Deng Looks Ahead and Forsees "Bullying, Aggression and Exploitation" by China

[...] Times Blog posts an excerpt from a speech to the United Nations by Deng Xiaoping in April 1974: If capitalism is restored in a big socialist country, it will inevitably become a superpower. The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, which has been carried out in China in recent years, [...]

Spoken like a true,(just back from years of internal exile), politician.

Why is the quote considered a "amazingly prescient look"?

Has China become a superpower? Has power become bullying, aggressive, and exploitative of the world?

Suppose we have a survey of the world of who is the bullying, aggressive, exploitative, superpower of the world - would the world (which means, more than just Mr. S. Elegant) - who do you think the world would vote?

Deng is nothing! He's just one of the dictators who seized the real power and then were apotheosized.

If Deng is nothing, history is nothing.

Deng is somebody, of course, but a human being as well. You couldn't bet on a man achieving all the dreams a nation holds. If you really want to accuse someone or something, then the original sin and inferiority of Bolshevik, ignorance of proletarian and commie's deceptive essence would all be better choices. That's Chinese people's naive choice let CCP triumph over KMT, so people get what they paid for.

Acctually, in my view, Chairman M should be majorly responsible for what China really is today， while D ended all the havoc brought up by M. If you want to judge D, you gotta judge M fisrt under the same logic.

The judgement that a man could give Chinese democracy, wealth, and justice...just because he was a dictator is presumptuous and surrealistic if you count in China's background then. Maybe D could've brought China closer to democracy, but that's a hypothesis from current calculation, if you think D could know everything 30 years down the road, that's supernatural fist, besides, how could D convince all the CCP members to forsake a belief Chinese had been holding for 20+ years? What comes next will be nothing other than anarchism and a more chaotic situation then the cultural revolution.

The misery in China is the tragdy of the whole nation, and its people have no one else to blame but their father and grandfather. Even the Commie agree that there's no savior in real life, so it's idle to carry out the savior logic, no matter what the name is, Deng, Zhou, Mao, Zhao, Hu......

No saviour from on high delivers
No faith have we in prince or peer
Our own right hand the chains must shiver
Chains of hatred, greed and fear

It's people's naivness, weakness and concession gave the evil the guts and power to prevail. If you want liberation and salvation, you need to figure out the way. You are the one true savior of yourself.

Hahahaha. Deng is merely trying to rein in China from being 'too capitalist'. Mr. Elegant and co. goes about their business to once again twist words beyond all meaning, in their tireless job to paint China in the blackest way possible.

In the past, there was strife, suffering and starvation under communism, but benefits too.

Now, the strife and starvation is mostly gone, but so has the social welfare benefits. Deng fears China with this new capitalist directive will turn into the next USA.

A superpower that exploits people yet claims to represent them, protectionist yet relies on the lifeblood given by immigrants, fights in two bloody wars across the globe and is by far the biggest weapons supplier in the world (Russia is 2nd with HALF the weapons sold), yet claims other countries as threats to world peace.

Five-Jiao Party.

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john2008obama: I agree with you that there are no paramount saviors anywhere. However I think we both agree that Deng was a man in an extraordinary situation who made far-reaching decisions. I think his decisions (not willingly but virtually) have also lead to the building of a society where more people than before find the courage and the means to shiver the chains.

Because China blocks this website, "ricelee22" must be in the USA, Canada, or some other "imperialist" country in order to express his opinion.

john2008obama, I try to reply some of your viewpoints about Deng:

1. "Chairman M should be majorly responsible for what China really is today， while D ended all the havoc brought up by M. If you want to judge D, you gotta judge M fisrt under the same logic."

---Now I would "judge" Hu's nonfeasance of reform, if I should "judge" Mao first, or backward the thousands of years' feudal rules?

2. "The judgement that a man could give Chinese democracy, wealth, and justice...just because he was a dictator is presumptuous and surrealistic"

---Not "give Chinese democracy, wealth, and justice", but not to kill the democracy by tanks, armored cars and machine guns!!

3. "if you count in China's background then"

---I am living in China, and I have ever joined that unprecedented, country-wide democratic movement "6.4". I well know "China's background then" is that democracy was the popular will and the trend of the times, because even a vast amount of the CCP's officials have joined the ranks of demonstration.

4. "Maybe D could've brought China closer to democracy, but that's a hypothesis from current calculation, if you think D could know everything 30 years down the road, that's supernatural fist, besides, how could D convince all the CCP members to forsake a Chinese had been holding for 20+ years? "

---The thought of freedom and the atmosphere of democracy have rushed to their tops then, even exceed now. the "belief"? you mean the communism? We Chinese just see it a fun since long long ago, LOL!

5. "What comes next will be nothing other than anarchism and a more chaotic situation then the cultural revolution."

---Your tone is just like the CCP. Your subtext is: You Chinese must maintain the status quo lest it would be "anarchism and a more chaotic situation" .

6. "Even the Commie agree that there's no savior in real life, so it's idle to carry out the savior logic,"

---Maybe you are mistaking my meaning. I have never seen Deng a "saviour", but the key figure to stop the democracy.

Now we can see how magic the CCP's apotheosizing movements are! Even the outlanders are not able to escape from them.

conscienceinchina， very eloquent sermon. And I do agree with you in some points.

1. Just like Bush pass the "big three" buck to Obama, M's legacy to D was a totally FUBAR China where situation was no better than Rwanda. Fiedom, infighting, corruption all kinds of Sh*t. So, M is really a more retarded man than D, and keep apotheosizing himself in his lifetime.

2. I totally agree with you on this thing. D was, is and will always be a butcher in people's mind.

3. As you konw, Every communist grasps the truth, ＂The political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.＂ Once in time, commie faced the same thing under KMT's regime, but they liberated themselves...... So that's why I said, John Smith should sm*ggle some good A********* to...

4. I don't want to refute you on this point, but CCP is still there... All human being know CCP should be harmonized, so the crux is no whether, but how. And for the"belief", I meant corruption, the one ture ideology of CCP. Lol.

5. I don't mean to imply any subtext. 80% Chinese lost their confidence towards CCP long long time ago. No one want status quo, but how? And what kind of government Chinese really need.

6. D is a figure to stop the democracy, as true as he is a CCP member.
The crux here is the CCP is a weak regime from the very beginning, much weaker than KMT, and will always be that way. CCP, a clique of so-called intellectuals, political speculators, mafia members, underemployed or totally unemployed labors, doesn't even have its own constitution at its first meeting, not to mention its armed forces. Neither M or D is all-mighty as you thought. They are simply garbage speculator with alzhaimerz in their late years. Dictator of the people doesn't necessarily mean the samething to those seizing the army. M or D is merely the mouthpiece of their own shareholders, while M has tried to arrogate and centralize the power by cultural revolution, but he failed and just reshuffled the power distribution leting the "Hitler Youth" prevail.

[...] If capitalism is restored in a big socialist country, it will inevitably become a superpower. The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, which has been carried out in China in recent years, and the campaign of criticizing Lin Piao and Confucius now under way throughout China, are both aimed at preventing capitalist restoration and ensuring that socialist China will never change her colour and will always stand by the oppressed peoples and oppressed nations. If one day China should change her colour and turn into a superpower, if she too should play the tyrant in the world, and everywhere subject others to her bullying, aggression and exploitation, the people of the world should identify her as social-imperialism, expose it, oppose it and work together with the Chinese people to overthrow it. -Deng Xiaoping (circa 1974, quoted in Time’s The China Blog) [...]

[...] If capitalism is restored in a big socialist country, it will inevitably become a superpower. The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, which has been carried out in China in recent years, and the campaign of criticizing Lin Piao and Confucius now under way throughout China, are both aimed at preventing capitalist restoration and ensuring that socialist China will never change her colour and will always stand by the oppressed peoples and oppressed nations. If one day China should change her colour and turn into a superpower, if she too should play the tyrant in the world, and everywhere subject others to her bullying, aggression and exploitation, the people of the world should identify her as social-imperialism, expose it, oppose it and work together with the Chinese people to overthrow it. -Deng Xiaoping (circa 1974, quoted in Time’s The China Blog) [...]

[...] If capitalism is restored in a big socialist country, it will inevitably become a superpower. The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, which has been carried out in China in recent years, and the campaign of criticizing Lin Piao and Confucius now under way throughout China, are both aimed at preventing capitalist restoration and ensuring that socialist China will never change her colour and will always stand by the oppressed peoples and oppressed nations. If one day China should change her colour and turn into a superpower, if she too should play the tyrant in the world, and everywhere subject others to her bullying, aggression and exploitation, the people of the world should identify her as social-imperialism, expose it, oppose it and work together with the Chinese people to overthrow it. -Deng Xiaoping (circa 1974, quoted in Time’s The China Blog) [...]