By Vestnik Kavkaza
“A hybrid war between the US and China has already been started; and Washington is using military, economic, and information instruments in it,” Russian press cites a Canadian expert Eric Sommer. According to his information, Washington is implementing the Aero-Naval Battle – a plan which requires the presence of 60% of the Armed Forces of the US in the Asian-Pacific Region, as well as a significant growth of their military presence in Japan, South Korea, and the Philippines. Washington provides an information attack on Beijing through rumors about ‘a Chinese threat’, even though China doesn’t multiply its military bases abroad and doesn’t participate in military activities. The US activities “are directed at threatening, weakening, destabilization of the social order, and even overthrowing of the Chinese leadership,” Sommer predicts.
However, Dmitry Kosyrev, a Russian political observer of Russia Today, is sure that China is ideologically strong.
“The biggest mystery is the current Chinese ideology. Processes which are very similar to those which are happening in Russia have been taking place in China for decades. What are the Chinese national values which China could export to the world? Its culture with a history of several millennia is surprisingly non-aggressive. China has never exported any ideological values. They don’t need this. China has shown the Western world, which likes money, that it is able to build an ideology which is built on another system of values and an economy which is more effective than theirs, pulling 300-500 million people out of poverty in a short period. None of the Western countries could do this in such a short period, but China could,” the expert thinks.
Speaking about aspects which make the Chinese system more effective than the Western once, Kosyrev said: “Communism died in China in the early 1990s. Today they have something different, which has features of Singapore, China and Russia. They didn’t change their name, red flags, symbols, but they changed the content completely… Today they try to define, to grade, to build priorities – what value is the most important, what values are secondary, and what Confucianism is for a modern society. That’s why it is interesting to cooperate with them, to find out where they have come and to show where we have come. I think Confucianism is a classic conservative system of views on society and people’s relations, which appeared in the Western civilization at the age of Enlightenment. But in China, it had appeared 2.5 thousand years earlier than in France. And the system is still working, as relations between the Chinese are full of it, and no ‘cultural revolution’ could change this.”
