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David Jones from Ottawa defined the above paragraph in one three-word sentence: “This is nonsense.” What is not nonsense? He explains:
My Britannica, on my book shelves behind my desk, begins its relevant entry as follows:
Last September the “Online Chinese History Forum” was devoted to the question: “Is the translation of Bingfa (Ping Fa) as the Art of War the best? It was said that “fa” means “skill” (“method,” according to my Oxford Chinese dictionary) and “Bing” means “military” (“soldier, troops,” according to my dictionary). In short, nothing better than “the Art of War” was suggested.
As for as the text of “The Art of War,” it has been published in all major European languages and has nothing to do with what David Jones from Ottawa states.
David Jones exemplifies an aspect of North-American culture. Here appears an unknown inhabitant of Ottawa and without stating whether he has anything to do with scholarship or journalism, declares that what has been publicly said about Sun Tsu is nonsense and even “The Art of War” is mistranslation, but hear! hear! hear! the truth from an inhabitant of Ottawa.
Sun Tsu is basic to the geostrategy of the dictatorship of China. His precept that the beginning of a war should be its victorious end coincides with the development in China today of the post-nuclear super weapons, able to annihilate the United States (the most powerful enemy country) together with its secret means of nuclear retaliation, that is, without Mutual Assured Destruction, on which peace has rested between nuclear powers such as China, Russia, and the USA.
If Sun Tsu had been a prophet of nonviolence (like Christ or Count Tolstoy in his old age), then China could well be supposed to be the most nonviolent country in recorded history.
Yet published on the Chinese Internet, www.peacehall.com (2/15/05), www.boxun.com (4/23/05), and finally in “The Epoch Times,” a periodical of Chinese dissidents in the USA (Aug. 08, 2005) was an article entitled “War Is Not Far from Us and Is the Midwife of the Chinese Century.” The article was passed for a transcript of a speech given by Chi Haotian, Minister of Defense and vice-chairman of China’s Central Military Commission. But The Epoch Times says: “Independently verifying the authorship of the speech is not possible.”
The Chinese author who passes himself for Chi Haotian first of all describes how Sina.com’s branch, Sina Military, asked in its public opinion poll: “If you are a soldier, and under the orders of your commanding officers, will you shoot at women, children, and prisoners of war? About 80% answered that they would shoot, and “only 3.8% of the respondents said that they would not shoot under any circumstances.”
The author’s moral is that whether he is the Defense Minister or just an unknown Chinese, appropriating the Defense Minister’s name, the majority of the Chinese are as ruthless as he is.
Then the author says (p. 3): “Hitler’s Germany had once bragged that the German race was the most superior race on Earth, but the fact [!] is, our nation is far [!] superior to the Germans.”
Hitler’s Germany fell, instead of the Nazis becoming “the lords of the earth.” Why? Here the author says (p. 4) what I have been saying in my columns. Instead of waiting for “the technology of nuclear weapons” and launching “surprise attacks against the United States and the Soviet Union using them,” Hitler started war without them. The Chinese, “far superior” to the Germans, will not repeat their mistake, but are waiting for post-nuclear super weapons, able to annihilate the USA without the latter’s retaliation or to make it surrender unconditionally.
Apart from world domination, China needs “living space” even more than did Hitler’s Germany. “Only countries like the United States, Canada, and Australia have the vast land to serve our needs for mass colonization” (p. 7).
But what if China’s “first strike” will make the USA surrender, but will not kill all Americans? No problem (p. 8):
But what about “several million Chinese living in the United States”? Well, “in recent years we have been conducting research on genetic weapons.” So those Chinese in the former USA, now a colony of China, can be spared?
However, several years are to pass before these technologies are ready (p. 9):
So, they will have to be killed as well.
The author ends his article with Marxism (p. 11):
Indeed, the Chinese author combines Hitlerism and Marxism. An American, not a Chinese? Kill him! He is a Chinese, living in the former USA? He is corrupted by bourgeois values! Kill him all the same! In the first case he is killed as genetically inferior, and in the second as a class enemy.
The dictatorship of China persecutes those who do traditional Chinese gymnastics (Falun Gong) that are not endorsed by the dictators. But here a Chinese publishes in the Internet his program to exterminate all non-Chinese as well as Chinese living abroad and hence corrupted by bourgeois values. Nay, he passes his super-Nazi-Marxist program for the speech of China’s Minister of Defense. But no one tried to prevent his publication of his article of February 2005 in April of that year. So super-Nazism-Marxism calling for the annihilation of mankind except for Chinese having lived in China is not so dangerous as physical exercises (Falun Gong) that are not endorsed by the dictatorship.
Lev Navrozov can be reached by e-mail at navlev@cloud9.net.