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I am a Malaysian Chinese and I am really fed up reading all those propaganda by those western media accusing China on almost anything. Today, let me write some facts here just for fun if you want to called it. Let's begin with my home country, Malaysia.

There are evidence that China has traded with Malaysia for 2000 years in history I believe. In those years, China had been the world’s biggest powers for quite a long time. Admiral Zhenghe came to Malacca five times in a gigantic fleets, and a flagship eight times the size of Christopher Columbus’ flagship, Santa Maria. They could have seized Malacca easily, but they did not do so in that time. Instead of sending troops to take our land, Ming dynasty China warned Siam and the Majapahit against trying to conquer and attack the Malacca sultanate, placing the Malacca Sultanate under Chinese protection as a protectorate, and giving the ruler of Malacca the title of King. Till 1511, the Portuguese came to Malacca followed by the Dutch came at 1642. During the 18th century the British came. Malacca were colonized by each, one after another and not China.

When China wanted spices from India, they traded with the Indians. When they wanted gems, they traded with the Persian. They didn’t take any of their lands. The only time China expanded beyond their current borders was in Yuan Dynasty, when Genghis and his descendants Ogedei Khan, Guyuk Khan & Kublai Khan concurred China, Mid Asia and Eastern Europe. But Yuan Dynasty, although being based in China was a part of the Mongolian Empire.

Then came the Century of Humiliation. Britain smuggled opium into China to dope the population, clearly a strategy to turn the trade deficit around after the British could not find enough silver to pay the Qing Dynasty in their tea and porcelain trades. After the opium warehouses were burned down and ports were closed by the Chinese in ordered to curb opium, the British started the Opium War I which we know from history that China suffered a lost. Hong Kong was forced to be surrendered to the British in a peace talk (Nanjing Treaty). The British owned 90% of the opium market in China, during that time, Queen Victoria was the world’s biggest drug baron. The remaining 10% was owned by American merchants from Boston. Many of Boston’s institutions were built with profit from opium.

After 12 years of Nanjing Treaty, the West started getting extremely greedy. The British wanted the Qing Government:

1. To further open the borders of China to allow goods coming in and out freely, and tax free.

2. Make opium to become legal in China.

Obviously these type of insane requests were rejected by Qing government and said a big fat "NO". The British and French with supports from the US and Russia from behind, started Opium War II with China, which again China suffered another battle lost. The Anglo-French military raided the Summer Palace and threatened to burn down the Imperial Palace. The Qing government were forced to pay with ports, free business zones, 300,000 kilograms of silver and Kowloon was taken. Since then, China’s resources flew out freely through these business zones and ports. In the subsequent amendment to the treaties, Chinese people were sold overseas to serve as labor/slaves.

In 1900, again China suffered attacks by the 8-National Alliance(Japan, Russia, Britain, France, USA, Germany, Italy, Austria-Hungary) which known to "Battle of Peking". Innocent Chinese civilians in Peking (Beijing now) were murdered, buildings were destroyed & women were raped. The Imperial Palace was raided, and treasures ended up in museums like the British Museum in London and the Louvre in Paris. The occupation of Peking became, in the words of an American journalist, "the biggest looting expedition since Pizarro". Each nationality accused the others of being the worst looters. Missionary Luella Miner said, "The conduct of the Russian soldiers is atrocious, the French are not much better, and the Japanese are looting and burning without mercy".

In late 1930s China was occupied by the Japanese in WWII. Millions of Chinese died during the occupancy. 300,000 Chinese died in Nanjing Massacre alone.

Mao brought China together again from the shambles. There were peace and unity for some short time of period. But Mao’s later reign saw sufferings and deaths from famine and power struggles.

Then came Deng Xiao Ping and his infamous “black-cat and white-cat” story. His preference in pragmatism than ideologies has transformed China. This thinking allowed China to evolve all the time to adapt to the actual needs in the country, instead of rigidly bounded to those ideologies such as "COMMUNISM" which commonly use by western media to put China down in today 21st Century. It also signified the death of "COMMUNISM" ideologies actually practice in China. The current Socialism+Meritocracy+Market Economy model fits the Chinese like gloves, and it propels the up rise of China. One great example was Singapore actually has a similar model, and has been arguably more successful than Hong Kong. Mainly because Hong Kong being a gateway point to China was riding on the economic boom in China, while Singapore had no one to gain from.

In just 30 years, the CPC have moved 800 millions of people out from poverty. The rate of growth is unprecedented in human history. They have built the biggest mobile network, by far the biggest high speed rail network in the world, and they have become a behemoth in infrastructure. They made a fishing village called Shenzhen into the world’s second largest technological centre after the Silicon Valley in United States. They are growing into a technological power house today. It has the most elaborate e-commerce and cashless payment system in the world. They have launched exploration to Mars. The Chinese are living a good life and China has become one of the safest countries in the world. The level of patriotism in the country has reached an unprecedented height.

For all of the achievements, the West has nothing good to say about it. China suffers from intense anti-China propaganda from the West. Western Media love to used the keywords "CCP" or “COMMUNIST” to instill fear and hatred towards China.

Everything China does is negatively reported.

They claimed China used slave labor in making iPhones. But did someone really go to do a fact check? The truth were actually Apple was the most profitable company in the world, it took most of the profit, leave some to Foxconn (a Taiwanese company) and little to the Chinese hardworking labor.

They claimed China was inhuman with one-child policy. At the same time, they accused China of polluting the earth with its huge population. The fact is the Chinese consume just 30% of energy per capita compared to the US.

They claimed China underwent ethnic cleansing in Xinjiang which sounds to me absolutely ridiculous. The fact is China has a policy which priorities ethnic minorities. For a long time, the ethnic minorities were allowed to have two children and the majority Han only allowed one. The minorities are allowed a lower score for university intakes for a long time. There are 39,000 mosque in China, and 2100 in the US. China has about 3 times more mosque per Muslim than the US.

When terrorist attacks happened in Xinjiang, in my honest opinion China had two choices:

1. Re-educate the Uyghurs extremists before they turned terrorists.

2. Let them be, after they launch attacks and killed innocent people, bomb their homes and loot their families, sounds familiar right?

China chosen the first option to solve problem from the root and not by killing each other. Let me ask you guys how the United States solve terrorism? Fire missiles from battleships, drop bombs from the sky, I couldn't count killing how many innocent civilians.

Let's talked about Covid-19 Pandemic today.

When China took extreme measures to lock down the people to control and minimize the spreading, they were accused of being inhuman, no freedom, no democracies under "CCP" or "COMMUNISM".

When China recovered swiftly because of the expedite and correct extreme measures taken, they were accused of lying about the actual numbers and spreading the rumors that hundred of thousand or even millions has died.

When China’s cases became so low that they could provide medical support to other countries, they were accused of politically motivated and seems like China trying to invade the whole world.

Western Media always have their own outrageous reasons to bash China.

Just like any other country in the world, there are a minority irresponsible individuals from China which do bad and dirty things, but I believe the China government overall has done very well. But I always heard this comment over and over by people from the West: I like Chinese people, but the CPC is evil. What they really want is the Chinese to change the government, because the current one is doing way too good and obviously they felt being threaten.

Fortunately in today China is not a multi-party democratic country, otherwise the opposition party in China will be supported by notorious so-called NGOs (Non-Government Organization) of the USA, for instance like NED (National Endowment for Democracy), to topple the ruling party. The US and the British couldn’t crack Mainland China, so they work through the stupidity of those Hong Kongers. Of all the ex-British colonial countries, only the Hong Kongers were offered BNOs by the British. It's quite clear to me that the UK would like those Hong Kongers to think they are British citizens and not a Chinese. A divide-and-conquer strategy, which they often used in Color Revolutions around the world.

They resort to low dirty tricks like detaining Huawei’s CFO & banning Huawei. They raised a silly trade war which benefits no one. Trade deficit always exist between a still developing and a fully developed country. United States is like a luxury car seller who ask a poor farmer: why am I always buying your vegetables and you haven’t bought any of my cars? Just similar between Spain and Germany. Spain has to send a whole rail of tomatoes in exchange of a small machinery from Germany.

When the Chinese were making socks for the world 30 years ago, the whole world let it be. But when Chinese started to make high technology products, like Huawei or in the DJI, it caused red-alert. Everybody knows when Western and Japanese products are equal to Chinese in technologies, they could never match the Chinese in prices. First tier world countries want China to continue in making socks and no more than that. Instead of stepping up themselves, they always have the motivation to pull China down.

The recent movement by the United States against China has a very important background. When Libya, Iran, and China decided to ditch the US Dollar in oil trades, Gaddafi was killed by the US missiles, Iran was being sanctioned by the US, and now it’s China’s turn. The United States has been printing money out of nothing where we called it "HELICOPTER MONEY" in financial world. The only reason why the US Dollar is still widely accepted, is because it’s the only currency which oil is allowed to be traded with. The United States has an agreement with Saudi that oil must be traded in US Dollar ONLY. Without the petrol-dollar status, the US Dollar will sink, and America will fall. Therefore anyone trying to disobey this order will be eliminated with full forces. China will soon use a gold-backed crypto-currency and the alarms in The White House Washington DC went off like mad.

China’s achievement has been by hard work in decades and not by looting anywhere around the world.

I have deep sympathy to China for all the history suffering, but now I really feel happy for them and proud to be Chinese with my dark color hair and yellowish skin. Many people say China is rising in 21st Century, but to me they are just going back to a position where they belong after more than two centuries of humiliation.