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The war, the midwife of the
Chinese century, is not far away.
Chi Haotian, China's Minister of Defense and vice-chairman of China’s
Central Military Commission, gave the following speech in a SECURE
BRIEFING to his military leadership. It was not intended for public
dissemination. *
General Chi Haotian * China's Minister of Defense and vice-chairman
China’s Central Military Commission.
Speech February 15, 2005
Comrades,
I’m very excited today, because the large-scale online survey sina.com
that was done for us showed that our next generation is quite promising
and our Party’s cause will be carried on. In answering the question,
“Will you shoot at women, children and prisoners of war,” more than 80
percent of the respondents answered in the affirmative, exceeding by far
our expectations [1].
Today I’d like to focus on why we asked sina.com to conduct this online
survey among our people. My speech today is a sequel to my speech last
time [2], during which I started with a discussion of the issue of the
three islands [3], mentioned that 20 years of the idyllic theme of
“peace and development” had come to an end, and concluded that
modernization under the saber is the only option for China’s next phase.
I also mentioned we have a vital stake overseas. Today, I’ll speak more
specifically on these two issues.
The central issue of this survey appears to be whether one should shoot
at women, children and prisoners of war, but its real significance goes
far beyond that. Ostensibly, our intention is mainly to figure out what
the Chinese people’s attitude towards war is: If these future soldiers
do not hesitate to kill even non-combatants, they’ll naturally be doubly
ready and ruthless in killing combatants. Therefore, the responses to
the survey questions may reflect the general attitude people have
towards war.
Actually, however, this is not our genuine intention. The purpose of the
CCP Central Committee in conducting this survey is to probe people’s
minds. We wanted to know: If China’s global development will necessitate
massive deaths in enemy countries, will our people endorse that
scenario? Will they be for or against it?
As everybody knows, the essence of Comrade Xiaoping’s [4] thinking is
“development is the hard truth.” And Comrade Jintao [5] has also pointed
out repeatedly and empathetically that “development is our top
priority,” which should not be neglected for even a moment. But many
comrades tend to understand “development” in its narrow sense, assuming
it to be limited to domestic development. The fact is, our “development”
refers to the great revitalization of the Chinese nation, which, of
course, is not limited to the land we have now but also includes the
whole world.
Why do we put it this way?
Both Comrade Liu Huaqing [6], one of the leaders of the old generation
in our Party, and Comrade He Xin [7], a young strategist for our Party,
have repeatedly stressed the theory regarding the shift of the center of
world civilization. Our slogan of “revitalizing China” has this way of
thinking as its basis. You may look into the newspapers and magazines
published in recent years or go online to do some research to find out
who raised the slogan of national revitalization first. It was Comrade
He Xin. Do you know who He Xin is? He may look aggressive and despicable
when he speaks in public, with his sleeves and pants all rolled up, but
his historical vision is a treasure our Party should cherish.
In discussing this issue, let us start from the beginning.
As everybody knows, according to the views propagated by the Western
scholars, humanity as a whole originated from one single mother in
Africa. Therefore, no race can claim racial superiority. However,
according to the research conducted by most Chinese scholars, the
Chinese are different from other races on earth. We did not originate in
Africa. Instead, we originated independently in the land of China. The
Peking Man at Zhoukoudian that we are all familiar with represents a
phase of our ancestors’ evolution. “The Project of Searching for the
Origins of the Chinese Civilization” currently undertaken in our country
is aimed at a more comprehensive and systematic research on the origin,
process and development of the ancient Chinese civilization. We used to
say, “Chinese civilization has had a history of five thousand years.”
But now, many experts engaged in research in varied fields including
archeology, ethnic cultures, and regional cultures have reached
consensus that the new discoveries such as the Hongshan Culture in the
Northeast, the Liangzhu Culture in Zhejiang province, the Jinsha Ruins
in Sichuan province, and the Yongzhou Shun Emperor Cultural Site in
Human province are all compelling evidence of the existence of China’s
early civilizations, and they prove that China’s rice-growing
agricultural history alone can be traced back as far as 8,000 to 10,000
years. This refutes the concept of “five thousand years of Chinese
civilization.” Therefore, we can assert that we are the product of
cultural roots of more than a million years, civilization and progress
of more than ten thousand years, an ancient nation of five thousand
years, and a single Chinese entity of two thousand years. This is the
Chinese nation that calls itself, “descendents of Yan and Huang,” the
Chinese nation that we are so proud of. Hitler’s Germany had once
bragged that the German race was the most superior race on Earth, but
the fact is, our nation is far superior to the Germans.
During our long history, our people have disseminated throughout the
Americas and the regions along the Pacific Rim, and they became Indians
in the Americas and the East Asian ethnic groups in the South Pacific.
We all know that on account of our national superiority, during the
thriving and prosperous Tang Dynasty our civilization was at the peak of
the world. We were the center of the world civilization, and no other
civilization in the world was comparable to ours. Later on, because of
our complacency, narrow-mindedness, and the self-enclosure of our own
country, we were surpassed by Western civilization, and the center of
the world shifted to the West.
In reviewing history, one may ask: Will the center of the world
civilization shift back to China?
Comrade He Xin put it in his report to the Central Committee in 1988: If
the fact is that the center of leadership of the world was located in
Europe as of the 18th Century, and later shifted to the United States in
the mid 20th Century, then in the 21st Century the center of leadership
of the world will shift to the East of our planet. And, “the East” of
course mainly refers to China.
Actually, Comrade Liu Huaqing made similar points in early 1980s. Based
on an historical analysis, he pointed out that the center of world
civilization is shifting. It shifted from the East to Western Europe and
later to the United States; now it is shifting back to the East.
Therefore, if we refer to the 19th Century as the British Century, and
the 20th century as the American Century, then the 21st Century will be
the Chinese Century.
To understand conscientiously this historical law and to be prepared to
greet the advent of the Chinese Century is the historical mission of our
Party. As we all know, at the end of the last century, we built the
Altar to the Chinese Century in Beijing. At the very moment of the
arrival of the new millennium, the collective leadership of the Party
Central Committee gathered there for a rally, upholding the torches of
Zhoukoudian, to pledge themselves to get ready to greet the arrival of
the Chinese Century. We were doing this to follow the historical law and
setting the realization of the Chinese Century as the goal of our
Party’s endeavors.
Later, in the political report of our Party’s Sixteenth National
Congress, we established that the national revitalization be our great
objective and explicitly specified in our new Party Constitution that
our Party is the pioneer of the Chinese people. All these steps marked a
major development in Marxism, reflecting our Party‘s courage and wisdom.
As we all know, Marx and his followers have never referred to any
communist party as a pioneer of a certain people; neither did they say
that national revitalization could be used as a slogan of a communist
party. Even Comrade Mao Zedong, a courageous national hero, only raised
high the banner of “the global proletarian revolution,” but even he did
not have the courage to give the loudest publicity to the slogan of
national revitalization.
We must greet the arrival of the Chinese Century by raising high the
banner of national revitalization. How should we fight for the
realization of the Chinese Century? We must borrow the precious
experiences in human history by taking advantage of the outstanding
fruition of human civilization and drawing lessons from what happened to
other ethnic groups.
The lessons include the collapse of communism in the former Soviet Union
and Eastern Europe, as well as the defeats of Germany and Japan in the
past. Recently there has been much discussion on the lessons of the
collapse of communism in the former Soviet Union and Eastern European
countries, so I will not dwell on them here. Today I’d like to talk
about the lessons of Germany and Japan.
As we all know, Nazi Germany also placed much emphasis on the education
of the people, especially the younger generation. The Nazi party and
government organized and established various propaganda and educational
institutions such as the “Guiding Bureau of National Propaganda,”
“Department of National Education and Propaganda,” “Supervising Bureau
of Worldview Study and Education,” and “Information Office,” all aimed
at instilling into the people’s minds, from elementary schools to
colleges, the idea that German people are superior, and convincing
people that the historical mission of the Arian people is to become the
“lords of earth” that “rule over the world.” Back then the German people
were much more united than we are today.
Nonetheless, Germany was defeated in utter shame, along with its ally,
Japan. Why? We reached some conclusions at the study meetings of the
Politburo, in which we were searching for the laws that governed the
vicissitudes of the big powers, and trying to analyze Germany and
Japan’s rapid growth. When we decide to revitalize China based on the
German model, we must not repeat the mistakes they made.
Specifically, the following are the fundamental causes for the defeat of
Germany and Japan: First, they had too many enemies all at once, as they
did not adhere to the principle of eliminating enemies one at a time;
second, they were too impetuous, lacking the patience and perseverance
required for great accomplishments; third, when the time came for them
to be ruthless, they turned out to be too soft, therefore leaving
troubles that resurfaced later on.
Let’s presume that back then Germany and Japan had been able to keep the
United States neutral and had fought a protracted war step by step on
the Soviet front. If they had adopted this approach, gained some time to
advance their research, eventually succeeded in obtaining the technology
of nuclear weapons and missiles, and launched surprise attacks against
the United States and the Soviet Union using them, then the United
States and the Soviet Union would not have been able to defend
themselves and would have had to surrender. Little Japan, in particular,
made an egregious mistake in launching the sneak strike at Pearl Harbor.
This attack did not hit the vital parts of the United States. Instead it
dragged the United States into the war, into the ranks of the
gravediggers that eventually buried the German and Japanese fascists.
Of course, if they had not made these three mistakes and won the war,
history would have been written in a different fashion. If that had been
the case, China would not be in our hands. Japan might have relocated
their capital to China and ruled over China. Afterwards, China and the
whole of Asia under Japan’s command would have brought into full play
the oriental wisdom, conquered the West ruled by Germany and unified the
whole world. This is irrelevant, of course. No more digressions.
So, the fundamental reason for the defeats of Germany and Japan is that
history did not arrange them to be the “lords of the earth,” for they
are, after all, not the most superior race.
Ostensibly, in comparison, today’s China is alarmingly similar to
Germany back then. Both of them regard themselves as the most superior
races; both of them have a history of being exploited by foreign powers
and are therefore vindictive; both of them have the tradition of
worshipping their own authorities; both of them feel that they have
seriously insufficient living space; both of them raise high the two
banners of nationalism and socialism and label themselves as “national
socialism”; both of them worship “one state, one party, one leader, and
one doctrine.”
And yet, if we really are to make a comparison between Germany and
China, then, as Comrade Jiang Zemin put it, Germany belongs to
“pediatrics”—too trivial to be compared. How large is Germany’s
population? How big is its territory? And how long is its history? We
eliminated eight million Nationalist troops in only three years. How
many enemies did Germany kill? They were in power for a transient period
of little more than a dozen years before they perished, while we are
still energetic after being around for more than eighty years. Our
theory of the shifting center of civilization is of course more profound
than the Hitler’s theory of “the lords of the earth.” Our civilization
is profound and broad, which has determined that we are so much wiser
than they were.
Our Chinese people are wiser than the Germans because, fundamentally,
our race is superior to theirs. As a result, we have a longer history,
more people, and larger land area. On this basis, our ancestors left us
with the two most essential heritages, which are atheism and great
unity. It was Confucius, the founder of our Chinese culture, who gave us
these heritages.
These two heritages determined that we have a stronger ability to
survive than the West. That is why the Chinese race has been able to
prosper for so long. We are destined “not to be buried by either heaven
or earth” no matter how severe the natural, man-made, and national
disasters. This is our advantage.
Take response to war as an example. The reason that the United States
remains today is that it has never seen war on its mainland. Once its
enemies aim at the mainland, the enemies would have already reached
Washington before its congress finishes debating and authorizes the
president to declare war. But for us, we don’t waste time on these
trivial things. Comrade Deng Xiaoping once said, “The Party’s leadership
is prompt in making decisions. Once a decision is made, it is
immediately implemented. There’s no wasting time on trivial things like
in capitalist countries. This is our advantage.” Our Party’s democratic
centralism is built on the tradition of great unity. Although fascist
Germany also stressed high-level centralism, they only focused on the
power of the country’s executive, but ignored the collective leadership
of the central group. That’s why Hitler was betrayed by many later in
his life, which fundamentally depleted the Nazis of their war capacity.
What makes us different from Germany is that we are complete atheists,
while Germany was primarily a Catholic and Protestant country. Hitler
was only half atheist. Although Hitler also believed that ordinary
citizens had low intelligence, and that leaders should therefore make
decisions, and although German people worshipped Hitler back then,
Germany did not have the tradition of worshipping sages on a broad
basis. Our Chinese society has always worshipped sages, and that is
because we don’t worship any god. Once you worship a god, you can’t
worship a person at the same time, unless you recognize the person as
the god’s representative like they do in Middle Eastern countries. On
the other hand, once you recognize a person as a sage, of course you
will want him to be your leader, instead of monitoring and choosing him.
This is the foundation of our democratic centralism.
The bottom line is, only China, not Germany, is a reliable force in
resisting the Western parliament-based democratic system. Hitler’s
dictatorship in Germany was perhaps but a momentary mistake in history.
Maybe you have now come to understand why we recently decided to further
promulgate atheism. If we let theology from the West into China and
empty us from the inside, if we let all Chinese people listen to God and
follow God, who will obediently listen to us and follow us? If the
common people don’t believe Comrade Hu Jintao is a qualified leader,
question his authority, and want to monitor him, if the religious
followers in our society question why we are leading God in churches,
can our Party continue to rule China?
Germany’s dream to be the “lord of the earth” failed, because
ultimately, history did not bestow this great mission upon them. But the
three lessons Germany learned from experience are what we ought to
remember as we complete our historic mission and revitalize our race.
The three lessons are: Firmly grasp the country’s living space, firmly
grasp the Party’s control over the nation, and firmly grasp the general
direction toward becoming the “lord of the earth.”
Next, I’d like to address these three issues.
The first issue is living space. This is the biggest focus of the
revitalization of the Chinese race. In my last speech, I said that the
fight over basic living resources (including land and ocean) is the
source of the vast majority of wars in history. This may change in the
information age, but not fundamentally. Our per capita resources are
much less than those of Germany’s back then. In addition, economic
development in the last twenty-plus years had a negative impact, and
climates are rapidly changing for the worse. Our resources are in very
short supply. The environment is severely polluted, especially that of
soil, water, and air. Not only our ability to sustain and develop our
race, but even its survival is gravely threatened, to a degree much
greater than faced Germany back then.
Anybody who has been to Western countries knows that their living space
is much better than ours. They have forests alongside the highways,
while we hardly have any trees by our streets. Their sky is often blue
with white clouds, while our sky is covered with a layer of dark haze.
Their tap water is clean enough for drinking, while even our ground
water is so polluted that it can’t be drunk without filtering. They have
few people in the streets, and two or three people can occupy a small
residential building; in contrast, our streets are always crawling with
people, and several people have to share one room.
Many years ago, there was a book titled Yellow Catastrophes. It said
that, due to our following the American style of consumption, our
limited resources would no longer support the population and society
would collapse, once our population reaches 1.3 billion. Now our
population has already exceeded this limit, and we are now relying on
imports to sustain our nation. It’s not that we haven’t paid attention
to this issue. The Ministry of Land Resources is specialized in this
issue.
But the term “living space” (lebensraum) is too closely related to Nazi
Germany. The reason we don’t want to discuss this too openly is to avoid
the West’s association of us with Nazi Germany, which could in turn
reinforce the view that China is a threat. Therefore, in our emphasis on
He Xin’s new theory, “Human rights are just living rights,” we only talk
about “living,” but not “space,” so as to avoid using the term “living
space.” From the perspective of history, the reason that China is faced
with the issue of living space is because Western countries have
developed ahead of Eastern countries. Western countries established
colonies all around the world, therefore giving themselves an advantage
on the issue of living space. To solve this problem, we must lead the
Chinese people outside of China, so that they could develop outside of
China.
The second issue is our focus on the leadership capacity of the ruling
party. We’ve done better on this than their party. Although the Nazis
spread their power to every aspect of the German national government,
they did not stress their absolute leadership position like we have.
They did not take the issue of managing the power of the party as first
priority, which we have. When Comrade Mao Zedong summarized the “three
treasures” of our party’s victory in conquering the country, he
considered the most important “treasure” to be developing the Chinese
Communist Party (CCP) and strengthening its leadership position.
We have to focus on two points to fortify our leadership position and
improve our leadership capacity.
The first is to promote the “Three Represents” theory [8], stressing
that our Party is the pioneer of the Chinese race, in addition to being
the pioneer of the proletariat. Many citizens say in private, “We never
voted for you, the Communist Party, to represent us. How can you claim
to be our representatives?”
There’s no need to worry about this issue. Comrade Mao Zedong said that
if we could lead our allies to victory and make them benefit, they would
support us. Therefore, as long as we can lead the Chinese people outside
of China, resolving the lack of living space in China, the Chinese
people will support us. At that time, we don’t have to worry about the
labels of “totalitarianism” or “dictatorship.” Whether we can forever
represent the Chinese people depends on whether we can succeed in
leading the Chinese people out of China.
The second point, whether we can lead the Chinese people out of China,
is the most important determinant of the CCP’s leadership position.
Why do I say this?
Everyone knows that without the leadership of our Party, China would not
exist today. Therefore, our highest principle is to forever protect our
Party’s leadership position. Before June 4, we realized vaguely that as
long as China’s economy is developed, people would support and love the
Communist Party. Therefore we had to use several decades of peacetime to
develop China’s economy. No matter what -isms, whether it is a white cat
or a black cat, it is a good cat if it can develop China’s economy. But
at that time, we did not have mature ideas about how China would deal
with international disputes after its economy is developed.
Comrade Xiaoping said then that the main themes in the world were peace
and development. But the June 4 riot gave our Party a warning and gave
us a lesson that is still fresh. The pressure of China’s peaceful
evolution makes us reconsider the main themes of our time. We see that
neither of these two issues, peace and development, have been resolved.
The western oppositional forces always change the world according to
their own visions; they want to change China and use peaceful evolution
to overturn the leadership of our Communist Party. Therefore, if we only
develop the economy, we still face the possibility of losing control.
That June 4 riot almost succeeded in bringing a peaceful transition; if
it were not for the fact that a large number of veteran comrades were
still alive and at a crucial moment they removed Zhao Ziyang and his
followers, then we all would have been put in prison. After death we
would have been too ashamed to report to Marx. Although we have passed
the test of June 4, after our group of senior comrades pass away,
without our control, peaceful evolution may still come to China like it
did to the former Soviet Union. In 1956, they suppressed the Hungarian
Incident and defeated the attacks by Tito’s revisionists of Yugoslavia,
but they could not withstand Gorbachev thirty some years later. Once
those pioneering senior comrades died, the power of the Communist Party
was taken away by peaceful evolution.
After the June 4 riot was suppressed, we have been thinking about how to
prevent China from peaceful evolution and how to maintain the Communist
Party’s leadership. We thought it over and over but did not come up with
any good ideas. If we do not have good ideas, China will inevitably
change peacefully, and we will all become criminals in history. After
some deep pondering, we finally come to this conclusion: Only by turning
our developed national strength into the force of a fist striking
outward—only by leading people to go out —can we win forever the Chinese
people’s support and love for the Communist Party. Our Party will then
stand on invincible ground, and the Chinese people will have to depend
on the Communist Party. They will forever follow the Communist Party
with their hearts and minds, as was written in a couplet frequently seen
in the countryside some years ago: “Listen to Chairman Mao, Follow the
Communist Party!” Therefore, the June 4 riot made us realize that we
must combine economic development with preparation for war and leading
the people to go out! Therefore, since then, our national defense policy
has taken a 180 degree turn and we have since emphasized more and more
“combining peace and war.” Our economic development is all about
preparing for the need of war! Publicly we still emphasize economic
development as our center, but in reality, economic development has war
as its center! We have made a tremendous effort to construct “The Great
Wall Project” to build up, along our coastal and land frontiers as well
as around large and medium-sized cities, a solid underground “Great
Wall” that can withstand a nuclear war. We are also storing all
necessary war materials. Therefore, we will not hesitate to fight a
Third World War, so as to lead the people to go out and to ensure the
Party’s leadership position. In any event, we, the CCP, will never step
down from the stage of history! We’d rather have the whole world, or
even the entire globe, share life and death with us than step down from
the stage of history!!! Isn’t there a ‘nuclear bondage’ theory? It means
that since nuclear weapons have bound the security of the entire world,
all will die together if death is inevitable. In my view, there is
another kind of bondage, and that is, the fate our Party is tied up with
that of the whole world. If we, the CCP, are finished, China will be
finished, and the world will be finished.
Our Party’s historical mission is to lead the Chinese people to go out.
If we take the long view, we will see that history led us on this path.
First, China’s long history has resulted in the world’s largest
population, including Chinese in China as well as overseas. Second, once
we open our doors, the profit-seeking western capitalists will invest
capital and technology in China to assist our development, so that they
can occupy the biggest market in the world. Third, our numerous overseas
Chinese help us create the most favorable environment for the
introduction of foreign capital, foreign technology and advanced
experience into China. Thus, it is guaranteed that our reform and
open-door policy will achieve tremendous success. Fourth, China’s great
economic expansion will inevitably lead to the shrinkage of per-capita
living space for the Chinese people, and this will encourage China to
turn outward in search for new living space. Fifth, China’s great
economic expansion will inevitably come with a significant development
in our military forces, creating conditions for our expansion overseas.
Even since Napoleon’s time, the West has been has been alert for the
possible awakening of the sleeping lion that is China. Now, the sleeping
lion is standing up and advancing into the world, and has become
unstoppable!
What is the third issue we should clinch firmly in order to accomplish
our historical mission of national renaissance? It is to hold firmly
onto the big “issue of America.”
Comrade Mao Zedong taught us that we must have a resolute and correct
political orientation. What is our key, correct orientation? It is to
solve the issue of America.
This appears to be shocking, but the logic is actually very simple.
Comrade He Xin put forward a very fundamental judgment that is very
reasonable. He asserted in his report to the Party Central Committee:
The renaissance of China is in fundamental conflict with the western
strategic interest, and therefore will inevitably be obstructed by the
western countries doing everything they can. So, only by breaking the
blockade formed by the western countries headed by the United States can
China grow and move towards the world!
Would the United States allow us to go out to gain new living space?
First, if the United States is firm in blocking us, it is hard for us to
do anything significant to Taiwan and some other countries! Second, even
if we could snatch some land from Taiwan, Vietnam, India, or even Japan,
how much more living space can we get? Very trivial! Only countries like
the United States, Canada and Australia have the vast land to serve our
need for mass colonization.
Therefore, solving the “issue of America” is the key to solving all
other issues. First, this makes it possible for us to have many people
migrate there and even establish another China under the same leadership
of the CCP. America was originally discovered by the ancestors of the
yellow race, but Columbus gave credit to the white race. We the
descendents of the Chinese nation are entitled to the possession of the
land! It is said that the residents of the yellow race have a very low
social status in United States. We need to liberate them. Second, after
solving the “issue of America,” the western countries in Europe would
bow to us, not to mention to Taiwan, Japan and other small countries.
Therefore, solving the “issue of America” is the mission assigned to CCP
members by history.
I sometimes think how cruel it is for China and the United States to be
enemies that are bound to meet on a narrow road! Do you remember a movie
about Liberation Army troops led by Liu Bocheng and Deng Xiaoping? The
title is something like “Decisive Battle on the Central Plains.” There
is a famous remark in the movie that is full of power and grandeur: “The
enemies are bound to meet on a narrow road, only the brave will win!” It
is this kind of fighting to win or die spirit that enabled us to seize
power in Mainland China. It is historical destiny that China and United
States will come into unavoidable confrontation on a narrow path and
fight each other! The United States, unlike Russia and Japan, has never
occupied and hurt China, and also assisted China in its battle against
the Japanese. But, it will certainly be an obstruction, and the biggest
obstruction! In the long run, the relationship of China and the United
States is one of a life-and-death struggle.
One time, some Americans came to visit and tried to convince us that the
relationship between China and United States is one of interdependence.
Comrade Xiaoping replied in a polite manner: “Go tell your government,
China and the United States do not have such a relationship that is
interdependent and mutually reliant.” Actually, Comrade Xiaoping was
being too polite, he could have been more frank, “The relationship
between China and United States is one of a life-and-death struggle.” Of
course, right now it is not the time to openly break up with them yet.
Our reform and opening to the outside world still rely on their capital
and technology, we still need America. Therefore, we must do everything
we can to promote our relationship with America, learn from America in
all aspects and use America as an example to reconstruct our country.
How have we managed our foreign affairs in these years? Even if we had
to put on a smiling face in order to please them, even if we had to give
them the right cheek after they had hit our left cheek, we still must
endure in order to further our relationship with the United States. Do
you remember the character of Wuxun in the movie the “Story of Wuxun”?
In order to accomplish his mission, he endured so much pain and suffered
so much beating and kicking! The United States is the most successful
country in the world today. Only after we have learned all of its useful
experiences can we replace it in the future. Even though we are
presently imitating the American tone “China and United States rely on
each other and share honor and disgrace,” we must not forget that the
history of our civilization repeatedly has taught us that one mountain
does not allow two tigers to live together.
We also must never forget what Comrade Xiaoping emphasized “refrain from
revealing the ambitions and put others off the track.” The hidden
message is: we must put up with America; we must conceal our ultimate
goals, hide our capabilities and await the opportunity. In this way, our
mind is clear. Why have we not updated our national anthem with
something peaceful? Why did we not change the anthem’s theme of war?
Instead, when revising the Constitution this time, for the first time we
clearly specified “March of the Volunteers” is our national anthem. Thus
we will understand why we constantly talk loudly about the “Taiwan
issue” but not the “American issue.” We all know the principle of “doing
one thing under the cover of another.” If ordinary people can only see
the small island of Taiwan in their eyes, then you as the elite of our
country should be able to see the whole picture of our cause. Over these
years, according to Comrade Xiaoping’s arrangement, a large piece of our
territory in the North has been given up to Russia; do you really think
our Party Central Committee is a fool?
To resolve the issue of America we must be able to transcend conventions
and restrictions. In history, when a country defeated another country or
occupied another country, it could not kill all the people in the
conquered land, because back then you could not kill people effectively
with sabers or long spears, or even with rifles or machine guns.
Therefore, it was impossible to gain a stretch of land without keeping
the people on that land. However, if we conquered America in this
fashion, we would not be able to make many people migrate there.
Only by using special means to “clean up” America will we be able to
lead the Chinese people there. This is the only choice left for us. This
is not a matter of whether we are willing to do it or not. What kind of
special means is there available for us to “clean up” America?
Conventional weapons such as fighters, canons, missiles and battleships
won’t do; neither will highly destructive weapons such as nuclear
weapons. We are not as foolish as to want to perish together with
America by using nuclear weapons, despite the fact that we have been
exclaiming that we will have the Taiwan issue resolved at whatever cost.
Only by using non-destructive weapons that can kill many people will we
be able to reserve America for ourselves. There has been rapid
development of modern biological technology, and new bio weapons have
been invented one after another. Of course we have not been idle; in the
past years we have seized the opportunity to master weapons of this
kind. We are capable of achieving our purpose of “cleaning up” America
all of a sudden. When Comrade Xiaoping was still with us, the Party
Central Committee had the perspicacity to make the right decision not to
develop aircraft carrier groups and focus instead on developing lethal
weapons that can eliminate mass populations of the enemy country.
From a humanitarian perspective, we should issue a warning to the
American people and persuade them to leave America and leave the land
they have lived in to the Chinese people. Or at least they should leave
half of the United States to be China’s colony, because America was
first discovered by the Chinese. But would this work? If this strategy
does not work, then there is only one choice left to us. That is, use
decisive means to “clean up” America, and reserve America for our use in
a moment. Our historical experience has proven that as long as we make
it happen, nobody in the world can do anything about us. Furthermore, if
the United States as the leader is gone, then other enemies have to
surrender to us.
Biological weapons are unprecedented in their ruthlessness, but if the
Americans do not die then the Chinese have to die. If the Chinese people
are strapped to the present land, a total societal collapse is bound to
take place. According to the computation of the author of Yellow Peril,
more than half of the Chinese will die, and that figure would be more
than 800 million people! Just after the liberation, our yellow land
supported nearly 500 million people, while today the official figure of
the population is more than 1.3 billion. This yellow land has reached
the limit of its capacity. One day, who knows how soon it will come, the
great collapse will occur any time and more than half of the population
will have to go.
We must prepare ourselves for two scenarios. If our biological weapons
succeed in the surprise attack [on the United States, the Chinese people
will be able to keep their losses at a minimum in the fight against the
United States. If, however, the attack fails and triggers a nuclear
retaliation from the United States, China would perhaps suffer a
catastrophe in which more than half of its population would perish. That
is why we need to be ready with air defense systems for our big and
medium-sized cities. Whatever the case may be, we can only move forward
fearlessly for the sake of our Party and state and our nation’s future,
regardless of the hardships we have to face and the sacrifices we have
to make. The population, even if more than half dies, can be reproduced.
But if the Party falls, everything is gone, and forever gone!
In Chinese history, in the replacement of dynasties, the ruthless have
always won and the benevolent have always failed. The most typical
example involved Xiang Yu the King of Chu, who, after defeating Liu
Bang, failed to continue to chase after him and eliminate his forces,
and this leniency resulted in Xiang Yu’s death and Liu’s victory (during
the war between Chu and Han, just after the Qin Dynasty (221-206BC) was
overthrown). Therefore, we must emphasize the importance of adopting
resolute measures. In the future, the two rivals, China and the United
States, will eventually meet each other in a narrow road, and our
leniency to the Americans will mean cruelty toward the Chinese people.
Here some people may want to ask me: what about the several millions of
our compatriots in the United States? They may ask: aren’t we against
Chinese killing other Chinese?
These comrades are too pedantic; they are not pragmatic enough. If we
had insisted on the principle that the Chinese should not kill other
Chinese, would we have liberated China? As for the several million
Chinese living in the United States, this is of course a big issue.
Therefore in recent years, we have been conducting research on genetic
weapons, i.e. those weapons that do not kill yellow people. But
producing a result with this kind of research is extremely difficult. Of
the research done on genetic weapons throughout the world, the Israeli’s
is the most advanced. Their genetic weapons are designed to target Arabs
and protect the Israelis. But even they have not reached the stage of
actual deployment. We have cooperated with Israel on some research.
Perhaps we can introduce some of the technologies used to protect
Israelis and remold these technologies to protect the yellow people. But
their technologies are not mature yet, and it is difficult for us to
surpass them in a few years. If it has to be five or ten years before
some breakthroughs can be achieved in genetic weapons, we cannot afford
to wait any longer.
Old comrades like us cannot afford to wait that long, for we don’t have
that much time to live. Old soldiers of my age may be able to wait for
five or ten more years, but those from the period of the Anti-Japanese
War or the few old Red Army soldiers cannot wait any longer. Therefore
we have to give up our expectations about genetic weapons. Of course,
from another perspective, the majority of those Chinese living in the
United States have become our burden, because they have been corrupted
by the bourgeois liberal values for a long time and it would be
difficult for them to accept our Party’s leadership. If they survived
the war, we would have to launch campaigns in the future to deal with
them, to reform them. Do you still remember that when we had just
defeated the Koumintang (KMT) and liberated Mainland China, so many
people from the bourgeois class and intellectuals welcomed us so very
warmly, but later we had to launch campaigns such as the “suppression of
the reactionaries” and “Anti-Rightist Movement” to clean them up and
reform them? Some of them were in hiding for a long time and were not
exposed until the Cultural Revolution. History has proved that any
social turmoil is likely to involve many deaths. Maybe we can put it
this way: death is the engine that moves history forward. During the
period of Three Kingdoms [9], how many people died? When Genghis Khan
conquered Eurasia, how many people died? When Manchu invaded the
interior of China, how many people died? Not many people died during the
1911 Revolution, but when we overthrew the Three Great Mountains [10],
and during the political campaigns such as “Suppression of
reactionaries,” “Three-Anti Campaign,” and “Five-Anti Campaign” at least
20 million people died. We were apprehensive that some young people
today would be trembling with fear when they hear about wars or people
dying. During wartime, we were used to seeing dead people. Blood and
flesh were flying everywhere, corpses were lying in heaps on the fields,
and blood ran like rivers. We saw it all. On the battlefields,
everybody’s eyes turned red with killing because it was a life-and-death
struggle and only the brave would survive.
It is indeed brutal to kill one or two hundred million Americans. But
that is the only path that will secure a Chinese century, a century in
which the CCP leads the world. We, as revolutionary humanitarians, do
not want deaths. But if history confronts us with a choice between
deaths of Chinese and those of Americans, we’d have to pick the latter,
as, for us, it is more important to safeguard the lives of the Chinese
people and the life of our Party. That is because, after all, we are
Chinese and members of the CCP. Since the day we joined the CCP, the
Party’s life has always been above all else! History will prove that we
made the right choice.
Now, when I am about to finish my speech, you probably understand why we
conducted this online survey. Simply put, through conducting this online
survey we wanted to know whether the people would rise against us if one
day we secretly adopt resolute means to “clean up” America. Would more
people support us or oppose us? This is our basic judgment: if our
people approve of shooting at prisoners of war, women and children, then
they would approve our “cleaning up” America. For over twenty years,
China has been enjoying peace, and a whole generation has not been
tested by war. In particular, since the end of World War II, there have
been many changes in the formats of war, the concept of war and the
ethics of war. Especially since the collapse of the former Soviet Union
and Eastern European Communist states, the ideology of the West has come
to dominate the world as a whole, and the Western theory of human nature
and Western view of human rights have increasingly disseminated among
the young people in China. Therefore, we were not very sure about the
people’s attitude. If our people are fundamentally opposed to “cleaning
up” America, we will, of course, have to adopt corresponding measures.
Why didn’t we conduct the survey through administrative means instead of
through the web? We did what we did for a good reason.
First of all, we did it to reduce artificial inference and to make sure
that we got the true thoughts of the people. In addition, it is more
confidential and won’t reveal the true purpose of our survey. But what
is most important is the fact that most of the people who are able to
respond to the questions online are from social groups that are
relatively well-educated and intelligent. They are the hard-core and
leading groups that play a decisive role among our people. If they
support us, then the people as a whole will follow us; if they oppose
us, they will play the dangerous role of inciting people and creating
social disturbance.
What turned out to be very comforting is they did not turn in a blank
test paper. In fact, they turned in a test paper with a score of over
80%. This is the excellent fruition of our Party’s work in propaganda
and education over the past few decades.
Of course, a few people under the Western influence have objected to
shooting at prisoners of war and women and children. Some of them said,
“It is shocking and scary to witness so many people approving of
shooting at women and children. Is everybody crazy?” Some others said,
“The Chinese love to label themselves as a peace-loving people, but
actually they are the most ruthless people. The comments are resonant of
killing and murdering, sending chills to my heart.”
Although there are not too many people holding this kind of viewpoint
and they will not affect the overall situation in any significant way,
but we still need to strengthen the propaganda to respond to this kind
of argument.
That is to vigorously propagate Comrade He Xin's latest article, which
has already been reported to the central government. You may look it up
on the website.
If you get on the website using key words to search, you will find out
that a while ago, comrade He Xin pointed out to the Hong Kong Business
News during an interview that: "The US has a shocking conspiracy."
According to what he had in hand, from September 27 to October 1, 1995,
the Mikhail Sergeevich Gorbachëv Foundation, funded by the United
States, gathered 500 of the world’s most important statesmen, economic
leaders and scientists, including George W. Bush (he was not the US
president at the time), the Baroness Thatcher, Tony Blair, Zbigniew
Brzezinski, as well as George Soros, Bill Gates, futurist John Naisbitt,
etc., all of the world’s most popular characters, in the San Francisco
Fairmont hotel for a high-level round table conference, discussing
problems about globalization and how to guide humanity to move forward
into the 21st century. According to what He Xin had in hand, the
outstanding people of the world in attendance thought that in the 21st
century a mere 20% of the world’s population will be sufficient to
maintain the world’s economy and prosperity, the other 80% or 4/5 of the
world’s population will be human garbage unable to produce new values.
The people in attendance thought that this excess 80% population would
be a trash population and "high-tech" means should be used to eliminate
them gradually.
Since the enemies are secretly planning to eliminate our population, we
certainly cannot be infinitely merciful and compassionate to them.
Comrade He Xin's article came out at the right time, it has proven the
correctness of our tit for tat battle approach, has proven Comrade Deng
Xiaoping’s great foresight to deploy against the United States military
strategy.
Certainly, in spreading Comrade He Xin’s views, we cannot publish the
article in the party newspapers, in order to avoid raising the enemy’s
vigilance. He Xin's conversation may remind the enemy that we have
grasped the modern science and technology, including "clean" nuclear
technology, gene weapons technology as well as biological weapons
technology, and we can use powerful measures to eliminate their
population on a large-scale.
The last problem I want to talk about is of firmly seizing the
preparations for military battle.
Currently, we are at the cross road of moving forward or backward. Some
comrades saw problems flooding everywhere in our country—the corruption
problem, the state-owned enterprise problem, the bank’s bad accounts
problem, environmental problems, society security problems, education
problems, the AIDS problem, various appeals problem, even the riots
problem. These comrades vacillated in the determination to prepare for
the military battle. They thought; they should first grab the political
reform problem, that is, our own political reform comes first. After
resolving the domestic problems, we can then deal with the foreign
military battle problem.
This reminds me of the crucial period in 1948 in the Chinese revolution.
At that time, the People's Liberation Army’s “horses were drinking
water” in Yangtze River, but they faced extremely complex situations and
difficult problems everywhere in the liberated areas, and the central
authority received emergency reports daily. What to do? Should we stop
to manage rear areas and internal matters first before moving forward,
or press on to pass the Yangtze River with one vigorous effort? Chairman
Mao, with his extraordinary wisdom and mettle, gave the marching order
"Carry on the revolution to the end," and liberated all of China. The
previously thought "serious" conflicting problems were all resolved in
this great forward moving revolutionary wave.
Now, it seems like we are in the same critical period as the “horses
were drinking water” in the Yangtze River days in the revolutionary era,
as long as we firmly seize the most basic principle of preparing for the
military battle. The central committee believes, as long as we resolve
the United States problem at one blow, our domestic problems will all be
readily solved. Therefore, our military battle preparation appears to
aim at Taiwan, but in fact is aimed at the United States, and the
preparation is far beyond the scope of attacking aircraft carriers or
satellites.
Marxism pointed out that violence is the midwife for the birth of the
new society. Therefore war is the midwife for the birth of China’s
century. As war approaches, I am full of hope for our next generation.
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* The following is a transcript of a speech believed to have been given
by Mr. Chi Haotian, Minster of Defense and vice-chairman of China’s
Central Military Commission. Independently verifying the authorship of
the speech is not possible. It is worth reading because it is believed
to set out the CCP’s strategy for the development of China. The speech
argues for the necessity of China using biological warfare to depopulate
the United States and prepare it for a future massive Chinese
colonization. “The War Is Not Far from Us and Is the Midwife of the
Chinese Century” was published on February 15, 2005 on www.peacehall.com
and was published on www.boxun.com on April 23, 2005.
Notes:
[1] Sina.com is one of the largest on-line media corporations in China.
The on-line survey was launched by sina.com’s branch Sina Military (jczs.sina.com.cn).
It started on February 2 and ended on March 1, 2004 and there were
31,872 persons who filled out the survey. The web page for this on-line
survey is at “http://jczs.sina.com.cn/2004-02-02/1644180066.html” but
this page has been removed and cannot be viewed.
The question was “If you are a soldier, and if are under the orders of
your commanding officers, will you shoot at women, children and
prisoners of war?” 34% of the visitors answered they would shoot under
any circumstances even without permission from their commanding officer.
48.6% of the visitors replied that they would shoot when the lives of
themselves or their companies are threatened. Only 3.8% of the
participants held they would not shoot under any circumstances. Those
who agreed to shoot were mostly under the age of 25.
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[2] “War Is Approaching Us”
[3] “Three islands” refer to Taiwan, Diaoyu Islands, and Spratly
Islands.
[4] Deng Xiaoping (1904-1997). Officially, Deng was the leader of the
CCP and China from 1978-89. Actually, after Mao's death in 1976 Deng
became the de facto leader of China until Deng finally died in 1997.
[5] Hu Jintao (1942-). Leader of the "fourth generation" of CCP
officials. In 2003, Hu became President of the People's Republic of
China.
[6] Liu Huaqing (1916-). Commander of the Chinese People's Liberation
Army Navy from 1982 through 1988, vice-chairman of China’s Central
Military Commission (until 1997). Liu is considered to be responsible
for the PLA’s modernization efforts.
[7] He Xin (1949-). Senior Fellow of the Chinese Academy of Social
Sciences.
[8] “Three Represents” states that the CCP represents the requirement to
develop advanced productive forces, an orientation towards advanced
culture, and the fundamental interests of the overwhelming majority of
the people in China. It was put forward by Jiang Zemin, former Chinese
president.
[9] Three Kingdoms refer to Wei, Shu, and Wu, three countries that
overlapped the land of China during the period A.D. 220-80.
[10] “Three great mountains” were said according to the CCP to have
weighed on the backs of the Chinese people—imperialism, feudalism and
bureaucratic-capitalism.
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General Chi, born in July, 1929; native of Zhaoyuan, Shandong Province;
joined army in July, 1945; joined Communist Party of China (CPC) in
October, 1946.
Chi started from a copy clerk, signalman and squad leader in his teens,
and rose to serve as company and battalion officers in Third Field Army
before New China was founded in 1949, participating in a number of major
campaigns.
From 1950-1955, served as battalion instructor and director of a
regimental political department of the Chinese People's Volunteers.
Studied at Infantry School of People's Liberation Army (PLA) and
Combination Department of PLA Military College From 1958-1960.
Served then as reginmental political department director, regimental
political commissar, division political department director and division
political commissar in 27th Corps in late 1960s and early 1970s.
Also served as leading official in Liberation Army Daily, deputy
editor-in-chief of the People's Daily and deputy political commissar of
Beijing Military Area Command in 1970s.
Between 1977-1992, Chi worked as deputy chief of the PLA General Staff,
political commissar of Jinan Military Area Command, member of Central
Military Commission and chief of PLA General Staff.
He served as member of Central Military Commission, state councillor and
minister of national defense, 1992-1995.
Since 1995, he been serving as vice-chairman of Central Military
Commission, state councillor and minister of national defense.
He was member of 12th, 13th and 14th CPC Central Committees, and a
member of Political Bureau of 15th CPC Central Committee. Mr. Chi was
also state councillor in cabinet led by Zhu Rongi.
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1936 Graduated, Anti-Japanese Military and Political College
1945 Joined, PLA
1946 Joined, CPC
Graduated, Nanjing Military Academy, Jiangsu Province, Nanjing City
Graduated, Political Academy of the Chinese PLA
1946—1949 Company Instructor, PLA, Services and Arms, Field Army
Participated, Shanghai Campaign (Commended as First-Class Combat Model)
(Entitled, Third-Class People's Hero of East China)
1951 Joined, Korean War, Chinese People's Volunteers
1951—???? Battalion Instructor, Korean War, PLA, Regimental Political
Department
1951—???? Deputy Director, Korean War, PLA, Regimental Political
Department
Student, PLA High Infantry School
Student, Military Academy of the Chinese PLA, Combination Department
Regimental Political Commissar, PLA, Beijing Military Region
Division Director, PLA, Beijing Military Region, Political Department
Deputy Political Commissar, PLA, Beijing Military Region
Deputy Chief, PLA, Headquarters of the General Staff
Political Commissar, PLA, Jinan Military Region
1967—1972 Delegate, 9th CPC, National Congress
1970—???? Leader, Liberation Army Daily
1970—???? Deputy Editor-in-Chief, People's Daily
1977—1982 Delegate, 11th CPC, National Congress
1982—1987 Member, 12th CPC, Central Committee
1987—1992 Chief, PLA, Headquarters of the General Staff
1987—1992 Member, 13th CPC, Central Committee
1992—1997 Member, 14th CPC, Central Committee
1992—1997 Member, Central Military Commission of the PRC
1992—1997 Vice-Chairman, 14th CPC, Central Committee, Central Military
Commission
1993— Member, State Council
1993—1998 Minister, (National Defense, 1st Session, 8th NPC)
1995— Present Vice-Chairman, Central Military Commission of the PRC
1997—2002 Member, 15th CPC, Central Committee
1997—2002 Member, 15th CPC, Central Committee, Politboro
1998—2003 Minister, Ministry of National Defense
1999 Member, Macao SAR Preparatory Committee, Government Delegation,
Macao Hand-Over Ceremony
Source:
La Nueva Cuba
October 06, 2005
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