From: jxl43@po.CWRU.Edu (Jianfeng Li)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.china
Subject: Re: Chinese Manifest Destiny
Date: 26 Dec 1992 21:59:48 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Reply-To: jxl43@po.CWRU.Edu (Jianfeng Li)
NNTP-Posting-Host: slc12.ins.cwru.edu


In a previous article, Richard_Robb@mindlink.bc.ca (Richard Robb) says:

>Jianfeng Li writes:
>
>> To China, being the super power for over 15 centuries(from -300 to
>> +1,200),chinese enjoied a far more advanced society than the rest
>> of the world.
>
>"Super power"?  Nice dream.  China, throughout its history, has never been
>more than a regional power at best, and it has barely been able to control
>even the territory it now claims as its own.  China has had extremely little
>political or military power over people outside its own borders - hardly a
>"super power."
>
Dear Richard,
Actually I have a even better picture about the past of China.
Since Sir Needham of England believe in that chinese had the lead from -300
to 1200,I took the data from him. I hoped more people would be convinced.
Unfortunately you are not. I do agree on one fact with you. That is we chinese
were not aggressive on international affair. We used to build wall( the great
wall) to protect ourself.We have no intention to steal/take other people's
fortune. 
We call our countary the center because our ancestor believe we were the one
which had been civilized. Our ancestor hoped that their behavior would affect
the rest of the world,in return all races would have a happy life. Of course
that was a dream, even our ancestor had never realized it to themself fully. 
But they did have such a dream.

>> It is not only because we are proud of being chinese,but also
>> our responsibility to take over the leadship in next century....
>> Please be prepared for the coming century.
>>
>> We are the only capable candidate for the leadship.
>> Come on,be a member of the family which will make history again.
>> a chinese.
>
>"Only capable candidate for the leadership".  Why, thank you, Mr. Li.  What a
>refreshing reinvention of the master race theory!  Pray tell, which previous
>model do you intend to follow, the German or the Japanese?
>
Dear Richard,
I am the kind of chinese who believe in peaceful competition among races.I
think it is a healthy attitude. I wish people of other races have the same
thought. Only so, human being can improve their life and gain a better 
understanding about the world which consist of material part and spiritual 
part.
After more than 500 years of struggling in humiliation, it seems history 
will experience another turning point. During the past little more ten years
,we chinese quadrupled our GNP.Take a conservative point of view( from the
west world), we will have another fourfold quantum leap before 2000. Within 30 
years,our total economic power will be about the same to the rest of the world.
People can label the above prediction as my dream( include some of the leading
figures from E.C., U.S.). And if China does turn the prediction( good will of
those respectful western economicists) into reality, there is one thing which
I think I can promise to the rest of the world on behalf of my countary men,
we will not force anyone to do anything against their will.
However if anyone dare to try to knock our door with whatever guns again(like
starting from about 1700,the western world did to accumulate the funtune),they
had better think it more than twice.
 
>(P.S. - Don't mean to be impolite, Jianfeng, but it's my wager that the rest
>of the world will resist your dreams of Chinese hegemony just as successfully
>as your other totalitarian friends were resisted in the 1930s and 1940s.
>We're not as poorly armed as the Tibetans, you know.)
>

 
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