After US government ordered the Chinese consulate in Houston to be closed within 72 hours yesterday, PRC threatens that it will close the USA consulate in Chengdu soon, in a tit-for-tat escalation between the two countries.The tension between USA and PRC is not a recent development. USA has a long time conflict on universal values (human rights and democracy) with China PRC for decades!
On Wednesday, US state secretary Pompeo gave An address on 'Communist China and the Free World's Future' at Richard Nixon Presidential Library in Yorba Linda, California. It is one day after US ordered to close PRC consulate in Houston. He said, “The only way to truly change communist China is to act on the basis of what its leaders do, not what they say. Former President Ronald Reagan dealt with the Soviets on the basis of 'trust but verify.' When it comes to the CCP, I say, 'Distrust and verify',"
On last month, Sen. Marco Rubio, Sen. Ted Cruz, Rep. Chris Smith, and ambassador Sam Brownback were listed on the sanction list by Communist PRC! Senator Cruz told media, "Unfortunately for CCP leaders, I don't have plans to travel to the authoritarian regime that covered up the coronavirus pandemic and endangered millions of lives worldwide, and horrific forced abortions and sterilizations of the Uyghur Muslims.”
For over forty decades, almost all political leaders in the West hoped that PRC’s rise would become a "responsible stakeholder" in the international community. They hoped that it would abide by human rights and democracy, as it benefited from the western technologies, values and rules. But even today PRC still remains its single-minded and it is still heading to dictatorship. It became a military superpower and refused to comply all international rules and norms!
The China (PRC) that is led by CCP is going to its own way! Well, it is likely heading to the cliff with an unknown consequence and this is its destiny!