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Letters | China’s socialism is not the problem, US ambitions are

  • Human rights in Xinjiang, democracy in Hong Kong, a free market in mainland China and Taiwan issues are just excuses to further the American agenda

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I refer to Jacky T.K. Tam’s letter, “The West hopes China will mirror western values: that’s wishful thinking” (August 15).

First, it is not China’s socialism that US is concerned about. It’s the power struggle. Second, Marxism is a Western philosophy. Third, Europe is largely a socialist democracy today and the US, a capitalist democracy.

Germany and France are US allies and democracies. They want to buy cheaper Iranian oil instead of American oil. The US slaps economic sanctions on Iran and threatens companies that dealt with Iran. Germany and Russia want to build a natural gas pipeline because Germany wants to buy cheaper Russian gas. The US threatens sanctions against the construction companies that are helping Russia. The list of US transgressions is long.

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Stop offering ‘untrusted’ Chinese apps like TikTok and WeChat, Washington urges US tech companies

Stop offering ‘untrusted’ Chinese apps like TikTok and WeChat, Washington urges US tech companies

The problem is not China’s socialism, but the US’ power struggle with it. 5G is not being developed by the US. So the US, in the name of security, lobbies its allies to ban Chinese 5G.

When we understand international politics, we will understand that human rights in Xinjiang, democracy in Hong Kong, a free market in China and whatever it is in Taiwan are just excuses to further the American agenda.

Consider human rights. In 2003, the US accused Iraq of having weapons of mass destruction. The UN investigated and found nothing. But the US still staged a war in Iraq. How many Iraqis lost their rights to life and shelter in that war?

With regard to Iranian oil and Russian gas, it is clear that the US is not keen on free markets. The US wants a free market in China only for its capitalist elite to pour in and control the Chinese economy.

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