Who are enemies of China?

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See the Lev Navrozov Archive By Lev Navrozov SPECIAL TO WORLD TRIBUNE.COM Lev Navrozov emigrated from the Soviet Union in 1972 He settled in New York City where he quickly learned that there was no market for his eloquent and powerful English language attacks on the Soviet Union. To this day, he writes without fear or favor or the conventions of polite society. He chaired the "Alternative to the New York Times Committee" in 1980, challenged the editors of the New York Times to a debate (which they declined) and became a columnist for the New York City Tribune. His columns are today read in both English and Russian.

On Nov. 14, I received the following e-mail from Low Seng Kiat. I reproduce it, preserving its spelling and punctuation.

ÒU are a real racist western supremist. Trying to use us Chinese to kill our own motherland to protect your beloved western democracy, which forces others to adopt your ideology and then point your finger to others that they are dangerous and threatful. For god's sake, you are the one attacking Iraq, Afghanistan and even our embassy and then you come here and tell us that we are threatening you??? How did your plane end up in Chinese territory? after killing our pillot. Good go ahead and set up your so called western survival centre. A decade ago you may be able to convince Chinese that your way of democracy is good and so on and make them serve you to betray their own motherland, but nowadays China is not even a communist government anymore, she is changing so fast that I could say China is now a nationalist government which will adopt ANY SYSTEM THAT CAN MAKE OUR CIVILISATION STRONGÉ.(MAYBE A COMBINATION OF DEMOCRACY, SOCIALISM WITH CHINESE CHARACTERISTICS). BTW your greedy MNCs made us economically strong, so I guess overseas Chinese would rather have a strong China. LONG LIVE CHINA!! LONG LIVE THE HAN RACE!!Ó

In my writings I have been emphasizing the greatness of Chinese culture. But it is my criticism of the post-1949 Chinese dictatorship that prompts Mr. Kiat to brand me with the words that have been used in the United States to brand those who, for example, persecuted Blacks by denying them their rights or lynching them. I am Òa real [!] racist Western supremistÓ (Mr. Kiat means ÒsupremacistÓ).

The desire of the Chinese dissidents to know more about the dictatorship and its geostrategic intentions, Mr. Kiat describes as my Òtrying to use us, Chinese, to kill [!] our own motherland.Ó

So there are no Chinese dissidents versus Chinese lickspittles of tyranny. There are only Òus, Chinese,Ó and for them to study the dictatorship in China and its geostrategic intentions is Òto kill our own motherland,Ó for which purpose I ÒuseÓ (yes, ÒuseÓ) Òus, Chinese.Ó Some of these Chinese dissidents faced death in Tiananmen Square before they escaped to the United States. But according to Mr. Kiat, they have no will of their own Ñ I USE Tiananmen Square heroes against their will. How do I do this? Do I promise them billions of dollars? Or do I coerce them physically?

We have received from China an article out of a mass TV-print Chinese magazine about the founding in 1986 of ÒProject 863Ó to develop post-nuclear weapons in seven fields, such as genetic engineering. Do I USE the Chinese mass communication media against their will Òto kill our own motherland,Ó that is, the motherland of Òus Chinese,Ó including the Chinese mass communication media?

For whose benefit am I engaged in this supernatural coercion?

Mr. Kiat identifies me with what I have criticized for many years. Thus, I have criticized Òthe reverse sideÓ of Western democracy as trenchantly as no one had done before me except John Stuart Mill in 1859. Mr. Kiat writes that I Òwant us, Chinese,Ó to Òkill our own motherlandÓ in order to ÒprotectÓ my Òbeloved [!] democracy.Ó

I have also criticized the U.S. invasions of Yugoslavia, Afghanistan, and Iraq, but Mr. Kiat writes that I am Òthe one attackingÓ Iraq, Afghanistan and even Òour embassyÓ (in Yugoslavia?).

Just as there are, according to Mr. Kiat, no Chinese with different views, there are no Americans with different views. It is Òus, Chinese,Ó against them, Americans.

Mr. Kiat takes me for an American equivalent of his Chinese self Ñ I am also a fanatical conformist, except that I fanatically conform to the U.S. government and he fanatically conforms to the dictatorship of China.

Is this equivalent? For all my criticism of the U.S. government and the Òreverse sideÓ of Western democracy, nothing has happened to me since my arrival with my family in New York in 1972, while should Mr. Kiat begin criticizing in China the Ògovernment of China,Ó he would have at best found himself in a labor camp if not crushed by armor as were thousands of Chinese dissidents in Tiananmen Square in 1989.

Let me point out to Mr. Kiat that his e-mail is the best proof of what he attempts to disprove, viz., that China as of November 2003 is as much a tyranny as it was 14 or 56 years ago. If there had been any shifts away from tyranny, Mr. Kiat would have thanked me for my stand against the tyranny, autocracy, absolutism, dictatorship in China 14 or 26 years ago. He would have said that owing to criticism, such as mine, there have been shifts away from tyranny, and he would have enlisted these shifts. I dealt with all such allegations in my column of Oct. 17 ÒIs China Really Moving Toward Democracy?Ó

Actually, Mr. Kiat mentions only capitalism as proof that ÒChina is not even a Communist government anymore,Ó and hence it is no longer a tyranny or dictatorship it used to be Òa decade ago.Ó

To this assertion, I have replied (see my column of Oct. 17) by recalling that Lenin also introduced capitalism in Soviet Russia in 1921, and it flourished until Stalin for interests of his own (overall industrialization-militarization) abolished it as highhandedly at the close of the 1920s as Lenin had introduced it. After ten years of capitalism, the Soviet dictatorship became only more ruthless.

Capitalism helped Hitler to come to power and never resisted him even after his defeat was clear.

When the dictatorship fell in Russia in 1991, I began to publish in the major Russian periodicals, while in my articles published in the West, I called for giving a chance to Yeltsin and his new Russia. Similarly, had China become protected Òagainst the tyranny of the political rulers,Ó I would have been the first to hail the change. But no such change has occurred. In the 14 years since the Tiananmen Square massacre and subsequent mass arrests of Chinese dissidents, the rulers of China have never expressed even any regrets. The tonality has been the same as that of your e-mail, Mr. Kiast: a victorious drumbeat for the glory of the ÒHan raceÓ and the disgrace of all Americans, evidently also constituting a single race, in Mr. Kiat's perception, only an inferior race, of course Ñ all evil, warlike, and inhuman.

Before the dictatorship fell in Russia, I had been receiving from ÒSoviet-Russian patriotsÓ in the West letters just like Mr. Kiat's. Only the ethnic details were different. Thus, the Soviet Russian ÒpatriotsÓ said not ÒLONG LIVE CHINA!! LONG LIVE THE HAN RACE!!Ó but ÒLONG LIVE OUR RYUSSIA!! LONG LIVE OUR PEOPLE!!Ó

Mr. Kiat uses the word ÒraceÓ Ñ the ÒHAN RACE.Ó This makes his message more like that from a Nazi German than a Soviet Òpatriot.Ó But there is no difference between such ÒpatriotsÓ depending on the tyranny they fanatically conform to. Tyranny is tyranny, whatever its national and ideological attire at the moment.

Those Soviet-Russian ÒpatriotsÓ who vilified me as a traitor were the worst enemies of Russia, of the Russian people, of Russian culture. But predictably, they tried to represent my criticism of the Soviet tyranny as my racist hatred for Òeverything Soviet-RussianÓ that these lickspittles heroically upheld, in their opinion.

You, Mr. Kiat, and lickspittles of tyranny like you, are the worst enemies of China, of the Chinese people, of Chinese culture.

Nor is there anything Chinese about your e-mail. When I had criticized the political establishment of the United States for their invasion of Iraq BEFORE that invasion, the U.S. lickspittles of a future possible tyranny vilified me exactly the way, you, Mr. Kiat, have vilified me and the Chinese dissidents.

No, there is nothing Chinese about your e-mail, Mr. Kiat Ñ such messages have been sent to critics of tyranny by Soviet Russians, German Nazis, U.S. Òpatriots,Ó or Chinese ÒpatriotsÓ like you.

Indeed, there is nothing Chinese about you, except for your accident of birth in China (and not in Soviet Russia, Nazi Germany, or the United States). I am a student and admirer of Chinese culture. Your e-mail does not evince any knowledge of Chinese culture Ñ it expresses only ÒpatrioticÓ slogans that any Soviet Russian, Nazi German, or ÒpatrioticÓ American could express.

A world populated by tyrants and their fanatical lickspittles is doomed in our age of post-nuclear superweapons.

Servile conformists like you contribute to Western racism and supremacy with respect to the Chinese, for you may induce many Westerners to forget about those free proud Chinese that the Chinese dissidents are and to assume that all Chinese are like you, ready to curry favor with any power sufficiently strong and ruthless and to vilify its critics.

On the other hand, I have never assumed that the Chinese dissidents should just transfer Western democracy onto China. A country of great culture, China may develop its own constitutionalism, that is, Òthe protection against the tyranny of the political rulers,Ó as John Stuart Mill put it. No, I am not against China Ñ I am against the political rulers' Tiananmen massacre on the scale of a square or on the scale of the West.