Chinese are not so foolish as to worship at the church of Western values
Thorsten Pattberg says promotion of democracy and universalism is irrational and hypocritical
Western "China experts" are ridiculing a recent speech by the education minister Yuan Guiren, who called for tighter controls on textbooks advocating so-called "Western values".
Banning pseudo science like creationism or dangerous sects from classrooms isn't exactly censorship. Oh, no, wait - in America, apparently it is. The dogma of "Western values" is an outdated, dangerous fabrication. Take democracy.
A Greek invention, democracy is highly overrated. For starters, it never worked in Greece. The first philosophers were fascists and, even today, 2,500 years later, the "cradle of Western civilisation" remains an incompetent state. Roman emperors and a vengeful, authoritarian God are the true European success stories.
The US, Germany, France and Britain were never real democracies, either. Far from it, the US is a plutocracy with a post-monarchal king's court (the White House) and a holy scripture (the constitution). The three others are tedious class societies.
Germany "democratically" voted the Nazis into power and initiated the Holocaust. France and Britain first colonised, and then lost, the world. The US is a terrorist state (180-plus military operations abroad in 200 years) that sees only black and white, with a record of dishonesty and double standards.
No power in world history has ever attained greatness by being a democracy; on the contrary, democracy was always the prescription for the occupied and the conquered, thereby ruining the beaten rival's chances of a comeback.