented the West to force the West to finally
accept China's
preferrence for peace and harmony over competition and war.
On the nuclear arm front, the Soviet Union actually also made such
a similar resolution. Had not for the Soviets opting to join the
Hollywood party of democracy and freedom, I might have to write about
Russia instead of China, now. Nevertheless, the unilateral
sacrifice the Soviet Union made should serve as a lesson for China to
reach her own resolution. For one thing, the confrontational
America switched its view of the Soviet Union, overnight, from being an
evil empire to that of a down-and-out old bear.
Three factors need to be considered toward a final resolution.
First, it's the mutual assured annihilation in the event of a nuclear
war. Second, the quagmire of insurgence and terrorism has proven
to
be an effective alternative to outright confrontation typical of
conventional
wars that are normally preferred by strong-muscle-weak-mind
nations. And third, it's high
time the world need to accept the
historical truth, however distorted by trillions spent on propaganda
and militarism, that America has been a juvenile who left its British
home before receiving proper breeding. From Phillipines, Japan
and
Europe to Korea, Vietnam and now the Mideast, few have been spared of
the American brat's ravage. And sadly, some even love the
trashings enough to want to work hard toward more of the same.
The bad, but best, option for the world today is that, whatever
happens, let's just, at least, leave America intact by not retaliating,
say in a nuclear
war. Parents have known to do that for their kid, however
unredeemable the kid might be.
In short, China's New Year resolution should be: I will not return the
favor in case of an all out attack by America, or any major nuclear
power.
But what China is really saying is: I am volunteering to set an example
for the world to embrace peace by rejecting the arm race.
Such a resolution is the first criterion for the next leader of the
world.