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szdaily -> Opinion -> 
Time to redefine some concepts
    2016-08-01  08:53    Shenzhen Daily

    Wu Guangqiang

    jw368@163.com

    DESPITE Uncle Sam’s repeated pledge to continue to be the world leader, sadly, the world is getting increasingly chaotic and violent, and the indisputable truth is that the chief creator of all the mess is none other than the self-appointed world leader.

    It’s been quite a while since the Middle East and parts of Africa became killing fields. It was the U.S. that opened Pandora’s box and set free all those evils by invading Iraq and hanging whom it called the “dictator” Saddam Hussein, on the pretext of destroying WMD (weapons of mass destruction). The barbaric invasion completely disrupted the balance of power in the Middle East, setting off a domino effect.

    America’s later direct military intervention in Libya and indirect interference with the Syrian civil war further deteriorated the situation and actually turned the area into a breeding ground for extreme terrorist groups such as IS.

    Consequently, IS and other terror groups have been rapidly growing and expanding and attracting more followers. With its geographical proximity, Europe’s susceptibility to the scourge of terrorism is inevitable.

    With huge numbers of immigrants and refugees from the Middle East, and with the fact that anything like a knife, ax or truck can be used as a weapon, the predicting and prevention of terror attacks is impossible.

    To make the world even messier, Washington has been bent on stirring up trouble in the previously peaceful Asia Pacific, especially in the East China Sea and South China Sea areas. With the notorious Asia-pivot policy and lame pretext of “assurance of freedom of navigation,” it is very close to turning both seas into new war zones.

    If a few years ago it would have sounded a bit far-fetched to call Washington a troublemaker largely responsible for the current global chaos, then it is now an undeniable fact to a growing number of countries and peoples.

    It’s crystal clear that chaos rather than peace follows wherever there is a U.S. presence. It may be unfair to call the U.S. an intentional peace-buster that means to destroy the world. But what are the reasonable explanations for all the trouble?

    

    One of the roots lies in the U.S.’s dangerous domination of political discourse in the world affairs — it defines every type of political terminology and uses them as sacred and inviolable commandments to judge and arbitrate other nations’ internal affairs, thus starting trouble.

    For instance, Washington’s most absurd concept of human rights is nothing but a bunch of self-contradicting stuff. However great the improvements in the Chinese people’s livelihoods and social status, the U.S. never considers these as progress in human rights. It continues criticizing China’s “violations of human rights” while it never thinks that the U.S. police’s wanton killing of innocent people is a serious human rights violation.

    The killings of innocent people in Western countries are called terror attacks while the same in China or Russia must be “clashes caused by ethnic oppression.”

    Another stupid concept is the “freedom of navigation.” Who has defined the concept? What are the connotations and denotations of the concept?

    China is one of the chief beneficiaries of the freedom of navigation in the South China Sea, so why would China threaten its own interests?

    Why can the U.S. flaunt its military power in the South China Sea without labeling its own acts as a threat to freedom of navigation while accusing China of doing so?

    The U.S. has taken too many unilateral actions that undermine world order and security in defiance of international laws, but then impudently defames China as a disobedient member of the international community.

    Enough is enough. China has had enough of Uncle Sam’s arrogance, selfishness and stupidity. So has the rest of the world.

    For the sake of China’s security, stability and prosperity as well as those of the world, it’s high time that upright people across the world requested the U.S. to sit down and began a discussion with others about redefining all the political concepts that have great bearing on the well-being of the world.

    Only when all major international issues can be discussed in terms that have definitions accepted by all concerned parties, can misunderstandings be cleared up, conflicts be solved and disasters be prevented.

    (The author is an English tutor and a freelance writer.)

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