The China Threat Originates from Threatening China — Naturally!

2006/5/27 16:50:08

There's a hilarious theory floating around the world right now called the "China Threat Theory," and domestically there's an even more hilarious behavior — people bending over backwards to explain away the non-existence of any "China Threat." If the "China Threat Theory" is absurd, then explaining away the "China Threat" is beyond absurd. China is not a steamed bun — stop trying to wrap it up like one!

The China threat originates from threatening China — naturally! Without the threats against China since 1840, there would be no China threat today. An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth — isn't that very Western? Since globalization has been so thoroughly globalized, isn't it perfectly logical in globalization's own logic for China to threaten back those who threatened China?

Against wolves, you can only use the logic of wolves — this is the most basic logic. Any logic departing from this is, and can only be, the logic of useless pastries! When the lion awakens, the idle foxes and rabbits on the ground will naturally feel threatened. But should the lion go around comforting — or servicing — each of them? The key is whether the lion has awakened. As long as you are that awakened lion, what does it matter what the idle foxes and rabbits chatter about?

A true lion announces its existence to the world with its own roar. The lion's very existence is a threat to idle foxes and rabbits — is a lion without threat still a lion? Trying to keep the lion asleep forever, or even after it wakes, pulling its teeth and clipping its claws and locking it in a cage — these are the tricks of all idle foxes and rabbits. Only idle foxes and rabbits need tricks; a lion needs no tricks, and certainly won't voluntarily pull its own teeth and clip its own claws because of accusations of being a threat.

Let the wails about the China threat continue to wail. To the strong, wailing is merely another form of praise. A lion needs the wailing of foxes and rabbits — it is within such wailing that the lion ultimately becomes the lion. The lion will not and need not explain itself. The lion has, and only needs, its roar, its sharp teeth, and its steel claws! Without the roar, the sharp teeth, and the steel claws, everything else is nonsense!