Western double standards exposed as Catalonia becomes new Hong Kong
By
Shen Yi
(Photo
source:Huanqiu.com)
Catalonia
in Spain recently suffered violent protests like those in Hong Kong. We still
remember that certain people in the West called the large demonstrations in
Hong Kong "a beautiful sight to behold." Suppose these people support
the Catalonia protestors, the result will be an unstable society; and if they
don’t, they are applying double standards to the Hong Kong and Catalonia
problems.
Some
Western countries have dug a hole and fallen into it themselves. They might be
able to defend themselves, but they won't fool the world.
From
London to Catalonia, protests have led a counter charge to certain Western
countries which preach democracy and freedom. Such irony is a slap in the face
of certain countries that are biased against China and Hong Kong.
We
could interpret such a scenario with the political decay theory proposed by US
scholar Samuel P. Huntington. If the governments of Western countries fail to
run their countries effectively in the context of the information revolution
and if their incompetence is not properly improved, we may see the world
experience a great change at accelerated speeds unseen in a century.
The
root cause of such contradictions is the economy. Steve Bannon, Trump's 2016
campaign chairman, claimed that China’s export surplus hurt workers in the US
and the UK.
Bannon
is partly right as the industrial worker stratum in developed countries
collapsed in the course of globalization. But he should also understand that it
is the profit chasers in Wall Street that should take responsibility, not China.
They worship money more than they worship God, not to mention their devotion to
US national interests.
These
Western countries know about their problems, but they chose to solve them in a
way that’s to no avail: fabricating an enemy and transferring their domestic
contradictions onto other countries.
Such
tricks as provocative propaganda and subversive infiltration yielded some
outcomes at the beginning. But they will sooner or later stir a counter charge
if they get out of control.
The
paradox of the West in dealing with Catalonia and Hong Kong problems has
demonstrated the fact it is impossible to straighten out the contradictions in
a lie without hurting oneself.
There
is no necessity for China and other countries to join the boring “who’s worse?”
game initiated by the West. They have more worthwhile things to do, such as
improving national governance and perfecting their governance system, working
for the well-being of the people and building a common community of shared
future for mankind.
The
author is the director of the cyberspace management center at Fudan University
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