Part VI, Part VII, Part VIII, Part IX, and Part X of this multi-part series discussed the first five increments of the second tier geopolitical and economic goals and objectives of the Chinese Communist Party. This part summarizes a sixth portion of those goals and objectives.
Introduction
The Chinese Communists (ChiComs) are pursuing strategic initiatives aimed at achieve world economic domination: Belt-Road Initiative (and its related “Roads”) and Made in China 2025. Parts III, IV, and V of this series summarized those initiatives. To further the objectives in those initiatives, a number of intertwined secondary goals have been set by the Chinese Communist Party that are aimed at all spheres of human economic endeavors: trade, policy, regulations, legal, technology, etc. Their ultimate objective is economic dominance because that makes possible geopolitical and military dominance, and that ultimately leads to the ChiComs’ penultimate goal: world leadership in all human endeavors.
Secondary Goals of the Spider Dragon
Parts VII – X of this series have covered 34 secondary goals being pursued in a coordinated fashion by the ChiComs. Several more are discussed below in this part of the series. It is important to understand that all of these goals are synergistic and intended to reinforce each other. Together, they make up a veritable “spider’s web” of interlocking goals and objectives all working in concert in support of the Spider Dragon’s world dominance ambitions.
Collect and exploit the world’s DNA. The ChiComs have been collecting DNA samples of people around the world for years, including cleverly through the sale of prenatal tests to unsuspecting women. Is this Chinese altruism at work? Are they trying to solve problems that benefit the world, or are nefarious purposes at work? What might DNA analysis have to do with bioweapons research being conducted by the PLA at laboratories such as the Wuhan Institute of Virology? The world may have found out about that a bit over the last 18 months or so. Here is how Reuters reported the likely reasons behind ChiCom interest in DNA harvesting and analysis:
U.S. government advisors warned in March that a vast bank of genomic data that the company, BGI Group, is amassing and analyzing with artificial intelligence could give China a path to economic and military advantage. As science pinpoints new links between genes and human traits, access to the biggest, most diverse set of human genomes is a strategic edge. The technology could propel China to dominate global pharmaceuticals, and also potentially lead to genetically enhanced soldiers, or engineered pathogens to target the U.S. population or food supply, the advisors said.
The U.S. National Counterintelligence and Security Center (NCSC) told Reuters … that it had “serious concerns” over how genetic data is “collected, transmitted, stored and used” by China’s government and companies. The NCSC, which issues public warnings on intelligence threats to the United States, has said China’s collection of healthcare data from America poses serious risks, not only to privacy, but also to U.S. economic and national security.
And former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo recently stated that prenatal DNA collection is just one contributing example to China’s world dominance goal:
“This is a broad-based effort to collect information, to collect data for the benefit of a regime that has the intent on global hegemony.”
Pompeo then said: “This is another example of the Chinese Communist Party that is going to use every tool that they have in their power to create what they view as this Middle Kingdom, this all-important, all-powerful entity that emanates from Beijing, that the world must rise up to stop it.”
Dominate the Indo-Pacific region. The goal here is to expand PLA/PLA-Navy bases throughout the region in order to counteract US dominance. The establishment of PLA bases is used to intimidate Indo-Pac nations into taking more neutral (if not outright pro-China) stances in geopolitical affairs. This strategy has worked well with key ally Pakistan. Part of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor, long-term ChiCom investments have turned the Pakistani port of Gwadar into a bridge between the Maritime Silk Road and the overland Belt-Road, as detailed in Part X of this series. As reported by the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies:
The People’s Liberation Army (PLA) is already making serious headway securing new bases in Cambodia, Tanzania, and the United Arab Emirates, among other locales. Whether or not Washington can derail Beijing’s plans is anyone’s guess. Either way, U.S. policymakers and military brass could soon wake up to a changed world, where the PLA can project its power far beyond the tense Taiwan Strait.
The current push for a Chinese base in Kiribati is eerily reminiscent of Beijing’s efforts to secure its first (and for now only) overseas military base in Djibouti in 2017. Just as it did then, China has leveraged a combination of deft diplomacy, elite capture, and strategically timed investments to win over the host nation government.
Note: Kiribati is within striking range of Hawaii. It is not just the smaller nations whom Beijing seeks to intimidate, but also their “Main Enemy” (the United States of America).
Replace US brands with Chinese. The ChiComs seek to displace US brand names with Chinese labels. While this might seem to be simply standard competition, the issue is much more complex and important, as popular brands provide cultural and psychological influences that can be exploited because each is linked with the country of origin. For example, Apple iPhones are distinctively US and ubiquitous around the world. “Everybody wants one,” just like non-US citizens around the world have been heavily influenced by US culture and technology for decades. Enter the ChiComs, who seek to displace US brands. It’s a world leadership thing, as Beijing sees it. And they talk about it in their English-language state-run media, as noted in this Global Times op-ed entitled, “Chinese vs US brands: Who will have the last laugh?”
US brands thrive in a virtual economy. So do European brands. Chinese brands, on the other hand, develop in both virtual and real economies. Even in virtual economies alone, China plays as well as the US and Europe. It even goes ahead of them in some fields.
How many of products sold by Amazon are actually made in the US? How many of the industries related to these products can thrive under President Joe Biden’s plan to boost manufacturing?
China-based sellers represented 75 percent of new sellers on Amazon in January. This is a significant increase from 47 percent in the previous year, according to a report by Marketplace Pulse in January. Three-quarters of new sellers in the top four core Amazon markets – the US, the UK, Germany and Japan – are based in China.
Five global brands have more than doubled in value in the past year, according to Kantar’s BrandZ survey. Apart from Tesla in the US, the other four are all Chinese companies: e-commerce giants Pinduoduo, Meituan, Moutai and TikTok. These four companies are intimately connected with the daily lives of 1.4 billion Chinese people.
What will the future hold? Will Westerners become fixated on Alibaba, Tencent, WeChat, TikTok, and other exotic ChiCom brands? And will a ChiCom-dominated company produce an iPhone knockoff based on IP “transferred” or stolen from Apple? Stranger things have happened.
Become the dominant producer of industrial goods in the world. Little did Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger know when they “opened Communist China” to the rest of the world in 1972 that the ChiComs would become an industrial giant, with many US and multinational production facilities having relocated to China over the past 50 years. Or did they know what they were doing? Regardless, the ChiCom Central Committee probably back-slap themselves with glee on a regular basis about their “good fortune” that the West and other nations have let the fox into the chicken coop. Here is what state-run People’s Daily trumpeted the other day in that regard:
China is the world’s largest producer of over 220 types of industrial products, including vehicles and computers, an official said at a press conference held to mark the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China in Beijing. China has become the only country in the world to have all the industrial categories listed in the United Nations industrial classification.
At what cost to the rest of the world, not only in terms of industries transferred and lost? Trade surpluses are fueling the expansion of the PLA. This is the direct result of buying goods that are “made in China.”
Replace Western-style Democracy with Chinese “whole democracy”. Communists excel at controlling political discourse through carefully concocted words and phrases. Examples include: critical theory, intersectionalism, sustainability, and social justice. They all sound good, but each intends to advance the “inevitability” of worldwide Marxist-communism in its own way. The ChiComs’ “whole Democracy” is no different. The word “whole” implies that traditional Western democracy is somehow incomplete and deficient, and that the ChiCom version is better. But better for whom? This is how state-run China Daily describes it:
“[W]hole-process democracy” [is] in line with socialist democracy with Chinese characteristics.
Democracy in China has developed according to the country’s national conditions, drawing on historical lessons and the experiences of other countries. Whole-process democracy is a new form of democracy that the Chinese people found best suited their national conditions.
First, whole-process democracy transcends Western-style democracy in that the latter represents only the rights and interests of a small number of people, especially the upper class. By contrast, whole-process democracy is geared toward safeguarding the rights and interests of all the Chinese people, thus making it truly representational in nature.
Second, an important characteristic of Western-style democracy is that it becomes highly representational during elections, but once the elections are over, democratic practices start declining. In comparison, whole-process democracy tries to integrate democracy into the whole process of public life, including the electoral, decision-making, management, supervision and consultation processes, all of which are different but combine to form an integral chain.
And the article continues in that crazy vein, as if we in the West have no idea how our democrat governments work. Do the ChiComs really expect us to believe that they integrate democracy into the “whole process of public life” in China? Ask the Tibetans, Uyghurs and other minorities how that has worked out for them!
“Whole Democracy” surely hasn’t benefited the Chinese people. The average Chinese citizen enjoys none of the personal and economic freedoms of the average American or European. And it surely won’t benefit the citizens of other nations, but nevertheless, this is the system that the ChiComs seek to foist on the world.
Control all data and information. The objective here is to limit the exchange of data and information among citizens and entities to that which is approved by the state – and only the state! For the ChiComs, free exchange of ideas antithetical to the Chinese Communist Party cannot be tolerated, as that undermines ChiCom control and authority. Domestic Chinese tech companies are being forced to comply with a harsh new data security law that will also create problems for US and multinational companies doing business in Communist China. And of course, the ChiComs would like to extend that data security law to the rest of the world, too. Here is what is in store under the new law, as reported by CPO Magazine last month:
The new law routes all decisions involving the security of this data through government national security officials. Violators can be hit with massive fines, have their operating licenses revoked or even be permanently forced out of business.
The new data security law is aimed more at China’s homegrown tech giants (Alibaba, ByteDance, Tencent) than it is at foreign companies that operate there, but it nevertheless creates onerous compliance issues for the Silicon Valley firms eager to take advantage of its domestic market.
The data security law broadly defines “core state data,” apparently leaving plenty of wiggle room to label just about any personal or business information it cares to in this way. This formally paves the way for the government to order a violating business to cease operations entirely, have its licenses temporarily suspended, or pay a fine of up to 10 million yuan (about $1.6 million).
The new law also applies to international data exchanges and has been extended to Hong Kong and Macau. Will companies in Taiwan, Singapore, and other overseas Chinese diasporas be next? Combined with the new National Security Law, this data security law begins to provide the legal framework for controlling the everyday communications of first Chinese citizens, and later the rest of the world.
Conclusion. Chinese Communist ambitions are as large as their population is; they seek leadership in – and control of – all human endeavors, right down to individual thoughts, communications, and daily activities. This is considered a natural and historically-based goal that will be achieved through the coordinated execution of a complex web of intertwined secondary objectives that have been described in this series in the years to come.
Will the post-World War II free market capitalist world based on Western democratic principles established by the US and its allies prevail against the upstart authoritarian mercantilist system and whole democracy mumbo-jumbo of Communist China? Will freedom or totalitarianism win out in the end? Uncle Sam or the Great Helmsman? To be determined…
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Just think. Until Trump came around, as our president, all this stuff was hidden from view. Now, people are awake to the idea of freeze dried pet treats and all the other nonsense food, drug and consumer products that are so far below par with western produced items, that it just might be what keep China from coming back from the abyss, and they are on the edge of that abyss.
It’s good to hear about the revolting that goes on in Chinese provinces when we hear of them, but you still have to seek that news out. Never in any of our domestic news sources.
My observation is that the only way China rises to the top is when they destroy everything in their way, and that will leave them nothing, so, so much for their great ambitions. Communism never has worked, and their version of it won’t, either, even when our good old leftists prop it up.