Taiwan News
Date: 2020/02/24
By: William A. Stanton, Taiwan News, Contributing Writer
Chinese leader Xi Jinping. (AP photo)
The People’s Republic of China always refers to its Three Communiqués with the United States as if they were the Ten Commandments, but it both selectively quotes and unilaterally interprets the Communiqués as it wishes. There is, for instance, one passage from the 1st Communiqué of Feb. 28, 1972 that we never hear repeated by Beijing:
“The Chinese side stated: …All nations, big or small, should be equal: big nations should not bully the small and strong nations should not bully the weak. China will never be a superpower and it opposes hegemony and power politics of any kind.”
In retrospect, the idea behind this passage was short-sighted and the words used were ill-chosen because the PRC did not foresee it would become an economic and military superpower that now seeks global dominance. The fact is that the PRC now bullies or tries to bully other countries all the time.
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