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Who decides what is ‘prevented from probing too deep’?
The same Western outlets and governments that have a vested interest in preventing China’s rise and therefore retaining their hegemony over the global order? So they can go on continuing their wars resulting in perhaps millions dead, overthrowing regimes and cherry-picking despots (GCC & Arab monarchs & dictators) and regimes carrying out occupations and atrocities (Israel & India) and declaring them ‘Kosher’ and bolstering them with high tech weapons, aid, technology and legitimacy through support for memberships in prestigious international organizations?
When has China done anything even remotely close to that?
The message from US and EU has been consistent everyone needs to play by the same rules.
China does not, be it IP, trade, manufacturing and state interference in private enterprise....the list is long.
Western concern about China’s rise is legitimate principally because China have no system of checks and balances. Absolute power resides within one body (CPC) and its current leader for life. In contrast, Trump tried to ban TikTok and WeChat - he failed. The US system has prevailed against authoritarianism time and again, the architects of the US constitution build in safe guards against concentration of power and unhealthy obsession with ideals. The Chinese mock our constant internal strife - worker rights v big business, conservative v liberal values. But the beauty of this system is that a member of the Ku Klux Klan can go on to champion the first black president into the White House. No system is perfect, but the Chinese system is yet to evolve into something the world can trust.
It’s not about China’s past record, its about China’s potential to do harm. The CPC hasn’t held power outside its borders in the past. They are starting to exercise external influence and the signs aren’t good - China is demonstrably predatory so far.