Why I still think China will rule the world

IN MY article for TCW of May 2023, which can be viewed here, I suggested 25 reasons why China will rule the world within the next 25 or so years. Events since then have only served to reinforce my belief.

The greatest parade of military power the world has ever seen has just taken place in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square. The 72-year-old dictator Xi Jinping invited all the world’s despots to attend the parade. But what has not dawned on any of the media is that this event was a graphic humiliation for the guests. Here was Xi, as hosts of events big and small always do, lording it over them by demonstrating China’s gigantic military might and showing off his amazing weapons and vast military manpower. ‘Look how powerful we are. Look at all our weapons paraded before you. What have you got that can compare with what I’ve got?’ Answer: none of you has got anything close.

Russia? A fairly large military but equipped with outdated hardware. They have just re-commissioned a nuclear-powered battle cruiser mothballed for 30 years. As a former Royal Navy engineer officer I can assure readers that this ship will suffer almost constant breakdowns. And who can forget a Russian warship limping through the English Channel a few years ago belching black smoke (caused by a major defect in a boiler room). Russia relies almost entirely on China buying its oil and gas; also China supplies large quantities of military hardware to help it annexe Ukraine.

North Korea? Nuclear armed and with plenty of long range missiles. But the country is almost entirely dependent on China for the survival of its economy.

Iran? Also propping up its failing economy by selling its oil and gas to China. Virulently opposed to Western non-Muslim democracy which ensures support from virulently anti-Western democracy China.

Here are some the multitude of ways that China is undermining Western democratic political systems.

Drugs: The United States recently intercepted a huge shipment of fentanyl and fentanyl precursor chemicals en route from China to Mexico, ultimate destination the US.

The big increase in vaping in the UK and elsewhere has been in the news. Most vaping dispensers, especially the flavoured ones favoured by the young, are manufactured in China. Is the CCP pushing vaping and drugs on the West in order to weaken it?

Here in Australia over the past few years it has been plain to see an explosion of Chinese cars and panel vans on the roads, many of them EVs. The UK is suffering just as much as one of its major industries is destroyed by deliberately targeted Chinese action. 

Further, there have been many media articles about the risks of Chinese hackers attacking anything that contains Chinese made components like chips which can be accessed and controlled, from cars to renewables to major utilities, banks and other essential services.

In an absurd act of self harm the Northern Territory of Australia’s government in 2015 leased the port of Darwin, the closest Australian deep water port to China, to the Chinese company Landbridge for 99 years. The current (Labor) federal government muttered about cancelling the lease when it was elected in May. Landbridge objected strongly and the government has since gone quiet on the issue.

Meanwhile China is urging and coercing independent island groups in the region to support it by ‘bribing’ them with new port facilities, Chinese police forces on the islands and trade deals. Or simply giving them orders. For instance, this week the Pacific Islands Forum is being held in the Solomon Islands, and China’s ambassador to the Solomon Islands told the prime minister, Jeremiah Manele, not to include politician Peter Kenilorea in his government.

And so it goes on. Anyone who takes even a passing interest in current affairs and world politics will have seen and will continue to see reports and articles exposing Chinese actions aimed at undermining the West.

Can Western nations and people do anything about this? I no longer think so. Xi Jinping has at least 20 more years to realise his personal ambition to rule the world and is even now talking about organ transplants to extend his life well past 100, though I think we can take this for a laugh.

When Donald Trump leaves the White House in less than four years, who will take over as leader of the free world?

No one else shows any inclination to stand up to China, but then most nations have too much at stake to risk doing so. In 2021, when Australian prime minister Scott Morrison suggested that there should be an inquiry into the origins of covid, China immediately imposed a 100 per cent ban on imports of Australian wine, coal, timber, barley and lobsters. It was hugely damaging to those industries and is only recently gradually being lifted.

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