Communism Is Not China’s Chosen Path

People's Liberation Army soldiers march next to the entrance to the Forbidden City on May 21, 2020, the day before the beginning of the two-week National People's Congress. Nicolas Asfouri/AFP via Getty Images

Commentary

Despite the Chinese Communist Party’s best efforts to project to the world their efficiency in containing the COVID-19 pandemic inside China, the following facts will go down in history:

• The attempts to cover up the outbreak at the initial stage and the failure to promptly inform the rest of the world about the emergence of a highly contagious virus when it first appeared in Wuhan in late 2019;
• The silencing of doctors who tried to warn others of the new virus, similar to what happened with SARS in December 2019, with the result that the virus began spreading to and infecting the rest of the world;
• Not one but three different types of virus pandemics originated in China in the past 70 years: The 1956–1958 “Asian Flu,” a H2N2 virus that started in Guizhou and killed an estimated million people worldwide; the 2002–2004 SARS-CoV which started in Guangdong and spread to 26 countries, causing nearly 800 fatalities; and the COVID-19 pandemic, which started in Wuhan in late 2019 and is still spreading worldwide, not only causing over 17 million fatalities so far but also damaging many countries’ economies due to measures taken to contain the spread.

Why did the current pandemic not start in some cramped, sewage-soaked refugee camp or in the unhealthy slums of other countries? What is it about China that three different types of virus epidemics began there and spread to the rest of the world?

An Imported Foreign Ideology

I do not hold sentiments against China. In fact, my forefathers were from there and I am proud to be of Chinese descent. Chinese people are intelligent, hardworking, and resourceful. What I want to focus on is the vile nature of the communist regime that has ruled China since 1949—a  destructive force that aims to break the Chinese people’s spirit and destroy the culture passed down since ancient times. This is about the Chinese Communist Party’s lack of moral ethics and the inhuman way in which the CCP treats its own citizens. The Chinese people have suffered greatly under this cruel regime.