{5 April, 1997

 

 

 

The Asia Times

 

The Asian Wall Street Journal

 

 

 

 

Sirs,

 

 

The articles published in the Asia Times titled "Russia must realize the 'Asian alternative' does not exist" (26/03/97) and in the Asian Wall Street Journal titled "China's Creeping Assertiveness" (27/03/97) show GeraldSegal, at least, now realizes that the white West has committed the supreme folly of having strangled Russia which is "primarily a European country by culture and inclination" and is, therefore, one of their own, only to have facilitated the rise of China, which is of a totally different race and has scores yet to equalize with the Western imperialists.

 

 

The contrasts between China and Russia are many-- not just those mentioned by Segal. While the former Russian Empire kowtowed to the West and thereby ensured its downfall, China did exactly the opposite and prospered as a result.

 

 

China's "good fortune" is therefore not being "in the booming East Asia"-- it is the booming China that makes "the booming East Asia" in the first place-- but because its leaders foster a healthy contempt for the West.

 

 

This has obvious consequences: Russia wins despise from all over the world while China wins respect from its neighbours and instills fear in its former oppressors, as Segal himself amply exemplifies.

 

 

For all these reasons, China has every right to feel that "history is on its side" and looks forward to the day when it is powerful enough to right all the wrongs done by the white West to the Non-white world.

 

 

Segal and his ilk are now trying in vain to halt this "powerful historical force" by spurting out anti-Chinese diatribes. They "must realize" that the West is no longer "in the driving seat" of history.

 

 

The defunct process of "constrainment", which really is containment by another name, advocated by Segal may have proved successful against the former Soviet Union-- only after China gave its support. But when such policies were tried on the "weak" China by way of Korea and Vietnam, the foremost Western hegemon got bloodied nose and broken teeth in return.

 

 

What Segal is advocating is therefore "wrong and dangerous"-- for the West, that is. China is a lot stronger today.

 

 

The futility of Segal's effort can be seen by recalling Dr Mahathir once remarked that China has never colonized or oppressed the countries in the region. If followed, Segal's advice will have the effect of diverting the attention of these countries to a non-existent threat so that their past colonial oppressors could creep up on them from behind.

 

 

Those with stiff backbones understand only too well how the genuine Americans have become the "Indians" and the genuine Australians been reduced to mere "Aborigines".

 

 

Didn't Segal say some "naive" people signed, in 1995, a "defense pact with Australia" in order to "look after their own security"? The "Aborigines" and the "Indians" had also "put their faith" in Anglo-Saxon promises and reasonableness. The results are there for all to see. This "demonstrates a single clear pattern and lesson for East Asia". "Prospective victims" beware.

 

 

The white West knows that the actions of fools "suit its purposes" very well. China might not want to "bail out" such morons as it had done for the Vietnamese.

 

 

That 44% of Japanese "identifying China as a threat" is not at all surprising-- So did "Unit 731". That 44% no doubt includes a lot of its admirers, its former members and their descendants. It merely proves that the Japanese have learnt from their Western mentors the art of blaming their victims for the crimes they had committed against them.

 

 

Yet, all these do not discourage Segal from making up such fiction as "China never gives up territory", when he knows full well that the pre-revolution China ceded huge tracts of land to the imperialist Russia-- the land which Lenin had promised to return to China but never did.

 

 

Post-revolution China also relinquished Outer Mongolia, which has become the now independent country of Mongolia. Neighbouring countries, which were weaker than China but were willing to negotiate on territorial issues, more often got more territory from China than they ceded.

 

 

Therefore, those Russians who can do arithmetic need not worry. The "strategic portions" of land are merely the small price they should pay for establishing a Sino-Russian "strategic partnership". "Make no mistake", "NATO expansion" will ensure its success. Only "daydreaming" Seagulls [sic] think otherwise.

 

 

 

Sincerely,

 

 

 

**Censored by "The Free Press", Refused publication**

 

 

P.S.

 

 

 

*So, Indonesia signed a defense pact with Australia in order to "look after their own security"! Heheheeeeeeee. As it turns out, the one who is busy at dismembering Indonesia today is not China. This is an example of Segal’s “conventional wisdom” defied (09/10/99).

 

 

This is a prediction that “defied conventional wisdom”. Guess who made it? Not dear old Gerald! (11/11/99)}