Why isn't China a federation?

Q: Why isn't China a federation?

A:

A federation is not the best form of government for governing a large population. The EU failed to unite Europe for only half of the Chinese population, while China has been united for two thousand years. 

China has an ideal government called Under-the-Heaven. Officers are responsible for All-Under-the-Heaven, not just for their local constituents. For more than two thousand years, the governor of provinces or their ancient counterparts could not be a local person, even the chief executive of a county could be from another place. If you are a chief officer of the country, you have to leave your hometown to work in another area.

Western media do not report and do not notice that China, from time to time, shuffles governors among different provinces. Governors, therefore, can bring new ideas into a province and learn a lot from different provinces. That makes the evolution of the political system faster to adapt to a changing domestic and international environment. That makes China the most capable government in the world.

Chinese officers bear the responsibility for All-Under-the-Heaven, not just for its local constituency. That’s why China has united for two thousand years, while Europe cannot until today. The Chinese population doubles that of Europeans. Chinese civilization is larger than European civilization. China can be united, but Europe cannot.

If we want a peaceful world, if we want a peaceful world governance, we should learn something from Chinese civilization. History proved that the European ideal of governance makes it difficult to avoid wars.

 

If Trump is successful in annexing Canada and making the US larger, believe me, that will not make the US stronger. The Western political system cannot handle a larger population better. The Congress will take a longer time to debate, and every issue will take a longer time to address. If Europe were using the Chinese political system, Rome would have no need to split into East and West Rome, and the Great British Empire would have no need to split into the Five Eyes.