The Capitol Attack: China Exposes US Hypocrisy

http://www.asianews.it/news-en/Attack-on-Congress:-Chinese-in-US-alerted.-Beijing-criticizes-US-democracy-52006.html

I hate to admit it but in this case Beijing does have a point. Actually their statements are rather restrained – Beijing has only touched upon the tip of the iceberg.

The US has not only encouraged such actions (as in Hong Kong) but in many cases it has directly sponsored such political subversion. Sometimes it's in the name of democracy, sometimes it's in the name of law and order and stability. It doesn't really matter. There's always a narrative that can be employed and a media willing to promote it.

The article accuses Beijing of fanning the flames of violence. An absurd statement, the criterion that should be used to judge the Chinese statement is simply this – is it true? And it most certainly is. But apparently this Catholic news outlet is less concerned with truth and more concerned to make the CCP look bad. The CCP under Xi Jinping is certainly evil. We don't need to rely on lies to understand this. Nor do we need to prop up or fictionalise the US record to make them 'good'. The US is not good and Christians should never put their hope in the US or any other political entities. We're told as much in the Scriptures (Ps. 146).

It's a case of clashing beasts. China lies but actually far less than the United States which continually tries to present itself as something moral – which it is not.

Does the US live by a double standard? This truth is so glaring it's hard to imagine anyone disputing it. It's well documented and has been the case for nigh on two hundred years.

Is US democracy decadent? If anything I would say such a description is insufficiently weak to describe the regime of lies, propaganda, and deception. It's a sham democracy controlled by big money. This is seen in US legislation and certainly in the obscene multi-billion dollar industry of lobbying, electioneering, and campaign ads. The system is deeply corrupt – the fruit of a wayward and decadent society. This is why the United States has seemingly morphed into Sodom. But it was no surprise. In fact, it was a long time coming.

Is Beijing's system also corrupt? Of course it is and very much so. And while Beijing rejects all criticism, one cannot realistically require as much of the regime. Its claims are not ethical and metaphysical – at least not openly. The regime does not claim to be liberal even while it pursues an alternate set of values. It makes no moral claims. For the most part its focus is on order and prosperity – which are not valueless or neutral but are of a different order than the claims made by a nation like the United States. This is not to defend the evil regime in Beijing but recognising their evil in no way affirms the fiction of American 'goodness' or integrity.

China's charges against their political resistors are not Orwellian in nature. They would be if China pretended that their system was liberal. They never have and as such there's nothing unlawful about their rejection of political resistance. Hong Kong was a colony born of crime and imperialism. They never had constitutional rights. What they had was custom and the pragmatic arrangement that London was willing for the city to serve as an economic hub and a place of imperial dark deeds and secrets – a base for empire in East Asia.

As Christians we condemn the clampdown by Beijing but we also condemn the popular uprising and in particular the Christian veneer that has been placed upon it. Figures like Joshua Wong are not persecuted Christians. They are political dissidents being punished and given that they have collaborated with a threatening rival empire that seeks to take down the regime in Beijing – their punishments are actually rather lenient.

The US subverts governments and foments revolution. It has overthrown regimes and both encouraged and participated in assassination.

For Beijing to point out that the chickens have come to roost may smart but it doesn't make it any less true.