Editorial: This senior AMERICAN official wants to deceive the world with Chinese speech

Source: Global Times

Deputy National Security Adviser Matthew Pottinger attended a meeting of a British think tank via video Friday and spoke in Chinese. Like other senior American officials, he attacked China's system and "ambitions" and focused on China's "united front work" with ingenuity, adding a Chinese to show that his understanding of China was different.

Mr. Boming, a former China correspondent for Reuters and the Wall Street Journal, spent nearly 10 years in China. But like his biased reports, he didn't jump out of American and Western-centrism, never looking at China as equals, but instead using China's usefulness and service to the United States and the West to make value judgments about what happened in China. He was like a "overseer" sent by the United States to China, pointing fingers at everything he saw.

Bo Ming claimed that in addition to the military strength of the Chinese Communist Party's victory over the Kuomintang at that time, the United Front work played an important role, and now the Ccp is using the same set it did to the Kuomintang to deal with the Western world. How ridiculous that sounds Chinese. Is the war between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party of China the same thing as the relations between the major powers in today's era of globalization?

Since the reform and opening up, the basic attitude of Chinese society toward the United States and the West can be summed up in two points. The first is to humbly learn from them various advanced technologies and cultures, and the other is to refuse their interference in China's internal affairs and resist all kinds of attempts to subvert China. Chinese never wanted to transform the West, but the United States and the West wanted to transform China too much. They often express this will openly, and they treat others as if they were Chinese would be as ambitious as they were in terms of political output.

In the past few decades, the CCP's United Front Work Department has never been the competent authority for China's foreign relations affairs. Which of these is the malicious infiltration of the West by promoting the unity of people from all walks of life in China, encouraging overseas Chinese and ethnic Chinese to contribute to China's reunification and development, and enhancing the friendship of foreigners toward China? Isn't that something that all countries can do with a straight face?

Is it the United States that is really engaged in a hostile "united front"? From secretary of state to defense secretary to national security adviser, senior US officials have publicly slandered China and demanded that Western and Asia-Pacific countries stand together with the United States against China. And when did China make the same effort to build an anti-American or anti-Western united front?

Many of the U.S. accusations against China are counterintuitive, such as that they accuse China of collecting global intelligence, including private information about people from various countries, and using big data to organize them. But first, is China's big data capability higher than that of the United States? Second, China has never shown its willingness to interfere in the affairs of other countries, so what is the use of such detailed intelligence accumulation? The only reasonable speculation is that the United States is putting its work on China what it has done to the world.

More than 10 years ago, the United States had a Prism project and exposed scandals that included eavesdropping on the communications of leaders of European countries such as Germany. Over the years they must have intensified their efforts to keep track of people around the world who interested them. If they didn't have those bad deeds, they would have given Chinese no guilt that was beyond our imagination.

The drastic changes in the US strategy toward China seem to have been misled by some so-called "China Links." They carried out a seemingly professional dismantling of the Chinese system, prompted by extreme prejudice, which was extreme and absurd. They deviate from the most basic fact that China is indeed a big country committed to peaceful development, and it is sincere to replace confrontation with cooperation. They have to develop the United States and China into a confrontational relationship and create far-fetched theories for this purpose. This group of people are the spoilers of world peace, and they will eventually be ridiculed and spurned by history.

Mr. Bomin claimed that the Trump administration has set an example of "honesty" with China, that is, to blame China as much as it wants. God, people should also be polite between people, state relations involve the major interests of the people, should not there be some discretion and restraint in the use of language that embodies foreign policy? Fallacies are dominating Washington politics, and that's where the world's power centers. This is the sadness of the times.