He said that the CCP is a threat to the free world far more serious than the former Soviet Union.
Upon the release of the proposal titled, “The Global Security Initiative Concept Paper,” the Chinese Foreign Affairs Minister Qin Gang also claimed, “World security would not be possible without the security of China,” at the Beijing Lanting Forum regarding the proposal.
An Empty Proposal
Sun Kuo-hsiang, an expert in national security and international relations from Nanhua University in Taiwan, sees China’s proposal as a strategic competition for the “right to speak” against the United States.“Most countries are faced with the pressure of choosing sides between the United States and the Chinese regime,” he said.
Chinese leader Xi Jinping first mentioned the idea of a “global security initiative” last April at the Boao Forum for Asia Annual Conference 2022 in dealing with the pandemic and world peace and stability.
On Wang’s trip to Munich, he said that Beijing continued to “stay firm on the side of peace and dialogue” regarding the Ukraine crisis, adding that China would be launching a Global Security Initiative Concept Paper with practical measures to address global security challenges.
He said the concept had won support from more than 100 countries and organizations.
Sun pointed out that the CCP is good at gaining attention with fancy but meaningless slogans, which undermine international security and order.
He said the CCP’s purpose is to replace the United States. In the meantime, it plays the game according to the so-called international rules and tries to tailor events to its need.
Instead of negotiations done in concert with countries and the U.N., he said, “the CCP wants to reinvent the wheel,” with the CCP at the center of a new world order. The CCP wants to be the boss and run the world like its own enterprise.
“But the CCP’s practice has been engaging in ‘gray strategies’ that are ambiguous,” which is in fact disrupting the international order, he said.
“The former Soviet Union positioned itself clearly against democracy, in a pursuit of totalitarianism or communism,” he said.
The CCP, however, does not appear to be spreading communism on the surface, rather it engages in communist propaganda and infiltration—a gray area where the free world lacks effective preventive measures, he said.
This deficiency of an effective mechanism to confront the CCP has led to the failure of the international community to stop it from continuing its coercive acts in the world.
Failure to Contain the CCP
On his European tour, Wang visited France, Italy, Hungary, and Germany. The visit to Russia on Feb. 21 was his last stop.In the Kremlin, Putin stated that Russian-Chinese relations are “progressing and growing steadily … reaching new milestones.”
Wang said that China-Russia relations have “withstood the pressure exerted by the international community and are developing sustainably.”
Sun said that while European countries are concerned with the Russia-Ukraine conflict, their failure to recognize the CCP’s gray strategy has allowed it to manipulate the crisis to divide the United States and the EU.
French President Emmanuel Macron announced a plan on Feb. 25 to visit Beijing in April to convince Xi to mediate an end to the conflict.
“The CCP’s intention has never been about peace between Russia and Ukraine,” Sun said.
Chinese economist and blogger Cai Shenkun commented, “In a sense, it is the West that has been nurturing this war wolf [in the CCP]. If the West cannot completely decouple from the regime, the future is really worrying.”
