TaiShang
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China can fire missile at US spy plane P8 then US will declare war on China. There is not a creditable threat from China can military attack mainland US. The west already won the ideology against China, was not China abandon communism and adapt capitalism from the west?
Both communism and capitalism are Western ideologies, in a loose sense of the word since throughout the Chinese history, various forms of communism and capitalism (and Heavens knows how many other isms) have been practiced in China.
The essence of China's ideology is that its organic (I would say that in the sense of Critical Philosophy), hence, it is adaptive and capable of incremental change (dialectical and praxeological). Hence the reason you have, in China's modern history, an ever changing ideological basis. Naming this or that way of governance "Western" is not reflective of reality. The truth is that China strives to adopt whatever the times call for, as time changes, so our ideologies, or, the way we see things.
There is no winning in this process, as it is a process, although there might be losers. The gist of the matter for China is to remain independent in making decisions -- not letting to be imposed upon. As long as China keeps deciding what is good and what is bad for itself, it does not matter today's economic policies resemble to the West or not. because, when times require so, China will not hesitate to discard the old order to be replaced by the new.
In this sense, I see China to be a more organic model whereas the West is rigid. Western imperialism is rooted in this ideological rigidification, in fact. When you can't think of the possibility of a better way (end of history/ideology?), you start to impose it upon the others and at times sincerely in a messianic way -- although it may bring countless pains to the educated barbarians.