Vijay 公平看待中國在世界上的角色

印度曆史學家：公平看待中國在世界上的角色

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中國日報網 2022-09-01 08:59

印度曆史學家維傑·普拉沙德在三洲網站8月17日發表的通訊中表示，美國出於對中國經濟增長的焦慮而引發衝突，但不建議像有用的白癡一樣加入其中。

維傑指出，新一波扼殺理性、籠罩人性觀念的瘋狂浪潮正在滲透到全球政治話語中，使與中國進行成人對話變得不可能。

維傑說，中國作為一個擁有14億人口的國家，從1839年英國發動鴉片戰爭到1949年中華人民共和國成立，遭受了百年屈辱。此後，中國社會經曆了百年的屈辱。 通過利用社會財富解決“饑餓、文盲、沮喪和父權製等古老問題”來實現深刻的變革。

維傑指出，正如所有社會實驗在進展過程中遇到的那樣，存在很大的問題。 “我們這個時代的瘋狂並沒有看到中國的成功和矛盾，而是試圖將中國貶低為東方主義漫畫——一個具有種族滅絕議程、尋求全球統治的獨裁國家”。

維傑補充說，這種瘋狂源於美國統治精英日益增長的擔憂，他們對中國人民取得的進步感到極大威脅，特別是在機器人、電信、高鐵和計算機技術方麵。 “這些進步對西方公司長期享有的優勢構成了生存威脅，西方公司受益於幾個世紀的殖民主義和知識產權法的束縛。”

維傑強調，這種意識形態浪潮正在削弱“就中國在世界上的作用進行嚴肅、平衡對話”的能力。 西方國家在不承認自己的過去的情況下，現在經常譴責他們所說的中國在非洲的殖民主義。 美國僅對伊拉克發動非法戰爭就造成超過一百萬人死亡，但從未被指控犯有“種族滅絕”罪。

維傑說，中國的社會主義實驗應該成為南半球國家學習的榜樣，比如在疫情期間消除極端貧困。 維傑總結道，偏執態度和孤立政策對社會是危險的，相反，需要就中國進行一場成人對話，而不是由強大利益集團強加。

View China's role in the world fairly: Indian historian

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The US is triggering a conflict out of its anxieties about China's economic growth, but it is not advisable to join in as useful idiots, Indian historian Vijay Prashad said in a newsletter published by the Tricontinental website on Aug 17.

Vijay pointed out that a new wave of madness, which stifles reason and clouds ideas of humanity, is seeping into global political discourse and has made it impossible to have an adult conversation with China. 

China, as a country of 1.4 billion people, Vijay said, has suffered a century of humiliation, starting from the British-inflicted Opium Wars in 1839 until the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949. Since then, the Chinese society has undergone profound changes by utilizing its social wealth to address "the age-old problems of hunger, illiteracy, despondency, and patriarchy."

There have been great problems, as all social experiments encounter during the progress, Vijay noted. "Rather than seeing China for both its successes and contradictions, this madness of our times seeks to reduce China to an Orientalist caricature - an authoritarian state with a genocidal agenda that seeks global domination".

The madness originates from the growing concerns among US ruling elites who feel greatly threatened by the progress Chinese people have made particularly in robotics, telecommunications, high-speed rail, and computer technology, Vijay added. "These advances pose an existential threat to the advantages long enjoyed by Western corporations, who have benefited from centuries of colonialism and the straitjacket of intellectual property laws."

Vijay stressed this ideological tidal wave is undermining the ability to "have serious, balanced conversations about China's role in the world". Without any acknowledgment of their own past, Western countries now regularly denounce what they call Chinese colonialism in Africa. The US, whose illegal war on Iraq alone resulted in the deaths of over a million people, has never been accused of 'genocide'.

China's experiments with socialism should be an example for countries in the Global South to learn, such as its eradication of extreme poverty during the pandemic, Vijay said. A paranoid attitude and isolation policy are socially dangerous, Vijay concluded, instead, it is needed to have an adult conversation about China that is not imposed by powerful interests.