2011 report to congress - U.S.-China Economic and Security Review ...

dkrause on DSKHT7XVN1PROD with $$_JOB325The Chinese Communist Party and itsView of the United States—ContinuedDespite widespread cynicism throughout Chinese society regardingCommunist doctrine, Marxist social analysis is still acentral element of CCP discourse, 28 to include traditional Marxistanalysis on capitalism and imperialism: As stated in summer2010 by an author in the Global Times, a newspaper controlledby the CCP Central Propaganda Department: 29To understand the provocations made by America . . . youmust have a basic understanding of this country’s natureand its global strategy. . . . As seen from its history, Americais constantly conducting war, searching for enemies,and in fact this is a normal condition of its social development.Without war, America cannot stimulate its economy.. . . America is set upon a path of war from which it cannotturn back. 30Senior PRC officials have also described the United States asan imperialist and militarist power, as when PRC Vice Premierand former Foreign Minister Qian Qichen stated in November2004 that U.S. policy ‘‘advocates [that] the United States shouldrule over the whole world with overwhelming force, militaryforce in particular.’’ 31 CCP analysis depicts the U.S.‘‘hegemon’’ 32 as carrying out a ‘‘highly cohesive master plan designedto strengthen and expand its global domination . . . thisperception breeds a conspiratorial view, which in turn predisposesChina to see ill intentions and sinister motives in everyU.S. act.’’ 33 The United States is specifically accused of:• Fomenting social unrest aimed at destabilizing Chinesesociety and overturning the government. 34 This narrativehas been dominant since 1989, when CCP leadersblamed the Tiananmen protests on a U.S.-led plot by‘‘hostile, reactionary foreign forces’’ intent on overthrowingChina’s ‘‘socialist system’’; 35• Intentionally bombing the PRC embassy annex in Belgradein 1999 to intimidate and humiliate a risingChina; 36• Linking U.S. overseas bases and military alliances intoa ‘‘C-shaped ring of encirclement’’ (ranging from Japanand South Korea, down to Southeast Asia and the IndianOcean, and up to Afghanistan) directed at containingChina; 37• Making calls for China to be a ‘‘responsible stakeholder’’in the international system, with the intent to weakenChina by trapping it in foreign entanglements; 38• Fostering the 2008 global financial crisis in an effort tohurt China’s economic growth; 39• Pressuring China to let the renminbi (RMB) appreciateas part of a ‘‘currency war’’ started by ‘‘American hegemony’’against China’s economy; 40VerDate Nov 24 2008 13:46 Nov 10, 2011 Jkt 067464 PO 00000 Frm 00337 Fmt 6601 Sfmt 6601 G:\GSDD\USCC\2011\067464.XXX 067464