China’s DNA

This concept extended to foreign relations, with China at the top and others expected to acknowledge Chinese superiority and to become tributary states. Many of China’s neighbors today fell into this category.

In fact, China historically considered others not only inferior but barbaric unless they were would to accept Chinese culture.

Just how peaceful the newly established People’s Republic of China was became clear in 1950, a year after its establishment.

North Korea invaded South Korea. The United Nations voted to send troops to support South Korea and the new Communist government in Beijing, barely a year old, decided to support North Korea’s invasion of South Korea. Instead of supporting the victim of aggression, it decided to support the aggressor.

The Chinese Communist Party lied to its people and claimed that North Korea – not South Korea – was the victim and that China was helping it resist American aggression.

Sixty- seven years later, China is still living that lie. It calls the Korean and aid Korea.” To this day, the Chinese foreign ministry’s website carries an account, “Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea.”

After Deng Xiaoping launched the opening up policy, China realized that it had little choice but to accept a subordinate position and to learn from the West about such things as the running of a market economy. But with the onset of the international - that China was no longer learning positive lessons from America but rather learning from its mistakes.

Today, it appears, China is telling the United States to learn from China. On September 29, the People’s Daily online published an article saying that Puerto Rico, which faces a humanitarian disaster after being struck by a hurricane, shows that Washington can learn from Beijing about how to deal with natural disasters.

But perhaps the best response to Xi’s assertion about China’s peaceful nature is to take a look at the map.

Di, created an empire centered in northern China by conquering six other competing states. Today, China is many times bigger than it was 2,200-plus years ago. Much of this territory was acquired through force, whose people today are treated like conquered people.

Only a few months ago, Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte disclosed that President Xi had warned him that if the Philippines drilled for oil in an area that an international arbitral tribunal had ruled belonged to his country, China would go to war against the Philippines.

Peace in the China’s DNA? What DNA? What peace?