The following is a continuation of the previous chapter.
Chapter 5: China's Fate to Repeat War
◎China has never had a period without wars.
No country has been at war as much as China.
No country has also carried out massacres, including of its citizens.
Even after China became a communist state, it invaded Tibet (1949-1951), fought the Sino-Indian border dispute (1962), the Sino-Soviet border dispute (1969), and the Sino-Vietnamese War (1979), plundered the Dongsha and Xisha Islands in the South China Sea, and now is planning to incorporate the Nansha Islands into its territory.
It is currently engaged in repeated clashes with the Philippines and Vietnam in an attempt to incorporate the Spratly Islands into its territory.
According to "The Black Book of Communism (Comintern Asia)" (written by Stéphane Courtois, Jean-Louis Panet, Jean-Louis Margolin, and others, translated by Takechi Takahashi, published by Keigaido), 65 million people were killed by Chinese communism in the 20th century. However, this is not limited to the 20th century.
Taiwanese historian and author Kai Yang have gone so far as to say that "there has never been a year in China's history without a war."
China is not a country with a continuous history, to begin with.
The current People's Republic of China was established in 1949, but before that, it was the Qing Dynasty.
Since the unification of China by Qin Shi Huang, China has gone through many dynastic cycles.
There were times when China was ruled by different ethnic groups, such as the Yuan and Qing dynasties.
It may be difficult for the Japanese, a country with an "unbroken imperial line," to understand, but the dynastic cycle means an entirely different country is replacing China.
It is neither reform nor change.
That is why the word "revolution" is used.
In addition to the wars accompanying dynastic changes, rebellions, insurrections, civil wars, and peasant uprisings occur frequently.
For this reason, China has been said to be a country where "one reign, one rebellion.
China, which has been struggling for resources and territory since time immemorial, continues to invade other countries' territories even today.
China's selfish behavior in the East China Sea and the South China Sea is a typical example.
Of course, wars take many forms, ranging from single combat to all-out warfare.
There are wars between brothers, as in the Tang Dynasty's Xuanwumen Incident, between uncle and nephew in the Ming Dynasty's Jingnan Incident, or between father and son in the Han Dynasty's duel between Emperor Wu and the Crown Prince in the capital of Changan.
There will also be innocent "refugees."
When I was in elementary school, hundreds of thousands of refugees who were driven out of China after the Chinese Civil War came to Taiwan, and I once shared a school classroom with them as a place to live.
It is not a story from the distant past.
Not only the massacre of their people but also the massacre of other ethnic groups is an ongoing "crime" in China.
As a Confucian country, China strictly distinguishes between Chinese and non-Chinese peoples.
The non-Chinese are considered to be barbarians and equal to beasts.
Countries other than China are barbarians and consider them equal to beasts.
That's why it came here calling him "Beidi," "Nanman," etc., with kemono-hen and insects.
Transforming this into a civilized man through Chinese virtue is "moral influence (also called assimilation of new territory/Sinicization)".
In Confucianism's developmental theories, such as Zhu Zi and Yang Ming, it is justified that those of a different ethnicity who do not follow the Heavenly Court (the Chinese dynasty) should be punished with death.
The genocide of Muslims (Uyghurs) has continued from the end of the 19th century to the present; the genocide of ethnic minorities by Han Chinese in the southwestern Yungui Plateau from the end of the Ming Dynasty in the 16th century to the end of the Qing Dynasty in the 19th century, the massacre of Manchu people after the Xinhai Revolution, the massacre of Japanese people during the Tongzhou Incident, the Inner Mongolia People's The genocide of the Mongolian people symbolized by the purge of the Inner Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party during the Cultural Revolution of the People's Republic of China, the massacre of millions of Tibetans and cultural extermination, the 2.28 massacre of Taiwanese people, and other ethnic cleansing genocides committed by modern Chinese.
Such crimes against humanity are perpetrated in modern China.
This sense of superiority over other peoples and Sinocentrism, the belief that one is the center of the world, is a significant factor in China's current insistence that it owns not only the places ruled by former dynasties but also all the places "mentioned in history books. It is a significant factor.
However, there is absolutely no evidence for these claims.
A brief description of this is as follows.
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The Chinese dynasties have been strictly regulated by castles and gates (prohibitions on entry and exit) not only since the Han Dynasty but also as far back as the Spring and Autumn and the Warring States Periods, with the Great Wall built during the Warring States Period and the Great Wall of China during the Qin Dynasty as their symbols.
In addition, the "Southern Great Wall," which was built during the Ming Dynasty to protect the Miao tribe from the south, has been excavated.
That is why Zhongyuan has avoided contact with the outside world.
The Han Dynasty and subsequent dynasties also increasingly imposed strict land and sea bans.
For example, even in the Tang Dynasty, considered the most open and cosmopolitan, its state ban included smuggling into Japan by Ganjin Wajo, the arrival of Buddhist priests such as Kukai to the Tang Dynasty, and the imprisonment of Sanzo (Genjo Sanzo). The historical fact that he violated (the prohibition of crossing the checkpoint) and went to Tenjiku to collect sutras tells the truth.
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It has been a quintessential Heartland nation since prehistoric times, lacking maritime thinking, maritime power, nautical prowess, or even maritime heroism.
The Song dynasty was seized by northern nomads along the Silk Road land and expelled to Jiangnan.
Ming continued to be harassed by North Captive South Wa (Mongols in the north and Wako invaders in the south), and Qing had only a window to the sea called Guangdong Thirteen Lines.
As for the sea, 500Li from the coast is prohibited from habitation.
Even a one-inch raft is prohibited from floating on the sea.
Once they went to sea, they were considered "abandoned people" who abandoned their "country."
Overseas Chinese were no exception.
In addition to being forbidden to return to their own country, in the most severe cases, they could not avoid tragedies such as the execution of their family members and the destruction of their villages.
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The "Hua Yi Map represents the knowledge of the sea in the Song Dynasty," and although there was Hainan Island, they did not even know the existence of Taiwan, and the South Sea was an unknown area.
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The people of the East Asian continent, including the ancestors of the proto-Chinese and the Huaxia and Han Chinese, were farmers or merchants as castle people, and the Manchu people were also hunter-gatherers.
Except for nomadic peoples such as the Mongols, they were land people bound to the land.
The Wa people, who lived in rivers, lakes, and coasts from the north of ancient East Asia to the South Sea and even the Indian Ocean, were widely distributed and regarded as untouchable, not only Chinese but even heavenly people and living people. not
The land people have avoided the sea since ancient times and regarded it as a world of darkness.
Even in the etymology of the Chinese characters, black is pronounced the same way as the sea.
Since the beginning, the sea has not been recognized as the Middle Land or China.
Any sane person should never perceive the nonsensical story of an "inseparable, sacred, inherent territory'' even after leaving land.
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Today's Chinese argue that "Modern international law is something that Westerners made arbitrarily. China has already become strong so that we won't admit it at all."
However, whether or not to approve or not to approve various laws related to the sea after the Age of Discovery or to create them of their own accord, it is only for the convenience of China.
The Chinese, who have always avoided the oceans since time immemorial, have no connection with them and cannot make laws.
As far as the oceans are concerned, no matter how irrational China's claims may be, they are just talk of greed and have little persuasive power.
