Introduction
The Chinese Communists (ChiComs) are pursuing world domination in the economic and military spheres in order to return China to its historical prominence as a world leader. China was once the most advanced civilization in the ancient world. As noted here, “China was once the standard setter in advanced civilization, the center point around which the economies and cultures of much of the Earth revolved.” Their successes toward that restoriation will be much publicized during the centennial celebration of the founding of Communist China that will be held in 2049. Those successes are associated with a number of intertwined goals set by the Chinese Communist Party that are aimed at world economic dominance in all spheres: trade, policy, legal, technology, etc. For it is economic dominance that undergirds geopolitical and military dominance, and that ultimately leads to world leadership.
Secondary Goals of the Spider Dragon
Establish regional hegemony along Communist China’s periphery. In order to lead the world and have a firm based from which to project military and economic power, China must become the regional hegemon in East and Southeast Asia, in particular. This involves intimidation, coercion, and bribery – whatever works to achieve China’s economic and military objectives in neighboring, including dominating the regional seas and controlling economic markets and trade relations on Chinese terms. The ChiCom’s approach to achieving regional hegemony is nicely summarized here:
The emerging conventional wisdom holds that China will try to establish global influence by first establishing regional hegemony. This does not mean physically occupying neighboring countries (with the potential exception of Taiwan), as the Soviet Union did during the Cold War. But it does mean that Beijing must make itself the dominant player in the Western Pacific, out to the first island chain (which runs from Japan to Taiwan to the Philippines) and beyond; it must gain an effective veto over the security and economic choices of its neighbors; it must rupture America’s alliances in the region and push U.S. military forces farther and farther away from China’s shores. If China cannot do this, it will never have a secure regional base from which to project power globally. It will be confronted by persistent security challenges along its vulnerable maritime periphery; it will have to focus its energies and military assets on defense rather than offense.
Control all overseas Chinese. This is intertwined with the above objective, as there are many overseas Chinese living in neighboring countries. The objective here is to extend the new National Security Law to all Chinese regardless of where they live. With control comes the ability to political influence events and policies in countries that have a significant minority population of Chinese. Several neighboring countries have large Chinese populations ripe for control/influence by Beijing:
- Singapore: 76% of population are Chinese (2.7 million)
- Thailand: largest group of overseas Chinese and the largest minority group at 14% of population (10 million)
- Malaysia: largest minority group at 23% of population (6.6 million)
- Brunei: largest minority group at 10% of population (42,000)
- New Zealand: the largest ethnic minority at 231,000 (5% of the population)
The National Security Law is insidious, with a key ChiCom objective of using it to force other countries to comply with ChiCom controls of overseas Chinese. It was specifically designed to quell any dissent in Hong Kong against Beijing’s rule; serious perpetrators of subversion, terrorism, collusion with foreign forces and secession face life in prison under the new law. The law applies to anyone, anywhere in the world and is expansively extraterritorial in its scope. According to Article 38, it can apply even to offenses committed “outside the region by a person who is not a permanent resident of the region.” That means an American penning an editorial for a U.S. newspaper that argues for, say, sanctions against China, could technically fall afoul of the law for “inciting hatred” against Beijing. Its brutal application in Hong Kong is a test drive for its use around the world. If its jurisdiction is ever accepted, this will mean the end of national sovereignty of other nations, not to mention the UN. Do the ChiComs have in mind making the UN its enforcement agency for the law over the long haul? Stranger things have happened!
The ChiComs are using another mechanism to control overseas Chinese as well, including right here in the US, masking it as part of a ChiCom “anti-corruption campaign, as reported here:
China has been targeting its own nationals living in other countries, especially those involved in rights activism or who are critical of the ruling Chinese Communist Party, with threats, often made by agents of the state in person on U.S. soil, the head of the FBI has warned.
“Since 2014, Chinese General Secretary Xi Jinping has spearheaded a program known as Fox Hunt,” FBI director Christopher Wray said in a speech … at the Hudson Institute.
While Beijing insists that Fox Hunt is an international extension of Xi Jinping’s international anti-corruption campaign, Wray said it is in fact a campaign targeting political rivals and critics who sought refuge outside the country.
“Fox Hunt is a sweeping bid by General Secretary Xi to target Chinese nationals whom he sees as threats and who live outside China, across the world,” Wray said. “We’re talking about political rivals, dissidents, and critics seeking to expose China’s extensive human rights violations.”
“The Chinese government wants to force them to return to China, and China’s tactics to accomplish that are shocking,” Wray said, citing one U.S. resident who had received an in-person visit from Chinese agents who had told them either to tell their relative wanted under Fox Hunt to return to China or to commit suicide.
And the National Security Law will provide legalistic cover for the snatch-and-grab antics of Fox Hunt in order to get around extradition laws.
Take the Chinese civil code worldwide. The Civil Code of the People’s Republic of China as adopted at the Third Session of the Thirteenth National People’s Congress on May 28, 2020. It micromanages Chinese society – economic, social, travel, education, etc. – and mandates compliance by all Chinese citizens. Article 1 spells out its purpose and intent (emphasis added):
This Law is formulated in accordance with the Constitution of the People’s Republic of China for the purposes of protecting the lawful rights and interests of the persons of the civil law, regulating civil-law relations, maintaining social and economic order, meet the needs for developing socialism with Chinese characteristics, and carrying forward the core socialist values.
And those last two bolded phrases are a glimpse into ChiCom intentions for the rest of the world, too: carrying forward core socialist values with Chinese characteristics to other countries! The Code and the Natural Security Law form the legal basis for extending ChiCom control around the world.
This is how Xinhuanet scopes the code as promulgated in seven volumes (emphasis added):
The books are in seven volumes, dedicated to the code’s general and supplementary provisions and six parts on real rights, contracts, personality rights, marriage and family, inheritance, and tort liabilities, according to a statement by the People’s Publishing House. The books explain the legislation’s objective, background and meaning of every article. There are some case study examples for a better understanding by the reader, the publisher said.
The ChiComs intend to used advanced technologies such as facial recognition, artificial intelligence, smart cameras for surveillance, and big-data processing to digitally monitor compliance. This is one explanation of the importance of compliance for the average Chinese:
China’s plan is to give each citizen a social credit score, which goes far beyond the traditional credit score based on finances. The score can fluctuate based on a range of behaviors, like whether you jaywalk or buy Chinese-made goods or buy too many video games. If your score gets too low, you can be banned from buying a plane ticket, renting a house, accessing high-speed internet or getting a loan.
And the Chinese social credit system is already being deployed overseas, especially to Chinese-owned businesses:
China’s social credit system has developed into two connected but distinct systems: a system for monitoring individual behaviour, still in early pilot stages, and a more robust system for monitoring corporate behaviour.
The [latter] system touches on virtually all aspects of a company’s business operations … by assessing company performance, making sure they pay their taxes, uphold standard of service and other market entities. Based on their rating, Chinese authorities will reward or punish businesses that can result in penalty fees, higher inspection rates and possibly even blacklisting. Companies receiving a high corporate social credit score could result in better tax rate, market access and possibly being placed on what is known as a “redlist”.
China has already started to move forward with the creation of an English language corporate social credit system version by Xinhua Credit for non-Chinese firms.
Conquer space. Chinese missions to Mars and the moon are only window-dressing used to advertise ChiCom scientific prowess. The real goal is to dominate space in every way, but especially in military and economic domains. This short video from The Wall Street Journal provides an excellent overview of China’s ongoing space initiatives:
Chinese space endeavors are dual-use, with even the very names of projects signifying intentions, as described here by Gordon Chang:
Because China’s space program is run by the People’s Liberation Army, Beijing’s cooperation with Russia looks dangerous. For instance, [Brandon Weichert], publisher of the Weichert Report, notes that the Chinese space station will have a laser. Beijing has said the laser will be used for zapping stray meteors and space junk threatening the orbiting facility, but the weapon is “dual use” and can also be aimed at other countries’ satellites.
China named its Mars rover Zhurong. The Xinhua News Agency explains Zhurong is the god of fire and tells us “Zhu” means “well wishes” and “rong” translates as “integration.” China’s official media outlet does not mention, however, that Zhurong is also a god of war—and the god of the South China Sea.
Brandon Weichert elaborates on China’s space objectives, including militarization and technology transfer:
It’s true that China’s space agency has said they welcome international missions to their new space station. But simple science has never been China’s end goal. In fact, by allowing for international scientific missions to their soon-to-be-launched space station, China will be getting access to the intellectual property and trade secrets of other nations and corporations. And like they have always done with foreign entities, China will pilfer what they need.
Essentially, international cooperation with China on their space station will amount to nothing less than the greatest technology transfer to China in history.
We know that China’s leaders have viewed their new station in strategic terms. In 2010, Beijing reorganized its military to fight—and win—a space war against the United States. So, while China’s new modular space station is nothing new (both the Americans and Russians have been operating space stations for decades), China’s space station program is one piece of a larger strategy for Beijing’s comprehensive dominance over the Earth.
Note that Reichert’s last phrase: Beijing’s comprehensive dominance over the Earth. Conquering space is of-a-piece with the ChiComs’ other secondary objectives described in this series, with the Spider Dragon weaving a web of control in every sphere of influence around the world – and in space!
Conclusion
The Spider Dragon is weaving an intricate web of secondary geopolitical and economic goals aimed at global dominance in all human endeavors under the Sun. This part of the series examined efforts to become the regional hegemon in South and East Asia, control overseas Chinese, implement the Chinese civil code and social credit system worldwide, and conquer space. These goals – including those described in Parts VI, VII, and VIII – are synergistic, collaborative, and interactive, with each goal reinforcing others just as the individual strands in a spider’s web reinforce each other. There are more secondary objectives to follow!
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The entire western world, along withj most of the ASEAN region, is against China and its plans for being the villain in the next James Bond movie.
“As Beijing sees it, China’s success depends on discrediting the tenets of liberal capitalism so that notions like individual freedom and constitutional democracy come to be seen as the relics of an obsolete system.” True statement, but not going to happen. China is already seeing pushback from the ones they claim it is working on. That social credit score thing, so far, is implemented in one or two provinces of China, and the latest Cooties(Covid) scare, a drone flew over telling people to not strive for freedom. Be good boys and girls and tough this lockdown thing up… or else!
China is watching Russia for several reasons. One being the invasion of Ukraine, because China bought several of the weapons systems that Russia is not using like they billed them. That is key to the invasion of Taiwan, which I still don’t believe will happen. Two is the part about how Russia weathers their self inflicted storm, concerning oil. Instead of China buying it, if Russia fails, China may just cross the Russian border and start taking it. Russia can’t defend itself well enough to put the brakes on a land invasion by China. That would be easier to accomplish than invading Taiwan. That’s also something that is not being talked about in the media, or in most forums and discussion sites.
My money is on China not making it to their centennial celebration. The Chi-coms will fail.
I think China has too many goals set, and too few attainable. You have expanded my knowledge of all the stuff China has on its CCP wishlist. I still don’t see them accomplishing half of it.
Of course, I’m leaving out the Democrats’ involvement in China’s plans. That’s the part that gives me indigestion.