Ideological bias

Beijing’s future can’t be assured (July 16), by Gerald Hensley, is full of ideological bias and pure ignorance on China.

Hensley said China’s military spending is not one ‘‘a government confident of its popular support’’ should have. However, US military spending was at least three times more than China’s in 2020 and its percentage in GDP is two times higher than that of China.

He said ‘‘government by decree has no repair kit’’ while ‘‘democracies can apply patches’’. On the contrary, selfimprovement and self-reform happen to be the biggest advantage of the Chinese Government. If China had kept making mistakes without repairing them, while so-called democracies had forged forward without making mistakes, or kept applying patches, why could China surpass them to become the second largest economy in the world?

Comparing Nazi Germany to China and comparing Czechoslovakia to Taiwan is clearly ignorant, provocative and unacceptable. Not to mention the fundamental difference between Nazism and Communism. Czechoslovakia has never been part of Germany, but Taiwan has been an inalienable part of China since ancient time.

His article reminds me that some people still live in the Cold-War era and deep in their hearts prefer confrontation and conflict to peaceful development and win-win co-operation.

The only intention of this kind of article is to damage the existing friendly China-New Zealand relationship. This intention will fail.

Thirty years ago, many in the West kept hyping the theory of China’s collapse and predicting China had no future. Now, the world has witnessed the ‘‘collapse’’ of these theories.

History has shown us, under the leadership of the Communist Party of China and the support of the Chinese people, China’s future can be assured.

With the support of our two great peoples, the China-NZ friendship will prevail.

Wang Zhijian, Chinese Consul-General (abridged)