{"id":1641546,"date":"2022-09-15T08:05:50","date_gmt":"2022-09-15T12:05:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1641546"},"modified":"2022-09-15T08:06:31","modified_gmt":"2022-09-15T12:06:31","slug":"leftists-celebrate-queen-elizabeth-iis-death-as-a-win-against-imperialism-while-ignoring-chinas-growing-empire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/leftists-celebrate-queen-elizabeth-iis-death-as-a-win-against-imperialism-while-ignoring-chinas-growing-empire\/","title":{"rendered":"Leftists Celebrate Queen Elizabeth II\u2019s Death As A Win Against Imperialism While Ignoring China\u2019s Growing Empire"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fleftists-celebrate-queen-elizabeth-iis-death-as-a-win-against-imperialism-while-ignoring-chinas-growing-empire%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1641546&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>\u201cWe must speak the ugly truths about Queen Elizabeth and Britain\u2019s empire,\u201d declared the title of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/2022\/09\/10\/britain-colonial-brutalities-queen-elizabeth-death-commentary\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Sept. 10 op-ed<\/a> by Washington Post columnist Karen Attiah. The late queen, Attiah claims, is \u201cguilty for the nation\u2019s historical crimes,\u201d including the overseeing of a \u201chistorically brutal empire.\u201d Attiah censures Elizabeth II for having \u201cwillingly adorned herself with jewels plundered from former colonies\u201d and having \u201cwillingly took on the symbolic, patronizing role of \u2018white mother\u2019 to the darker peoples of the former empire.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Attiah is not alone in such anti-British sentiments. Last week, Uju Anya, a Nigerian Carnegie Mellon professor, <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/09\/09\/carnegie-mellon-mum-on-discipline-for-uju-anya-over-queen-tweets\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">tweeted<\/a>: \u201cI heard the chief monarch of a thieving raping genocidal empire is dying. May her pain be excruciating.\u201d Shailja Patel, a Kenyan author and activist, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/shailjapatel\/status\/1567944338436489216?s=20&amp;t=oo3MoF0NLxfaFR6SluFJDg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">criticized<\/a> the \u201cmythmaking machine\u201d following Elizabeth\u2019s death, which has overshadowed her legacy as a symbol of the wicked British Empire. <\/p>\n<p>Time <a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/6212824\/queen-elizabeth-iis-reign-violence-british-empire\/#:~:text=When%20Queen%20Elizabeth%20II%20ascended,and%20independence%20demands%20were%20exploding.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">featured an article<\/a> titled: \u201cQueen Elizabeth II\u2019s Violent Imperial Reign,\u201d while Mou Banerjee, a professor of South Asian history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2022\/09\/12\/1122238140\/queen-elizabeth-ii-death-commonwealth-countries-colonial-history\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">told NPR<\/a> that \u201cThey say, the sun never sets on the British Empire. I think it has set with the death of Queen Elizabeth.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Yet for all the outrage over Britain\u2019s colonial past (which is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theamericanconservative.com\/is-the-british-empire-largely-misunderstood\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">far more complicated<\/a> than leftists acknowledge), those attacking British misdeeds across the world should be forewarned. That\u2019s because if Britain\u2019s imperial record in places like Africa and Asia was bad, you should consider what the People\u2019s Republic of China is already doing \u2014 and aims to do \u2014 in that same part of the world and across the globe.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2>A Truly Totalitarian Regime<\/h2>\n<p>Most Americans today have some familiarity with the evils of China\u2019s communist government. There\u2019s the detention and re-education of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hrw.org\/report\/2021\/04\/19\/break-their-lineage-break-their-roots\/chinas-crimes-against-humanity-targeting\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">millions of predominantly Muslim, ethnic Uighurs<\/a> in the nation\u2019s western Xinjiang Province, which has included <a href=\"https:\/\/www.state.gov\/forced-labor-in-chinas-xinjiang-region\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">forced labor<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/future-perfect\/22311356\/china-uyghur-birthrate-sterilization-genocide\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">forced sterilizations<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/only-on-ap-middle-east-europe-government-and-politics-76acafd6547fb7cc9ef03c0dd0156eab\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">forced abortions<\/a>. For good reason, many international organizations are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-asia-china-22278037\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">accusing China of genocide<\/a>: from 2015 to 2018, birth rates in the mostly Uighur regions of Hotan and Kashgar <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/269b3de1af34e17c1941a514f78d764c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">fell by more than 60 percent<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>China also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heritage.org\/religious-liberty\/commentary\/religious-persecution-china-intensifies-brainwashing-camps-christians\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">aggressively persecutes Christians<\/a>, some of whom are also put into brainwashing camps, while others are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailysignal.com\/2022\/05\/03\/chinas-ongoing-persecution-of-christians-and-the-case-of-pastor-wang-yi\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">detained<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/cruxnow.com\/church-in-asia\/2022\/04\/persecution-of-christians-in-china-growing-under-xi-jinping\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">tortured<\/a> for their faith. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) also <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/china-hong-kong-beijing-democracy-national-security-9e3c405923c24b6889c1bcf171f6def4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">crushed democracy<\/a> in Hong Kong (a former British colony), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/aug\/18\/detained-hong-kong-activists-joshua-wong-to-plead-guilty-china-style-law\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">detaining pro-democracy activists<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2019\/11\/28\/hong-konger-complains-to-uk-about-china-tv-forced-confession\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">forcing confessions from government critics<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>In addition, China\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/china-social-credit-system-punishments-and-rewards-explained-2018-4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u201csocial credit\u201d system<\/a> ranks citizens and punishes them \u2014 via refusals to acquire a loan for a home, flight bans, limiting internet access, and more \u2014 if the CCP deems such persons untrustworthy. There are also draconian <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/china\/shenzhen-districts-locked-down-china-battles-covid-outbreaks-2022-09-03\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">state-imposed measures<\/a> imposed over covid-19, including strict, rights-violating quarantines still in place almost three years after covid first emerged from China.<\/p>\n<h2>Exporting Totalitarianism Around the World<\/h2>\n<p>Not content only to create a dystopia in their homeland, China is exporting its totalitarian vision around the world. There\u2019s the propping up of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/76fdac7c-7076-47a4-bcb0-7e75af0aadab\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">other authoritarian regimes<\/a>, especially <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lowyinstitute.org\/the-interpreter\/four-reasons-why-china-supports-north-korea\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">its neighbor North Korea<\/a>, which regularly threatens the stability of the entire East Pacific. <\/p>\n<p>There are many other examples: dictator Hun Sen in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lowyinstitute.org\/the-interpreter\/cambodia-playing-long-game-against-hun-sen\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Cambodia<\/a>, the <a href=\"https:\/\/thediplomat.com\/2021\/08\/how-china-helps-the-cuban-regime-stay-afloat-and-shut-down-protests\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">communist regime in Cuba<\/a>, and the deeply dysfunctional (and prominent persecutor of Christians) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.japantimes.co.jp\/news\/2022\/04\/04\/asia-pacific\/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific\/china-pakistan-military-ties\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Pakistan<\/a>. A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2020\/07\/02\/countries-supporting-china-hong-kong-law\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">map<\/a> of those countries that supported China\u2019s repression of Hong Kong includes bad actors such as Venezuela, Nicaragua, Iran, Belarus, Somalia, Yemen, Syria, and Burma.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But China\u2019s influence is growing practically everywhere. China has persuaded <a href=\"https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/2021\/04\/17\/smart-cities-surveillance-privacy-digital-threats-internet-of-things-5g\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">dozens of cities<\/a> across the world to employ its \u201csmart city technology\u201d to both better fight crime and more effectively surveil their citizens. All over the world, China leverages state-owned enterprises to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/76fdac7c-7076-47a4-bcb0-7e75af0aadab\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">deepen its influence over other countries<\/a>, including through monitoring of people\u2019s mobile phones and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/national-security\/china-harvests-masses-of-data-on-western-targets-documents-show\/2021\/12\/31\/3981ce9c-538e-11ec-8927-c396fa861a71_story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">internet use<\/a>.\u00a0 Earlier this year, China <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/chinese-hackers-took-trillions-in-intellectual-property-from-about-30-multinational-companies\/#:~:text=A%20yearslong%20malicious%20cyber%20operation,manufacturing%2C%20energy%20and%20pharmaceutical%20sectors.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">stole<\/a> trillions of dollars in intellectual property from various multinational corporations (it has <a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/china-stealing-foreign-military-technology-race-world-power\/story?id=62785573\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">also stolen<\/a> our military technology).<\/p>\n<p>China is also throwing its maritime weight around. China <a href=\"https:\/\/thediplomat.com\/2021\/12\/chinas-growing-dominance-in-maritime-shipping\/#:~:text=At%20present%2C%20China%20is%20home,ports%20in%20approximately%2063%20countries.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">owns more than 100 ports<\/a> in approximately 63 countries, and 80 percent of China\u2019s overseas port terminals are owned by three terminal operators, two of which are state-owned enterprises: China Ocean Shipping Company and China Merchants Group. China already <a href=\"https:\/\/www.apln.network\/news\/member_activities\/why-china-is-acquiring-foreign-military-bases\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">owns one foreign military base in Djibouti<\/a> and has plans to build military bases in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/national-security\/2022\/06\/06\/cambodia-china-navy-base-ream\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Cambodia<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/ecfr.eu\/article\/chinas-new-military-base-in-africa-what-it-means-for-europe-and-america\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Equatorial Guinea<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/2021\/07\/07\/china-pla-military-bases-kiribati-uae-cambodia-tanzania-djibouti-indo-pacific-ports-airfields\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Tanzania, the UAE, and Kiribati<\/a> \u2014 part of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.economist.com\/china\/2022\/05\/05\/china-wants-to-increase-its-military-presence-abroad\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">its strategic plans<\/a> to gain global military parity with, and eventual dominance over, America.<\/p>\n<h2>China Makes British Imperialism Look Like a Tea Party<\/h2>\n<p>As Steven W. Mosher explains in his book<em> <\/em>\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.regnery.com\/9781684512997\/bully-of-asia\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Bully of Asia: Why China\u2019s Dream Is the New Threat to World Order<\/a>,\u201d racism is ubiquitous in China and is directed not only against perceived internal threats like Uighurs and Tibetans but also others, including black people. Anti-black racism in Chinese media and entertainment is quite egregious. There\u2019s a word for the chauvinism common in Han Chinese culture: \u201cDazhonghua Zhuyi,\u201d which Mosher describes as a \u201cpotent and peculiarly Chinese form of ultranationalism that relies in equal measure on collective narcissism and xenophobia.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>All of this to say, the coming global Chinese Empire will make Britain\u2019s alleged crimes seem paltry by comparison, as are its present totalitarian realities. If China is willing to employ domestic slave labor, what makes anyone think they\u2019ll treat laborers in developing countries any differently, especially once nations across Africa and Asia are nothing more than puppet states of the CCP? Many nations, like the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2022\/06\/01\/china-influence-pacific-deal-wang\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"> Solomon Islands<\/a>, are already more than halfway there. On foreign policy, China\u2019s goal is clear and simple: global dominance and destructive <a href=\"https:\/\/e360.yale.edu\/features\/the-dark-legacy-of-chinas-drive-for-global-resources\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">resource extraction<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/diplomacy\/article\/3151840\/chinas-african-resource-infrastructure-deals-face-growing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">regardless of the consequences<\/a> for local populations.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, it\u2019s true, the British engaged in resource extraction, exploitation of local populations, and even violent retaliation against dissidents. But they also, out of an authentic, if perhaps naive and often arrogant perception of themselves, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theamericanconservative.com\/getting-back-to-kiplings-india\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">sought to do good<\/a>. They introduced representative government, rule of law, and modern education across the world, from the Caribbean to Africa to South Asia. The physical and intellectual architecture of their empire still stands the world over, often because even those they ruled recognized its benefits.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Nor should we forget that the British Empire saved its colonies from a far more anti-human, exploitative fascism that Germany, Italy, and Japan sought to impose on the world. British soldiers and their colonial allies bled and died together to save the world from Hitler and Tojo. And, in various ways, the Brits have spent more than half a century <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macleans.ca\/news\/world\/british-government-formally-apologizes-for-colonial-crimes-offers-financial-compensation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">apologizing<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.transformafrica.org\/#:~:text=to%20Transform%20Africa-,Tackling%20Poverty%2C%20Empowering%20Local%20Communities%20in%20Africa,economic%20improvements%20within%20their%20communities.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">funding charitable causes<\/a> for their historical misdeeds. In truth, Britain\u2019s (albeit flawed) moral compass has enabled it to express guilt for its sins in a manner perhaps unprecedented in human history.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t expect the CCP\u00a0 to ever apologize or make reparations for anything. The <a href=\"https:\/\/thediplomat.com\/2021\/09\/is-the-ccp-about-to-rehabilitate-the-cultural-revolution\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">official party line<\/a> is that Mao Zedong, and not the CCP he created and which continues to rule after his death, was responsible for the excesses of the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution that resulted in the deaths of millions of Chinese citizens. <\/p>\n<p>The CCP believes in its own moral and cultural superiority and maintains strategic plans to ensure the rest of the world knows it, too. Speaking of Britain, WaPo columnist Karen Attiah declares:\u00a0 \u201cWe must get back to work \u2014 to dismantle the present-day vestiges of the racist, colonial empire she [Queen Elizabeth] so dutifully represented.\u201d Attiah might better focus on the currently far more expansive, dystopian global empire rather than a far less murderous one that\u2019s already passed.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n<p>\n  Casey Chalk is a senior contributor at The Federalist and an editor and columnist at The New Oxford Review. He has a bachelor\u2019s in history and master\u2019s in teaching from the University of Virginia and a master\u2019s in theology from Christendom College. 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