President Trump has encountered four red diplomatic lines expressed by the Chinese Government that seem to be bargaining points for China stopping arms supplies to Iran. The President can accept those points or reject them (or ignore them), and just one point is acceptable. The points seem fairly detached from reality. I suppose the Chinese Government political philosophy these days is comparable to that of the Democrat Party of the U.S.A. dominated by lunatic extremists.
Gemini expressed the points thusly;
“The Four Diplomatic Red Lines
- The Taiwan Question: Beijing views Taiwan as its absolute first red line and sovereign territory. Any foreign military alignment or arms packages are treated as severe provocations.
- Democracy and Human Rights: China firmly rejects any Western criticism of its domestic affairs, viewing human rights lectures as a cover for foreign interference.
- China’s Path and System: Beijing demands that foreign powers respect its governance under the Chinese Communist Party and completely rejects any outside attempts at regime change or ideological shifts.
- The Right to Development: This line targets economic sanctions and technology blocks. Beijing maintains that attempts to curb China’s economic and technological rise cross a vital boundary. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6]"
The Chinese path and system is the sole point that is acceptable. Governments cannot really determine their own path entirely as governance is in response to internal and external factors affecting a government.
The United States will not recognize Chinese sovereignty over Taiwan that is regarded as an independent nation. Neither will the west quit criticizing impingements on human rights, for as with apartheid or slavery the existential existence of oppressive human conditions anywhere affects the human condition everywhere.
The last point is rather churlish since China knows that any rational government will not supply tools to foreign countries that may be used to attack it. The lesson was memorialized in E.E. Cummins poem ‘Plato Told’.
plato told
plato told
him:he couldn’t
believe it(jesus
told him;he
wouldn’t believe
it)lao
tsze
certainly told
him,and general
(yes
mam)
sherman;
and even
(believe it
or
not)you
told him:i told
him;we told him
(he didn’t believe it,no
sir)it took
a nipponized bit of
the old sixth
avenue
el;in the top of his head:to tell
him
1944
