During WWII, China suffered horribly from the racial discrimination of the fascist Japanese government, then allied with German Nazism.
Like their German colleagues, the Japanese fascists were convinced that they belonged to a superior race, destined to brutally dominate the rest of East Asia. China has long tried to heal this painful memory which counts for it in millions of victims. To rise from the abject poverty into which the war had plunged them, the people of China did what many peoples had done before: take their destiny into their own hands. Like France in 1789, like Haiti in 1802, like the United States in 1776, the Chinese people had no choice between freedom and disintegration, to survive they could only choose their sovereignty. The ideology that was used to convey the message of liberation was inspired by the Paris Commune. We can analyze the drifts of governance of Soviet communism and Stalinism, but we cannot deny that China was able and knew how to emerge against all predictions. For example, China recently lifted nearly 800 million people out of poverty. The United Nations hailed this achievement as a unique event in human history. Lifting 800 million people out of poverty is more important in terms of the number of lives saved than the global vaccination campaign for the COVID pandemic. However, this historic news did not make the front page of the media. The Jewish people know how to recognize gratuitous and cruel racism. Afro-descendants understand this clearly, and without a shadow of a doubt. A majority of them agree that we are witnessing the rise of an anti-Chinese policy motivated by nothing other than ethnic, cultural and racial separatism, with economic designs. The fear of Chinese communism we are being served is ludicrous, because China’s economic system is just as capitalist and consumerist as the United States and the European Union. Those who have suffered from racism, and their descendants, are disgusted by the resurgence of constant intoxication about China and its people, who are constantly dehumanized in the media and democratic Western political discourse. The sudden military rally between Anglo-Saxon countries against China has the appearance of a purely ethnic grouping and has a racial tendency.
Neither the African-American minority in the United States, nor the Australian or British minorities are affected by this anti-Chinese group. These minorities are not consulted in such issues because their answer is known in advance.
They have no problem with China. It is therefore a conflict established, in its language, on the basis of racial repulsion. We must block the road to this madness by reason.
No one other than the merchants of conflict would benefit from a military confrontation with China. We are in an era of communication. There is no excuse today for using methods other than dialogue and consultation. Even feeding a context of language in the direction of violence, arousing the specter of racism and fear of strangers, is an unwarranted assault on spirits, and a threat to peace that cannot be acceptable. It is time to raise our voices against anti-Chinese racism.
FJN says no to anti-Chinese racism
