China Says It Is Ready To Assume "World Leadership", Slams Western Democracy As "Flawed"

China Says It Is Ready To Assume "World Leadership", Slams Western Democracy As "Flawed"

Over the weekend China used the Trump inauguration to warn about the perils of democracy, touting the relative stability of the Communist system as President Xi Jinping heads toward a twice-a-decade reshuffle of senior leadership posts.

Without directly referencing the new president, China wrote that democracy has reached its limits, and deterioration is the inevitable future of capitalism, according to the People’s Daily, the flagship paper of China’s Communist Party. It devoted an entire page on Sunday to critiquing Western democracies, quoting former Chairman Mao Zedong’s 1949 poem asking people to "range far your eyes over long vistas" and saying the ultimate defeat of capitalism would enable Communism to emerge victorious.

"The emergence of capitalism’s social crisis is the most updated evidence to show the superiority of socialism and Marxism," said one of the People’s Daily articles.

"Western style democracy used to be a recognized power in history to drive social development. But now it has reached its limits," said another article on the same page. "Democracy is already kidnapped by the capitals and has become the weapon for capitalists to chase profits."

The Chinese comments came after Trump in his inauguration speech said his administration would focus on an “America first” approach to foreign policy, undermining hopes abroad that the new president would moderate his protectionist tone. His pledge to abandon a U.S.-led Pacific trade pact has enabled China to step in as the chief advocate of an alternative Asia-wide deal.

The rise of anti-establishment, protectionist politicians like Trump, amid populist winds on several continents, has sent political parties scurrying to shore up their support, helping China to portray itself as relatively steady.

Ironically, realizing a power vacuum is forming in global "governance", Xi has used recent speeches to international audiences to tout China’s economic and political values.

"China’s rising wealth has brought greater global presence, but that’s not enough," said Zhang Ming, a political science professor at Renmin University in Beijing. “The Communist leaders want that someday China will matter globally for the nature of its political system and create its own universal values.”

As a result, Trump’s policies will give China a chance to take a bigger global role, said Zhang. "China doesn’t have a better Communist system than it used to have, but the global economic and political turmoil has undermined public confidence in western democracy,".

Returning to Trump, Zhang said he thought Trump would not be able to achieve his economic growth goals if he was also fighting trade wars. "A trade war or an exchange rate war won't be advantageous to any country," Zhang added. But mostly China.

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-01-23/china-says-its-ready-assume-world-leadership

Democracy is already kidnapped by the capitals and has become the weapon for capitalists to chase profits."
Sto je novo rekao..nista..:-\

ako kinezi zavladaju pojesce nam psiće a to nesmijemo dozvoliti ni po koju cijenu

Istina, demokracija je precijenjena.

Sumnjam da će se Amerika tek tako odreći svjetskoga vodstva. Tim prije što je Trump najavio oštriju politiku naspram Kine.