China is well known of its military power and distinct political situation compare with other democratic nations. After reviewing the news, China Celebrates 60 Years of Communist Rule, as a Taiwanese, I would like to share you some subjective and critical view points regarding some China’s political activities and its attitude toward Taiwan and other countries of the world. But all of the comment or point of view will be concentrated on the Chinese government itself.
I wasn’t surprised while observing china’s outstanding and modern weapons on the military parade for celebrating China’s nation’s 60th anniversary for some reasons. First, it’s China’s 60th anniversary, which is a memorable decadal celebration of course. It’s reasonable that any country would celebrate for such a big day. Second, China just reached a milestone of its space technology. China’s scientists successfully sent their astronauts into the space and accomplished a very significant achievement, spacewalk, on Sep. 27th 2008[1]. In spite of the hesitation from critics, who doubt on the authenticity of china’s space mission, China surely blew the world away this time. Third, by the pressure from the United States, China is eager for competition of military development with them in terms of some political issues. The United States has been the imaginary enemy that China would like to surpass for decades.
Why did China have to bring such powerful weapons and stuff to the street on its 60th anniversary and troops, as we seen, shown their uniformed formation to president Hu? In my opinion, because of China’s different policy toward the people of China, including the bias to Falun Gong[2], the cross strait relationship, and the conflict with Tibetan, China faces the significant pressure from other democratized countries. In other words, those countries like U.S, United Kingdom, European Union, etc., they don’t really like the way China treats its people. Furthermore, there are many strong neighbors, such as Russia, India, and North Korea, have highly developed military power. China is forced to make itself stronger to build self-defensive military force.
It’s understandable that governing a country with thirteen million people is the challenge for China’s democratization. China government may has figured out the urgent affair is its economy. There’s no doubt that China’s economic power is improving by import/export business and OEM technique. However, it will be better if China can remove the missiles, which were targeted on the Taiwan, and put money into it’s inland economic development, such thoughtful action might have a great impact on Chinese living quality. It’s no need to waste time making conflict with Taiwan, because Taiwan is considered as an independent country by many developed countries, after all. Moreover, Taiwan loves peace, and has never shown hostile attitude to any country in the world.
Power has to be built on the basis of peace and democracy. Building military power is not the first consideration. Hopefully we can observe China’s democracy achievement at the next decadal anniversary one day.
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