Chinese Politburo Member Yang Jiechi, who is considered one of President Xi Jinping’s most trusted foreign policy advisors just announced to the media this week “if anyone challenges the Chinese Communist Party or China’s political system and leadership, the Chinese people will definitely not accept this.” Is it a veiled threat toward Taiwan or another opening salvo in its larger campaign to encircle and transform the democratic nations of the world into China’s image? The remarks follow instructions given by Chinese President Xi Jinping at last month’s meeting of the National People’s Congress in which he told the Communist Party rubber-stamping, legislative body to treat the world on an equal footing and that China is poised to take over the West, according to an article by Dr. Willy Wo-Lap Lam, a Senior Fellow at The Jamestown Foundation.
The West needs to come to terms with the fact that Chinese leaders will say and do whatever it takes to achieve their strategic end goal – nothing less than hegemonic domination of the world order. Less than two and half years ago Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said in a speech in New York that China “will not challenge or [seek to] displace the U.S.”
A year later in a white paper entitled, 新时代的中国与世界 (xin shidai de zhongguo yu shijie) “China and the World in the New Era” the government in Beijing said that it had no intention of challenging or replacing the US. At the United Nations last year, President Xi Jinping similarly suggested that China has “no intention to fight either a Cold War or a hot war with any country,” according to a China Daily report.
By the end of 2020 China’s tone had changed. The illusion China painted of itself as a peace-loving dove evaporated and a hungry hawk emerged ready to gobble up islands in the South China, trade deals in Europe, Arctic resources, African rare earths, Middle East oil, and Latin American business connections with the West. In a Chinese language Voice of China statement late last year President Xi Jinping said China would “guide the reform of global governance based on principles of equality and justice,” and reiterated his belief in Beijing’s leading role in building a global “community of common destiny” for mankind.
It appears the Biden Administration’s China policy, which follows former President Trump’s tough stance on the communist giant, has touched a raw nerve in Beijing. China’s diplomatic “wolf wolves” are no longer veiling their language to avoid scrutiny by the nation-states of the free world. This period s marks a new and more dangerous phase in China’s foreign policy. It is one where the calculus of risk has changed in China’s favor, according to policy makers in Beijing.
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China is changing the geopolitical landscape. According to Dr. Lam, “more urgent is Beijing’s anxiety to prevent the Biden administration from forming a united front with Asian countries to push back on China’s occupation of disputed islets in the SCS.” He believes that “Given Xi’s propensity to buttress China’s power projection with military muscle, Beijing’s measures to counter American ‘containment’ could easily threaten peace and stability in the Indo-Pacific region.” This may be the shot across the bow, heard throughout Asia and the free world.
DARIA NOVAK served in the United States State Department during the Reagan Administration, and currently is on the Board of the American Analysis of News and Media Inc., which publishes usagovpolicy.com and the New York Analysis of Policy and Government. Each Friday, she presents key updates on China.
Photo: Ship-borne helicopters attached to a naval aviation regiment under the PLA Eastern Theater Command fly in formation at low altitude during a round-the-clock training exercise on April 18, 2021. (eng.chinamil.com.cn/Photo by Li Hengjiang)