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On October 16, 2023, Member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Director of the Office of the Central Commission for Foreign Affairs Wang Yi met with former leader of the Labour Party and former Prime Minister of the UK Tony Blair in Beijing.

Wang Yi said that as major countries with global influence, China and the UK should strengthen cooperation to promote world development in the right direction. China's development strengthens the world's forces for peace and stability. Wang Yi expressed the hope that the UK government will pursue a rational, pragmatic and positive China policy and increase the connotation of the times in China-UK relations. The Communist Party of China is ready to strengthen exchanges with the Labour Party of the UK.

Tony Blair said that the world today is fraught with challenges, which requires the UK and China to strengthen coordination and joint response. The Labour Party of the UK is ready to strengthen dialogue with China to promote the development of UK-China relations in a positive direction.

https://www.fmprc.gov.cn/eng/zxxx_662805/202311/t20231110_11178311.html

 

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Is China an Imperialist nation?   By Percy Allan

I was recently sent a complete list of China’s invasions of other countries in the last 2,245 years to demonstrated that China is historically an imperial nation and hence dangerous.

Here is the list:

• 221 BCQin invade Vietnam
• 218 BCQin invade Vietnam
• 111 BCHan invade Vietnam
• 43Han invade Vietnam
• 544Chen (Wu) invade Vietnam
• 598-614 Sui launch four invasions
• 602Sui invade Vietnam
• 626 Tang invade Korea
• 640Tang invade Xinjiang (Karakhoja)
• 644Tang invade Xinjiang (Karasahr)
• 648Tang invade Xinjiang (Karasahr)
• 645-648 Tang invade Korea
• 657Tang invade Western Turkic Khaganate
• 661 Tang invade Korea
• 668Tang invade Korea
• 938Southern Han invade Vietnam
• 981Song invade Vietnam
• 1231 Yuan invade Korea
• 1240Yuan invade Tibet
• 1247Yuan invade Korea
• 1251Yuan invade Korea
• 1257Yuan invade Korea
• 1274 Yuan invade Japan
• 1277Yuan invade Myanmar
• 1281 Yuan invade Japan
• 1283Yuan invade Vietnam
• 1285Yuan invade Vietnam
• 1287Yuan invade Myanmar
• 1293Yuan invade Indonesia (Java)
1407Ming invade Vietnam
• 1427Ming invade Vietnam
• 1537Ming invade Vietnam
• 1627 Qing invade Korea
• 1636 Qing invade Korea
• 1644Qing invade Korea
• 1683Qing invade Xinjiang, Tibet (Dzungar Khanate)
• 1693Qing invade Mongolia
• 1720Qing invade Tibet
• 1750Qing invade Tibet
• 1788Qing invade Tibet
• 1788Qing invade Nepal
• 1789Qing invade Vietnam
• 1910Qing invade Tibet
• 1950PRC invades Tibet
• 1962PRC invades India (Ladakh)
• 1979PRC invades Vietnam

That is an impressive list but if we go back 2,000 years every ancient nation and civilisation went through imperial phases (i.e., attacked others). That does not prove their present intent.

For instance, The First Opium War (1839-1842) involved Britain attacking China’s Qing dynasty and extracting the Treaty of Nanking. Consequently, China ceded Hong Kong Island to Britain and opened five treaty ports for foreign trade. Many other foreign powers extracted similar concessions from weak Chinse emperors.

During the Boxer Rebellion (1899-1901), an alliance of eight nations invaded China. These nations were Japan, Germany, Britain, Russia, France, Italy, United States and Austria-Hungary. In the early 1930s, Japan occupied much of northeastern China. The full-scale invasion of China by Japan began in 1937, leading to eight years of devastating warfare that cost up to 20 million Chinese lives.
China now refers to the period between the mid-1800s and the mid-1900s as its “century of humiliation” and vows never to be invaded again.

The list of Chinse invasions confirms that China has not invaded any nation since 1979 which is 45 years ago. By contrast during this period America and Russia occupied or overthrew several nations. The USA – Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria and Russia – Afghanistan, Chechnya, Georgia, Ukraine.

The history of the four Chinese invasions listed after 1789 is extensively covered by Wikipedia and many other sources. What stands out is that:

Tibet was part of China before the Chinese Communist Party reasserted control over it in 1951. Both the Qing Dynasty and the Peoples Republic Of China (Kuomintang) claimed it was part of China. Also, no nation ever recognised Tibet as a sovereign state independent of China. Nor does any nation now recognise Tibet as having a government in exile.

The Chinese invasion of India (Ladakh province) in 1962 was a military escalation of the Sino-Indian border dispute following India’s refusal to reach a diplomatic agreement on the Dalai Lama who had fled Tibet. The conflict ended after a month with China unilaterally declaring a ceasefire and simultaneously withdrawing to its pre-war border.

The China invasion of Vietnam in 1979 also lasted only a month. It was in response to Vietnam’s invasion and occupation of Cambodia which was a military ally of China. Notwithstanding Vietnam refusing to withdraw from Cambodia after overthrowing its government, China quickly withdrew from Vietnam and now has good relations with it.

None of these wars suggest China wants to invade neighbouring nations let alone occupy them.

As for Taiwan, for the past 50 years, the West under the One China Policy has recognised Taiwan as being part of China, not a sovereign state. It would be tragic if China invaded this thriving democracy, but I doubt it will because as China’s longest serving ambassador to Washington said recently – Beijing will not fall into a trap of “someone” starting a war in the Taiwan Strait. “We certainly don’t want to see a situation where Chinese are killing Chinese”

Also, China is the world’s largest trading nation so would suffer greatly if a war over Taiwan resulted in it being sanctioned by the West and cut off from its markets.
The claim that China is a military threat seems to have three layers:
1.   China is plotting to invade neighbouring nations,
2.   China is skirmishing with boundary nations, and
3.   China is trying to establish foreign military bases.

This article deals with the first. Future articles will deal with the latter two.

 

https://johnmenadue.com/is-china-an-imperialist-nation/

 

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one-china policy....

China has urged the US to stop fanning the flames of conflict and take concrete actions to adhere to the one-China principle and the provisions of the three China-US joint communiques, turning their stated opposition to "Taiwan independence" into reality, a spokesperson for the State Council Taiwan Affairs Office, said on Wednesday in response to the claims of US military commander hyping the idea of  "mainland to invade Taiwan by 2027." 

Admiral John Aquilino, head of the Indo-Pacific Command, said recently that he believes the Chinese mainland's military "will be prepared to invade Taiwan by 2027," according to media reports. This comes as the Biden administration recently approved $300 million in military financing for the island. 

Some individuals in the US have clear ulterior motives, continuously fabricating so-called "timelines" and hyping the mainland's "military threat," creating an atmosphere of war across the Taiwan Straits, Chen Binhua, the spokesperson for the State Council Taiwan Affairs Office, told the press conference on Wednesday. 

This is merely an excuse for interfering in Taiwan question and a means for the US military-industrial complex to profit, he said. 

If the US government truly wishes to maintain peace and stability across the Taiwan Straits, it should stop fanning the flames and take concrete actions to adhere to the one-China principle and the provisions of the three China-US joint communiques, turning their stated opposition to "Taiwan independence" into reality, the spokesperson stressed. 

DPP authorities, for the sake of their own party's interests, have willingly become pawns in external forces' strategy to "use Taiwan to contain the mainland," continuously pushing for seeking independence and provoking conflict, Chen said.

They even go so far as to sacrifice the lives and well-being of the people on the island, eagerly aligning with the US to become "porcupines," build "fortresses," and turn Taiwan into a "powder keg" and "explosive mine." 

Such actions are definitely not for the benefit of the Taiwan compatriots and will only increasingly push the island toward a dangerous situation fraught with the risk of war, the spokesperson said. 
Resolving the Taiwan question and achieving the complete reunification of the motherland is the common aspiration of all Chinese people and a sacred mission, a just cause. When and how to resolve the Taiwan question is purely China's internal affair and tolerates no foreign interference, Chen said. 

The spokesperson also voiced the strong opposition to the US' latest financial support for the island. The US insisting on passing and signing bills containing negative content regarding the island, severely interfered in China's internal affairs and gravely violating the one-China principle and the provisions of the three China-US joint communiques, Chen said.

We express strong dissatisfaction and firm opposition to this, urging the US to truly act on its statement of not supporting "Taiwan independence" by taking concrete actions, stop arming Taiwan in any form, and cease sending the wrong signals to "Taiwan independence" separatist forces, the spokesperson noted. 

"The DPP authorities' attempts to seek one-party interests by relying on the US for independence and seeking independence through military means are doomed to fail," he said. 

Global Times 

https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202403/1309607.shtml

 

 

 

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