[Townhall] There was a time where there appeared to be a lot of hope for China and its relations with the West. However, the current Chinese leadership has chosen a course so boldly and clearly, that, barring a major change in policy has put it on course for war with the West.There was hope in the not so distant memory for China. Economic openness was coming and the government, while essentially fascist rather than communist, for a long while turned at least a bit of the other cheek as Christianity exploded in that nation. Some thought the explosion of Christianity, with economic freedom, would make a new day for China. However, China chose another path in persecuting the church on a level not seen since Mao, tightening their controls on their people, and continuing their one child policy.
To embrace Christianity and classical liberalism would be to admit the fault of the slaughter in Tiananmen Square, a stretch for any thousands year old civilization let alone one that has yet to embrace the ethic of self-reflection, a prostrating nature, and forgiveness of others.
China, like many European nations, actively embraces secular leftism...with a healthy dose of retaining thousands of years of behavior regarding superiority and deception. This its leaders did instead of choosing the entrepreneurial spirit and Christian life. The one child policy of China, which mimics the embrace of abortion but on a more public scale, has only hurt China to where millions of naturally aggressive young men do not have the positive outlet of creation’s beauty that tames them in marriage. When there are tens millions of more men than women of the same age in a nation, those men will strike out with vengeance.